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- Hello and welcome
to Jesus for Asia Now.
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I'm Natalie Wood and my
husband Jon is here with me.
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Today we want to share
with you one of the most amazing
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faith in healing
stories we have ever heard.
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In fact, it's so amazing
that some will find it hard
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to believe that
it actually happened.
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But, we will have the
testimony directly from
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our Jesus for Asia
bible worker, himself.
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Hello love!
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- Hi darling, how are you?
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- Doing all right.
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- Awesome.
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- Glad we can do this
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story sharing. -
Oh, I'm so excited.
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When I heard that
story, I'm like man, everybody
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is gonna wanna hear this story
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because it's so encouraging.
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And it shows what faith can do.
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It shows somebody
that is exercising faith
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and God is just
coming through, it's amazing.
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But, I wasn't
the only one there.
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- Yeah, you weren't.
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You had our foreign
correspondents, Jonathan and
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Hannah there as well
as Sharron and Christina
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who work here in
the office with us.
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- Yeah, so we all were
sitting around interviewing
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a lot of different
bible workers in that area
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and we were, it was
a hot day, we had just
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done a bible
worker meeting and we were
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interviewing some
of the bible workers
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and we were kinda
like not really paying
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attention and I heard
what this guy was saying.
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And I'm like, whoa.
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We just all sat up and listened.
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Now, most of the bible
workers have amazing stories,
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amazing testimonies,
but every once in a while
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you hear something that God
has done that's really special.
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- Yeah, well and
the hard thing is
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they have these
amazing stories, but we don't
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speak their language
and we don't go and visit
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them very often and
so, when we do go and visit
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them then we hear their stories,
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but it's very
hard for their stories
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to get
translated and sent to us.
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- Yes.
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- Longer than one paragraph,
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many times the
stories we get are one
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paragraph and it
was, they were healed,
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or they came out
of being an alcoholic
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and abusing their family.
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You know, it's a
very short picture
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of the story, it
doesn't have the details
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or what was really going on.
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- Yeah, and this
is kind of a choice
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that we have made
because this allows us
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to keep our overhead low.
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We want as much
of the donated funds
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to go directly to
their salaries as possible
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and when you
start developing a whole
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administrative
staff network to get those
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stories and bring
them back that just adds
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to the cost of
doing this work, and so
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when we do go we try to
maximize as much as possible
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and interview as
many as possible.
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These stories are
happening all over India,
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all over Asia,
we're just getting
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a little sampling of them.
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- Right.
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- But, that's
all we really need--
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- Right, to encourage us.
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- Oh, my goodness,
yeah, when you hear this story
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it's just, how many
other stories are like this
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we just haven't heard.
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But, this is a little sampling.
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- Right.
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- To our
friends here in America.
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- Right, and we want to
get into our story, I think
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because it shows faith,
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and couraging God that
we don't see very often.
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- And I've taken his
whole testimony and I've
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split it up so that
we can stop and discuss
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and point out some
things during his testimony.
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- Right, 'cause
there's some terms I think
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that need to be
defined and different
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things like that, right? - Yes.
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- The other thing
we really wanna see
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is the trust in God.
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- And you'll see
that in this story.
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- Right. - Yeah.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- My name is James,
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I'm working in two places,
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Paliyapulior
and Karukkampalayam.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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There are so many witnesses,
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like poisonous insect bites
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and some thyroid problems,
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but I'm going to share with you
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one very
important witness today.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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One lady, she's a Hindu lady,
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she was a rich lady,
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but her own relatives
were so jealous of her.
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So they were doing some
kind of bad things against her,
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black magics and things that
would be very terrible for her.
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They were trying to
do these things to her.
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- Okay, this isn't
something that we normally
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hear about in America.
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We don't have neighbors
that get upset with you
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so they hire
somebody to come and put
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a black magic curse on
you that ruins your life.
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- Right.
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(Jon laughs)
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- But, this is
something that's rather normal
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in other countries,
especially in India.
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I have seen
this, in fact there was
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a bible worker, he
was actually a pastor
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that we interviewed
back in 2004 and I have
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his testimony on one of
the shows that we produced,
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called India Face to
Face, his pastor Scotia Nassin
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and he became a
black magic sorcerer.
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Do you remember that story?
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- Right, before
he became a pastor
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he was a black magic sorcerer.
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And yeah, he
would go and do these
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spells, they call them, pujas,
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or whatever, they
read the Hindu scriptures
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and say certain words,
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and then-- - And send
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a demon into somebody.
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- Right, and they're paralyzed
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or their life is
destroyed or they die, even.
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- Yup, yup, and he
learned-- - It's real.
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- Yeah, absolutely,
and he learned from his
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black magic guru,
his teacher, that if you
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wanna do good you have
to pray to Jesus Christ.
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- Right.
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- And that's how he
became, he started just serving
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just Jesus Christ and
the guy tried to tempt his,
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I mean, it was amazing story.
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- Right.
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- So, this is kind
of normal over there.
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- Right, well
there was that other time
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when the young man
that you were asked to pray
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for in India kept
getting woken up in the middle
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of the night
because he was levitating.
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- Right, he would wake
up two feet off the ground.
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- Yeah.
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- Nothing was under
him, just a demon's den,
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and the Mom and they knew
that this was demon harassment.
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Now, there's people in America
that don't believe in demons,
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but I'd be happy
to take them to India.
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- It's far too real
there. - It is real.
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- It's far too real
and even in Thailand
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Gayle Habricam, one
of our missionaries,
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has testimonies about
the results of sorcerers
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putting spells on people.
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- One guy had a spell
put on him and he died
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and he told his wife,
when I die, cut me open.
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So they cut him open
and they found fish eggs.
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- Yeah, all over
inside of him, it's like?
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- Yeah, well,
where did that come from?
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- Yeah, weird.
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- So this stuff is
real, and we actually,
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which is fine, in the
west we are very scientific
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and so we kinda
discount this thing,
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but the truth is,
you and I, as Christians,
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we serve a
spirit, John chapter four,
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"God is a spirit,
and they that worship Him
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must worship Him in."
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- Spirit and in truth.
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- Yeah, another story
that goes along with that
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is there was a
missionary in western Papua,
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Irian Jaya, that
when we first went there,
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people were afraid to walk
through the jungles, in fact--
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- Especially at night.
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- Yes, in fact, when he
was walking through the jungles
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he always felt this
oppressive spirit and one time
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he heard a demon
screaming in his ear,
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freaked him out, and so
all the jungles were just like
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infested with all these demons.
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But after the
planting of the gospel there
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and there was several
churches and there was
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believers that were
praying, after like 20 years
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of that all the evil
spirits were chased out
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and even the
unbelievers were able to walk
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through the jungle
at night, without fear.
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- Right, so it's
amazing what God does,
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when his spirit is
invited into places
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and people start
believing in him,
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he can open and
take the darkness away.
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- Yeah, but this
is a spiritual world,
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the unseen is real.
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- It is, it is very real.
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We don't have
people in America--
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- Hiring black magic sorcerers--
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- Hiring people to put
curses on their relatives
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or their neighbors or whatever.
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- At least, not that we know of.
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- Yeah, I mean, it's
more on the rare side,
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But over there it's more normal.
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- So, this lady
has received a curse
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from her family and
it's actually really,
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and you'll see
in this next video
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how it's affecting her life.
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- Right, the other
thing is that over here
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our country is based
on Christian principals.
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The people that founded
our country were Christian.
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And so Christ was invited
in, his spirit was invited here,
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his angels were invited here.
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And so we are
protected in many ways from this
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type of manifestation.
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- Correct.
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- Because of God's protection.
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But over there, the
devil has free reign.
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The gods that they're
worshiping are evil spirits.
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And so, it's all, yeah, all
hell breaks loose, so to speak.
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I don't know what you wanna say.
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- They don't
have that protection,
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I mean-- - No, they don't.
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- The devil has free
reign on a lot of ways.
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- Right.
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- And so, when we go
over there and we go,
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like sometimes I've
gone into Hindu temples
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and things like that, I
make sure I'm connected with God
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to have that protection.
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One time I went into a
temple and I didn't have that,
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I didn't make that conscious
connection with the Father.
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And as I left, there was
an evil spirit attached to me.
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And I didn't realize it, I
just, I had this bad attitude,
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and I was really
negative, and I was really
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getting really
depressed. - Mean.
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- And mean, cunning to my,
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and then I realized,
oh something's going on.
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I asked my
friends, please pray for me.
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And I felt like I
was under water swimming
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to reach the surface and
it's like, can I make it before?
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And then they prayed and
the evil spirit was disbursed
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and I had like that peace again.
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So, this stuff's real.
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- It is very real.
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- We have a friend in
Cambodia that he's a missionary
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there and when he goes
to Angkor Wat he always
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prays for God's protection
because when he goes in,
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one time he went in, he
didn't pray, he got jumped
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by the evil spirits.
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- It was like a
physical manifestation, I mean
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he didn't see it,
but it was physical.
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- Yeah, he could feel it.
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- Right.
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- This is real, so we're
telling our viewers the story,
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giving a little glimpse behind
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the scenes into
the spiritual life.
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Let's continue with his story.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- [Man] Because of
these satanic things,
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she got the disease
called elephantiasis.
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- Now this is really
serious condition, because,
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and I knew kind of
about this because when I was
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really little, my
parents, my Dad was a doctor
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and we were
missionaries in New Guinea.
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Which is a very tropical
area, and I'd heard about
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elephantiasis as a
really dreaded disease
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because there's no known cure.
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- Right.
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- And I researched
it online even today
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there's no known
cure for elephantiasis.
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They can do therapy
and they can manage it
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and treat it but
they can't cure it.
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- Right, they can kill
the parasites that cause it
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but that doesn't
take away the effect
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or it doesn't take
away the disease itself.
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- And that's how big
her leg swelled up to,
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I mean you can wrap it
and try to manage the size,
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but you can't get it back down
after it's gotten that large.
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- Wow, so she was a sick lady.
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- Very sick. - With no hope.
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- No - No hope of a cure,
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no hope of, wow.
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- Yeah, I mean this
is, it's like leprosy.
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It's like a curse of God.
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It wasn't just
the swelling either.
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- Right, there's the next clip.
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- [Jon] Okay.
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- Because of this,
there was a big hole
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where you finger can fit inside.
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And from that
hole, worms used to come
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and a very rotten smell,
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like how a dead
body would smell.
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It would smell like that.
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- Wow, how sad.
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- Can you
imagine living with that?
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That smell and then, you
could put your finger in,
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well, we'll just move on.
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- Yeah, yeah, but having no
hope, that's the main thing.
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All right, well let's
move on to the next video.
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(speaking foreign language)
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- 10 of our members and myself,
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we were praying in the church,
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and she was sitting at the back.
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She covered her leg so
that no one will notice.
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I was watching her
as I was giving sermon.
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From the beginning till
the end, she was crying.
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After the sermon, I used
to pray for all the members
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in the church, and I
called this lady to the front.
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(speaking foreign language)
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When I called her,
she came to the front.
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She fell down to my feet.
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She started
crying, crying, and crying.
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Continually she was
crying for 10 minutes.
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She couldn't speak anything.
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I immediately called my wife
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and asked her to ask
her what is the problem
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because she could speak
anything, she couldn't talk.
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She was crying.
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She told my wife, since
your husband is a pastor,
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he should not touch my feet.
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These ugly
feet, these sick feet.
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And I called her,
don't worry, I'm a pastor,
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I'm here to serve you.
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Don't feel anything
bad, please come closer.
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She came and I took
coconut oil in my hand,
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prayed for that oil, and
applied where the wound was.
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(speaking foreign language)
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I encouraged her,
you too have to pray
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to the living God.
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And I was continually
praying for this lady,
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and I told her,
within a week of time,
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your wounds are going
to be completely healed,
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and you're going to
come to this same church,
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you're going to
give witness, I told her.
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- That is amazing.
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(Jon laughs)
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- Okay, so he was preaching,
it was on a Sabbath day
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in the church, there was only
10 people in the congregation
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because this is a
newly reopened church, okay?
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And so she comes
in, but she's afraid.
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I don't know why
she came, I don't know
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what drew her,
but, she was desperate.
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- Her friend brought her, or?
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- Something like that,
but she sat in the back
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and she hid and she
was crying the whole time.
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But, the amazing
thing is what this humble
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bible worker
told her, he didn't,
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when somebody comes to
us for prayer for sickness,
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I mean, what do we normally do?
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- Well, we pray for healing
according to the Lord's will
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but we expect that they'll
just have to go to the doctor.
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(Jon laughs)
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- Yeah.
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- I mean, we pray for
wisdom for the doctors,
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and I do that too, pray for
wisdom for the doctors, and.
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- [Jon] Sure.
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- That they'll be healed
- It's a valid prayer, but--
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- According to the Lord's will.
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- But, he took it another
step, he didn't just say,
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I'll pray for you, he says,
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Next week you will--
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- Testify.
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- In this place, in
this church on the Sabbath.
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What a statement of faith.
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- Yeah.
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- Amazing. - Wow.
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- That's a whole
other level, I mean,
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and you read in the
Bible, Jesus would say,
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he wouldn't say,
I'll pray for you.
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He would say, stand up.
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He would say, take
up your bed and walk.
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And then the
disciples did the same thing.
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- Right.
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- So, what happens?
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- Right, well, we do
have to warn our viewers
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that there's
some weirdness coming,
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so just expect that there
will be a little bit weird.
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- Yeah, but there are
things that we don't know,
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I mean, we don't know everything
about the unseen world.
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- Right.
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- So, let's just
see what the outcome is.
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- Okay. - And see
what the story is.
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- After praying
for her in the church.
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I was continually
going to her house,
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visiting her two
days and praying with her.
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(speaking foreign language)
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I went to her house.
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The moment I went to her house,
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I could feel that here
was evil spirit in her house.
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I just stopped in
the front portion.
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I asked her to bring some water.
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Then I prayed and I sprinkled
it throughout the house.
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When I came to the
middle of the house,
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there was something,
like I could feel the heat,
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like standing on fire.
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That was the
first experience I had.
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It was very hot, I asked the
lady to bring some more water.
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And I sprinkled on it
and I prayed earnestly.
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Then I told the
lady, you dig this place
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and see what is inside.
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When they dig the place they
found there was this coconut
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covered with all
these evil things.
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And her hair was
there, they tied it,
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and they did some kind of
puja to keep this lady sick
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and so that she
would not come up in life.
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She would be in
poverty all her life long.
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(speaking foreign language)
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After we took that
thing out, we burned it.
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When we burned it, it
was smelling like a dead body
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burning. After that, two
hours I was there in that house.
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I prayed with that
lady, prayed earnestly.
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Then I came back home.
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- So, that's a bit weird.
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- Right.
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- But, who are we to
say that that's not real?
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- Well, we can't
say that, it's real.
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He is sharing the story.
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- Yeah.
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- But, we don't see
that kind of thing over here,
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but the devil's
just as real here,
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he just manifests
in different ways.
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- So, we see his presence
manifesting in different
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ways, more attractive,
the famous, the rock,
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the beautiful
people, they're the ones that
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tend to manifest his spirit.
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- Right, the music,
movies, entertainment,
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all that stuff.
00:17:47.76\00:17:48.80
- And you can
sense God's presence
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being withdrawn from society.
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- Right, which is
what the Bible tells us.
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That the angels have
been holding back the winds of
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strife. And I think this
manifestation of the evil
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is definitely
the winds of strife.
00:18:02.04\00:18:03.98
- But, it's the
same spirit, and so
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maintain that connection
with Christ on a daily basis,
00:18:07.12\00:18:09.82
even in this
country is so vital,
00:18:09.82\00:18:12.82
because what you're seeing here,
00:18:12.82\00:18:15.22
that spirit is what's behind,
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I mean, that's what
we are guarding against.
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That's not where we wanna go.
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- That's why the weapons
of our warfare are not carnal.
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- [Jon] They're
the spiritual weapons.
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- But they're
mighty through God.
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- Yes, and that's the prayer.
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- Right, the
connection with God that we see
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in this bible
worker, I mean, How could
00:18:30.64\00:18:32.71
he sense that that was there?
00:18:32.71\00:18:34.81
Because he was
connected with God,
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and so the evil was obvious.
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- Yes.
00:18:38.48\00:18:39.85
- And that's what we need
to take away from this too,
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is that if we're
connected with God,
00:18:41.75\00:18:44.32
then whatever evil it
is, whatever way the evil
00:18:44.32\00:18:48.02
ones are trying to
attack us, it's gonna be obvious
00:18:48.02\00:18:51.23
because the connection
with God gives us that sense.
00:18:51.23\00:18:54.30
- Right, so the
question is now, okay, he's made
00:18:54.30\00:18:56.90
this statement, he's
gone and done two days
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of this work in
her house and stuff.
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What happens
next, what does God do?
00:19:01.57\00:19:03.57
- Okay, here we go.
00:19:03.57\00:19:04.97
(speaking in foreign language)
00:19:06.11\00:19:08.54
- That night, when she was
freed from that evil thing,
00:19:08.54\00:19:12.41
she had a dream and
she saw a bright man
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coming with many bright people
00:19:15.75\00:19:18.62
and that was the
image of Jesus Christ.
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That lady, after she
saw the image of Jesus,
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she couldn't stay at home.
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She came that night to
my house after the dream.
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She said I saw this in my dream.
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I'm excited, I'm so happy.
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Then the next day, I
told her that same night,
00:19:35.67\00:19:38.91
you come and give
this witness in the church.
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After this dream her
leg was completely healed.
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- Wow.
00:19:46.61\00:19:47.52
- Blow my mind.
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- Right, God did it.
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- Yes.
00:19:53.42\00:19:54.76
- And he appeared to her, Jesus
appeared to her in a dream.
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That's just so neat.
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- Yeah, and so it wasn't just
the healing from the prayer.
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It was Jesus did more
than that, he revealed
00:20:02.96\00:20:05.33
himself to her in that dream.
00:20:05.33\00:20:07.00
- Wow, yeah.
00:20:07.00\00:20:07.80
- And she was so excited.
00:20:07.80\00:20:09.74
She went to
brother James house at like
00:20:09.74\00:20:12.64
2:00, 3:00 in the
morning and woke him up.
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She was so excited.
00:20:15.54\00:20:16.81
- Yeah, that's
really, really awesome.
00:20:16.81\00:20:20.08
- I remember
there was one young man,
00:20:20.08\00:20:21.78
we were doing an
evangelistic series in '99
00:20:21.78\00:20:23.79
in India, and he came
in and after that meeting
00:20:23.79\00:20:26.49
he came to me and says,
I really like your speech.
00:20:26.49\00:20:28.89
I'm like, oh,
thank you, thank you.
00:20:28.89\00:20:30.36
And then the next
day, he came back, he says
00:20:30.36\00:20:32.39
huge peace, huge
peace, I want to be Christian
00:20:32.39\00:20:34.93
I want to be,
what do I have to do?
00:20:34.93\00:20:36.90
I says, well, you
have to be baptized,
00:20:36.90\00:20:38.23
and he says, huge
peace, last night I prayed to
00:20:38.23\00:20:41.04
all these different
gods, but last night
00:20:41.04\00:20:42.50
I gave my heart to Jesus.
00:20:42.50\00:20:43.74
And he came in huge
peace, he was so excited
00:20:43.74\00:20:46.14
about this huge
peace and when you've never
00:20:46.14\00:20:48.88
experienced that
before in your entire life
00:20:48.88\00:20:51.01
and then it comes
in and Jesus hits you
00:20:51.01\00:20:52.78
with that peace, wow.
00:20:52.78\00:20:55.28
- Yeah.
00:20:55.28\00:20:56.85
- Powerful, and that's exactly
what happened with this lady.
00:20:56.85\00:20:58.92
- Right, so I wanna know
the rest of the story, though,
00:20:58.92\00:21:01.96
I wanna know did
she go and testify
00:21:01.96\00:21:04.69
on Sabbath that she was healed?
00:21:04.69\00:21:06.53
- Yes.
00:21:06.53\00:21:07.66
- Also, 'cause that
was his statement to faith.
00:21:07.66\00:21:10.47
So, let's see the next part.
00:21:10.47\00:21:11.93
- The next day, as he
told her the week before,
00:21:13.27\00:21:15.97
next week you will come
and give witness in the church.
00:21:15.97\00:21:18.91
She came on the Sabbath.
00:21:18.91\00:21:20.51
She gave that witness.
00:21:20.51\00:21:22.21
Her wounds were
completely healed.
00:21:22.21\00:21:25.15
- Yeah, they said that
the, even the hole where
00:21:25.15\00:21:27.68
you could stick your
entire finger in, was completely
00:21:27.68\00:21:31.15
healed, just a little
scar from where that had been.
00:21:31.15\00:21:34.32
- Yeah.
00:21:34.32\00:21:35.12
- In, immediately, basically.
00:21:35.12\00:21:37.33
- Yes, yes, healed
elephantiasis, an incurable
00:21:37.33\00:21:41.83
disease, and healed
that wound, all within
00:21:41.83\00:21:44.03
one week, exactly
as James had said.
00:21:44.03\00:21:48.20
- Yeah.
00:21:48.20\00:21:49.47
- God's good,
God can do anything.
00:21:49.47\00:21:51.31
- Yeah, yeah, it's
just, you have to stop
00:21:51.31\00:21:55.68
and think about it, you
can't just talk about it.
00:21:55.68\00:21:58.08
- And it was so obvious
to her, who had healed her.
00:21:59.61\00:22:02.72
- Right, right,
and that's what we
00:22:02.72\00:22:05.12
wanna see next is
what was her response.
00:22:05.12\00:22:07.52
- Yes.
00:22:07.52\00:22:08.32
(speaking in foreign language)
00:22:08.32\00:22:12.69
- These people,
as a whole family,
00:22:12.69\00:22:15.50
now they have
accepted Jesus Christ.
00:22:15.50\00:22:17.87
After this mighty miracle,
00:22:17.87\00:22:19.97
now whatever
program there in the church,
00:22:19.97\00:22:22.44
she is the first lady,
she is there to do everything,
00:22:22.44\00:22:25.97
and whenever I take some workers
00:22:25.97\00:22:29.11
or some pastors with me,
00:22:29.11\00:22:31.05
she respects them as
respecting Jesus Christ.
00:22:31.05\00:22:34.52
She has a high regard for
this truth and for this church.
00:22:34.52\00:22:38.79
(speaking in foreign language)
00:22:38.79\00:22:42.79
This lady, in that village,
is a living witness now.
00:22:44.93\00:22:49.63
People are looking at her,
00:22:49.63\00:22:51.30
and they are
accepting Jesus Christ now.
00:22:51.30\00:22:53.77
Through her, many souls
are attending the church now.
00:22:53.77\00:22:57.47
I thank the Lord
for this amazing miracle
00:22:57.47\00:23:00.31
God has done in her life.
00:23:00.31\00:23:02.18
(speaking in foreign language)
00:23:02.18\00:23:05.61
Same like this lady,
00:23:05.61\00:23:07.32
I pray that many
other ladies also will come
00:23:07.32\00:23:10.32
into the church.
00:23:10.32\00:23:11.45
So kindly pray for
me and for that village.
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Thank you so much.
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- That's really
neat, that the whole family
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was baptized and then it's
going through the community.
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- Yeah.
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- Because they knew she
was sick, and they're looking
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at her and they're seeing Jesus.
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- God can do this,
what a powerful God.
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- Yeah, God is
powerful and he's so loving
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and kind, I mean to
appear to her in a dream.
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I know I wish that
you could've talked to her
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as well, evidently she
wasn't around that day.
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- We were just
there for a short time,
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but I definitely wanna
go back and learn more about
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what did she see
that night when she saw
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him in a dream, it's
like, what expression
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did he wear on his face?
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I'm sure it was
kind, and loving,
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just totally
changed her heart, her idea,
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of the cosmos, who was
up there in the universe,
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who was powerful and
what his character was like.
00:24:00.54\00:24:03.47
- Yeah.
00:24:03.47\00:24:04.61
- Oh, man, so
powerful and so now she is like
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this living witness
and her whole family has
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accepted Jesus
Christ and many more
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are coming into
the church through
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her testimony of who God is.
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- Right, it's really
encouraging to us here,
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'cause we may see
answers to prayer, ourselves,
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but when we hear
stories like this it just shows
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so many aspects
of God's character
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and it's so
encouraging to us as servants
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of these people.
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We're just providing
financial pipeline, basically,
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to get their stipends to them.
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- Yup.
00:24:40.24\00:24:41.34
- And sometimes, we
get to encourage them
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like we talked
about earlier in the show,
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but it's like, it's
so encouraging to me
00:24:44.15\00:24:46.95
to see that God
still can do those things
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that he did in the Bible.
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He's still able, it's
our faith that is weak,
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and it encourages me
to have stronger faith.
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- Yes, absolutely, and also--
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- Not that we wanna make
rash statements, or whatever,
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I would never
make a rash statement,
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but if I'm connected to God,
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and God impresses me something.
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I think God
impressed James to say,
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Next week you will testify.
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- [Jon] Absolutely.
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- And to be connected with God,
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to have that kind of
faith, it's just beautiful.
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- That's amazing, it's amazing.
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And this is what God
can do, and this isn't,
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like often times when
I see somebody manifest
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faith like that,
I kind of feel like,
00:25:25.52\00:25:27.22
well, I must not
be much of a believer.
00:25:27.22\00:25:30.53
And that's condemnation,
it's comparing my faith
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with their faiths, I
don't think that's the right
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response that I naturally give.
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I think a better
understanding would be,
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that's what's possible.
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God's no respecter of
persons, he'll do that
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for me as much as
he'll do that for James.
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And so there's
more in my relationship,
00:25:48.94\00:25:51.61
there's more in my experience
with Christ that's possible.
00:25:51.61\00:25:54.38
- There's growth opportunities.
00:25:54.38\00:25:55.52
(Jon laughs)
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It's a very good way to put it,
00:25:56.69\00:25:57.75
there's a lot of
growth opportunities
00:25:57.75\00:25:58.85
in my faith and to
look at this kind of faith,
00:25:58.85\00:26:01.46
to hold this kind
of faith up and see,
00:26:01.46\00:26:03.93
and look and contemplate
and say, this is what God
00:26:03.93\00:26:06.59
did for him, this is
what's possible with God,
00:26:06.59\00:26:09.46
this is the kind of
relationship that I could have,
00:26:09.46\00:26:12.30
an understanding that
I could have, and faith
00:26:12.30\00:26:14.37
that I could manifest
with God, available to me.
00:26:14.37\00:26:17.81
- Right. - You know?
00:26:17.81\00:26:19.51
- And it's not an old
thing, this isn't a story
00:26:19.51\00:26:22.14
from the Bible. -
This happened just now.
00:26:22.14\00:26:23.75
- Right.
00:26:23.75\00:26:24.85
- Yeah, this is today,
and so, God can do this.
00:26:24.85\00:26:29.65
- Right, he can do
anything. - So encouraging.
00:26:30.89\00:26:31.85
- Right, well we wanna close
00:26:31.85\00:26:33.56
our show today in a special way.
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Let's have a
prayer time, would you
00:26:35.82\00:26:36.93
like to pray for
the Bible workers?
00:26:36.93\00:26:39.63
- Sure, Father God, we
just come before you and we're
00:26:39.63\00:26:42.50
awed and humbled being in
the presence, contemplating
00:26:42.50\00:26:46.47
such a powerful deed that
you've done in this lady's life
00:26:46.47\00:26:50.47
for our bible worker and
in response to his faith,
00:26:50.47\00:26:54.44
father we just ask for
your blessings to be on
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our bible workers to
continue to encourage them,
00:26:57.38\00:26:59.61
to continue to give
them this kind of faith,
00:26:59.61\00:27:02.22
this kind of insight,
and Father, we ask for more
00:27:02.22\00:27:04.62
bible workers, that
they can go out and reach out
00:27:04.62\00:27:08.36
to more people, with
this kind of faith, Father.
00:27:08.36\00:27:11.23
And, that we can see
this joy, and Father,
00:27:11.23\00:27:13.90
we long for that day
when we can all speak
00:27:13.90\00:27:15.96
the same language
and we can hear these
00:27:15.96\00:27:18.73
testimonies with
our own ears, Father.
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Until that day,
Father, strengthen our faith
00:27:21.24\00:27:23.74
as we partner with you
in this great commission,
00:27:25.07\00:27:28.71
and we thank you
and we praise you,
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in Jesus name, Amen.
00:27:29.98\00:27:31.75
- Amen, I wanna
thank you so much
00:27:31.75\00:27:34.38
for joining us on
this special show.
00:27:34.38\00:27:36.65
Please pray for our
bible workers in India
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and other countries and remember
00:27:38.62\00:27:40.76
that they're praying for you.
00:27:40.76\00:27:42.72
If you would like to sponsor
a bible worker, like James,
00:27:42.72\00:27:45.53
you can contact us by
mail at Jesus for Asia
00:27:45.53\00:27:48.60
PO Box 1221,
Collegedale, Tennessee, 37315.
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By phone at 423-413-7321,
00:27:54.47\00:27:58.11
or visit our
website at jesus4asia.org.
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May God richly bless
you until we see you again
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next time on Jesus for Asia Now.
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And please remember to
pray for our bible workers.
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(inspirational music)
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