One of the most
beautiful and precious gifts
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that God gives us is
the privilege of praying.
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There's many people think
that you have to actually talk
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to somebody else and
then they pray for you.
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But that's not
what the Bible tells us.
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We can go to God directly.
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We can pray to Him
anytime, day or night.
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His door is never closed.
His throne room is never shut.
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We can approach the
throne room of God anytime,
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anywhere, because we
are children of the King.
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We have privileges.
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And it is such an
awesome gift that God gives us
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that we can go to Him directly.
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There's many,
many types of prayers.
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There's many
reasons for prayers.
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Some people though they
have that "give me" disease.
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You ever heard of
that? The "give me" disease.
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Dear Lord, give me this
and give me that, give me this,
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give me that, put more
money in my bank account.
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You know, do this, do that
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and we have that
"give me" disease.
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And yet, prayer is
for asking for things
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but it's not the
only reason for prayer.
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And also the only-- we
shouldn't just be going
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to prayer when we're in trouble.
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Some people they never
ever think about talking to God
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until they're in trouble.
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And then the second
something goes wrong,
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"Oh, dear God, help me."
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We are missing out
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on such a wonderful
relationship with Jesus
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when we don't have
an active prayer life.
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And when we stop praying,
when we start drifting away,
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when we get too tired to pray,
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we get too busy to pray, we
start drifting away from God.
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And before you know we're
caught up in the enemy's web,
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He has
successfully pulled us away
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and we've missed out on that
loving relationship with Jesus.
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It is our prayer
life, an active prayer life
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that keeps us close to Him.
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And when we
learn to pray directly
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about anything, everything,
when we don't just think
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we have to wait at
night to say our prayers
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before we go to
bed, that's good to do.
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Please don't anybody leave
and say, "Oh, Miss Brenda said,
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you don't have
to pray at night."
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That is good to do.
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But we need to pray
to God all day long.
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My prayer starts before I ever
get out of bed in the morning.
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I start praying before I ever
get out of bed in the morning.
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"Lord, please use
me in a special way."
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You see there's
something God has planned
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for each one of us but unless
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we're really
fully committed to Him,
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we ain't gonna
know what that plan is.
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And God will have
divine interventions
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in your day all day long.
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And it's incredible.
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You can really know the
full joy of trusting Jesus
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when you have an
active prayer life.
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And if you think
that you're too old
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or too young or
too poor or too rich
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to do anything for
Jesus, you're wrong
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because God has
something special planned
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for each one of you.
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And when you are walking
with Jesus every single day
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and enjoying that
special relationship with Him,
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you will see answers to
prayers every day, every day.
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You will enjoy those answers.
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My brother Jim, he's now--
mom and dad raised five kids.
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And all five of us
are in full time ministry.
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And my sisters and I are
in full time ministry at 3ABN.
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My two brothers
are ordained ministers.
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My dad's an ordained minister.
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And my brother Jim is now
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the Vice President of
the Michigan Conference.
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And my brother Kin
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is the Youth Director
for the Michigan Conference.
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However, before my
brother Jim had this position,
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he was actually
the youth director
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and my brother Kin was a pastor.
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So they kind of moved up
but-- a different position.
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But at this
particular time, my brother Jim
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was the youth
director in Michigan.
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And I was actually in
between taping segments.
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And it takes a
day to light the set
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and re-change between segments.
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And it takes a day to
put up and another day
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to get everything
put away and settled.
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So I usually get a 3-day break
in between segments of taping.
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And I was home enjoying
a little bit of free time
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to catch up on the
mountains of work on my desk.
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And I was making phone calls.
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I had lots of
things I my to do list
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I had to accomplish that day
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and my phone rings
and it's my brother Jim.
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"Hey, sis." He said "Listen,"
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He said "I'm on my way
down to Southern college."
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He said, you know, you
had Southern university.
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He said, "Where I'm
gonna be recruiting staff
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for my summer camp."
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Do you have summer
camps here in Australia?
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And so they probably,
youth directors do that, too.
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And so he said,
"Listen, why don't you come down
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and visit with me for
just for a little while."
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He said, "I miss
you so much, sis."
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And I said, "Jim,
I came down last year
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when you were recruiting.
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And you didn't have 10
minutes to speak to me.
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I didn't even
get to hug your neck.
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I said "There
were so many students
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signed up for appointments,
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to have appointments
with you to interview
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that you did not
have, one minute.
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I waited 4 hours for you
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and never got to
even hug your neck."
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And he goes, "Oh,
it'll be different this time.
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Sis, I miss you. You know,
we don't get to see each other.
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And you're so
busy and I'm so busy."
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And he said "I really miss you.
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I'm sure it'll be
different this year."
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And I looked around at my desk,
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and I had not
planned to go anywhere.
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I knew there's mountains
of stuff and I'm thinking,
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"It'll take me a year
to finish this not 3 days."
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And then the Holy Spirit
spoke to my heart and said,
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"Brenda, family is important.
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You know, go spend some
time with your brother."
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I said, "You know what?
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Jim, here's what
I'll do," I said,
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"You'll need the
morning to get settled
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and get everything else set up.
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I'll finish some
stuff I have to get
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accomplished this morning."
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I lived in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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It's an hour drive
from Collegedale, Tennessee,
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where Southern University is.
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And I said, "I'll come down
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and I'll meet you
in the afternoon."
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He goes, "Oh,
that'd be awesome."
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I said, "Do you think we'll
get a chance to go to supper?"
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He goes, "Oh, I can't do that."
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He said, "I got to take all
the staff out from last year
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and it's kind of,
you know, a work supper."
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And I was like,
"Okay, no problem."
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I said, "If I just
get 15 minutes with you,
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it'll be worth it." He
goes, "Oh, thank you so much.
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I love you,
sis." And we hung up.
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And so I got my
work done that I needed,
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absolute needed to do and then
I headed down South to Southern.
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And when I got there and I
went into the student center,
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all the
different youth directors
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from all the different states
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were all trying to
recruit staff, too.
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And they had
little booths set up
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and my brother's booth
had a petition around it
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where they could have a
private area to do interviews.
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And my sister-in-law Gale
was outside with the signup book
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and all the students
could come and signup
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and they were 15
minute interview parts.
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And so I thought I'm
gonna get one on them this year.
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I'm gonna go over
there and I'm gonna sign up
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on that signup
book for an appointment.
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And so I said,
"Okay, I'm gonna make sure
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I get at least 15
minutes with my brother."
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So I went over there and
I went to look at that book
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and my sister-in-law
said "They're all full,
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we're booked solid and
there's a waiting list."
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Oh. And I said, "Okay, Lord.
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Well, You've got
something in mind.
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I'm sure, I bet You
somebody is not gonna show up.
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I think someone's gonna forget.
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They're gonna
miss their appointment.
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And I'm gonna
slide right in there."
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So I waited and I
waited, 1 hour by it
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and my brother would come around
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to say goodbye to that
person he was interviewing
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and welcome the next
person in and I waved at him.
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He goes, "Hi, sis, I
love you." "I love you, too."
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And he went--go right back
in, didn't get to hug his neck.
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And so they
stuck, an hour went by
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and I watched student
after student going through,
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each time, "Bye,
you know, come on in."
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And, you know,
he'd interview again.
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Everybody was
keeping their appointments.
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Camp Pasabo is probably
one of the most premier camps
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we have in the United States
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and I think
everybody wants to work there.
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So--and I couldn't
be prejudiced at all.
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And it's better since my other
brother is a youth director now.
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And so I was, you
know, getting tired.
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I'm standing now
for 2 hours, 3 hours.
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Now I've stood for 4
hours and my 4-inch high heels,
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my feet are killing me.
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Ladies, we know
that our high heels
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are not meant to be walking
or hiking shoes, are they?
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We're supposed to walk
from the house to the car,
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to the building, to a
seat, to the restaurant,
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or wherever we are and
back to our truck again, right?
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Not to be standing up
for hours. So here I am.
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I am 4 hours now
talking to every single person
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but...my brother,
finally, I thought,
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I have just wasted 4
hours, "Lord," I said,
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"You know the
mountains of work on my desk.
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I have really
got to, to get back."
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So I--when I waited
to my next appointment
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was about ready to go
in and my brother came out
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and said, "I've got to go."
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And he goes, "I'm so
sorry, sis. I love you."
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I said "I love you, too."
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And that was it, never
even got to hug his neck.
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And I got down the car.
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I said, "Lord," I said,
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"I don't know what
that was all about."
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I said, "I just
wasted 4 hours of time.
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I could've been
working for You."
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And I was talking to
everybody else but my brother.
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And so I got in my car,
and, oh, that felt so good.
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And I started, backed
out of my parking spot.
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I started, you know,
driving out of the parking.
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I was just driving down the road
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getting close to
where the college market is.
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And in that college market
is an Adventist book center.
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And at that moment,
the Holy Spirit said to me,
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"Brenda, you
ought to go into the ABC
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and buy a book for Kelly.
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She just lost, she
is not--does not Jesus.
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She just lost her child.
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And you ought to go
find something in there
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that would help her in
spirit to lift her up."
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And I thought,
"Okay, I'll do that."
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And then I thought,
"Oh," and I just sat down
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and my feet hurt and, you know,
"I think, I'll order it online."
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And I heard the--just I'm almost
ready to go past the entrance
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and I hear, "Go
buy that book now."
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And I was like,
"Whoo." I've been praying
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and asking God to make
me instant to His will.
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And so I mean I
just whipped in there,
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sorry, for the person behind me,
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I didn't use the
turn signal even.
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And I just whipped
in there really quick.
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And wouldn't you know
God gave me that parking spot
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right closest to the
door, isn't God good?
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And so I got out and I went in,
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I opened the door
and as soon as you open,
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they've all these bells
tied to the top of the door,
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so that when you open it,
it makes a really loud noise.
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No chance of
entering inconspicuously.
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And so I looked on the
left and there was cash register
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on the left and a long
line of people waiting to pay.
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The woman that was in
the middle of transaction,
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so that means
nobody else can, you know,
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pay because the cash
register is already tied up.
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Soon as she heard
the bells on the door,
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she glances up, she
sees me, does a double take
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and just leaves
her books right there,
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and says, "Just a
minute," comes running over.
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She's got her purse.
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She comes running over to
me and she starts shaking me.
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"You're Brenda
Walsh. You're Brenda Walsh.
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You're Brenda
Walsh. You're Miss Brenda?"
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I said, "Uh-huh."
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She goes, "No, no,
no, you don't understand."
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She said "This
morning, God impressed me
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that I'm supposed
to give you some money.
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Well, praise the
Lord." I said "Thank you."
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And she goes, "No, no,
no, you don't understand."
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She said, "I have never
donated to Kids' Time, ever."
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She said, "But I do know
when God's speaking to me.
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And so I am
obedient. I made the check out.
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It's right here in my purse.
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What are the chances
that you would be here
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right here today?"
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And I said, I said "I'm bashed
at that, I mean, I'm just--"
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And she looked at
me and she started
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to open her
purse to get the check.
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And then she
snapped her purse shut.
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"What for and how much? Huh?"
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She said, "Well, God didn't
tell me what for and how much.
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I'm just curious."
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I said, "Well, I can
tell you the what for
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because just this morning
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God and I had a
long talk about it.
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You see, when kids
come to tape on the program,
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nobody gets, you know,
paid to be on the program,
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in fact, you have
to pay your own way.
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I'm a full time volunteer.
I have to pay own way, too.
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And everybody else
does. I don't book a "maybe."
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If I see a talented child
and there's musically talented
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and I book them for the program,
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and I say this
is your taping day,
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this is your time,
I'm counting on you.
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I don't book somebody
that I might be able to come
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because if I did
that this would happen.
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I would never want
to be wasting God's time
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because, you know,
if they didn't show up,
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that time, then we
wouldn't be producing programs.
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It would also
prevent somebody else
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to have been ready to come.
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You see, you can't ask the
child to come at the last minute
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'cause they take
lots of preparation
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to be able to come and
prepare to tape on the program.
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So I never book a
"maybe." I book a sure thing.
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I'm counting on you but
for the first time ever,
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I had come across an incredibly
musically talented family
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that was quite willing to come
but they didn't have the funds.
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And I knew with
everything inside me,
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God wanted them on that program
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and I did something that I
have never done but I told them,
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I am booking you for this slot.
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We're gonna be trusting in Jesus
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that He will provide the
means for you to fly here.
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It was way too far to drive.
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And I said I know
God wants you here
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and that's the
most important thing.
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And so, now that taping
date was only 2 weeks away.
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And I had told
God that all morning.
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I said, "Lord, I had lifted
up in prayer for quite a while.
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And I said, "Lord, you know that
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if we don't get
that money pretty soon,
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that the prices are gonna
go up more and more and more.
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Lord, I'm trying to be a
good steward of your money.
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You've told me
that You will provide.
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You impressed me
to ask them, Lord.
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I've done my part,
Lord, please, do Yours."
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You see God, I talk to God like
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He's my best
friend 'cause He is.
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And once you talk to
your best friend that way,
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you know, communication
is a two way street.
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And so I'm listening to
Jesus and He's telling me
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to be patient
that He will provide.
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I said, "Okay,
Lord, I'm trusting You."
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I said, "But I just found online
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really
inexpensive tickets for them."
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I said, "But we've
got to have that today."
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At midnight
tonight the price goes up.
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And I said, "So I
know what the what for is."
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And she goes,
"Well, praise the Lord.
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We know the what
for, now how much?"
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And I said "Well, I
really hate to tell you this."
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I said, "But...
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I need-- I need a $1,000."
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"Did you say a $1,000?"
I said, "Yeah, I'm sorry
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but it really is expensive
with the airfare these days.
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And she goes, "a $1,000?" "Yes."
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And she reached in her purse,
and she pulled out a check,
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one of those big business
ones that are oversized,
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she just dropped
her purse to the floor,
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pulled it out and
held it out for me to see.
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Mail out to
Kids' Time for $1,000.
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Isn't God good?
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I said, "Lord,
You knew this, Lord.
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And Your plan for me to
come to Collegedale, Tennessee,
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was not to see my
brother, obviously."
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It was to show
me who's in charge.
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It's to show me who provides.
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It's to show me the
power. Isn't God good?
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I was praising
Jesus all the way home.
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I was on the phone
saying, called up the family,
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I said, "God provided."
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And I shared with them and
they were crying on the phone,
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I was crying on the phone.
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I was thanking
Jesus, praising Jesus.
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There's nothing like it.
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Don't you just love it
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when we have first
hand witness of God's power?
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It's amazing.
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Somebody that I
love very, very much
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is probably the most
incredible prayer warrior
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that I have ever known.
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Somebody that walks
so closely with Jesus
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that Jesus truly
is her best friend
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more than anybody else.
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I'm talking to you
about my grandmother Micheff,
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my dad's mother.
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You see, my grandma was
born here in the States.
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She is Hungarian.
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And when she was
only 2 years old,
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her mother took her and
her brothers and sisters,
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two brothers, two
sisters over to Hungary
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to stay and spend the
summer with her grandmother.
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In that way her mother
flew back to the States
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so that her and dad
could work to earn more money.
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And what happened was
is that the war broke out
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and they could not return.
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And so my
grandmother was 14-years-old
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before she ever came
back and saw her mother again.
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Actually, she wasn't scheduled.
Her grandmother raised her.
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And her
brothers, well, actually,
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her mom and dad sent
money for a train ticket
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and a ship passage
for her brothers to come.
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They didn't want the
girls, they wanted the boys
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because they wanted
them to work and earn money.
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But the
government would not allow
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any boys to leave the country
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that might be
eligible for the army,
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so they would not
allow the boys to come.
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So the grandmother
sent the girls instead.
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So when the
parents met the train
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expecting to see their sons,
00:18:14.56\00:18:16.03
and they saw their daughters
instead, they were angry.
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My grandma
didn't get a hug saying,
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"Oh, after all these years,
my daughters, my daughters." No.
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They were mad
and they were angry
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and the first thing they did
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is they
contracted my grandmother out
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and each one of the
sisters to different places
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but my grandmother they sent up
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now my grandma lived--
I mean grandparents lived
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in Southern
Illinois right there by 3ABN.
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And so there, they sent
my grandmother up to Chicago,
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5 hours North to work for
the Marshall Field's family.
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It's a department store.
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The Marshall Field's is a
department store in Chicago.
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Some of you may have known it.
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And the Marshall family is
who my grandmother worked for.
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She was
basically, she's their cook,
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their maid, whatever it is.
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And every penny she
earned was actually sent back
00:19:01.83\00:19:04.52
to her parents in
Southern Illinois.
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She never got one
penny to keep for herself.
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So she was
basically like a slave.
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And she learned how to
cook from her grandmother
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who was an incredible cook.
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So she, the family,
the Marshall family was,
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you know, kind to her but they
worked her very hard long hours
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and they enjoyed her cooking
and she was impeccably clean
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and she worked there for 2 years
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until her
parents called her home.
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They had met a man
00:19:34.64\00:19:36.03
who they thought was
rich 'cause he owned a car.
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And so they married
her off to this man,
00:19:38.63\00:19:42.86
somebody she didn't
know, hadn't met before
00:19:42.89\00:19:45.54
and actually
didn't know anything
00:19:45.57\00:19:46.94
about a
husband-wife relationship.
00:19:46.97\00:19:50.01
And she found herself married
00:19:50.04\00:19:52.57
to somebody she didn't know
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and fortunately, my
grandfather was a very kind man
00:19:54.10\00:19:58.55
but he was also 30 years
older than he'd thought he was.
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He wasn't 25 years old.
00:20:01.41\00:20:03.15
And so her life with
him was very, very hard.
00:20:03.18\00:20:06.09
He was not rich.
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In fact, my grandfather worked
in the coal mines for 47 years.
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Do you know it
breaks my heart to think
00:20:11.60\00:20:13.49
that my grandfather spent
most of his life underground?
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And my grandfather
didn't know any of his family.
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He was from Bulgaria.
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He had--there was
13 kids in his family
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When he got to
be 12 years of age,
00:20:23.11\00:20:25.31
he had to leave
home and was told to--
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his parents arranged for
him to go work with these
00:20:27.37\00:20:29.48
like a migrant worker.
00:20:29.51\00:20:30.88
And he never saw any
of his family ever again.
00:20:30.91\00:20:33.63
He ended up taking--being
sent on a boat over to America
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and then ended up
in the coal mine work.
00:20:36.71\00:20:38.41
And so it was
really a hard, hard life.
00:20:38.44\00:20:41.39
And my grandmother
never knew anything
00:20:41.42\00:20:44.21
but hard work and heartache.
00:20:44.24\00:20:46.61
Yet she was closer to God
than you can possibly imagine.
00:20:46.64\00:20:50.17
She loved Jesus
with all her heart
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and she was raised by a
very God fearing grandmother.
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Now before you say, "Wow,
00:20:56.38\00:20:57.75
how could God
allow that to happen?"
00:20:57.78\00:20:59.45
Because, you know,
00:20:59.48\00:21:00.85
she didn't get to see
her mother all those years,
00:21:00.88\00:21:02.89
but guess what?
00:21:02.92\00:21:04.29
Her mom and dad
were not Christians.
00:21:04.32\00:21:07.19
In fact, my great
grandfather was an alcoholic.
00:21:07.22\00:21:08.59
I actually never met him sober.
00:21:08.62\00:21:11.29
And he lived to be
the ripe old age of 94.
00:21:11.32\00:21:14.67
We all said he was
pickled, and he fell out off bed
00:21:14.70\00:21:16.34
and that's how
he died, you know.
00:21:16.37\00:21:19.48
And so he was not--it wouldn't
have been a Christian home
00:21:19.51\00:21:22.60
and my grandmother
wasn't a Christian.
00:21:22.63\00:21:24.60
In fact, she was quite mean
and hateful and here God allowed
00:21:24.63\00:21:29.21
my grandmother to
be raised by a loving,
00:21:29.24\00:21:32.24
God-fearing grandma and
taught her to love Jesus.
00:21:32.27\00:21:36.01
So how can you say God
didn't know what He's doing?
00:21:36.04\00:21:38.92
And even though my grandmother
had a very hard life,
00:21:38.95\00:21:41.37
she loved Jesus.
00:21:41.40\00:21:43.95
When I think
about my grandmother,
00:21:43.98\00:21:46.46
I think about her
relationship with God.
00:21:46.49\00:21:48.31
That's the very first thing
00:21:48.34\00:21:49.71
that I associate with my grandma
is how much she loved Jesus.
00:21:49.74\00:21:52.70
She ministered to everyone
and her name was Rebecca Helen
00:21:52.73\00:21:57.49
and everyone
called her Helen and she--
00:21:57.52\00:21:59.20
they would come
to her for prayer.
00:21:59.23\00:22:00.60
They needed anything,
my grandma would help them.
00:22:00.63\00:22:02.24
In fact, you know,
she was the first one
00:22:02.27\00:22:04.81
in the neighborhood
called if anybody was sick.
00:22:04.84\00:22:06.87
She lost her own
twins that she had
00:22:06.90\00:22:09.37
because she'd been
ministering to some other family
00:22:09.40\00:22:12.11
that had a real bad illness
00:22:12.14\00:22:14.60
and she caught it
and her own babies died.
00:22:14.63\00:22:17.82
And so she really loved others.
00:22:17.85\00:22:20.57
She gave of herself and
she prayed for everybody.
00:22:20.60\00:22:24.12
When I first started Kids' Time,
00:22:24.15\00:22:27.44
it was my grandma that prayed me
00:22:27.47\00:22:29.01
through every
single thing I did.
00:22:29.04\00:22:30.97
You see, I live in
Knoxville, Tennessee,
00:22:31.00\00:22:33.15
and I'm 6 hours
from Southern Illinois.
00:22:33.18\00:22:36.38
And so for those 6
hours, I'd be on the phone
00:22:36.41\00:22:38.82
and I would be telling grandma
00:22:38.85\00:22:40.30
about this, that
and the other thing,
00:22:40.33\00:22:41.70
and what I needed and,
"Grandma, I don't know what,
00:22:41.73\00:22:43.10
what should I have here?
What should I have there?"
00:22:43.13\00:22:44.65
"Let's pray about
it." And we would pray.
00:22:44.68\00:22:46.54
We'd have a
praise report as well.
00:22:46.57\00:22:49.14
And we had the
most awesome time.
00:22:49.17\00:22:51.11
She was such an
awesome prayer warrior.
00:22:51.14\00:22:53.97
And one thing--the last
20 years of grandma's life,
00:22:54.00\00:22:57.73
she spent in a little
room with her television
00:22:57.76\00:23:01.76
and she had--3ABN is the only
television program she watched.
00:23:01.79\00:23:06.12
She had her Bible.
00:23:06.15\00:23:07.52
She had her prayer
journal and she had her phone.
00:23:07.55\00:23:09.84
You see, grandma had
arthritis so bad and her knees
00:23:09.87\00:23:13.70
where way back out to here
00:23:13.73\00:23:15.23
and she willed herself to
walk. She could hardly walk.
00:23:15.26\00:23:18.04
The doctor said that he--
00:23:18.07\00:23:19.46
anybody else would've
been bedridden years before
00:23:19.49\00:23:22.20
but she literally was
determined not to be an invalid
00:23:22.23\00:23:25.54
and she, even the pain,
she just worked through it
00:23:25.57\00:23:28.15
and was determined that
she was going to live for Jesus
00:23:28.18\00:23:32.80
and live to the
fullest and not in a bed.
00:23:32.83\00:23:36.98
She decided and this is, folks,
00:23:37.01\00:23:39.35
if you ever think that you
are too old to serve Jesus,
00:23:39.38\00:23:42.05
you think that you're too
young or too poor or too rich,
00:23:42.08\00:23:46.27
let me tell you, my
grandma is an incredible example
00:23:46.30\00:23:48.42
about somebody that God
can use to witness for Him
00:23:48.45\00:23:51.78
because she had the most
incredible prayer ministry.
00:23:51.81\00:23:54.29
Her phone was
going off all the time.
00:23:54.32\00:23:56.57
And people
would say, "Oh, Helen,
00:23:56.60\00:23:57.97
would you pray about this?
00:23:58.00\00:23:59.37
Would you pray about that?"
00:23:59.40\00:24:00.77
So many times today
someone will ask you,
00:24:00.80\00:24:02.65
"Oh, pray for me
please." And we say "We will."
00:24:02.68\00:24:04.64
How many of you actually
do? Don't raise your hands.
00:24:04.67\00:24:07.96
You know, it's almost
like a saying that we say.
00:24:07.99\00:24:10.45
It's almost like, "Good
day, pray for me." "Okay."
00:24:10.48\00:24:15.66
"I'll be praying for you,"
00:24:15.69\00:24:17.06
we tell someone, oh,
you hear something bad.
00:24:17.09\00:24:18.46
It's almost like
the polite thing to say
00:24:18.49\00:24:20.27
when someone tells
you their heartache story.
00:24:20.30\00:24:22.15
And you go, "Well,
I'll pray for you."
00:24:22.18\00:24:23.75
Do you really take
it before the Lord?
00:24:23.78\00:24:25.32
Do you really
passionately pray for them?
00:24:25.35\00:24:27.08
Have you ever
thought about that?
00:24:27.11\00:24:29.07
It's almost like
just a nice thing to say.
00:24:29.10\00:24:31.10
But my grandma
didn't view prayer
00:24:31.13\00:24:33.18
as a nice thing to say
00:24:33.21\00:24:34.58
to tell someone
they're praying about her.
00:24:34.61\00:24:35.98
When she was praying for you,
my grandmother prayed for you.
00:24:36.01\00:24:40.23
She didn't just pray
for you once or twice.
00:24:40.26\00:24:42.24
If you were--
every prayer request
00:24:42.27\00:24:44.87
was written in
her prayer journal
00:24:44.90\00:24:46.27
and she would pray
all throughout the day.
00:24:46.30\00:24:48.48
She would go
through her prayer journal
00:24:48.51\00:24:50.06
and she would pray and she
would talk to you about by--
00:24:50.09\00:24:53.26
talked to the Lord
about you intimately.
00:24:53.29\00:24:54.88
All the things
she knew about you,
00:24:54.91\00:24:56.73
she would be praying
and listing it up to Jesus.
00:24:56.76\00:24:58.39
And she prayed over
and over and over again.
00:24:58.42\00:25:00.67
And then she had a side note
with all the praise reports.
00:25:00.70\00:25:03.92
And whether or
not to keep on praying
00:25:03.95\00:25:05.60
and what the updates were.
00:25:05.63\00:25:07.73
You see, my grandma
prayed about everything.
00:25:07.76\00:25:11.94
I love my grandma
with all my heart.
00:25:11.97\00:25:14.61
I used to when I get
through taping during the day,
00:25:14.64\00:25:17.60
I go to my
grandma's house at night,
00:25:17.63\00:25:19.29
you know, 'cause it was just,
00:25:19.32\00:25:20.69
you know, 10
minutes from the studio.
00:25:20.72\00:25:22.42
And I go over there and
we'd have song service together
00:25:22.45\00:25:25.03
and we'd pray together.
00:25:25.06\00:25:26.43
And we reminisced and I
would also share with her
00:25:26.46\00:25:29.77
all the things
that were going on
00:25:29.80\00:25:31.17
in the studio
and all the letters.
00:25:31.20\00:25:32.80
And I would say, "Oh, grandma,
there's this really sad case,
00:25:32.83\00:25:35.59
this little girl asked
me to help her kill herself
00:25:35.62\00:25:38.27
and it because she said
that her mom and dad died.
00:25:38.30\00:25:41.26
She's staying with the aunt
that doesn't really want her
00:25:41.29\00:25:43.30
and she just wants to die
00:25:43.33\00:25:44.70
and she want to
know if I would help her.
00:25:44.73\00:25:47.20
And she doesn't have a gun,
00:25:47.23\00:25:48.89
and she doesn't
have any medicine,
00:25:48.92\00:25:50.29
she doesn't
know what else to do,
00:25:50.32\00:25:51.69
could I help her do
something to help her end life?
00:25:51.72\00:25:53.59
"Oh, that's
terrible. Let's pray for her.
00:25:53.62\00:25:55.12
Do you know her name?"
00:25:55.15\00:25:56.52
And I said, "Yes,
and this is her name
00:25:56.55\00:25:58.32
and she's from this
little island in Antigua."
00:25:58.35\00:26:00.46
And she said, "Okay,
well, let's pray right now."
00:26:00.49\00:26:02.43
And she would just
lift up that little girl.
00:26:02.46\00:26:05.38
It didn't matter
what it was I gave her.
00:26:05.41\00:26:07.69
She would pray
and pray and pray.
00:26:07.72\00:26:10.50
Her phone would ring constantly.
00:26:10.53\00:26:12.81
You see, that's the
woman that raised my father.
00:26:12.84\00:26:17.00
She was a woman of prayer.
00:26:17.03\00:26:19.51
You know, towards
the end of her life,
00:26:19.54\00:26:24.67
her pain level was so
much that her knees would hurt
00:26:24.70\00:26:29.03
when she'd even move them
a little bit on the couch.
00:26:29.06\00:26:31.25
She'd start to
read just her weight.
00:26:31.28\00:26:33.87
She'd be in so much pain.
00:26:33.90\00:26:36.36
And so I would pray
for hours for grandma.
00:26:36.39\00:26:39.35
Because it just broke my heart
00:26:39.38\00:26:40.75
to see somebody I love
so much in so much pain.
00:26:40.78\00:26:44.93
Our whole family, I think my--
00:26:44.96\00:26:49.19
I could not have been praying
for more than my grandma.
00:26:49.22\00:26:53.45
I felt those prayers.
00:26:53.48\00:26:57.01
One day, I was scheduled
to speak, be a keynote speaker
00:26:57.04\00:27:00.38
at a Women's Retreat
in Nashville, Tennessee.
00:27:00.41\00:27:06.75
It was the Kentucky
Tennessee Conference.
00:27:06.78\00:27:08.91
And they were
having this big retreat.
00:27:08.94\00:27:10.31
I was their
speaker. I'm on my way.
00:27:10.34\00:27:11.71
It's a Friday, I'm almost there.
00:27:11.74\00:27:14.05
Now you see, I live in Knoxville
and 3ABN is 6 hours away.
00:27:14.08\00:27:18.31
Nashville is my halfway point.
00:27:18.34\00:27:20.32
And so when I get to
Nashville, I got 3 hours more.
00:27:20.35\00:27:23.23
So I'm almost in Nashville
and my cell phone goes off,
00:27:23.26\00:27:25.60
it's my sister
Linda and she's sobbing.
00:27:25.63\00:27:28.30
"Brenda," she said, "I
just talked to mom and dad."
00:27:28.33\00:27:30.75
She said, "Have you
heard, have you heard?"
00:27:30.78\00:27:32.15
I said, "No, what?"
00:27:32.18\00:27:33.60
And she said, "Oh, Brenda,
00:27:33.63\00:27:35.25
she said it's grandma,
she's in the hospital."
00:27:35.28\00:27:37.83
Now my sister Cinda and I
are nurses but Linda is not.
00:27:37.86\00:27:41.05
So to hear this, you know,
medical information from Linda,
00:27:41.08\00:27:44.23
you never know
what you're gonna hear.
00:27:44.26\00:27:46.68
So she said, "But, sis,
grandma doesn't have time--
00:27:46.71\00:27:49.30
long to live, she's gonna die."
00:27:49.33\00:27:51.22
Then I said, "What
are you talking about?"
00:27:51.25\00:27:52.62
She said, "I don't know, sis.
00:27:52.65\00:27:54.02
She said, "I guess, there's
some big hole in her stomach
00:27:54.05\00:27:55.94
and she said and the
doctors said they can't operate.
00:27:55.97\00:27:58.65
And she could go anytime."
00:27:58.68\00:28:01.64
"Lord, please not grandma.
00:28:01.67\00:28:04.00
Please don't take my grandma.
00:28:04.03\00:28:07.60
Lord, I'm not ready to lose her.
00:28:07.63\00:28:09.00
She is my prayer warrior."
00:28:09.03\00:28:10.40
Surely, Linda's got to be
messed about that, surely not.
00:28:10.43\00:28:13.70
I called my mom
and mom was crying
00:28:13.73\00:28:15.71
and she said, "It's grandma."
00:28:15.74\00:28:17.25
She said, "Doctors
said that she has no hope."
00:28:17.28\00:28:20.42
I called up a friend of mine
00:28:20.45\00:28:21.82
who is at 3ABN
and I said, "Look,
00:28:21.85\00:28:23.84
I'm scheduled to be a key
note speaker this weekend.
00:28:23.87\00:28:27.04
Can you please be in my place?
00:28:27.07\00:28:29.25
I said my grandmother is in
the hospital and I need to go."
00:28:29.28\00:28:32.21
She says, "Absolutely."
00:28:32.24\00:28:33.61
she said, "I'll
just grab a few things
00:28:33.64\00:28:35.43
and I'll be on my way."
00:28:35.46\00:28:36.83
And I said I'm
speaking at 7 o'clock, sorry.
00:28:36.86\00:28:39.96
And I just put them--
you know, the gas pedal down
00:28:39.99\00:28:43.66
and floored it all the
way there just kept on going
00:28:43.69\00:28:46.55
and in fact, my cell phone
went off about halfway there
00:28:46.58\00:28:51.00
and I got a call and she said,
"Did you just pass Sector 81?"
00:28:51.03\00:28:54.41
I said, "Yes, how do you know?"
00:28:54.44\00:28:55.81
She goes, "I just passed
here." She said "Slow down."
00:28:55.84\00:29:00.27
And so I said, "I
know, I know, please pray,
00:29:00.30\00:29:03.67
you know, my
grandma can go anytime,
00:29:03.70\00:29:05.07
and I'm just so scared,
I won't get there in time.
00:29:05.10\00:29:07.59
And so I prayed
with her on the phone
00:29:07.62\00:29:10.16
that God would be
with her for the weekend.
00:29:10.19\00:29:11.67
I thanked her again
for filling in for me.
00:29:11.70\00:29:13.94
Isn't God good
when he provides friends
00:29:13.97\00:29:15.68
that will support
each other like that?
00:29:15.71\00:29:19.32
And so I race down
there. I get to the hospital.
00:29:19.35\00:29:23.86
I find her room number,
00:29:23.89\00:29:25.60
I walk in and
there's a woman in the bed.
00:29:25.63\00:29:28.63
There was two people in the room
00:29:28.66\00:29:30.31
and there was a woman
the first one in the bed
00:29:30.34\00:29:31.88
was kind of out of her
head and she was just delirious
00:29:31.91\00:29:34.56
and didn't know what she's doing
and she was mumbling loudly,
00:29:34.59\00:29:36.97
and groaning and moaning.
00:29:37.00\00:29:38.37
I thought, "Oh, no, grandma
has to be in here and hear this,
00:29:38.40\00:29:40.84
you know, this can't be
00:29:40.87\00:29:42.24
in her last few
minutes of her life here that"
00:29:42.27\00:29:44.13
and I walk past the lady
00:29:44.16\00:29:46.15
and there was my
grandma sitting up in death.
00:29:46.18\00:29:48.64
I said, "Oh,
grandma, and I ran to her
00:29:48.67\00:29:51.03
and I just
hugged her and she goes,
00:29:51.06\00:29:52.43
"Oh, honey, I
should've known you would come."
00:29:52.46\00:29:54.81
She had a real
thick Hungarian accent,
00:29:54.84\00:29:56.48
she couldn't speak good English.
00:29:56.51\00:29:59.58
And I said, "Oh,
grandma, grandma, is it true?"
00:29:59.61\00:30:02.81
She says, "Haven't
you heard the news?"
00:30:02.84\00:30:04.44
She looked all smiley.
00:30:04.47\00:30:05.84
And I said "No,
what is the news?"
00:30:05.87\00:30:07.64
And she goes "I'm gonna die."
00:30:07.67\00:30:09.60
"Grandma, are you
sure? Are you sure?
00:30:15.77\00:30:18.92
Maybe the doctor
is wrong." "Oh, no."
00:30:18.95\00:30:21.20
she said, "The doctor
said I can go anytime.
00:30:21.23\00:30:23.45
It might be this day.
00:30:23.48\00:30:24.85
Oh, I do hope I get
to go on the Sabbath."
00:30:24.88\00:30:29.94
"Grandma, grandma, how
can you talk like that.
00:30:29.97\00:30:32.83
Are you sure,
can't they do something?"
00:30:32.86\00:30:34.61
"Well, no, well, hun, I got
a big hole in my intestine."
00:30:34.64\00:30:39.09
And she said the doctor said,
00:30:39.12\00:30:42.07
she said that
there's nothing they can do,
00:30:42.10\00:30:45.81
why-- my heart's bad, hun.
00:30:45.84\00:30:48.25
And she said "I
get on that table."
00:30:48.28\00:30:50.10
She said, "I'll
probably die on the table."
00:30:50.13\00:30:53.45
She said "I'm
not gonna do that."
00:30:53.48\00:30:54.86
She said "I'm gonna
go up praising the Lord."
00:30:54.89\00:30:58.95
"Well, grandma, are
you sure there's not--"
00:30:58.98\00:31:01.48
"Now, hun, we got
no time for that."
00:31:01.51\00:31:04.42
She goes "I could
go any minute here."
00:31:04.45\00:31:06.11
She said so, she
said "We got to get busy."
00:31:06.14\00:31:08.46
She said "I've got
family we got to call.
00:31:08.49\00:31:10.15
You got that
cell phone with you?"
00:31:10.18\00:31:11.55
She said, "It's nice and loud,
I can hear better on that one."
00:31:11.58\00:31:13.78
I said "Yeah,
grandma, I've cell phone."
00:31:13.81\00:31:15.28
She said, "Well,
I'll start calling."
00:31:15.31\00:31:16.83
She says, "I got
to talk to people.
00:31:16.86\00:31:18.23
I got to say my goodbyes."
00:31:18.26\00:31:20.45
And so I started calling
people, one right after another.
00:31:20.48\00:31:23.40
And grandma's,
you know, calling them
00:31:23.43\00:31:25.76
and she told each one,
00:31:25.79\00:31:27.36
"Now, hun, I want you to
give your heart to Jesus."
00:31:27.39\00:31:30.06
She said, "If you don't
give your heart to Jesus,
00:31:30.09\00:31:31.83
she won't gonna be there.
00:31:31.86\00:31:33.23
Grandma was not
gonna see you anymore."
00:31:33.26\00:31:34.88
She said, "Please
give your heart to Jesus.
00:31:34.91\00:31:36.57
I can't imagine
heaven without You."
00:31:36.60\00:31:39.82
She went and called
every one of her grandkids.
00:31:39.85\00:31:42.19
She called every
one of my cousins.
00:31:42.22\00:31:43.59
She called every one
of her family members.
00:31:43.62\00:31:45.97
And then she goes,
"Okay, now get my friends.
00:31:46.00\00:31:47.53
Okay, go here's my book,
get that book over there.
00:31:47.56\00:31:49.56
It's got all my
friends numbers on.
00:31:49.59\00:31:50.96
Okay, call so and
so," and I'm calling.
00:31:50.99\00:31:52.51
I want you to know, she says,
00:31:52.54\00:31:53.91
"I want to ask you one more time
to give your heart to Jesus."
00:31:53.94\00:31:56.37
She says, "I'm getting
ready to go to sleep in Jesus."
00:31:56.40\00:31:59.66
She said, "It's
not gonna be long.
00:31:59.69\00:32:01.06
It could be any minute."
00:32:01.09\00:32:02.46
And she says, "And I
don't want to lose any minute.
00:32:02.49\00:32:03.92
I want to ask
you one more time,"
00:32:03.95\00:32:05.38
she said, "give
your heart to Jesus,
00:32:05.41\00:32:06.78
I want to see you there."
She said, "I love you so much.
00:32:06.81\00:32:09.68
I can't imagine
heaven without you."
00:32:09.71\00:32:12.46
Person after person after person
00:32:12.49\00:32:14.98
that she had
been ministering to,
00:32:15.01\00:32:16.80
she called every person
that she had a phone number
00:32:16.83\00:32:19.27
to that she needed they
hear and get that last message,
00:32:19.30\00:32:25.34
"Please give
your heart to Jesus."
00:32:25.37\00:32:27.97
And when we were all done,
00:32:28.00\00:32:29.37
she said, "Well,
that's about it."
00:32:29.40\00:32:30.77
She said, "Well,
what time is it?"
00:32:30.80\00:32:32.75
I said, "Well, it's,"
you know, I'd tell the time.
00:32:32.78\00:32:34.82
She'd say, "Well, I
guess, God's got plans.
00:32:34.85\00:32:36.65
Maybe we'll just
enjoy the Sabbath."
00:32:36.68\00:32:38.23
She said, "But yeah, yeah--"
she said, "It could be anytime."
00:32:38.26\00:32:44.15
About that time,
the nurse came in
00:32:44.18\00:32:47.39
and she had a tray
and she had some medicine,
00:32:47.42\00:32:49.53
and she had little IV bag
and she puts her tray down
00:32:49.56\00:32:52.82
and she starts to fix
the IV bag and I said,
00:32:52.85\00:32:55.42
"Excuse me, what are you doing?"
00:32:55.45\00:32:57.33
She said, "Oh, hun,"
00:32:57.36\00:32:58.73
she said, "I'm just gonna
put a little medicine here
00:32:58.76\00:33:00.74
to help your grandma's
heart, strengthen your heart."
00:33:00.77\00:33:03.93
And I said "No, you're not."
00:33:03.96\00:33:05.75
She said "Excuse me?"
I said "No, you're not.
00:33:05.78\00:33:08.34
I want to see Dr. Keller."
00:33:08.37\00:33:10.40
And she goes, "Well, sweetie,
she's left for the day."
00:33:10.43\00:33:12.41
That's how they
talk in the south.
00:33:12.44\00:33:13.81
Well, sweetie,
she's left for the day.
00:33:13.84\00:33:16.02
He'll be back,
he'll be back in an hour."
00:33:16.05\00:33:17.57
I said "No, he won't."
00:33:17.60\00:33:19.02
I said, "I need
you to tell Dr. Keller
00:33:19.05\00:33:21.94
that Helen Micheff's
granddaughter is here
00:33:21.97\00:33:23.85
and that she's
refusing all medication
00:33:23.88\00:33:26.43
until I can speak to him."
00:33:26.46\00:33:29.60
"Well, I never. Okay."
00:33:29.63\00:33:31.76
So she packed up her stuff.
She didn't seem very happy.
00:33:31.79\00:33:33.99
And she just went out off
the door and 30 minutes later,
00:33:34.02\00:33:37.49
Dr. Keller walked in and he
didn't look too happy either.
00:33:37.52\00:33:40.78
And so he said "What
seems to be the problem here?
00:33:40.81\00:33:43.20
I understand that you're not--
that you're refusing medication.
00:33:43.23\00:33:46.05
What is the problem?"
00:33:46.08\00:33:47.96
"Dr. Keller, do you
hate my grandmother?"
00:33:47.99\00:33:53.03
"Well, absolutely not.
00:33:53.06\00:33:55.04
Why would you ask such a thing?"
00:33:55.07\00:33:56.44
I said, "Will you please tell
me is my grandmother dying?"
00:33:56.47\00:34:00.93
And then he
proceeded to tell me,
00:34:00.96\00:34:02.33
he said, "Well, yes, she is."
00:34:02.36\00:34:04.07
And he told me
about how she'd had
00:34:04.10\00:34:07.47
a rip and a tear
in her intestines.
00:34:07.50\00:34:09.81
And to repair that
would require going to surgery
00:34:09.84\00:34:12.64
but the heart was so weak
00:34:12.67\00:34:15.12
that surgery she would
never tolerate the surgery
00:34:15.15\00:34:17.61
and probably die on the table."
00:34:17.64\00:34:19.21
And that it had been
my grandmother's decision
00:34:19.24\00:34:21.16
not to try.
00:34:21.19\00:34:22.56
And that she couldn't
even have a sip of water
00:34:22.59\00:34:25.83
because that would
seep out into her abdomen
00:34:25.86\00:34:28.98
and already I could see
00:34:29.01\00:34:30.55
she looked about 5
months' pregnant there,
00:34:30.58\00:34:32.25
already her abdomen
was tight and swollen.
00:34:32.28\00:34:34.19
And he said,
"The longer she lives,
00:34:34.22\00:34:36.81
the more painful her
end of her life will be."
00:34:36.84\00:34:40.34
He said, "in fact," he said,
00:34:40.37\00:34:41.74
"she will reach a poin that
her skin is so tight like a drum
00:34:41.77\00:34:45.22
and she should feel
like a balloon gonna pop
00:34:45.25\00:34:47.42
and the pain will be so intense,
there won't be enough morphine
00:34:47.45\00:34:50.70
or pain medicine
to stop the pain.
00:34:50.73\00:34:52.99
And unfortunately,
it's a terrible way to die.
00:34:53.02\00:34:55.75
She will go out
in terrible agony."
00:34:55.78\00:34:58.70
I said "Then I want to
re-ask you the question,
00:34:58.73\00:35:00.75
do you hate my grandmother?"
00:35:00.78\00:35:02.98
And he said, "Why
would you ask me that?
00:35:03.01\00:35:04.67
I've been your grandma's
doctor for over 40 years."
00:35:04.70\00:35:07.09
I said, exactly, I said
"You just got telling me
00:35:07.12\00:35:09.96
that the longer
my grandmother lives,
00:35:09.99\00:35:12.23
she's gonna be even more pain
00:35:12.26\00:35:13.90
and she's gonna suffer and
leave this world screaming.
00:35:13.93\00:35:16.27
Is that right?"
"Yes, I wish it wasn't so."
00:35:16.30\00:35:19.54
I said "And, yet, you're
gonna give her a medication
00:35:19.57\00:35:21.71
to strengthen her heart
00:35:21.74\00:35:23.11
so that she can last long enough
to suffer like that in pain."
00:35:23.14\00:35:26.53
And he stopped and he was quiet,
00:35:26.56\00:35:29.80
and he thought
about what I said.
00:35:29.83\00:35:32.74
And he kind of
choked up for a minute
00:35:32.77\00:35:34.94
and he said,
turned to my grandmother
00:35:34.97\00:35:38.18
and said, "Helen,
please forgive me."
00:35:38.21\00:35:41.12
He said, "Your
granddaughter is right."
00:35:41.15\00:35:43.09
He said "I think as physicians
we're so eager to prolong life
00:35:43.12\00:35:48.15
that we forget about
helping someone die."
00:35:48.18\00:35:53.63
And he looked at me, he goes
00:35:53.66\00:35:55.03
"What do you expect me to do?"
00:35:55.06\00:35:56.49
I said, "Here's
what I expect you to do.
00:35:56.52\00:35:58.39
I expect you to move
her to a private room.
00:35:58.42\00:36:00.77
I expect you to give her
an IV with a morphine drip
00:36:00.80\00:36:03.61
so that I can administer
the pain med for her."
00:36:03.64\00:36:06.37
And I said "And
I expect her to die
00:36:06.40\00:36:09.05
with as much dignity as possible
and if there's anything about
00:36:09.08\00:36:12.22
that you don't
agree with, you're fired."
00:36:12.25\00:36:14.33
And I said, "And
I'll find someone else."
00:36:14.36\00:36:15.95
Well, see how I
can fight pretty hard
00:36:15.98\00:36:19.41
when I'm
fighting for someone else.
00:36:19.44\00:36:21.48
I'm not good at
fighting for myself
00:36:21.51\00:36:22.88
but, boy, for someone I love.
And this was my grandmother.
00:36:22.91\00:36:25.83
My precious grandma,
to even think about her
00:36:25.86\00:36:27.94
leaving this
world screaming in pain
00:36:27.97\00:36:29.80
was more than I could bear.
00:36:29.83\00:36:32.53
And he said, "I agree with
everything you're suggesting."
00:36:32.56\00:36:36.39
And he said,
"And it will be done."
00:36:36.42\00:36:38.22
And he wrote down
on a piece of paper
00:36:38.25\00:36:39.74
and he handed it to me.
00:36:39.77\00:36:41.14
And he said "Here is my
personal cell phone number.
00:36:41.17\00:36:43.47
If you need
anything, you call me.
00:36:43.50\00:36:46.68
I have never given this
number out to any patient."
00:36:46.71\00:36:50.02
He said "Thank
you for reminding me
00:36:50.05\00:36:53.25
that part of my job
is to help someone die."
00:36:53.28\00:36:57.14
And he was truly moved.
00:36:57.17\00:36:59.95
And within 30
minutes, my grandmother
00:36:59.98\00:37:02.02
was moved across the
hall to a private room.
00:37:02.05\00:37:04.60
She had an IV drip going
there with a morphine pump.
00:37:04.63\00:37:08.23
I could press it
every 10 minutes.
00:37:08.26\00:37:10.28
Now if you press it
more often than that,
00:37:10.31\00:37:13.36
it wouldn't let you do it.
00:37:13.39\00:37:14.76
You have to wait
till the red light goes on
00:37:14.79\00:37:16.32
and says you can give it.
00:37:16.35\00:37:17.72
But if I don't press
it, she doesn't get it.
00:37:17.75\00:37:19.60
So I had to be there to press
that button every 10 minutes.
00:37:19.63\00:37:24.71
And so she was so excited--
00:37:24.74\00:37:29.50
grandma grew up
from the old school
00:37:29.53\00:37:30.90
that you don't talk to a
doctor like that, you know.
00:37:30.93\00:37:32.61
So she was kind of
proud of her granddaughter
00:37:32.64\00:37:34.27
standing up for her.
00:37:34.30\00:37:35.83
And I got it all
settled, I cleaned her,
00:37:35.86\00:37:37.58
I wiped her
mouth, moistened her,
00:37:37.61\00:37:39.53
her tongue was so
dry and her mouth,
00:37:39.56\00:37:41.28
I just moistened with a
wet wash cloth to help her
00:37:41.31\00:37:43.35
'cause she couldn't
even have an ice chip.
00:37:43.38\00:37:45.76
And already I could see her skin
was hot and burning with fever.
00:37:45.79\00:37:50.17
And I moved her
into the-- you know,
00:37:50.20\00:37:52.35
I put a light sheet
over her because of her fever
00:37:52.38\00:37:54.69
and I put a cold cloth
on her head and she said,
00:37:54.72\00:37:57.72
"Okay, hun, she said,
let's welcome in the Sabbath."
00:37:57.75\00:38:00.63
And I said, "All right."
So she said, "Let's sing."
00:38:00.66\00:38:04.31
And so we sang some songs
00:38:04.34\00:38:06.16
and then she said, "Let's
have some Bible scripture."
00:38:06.19\00:38:08.13
You see, my grandmother was
terrified of losing her mind.
00:38:08.16\00:38:10.71
So she'd heard that
if you memorize you will,
00:38:10.74\00:38:14.26
you know, help
strengthen your mind
00:38:14.29\00:38:15.66
and you have a less
chance of getting dementia.
00:38:15.69\00:38:17.91
So my grandmother memorized
whole Chapters in the Bible.
00:38:17.94\00:38:21.39
She knew Psalms
almost word for word.
00:38:21.42\00:38:24.23
And so, of course, that
was her favorite Chapter
00:38:24.26\00:38:26.12
and so even though I was reading
00:38:26.15\00:38:27.82
she would say it right along
with me, never missed a word.
00:38:27.85\00:38:31.11
And then when we got
all through, she said to me,
00:38:31.14\00:38:35.04
"Brenda," she said, "There's
something I need to ask you."
00:38:35.07\00:38:39.89
And I said "What, grandma?"
00:38:39.92\00:38:41.97
She said, "It is
so important to me
00:38:42.00\00:38:46.99
that when I leave
this world that everyone
00:38:47.02\00:38:51.21
that I've been witnessing
to that doesn't know Jesus,
00:38:51.24\00:38:54.32
I want them to know
beyond the shred of a doubt
00:38:54.35\00:38:56.84
that I have
nothing to be sad for
00:38:56.87\00:38:58.74
because I'd just be
sleeping in the ground
00:38:58.77\00:39:01.01
and the next voice out here
will be the voice of Jesus."
00:39:01.04\00:39:03.62
And she said
"And I want my life,
00:39:03.65\00:39:06.37
even my death to be a testimony
and a witness to them."
00:39:06.40\00:39:09.43
She said, "Will you promise me
that you won't cry when I die?"
00:39:09.46\00:39:14.40
"Oh, grandma."
00:39:14.43\00:39:16.69
And immediately, I turned around
00:39:16.72\00:39:18.09
'cause I could
already feel the tears
00:39:18.12\00:39:20.08
and I turned
around and grandma can see
00:39:20.11\00:39:21.58
my shoulders starting to shake.
00:39:21.61\00:39:23.42
And she said, "Will
you do me another thing,
00:39:23.45\00:39:25.06
hun, would you get me a waffle?"
00:39:25.09\00:39:26.46
And I turned
around and said, "Grandma,
00:39:26.49\00:39:27.95
I can't give you a waffle--
"and she goes "I got you."
00:39:27.98\00:39:30.26
She said, "You thought I
plum lost my mind, didn't you?"
00:39:30.29\00:39:32.66
And she said, "Honey,
always keep good humor in life."
00:39:32.69\00:39:36.40
She couldn't say--
always keep good humor in life.
00:39:36.43\00:39:41.62
I said, "Grandma,
I will promise you
00:39:41.65\00:39:43.02
that I will do
everything I can to try."
00:39:43.05\00:39:46.30
She said "Okay. Now I need
to ask you something else."
00:39:46.33\00:39:49.73
She said, "I want to
ask you to honor my wish."
00:39:49.76\00:39:55.62
She said, "My whole life
00:39:55.65\00:39:57.18
I have depended on Jesus
Christ as my personal savior.
00:39:57.21\00:40:00.53
He is my best friend."
00:40:00.56\00:40:02.21
And she said, "I've
lived my whole life for Him.
00:40:02.24\00:40:05.08
I want to end my life
like I had ended every prayer."
00:40:05.11\00:40:10.32
She said, "I want the way
00:40:10.35\00:40:11.76
I end my prayers
to be the last words
00:40:11.79\00:40:14.81
on my lips when I die."
00:40:14.84\00:40:17.63
You see, when
grandma prayed for anybody,
00:40:17.66\00:40:20.73
she never just said amen
at the end of her prayer.
00:40:20.76\00:40:24.74
She would say in
the name of the Father
00:40:24.77\00:40:26.64
and she'd lift both
hands towards heaven.
00:40:26.67\00:40:28.28
In the name of the Father,
00:40:28.31\00:40:29.68
the Son and the
Holy Ghost, amen.
00:40:29.71\00:40:33.07
I think that's
probably how her mother taught--
00:40:33.10\00:40:34.93
her grandmother
had taught her to pray.
00:40:34.96\00:40:36.85
And I never heard her
pray that she didn't do that.
00:40:36.88\00:40:40.00
And she said, "I want that
to be my last words on my lips.
00:40:40.03\00:40:43.56
I want my life to be my prayer,
00:40:43.59\00:40:46.02
my gift to Jesus
and end it as a prayer."
00:40:46.05\00:40:49.44
Wow. "What time is it?"
00:40:49.47\00:40:54.40
I said, "Well, grandma,
00:40:54.43\00:40:55.89
it's about 10
minutes from the last time."
00:40:55.92\00:40:57.29
She goes, "Well, I'm still here.
00:40:57.32\00:40:58.69
I guess, God has a reason."
00:40:58.72\00:41:00.09
She said, she
said, "maybe I'll just,
00:41:00.12\00:41:01.65
you know," she said, "Maybe
I'll just die in my sleep."
00:41:01.68\00:41:04.47
She said, you know,
we've talked enough,
00:41:04.50\00:41:07.86
we'd been reminiscing
all about the old days,
00:41:07.89\00:41:10.28
and all the summers that
we'd spent at grandma's house
00:41:10.31\00:41:12.61
and she laughed about
the fact that she said,
00:41:12.64\00:41:16.90
"My granddaughters are
on TV cooking every day"
00:41:16.93\00:41:19.36
and she said, "Boy, could I tell
the viewers a thing or two."
00:41:19.39\00:41:21.83
She said "I remember
00:41:21.86\00:41:23.23
when you girls
were cooking at my house
00:41:23.26\00:41:24.71
and you made me
raw fried spaghetti
00:41:24.74\00:41:27.35
and thought you were
really gourmet cooks."
00:41:27.38\00:41:29.96
And she said, "I don't
think I had a hard time
00:41:29.99\00:41:32.66
getting that out of my teeth."
00:41:32.69\00:41:35.44
And we laughed and we enjoyed
00:41:35.47\00:41:37.28
so many warm
memories and she said,
00:41:37.31\00:41:38.74
"Enough, it's time for
me to fall asleep in Jesus."
00:41:38.77\00:41:43.06
She said, "Take my
hand, come here, sweetie,"
00:41:43.09\00:41:48.04
and I came and I-- she said,
00:41:48.07\00:41:49.70
"Come tell grandma, goodbye."
00:41:49.73\00:41:51.51
She said, "We're gonna meet
in the resurrection morning."
00:41:51.54\00:41:55.22
She said "Come,
give me a hug, sweetie."
00:41:55.25\00:41:57.69
And I leaned over
and I tried to memorize
00:41:57.72\00:41:59.92
the warmth of her hug,
the softness of her hands
00:41:59.95\00:42:03.46
as she stroked
my arms and held me.
00:42:03.49\00:42:07.15
She kissed me.
00:42:07.18\00:42:08.83
She brought my face up to
hers and kissed both cheeks.
00:42:08.86\00:42:12.76
And she said, "Honey, I
love you with all my heart."
00:42:12.79\00:42:15.37
She said, "Don't cry for me."
00:42:15.40\00:42:17.20
She said, we have eternity.
00:42:17.23\00:42:21.10
"Okay, no more talking."
00:42:21.13\00:42:22.90
I said, "Okay, grandma."
00:42:22.93\00:42:24.44
"No more talking." I
said, "Okay, grandma."
00:42:24.47\00:42:28.50
"Goodbye now."
"Goodbye, grandma."
00:42:28.53\00:42:32.46
She closed her eyes.
00:42:32.49\00:42:34.45
She raised both hands to heaven,
00:42:34.48\00:42:36.05
in the name of the Father,
00:42:36.08\00:42:37.45
the Son and the
Holy Ghost, amen.
00:42:37.48\00:42:43.37
And then she was quiet.
00:42:43.40\00:42:44.77
"Am I still here?"
00:42:48.28\00:42:52.03
I said, "Yes,
grandma, you're still here."
00:42:52.06\00:42:54.55
She said, "Well, we
got to come up with a plan
00:42:54.58\00:42:56.22
and I just thought of some."
00:42:56.25\00:42:59.47
She said, she said,
"I got to thinking,"
00:42:59.50\00:43:03.49
she said, "Now, when I die,"
00:43:03.52\00:43:06.51
she said, "you need to
check me over real good.
00:43:06.54\00:43:08.31
Now you're a nurse.
00:43:08.34\00:43:09.71
You've been with
people when they die."
00:43:09.74\00:43:11.11
She said, "check
me over real good,
00:43:11.14\00:43:12.51
and make sure I'm good and gone
00:43:12.54\00:43:13.91
and then you go get the
nurse to call the funeral man.
00:43:13.94\00:43:16.62
But would you
mind staying with me
00:43:16.65\00:43:18.36
till the funeral man comes
'cause, hun," she said, why--
00:43:18.39\00:43:21.09
can you imagine some
poor soul might wandering here
00:43:21.12\00:43:23.96
seeing some dead lady in the bed
00:43:23.99\00:43:25.45
and have a heart
attack on the floor,
00:43:25.48\00:43:26.85
well, I could
not live with that."
00:43:26.88\00:43:28.73
She said, she said,
"Would you just stay with me
00:43:28.76\00:43:30.90
till the funeral man comes?"
00:43:30.93\00:43:32.30
I said, "Oh, grandma, yes,
00:43:32.33\00:43:33.70
I'll stay till
the funeral man comes,
00:43:33.73\00:43:35.10
I'm not gonna leave you."
00:43:35.13\00:43:36.50
"Okay," she said. And
she said, "Another thing."
00:43:36.53\00:43:39.23
She said, "Maybe
we should hold hands."
00:43:39.26\00:43:42.71
And she said, "Every now
and then I'll squeeze your hand,
00:43:42.74\00:43:44.77
and she said if
I stop squeezing,
00:43:44.80\00:43:46.17
then you come check me real good
00:43:46.20\00:43:47.57
but make sure I'm good and gone.
00:43:47.60\00:43:48.97
Don't call them early.
00:43:49.00\00:43:50.37
I said, "Okay,
grandma, I'll do it."
00:43:50.40\00:43:51.77
So in the name of the Father,
00:43:51.80\00:43:53.17
the Son and the
Holy Ghost, amen.
00:43:53.20\00:43:55.20
She put her hands down,
then she reached for mine
00:43:55.23\00:43:56.91
and keeps her eyes closed,
doesn't say another word.
00:43:56.94\00:43:59.34
And every few
minutes, she'd squeeze
00:43:59.37\00:44:00.74
my hand until she
drifted off to sleep.
00:44:00.77\00:44:03.34
Every 10 minutes,
I pushed that button
00:44:03.37\00:44:06.49
to give her, her morphine.
00:44:06.52\00:44:08.84
I stayed awake all night long.
00:44:08.87\00:44:10.61
I didn't miss one time.
I had to keep myself awake.
00:44:10.64\00:44:13.83
I would jog, I would
exercise, I'd slap my face,
00:44:13.86\00:44:16.69
I'd flush water on my face.
00:44:16.72\00:44:18.53
I did everything I
could do stay awake
00:44:18.56\00:44:20.47
because I knew that if I didn't
push that button right then,
00:44:20.50\00:44:23.31
grandma wouldn't
get that medicine.
00:44:23.34\00:44:26.00
And I started
praying and that whole night
00:44:26.03\00:44:28.12
I pleaded with
my Heavenly Father,
00:44:28.15\00:44:29.67
"Lord, please don't let
my grandma die in agony.
00:44:29.70\00:44:32.59
Lord, please, You know
how much she loves You.
00:44:32.62\00:44:35.31
Please don't let her leave
this world screaming, Lord.
00:44:35.34\00:44:38.28
Let her go praising You.
00:44:38.31\00:44:39.68
Let her end her
life to You as a prayer,
00:44:39.71\00:44:41.45
Lord, as she desires.
00:44:41.48\00:44:42.87
Lord, I plead with You.
00:44:42.90\00:44:44.75
Lord, I know You love
grandma even more than I do.
00:44:44.78\00:44:48.15
You know the prayer walk
00:44:48.18\00:44:50.31
she has had and the
witness she has had to so many,
00:44:50.34\00:44:52.37
Lord, please,
please answer my prayer."
00:44:52.40\00:44:55.24
I prayed all night long.
00:44:55.27\00:44:57.14
The next day I had called
my mom and dad and told them
00:44:57.17\00:44:59.36
they needed to come quickly.
00:44:59.39\00:45:00.76
And they drove
down from Michigan.
00:45:00.79\00:45:02.16
And my dad and mom got
there the next morning.
00:45:02.19\00:45:03.94
And when--
before they got there,
00:45:03.97\00:45:06.78
the sun had coming up.
00:45:06.81\00:45:08.18
I had a chair right there by
grandma's and all of a sudden,
00:45:08.21\00:45:10.84
grandma, opened her eyes,
just, "Hun, am I still here?"
00:45:10.87\00:45:14.95
I said, I said, "Yes,
grandma, you're still here."
00:45:14.98\00:45:17.46
She goes, "Well, I guess
00:45:17.49\00:45:18.86
the good Lord
has a better plan."
00:45:18.89\00:45:20.31
She said let's start
praise the Lord and Sabbath.
00:45:20.34\00:45:22.83
And about that time,
mom and dad walked in
00:45:22.86\00:45:24.53
and she had my dad preach.
00:45:24.56\00:45:26.17
She'd tell mom and I
to sing special music
00:45:26.20\00:45:28.39
and we would sing
congregation music,
00:45:28.42\00:45:31.97
the three of us,
and all of a sudden,
00:45:32.00\00:45:33.63
there was a knock on the door
00:45:33.66\00:45:35.03
and nurse came in and she said,
00:45:35.06\00:45:36.43
"Excuse me," she said,
00:45:36.46\00:45:37.83
"There's a man across the
hall that is dying of cancer.
00:45:37.86\00:45:39.66
He's been here 6 weeks.
00:45:39.69\00:45:41.06
There hasn't been any visitors
00:45:41.09\00:45:42.86
and he has fallen
out of bed three times
00:45:42.89\00:45:44.85
crawling to the door
to listen to you singing."
00:45:44.88\00:45:46.88
She said, "Would you mind
00:45:46.91\00:45:48.28
if I just crack the
door open a little bit."
00:45:48.31\00:45:49.76
She said, "Why, no," she said,
00:45:49.79\00:45:52.22
"Put that door wide open.
Honey, sing little louder."
00:45:52.25\00:45:56.74
She even said my dad
over to minister and pray.
00:45:56.77\00:46:00.76
And that evening, all
day long we praised Jesus.
00:46:00.79\00:46:03.85
That evening, I sent mom and--
00:46:03.88\00:46:05.98
that evening, my
cousins came to see.
00:46:06.01\00:46:08.72
And my cousin Nancy
brought a single white rose.
00:46:08.75\00:46:11.99
Roses were
grandma's favorite flower.
00:46:12.02\00:46:14.02
And it was a
fresh beautiful rose.
00:46:14.05\00:46:15.97
It hadn't really
fully opened yet.
00:46:16.00\00:46:17.37
And I set it
there she could see it.
00:46:17.40\00:46:19.47
And when she left, she
said to my cousin Nancy,
00:46:19.50\00:46:23.01
she said, "Hun, please
give your heart to Jesus.
00:46:23.04\00:46:25.59
Grandma loves you so much.
00:46:25.62\00:46:27.30
But if you don't
give your heart to Jesus,
00:46:27.33\00:46:28.70
you better come
give me another hug
00:46:28.73\00:46:30.10
'cause I won't see you again."
00:46:30.13\00:46:32.88
And Nancy was so, you
know, torn up by that.
00:46:32.91\00:46:35.33
She gave her a hug
00:46:35.36\00:46:36.73
and she wouldn't
commit and she said,
00:46:36.76\00:46:39.58
"Please, hun, please give your
heart to Jesus" and Nancy left.
00:46:39.61\00:46:43.99
That night after mom and dad,
00:46:44.02\00:46:45.39
I had them go stay in
our apartment at 3ABN.
00:46:45.42\00:46:47.77
I promised I
wouldn't leave grandma
00:46:47.80\00:46:49.48
and even though my mom tried
to urge me to take my place,
00:46:49.51\00:46:51.81
I said, "No, I'm
gonna be here till the end."
00:46:51.84\00:46:54.71
And all night long,
before mom and dad left,
00:46:54.74\00:46:59.78
we prayed and
then after they left,
00:46:59.81\00:47:01.34
we talked a little
more and grandma said,
00:47:01.37\00:47:03.58
"That's enough, sweetie.
She said, "It's time to go.
00:47:03.61\00:47:06.71
I'll see you in the
resurrection morning.
00:47:06.74\00:47:08.21
Let's pray."
00:47:08.24\00:47:09.61
And so she put
both hands to heaven,
00:47:09.64\00:47:11.30
in the name of the Father,
00:47:11.33\00:47:12.70
the Son, and the
Holy Ghost, amen.
00:47:12.73\00:47:16.18
She put her hands down.
00:47:16.21\00:47:18.05
She reached
over and grabbed mine
00:47:18.08\00:47:19.88
and every few
minutes she squeezed my hand
00:47:19.91\00:47:21.93
until she drifted off to sleep.
00:47:21.96\00:47:26.20
The next morning, she
was in a very deep coma
00:47:26.23\00:47:30.58
I'm sure from the build
up of all the medication
00:47:30.61\00:47:32.45
because I stayed
awake again all night long.
00:47:32.48\00:47:34.53
I never missed one time
of giving her that dose.
00:47:34.56\00:47:36.85
By this time the doctor had
increased it to every 7 minutes.
00:47:36.88\00:47:40.38
And I prayed and
I used that time,
00:47:40.41\00:47:44.46
my awake time, to go
before the throne room of God
00:47:44.49\00:47:47.74
pleading for my grandmother
00:47:47.77\00:47:49.34
that she wouldn't not suffer.
00:47:49.37\00:47:51.70
Mom and dad came mid-morning
00:47:51.73\00:47:53.38
and we sat around the bed,
00:47:53.41\00:47:55.58
we reminisced about grandma,
00:47:55.61\00:47:57.11
we prayed, we
claimed Bible promises.
00:47:57.14\00:47:59.03
We went next door and
visited the man across the hall.
00:47:59.06\00:48:01.24
We knew grandma
would want us to.
00:48:01.27\00:48:02.64
Mom and I went and sang for her.
00:48:02.67\00:48:05.74
And that evening
when mom and dad left
00:48:05.77\00:48:09.08
to go back to my
apartment to go to sleep,
00:48:09.11\00:48:15.46
they left around 10 o'clock
00:48:15.49\00:48:17.83
and I sat there and I looked
at grandma sleeping peacefully,
00:48:17.86\00:48:22.00
her hand still folded, just,
00:48:22.03\00:48:26.64
and I kept pushing the
button for her morphine.
00:48:26.67\00:48:30.79
And about 11 o'clock at night,
00:48:30.82\00:48:37.97
I saw a movement out
of the corner of my eye
00:48:38.00\00:48:39.73
and I turned quickly to
see and near that white rose,
00:48:39.76\00:48:43.70
the head of it went
pluck just like that.
00:48:43.73\00:48:46.70
And I turned, like,
instantly to my grandmother
00:48:46.73\00:48:49.96
and right there, I watched
her she took her last breath.
00:48:49.99\00:48:54.59
I went over in the bed
and I laid down on her chest.
00:48:54.62\00:48:58.97
I wanted to memorize that
warmth before it left her.
00:48:59.00\00:49:02.65
I held her hand, I
kissed it, I kissed her cheeks.
00:49:02.68\00:49:07.09
I thanked and praised
God for answering my prayer
00:49:07.12\00:49:09.50
because, you see,
00:49:09.53\00:49:10.99
He allowed my grandma to
die just the way she wanted to.
00:49:11.02\00:49:15.11
And although she should've
been screaming in pain,
00:49:15.14\00:49:17.25
even with that
level of morphine,
00:49:17.28\00:49:18.72
she should've died because
by now her belly was so tight,
00:49:18.75\00:49:21.61
you could almost see
the fluid under the skin.
00:49:21.64\00:49:24.43
There is no way that
she should've not have been
00:49:24.46\00:49:26.42
just screaming in agony
but our God is powerful.
00:49:26.45\00:49:30.43
Anything that doctors
would say it was not possible,
00:49:30.46\00:49:32.70
but with God all
things are possible.
00:49:32.73\00:49:34.46
And He honored that prayer.
00:49:34.49\00:49:37.00
He honored my
prayer for my grandmother
00:49:37.03\00:49:38.84
because I loved
her with all my heart.
00:49:38.87\00:49:41.35
Because He loved her.
00:49:41.38\00:49:43.15
He honored that prayer
00:49:43.18\00:49:44.55
because I was
passionately praying for her.
00:49:44.58\00:49:46.90
I thanked and
praised God for her life.
00:49:51.10\00:49:54.75
I praised for all--
praised God for all the things
00:49:54.78\00:49:57.40
that she'd taught me for
having a godly grandmother.
00:49:57.43\00:50:01.64
But the most important lesson
00:50:01.67\00:50:03.12
she had ever
taught me was how to die.
00:50:03.15\00:50:07.24
At 11:15, I went
down and I told the nurse
00:50:07.27\00:50:09.59
and she came back
and pronounced her dead.
00:50:09.62\00:50:12.97
I don't think grandma
would have ever asked me
00:50:13.00\00:50:15.60
to stay until
the funeral man comes
00:50:15.63\00:50:19.60
if she knew how
long it was gonna take.
00:50:19.63\00:50:22.95
Because he didn't
come, he didn't come,
00:50:22.98\00:50:27.16
he didn't come
for several hours.
00:50:27.19\00:50:30.33
And it's so hard to
watch someone you love die.
00:50:30.36\00:50:32.63
But can you
imagine watching them
00:50:32.66\00:50:34.11
grow cold and
blue in front of you?
00:50:34.14\00:50:40.83
And I used that
time to talk to Jesus.
00:50:40.86\00:50:43.30
I don't know what I would do
00:50:43.33\00:50:45.57
without Jesus as my best friend.
00:50:45.60\00:50:47.35
I don't know what
people in the world do
00:50:47.38\00:50:48.84
that don't know Jesus.
00:50:48.87\00:50:50.45
He is my rock.
He is my strength.
00:50:50.48\00:50:54.30
He's your rock.
He's your strength.
00:50:54.33\00:50:58.01
By the time the
funeral man came,
00:50:58.04\00:51:04.99
grandma was
completely cold and stiff.
00:51:05.02\00:51:08.50
I helped prepare her
body, as a registered nurse,
00:51:08.53\00:51:10.91
I had done this many
times in the hospital.
00:51:10.94\00:51:14.72
And it's so
different when you're doing it
00:51:14.75\00:51:16.12
for somebody you love.
00:51:16.15\00:51:18.73
But I helped him
put her in this bag.
00:51:18.76\00:51:24.19
I tied the tag on her toe.
00:51:24.22\00:51:27.79
I helped wrap her mouth shut
00:51:27.82\00:51:30.74
so that it wouldn't be down.
00:51:30.77\00:51:36.05
And before we zipped
up the bag, I asked him,
00:51:36.08\00:51:39.76
I said "Would you mind
if I had her name tag?"
00:51:39.79\00:51:43.53
And he said, "Oh, no, we
just throw that away anyway."
00:51:43.56\00:51:45.46
He handed me a pair of scissors.
00:51:45.49\00:51:46.86
I cut it off her arm.
Then I laid it on the table.
00:51:46.89\00:51:51.95
I kissed her on
those cold cheeks.
00:51:51.98\00:51:55.91
Told the Lord again,
thank you for her life
00:51:55.94\00:51:59.08
and I zipped that
bag up over her head
00:51:59.11\00:52:02.83
and he wheeled her out.
00:52:02.86\00:52:06.16
Before I followed, I stopped
00:52:06.19\00:52:08.05
for a minute
for one more prayer.
00:52:08.08\00:52:11.18
I picked up her name tag
00:52:11.21\00:52:12.65
on that counter
in the bedside table
00:52:12.68\00:52:15.39
and I walked over and
picked up that white rose.
00:52:15.42\00:52:21.61
I took it out of the glass vase
and just the rose I held it.
00:52:21.64\00:52:26.63
And I turned out the
light and walked home.
00:52:26.66\00:52:31.95
I got to my 3ABN
apartment, knocked on the door.
00:52:31.98\00:52:35.96
I had kept my promise so far.
00:52:35.99\00:52:37.37
I had not shred a tear.
00:52:37.40\00:52:39.17
Mom new about the promise,
00:52:39.20\00:52:40.57
so she was trying to help me
and as soon as the door opened,
00:52:40.60\00:52:45.69
I looked at her and I
could only manage this
00:52:45.72\00:52:47.82
'cause I didn't want to
cry and I just said it's over.
00:52:47.85\00:52:50.84
She held me and took me in.
00:52:50.87\00:52:55.30
My sisters and I sang
for grandma's funeral.
00:52:55.33\00:52:57.87
We managed to keep up
the joy. We managed to smile.
00:52:57.90\00:53:00.69
We managed to even hug everybody
00:53:00.72\00:53:02.30
and share with them
that Jesus was coming soon
00:53:02.33\00:53:05.48
and that when
grandma, right now,
00:53:05.51\00:53:09.26
was just in the
grave sleeping but soon,
00:53:09.29\00:53:11.24
she would hear
the voice of Jesus.
00:53:11.27\00:53:13.47
And that when Jesus came again,
00:53:13.50\00:53:16.55
I wanted to see my
Savior first of all
00:53:16.58\00:53:19.70
but then I wanted
to see my grandma.
00:53:19.73\00:53:22.92
Do you see our Heavenly
Father loves us so much?
00:53:22.95\00:53:27.23
He answers our prayers.
00:53:27.26\00:53:28.80
We think why do we have to pray,
00:53:28.83\00:53:30.35
God knows our thoughts?
Why do we have to pray?
00:53:30.38\00:53:32.31
And, yes, He knows our thoughts
00:53:32.34\00:53:33.74
but He responds to our prayers.
00:53:33.77\00:53:39.84
We need to be passionately
praying for each other.
00:53:39.87\00:53:42.92
We need to be passionately
soul winning for Jesus.
00:53:42.95\00:53:47.18
When you think
there's nothing in your life
00:53:47.21\00:53:49.14
that you can't do, there is,
God has a plan for your life.
00:53:49.17\00:53:54.06
Ask Him what it is.
00:53:54.09\00:53:56.20
Surrender whatever
it is that you think
00:53:56.23\00:53:58.10
He wants you to do and put
all the "I" stuff behind you,
00:53:58.13\00:54:03.92
"I want this, I
want that, I'll do this,"
00:54:03.95\00:54:06.17
and say, "Lord, what
do You want me to do?
00:54:06.20\00:54:09.38
I want my life to
be a witness to you.
00:54:09.41\00:54:11.62
Lord, I want to
live so closely to You,
00:54:11.65\00:54:14.20
Lord, that You are
guiding my every step.
00:54:14.23\00:54:17.86
Lord, I want to be
totally and wholly Yours."
00:54:17.89\00:54:22.31
And to do that you must
fully surrender to Jesus.
00:54:22.34\00:54:30.07
My grandma had been in so
much pain most of her life.
00:54:30.10\00:54:33.97
Pain either
because of heartache,
00:54:34.00\00:54:36.70
having to watch her children,
two babies die, having to live,
00:54:36.73\00:54:40.60
you know, in
that depression area
00:54:40.63\00:54:42.45
where they had
lost all their house.
00:54:42.48\00:54:44.65
They had one more house payment
to pay during the depression
00:54:44.68\00:54:47.61
and the banks closed and
my grandpa tried to give them
00:54:47.64\00:54:49.87
that last money and they
wouldn't take the payment.
00:54:49.90\00:54:51.57
They wanted his
house. Lost everything.
00:54:51.60\00:54:55.46
When you think God
doesn't care about you
00:54:55.49\00:54:57.18
just because things
happen to you, you're wrong.
00:54:57.21\00:54:59.82
Our God cares about you.
00:54:59.85\00:55:02.69
Whatever trial,
whatever you're facing,
00:55:02.72\00:55:04.77
whatever
heartache, He's there for you.
00:55:04.80\00:55:07.53
He's gonna help you through it.
00:55:07.56\00:55:08.96
You can be content in all things
when you're walking with Jesus.
00:55:08.99\00:55:15.00
Do you understand what
I'm really trying to say here
00:55:15.03\00:55:17.74
that if you have that
love relationship with Jesus,
00:55:17.77\00:55:20.22
you can put your full
trust and your faith in Him
00:55:20.25\00:55:23.88
and He is with you
through every storm?
00:55:23.91\00:55:27.00
Anytime that you're
going through a hard time
00:55:27.03\00:55:29.21
and you think God isn't there,
00:55:29.24\00:55:30.61
He's closer to
you ever than before.
00:55:30.64\00:55:32.59
It is through our trials that
He's perfecting our characters
00:55:32.62\00:55:35.21
and preparing us for Heaven.
00:55:35.24\00:55:37.60
More than anything, God wants
us to be in Heaven with Him.
00:55:37.63\00:55:42.26
Like my grandmother said,
00:55:42.29\00:55:44.06
"He can't imagine
Heaven without us."
00:55:44.09\00:55:47.70
I hope today that
we make that commitment
00:55:47.73\00:55:51.69
to fully serve
Jesus with all our hearts,
00:55:51.72\00:55:54.39
that we live our lives
so fully dedicated to God,
00:55:54.42\00:55:59.29
that when it is our
time to leave this world,
00:55:59.32\00:56:03.24
we can leave with
peace and joy, real joy.
00:56:03.27\00:56:08.53
Can you imagine somebody
getting excited and say,
00:56:08.56\00:56:10.71
"I'm gonna die."
00:56:10.74\00:56:14.16
And truly mean it, truly mean it
00:56:14.19\00:56:17.84
because she knew that
she had the blessed hope.
00:56:17.87\00:56:23.17
She knew Jesus as
her personal savior
00:56:23.20\00:56:25.21
and she knew it
wasn't gonna be forever.
00:56:25.24\00:56:27.83
She was just gonna go.
00:56:27.86\00:56:29.23
She said, "Hun, just think,
00:56:29.26\00:56:30.63
I'm not gonna
have any pain anymore."
00:56:30.66\00:56:32.03
She said, "I'm not
gonna have any heartache."
00:56:32.06\00:56:33.53
She said, "I can
walk. I'll be able to run.
00:56:33.56\00:56:35.28
I'm gonna be racing you
down those streets of gold."
00:56:35.31\00:56:37.68
Oh, we love to
talk about all the ways
00:56:37.71\00:56:39.84
we were gonna have fun in Heaven
00:56:39.87\00:56:41.82
and all the hours
we'd spent at Jesus feet.
00:56:41.85\00:56:45.13
And that even
though, there was gonna be
00:56:45.16\00:56:46.53
so many people
trying to get close to Jesus
00:56:46.56\00:56:48.50
that there was
gonna be eternity for us
00:56:48.53\00:56:50.47
to have time with Him.
00:56:50.50\00:56:52.46
And all the fun we were
gonna have to go through
00:56:52.49\00:56:54.62
all the planets, and, you know,
00:56:54.65\00:56:56.92
how we were gonna have houses
right next door each other,
00:56:56.95\00:56:59.32
we weren't gonna
be apart anymore.
00:56:59.35\00:57:03.09
Do you know, I want that
same relationship with Jesus?
00:57:03.12\00:57:06.41
My grandmother taught me
so much about really truly
00:57:06.44\00:57:10.76
surrendering your
will to God's will.
00:57:10.79\00:57:15.75
I want to ask you
today to search your hearts,
00:57:15.78\00:57:19.51
search your souls,
am I living my life
00:57:19.54\00:57:22.60
the way God wants me to live it?
00:57:22.63\00:57:24.86
Am I choosing to dedicate
my heart and life to Jesus?
00:57:24.89\00:57:30.14
Ask yourself
that, search your soul
00:57:30.17\00:57:32.88
and then recommit
your life to Jesus.
00:57:32.91\00:57:35.51
Let us pray.
00:57:35.54\00:57:37.18
Precious Heavenly Father, Lord,
00:57:37.21\00:57:39.86
I thank you so much for
being such an awesome God.
00:57:39.89\00:57:43.88
I thank you again, Lord,
00:57:43.91\00:57:45.28
for the blessing of
my grandmother's life
00:57:45.31\00:57:48.63
and all the people that
she touched here on earth.
00:57:48.66\00:57:51.67
Lord, I ask you today
to come into the hearts
00:57:51.70\00:57:55.42
and lives of everyone here
and that's listening today.
00:57:55.45\00:57:59.26
And may You be
closer to them ever,
00:57:59.29\00:58:02.00
may they know how
much You love them.
00:58:02.03\00:58:03.93
In the name of the Father,
00:58:03.96\00:58:05.55
the Son, and the
Holy Ghost, amen.
00:58:05.58\00:58:08.51