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- Hello and welcome
to "Jesus for Asia Now."
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I'm Natalie
Wood, and my husband,
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John and I, are
not in our studio.
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We are in Indonesia,
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aren't we dear?
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- We are here.
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As you can tell,
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this is not an upgrade
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or redecoration of our set.
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This is a whole new location.
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- Right.
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And why are we here? -
We are here on a mission.
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- Okay. - We're
here on a mission
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trip.
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It's the first of its kind
that I've been involved with
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because we're not
here to build a church,
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or we're not here to
do an evangelistic series,
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because in this place
there is no local church,
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there's no local
people to work with.
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There's nothing started.
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And it's a very
difficult place to
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do traditional evangelism.
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- Right.
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- So we're trying
a whole new approach
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to evangelism in places
where there's nothing happening.
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- Okay, so we didn't come
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to do traditional evangelism
or anything like that.
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What did we come here for?
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- Well, we came
because we were so desperate
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to try to figure out,
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there's so many
places on the earth
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in which there
is no work started.
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A lot of our
evangelism is done in places
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where the church
is strong or starting,
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and we come in and
help bolster the locals.
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But what do you do in a
place where there is no locals?
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- Yeah, where
there's nothing happening.
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There's no center of influence.
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There's no existing church.
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There's no- - No believers even.
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So a few years ago we
got desperate a little bit
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and started
really praying about,
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"Lord, what do we do in a place
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where we don't
have the resource?
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We don't know
what kind of ministry
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actually will work
with these people."
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So then we
started to realize that
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what we're
attempting is a spiritual thing.
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Spiritual activity.
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So maybe we should
use spiritual tools.
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- Yeah, the best
spiritual tool being prayer.
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- Yeah.
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- And we've seen this work
in Thailand, in other cities.
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So we just
decided that this place,
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we should just
come here and pray.
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- Right, right.
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- So we started
sharing with people.
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- Yeah. - And
some people were like,
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"wow, that sounds
like a cool idea."
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But a lot of people were like,
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"you're just gonna, what?"
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- Can't you
pray at home? - Yeah.
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Save the money.
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Pray at home.
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- Yeah, honestly, I
didn't think anybody would
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want to go with us.
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Want to come with
us. - Yeah, aside from
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our workers. - Yeah.
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- You know,
people from our office.
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Because they
understand and they've seen-
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- Right. - What a difference...
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They've been part of the
prayers for the other places.
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And so they know
what a difference
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God makes as a result of prayer.
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- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So, but we told...
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You know, we put it
out on our newsletter.
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And how many people do we
have with us on this trip?
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- There's 20 of us total.
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- Yeah. - Plus the locals,
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the Tenkano family
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which is helping us. - Yeah.
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So we have some testimonies
of the people that came with us-
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- Right. - About what they
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first thought of when
they heard about this idea.
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- Right.
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- My first thought was,
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"why go all the way over there
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to pray when we
can pray here at home?"
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- Well, my first
reaction was, "what?
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Go where and do what?"
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You know, pray as
you're walking down the street?
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- I wasn't quite sure
what to think about it.
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It was something
really new to me.
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- I thought it would be
an effective form of mission,
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but different than
anything we had been on before.
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- My first
impression would've been like,
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that's a little unusual,
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but I would like to try it.
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- Seeing how God
has used it before.
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To me, the concept
sounded really exciting.
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- So you can see how
people kind of like, "what?"
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- Yeah, some people are like,
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"well, that sounds weird.
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That sounds exciting.
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Maybe, maybe not."
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- I think people don't really
realize the power of prayer.
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- Right. - And
the fact that there's
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so many places on this earth
in which nothing is being done.
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- Right.
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- And that's what
keeps bothering me,
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is there's so many places
where nothing's being done.
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And the truth is,
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nothing's being
planned to be done.
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- Right, and we
don't know what to do.
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I mean, and there's no locals,
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so who's gonna
do anything anyway?
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- Exactly.
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- So it's like to ask God
what he wants to have happen,
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to give him charge of it,
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to ask his spirit to be there,
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to ask him to
bless the people, the...
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Oh, I'm getting, I'm
getting ahead of ourselves.
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- You're getting
passionate about this.
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- We wanna introduce
the people that are here.
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- Yeah. - So we
have a short video
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of everybody just saying hello.
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- Okay. - So we'll play that
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at this time. - Okay.
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(upbeat music)
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- I love
Indonesia. - I love Indonesia.
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- It's amazing
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that we have all
these people that decided
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to come on this trip and-
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- Right. - Do something new.
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- Right, and one of them
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didn't even know that
she'd expressed interest.
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It was very interesting story.
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So this is
Joanne's story. - Okay.
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(mellow music)
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- So I received the
newsletter from Jesus for Asia,
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and I get a phone call
three to four days later,
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which she stated was that,
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I guess I had applied and
she was returning my request
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for information for Indonesia.
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And I stopped for a minute.
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I said, "Indonesia?"
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I never requested.
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I said, "why did they call me?"
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Well, I was
gonna prove them wrong.
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And so I said, if there's proof,
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then it has to be in my inbox.
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So I went to my
inbox, my sent email,
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to see if I
actually had done that.
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And sure enough, it was there.
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So at that
point, what I said was,
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"I think God had
something to do with this."
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(mellow piano music)
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Now I have to
start making a decision.
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And I felt like
everything I was reading,
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the Lord was letting me know
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that he wanted me
to go on this trip.
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I finally purchased a ticket,
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but I was trying to bring every
excuse that I could think of
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and conjure up
to God and say no.
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I was just like,
"no, I can't go."
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I mean, "oh, my mother.
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Oh me, oh..."
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I mean, every excuse
that you could think of.
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After that,
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as I was reading a devotional,
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I said, "wow,
everything is there."
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And the answer
was, "go forward."
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And at that point,
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I had peace
about the whole trip.
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(mellow piano music)
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- So she registered
without even knowing it.
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- Right, right. - I
mean, the Holy Spirit
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pushed the send button or-
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- Yeah.
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I mean, you had to
click on the thing that said,
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"I want to express interest."
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And then hit the send button.
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So there's two...
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At least two clicks there.
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- So she came and she's
been enjoying it a lot, I think.
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- Right.
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So in this next little video,
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we asked the team,
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what did you expect
and what has it been like?
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- Yeah.
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- And here are their answers.
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- Okay.
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(upbeat music)
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- I envisioned walking
down a very busy city street
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filled with a lot of Muslims
in front of me and behind me.
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And I didn't actually visualize
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a lot of personal
interaction with people,
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just that we're gonna
be walking by and praying
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for the people
as we're walking by.
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- I did picture like a
clear street, you know,
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and everything was gonna
be just flowing really nice.
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But here
there's a lot of traffic
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and it's a lot
different than I expected.
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- It became very personal
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and I found the
people were very friendly,
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just so friendly,
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so willing to
even come up and talk.
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And it was easy
to wave and say hi
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and have interactions with them.
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So much different
than what I expected.
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- There was one lady
that started calling out to us
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as we were passing by,
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and we stepped back a little
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to see if she was talking to us.
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And she was.
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She was talking to us
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and she wanted to
talk a little more with us.
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And that was really exciting.
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That's the joy that you don't
experience when you just...
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You're, you know,
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praying at home. - Yeah.
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- You know, you can look
at a picture of the ocean
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or you can stand at the
beach and feel the waves.
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So it's physical, it's tangible.
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You saw the people smile,
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they shared their
shelter when it was raining.
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- You have a greater
burden for the people
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having seen them face to face,
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having interacted
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and a greater understanding
of the need here also.
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- When we go out and
personally walk the streets
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and can see there's a
small group of young people
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playing a guitar on the beach,
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we could go talk to them.
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And in our minds,
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pray for them while
we were talking to them.
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- When you're out there
actually walking and talking,
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shaking hands with the
people, introducing yourself,
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just feeling the rain
pouring down on your head,
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all of the things happening,
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you have this
very strong memory.
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And it's not something
that's just gonna go away
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the moment I get home.
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It's gonna be
there from day to day
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to remind me to keep praying.
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- We've taken a lot of
pictures of a lot of the people.
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And so we can take
those pictures home with us
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and we can continue
praying for those people.
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(upbeat music)
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- Definitely we sense
the Holy Spirit working.
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There's no doubt in my mind.
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- We're claiming promises
and God is acting on his word.
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And we have found the people
to be incredibly friendly,
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incredibly open.
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And I think that has a lot to do
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with the praying
that we're doing.
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We have little, little
kids up to older people
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who are just smiling and waving,
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so excited to see us.
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And I think that's the
evidence of the Holy Spirit
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working ahead.
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I think the Holy
Spirit preceded us
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and is allowed to
pour himself out more
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because of our prayers.
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(mellow piano music)
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- Some of the things
that I've been praying for
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is for people to be open
to the Holy Spirit's leading
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in their lives.
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For God to work in the
people's lives in such a way
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that they can look back someday
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and say, "oh, this is
God working in my life.
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Like he was there
with me the whole time."
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- So I've prayed for
angels to surround this place
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and certain people,
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and that God will push
back the forces of darkness
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that are keeping them
from hearing about him.
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- What I'm praying for is
the blinders to be taken off,
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light of God's love to shine
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and for the search for truth.
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Because when people
search for the truth,
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they will find Jesus.
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Because he is the truth.
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And Jesus says that
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you will find me if
you're searching for me
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with all your heart.
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- We've been
down to a nearby beach
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where there are
many fishing boats,
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and seeing anywhere from six
to 10 people pulling in a net,
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I'm reminded right away of Jesus
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and calling the disciples,
Peter, James and John,
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and saying, "Lord,
these are fishermen.
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But you have called fishermen
before who became apostles,
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and I pray that you
intercede on their behalf,
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that you'll call 'em to
fish for more than just fish."
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(mellow piano music)
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- You pray for someone else,
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it's almost like
gives God access,
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more access to that individual.
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- There's not a lot of begging,
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there's not a lot of,
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"oh God, please,"
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twisting his arm.
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It's what he wants to do.
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(mellow piano music)
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- So you can see
how this is affecting
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the people that
are doing the praying.
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- Right, right. - And as they're
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walking through the city,
the town, and meeting people,
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it's changing
their prayer heart,
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their heart for
prayer, their prayer...
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Their prayers are changing.
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- Right. - It's changing them.
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- Right.
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You know, when we started,
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when we first got
here and we started,
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we started out with
a lot of Bible study.
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We studied about faith,
we studied about prayer.
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and we started
practicing claiming promises
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like we talk about
in one of the videos,
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and just thinking
about the realities,
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the eternal realities,
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the spiritual realities
of what's happening here-
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- Yeah. - You know,
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thinking about the fact that
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the forces of
evil are pushed back
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when God is invited to a place.
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- Exactly. - When his people,
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his representatives
are in that place-
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- Yes. - It's just powerful,
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you know.
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And it's been really
neat to watch the group grow.
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- Yeah. - As some of them,
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I think, were...
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Yeah, pretty
skeptical when they first came.
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You know, it's like,
"okay, we're gonna pray."
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- Right. - You know,
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how are we gonna pray day
after day for these people?
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But they've seen as
they've done the walks
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and they've, you know,
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experienced the
prayer walk day after day.
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They've met people,
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they've seen how
they live a little bit,
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you know, little
glimpses into people's lives.
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Been invited in and
taken care of during the rain
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like we were.
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We were invited
into this porch area.
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And it's just been
neat to see people grow-
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- Yes. - On this trip
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in the love for the people,
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the interest in
the people's lives.
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And this we wouldn't have
had if we had stayed home.
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And many of them have expressed
that far better than I am.
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But it just keeps
bringing it to mind that
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we would not have had these
experiences had we just said,
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"okay, it's too expensive.
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We're gonna stay here and pray."
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- Right. - You know.
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- And that's the question.
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If you say, "okay, it's
too expensive to go overseas,
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we're just gonna pray here."
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What's the likelihood of
anybody actually praying-
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- Right. - For that city
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staying home. - Right.
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- [John] The
likelihood is very, very small.
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- Right. - You might spend
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maybe five
minutes, 10 minutes praying,
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but then the next day
you might forget about 'em.
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Or if you have a list,
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you might be able to
pray for them once every day,
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but for several hours praying
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and then going out
and meeting the people.
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You know, the
meeting the people,
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that's the beautiful
thing about it is that
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when we did the...
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Like one or two or three
hours of prayer with people,
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originally, they're like,
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"oh, that's a
long time in prayer."
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But after you do
that several times,
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they're like, "oh,
do we have to quit?"
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- Right. - Do we have to end?
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And then what's
so beautiful is that
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when you do a
prayer walk and you go out
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and it's not just, you know,
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you can't stop and do
this and pray, you know.
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You keep walking and
you pray in your heart.
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You pray in your mind.
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Sometimes you have a
chance to pray under your breath
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and speak the words
that claim the promises.
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Then you go up and meet somebody
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and they're friendly and
they smile and all of us...
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And they tell you their name.
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All of a sudden you're not
no longer praying for Lord,
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be with the, you know,
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people that don't
know you across the ocean.
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- Right. - It's like,
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Lord, be with
Kumar, be with my friend.
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You know, and the
burden comes on your heart-
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- Right. - To pray,
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which is what
we're called to do.
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We're called to be
a nation of priests,
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a royal priesthood,
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and priests bear the names
of the people on their hearts
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before God...
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To God.
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And so this starts to happen.
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And so throughout the
week we've been seeing
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people more getting into it
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and they're like moving
farther than what we would do.
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You know,
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they're going into
places and meeting people
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and doing things that I...
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I mean, they're...
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I'm so excited
because it's like,
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it's beyond what...
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Just me coming by
myself or the two of us coming
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would be able to do in the Lord.
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- Right, and someone was
sharing just this morning
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at breakfast that
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they were able
to pray for someone.
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And while they were there
interacting with the family,
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the person
started feeling better.
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They were sick.
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- Yeah. - And they started...
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They'd been sick for a week
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and they started feeling better
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as they were just there
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interacting and having
conversation with the family.
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So it's just a huge blessing
to see what God is doing.
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And as part of
what God is doing,
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he's moved upon the hearts
of some people to stay here.
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- Yes, we have
from almost no Adventist
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to now we have a
couple that's the beachhead
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for the Holy Spirit
to start doing a work
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that is going to bring
huge results in the future.
00:17:05.79\00:17:08.89
- Right.
00:17:08.89\00:17:09.76
So let's meet them now. - Okay.
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(upbeat music)
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- [Joe] I actually
started in Idaho at Faith Camp.
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At that time,
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I felt that this was the
place that God wanted us.
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And so once we were
here for a couple of days,
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we saw that,
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"hey, this is the place
that God wanted us to be."
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- Mm hmm.
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I had been praying
that God would show us
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where he wanted us to be,
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and I just asked the
Lord to kind of show us
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by people's reactions
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or, you know, that
there would be kind of
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an encouragement
for us to stay there.
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And when we passed by
that veterinarian's place,
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they were like,
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"oh, you know, there's a lot
of foreigners that live here."
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- [Joe] It's like
they wanted us to be here.
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You know, not just
visiting as a tourist,
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but they actually
wanted us to be here.
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- So I felt
like God was speaking
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through those people,
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kind of encouraged
us to stick around,
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get to know everybody,
or who we can, you know.
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(upbeat music)
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- I think I need to
just relax, not be pushy,
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but to get to know the people,
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get to know how they think,
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why they do certain things.
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Make friends and this
way let them ask me, ask us,
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why are you here?
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What is your religion?
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If it is God's will
that something happens
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and it blossoms, well
that's fine, that's great.
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But I think we need
to mingle like Jesus did
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amongst the people
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and let the Holy
Spirit work in them
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by what they see in us.
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(upbeat music)
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- I think prayer is so
important in all of this
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and our time we
spend with the Lord
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and how he can open the doors.
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He's the one that opens doors.
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- I love the people here.
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Just these three days
or so that we've been here,
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I've already grown to love them
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and wanna go out
and just meet them.
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(upbeat music)
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- I mean, I did not expect
for somebody to stay here.
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I thought we would do our trip
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and then we go home
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and then the Lord
would call somebody.
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But when Joe sat down and says,
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"I think we're gonna
have to abort the trip."
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I thought, "uh oh, what's wrong?
00:20:02.70\00:20:04.40
He doesn't like something?"
00:20:04.40\00:20:05.67
He's like, yeah- -
We go back home now?
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- "We're just gonna stay. "
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- Right. -
"We're gonna not finish
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'cause we're going to
a couple other places."
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And he says, "we're
just gonna stay here."
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And I'm like,
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"praise God." - Yeah.
00:20:17.18\00:20:18.55
- And that's the couple I
see so much God working through,
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having conversations and
the healing that you mentioned.
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- Yeah.
00:20:26.49\00:20:27.46
- Is that couple. - Yeah.
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- And so God's
already answering our prayers
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kind of before we even ask.
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- [Natalie] Right.
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It's also neat to
see how others are seeing
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God changing their perspective
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and changing their
life based on this trip.
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And we've asked them
some questions about that.
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How do you see
your life changing?
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That kind of thing.
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So we wanna
watch that video now.
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- [John] Okay.
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(upbeat music)
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- Susan and I believe
Jesus is coming very soon,
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we've got to do
things differently
00:21:03.39\00:21:05.53
than we've done in the past.
00:21:05.53\00:21:07.13
And the power of
prayer can unlock doors
00:21:08.13\00:21:13.07
that will help to
hasten the coming of Christ.
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(upbeat music)
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- I thought that we
were coming over here to,
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you know, to help and to bless
00:21:25.18\00:21:26.58
and to work for the Lord and
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as I look back on
the experience so far,
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I really believe
that part of my being here
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is not just for the
Muslim people, but for me.
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- I can be a little
bit closed off sometimes.
00:21:36.36\00:21:38.66
And I think that
this is showing me that
00:21:38.66\00:21:43.13
it actually can be a
really positive thing.
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And not just here,
but wherever I'm at.
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To be more open and be
more friendly with people
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and to really seek
to see people as people
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and to pray for them.
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- It's been really good.
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It's like every day
over and over and over,
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we pray as a group.
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We practice praying
promises out of the Bible,
00:21:59.65\00:22:02.15
then we go out and we walk
00:22:02.15\00:22:03.52
and we practice, we practice
and practice and practice.
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And so that should...
00:22:05.89\00:22:07.22
I am praying that that
sticks with me much more.
00:22:07.22\00:22:09.76
And I'm sure it will because
00:22:09.76\00:22:11.53
it's like in there learning it
00:22:11.53\00:22:13.36
and growing with
that experience, I guess.
00:22:13.36\00:22:15.73
- The prayer time
together with this team
00:22:15.73\00:22:18.20
and a lot of very
spiritual discussion
00:22:18.20\00:22:21.00
has been a huge blessing to me
00:22:21.00\00:22:23.10
and I feel like I'm
gonna be taking back with me
00:22:23.10\00:22:25.67
how to pray more intentionally
00:22:25.67\00:22:27.21
just walking down
the street at home.
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Which I would not have really
thought of in the same way.
00:22:29.61\00:22:32.85
(upbeat music)
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- [Speaker] I was
coming from the position of,
00:22:36.62\00:22:38.89
"oh, it's great to do this here,
00:22:38.89\00:22:40.52
but there's no way we can
do it this way in America."
00:22:40.52\00:22:43.19
You're not gonna walk
up and down the streets
00:22:43.19\00:22:44.83
and go, "hello, hello"
00:22:44.83\00:22:46.16
and have people
respond that way.
00:22:46.16\00:22:48.80
But after our
conversation, it's like no.
00:22:48.80\00:22:51.47
If we are intentional
about reaching out to people
00:22:51.47\00:22:56.14
and we come with, you
know, holy Spirit joy,
00:22:56.14\00:23:00.14
we will get responses as well.
00:23:00.14\00:23:02.81
And I hadn't thought about it as
00:23:02.81\00:23:06.28
something that I could do
back in the United States.
00:23:06.28\00:23:10.75
And so I think it
will have an impact
00:23:10.75\00:23:14.69
on how I live day
to day and what I do.
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I have learned...
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Personally learned
a lot on this trip.
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- It's actually
shown me more of me
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and more of a need to love
those that don't know the word.
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So I think that it's
doing more of a work on me
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than me praying for them.
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So it's actually a good thing,
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a great thing actually.
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- One of the things that
I've learned on this trip
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is that I'm a very
arrogant western Christian
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that doesn't really love people
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to the extent
that I would like to
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or that I thought I had.
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And I cannot come in
with my way of thinking
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and make a difference.
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I need to learn to adapt.
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And then you
think, "how can I adapt?"
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'Cause this is the
right way to do it.
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This is what I was taught.
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It's like doesn't make it holy.
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And so there's a lot of layers
that I need to pray through
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and work through because
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I would not be able to just
drop in now and minister here.
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I could not do that
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because I have way
too much to unlearn
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in order to be useful.
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You don't get that
revelation of yourself
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without stepping
foot on the ground where
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outside of your own culture.
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- God said that
there would be people
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from every kindred,
nation, tongue and people
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in his kingdom
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and so I really
believe that there will be
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a result in heaven
that we may not see here.
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We may not be privileged
to see that on this earth.
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- I'm hoping that
it will enable God
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and the angels
and the Holy Spirit
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to have a little bit more
authority to invade this place.
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- I envision that he has
sent 1000s of angels here,
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maybe more, maybe
millions, I don't know,
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because of the prayers
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that we've been
making for these people.
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- I think that
praying those prayers
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that Satan would be
cast away from this city
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while we were here,
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and that there'd be opportunity
for us to claim promises
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where the Holy
Spirit could minister,
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angels could come and
provide an environment
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where the prayers
would be more effective
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than if we had not been here.
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I know God uses that.
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I know there are
going to be results.
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- When people
become extra friendly,
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I believe the spirit is working
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and they're telling
these people in their minds,
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these people are different.
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You know, we can invite them.
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They're safe.
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- So what I expect is
that there's going to be
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an entire section of heaven.
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And what will be
so exciting for me
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is when we're up there
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and the angel...
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Angels bring
hordes of people over
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and we'll tell
the hoards of people,
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these are the ones
who prayed for you.
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It started with
them because they came
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and then we'll look
at the the hordes and go,
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"wow, all of this
happened because we prayed."
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And then we'll get to
have fun for eternity.
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- So the best part is
that you can pray from home.
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- Yes.
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- Even though it's
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a lot more embedding
sometimes to actually go there.
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I mean, most of the
time you're gonna...
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It's gonna be more
real to you if you go there.
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But it's just really neat
that you can pray from anywhere.
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- Sure. - Our prayers affect
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places anywhere
around the world.
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So if we know a missionary,
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we can pray for them.
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If we want to look at Tokyo,
you know, with Google now,
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you can walk the
streets virtually.
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- Yes. - And you
can see buildings
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and you can
sometimes even see people.
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- Yes. - So people can pray
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from anywhere and God is
willing to answer our prayers
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from anywhere, for anywhere.
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- That's right.
- God is awesome.
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- All the time.
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- So if you are interested
in learning more about prayer,
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about faith,
about prayer walking,
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please contact us at
Jesus for Asia, PO Box 1221,
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Collegedale, Tennessee, 37315.
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Call us at (423) 413-7321
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or visit our
website at jesusforasia.org.
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May God richly bless you,
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until we see you next
time on "Jesus for Asia Now."
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