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[Ambient city noise]
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[Ambient city noise]
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>>Dr. Jacob Prabhakar:
Most of the patients think
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blindness is part of life,
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and so they live
and die with blindness.
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>>Woman: What's a life if
you live only for yourself?
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You have to live for others.
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That is what makes us humans.
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>>Woman 2: We need to be kind
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and be
compassionate with people.
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We need to help poor people,
and we need to help each other.
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>>Man 2: Dr. Jacob has
the motivation from God only,
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or all from his heart, that
he should work for the poor,
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needy and helpless people.
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>>Dr. Prabhakar: I come
from a very remote village,
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from a very poor background.
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When I was a
child I received help
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to become something in life.
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If I can help these patients,
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and give them the gift of sight
and give them the ray of hope,
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it changes their
life all over again.
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>>John Bradshaw:
This is It Is Written.
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I'm John Bradshaw.
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Thanks for joining me in India.
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¤[Uplifting music]¤
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The world is full of bad news.
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There's terrorism and
tragedy and difficulty
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and hardship and want
and crime and violence,
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and we're familiar with it all.
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But at the same time,
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it shouldn't be
forgotten that there's
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an awful lot of good
taking place in this world.
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And it's in times of tragedy
and need that human beings
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press together to help
those who most need help.
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In Jalandhar, India,
a dedicated physician
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is working to
alleviate the challenges faced
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by some of India's
15 million blind people.
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Every year he
performs cataract surgery
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on the visually impaired,
many of whom simply cannot see.
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This simple
procedure means that people
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are literally given their sight.
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>>Dr. Prabhakar: India is
home to 15 million blind people.
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Most of it is due to cataracts.
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And most of it is
preventable or treatable.
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Most of these people are
living in the rural communities,
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where there is very
minimal access to healthcare.
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Most of the patients
think blindness is part of life
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and so they live
and die with blindness.
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When they have
bilateral blindness,
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the people cannot earn.
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They cannot live a normal life.
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They are unable to take
care of their own families.
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>>Aatma Singh: [speaking Hindi]
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>>Aatma Singh: [speaking Hindi]
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>>Divison Sangma: Because
they're so needy they can't see.
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Because they are so
poor, they can't afford money
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and they don't have
money to come to hospital.
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MM: You know it's a basic right
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when we talk of
the constitution,
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basic health, basic education.
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We are born with this right.
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Especially in
India when you talk about
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below poverty line people.
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We are catering only
to 30% of the problems.
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Seventy percent of
people still need basic health.
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>>Emmanuel Paul: The people
here, they are not able to
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afford to have the surgery.
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That's why it's
important here for Dr. Jacob
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to get the surgery done.
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>>Susan Kamson: Dr. Jacob, he
is the fastest surgeon in India.
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Other surgeons in one day, they
will do only 30 or 40 surgeries.
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He can do more than 300
to 400 surgeries per day.
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>>Dr. Prabhakar: I
personally have done
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more than 120,000 surgeries.
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In a year we do about ten
to twelve thousand surgeries.
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But we want to do more.
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The need is so vast.
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MM: I appreciate doctors
who really go out of their way
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to help people.
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I mean, what's a life if
you live only for yourself?
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You have to live for others.
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That is what makes us humans.
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>>John: So what do you do when
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you're confronted
by that kind of need?
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You might be tempted to think
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that you couldn't
possibly make a difference.
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You might be tempted to
turn and look the other way.
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Or maybe you could say,
what would Jesus have done?
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Except we know what Jesus did.
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Jesus never ignored the
issues that confronted Him.
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He fed the hungry.
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He healed the sick.
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The lame walked.
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The lepers were cleansed.
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Jesus opened up
the ears of the deaf.
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And Jesus gave
sight to the blind.
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>>Dr. Prabhakar:
"Eyes for India" is changing
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the lives of
children, mothers and fathers,
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and all the ones that are able
to live a life of their own.
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They come crying, hoping
that they will get some hope.
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And, uh, and we give them
sight, they are so delighted.
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>>MS: [speaking Hindi]
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>>John: In a moment,
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the incredible story
of people helping people,
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and how you can be the
difference in somebody's life.
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I'll be right back.
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¤[Music]¤
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Help It Is Written
open the eyes of the blind.
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Eyes for India is
giving sight to the blind,
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and you can be a
part of this amazing work.
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Just call 800-253-3000.
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You can also donate
online at itiswritten.com.
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Fifteen million
blind people live in India;
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more than any other
country in the world.
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And many of the blind
in India could see again
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if only they could
have cataract surgery.
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It Is Written is
making that happen.
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Would you please
support this special project
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and give the gift of sight
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to someone who
desperately wants to see?
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Here's all you need to do.
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Call 800-253-3000
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to donate and
support Eyes for India.
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If you prefer, you can write to:
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It Is Written at P O Box 6,
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37401.
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You'll also find more
information about Eyes for India
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online at itiswritten.com.
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You can be the
difference between someone
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spending the rest of
their lives in darkness
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or having the ability to see.
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Eyes for India and It Is Written
are doing the work of Jesus
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in opening the
eyes of the blind.
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Join us.
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Just call 800-253-3000,
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or write to P O Box 6,
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37401.
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Or visit itiswritten.com.
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¤[Music]¤
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>>John: Thanks for joining
me today on It Is Written.
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When Jesus was on the earth,
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He had compassion
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on those who lived in
difficult circumstances.
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Luke 17:12 and 13 says,
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“And as He entered
into a certain village,
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there met Him ten
men that were lepers,
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which stood afar off.
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And they lifted up
their voices and said,
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‘Jesus, Master,
have mercy on us.'”
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Well, we know
what happened next.
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It's a famous story.
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Jesus healed ten
terminally ill outcasts.
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In Matthew 8, Jesus
was met by another leper.
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“And behold, a leper
came and worshiped Him,
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saying, ‘Lord,
if You are willing,
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You can make me clean.'
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Then Jesus put out
His hand and touched him,
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saying, ‘I am
willing; be cleansed.'
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Immediately his
leprosy was cleansed.
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The woman with
the issue of blood?
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Jesus healed her.
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He cast out demons.
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Mark 3, verse 10, says,
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“For He healed many,
so that as many as had
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afflictions pressed
about Him to touch Him.”
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Luke 4, verse 40, says,
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“When the sun was setting,
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all those who had any that
were sick with various diseases
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brought them to Him;
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and He laid His hands on every
one of them, and healed them.”
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Luke 9:11 says Jesus
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“healed those who
had need of healing.”
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He even healed
people when He knew
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that doing so would
get Him into trouble.
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The disciples healed in the time
of the early Christian church.
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Peter and John went
down to the temple to pray,
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and a lame man
asked them for money.
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They said, "We
don't have any money."
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“Silver and gold have I none,
but such as I have, give I thee.
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In the name of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
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rise up and walk.”
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And the man did.
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He went walking and
leaping and praising God.
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You can understand why.
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Acts 5:15 says,
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“They brought the
sick out into the streets
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and laid them on
beds and couches,
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that at least the
shadow of Peter passing by
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might fall on some of them.”
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Imagine that.
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Healing the sick is
incredibly important to God.
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Now, you might say, oh,
but I'm not a physician.
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I can't treat those who are ill.
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I certainly can't work miracles.
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Ah, but you can.
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You really can.
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Here in India, there
are people experiencing
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the miracle of healing, made
possible by people like you.
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[people faintly speaking Hindi]
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>>Mohinder
Singh: [speaking Hindi]
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>>Mohinder
Singh: [speaking Hindi]
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>>Dalbeirkaur
Singh: [speaking Hindi]
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>>Dalbeirkaur
Singh: [speaking Hindi]
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¤[Music]¤
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>>Dr. Prabhakar: I come
from a very remote village
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in the eastern part of India,
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born in a family
of eight siblings,
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only one son, and I
have seven beautiful sisters.
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And my father and mother
lived in this rural village
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in a thatched home,
nothing to look forward to.
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I come from a village
where there is no healthcare.
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The entire area did not
have any health facilities.
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I remember the local
doctor coming to my home,
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when my sisters, my
father and mother fell ill.
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I used to see this doctor
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who may have not been
a qualified physician.
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Since then I've had a desire,
even before going to school.
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I said that one day I
must become a physician.
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Our church pastor actually
identified some potential
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in this little fellow who
could become something in life.
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The pastor must have taken a lot
of time to convince my parents
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to let their only son to
be taken to a boarding school.
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>>John: After
becoming an ophthalmologist,
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Dr. Prabhakar dedicated his life
to helping the blind in India.
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But what motivates him?
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>>Man 2: He has the
motivation from God only,
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or from his heart,
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that he should work
for the poor, needy,
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and helpless people.
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>>Dr. Prabhakar: Why not me
if I can go to the villages,
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pick up these
children with blindness,
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pick up the old people,
all the mothers and fathers,
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if I can help these patients
and give them the ray of hope,
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it changes their
life all over again.
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I think that's what Jesus
did when He was on this earth.
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He went to the
people where they were.
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He ministered unto them.
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He touched their
lives, and He said,
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“Come and follow me.”
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>>Woman 2: I'm so
lucky to work with Dr. Jacob.
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He is so much kind, humble,
and he is so much caring,
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and so much compassionate.
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And he will be in the
hospital working day and night
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without having his meal.
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As a Christian we
need to help poor people
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and we need to help each other.
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As Christ says,
we need to be kind
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and be
compassionate with the people.
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>>Man 2: God loves
us if we love people.
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If we love the
people, then God loves us.
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God is love.
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That's why it's so
very much a necessity
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that we should
help the human being.
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>>John: There's
something in the human heart,
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I believe in every human heart,
that wants to respond to a need.
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There's something
about the human heart,
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I believe placed there by God,
that wants to step into the gap
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and see people ministered
to, to see the helpless helped,
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the hopeless have hope,
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to see those who are despairing
relieved of their despair.
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Imagine being able to
give the gift of sight.
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Would there be a greater gift
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that a person
could possibly give?
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Well, you can
give the gift of sight,
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and I'll tell you
how in just a moment.
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>>John: Thursday,
August the fifth, 2010
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was not a happy day for 33 men,
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when a collapse
in a mine in Chile
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buried them 2,300
feet below ground.
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No matter how much
they tried to escape,
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there was no way out.
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Rescue would have
to come from above.
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On the outskirts
of the San Jose Mine,
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over two and a half
thousand people gathered,
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and with each
failed rescue attempt,
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despair increased, and
families gathered together
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to pray for a miracle.
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From the Atacama Desert
comes a story of tragedy,
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a story of uncertainty,
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yet a story of courage,
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hope, and ultimately,
a story of salvation.
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Wait on the Lord, and
the miracle will come.
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>>John: Thanks for joining
me today on It Is Written.
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Now, you've heard the story.
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A man who was sitting
on the side of the road
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near the city of Jericho,
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when he discovered Jesus
was walking into the city.
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He called out, “Son of
David, have mercy on me.”
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Now, the people around
urged the man to be quiet.
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But all that
did, was it goaded him
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into calling out to
Jesus all the louder.
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“Son of David,
have mercy on me.”
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Jesus became aware
of what was going on,
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so He asked those there to
bring the man into His presence.
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The blind man came to
the presence of Jesus.
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Jesus said to him,
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“What is it you would
like Me to do for you?”
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And that man was not
backwards in coming forward.
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He had a need, and he asked
Jesus to provide that need.
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He said, “Lord, that
I may receive my sight.”
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Now, you can imagine somebody
having a need like that today,
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and making the
same request of God.
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Does God still work miracles?
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The answer to that is obvious.
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Yes, He does.
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Now, we don't see miracles like
that happen very often today.
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Jesus isn't walking the
earth in a literal sense
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like He was 2,000 years ago.
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But God does still heal.
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And God does
still work miracles.
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Very often, He uses
people to get the job done.
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When that man
called out to Jesus,
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he made a very specific request:
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“Lord, that I may
receive my sight.”
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If you were blind,
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I expect that
would be your prayer.
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The man's prayer was answered.
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Jesus said,
“'Receive your sight;
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your faith has made you well.'
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And immediately he
received his sight,
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and followed
Him, glorifying God.
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And all the
people, when they saw it,
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gave praise to God.”
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Now, can you
imagine being used by God
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to restore sight to someone
who is visually impaired,
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or to someone who
is completely blind?
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This is not merely hypothetical.
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Now, turn that upside down.
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Imagine that somebody
wants to be able to see,
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and the mechanism exists for
them to be able to see again,
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and yet nobody
will connect the person
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with the healing mechanism.
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Let me say that again.
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Imagine someone
wants to be able to see,
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and they can,
but no one will help.
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Now, that man called
to Jesus, and he said,
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“Lord, that I may
receive my sight.”
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And today there are
people calling to me and to you,
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and they're saying,
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“That I may receive my sight.
That I may receive my sight.”
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And the truth is,
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God is looking to
restore sight to the blind,
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and He wants you
to make it possible.
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>>Dr. Prabhakar:
Every year we do about
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ten to twelve
thousand surgeries.
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The need is so great,
the resources are so minimal,
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and they are so poor.
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The support is not adequate
enough to meet the increasing
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demand of the surgeries.
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And so if only we
have more resources.
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What we need is
materials, funds,
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equipment, team members, and
we'd be able to do about 20,000
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or more surgeries in a year, and
it would be a great opportunity
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to serve these patients,
give them the gift of sight.
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It's a big impact changing the
lives of people across India.
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>>John: Today I'd like to
ask you to help It Is Written
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open the eyes of the blind.
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India has more blind people
than any country on earth.
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But simple cataract surgery
can make the difference between
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seeing and not
seeing for many people.
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Eyes for India is a project
that's providing cataract
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surgery for people in desperate
need of the gift of sight.
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Please help today.
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Call 800-253-3000.
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Eyes for India and It Is Written
are doing the work of Jesus
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in opening the eyes of the blind
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and opening hearts
to the love of God.
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You can also donate
online at itiswritten.com.
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Please call 800-253-3000,
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or write to P O Box 6,
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37401.
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Or visit itiswritten.com.
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>>John: Followers
of Jesus are called
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to enter into the work of Jesus.
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The Bible says that
Jesus had compassion on others.
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Again and again it says
He was moved with compassion.
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The sufferings of
others bothered Him.
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Their losses affected Him.
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The struggles of
people moved Jesus.
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Would you be moved?
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Remember what God said
through the prophet Isaiah
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in Isaiah, chapter 58:
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“Is not this the
fast that I have chosen:
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to loose the
bonds of wickedness,
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to undo the heavy burdens,
to let the oppressed go free,
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and that you break every yoke?
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Is it not to share
your bread with the hungry,
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and that you bring to your
house the poor who are cast out;
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when you see the
naked, that you cover him,
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and not hide
yourself from your own flesh?
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Then your light shall
break forth like the morning,
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your healing shall
spring forth speedily,
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and your righteousness
shall go before you;
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the glory of the Lord
shall be your rear guard.”
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Isaiah 58: 6-8.
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>>Dr. Prabhakar: Once
they remove the bandages,
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the patients are so excited.
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At one time you see
excitement and joy in the lives
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of these poor
patients who have been blind
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for so many, many years.
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Eyes for India is making
such a difference in the lives
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of these poor
people across India,
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because they are able to
live a life of their own.
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They're able to go
back to their workplaces.
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They're able to earn
and care for their families.
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That makes a huge
impact in their life.
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I come from a
very remote village,
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from a very poor background.
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Uh, and I see even now
the poverty still continues,
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in villages across India.
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When I was a child, I
received help from many,
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many people, to
become something in life.
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Why not me, take this
opportunity as a physician
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to go and help people
and elevate them from their,
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of their suffering and woes,
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and give them a
ray of hope through my,
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through my very own life.
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>>John: Thank you
for making a difference,
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and for giving
the gift of sight.
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Let me pray with you now.
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Let's pray together.
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Our Father in Heaven,
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we thank You today for Jesus,
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the Way, the
Truth, and the Life.
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We thank You that
You've opened up our eyes
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and the eyes of our heart,
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that You've expressed to us
that there is a God in Heaven
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who loves the human family to
the extent that He would allow
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His Son Jesus to
die that we might live.
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We thank You for
the example of Jesus,
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who helped and intervened
and healed and blessed.
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Lord, allow us to be
used in the same way.
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Thank You, that through us
You are changing lives in India,
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through the
miracle of modern surgery,
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granting people
their sight again.
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Heavenly Father,
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I pray that you would
bless Dr. Jacob and his team.
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I pray that many would
have their eyes opened,
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and that many more would come to
know You as the God of Heaven,
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and Jesus as the
Savior of all humanity.
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And thank You for
those whom You are using
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to make the gift of sight a
reality in the lives of others.
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Now bless us, Lord, please, and
bless many that they might see,
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and that they might see You.
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In Jesus' name we pray,
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Amen.
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Thank you so much
for joining me in India.
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I'm looking forward to
seeing you again next time.
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Until then, remember,
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“It is written,
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‘Man shall not
live by bread alone,
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but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God.'”
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