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July 7, 2026 | 55:50

Sheila Walsh sits down with Yael Eckstein, president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, to discuss faith, resilience, and the power of saying “Hineni” (“Here I Am”) as God calls His people to bring hope and light to a hurting world.

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Praise | Yael Eckstein: Here I Am | Praise | July 7, 2026

>> coming up tonight on praise.
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>> we are empowered by the spirit of god. when god is with
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Us, we can do anything. yeah, and god doesn't give us
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Anything we can't handle. and god did send us into this world
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In order to make it more beautiful. and our role here in
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This world is to love, because god is a god of love.
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>> tonight on praise from dallas humanitarian leader and
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President of the international fellowship of christians and
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Jews, yael eckstein. and now your host, sheila wall.
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>> welcome. i'm so glad you're here. and you're going to be so
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Glad that you're here. do you ever feel as if we live in a
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World where we're being promised all sorts of things,
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And most of them never come true? i want you to read to you
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A psalm that i've been reading recently, and it talks about
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The fact that god's promises are not backed up by anything
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Other than his name. and when god's promises are backed up by
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His name, you can stake your life on them. so this is psalm
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138. i give, i give you thanks, o lord, with all my heart. i
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Will sing your praises before the gods i bow before your holy
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Temple as i worship. i praise your name for your unfailing
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Love and faithfulness, for your promises are backed by all the
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Honor of your name. as soon as i pray you answer me, you
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Encourage me by giving me strength here as your family at
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Tbn. that's our prayer for you, that you would know that the
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Lord's promises you can stick your life on, and that he will
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Give you strength. and i have to tell you, i've been so
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Looking forward to this program because my darling guest yael
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Eckstein, you are one of my absolute heroes.
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>> it's mutual. i couldn't love you more, sheila.
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>> i was thinking back. barry and i were talking last night
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About my first trip to israel, and that was the first time i
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Got to see what what the international fellowship of
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Christians and jews is actually doing on the ground. tell us
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About the people that you minister to.
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>> wow. well, i remember that trip when you were in israel.
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That was one of the most incredible, moving, inspiring
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Journeys that i've gone on with you around jerusalem, walking
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Those ancient stones. and what i felt was that you got to see
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The heart of the nation. yeah. because that's really what the
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Fellowship touches. we're looking for the people. we're
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Looking for the holocaust survivor who has no one there
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To go and bring food to. we went to the elderly center
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Where.
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>> i love that.
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>> and do you know what i loved about that? i think there was a
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Gentleman there who was from ethiopia, but he was there with
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Other people from his country. so they were able to have
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Community together, which is so important.
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>> that's exactly it. it's something that all of us
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Sometimes feel like we're lacking in our lives. community
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Fellowship, being together. and so especially for these
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Immigrants in israel who grew up in ethiopia and speak
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Amharic or grew up in russia and speak russian or grew up in
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France, that they come to israel just like ezekiel. and
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Jeremiah prophesies thousands of years ago that on one hand,
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It's most inspiring journey of their lives, being able to live
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The words of the prophets. but on the other hand, their lives
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Are very real. they're still coming to israel, and they
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Don't speak the language and they don't necessarily know
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Anyone. and so one of the focuses of the fellowship is to
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Find those people who are poor, who need the food, who need the
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Clothing, who need the medicine, but not just to give it to them
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And say, good luck with your life, but to bring them
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Together and give them real meaning. because living in
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Jerusalem, like, how could you not?
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>> in my kitchen i have. you took us to the little shop
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Where they actually sell some of the things that some of the
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People have made. and i have it's in my kitchen. i have this
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Little it's like a magnet, but it's, it's hand embroidered.
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And it's a wonderful reminder for me every day to pray for
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The peace of jerusalem. that store is amazing.
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>> yeah, yeah.
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>> so is it basically just made up of giving people not just a
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Place to go, but to give them meaning with their life, to
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Give them some purpose?
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>> yes, that's exactly it. and, and every time i go there, i've
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Been going there for five years or more pretty often. every
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Time i go, i see another aspect of it. and so we find elderly
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Who live in the area in jerusalem, immigrants who don't
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Have family support, who are poor. we work with the
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Government in order to identify those exact criteria, and then
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We go to them and we say, we're going to give you the biggest
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Gift ever. and so we bring them to this center and we actually
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Train them. it's called in hebrew lifeline for the old.
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And we actually train them. they could be 80 years old, but
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They could still paint. they might be 90 years old, but they
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Can still. so they might be old and not well, but we find what
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They're able to do and we give them a purpose. so they sit
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Together, speak their native language, fellowship together,
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And they produce something that's beautiful and valuable,
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That they feel meaning in life. and then we get to enjoy it.
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>> i love that, i love.
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>> that.
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>> and you also took us to this amazing truck and told us about
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What this truck can do. tell us a little bit about that because
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We've got some b roll.
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>> yeah. so that was an emergency vehicle and it was in
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Jerusalem. and it represents kind of this need to constantly
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Be creative in how you can keep god's word of. comfort. comfort
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My people. god says right to be the watchmen on the walls of
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Jerusalem. and that changes. that's like a pretty general
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Term that god is saying, i want jerusalem to be protected. i
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Have my hand on israel and the people, and i want you to
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Partner with me to make sure that it's safe. and so as the
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Threats change, the fellowship is on the ground addressing how
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Can we meet those threats? so the truck that we went to, it
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Came from this realization that a lot of times there are lone
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Wolf attacks. and so you have the intelligence center that's
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Looking into it, and maybe someone will post on facebook
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Something, right, that they'll see, but then they have to get
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In the emergency vehicle, get to the location where the
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Terror attack is about to happen, and sometimes it's too
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Late. █and donated this mobile
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Intelligence unit.
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>> it's pretty wild.
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>> it's pretty wild. yes. that you have all the computers, all
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The technology that you are looking for the next terror
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Attack as you're driving. wow. and so as soon as you see a
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Threat, you will get there in time.
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>> wow. when october 11th happened, yeah, that was all
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That was on the news across the world. unspeakable evil,
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Unspeakable horror. sometimes i wonder if life appears to go on
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For the rest of the world, and we kind of forget what's life
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Like in israel right now?
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>> wow.
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>> well, there's one word that ever since october 7th
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Especially, i've been calling into when i wake up at all
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Different moments throughout the day before i go to sleep.
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It's a biblical word, and it's a word that has given me
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Strength and i think summarizes what's happening in israel
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Right now. the word is hineni, and it means, here i am, and we
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Know that abraham was the first one to say that word hineni to
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God. and god said, let us go it in english, it actually says go.
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But in hebrew it's two words, which means go to yourself.
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>> oh, wow.
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>> yeah. and the message there is that god breathed life into
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Us, right? and so we have godliness inside of us. and god
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Is saying, i'm speaking to you. i am inside of you. take that
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Moment to listen, to be aware, to see what you should do next.
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And i will speak to you because i'm inside of you. go inside to
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Yourself. i am there and we see adam after the sin he hid, he
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Didn't stand up and say, hey, nanny. and we see noah after
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The flood came out and he got drunk, he didn't say hineni.
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And so there's something about abraham, the first forefather
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Of standing up and saying, he nini, here i am. that gave him
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The ability to do hard things. he didn't know where he was
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Going. he didn't know the journey god was going to take
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Him on. he didn't know what tomorrow brought. he didn't
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Know that god was going to provide. and yet he stood up
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And said, he nini. and so she led this. that's what i've seen
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In israel every single day since october 7th. the mothers
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Whose children are in the army. my daughter is in the army
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Getting up in the morning and saying, okay, hineni lord, what
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Do you want from me? here i am, and sometimes the answer is
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Just stay strong. don't lose faith. turn your heart to me.
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I'm with you. and sometimes the answer is go out and help
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Others. and i've seen everyone in their own way answer god and
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Answer the calling of october 7th because it was a calling.
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It was a reminder. if you don't protect this land physically
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And spiritually, you won't have it. and so we've seen parents
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Go out to reserve duty to protect the country. we've seen
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Teachers take on children in a way that you never could
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Imagine bringing them to bomb shelters, singing songs of
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Faith as they do that we've seen pop artists, their own
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Hineni. how many songs of faith have come out since october 7th
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Of turning to god? so there's a resilience that i see in israel.
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It's scary. it's unknown. the journey is difficult and
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Painful. i've been to so many funerals of 18 year olds,
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Children of friends, that may we never know any more of that
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Pain. but no matter what happens, i've seen everyone
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Stand up with this word of hineni here i am, and that's
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What gives us the resilience.
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>> you know, it's so interesting because you talked
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About that and i follow you on social media, which i love, and
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You talked about that on one of your social media posts. and it
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Was so fascinating to me. it made me go and do a word study
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In the old testament. and what i loved was you said that
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Sometimes when hard things happen, we ask why and you said,
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No, the question isn't why. it's. it's what? yeah. talk to
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Us about that.
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>> wow.
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>> if there's one thing i've realized in my life, it's that
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If i don't trust that god has a plan.
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>> yeah.
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>> i don't think i'd be able to get up in the morning.
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>> yeah.
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>> my father suddenly died when i was 34 years old of a heart
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Attack, leaving me a mourning child and the responsibility to
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Take over the fellowship, the largest philanthropic
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Organization in israel i've lived through october 7th. i've
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Run to bomb shelters in the middle of the night with
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Screaming babies. i was in ukraine right before the war
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Broke out there, providing elderly with medicine because
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They didn't know if they would have it the next week. it's
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Been a journey of beauty and difficulty. i've sent my 19
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Year old daughter to the army to protect the country on the
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Front lines, just half mile away from gaza, she's
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Responsible for 80 soldiers.
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>> and she's 19.
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>> and she's 19 years old. and so there's this calling on my
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Life that l take one step and another step and another step.
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And when things feel unbearable, know that you could take one
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Step at a time and god will lead. and that is the opposite
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Of being a victim.
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>> yeah.
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>> and victimhood, even if it's warranted, is the biggest, the
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Biggest curse.
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>> i.
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>> would say, because it makes you stuck. when you're a victim,
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You feel like, i can't get out of this. when you look at your
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Victim, you look like you're alone. you look at the world
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Against you, god's against you. and so the opposite of
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Victimhood is saying, what are you calling me to right now?
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God.
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>> that's such a huge message to all of us. that's what i
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Mean. when i watched that little piece of you on social
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Media, i was like, okay, lord, this is a word for me right now.
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>> wow.
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>> because, you know, i've been going through a few weeks and
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Months of just feeling, you know, sometimes you feel
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Spiritually dry.
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>> oh, yeah.
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>> you know, you pray the same prayers and you read god's word,
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But sometimes you. but watching that little clip from you. and
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If you don't follow yael, you shoot. it's amazing. it was
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Just like a word from god for me in season. and the thing
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When i started studying with abraham, when he said he nanny
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When he said yes, he didn't even know what he was saying
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Yes to. but it's something my mother used to say to me when i
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Was little, you know, she had a big thing. she would say, yes,
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Lord, every morning. and i would tease her and say, you
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Don't know what you're saying yes to. and she said, no, but i
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Know who i'm saying yes to.
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>> wow.
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>> and that changes everything. but this message of yours, yael,
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It hits every single one of us.
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>> sheila. i first of all, every time you share stories of
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Your mother. i get the chills.
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>> she was lovely. wow.
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>> and i love that story. but but that's exactly it. like, i
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Just shared stories that were big in my life, right? like the
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Monumental stories that summarize like the, the main
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Moments where i could have broken down or, or moved
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Forward, but i say hineni every single day when i wake up in
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The morning, i'm not a morning person either.
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>> we are soul sisters.
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>> yes, yes, i can stay up till two in the morning.
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>> yes.
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>> but when my alarm goes off, i'm like, no, lord no. who said
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That this should start so early? and then really, sometimes i'll
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Say, okay, hineni lord, here i am, ready to start the day and
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I suddenly get the the strength for it. or if someone budges me
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In line at the supermarket and i'm.
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>> like.
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>> you know, i have a choice right there that i could stop
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And that i say this word hineni and trust in god, that i know
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Who i'm saying it to, even when i don't know what i'm saying at
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Least 20 times a day.
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>> wow.
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>> because it's those little things, those little things.
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What are you calling me to right now? that's what he means.
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And all it requires of us is taking a pause in our busy life
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That we are bombarded from every side, right? like people
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Need us, work needs us. social media definitely needs.
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>> us.
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>> but we have so much. you know, i'm a mother and a wife.
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My laundry never ends.
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>> i'm sure my dishes.
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>> never ends. that what? it's so easy to not pause. and when
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We don't pause, we don't know what god is calling us to. and
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Then we feel overwhelmed and we feel like it's unbearable. and
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So the only thing i tried to do within that madness, the only
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Thing i feel like is in my control because so little is in
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Our control. when we feel like we're just overwhelmed with
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Everything, it's to stop, put my hands on my heart and say,
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Hineni. and now i'm going to think about your mom and say, i
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Don't know who. i don't know what i am saying it to, but i
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Know who i'm saying it to.
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>> yeah.
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>> it's so beautiful.
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>> if you're just joining us, i'm here with yael eckstein,
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Who's ceo and president of the international fellowship of
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Christians and jews, and truly one of my absolute heroes has
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Lived through so much and yet continues to to inspire others
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With faith and hope. and i know recently you spoke at a turning
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Point event. how was that?
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>> oh my gosh, it was it was one of the most inspiring
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Moments. really? yes. okay. so exactly a year ago, i was
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Actually with charlie kirk in arizona. we had like a five
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Minute meeting planned, and we ended up sitting for over an
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Hour and a half. and it was eye opening. he was telling me that
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The things that he's facing with his, with the students and
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All of the madness on student campuses. and it was pretty new
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Then, like this darkness taking over. and it's kind of like
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When we don't have our spiritual protection, it
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Infiltrates, right? so sometimes, like it takes time
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To develop your spiritual protection, your spiritual
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Armor. and it was so new that that evil and darkness was
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Penetrating into the jewish community, into the christian
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Community. people felt scared, they felt harassed. and
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Everyone's trying to answer why. and we know historically, when
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There's no reasonable answer, it turns to the jews. and so
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Instead of saying, you know, iran is spreading global
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Extremism and terrorism, or instead it always goes back to
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The jews. and charlie was painting a very bleak picture
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For me. and he was right of what was happening that he was
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Trying to stand up against. and i remember going back to israel
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And just feeling terrified and sad and saying, lord, what what
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Are you doing here? again, we're going back to the same
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Place. and now it's not only jews, it's also christians. and
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They're saying, first we're going for the saturday people,
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Then the sunday people, first the jews, then the christians.
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This evil, this darkness is saying, first we're going for
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The little satan, which is israel, and then the big satan,
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Which is america. how are people not opening up their
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Eyes? and i'm, you know, israel is right next to syria. the
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Fellowship goes into syria to help persecuted christians. how
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Is the world not talking about persecuted christians around
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The world? everything just felt so confusing and dark and and
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It was a calling on me. no matter what happens, you need
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To continue to stand. jews and christians together. hi, my
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Name shiva. how good and how pleasant it is when brethren
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Dwell together.
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>> in peace.
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>> that was my. that was my hineni calling when i said,
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Here i am, lord. it's okay. build brotherhood. and when i
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Went back now to turning point, it felt so different, really.
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It did. a year later and there were 3000 women.
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>> wow.
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>> who were gathered together in faith, proud christians, not
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Apologetic. and i saw that spiritual armor was they were
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Wearing it with pride. wow. and they were talking about having
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Babies and families and getting married. and these
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Judeo-christian values. sheila. i felt the love of 3000
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Christian women who were sitting there. so i am hopeful.
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There's a biblical verse from the scriptures. yes, there is
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Hope for your future. and i feel like we're in that.
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>> wow. that's amazing. did you hear other people speak or were
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You just kind of in and out? sometimes you just don't get to
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Hear much else.
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>> everyone i think was was on the same page, which was
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Amazing. so i was there beforehand. the fellowship had
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A booth like in these events, a lot of different ministries and
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Companies and people have booths. and we had a booth that
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Was just based on faith. like people were able to take this
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Up quiz of which one of the female characters are you? are
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You esther? are you hannah? yeah. and we had a line of
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People waiting to find out what biblical character they are.
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Wow. and to me, that says everything like they're not
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Going shopping. they're not going to buy more things.
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They're not looking for the physical. they want that
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Spiritual food. they want to be like esther. they want to be
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Like hannah. and what i've seen, sheila, and i know you can
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Relate to this because we've spoken about it for years. god
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Isn't looking for perfection.
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>> no, not at all.
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>> he's looking for us.
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>> yeah.
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>> none of the people god called were perfect. moses had
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A lisp. esther was young. mary was young. we see all these
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People who didn't feel like they were ready, right? none of
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These biblical characters felt like they were ready. and what
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God said, both in the new testament and the old testament,
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Is you don't have to be ready. you just have to be mine.
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>> wow.
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>> you just have to listen to me and hear your calling. and i
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Will use you in ways you can never imagine.
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>> that's why the whole hineni thing is so real to me at the
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Moment, because it's like i used to try and be perfect. i
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Tried to pursue perfection for years and fell apart until i
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Realized i don't have to pursue perfection. you know, in christ
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And our father god, there is perfection. we just get to say
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Yes.
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>> we just get to say yes.
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>> one of the things i saw you do just the other day, and it
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Was all to do with because the landscape has changed so much
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Since october the 7th. and i saw them like rebuilding, like
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Kindergarten.
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>> yeah.
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>> that's huge.
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>> that was such an emotional moment.
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>> i can only imagine.
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>> oh my gosh. so on october 7th, there were so many
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Terrifying moments. but i would say one of the most terrifying
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Moments was seeing terrorists go into homes and schools and
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Kidnap children and kill children. we saw those babies
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Brothers, right? those little red headed boys, three years
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Old and one year old, and their mothers arms, and those
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Kibbutzim which are just towns, little towns, those small towns
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Were ravaged by the terrorists. they lit every building on fire,
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So whoever was inside would die. they tied people together,
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Things that i don't even want to talk about because it's hard
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To imagine we shouldn't even have those pictures in our
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Minds. and i went back to the town that was most ravaged,
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Where 1 in 4 people from this town were either killed or
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Kidnaped. and i saw life rising again. i felt like i was
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Looking at a seed that sprouted. but that seed is israel. that
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Seed is the people of israel. and i went into this
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Kindergarten that's in a bomb shelter just for protection
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Still. and there were more than 50 children there in three
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Different rooms, all different ages. and it's a kindergarten
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That the fellowship renovated because they came to us around
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Three months before that and said, we want to go back, we
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Want to rebuild. we can't let darkness win. and how are we
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Able to bring light right now to go back and show our
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Resilience, to show life that's sprouting again, but we have
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Nowhere to send the children. we need to work, we need to
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Rebuild, we need to do things. and the kindergarten was
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Destroyed by a hand-held grenade. the. the kindergarten.
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>> wow.
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>> and so the fellowship went in and we said, christians and
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Jews are here to rebuild israel, to make sure that the light of
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Israel doesn't go out. so to hold those babies and to. see
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Those children. and these are children who are conceived and
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Born after october 7th.
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>> so that's the only world they know. yes, but that's one
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Of the things i love about the fellowship. how much how hard
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You work to make life normal. and i remember you saying
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Something to me when we were in jerusalem, and you said
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Something like, they tried to kill us. they failed. let's eat.
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There's something about the jewish spirit that is just. but
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If you look back down through history, it's had to be that
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Way.
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>> you don't have a choice. you don't have a choice. and it
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Goes back to that place of hineni. i won't be a victim. i
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Refuse to be a victim. and that's the story of the jewish
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People. and my grandfather. you know, of course, as i talk
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About, i think of my own family. my grandfather was born in
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Germany. his entire family was killed in auschwitz. his core
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Family were the only ones to survive. and one cousin, he had
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Five aunts and uncles that, you know, were all killed in
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Auschwitz. all of their kids, both sets of his grandparents.
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And he moved to america with his father and, you know, their
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Core family. and they rebuilt. and i wasn't raised in
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Victimhood. i was raised to remember, but not to be victims.
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And that's the most important thing for me in teaching my
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Kids. we are empowered by the spirit of god. when god is with
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Us, we can do anything. yeah. and god doesn't give us
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Anything we can't handle. and god did send us into this world
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In order to make it more beautiful. and our role here in
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This world is to love, because god is a god of love, that if
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They aren't spreading love, our light has to be even stronger.
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>> i came across a photograph online and it made me smile
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Because it was of my old boss, pat robertson, who i adored.
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Worked with him for five years. with your dad? yes. tell. tell
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Us about your dad.
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>> oh my gosh. wow. well, pat robertson, he is a legend.
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Absolutely. yeah. i was on the set. i was on the 700 club with
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Him a few times. and with gordon they are. that family is
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A blessing.
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>> yes.
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>> just like the crouches. god uses some people to do very,
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Very, very big things. so my father was a young rabbi. it
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Was around 1978 and he was sent to skokie. now, some people,
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I'm not going to say their age might remember when there was
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Going to be a neo-nazi march in skokie in 1978.
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>> wow.
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>> they wanted to show free speech. so my father, a young
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Rabbi, went and tried to gather support against the neo-nazi
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March. and it was a big community of holocaust
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Survivors. and suddenly something he never anticipated
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Happened. christian leaders came and said, can we stand
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With you against this.
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>> nazi march?
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>> and my father was in shock. he said, christians, the only
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Thing the jewish community knows about christians is what
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We've read in the history books. and they said, no, no, no, we
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Have repented. we are christians who study the
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Scriptures and actually believe god's word. we don't try to
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Change it. we don't try to create darkness from it. we
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Only want to spread light in brotherhood and we stand with
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You. wow. and that was how the fellowship started. it was
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Right when the soviet union fell and it was the christians.
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Pat robertson was one of the first ones to come to my father
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And say, let's bring those jews home. wow. this is biblical
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Prophecy coming to fruition from the biblical land of the
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North. he said, hineni.
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>> i know, i know, pat, absolutely loved your dad. talk
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To us about aliyah. what is that? for those who maybe don't
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Understand that.
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>> term, well, aliyah is a hebrew word that literally
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Means to go up and it's referring to a spiritual state,
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And it's talking about bringing jews from all over the world,
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All four corners, just like jeremiah and isaiah. and
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Ezekiel prophesized the ingathering of the nations, the
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Ingathering of the jewish people. and so aliyah is the
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Word that describes the ingathering of the jewish
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People, bringing the jewish people home to israel to settle
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The land, to be there. and so the fellowship, it's one of our
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Main priorities. we open up the scriptures when we say, what
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Projects do you have? i always say, i open up the scriptures
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And i see, well, what does god say? god says to feed the
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Hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the poor, comfort the
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People by building bomb shelters and things like that,
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And bring the jewish people home. this is part of god's
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Plan. and so christians and jews together have brought home
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Nearly a million people.
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>> wow.
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>> from russia, from ukraine, from across the former soviet
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Union, from arab countries that i can't talk about, from france,
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From south america. the fellowship has aliyah flights
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Every single day because this is what god calls us to.
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>> so for us, just.
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>> sitting here, yeah, you know, somebody who's sitting in
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Wyoming watching this or in florida, how can we support the
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Fellowship?
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>> wow. well, what i've seen is that it's about our hearts,
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Right? coming together. the first thing god says is pray
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For the peace of jerusalem. and he actually makes promises of
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What happens when you pray for the peace of jerusalem. your
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Family's blessed. we see in the new testament that christians
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Must remember that they're grafted onto the rich olive
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Tree of israel, that when you pray for the people of israel,
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You're praying for your community. and let me say that
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The people of israel are praying for christians around
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The world as well. and so with the fellowship does is we take
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That prayer and we transform it into action, into all those
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Things that god tells us to do in a tangible way. and so by
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Partnering with the fellowship, whatever it is, $25 for a food
00:29:00.091 --> 00:29:04.028
Box, $350 to bring a person home to israel and aliyah.
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>> $350, $350. it's not much to come home.
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>> and it's generational.
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>> wow.
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>> i've seen people that the fellowship have brought to
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Israel. their children are born than in israel, and $13,000 for
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A bomb shelter. i mean, that keeps people safe forever. that
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From that small donation, that widow's mite, that to the very,
00:29:28.119 --> 00:29:33.591
Very huge donations of $13,000 for a bomb shelter, the money
00:29:33.591 --> 00:29:39.297
That's donated goes directly to the people on the ground in
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Israel.
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>> and that's one of the things i love most about my trip, you
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Know, because sometimes, you know, you'll hear about
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Something and think, that sounds really wonderful. i hope
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That really works quite as well as it looks like it might. but
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To actually be there and to actually see these people and
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Meet some of these people and through interpreters, hear some
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Of their stories of, i mean, it's so the heart of god that
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You would find those who are broken. i was thinking of
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There's a word in the new testament where it talks about
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Aletheia when jesus is talking to a samaritan woman, and he
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Said, true worship is worship in spirit and in truth. and
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That word truth in the greek aletheia means with nothing
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Hidden. and one of the things i love about the work of the
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Fellowship is you go where things were dark, and you shine
00:30:24.676 --> 00:30:28.313
A light, and you're there and you're present. and the fact
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That we get to join you in that, what a holy privilege that is.
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>> wow. i am held up by the prayers of millions of people.
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And that, i really believe, is what gives me the strength and
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The wisdom and the protection to go to these dark places. the
00:30:45.063 --> 00:30:48.766
Whole identity of the fellowship is to be boots on
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The ground. yeah, i want to go and comfort the holocaust
00:30:53.538 --> 00:30:56.708
Survivor and tell her christians love her. i want to
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Go to the school and rebuild the kindergarten and tell those
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Children, christians are praying over your life. we are
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Boots on the ground, and then we're able to see those dark
00:31:06.451 --> 00:31:11.089
Places that maybe were forgotten by others. and we're
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Able to build projects in order to fill that darkness with
00:31:13.992 --> 00:31:17.595
Light. to the extent that the israeli government comes to the
00:31:17.595 --> 00:31:21.566
Fellowship and says, build us projects to be able to help
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Because you build projects better than we could. we've
00:31:24.836 --> 00:31:27.672
Built the national food project of how to create criteria to
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Feed the hungry, how to find them in every city across
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Israel. and the government took it over. wow. we've created
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Projects after october 7th. get the first responders the
00:31:37.348 --> 00:31:41.019
Emergency gear that they need, and the government took it over.
00:31:41.019 --> 00:31:43.955
We created projects for the internally displaced people.
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When their homes get destroyed by a missile, how to, within 24
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Hours be there to provide aid. and the government took it over.
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And so i, i see that it's a calling, a calling on the
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Fellowship and a calling on my life. go to those dark places.
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Don't turn your head. don't turn around. don't pretend like
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They don't exist. don't be scared of them. go there and
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Bring light.
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>> i remember you saying, because i was talking to you
00:32:08.780 --> 00:32:11.015
When i was over in israel about if something happens, like, say,
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There's a bomb that explodes in new york or something,
00:32:14.018 --> 00:32:16.287
Everybody scatters. but you were saying in israel it's
00:32:16.287 --> 00:32:19.357
Different. everybody moves toward the crisis because
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Everybody wants to help. yeah. that's amazing.
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>> that's what you do for family. if, god forbid, i knew
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That my child was in that attack, i wouldn't be running
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The other way. no, i would be writing, running straight into
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The danger. and that's how all of us feel for each other. in
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Israel. we really feel like it's family. you know, i raised
00:32:41.479 --> 00:32:44.449
Four kids in israel, praise god. and i remember when my kids
00:32:44.449 --> 00:32:48.386
Were little and i'd go to the park, my kid would fall, you
00:32:48.386 --> 00:32:52.357
Know, like a little toddler falls. i'd have five parents
00:32:52.357 --> 00:32:55.560
There before i even could stand up, helping them get up. and i
00:32:55.560 --> 00:32:59.063
Raised my kids. not don't talk to strangers. if you need
00:32:59.063 --> 00:33:03.468
Anything, you ask the person next to you. wow. my 14 year
00:33:03.468 --> 00:33:06.804
Old went camping last year and with with some friends of hers,
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And i called her, you know, to check in on them. in israel,
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That's like normal for 14 year olds to go camping, taking the
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Bus. and she said, oh yeah, there's a family camping next
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To us. they gave us watermelon and popcorn and it was a little
00:33:21.185 --> 00:33:25.123
Bit cold. so they gave us their extra blanket. and then i spoke
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To the mom and she's like, oh, of course they're like my kids
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In israel.
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>> i love.
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>> that we're family. and so when there's a crisis or a
00:33:33.431 --> 00:33:36.000
Terror attack, which unfortunately happens almost
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Every day, even if people don't hear about it, we're all
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Running towards.
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>> you know, it's interesting. there's something about our
00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:44.709
Culture in the western world. like i think we've got so used
00:33:44.709 --> 00:33:48.046
To social media and to kind of scrolling and being spectators
00:33:48.046 --> 00:33:51.649
Of life. and it's actually left a lot of people feeling very
00:33:51.649 --> 00:33:55.286
Empty and very lonely. but that was something i was so aware of.
00:33:55.286 --> 00:33:59.157
I was only in israel for three weeks, but i felt this sense of
00:33:59.157 --> 00:34:02.960
Like, i remember when we would break to have lunch, it would
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:05.329
Be moms that came out of their homes and spread food out on
00:34:05.329 --> 00:34:09.067
Tables. and it wasn't us going to mcdonald's. it was it was.
00:34:09.067 --> 00:34:12.070
So there was such a sense of, we belong to one another. we're
00:34:12.070 --> 00:34:15.440
Here for one another. that has to be one of the great
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Strengths of, of the jewish people.
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>> yeah. and i think that's what faith gives you. god says
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You're not here for yourself. you're here to fix the world.
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You're here to bring light. you're here to see the other.
00:34:28.152 --> 00:34:31.622
You're love your neighbor like yourself. spread love, spread
00:34:31.622 --> 00:34:34.826
Hope. feed the hungry, clothe the naked, everything. that
00:34:34.826 --> 00:34:37.328
Could be counterintuitive because when you don't have
00:34:37.328 --> 00:34:39.630
Faith, it's survival of the fittest, right? the strongest.
00:34:39.630 --> 00:34:42.767
I worked for this. it's mine. faith says no, leave your leave
00:34:42.767 --> 00:34:46.504
Your corner of your field. give your tithes right. give your
00:34:46.504 --> 00:34:51.109
What is the word for tithes in hebrew? and i know barry's
00:34:51.109 --> 00:34:54.345
Going to learn that word and he's going to be like, sheila,
00:34:54.345 --> 00:34:58.282
I know hebrew.
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>> i'm sure you're right.
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>> i love teaching your husband hebrew, but but god says it's
00:35:00.918 --> 00:35:04.856
Not just yours. yeah. what you have is to share with others.
00:35:04.856 --> 00:35:08.359
And so you see that in the christian church as well. yeah.
00:35:08.359 --> 00:35:11.162
Whenever i go to churches, i feel that people are there to
00:35:11.162 --> 00:35:14.132
Support one another. that single mom, that they're
00:35:14.132 --> 00:35:17.001
Watching her kids or the elderly that they go and visit.
00:35:17.001 --> 00:35:21.305
The more society has faith, the more society will take care of
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One another.
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>> it's so true. if you're just joining us, wonderful to have a
00:35:26.577 --> 00:35:30.348
Conversation with my darling friend yael eckstein, who's ceo
00:35:30.348 --> 00:35:33.651
And president of the fellowship, international fellowship of
00:35:33.651 --> 00:35:36.787
Christians and jews, making such a huge difference in the
00:35:36.787 --> 00:35:39.690
World, i wondered if you would paint a picture for us of what
00:35:39.690 --> 00:35:43.327
It's like the first time you go to a holocaust survivor. when
00:35:43.327 --> 00:35:46.497
Somebody finds himself in a place of despair and darkness,
00:35:46.497 --> 00:35:50.134
And the difference you've seen happen in their life.
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>> yeah. well.
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>> is there anyone that comes to mind?
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>> there are so many that come to mind. that's why i'm like,
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Okay, there's one woman, the first woman, first holocaust
00:36:00.044 --> 00:36:02.346
Survivor i ever visited in ukraine. actually, her name was
00:36:02.346 --> 00:36:05.950
Olga. and my father and i went to ukraine. it was the first
00:36:05.950 --> 00:36:11.155
Time i went with my father to ukraine, first time i was ever
00:36:11.155 --> 00:36:14.926
There, because we have ministry across the former soviet union
00:36:14.926 --> 00:36:17.128
To help the jewish people in holocaust survivor, holocaust
00:36:17.128 --> 00:36:20.364
Survivors and orphans with the basics. so we flew to ukraine.
00:36:20.364 --> 00:36:24.335
My father said, we're going to visit this woman, olga. i said,
00:36:24.335 --> 00:36:27.538
Okay, we landed in kyiv. there's a lot of people in kyiv,
00:36:27.538 --> 00:36:30.608
Its main city, but we start driving out of kyiv. i was like,
00:36:30.608 --> 00:36:34.579
Where are we going, abba? he's like, there's a woman, olga,
00:36:34.579 --> 00:36:37.481
Who needs our help. she needs food and she needs heat, a
00:36:37.481 --> 00:36:40.484
Blanket. we heard about her. she's a holocaust survivor and
00:36:40.484 --> 00:36:43.020
She has no one. so we're going. i said, okay, three hours later,
00:36:43.020 --> 00:36:46.624
We're still driving. we're driving these side roads
00:36:46.624 --> 00:36:51.295
Covered in snow and ice, and we're just driving. i said,
00:36:51.295 --> 00:36:54.599
Abba, we're going on this way for one.
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>> person.
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>> abba, abba.
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>> of course i love that.
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>> yeah. i said, we're going all this way for one person. he
00:36:59.537 --> 00:37:02.673
Said, of course, of course we're going this way for one
00:37:02.673 --> 00:37:05.509
Person, one forgotten holocaust survivor. of course we are. so
00:37:05.509 --> 00:37:08.312
Finally we arrived in this little village, totally
00:37:08.312 --> 00:37:11.849
Dilapidated homes that were made of stones and roofs that
00:37:11.849 --> 00:37:14.385
Were falling apart. and we got to olga's house and the snow
00:37:14.385 --> 00:37:17.588
Was on her front lawn and there were no footsteps. i knew she
00:37:17.588 --> 00:37:20.858
Hasn't been visited for a long time, and i remember the first
00:37:20.858 --> 00:37:24.328
Time walking in and seeing olga. she was around 93 years old and
00:37:24.328 --> 00:37:27.865
She had a few jars of pickled beets and a few old potatoes.
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That was it, because the only food she had was what she grew
00:37:34.205 --> 00:37:37.208
In the summer. wow, there's no supermarkets there. and she's
00:37:37.208 --> 00:37:40.011
Poor. and i went to her and i held her hand and my father was
00:37:40.011 --> 00:37:43.748
On the other side. and he said, olga, what's your story? how
00:37:43.748 --> 00:37:46.617
Are you here in the middle of nowhere in this dilapidated
00:37:46.617 --> 00:37:49.520
Home? she said, i'm an orphan, 93 years old, and she still
00:37:49.520 --> 00:37:54.258
Calls herself an orphan. she said, all my family was killed
00:37:54.258 --> 00:37:57.461
In the holocaust. i was hiding in the forest, which is the
00:37:57.461 --> 00:38:00.698
Only reason why i survived. and sometimes i wonder why god
00:38:00.698 --> 00:38:04.268
Saved me. it's such a painful life. but now i know why.
00:38:04.268 --> 00:38:07.505
Because you came to visit me and tell me that christians are
00:38:07.505 --> 00:38:11.142
Praying for me. wow. this is the moment that god kept me
00:38:11.142 --> 00:38:14.211
Alive. for now i can die happy.
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>> my gosh.
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>> and i was crying, sheila. i was bawling and my father took
00:38:17.348 --> 00:38:22.286
Off his gloves and put them on her hand and she said, no,
00:38:22.286 --> 00:38:25.256
You're going to be cold. he said, don't worry, i'll get
00:38:25.256 --> 00:38:28.159
Another pair. and it was when i realized that people are in so
00:38:28.159 --> 00:38:32.697
Much pain. sheila.
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>> yeah.
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>> so much pain. she's still going through. remembering her
00:38:35.066 --> 00:38:37.368
Parents and siblings being killed in the holocaust alone,
00:38:37.368 --> 00:38:40.971
To have the ability to go and minister to her, to comfort her,
00:38:40.971 --> 00:38:46.010
To give her the gift of life in her body and spirit. that was
00:38:46.010 --> 00:38:50.581
The first time since then. thank god i have dozens of
00:38:50.581 --> 00:38:55.052
Stories in the middle of the war going to holocaust
00:38:55.052 --> 00:38:57.555
Survivors house. one woman, zelda. we heard that she.
00:38:57.555 --> 00:39:01.859
During the iraq war, we heard that she didn't have her helper
00:39:01.859 --> 00:39:05.096
Come visit her. she's bedridden. she's a holocaust survivor. and
00:39:05.096 --> 00:39:08.699
So she. we were told she might not have food because she
00:39:08.699 --> 00:39:11.602
Doesn't have children. she doesn't have anyone to care for
00:39:11.602 --> 00:39:14.405
Her. so literally rocket, a rocket fell around two blocks
00:39:14.405 --> 00:39:17.375
Away from her. and so her windows were were broken and
00:39:17.375 --> 00:39:22.780
Cracked. and i'm driving through what feels like an
00:39:22.780 --> 00:39:24.915
Apocalypse. i finally get to her home. i go in and she was
00:39:24.915 --> 00:39:27.918
On her way to a bomb shelter and fell. and so she didn't
00:39:27.918 --> 00:39:31.756
Leave her bed for i don't even know how long. and i came with
00:39:31.756 --> 00:39:36.460
Food and i told her, this is from christian. she said, how
00:39:36.460 --> 00:39:40.030
Did you find me? i said, god directs us exactly where we're
00:39:40.030 --> 00:39:43.267
Needed. and i opened up her fridge in her cupboard. there
00:39:43.267 --> 00:39:46.036
Was no food. i don't know if she would have survived another
00:39:46.036 --> 00:39:49.373
Day if we wouldn't have been there. and she said, i survived
00:39:49.373 --> 00:39:52.343
The holocaust. and now, in my final years, jews and
00:39:52.343 --> 00:39:57.314
Christians are coming together to feed the hungry. the future
00:39:57.314 --> 00:40:01.318
Looks hopeful.
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>> oh wow. wow. that's a word for all of us. because
00:40:02.420 --> 00:40:07.558
Sometimes we think that's over there and that doesn't impact
00:40:07.558 --> 00:40:10.761
Me. but scripture is so clear, so clear about praying for the
00:40:10.761 --> 00:40:15.299
Peace of jerusalem and also the heart of god to rescue those
00:40:15.299 --> 00:40:19.270
Who are in prison, who are struggling, who are suffering,
00:40:19.270 --> 00:40:22.306
Who are starving. that's what being like jesus is.
00:40:22.306 --> 00:40:26.110
>> it's the orphan and the widow.
00:40:26.110 --> 00:40:27.511
>> yeah, absolutely. and it's so interesting because growing
00:40:27.511 --> 00:40:30.748
Up, i grew up, my mom was widowed at 33. and so we lived
00:40:30.748 --> 00:40:35.486
On a very restricted budget. but her thing was we don't have
00:40:35.486 --> 00:40:40.024
A lot of money. but but god has everything. so we would pray
00:40:40.024 --> 00:40:43.427
For just, you know, if it was like pants for my brother for
00:40:43.427 --> 00:40:46.497
School or something, we would pray and know that god would
00:40:46.497 --> 00:40:49.500
Provide. wow. sometimes i think our muchness is does a
00:40:49.500 --> 00:40:54.205
Disservice because we forget how dependent we are on the
00:40:54.205 --> 00:40:57.441
Lord.
00:40:57.441 --> 00:40:58.542
>> yeah, that's exactly what it's one of my favorite. the
00:40:58.642 --> 00:41:01.512
Feast of the sukkot, where you go out into the huts. right.
00:41:01.512 --> 00:41:06.450
And that's the message that when when the israelites were
00:41:06.450 --> 00:41:09.753
Traveling in the desert for 40 years, we had the cloud of
00:41:09.753 --> 00:41:13.290
Glory we had that was directing us where to go, what to do. and
00:41:13.290 --> 00:41:17.294
We had all these miracles. and then the israelites went into
00:41:17.294 --> 00:41:20.231
The land of israel, and they suddenly had to fend for
00:41:20.231 --> 00:41:22.433
Themselves. they had to fight the wars. they had to protect
00:41:22.433 --> 00:41:25.436
Their people. they had to grow food in order to eat it. and
00:41:25.436 --> 00:41:28.439
What the festival of booths reminds me is we are always
00:41:28.439 --> 00:41:32.943
Protected by that cloud of glory, whether we see it or not.
00:41:32.943 --> 00:41:35.980
And we can go out. we literally go out into the booth and sleep
00:41:35.980 --> 00:41:39.550
In there and eat in there and move into there for seven days,
00:41:39.550 --> 00:41:42.586
Because it's a reminder you think your house is giving you
00:41:42.586 --> 00:41:45.523
Protection. you think your bank account is giving you
00:41:45.523 --> 00:41:47.558
Protection. you think your job is giving you protection. you
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Think you don't have that, and therefore you don't have
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Protection. no.
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>> wow.
00:41:53.931 --> 00:41:54.965
>> it's the lord who's providing us with all of this.
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And in our abundance, we forgotten how blessed we are,
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And we've even forgotten sometimes the lord and how he
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Moves within it.
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>> wow.
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>> let me ask you an unfair question. but it's you. so i
00:42:06.610 --> 00:42:09.780
Feel like.
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>> i definitely.
00:42:10.548 --> 00:42:11.749
>> what do you do on a day where you just feel like, lord,
00:42:11.749 --> 00:42:14.752
I'm not sure i can do this anymore.
00:42:14.752 --> 00:42:16.754
>> i have those days. sheila. do i have those days? you know,
00:42:16.754 --> 00:42:22.026
There's something about. feeling like everybody relies
00:42:22.026 --> 00:42:27.164
On you and needs you. that's very heavy. yeah, every mother
00:42:27.164 --> 00:42:31.702
Could relate to that. every father could relate to that.
00:42:31.702 --> 00:42:35.739
Many young people can relate to that. there's so much needed
00:42:35.739 --> 00:42:39.043
And demanded of us. yeah. for young people, i see with my
00:42:39.043 --> 00:42:42.179
Kids at school and social and friends and everything they
00:42:42.179 --> 00:42:44.815
Need to do for me, my kids need me. my husband needs me, my
00:42:44.815 --> 00:42:48.385
Work needs me. the poor people need me. yeah. and so i always
00:42:48.385 --> 00:42:53.824
Tried to distinguish, and this is my hineni moment. what do i
00:42:53.824 --> 00:42:57.995
Need to do? and what can i say? okay, i know that i am called
00:42:57.995 --> 00:43:03.834
There, but it's going to have to wait because i can't take
00:43:03.834 --> 00:43:06.804
Care of anyone if i don't take care of myself.
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>> that's very important.
00:43:09.573 --> 00:43:10.841
>> and what i do is i go out to my garden, i have a vegetable
00:43:10.841 --> 00:43:14.578
Garden, and i love my vegetable garden. that's what makes me
00:43:14.578 --> 00:43:16.780
Happy. and i take my dogs and i go for a walk. that's what
00:43:16.780 --> 00:43:20.651
Makes me happy. and i call up my friends and i go for a
00:43:20.651 --> 00:43:23.721
Coffee date. that's what makes me happy. or i drive to the
00:43:23.721 --> 00:43:26.790
Beach and journal. that's what makes me happy because i tried
00:43:26.790 --> 00:43:29.693
For a lot of years, sheila, to hold everything. yeah. and me
00:43:29.693 --> 00:43:35.065
Know to to be godly is to be selfless. and i learned that is
00:43:35.065 --> 00:43:39.803
Not true. god calls us to love our neighbors like ourselves.
00:43:39.803 --> 00:43:44.108
Yeah, we could only love our neighbor as much as we love
00:43:44.108 --> 00:43:47.745
Ourselves. we could only help the other as much as we help
00:43:47.745 --> 00:43:50.581
Ourselves. god isn't saying be nothing. god is saying, you are
00:43:50.581 --> 00:43:54.752
A daughter of the king. take care of yourself, celebrate
00:43:54.752 --> 00:43:59.256
Yourself. and it took me a few breakdowns to learn that and
00:43:59.256 --> 00:44:04.595
Big and little ways. but i've come to a place that i realize
00:44:04.595 --> 00:44:10.034
I am worthy of caring for myself because i am god's child.
00:44:10.034 --> 00:44:16.874
>> absolutely.
00:44:16.874 --> 00:44:18.108
>> and that doesn't mean that i could drop my responsibilities.
00:44:18.208 --> 00:44:20.844
My children really do need me. my husband really does need me.
00:44:20.844 --> 00:44:24.481
My work really does need me, but it means carving out time
00:44:24.481 --> 00:44:28.752
That i'm able to take for myself so that i can go and
00:44:28.752 --> 00:44:32.990
Give to others.
00:44:32.990 --> 00:44:34.525
>> talk to me about your daughter because i can't
00:44:34.525 --> 00:44:37.027
Imagine what it was like. i mean, i'm trying to think of my
00:44:37.027 --> 00:44:39.697
Son. 18. yeah. and i felt like he was still a child in so many
00:44:39.697 --> 00:44:43.634
Ways. but suddenly your daughter is in the army. yeah.
00:44:43.634 --> 00:44:47.504
How has that changed her? what's that experience been
00:44:47.504 --> 00:44:50.708
Like for her?
00:44:50.708 --> 00:44:51.742
>> yeah.
00:44:51.742 --> 00:44:52.910
>> i grew up in america. she was, you know, when i was 18. i
00:44:53.010 --> 00:44:56.480
Hope there's no pictures of what i was doing when i was 18.
00:44:56.480 --> 00:45:00.851
I was in college. i was going to college. this is fun and
00:45:00.851 --> 00:45:04.021
Parties. and the only thing i was thinking about was, how can
00:45:04.021 --> 00:45:06.957
I party and wake up in the morning for my class and to see
00:45:06.957 --> 00:45:11.595
My daughter, who what she's thinking about is how can i
00:45:11.595 --> 00:45:15.132
Keep my soldier safe? how can i protect the borders? how can i
00:45:15.132 --> 00:45:19.436
Do everything i can to make this country better? how can i
00:45:19.436 --> 00:45:23.474
Communicate with people who are very different than me in a
00:45:23.474 --> 00:45:25.609
Respectful way? because it doesn't matter if they're like
00:45:25.609 --> 00:45:28.479
Me or not. we are all in the army together, and anyone who's
00:45:28.479 --> 00:45:31.582
Been in the army knows you are in the most diverse units.
00:45:31.582 --> 00:45:35.686
People who have different backgrounds, different
00:45:35.686 --> 00:45:38.589
Religions, different values. you have to come together and
00:45:38.589 --> 00:45:41.325
See the other and say, this is my brother. my only job is to
00:45:41.325 --> 00:45:44.728
Protect them and keep them safe. wow. and so to see my daughter,
00:45:44.728 --> 00:45:47.931
It was it actually happened before she went to the army,
00:45:47.931 --> 00:45:50.734
Even it was when she decided she.
00:45:50.734 --> 00:45:52.636
>> didn't she volunteer? yeah, yeah.
00:45:52.636 --> 00:45:54.071
>> she used to volunteer on the ambulance. yeah. and then she
00:45:54.071 --> 00:45:57.307
Was able to do two years of national service and
00:45:57.307 --> 00:46:00.177
Volunteering instead of going to active military duty. and i
00:46:00.177 --> 00:46:03.781
Remember after october 7th looking at her and saying,
00:46:03.781 --> 00:46:07.017
Maira, are you considering doing volunteering instead of
00:46:07.017 --> 00:46:09.720
The active military duty? it was a week that we went to
00:46:09.720 --> 00:46:13.490
Three funerals of 18 year olds who were killed in service, and
00:46:13.490 --> 00:46:18.896
She looked at me with tears in her eyes. she said, mommy, now
00:46:18.896 --> 00:46:22.166
I'm even more sure than ever that i need to go. wow. the
00:46:22.166 --> 00:46:25.369
Future of this country relies on me. after 2000 years, we've
00:46:25.369 --> 00:46:29.439
Been brought back to israel during the holocaust. no one
00:46:29.439 --> 00:46:32.743
Was there to protect grandpa. in all the past generations.
00:46:32.743 --> 00:46:37.514
When everyone would go against the jews, there was no one to
00:46:37.514 --> 00:46:39.850
Protect them. i have the ability to protect this land of
00:46:39.850 --> 00:46:43.453
God and the people. how could i say no? wow, wow. and so i've
00:46:43.453 --> 00:46:48.025
Seen her take on responsibilities that are too
00:46:48.025 --> 00:46:52.296
Big for anyone to hold, let alone a 17 year old. but with
00:46:52.296 --> 00:46:56.667
Faith and with grace. and that it actually has made her
00:46:56.667 --> 00:47:01.338
Stronger instead of knocking her down.
00:47:01.338 --> 00:47:03.907
>> i remember reading a story online and it was during
00:47:03.907 --> 00:47:09.313
Everything that was happening during the holocaust, a little
00:47:09.313 --> 00:47:12.916
Village close to one of the camps, and at one point it
00:47:12.916 --> 00:47:16.153
Looked like it was snowing. and then they realized, no, it was
00:47:16.153 --> 00:47:21.525
Ash from the camps. yeah. and the person who had written this
00:47:21.525 --> 00:47:25.863
Article said, we need to wake up and realize it's still
00:47:25.863 --> 00:47:29.099
Snowing. when you see the kind of rise of anti-semitism around
00:47:29.099 --> 00:47:32.502
The world, it's like there's the battlefront in israel, but
00:47:32.502 --> 00:47:34.938
Then there's like a second battlefront of what's happening
00:47:34.938 --> 00:47:37.741
Around the world. how do you speak to that?
00:47:37.741 --> 00:47:41.345
>> there's a physical battlefield and there's a
00:47:41.345 --> 00:47:44.948
Spiritual battlefield. the physical battlefield is israel,
00:47:44.948 --> 00:47:48.518
And it's very connected to the spiritual battlefield. that's
00:47:48.518 --> 00:47:53.223
Anti-semitism. we talk about the holocaust, and we've kind
00:47:53.223 --> 00:47:55.525
Of become desensitized to it. right? the number 6 million, if
00:47:55.525 --> 00:48:00.464
We would take a moment of silence for every one of the 6
00:48:00.464 --> 00:48:03.500
Million people who were killed, we would be in silence for 11
00:48:03.500 --> 00:48:06.536
Years.
00:48:06.536 --> 00:48:07.638
>> wow. put some perspective.
00:48:07.638 --> 00:48:09.806
>> put some perspective. the jewish people before the
00:48:09.806 --> 00:48:12.709
Holocaust were 16.6 million jewish people around the world.
00:48:12.709 --> 00:48:18.048
Today, we're not even 16 million jews. we still haven't
00:48:18.048 --> 00:48:23.854
Repopulated to the number of jews that there were before the
00:48:23.854 --> 00:48:26.723
Holocaust.
00:48:26.723 --> 00:48:27.090
>> wow.
00:48:27.090 --> 00:48:28.325
>> and now the anti-semitism is rearing its anti its head again
00:48:28.425 --> 00:48:31.762
Of hatred and animosity. and i believe that it's spiritual.
00:48:31.762 --> 00:48:37.100
It's a spiritual war that's been raging since the
00:48:37.100 --> 00:48:41.805
Scriptures. the story of haman, that's a spiritual war. amalek,
00:48:41.805 --> 00:48:46.843
That's a spiritual war. you go throughout the scriptures and
00:48:46.843 --> 00:48:49.913
You see there's a spiritual war that leads to physical wars,
00:48:49.913 --> 00:48:54.151
Not the other way around. and so when i see anti-semitism
00:48:54.151 --> 00:48:59.790
Rising, and of course, we know about the corrie ten boom
00:48:59.790 --> 00:49:03.427
During the holocaust, these heroes, pastor dietrich
00:49:03.427 --> 00:49:07.030
Bonhoeffer, these heroes, these christian heroes, i believe
00:49:07.030 --> 00:49:10.033
That they were prophets. yeah, because we know the names of
00:49:10.033 --> 00:49:15.305
The righteous gentiles during the holocaust who risked their
00:49:15.305 --> 00:49:18.542
Own lives to do what's right, to save the jewish people.
00:49:18.542 --> 00:49:22.112
Today, the reason why we don't know the names of every single
00:49:22.112 --> 00:49:25.449
One is because there are probably 300 million christians
00:49:25.449 --> 00:49:27.884
Around the world who are praying for the peace of
00:49:27.884 --> 00:49:30.821
Jerusalem and who are willing to act in that boldness. but
00:49:30.821 --> 00:49:33.991
What happens then is the spiritual war is put on the
00:49:33.991 --> 00:49:38.295
Christian community as well, because you're doing what's
00:49:38.295 --> 00:49:40.297
Right. yeah. suddenly you're holding that light. you're
00:49:40.297 --> 00:49:42.666
Standing in god's presence. and spiritual warfare hates the
00:49:42.666 --> 00:49:47.337
Spirit of god. and so now it's not just anti-semitism. it's
00:49:47.337 --> 00:49:51.675
Against the jews and it's against the christians. yeah.
00:49:51.675 --> 00:49:54.678
And so i believe the antidote for that, the medicine for that,
00:49:54.678 --> 00:49:58.949
The healing tincture for that is standing together.
00:49:58.949 --> 00:50:02.853
>> absolutely.
00:50:02.853 --> 00:50:03.887
>> if they're going to hate, we're going to love.
00:50:03.887 --> 00:50:06.089
>> you know, it's so interesting when you study the
00:50:06.089 --> 00:50:08.258
Book of esther, and it's actually the only book where
00:50:08.258 --> 00:50:11.094
God's name is never mentioned, but he's, he's all over it. and
00:50:11.094 --> 00:50:14.097
You know, when haman and his plans to destroy the thing i
00:50:14.097 --> 00:50:17.234
Love is that god was still working in the darkness, you
00:50:17.234 --> 00:50:20.137
Know, when the king couldn't sleep. and so he called and
00:50:20.137 --> 00:50:22.606
Found out and uncovered everything. yes. that to me is
00:50:22.606 --> 00:50:26.243
What gives me hope and courage at the moment. that no matter
00:50:26.243 --> 00:50:29.146
What people may say and no matter what they're out to do,
00:50:29.146 --> 00:50:32.015
That god is still on the move. god is still on the throne.
00:50:32.015 --> 00:50:35.252
Amen, amen.
00:50:35.252 --> 00:50:37.020
>> sometimes when he's most hidden is when he's most
00:50:37.020 --> 00:50:40.223
Present, right? i feel that that suddenly i look back. i'm
00:50:40.223 --> 00:50:43.493
Like, oh, you were there. thank you.
00:50:43.493 --> 00:50:47.497
>> yes.
00:50:47.497 --> 00:50:48.732
>> how can we pray? i want to ask you two questions. how can
00:50:48.732 --> 00:50:52.269
We pray for the fellowship? but then i want to ask, how can we
00:50:52.269 --> 00:50:56.139
Pray for you and your family?
00:50:56.139 --> 00:50:57.374
>> thank you.
00:50:57.374 --> 00:50:58.508
>> so you can pray for the fellowship that we will have
00:50:58.508 --> 00:51:01.244
The resources to meet the needs. yeah. one of the hardest things,
00:51:01.244 --> 00:51:05.782
Sheila, is getting phone calls from children who are hungry,
00:51:05.782 --> 00:51:08.685
Parents who are asking for baby formula. and i have to say, we
00:51:08.685 --> 00:51:12.656
Don't have. but as soon as we get a donation, i promise we'll
00:51:12.656 --> 00:51:16.226
We'll we'll give it. we had two, two soup kitchens that were hit
00:51:16.226 --> 00:51:21.198
By rockets in the past year, one in kiryat shmona in the
00:51:21.198 --> 00:51:24.901
North and one in dimona in the south.
00:51:24.901 --> 00:51:26.870
>> and you were feeding a lot of people through.
00:51:26.870 --> 00:51:29.606
>> those, a lot of people. and we made sure as a principle,
00:51:29.606 --> 00:51:32.809
The next day we were providing even more meals than the day
00:51:32.809 --> 00:51:35.679
Before, because we will not let darkness win. but the needs
00:51:35.679 --> 00:51:39.316
I've never seen so much needs. you talk about aliyah bringing
00:51:39.316 --> 00:51:42.919
The jewish people home. we get calls every day of jews across
00:51:42.919 --> 00:51:46.623
The world who want to come home to israel. as soon as we get a
00:51:46.623 --> 00:51:50.827
Donation, we bring them home. wow. but that alone is a huge
00:51:50.827 --> 00:51:55.132
Area. then you have security bomb shelters that schools need.
00:51:55.132 --> 00:51:58.869
Bomb shelters. all places of worship need bomb shelters,
00:51:58.869 --> 00:52:03.073
Hospitals that need to be protected. the fellowship just
00:52:03.073 --> 00:52:05.609
Built a whole protected unit floor at a hospital in nazareth
00:52:05.609 --> 00:52:09.946
To serve the christian community in nazareth, we have
00:52:09.946 --> 00:52:13.550
Christians in syria, persecuted christians that the fellowship
00:52:13.550 --> 00:52:16.353
Is dedicated to be there for them. the needs are enormous
00:52:16.353 --> 00:52:19.990
And for every yes, there's a no because budget just can't hold
00:52:19.990 --> 00:52:24.661
It. that i pray, i pray, and i know you join me in praying
00:52:24.661 --> 00:52:28.932
That god will open up people's hearts.
00:52:28.932 --> 00:52:31.101
>> absolutely.
00:52:31.101 --> 00:52:32.302
>> to be able to do the little they can, because i've seen $25
00:52:32.402 --> 00:52:35.205
And $25 and $25 and $25 ends up feeding a whole community of
00:52:35.205 --> 00:52:41.278
Elderly who need us, or building a bomb shelter, or
00:52:41.278 --> 00:52:45.182
Creating a new soup kitchen. so for the fellowship, really that
00:52:45.182 --> 00:52:49.619
That will have the resources to meet the needs and that our
00:52:49.619 --> 00:52:53.456
Staff will be protected and strong.
00:52:53.456 --> 00:52:55.625
>> and how do we pray for you? yeah.
00:52:55.625 --> 00:52:58.862
>> sheila, i'm here today because of the prayers of you,
00:52:58.862 --> 00:53:02.832
My tibn family, and everyone watching. i feel them, i feel
00:53:02.832 --> 00:53:06.770
Them. i wouldn't be able to do this without them. i wouldn't
00:53:06.770 --> 00:53:10.774
Be able to really. and so continue to pray for clarity,
00:53:10.774 --> 00:53:18.248
For strength, for physical protection, for spiritual
00:53:18.248 --> 00:53:23.320
Protection, for guidance. that when i say hineni, lord, i will
00:53:23.320 --> 00:53:31.027
Be able to hear clearly what he's saying.
00:53:31.027 --> 00:53:35.265
>> yeah.
00:53:35.265 --> 00:53:36.433
>> our tbn family, as you know, we love the fellowship. matt
00:53:36.533 --> 00:53:39.703
And lori are so behind the fellowship and praying, and i'd
00:53:39.703 --> 00:53:43.907
Love to be able to tell you i've been there and i've seen
00:53:43.907 --> 00:53:46.643
With my own eyes it makes a difference. and we can all do
00:53:46.643 --> 00:53:49.679
Something. you know, i think of the story when christ was on
00:53:49.679 --> 00:53:52.716
The hillside with all those thousands of people, and the
00:53:52.716 --> 00:53:56.820
Disciples were like, well, there's no way we can feed them
00:53:56.820 --> 00:53:59.189
All. all that jesus asked was, what do you have? what do you
00:53:59.189 --> 00:54:03.293
Have? god has given each one of us resources. and i know from
00:54:03.293 --> 00:54:07.264
The word of god, and i know you know this, that when we stand
00:54:07.264 --> 00:54:10.433
With jerusalem, when we join shoulder to shoulder with
00:54:10.433 --> 00:54:14.104
Jerusalem and with the jewish community around the world and
00:54:14.104 --> 00:54:16.506
Say, lord, let my little be enough in your hands. because
00:54:16.506 --> 00:54:20.944
Remember, when you give it to jesus, he blesses it and breaks
00:54:20.944 --> 00:54:23.947
It, and he feeds his people are not enough. in his hands is
00:54:23.947 --> 00:54:28.151
More than enough. let me just pray for you. father, i want to
00:54:28.151 --> 00:54:32.088
Thank you so much for for yael, for the fellowship, for the
00:54:32.088 --> 00:54:35.725
Work that they are doing day in and day out, 24 hours a day,
00:54:35.725 --> 00:54:40.730
Exhausting work. and yet constantly, every day saying,
00:54:40.730 --> 00:54:45.201
Yes, lord, what now, lord, i pray that that would be true
00:54:45.201 --> 00:54:49.105
For every single one of us, that we would wake up every day
00:54:49.105 --> 00:54:52.442
With a yes lord in our spirit, and together we would see you
00:54:52.442 --> 00:54:57.480
Begin to bring peace and hope and to flood this planet where
00:54:57.480 --> 00:55:02.552
So much evil exists. we want to do it because we are your
00:55:02.552 --> 00:55:06.790
Children, and we pray for your blessing and your protection on
00:55:06.790 --> 00:55:09.759
Your l, on our family and on the fellowship. and we ask it
00:55:09.759 --> 00:55:13.196
In jesus name. all i can say is, what a joy it is to have you
00:55:13.196 --> 00:55:17.934
Here. we love, love, love you and we here at tbn stand with
00:55:17.934 --> 00:55:23.073
You. we are your family.
00:55:23.073 --> 00:55:24.441
>> i love you so much and you should be blessed. thank you
00:55:24.441 --> 00:55:29.179
Strength.
00:55:29.179 --> 00:55:30.347
>> behalf of matt and lori. all of us here at tbn, your tbn
00:55:30.447 --> 00:55:32.382
Family. we love you and we'll see you next time.
00:55:32.382 --> 00:55:32.382

Yael Eckstein: Here I Am | Praise

July 7, 2026 | 55:50

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