I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome to
another 3ABN Today program.
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I'm Jill
Morikone, and we are so glad
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that you have taken
time out of your day
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to sit down and enjoy
an incredible program.
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The reason I say that,
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number one, is
we've already prayed,
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and we know that the
anointing of the Holy Spirit
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is going to be on this program.
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But number two,
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we have an
incredible guest for you today.
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Many times on
our Today programs,
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we like to feature ministries
and testimonies of people,
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and today it's a
very special testimony,
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an incredibly gifted woman
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who I just had the opportunity
to meet a couple days ago.
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She was here at
our church on Sabbath
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and did special music.
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And God has given her an ability
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to communicate not
just with a spoken word
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but through music.
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She's an
accomplished concert pianist,
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she's a harpist, she's a singer,
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and she plays a
multitude of instruments.
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And you are going to
get to hear her today
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for the first time on 3ABN.
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She came in and
did quite a few songs,
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we want to feature them
and feature her testimony.
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So right now, I
want to introduce to you
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Martha Jhoana De
Luna, did I get that right?
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Yes. Completely correct.
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Welcome, it is such a privilege
to have you here, Martha.
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Thank you.
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It's my pleasure
and honor to be here,
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it's a dream coming true...
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Amen. To be here in 3ABN.
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Thank you so much. Amen.
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We're so excited
to have you here.
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So tell us, just a little bit,
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about we want to go
back to her background,
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and where she comes from
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before we play the
first song for you.
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So tell us, where
you're from originally
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and a little bit
about your family?
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Yes, I'm from
Dominican Republic,
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the Caribbean Island.
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And I'm coming from
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a Seventh-day
Adventist family background,
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Christian family
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where my mom, my dad, and
my brothers are musicians.
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And it was a very
beautiful environment
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where I grow up.
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So this is them here? Yeah.
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Okay. That's my dad...
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Is that your
brother on the left?
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My brother Johan
at the left. Okay.
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And me, and my brother Randy.
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Okay. My mother Martha like...
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Oh, you know,
her namesake, okay.
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Yes. And my dad Victor.
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Okay.
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And so they're all musical then.
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They're all musical.
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My parents, they met
at the choir at church,
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so they started dating
when they were at the church,
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at the choir singing,
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and we all grow up
being at the choir.
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And walking around and being
at the rehearsals all the time
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and watching the
conductor conducting the choir.
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So it was a
beautiful experience,
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so we started
ministry as a family later on.
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Wow. So from the age of...
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How old do you think you
were when you first started...
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Your parents started the choir,
and you were involved in that?
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Well, I was not even born.
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Oh, wow.
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And so...
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When I was born...
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Before I was born, the
choir, they had told my mother
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and he said to her,
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"You know, this is the girl."
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They didn't know it
was going to be a girl.
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Now, my mom
wanted so bad a girl.
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So he said, "That's the girl,
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she's going to be
the soprano like you,
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and she is going to be
the pianist of the choir."
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Oh, that's correct.
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Yes, and that was right.
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So when I was born, and
I was a year and a half,
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my father start
teaching me songs
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and playing the guitar,
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and then he
discovered that I could change
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the keys with
him, he was changing...
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Like a transpose.
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Yeah, transposing with him,
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he was testing my ear
and he was blown away.
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He said, "This girl
has something amazing."
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So I started singing
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when I was two years
and a half at church.
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Oh, wow.
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And later on my
brothers, you know,
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they were introduced to
music first than me too.
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And we started
like a family group,
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and we have a trio tour.
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I can see this is you with
the harp and your brothers...
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Is that clarinet and flute?
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Yes, clarinet and flute.
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So they really
like those instruments.
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And we started playing
the recorder, all of us
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and later on they
moved to those instruments,
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and I stayed with piano.
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So are they older than
you, your brothers or younger?
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Yes, I am the youngest.
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Okay.
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So you started
at three and a half,
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you started singing in church,
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when did you
start playing the piano?
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When I was eight years old.
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Okay, not until you're eight.
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Yes. Okay.
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So you did other
instruments before that
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or it was just
voice at the beginning?
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At the beginning just voice,
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and then I was
introduced to theory,
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music theory and
solfege and when I was seven,
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and I was
introduced to the recorder,
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to play the recorder.
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Okay. So you all...
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If you're familiar with 3ABN,
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you know, I play the
piano just a little bit.
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And I actually
have a harp at home
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that I use just a little bit,
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but I don't
play it too much now.
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But to me, it's
a tremendous gift
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to be that young and to
be able to start singing,
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to be able to start
transposing you said.
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Your dad would transpose keys,
and you would transpose too.
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I mean, that's
an incredible gift.
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Yes.
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So they later on
discovered at the school
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when I went to study
music that I was perfect pitch.
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And it was...
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They used to do like a
dictation and listening,
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and I could hear
exactly the notes,
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and I just write down the notes.
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And then, I found myself,
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"Oh, why not
everybody does the same thing?"
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But then later on they said,
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"No, you have perfect pitch."
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So my dad discovered first,
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but he didn't know what it was,
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he just said, "You
know, she has an amazing ear."
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Wow. Okay, that is amazing.
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I mean, that's
just an incredible gift.
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Do you do more
notes as in reading music
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or you do play more by ear?
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Both. Okay.
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I was train in both.
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So I started
piano when I was eight,
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but I didn't have
piano for seven years.
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So I used to go to
different churches to play,
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to practice twice a
week, and I love that.
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But I could
memorize and listening
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the notes in my head naturally.
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So let me understand this,
you were taking piano lessons,
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and you had no
piano at home. No.
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And so you would go to a
church and try to practice?
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Yes. And practice at home.
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Actually at the
table, kitchen table.
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Did you draw the
notes like on the...
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My brother did.
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My brother prepared
like he was good in painting.
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And he draw the keys
and so I was playing at home
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and imagining
the sound in my head.
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Yes.
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Yeah, it was an
incredible experience.
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I wanted to play piano so much.
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Wow.
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So this was something
that was like a natural love,
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something that was
inborn in your heart,
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you just passion about.
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Yes, my parents never
sent me to practice, never.
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I mean, that's just precious.
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I think of you as a
little girl at the piano
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and here's the notes drawn.
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Yeah.
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And you're just
sitting there going,
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and could you hear the
melody in your head though
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if you have perfect pitch.
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Yes. I could. Wow.
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Not just one melody,
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but I could hear all
of it in combination.
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And I remember
when I used to go to
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orchestra concerts
and things like that.
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I could hear
every instrument well,
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and I could know
which key they were
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and all of that and
what the clarinet was doing
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and what the flute was doing.
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My mind could follow
then so easy, and I was just,
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"Why I can hear all of these?"
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That it was a
very unique experience.
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Wow.
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I mean, that's really
to be honest with you,
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Martha, that's...
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I mean, we know
that's a gift from God
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but that's what we
will call a child prodigy.
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You know, just
to have that ability
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and to be able to hear that
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because I hear an
orchestra concert,
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and I enjoy it immensely,
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but I would not be
able to identifying
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how they're doing this note
and this was going on there.
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So you practiced...
When did you get a piano?
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When I was 15 years old.
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So seven years you
practiced on a piano on...
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Drawn piano and eventually...
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A drawn piano and
then you could go to...
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A church or the school.
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Wow, wow. Yes.
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So you started
entering in competitions.
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Yes. So tell us about that?
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When I was 15, and
I didn't have a piano.
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I had a competition,
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and I couldn't
practice for a week,
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and I couldn't find a piano.
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So my mom taught me
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how to pray and
depending on God.
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And we just said,
"Okay, we're going to pray,
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I memorize all the music,
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and I'm going to the competition
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without touching the piano."
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I didn't have the
chance to touch the piano,
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I went, and I
won the first place.
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You're kidding.
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Yes, I could feel how
God was moving my fingers.
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And everybody
was, not everybody,
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but most of the people,
audience, they were crying
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because they were
touched by my music.
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And I had another
competition when I was 12
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that really touched my heart.
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And it was my first competition,
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piano competition,
but it was on Sabbath
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and what
happened there was that...
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It was a national competition
from the whole country
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and the judges
were international.
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So, but the academy,
the school that I went,
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they wanted to go to
the competition so bad.
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And they support us so much,
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but we said no
because of the Sabbath.
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So they were trying and trying
and my teacher, piano teacher,
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he got the idea
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to talk to one of
the judges about it
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to see if they could wait
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until sunset for us to play.
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It was the whole day competition
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and so he tried that
out, and it came out well.
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So the judge,
he said, "You know,
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there is a Seventh-day Adventist
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at the orchestra in Venezuela
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that we give him the Sabbath.
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So we are going
to wait for them."
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So they waited for us... So
they held the competition...
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After the sunset and we...
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I said we because
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one of my best friends
from Dominican Republic,
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she was another pianist,
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and she was a
Seventh-day Adventist,
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and she was with
me at the competition.
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So we went to the
competition, we played
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and we got the
first places right there.
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You and your friend? Yes.
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Wow.
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They held the whole competition,
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here you participated
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after the sun went
down Sabbath night.
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And you got first place
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and all of this is
without a piano at home.
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Yes, without a piano.
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All of this is
practicing on that.
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That's just
incredible, you know, wow.
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To me that's dedication, Martha,
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to me that's a
passion for your instrument
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even if you're not
physically being able to play,
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but you're doing it
and you're still practicing
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and it's trust in God.
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Amen.
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I've seen the miracle of
what God did in your life.
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Yes.
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And I know you
played several songs for us
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and right now
what we want to do is,
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we want to go to
one of those songs.
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We want to let you hear Martha.
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And this is the girl who grew up
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without that piano at home
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and this is what God
is doing in her life.
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So let's listen to that
now, The Old Rugged Cross.
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Amen.
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What a beautiful
song, The Old Rugged Cross.
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And what an
incredible job, Martha.
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To think where
God brought you from,
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you know, playing there
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and then to see the arrangements
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that He's led you to create.
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So how do you come up
with your arrangements?
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When I was 10 years old, I
used to accompany the church
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and with the
hymns and the choir.
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And this idea came to my
brain to do something different,
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more elaborated,
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and I started just
adding things to the hymns.
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And I could listen the whole,
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actually, piece
made differently.
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So I started developing,
you know, those arrangement,
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and I put
myself of a goal to do,
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how much I could do, how many...
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And sometimes I could go back
and elaborate more so I think,
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but sometimes I
just sit at the piano
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and it just came naturally out.
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Wow.
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So your
arrangements were all made
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when you were
able to go to a piano
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and actually played a piano
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or did you make
them just up in your head
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and then played it
out or how did that work?
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First, yes, I heard it. Okay.
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And then I went to the
piano and played it out.
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Wow, that's incredible.
00:18:01.21\00:18:02.98
Yes. Wow. So you...
00:18:03.01\00:18:05.21
I know we talked before,
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we did the song
about your brothers,
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and you're doing
music together with them,
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and you made a CD together.
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Yes, we did a CD in 2008,
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and it was an
amazing experience,
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we were...
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I was almost going
out of the country,
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and we set out the
time and in two Sundays,
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14 hours, we did 12 songs.
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Oh, wow.
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We didn't have a
manager or anything.
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And I remember, we were
recording one of the pieces,
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and we were so nervous
because it was not coming out
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and the time was running.
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So my brother, he
just took his chair
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to put it right in front of us,
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and he said, "You
know, we don't have anybody
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but God is sitting right there.
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He is going to lead
us, think about that."
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And as soon as he
did that and we prayed,
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the arrangement,
it came out perfectly.
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And the engineer at the
sounding studio, he said,
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"I don't know what you
are trying to do, guys,
00:19:06.44\00:19:09.04
but this sounds like heaven."
00:19:09.08\00:19:12.28
And it was an
incredible experience,
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they are very talented
00:19:14.28\00:19:17.62
and they play
flute and clarinet.
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Johan played the flute
and Randy the clarinet.
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And what is amazing
about, when we get together
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we can feel the
connection with God
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musically and spiritually.
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Amen.
00:19:31.10\00:19:32.43
And everyone just
did their own part
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when we come together to play.
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It's amazing I was
thinking about that experience
00:19:37.87\00:19:39.84
there in the studio,
00:19:39.87\00:19:41.21
and it's just
not coming together
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and saying, "Well,
God is right here."
00:19:42.61\00:19:44.25
It reminds me of a
scripture, I know you said,
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you especially
like Proverbs 3:5, 6.
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And it says, "Trust in
the Lord with all your heart.
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Lean not on your
own understanding,
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in all your
ways acknowledge Him,
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and He shall direct your paths."
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And that's what God's doing,
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that's what God
has done in your life.
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So tell us, I
know you made a CD,
00:20:04.17\00:20:06.40
so let's talk about that
and then tell us the journey
00:20:06.43\00:20:09.44
God took you on with the harp.
00:20:09.47\00:20:12.31
But tell us about the CD first?
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Yes, this CD that I had
made 17 hymns from the hymnal,
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Seventh-day Adventist hymnal.
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And some...
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When I was producing
that CD, I was in Puerto Rico
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with the help of pastor's family
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that were very, very...
00:20:29.99\00:20:33.50
What a great blessing
for me so they held me.
00:20:33.56\00:20:36.83
And I was actually very
sick by then, but I did it,
00:20:36.90\00:20:41.87
and I remember
the arrangement again.
00:20:41.90\00:20:45.71
The situation came that
I couldn't practice before,
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I had to record right there
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because the
opportunity just came,
00:20:50.51\00:20:52.25
and I had to do it.
00:20:52.28\00:20:53.65
So I prayed, and I remember
many of those arrangements
00:20:53.68\00:20:57.42
were just right
there at the studio.
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And many of them,
00:21:00.29\00:21:01.99
they just came
right in that moment,
00:21:02.02\00:21:04.83
so it's a very special CD
00:21:04.86\00:21:07.20
that I could feel God's presence
00:21:07.23\00:21:09.96
working through me
00:21:10.03\00:21:11.37
and giving me all of those notes
00:21:11.40\00:21:13.13
at that moment.
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Amen. That's incredible.
00:21:14.54\00:21:15.90
Now before we get to the harp,
tell me about a miracle story
00:21:15.94\00:21:19.04
when you were a teenager
how God saved your life?
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Yes, when I was 17,
I used to travel for...
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I was traveling for 11
years to the capital city
00:21:26.28\00:21:29.62
to take music
lessons with my brothers.
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And there was one day
00:21:32.95\00:21:34.86
we were walking in a
very dangerous street
00:21:34.89\00:21:38.23
to take the bus to go back home.
00:21:38.26\00:21:40.80
So we were
walking, and it was dark,
00:21:40.86\00:21:43.53
and there were two
men that stopped us,
00:21:43.60\00:21:46.47
and they took my
brother with two knifes.
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And they were asking
him to give, you know,
00:21:49.74\00:21:52.71
his cell phone and
everything that he have,
00:21:52.74\00:21:55.48
and he gave all that he has,
00:21:55.51\00:21:58.01
and I was
screaming telling them,
00:21:58.05\00:22:00.82
please leave my brother
and take everything I have,
00:22:00.85\00:22:05.49
my cell phone and all of that.
00:22:05.52\00:22:07.06
They didn't even
realize I was there.
00:22:07.09\00:22:09.82
They didn't see me...
00:22:09.86\00:22:11.19
It was like they didn't see you?
00:22:11.23\00:22:12.56
They didn't see me. Wow.
00:22:12.59\00:22:13.93
They didn't even see me.
00:22:14.00\00:22:15.30
And I was, you know, praying
00:22:15.33\00:22:16.67
and no later there
was a very tall man
00:22:16.70\00:22:21.74
that was coming from nowhere.
00:22:21.77\00:22:24.51
And he saw the
situation, and he said,
00:22:24.54\00:22:26.47
"What is happening there?"
00:22:26.51\00:22:28.54
And he just used his
gun and shot to the air.
00:22:28.58\00:22:31.95
And the two guys that
were holding my brother,
00:22:31.98\00:22:36.22
they just run away.
00:22:36.25\00:22:37.69
And I took my brother
and run to the bus station.
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And who is the tall
man who came, do you know?
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I never knew who it was.
00:22:45.43\00:22:47.23
I never knew.
Maybe it was your angel.
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Yes. Yeah, wow.
00:22:48.96\00:22:50.90
I never knew who was,
00:22:50.93\00:22:52.77
but I know God
saved us from death.
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Amen.
00:22:55.17\00:22:56.50
And God saved you
for a purpose, you know,
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because God's using you,
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and we will get to that
00:22:59.77\00:23:01.18
here in the latter
part of the program,
00:23:01.21\00:23:02.81
but God's using you, you know,
00:23:02.84\00:23:04.31
to speak and to
share this gift of music
00:23:04.35\00:23:08.28
with the world.
00:23:08.32\00:23:09.65
And so, that's an
incredible purpose
00:23:09.68\00:23:11.49
that He saved you for.
00:23:11.52\00:23:12.85
So tell us about how you got
involved in playing the harp?
00:23:12.89\00:23:15.46
When I was 19 years old,
00:23:15.49\00:23:17.53
I finished my piano
studies in Dominican Republic.
00:23:17.56\00:23:21.83
And then I started reading,
00:23:21.86\00:23:23.77
reading more and more the Bible.
00:23:23.83\00:23:25.23
And I got this
picture from the Bible,
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Revelation of old,
00:23:29.30\00:23:30.67
the angels playing the harp.
00:23:30.71\00:23:33.27
And I wanted to do
something like that,
00:23:33.34\00:23:35.18
and I felt really
strong a call from God
00:23:35.21\00:23:38.75
to play that instrument.
00:23:38.78\00:23:40.18
For a reason, it was
very insistent in my mind
00:23:40.22\00:23:43.28
so I started, you know, looking
00:23:43.35\00:23:45.49
if there was any
lessons or any teacher around,
00:23:45.52\00:23:49.56
and I discovered
00:23:49.59\00:23:50.93
when I went to the
conservatory of music
00:23:50.96\00:23:52.59
that they didn't have program
00:23:52.63\00:23:55.13
for harp lessons for 10 years.
00:23:55.16\00:23:58.23
So that exact year that I went,
00:23:58.27\00:24:01.70
there was a
teacher that show up.
00:24:01.74\00:24:03.07
They started it
again after 10 years.
00:24:03.10\00:24:04.74
Yeah, after 10 years.
00:24:04.77\00:24:06.17
So I started playing the harp
00:24:06.21\00:24:08.44
and just playing that instrument
00:24:08.48\00:24:10.95
started opening
doors incredibly.
00:24:10.98\00:24:14.35
So the news just run
around and I got an invitation
00:24:14.38\00:24:18.02
from the embassy United States
in Dominican Republic to play.
00:24:18.05\00:24:22.76
Okay, so I think
we have some pictures.
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Yeah.
00:24:24.96\00:24:26.29
Let's put up some of
those pictures here we have.
00:24:26.33\00:24:27.96
Picture of you
playing the harp I think.
00:24:27.96\00:24:29.80
Yes. Yes.
00:24:29.83\00:24:31.20
Now is this in
Dominican Republic?
00:24:31.23\00:24:32.57
That is in Dominican Republic.
00:24:32.60\00:24:34.34
I got the opportunity to play
00:24:34.37\00:24:36.87
with the
Symphony Orchestra there.
00:24:36.91\00:24:38.61
What a blessing.
00:24:38.64\00:24:39.97
Let's just roll
through those pictures.
00:24:40.04\00:24:41.38
Here this is where?
00:24:41.41\00:24:42.74
This was here
00:24:42.78\00:24:44.11
when I was over
in United States.
00:24:44.15\00:24:46.11
Yes, and I got in
beautiful opportunity
00:24:46.15\00:24:48.38
to play with the Jackie
in the Symphony Orchestra
00:24:48.42\00:24:50.89
in Washington state.
00:24:50.95\00:24:52.92
Okay, nice.
00:24:52.95\00:24:54.66
So this is you
shaking the conductor's hand
00:24:54.69\00:24:56.49
and taking a bow at the end.
00:24:56.52\00:24:58.29
Nice.
00:24:58.33\00:25:00.06
It's incredible.
00:25:00.13\00:25:01.43
And this is, where is this?
00:25:01.46\00:25:02.80
And this was in
Dominican Republic too.
00:25:02.83\00:25:04.37
I did a double concert,
00:25:04.40\00:25:06.67
and I always wanted to do that,
00:25:06.74\00:25:08.77
was a dream that I had to
play the piano and the harp
00:25:08.80\00:25:12.51
at the same night.
00:25:12.54\00:25:14.31
Wow.
00:25:14.34\00:25:15.68
So this when you
did piano and harp?
00:25:15.71\00:25:17.28
Yes. Oh, praise the Lord.
00:25:17.35\00:25:19.38
When they discovered that I
was studying harp and piano,
00:25:19.41\00:25:24.29
they invited me to
do a double concert,
00:25:24.32\00:25:27.69
and that was an
amazing experience.
00:25:27.72\00:25:29.62
And who was that group of people
00:25:29.66\00:25:30.99
we're just looking at there?
00:25:31.03\00:25:32.36
This is a very special group.
00:25:32.39\00:25:35.66
This is an Archipelago
choir from the University
00:25:35.70\00:25:39.77
I went to do my master
degree in piano and harp.
00:25:39.80\00:25:42.80
So you have your
undergraduate degree
00:25:42.84\00:25:45.31
in piano performance.
00:25:45.34\00:25:46.68
And then
master's degree in piano
00:25:46.74\00:25:48.64
like a double master's
00:25:48.68\00:25:50.01
in both piano
and harp performance.
00:25:50.05\00:25:52.28
I'm starting to feel intimidated
00:25:52.31\00:25:53.68
sitting here, you know.
00:25:53.72\00:25:56.22
No, but that's
the beautiful thing is
00:25:56.25\00:25:57.85
'cause you serve with humility.
00:25:57.89\00:25:59.22
And praise the
Lord for that. Amen.
00:25:59.25\00:26:00.89
So this is the
Archipelago group there.
00:26:00.92\00:26:03.79
And what song were they singing?
00:26:03.86\00:26:05.19
Actually they were singing
right there at that moment
00:26:05.23\00:26:08.43
for a very well known
group The King's Singers.
00:26:08.46\00:26:12.90
Okay.
00:26:12.93\00:26:14.37
My own composition.
00:26:14.40\00:26:17.67
The director of
that choir Dr. King,
00:26:17.71\00:26:20.48
he asked me to write
a song for the choir,
00:26:20.51\00:26:25.41
and I said myself,
00:26:25.45\00:26:27.98
"Okay, this
opportunity is to glorify God."
00:26:28.02\00:26:30.99
So I choose Psalm 24,
00:26:31.02\00:26:33.69
and I put music to that Psalm
00:26:33.76\00:26:37.43
and I gave it to the director.
00:26:37.46\00:26:41.03
When he saw that masterpiece,
00:26:41.06\00:26:42.83
he said,
00:26:42.86\00:26:44.50
"Wow, we're going
to choose this piece
00:26:44.53\00:26:46.57
to perform in front
of this special group."
00:26:46.60\00:26:50.27
The King's Singers
that they were giving us
00:26:50.31\00:26:52.91
a master class so
my piece was performed.
00:26:52.94\00:26:56.71
And it was a beautiful testimony
00:26:56.75\00:26:58.91
because when I
was composing that
00:26:58.95\00:27:00.95
I asked the Lord,
00:27:00.98\00:27:02.58
"Lord, that every
note will touch everybody
00:27:02.62\00:27:05.55
that is going to
sing this psalm."
00:27:05.59\00:27:08.12
And it was amazing
to see how after we...
00:27:08.16\00:27:11.59
Every time we were singing,
00:27:11.63\00:27:14.10
members from
the choir came to me
00:27:14.13\00:27:16.23
saying that they
felt God's presence.
00:27:16.26\00:27:19.00
They felt like
Jesus was right there
00:27:19.03\00:27:21.60
next to them singing.
00:27:21.64\00:27:23.34
And that was
their favorite piece
00:27:23.41\00:27:26.31
from the whole repertoire.
00:27:26.34\00:27:28.24
And I was like,
00:27:28.28\00:27:29.61
"Wow, the Lord really
00:27:29.64\00:27:32.51
fulfilled the purpose of these."
00:27:32.55\00:27:34.32
That's right.
00:27:34.35\00:27:35.68
I mean, that's
the words of scripture
00:27:35.72\00:27:37.09
and then putting that to music.
00:27:37.12\00:27:38.55
Let's go to another song here
00:27:38.59\00:27:40.56
from Martha, this is My Jesus,
00:27:40.59\00:27:42.96
I Love Thee.
00:27:42.99\00:27:44.33
Amen.
00:32:58.01\00:32:59.34
We would say at
3ABN, that's a two-hander.
00:32:59.37\00:33:01.61
Praise the Lord.
00:33:01.64\00:33:02.98
What an incredible piece.
00:33:03.01\00:33:04.85
Now I would imagine
you practice a great deal,
00:33:04.88\00:33:07.22
is that correct?
00:33:07.25\00:33:08.58
Yes.
00:33:08.62\00:33:09.95
So in all this practice,
00:33:09.98\00:33:11.32
there's a chance
of getting injured.
00:33:11.35\00:33:12.69
Yes.
00:33:12.72\00:33:14.06
Did you get injured?
00:33:14.09\00:33:15.42
Yes, well, two years
ago, almost three years ago
00:33:15.46\00:33:19.09
I injured my shoulder.
00:33:19.13\00:33:20.80
And actually it
was... Practicing?
00:33:20.83\00:33:22.26
Not practicing. Oh,
it wasn't practicing.
00:33:22.30\00:33:24.37
Actually I was lifting
up a very heavy suitcase.
00:33:24.40\00:33:28.04
Okay.
00:33:28.07\00:33:29.40
And it turned out
that when I was 17,
00:33:29.44\00:33:31.37
I was a tennis player
00:33:31.41\00:33:33.07
so I injured my
shoulder back then,
00:33:33.11\00:33:35.91
but I never paid attention,
00:33:35.94\00:33:37.85
and I was for two months
without playing the piano.
00:33:37.88\00:33:43.39
So the injury
wasn't caused by the piano
00:33:43.45\00:33:45.49
or playing the piano
00:33:45.52\00:33:46.86
but, yeah, you had
to stop from playing.
00:33:46.92\00:33:48.26
Yes. Okay.
00:33:48.29\00:33:49.62
I had to stop playing
00:33:49.66\00:33:50.99
and then three years
ago basically, I was moving
00:33:51.03\00:33:54.63
and I just lift up
this very heavy suitcase,
00:33:54.66\00:33:57.67
and I felt
something in my shoulder.
00:33:57.70\00:33:59.60
And since then
never was the same.
00:33:59.63\00:34:02.40
So I stayed for two
years doing physical therapies,
00:34:02.44\00:34:06.24
trying to find out
what was the problem
00:34:06.27\00:34:08.44
and it took long way
00:34:08.48\00:34:11.35
to find what was the problem.
00:34:11.38\00:34:13.11
So under a lot of
pain for two years
00:34:13.15\00:34:16.38
and, you know,
trying to figure out
00:34:16.42\00:34:18.75
what was wrong.
00:34:18.79\00:34:20.16
And finally,
they could determine
00:34:20.19\00:34:22.79
that was an injury
from those past years,
00:34:22.82\00:34:25.66
I never was fit well enough.
00:34:25.69\00:34:28.96
So you're someone who is
passionate about the piano,
00:34:29.00\00:34:31.47
and you love it, and
here you can't play that.
00:34:31.50\00:34:34.24
So what did that do
with your journey with God?
00:34:34.27\00:34:37.27
That was a moment
of consecration to God.
00:34:37.31\00:34:42.04
And I started
praising God, you know,
00:34:42.08\00:34:45.51
even in the middle of the pain.
00:34:45.55\00:34:47.18
And I got so close
to God more than ever.
00:34:47.22\00:34:53.42
And my days, my nights
that I was in a lot of pain,
00:34:53.46\00:34:57.76
I used to compose music.
00:34:57.79\00:35:00.73
And I laid on
God's Word so much.
00:35:00.76\00:35:04.97
Like I started
reading the Word of God
00:35:05.00\00:35:07.24
and composing those
verses from the Bible,
00:35:07.27\00:35:09.60
I started putting music to them.
00:35:09.64\00:35:11.47
So I started
composing more and more and more
00:35:11.51\00:35:13.68
about my experience
what I was going through
00:35:13.71\00:35:16.34
and the trust that I
wanted to have in God.
00:35:16.38\00:35:18.51
But one day I
started saying, "Why me?
00:35:18.55\00:35:21.68
Because I gave You it all."
00:35:21.72\00:35:23.42
And God came to my mind
speaking to me through His Word
00:35:23.49\00:35:28.29
and other things that,
00:35:28.32\00:35:30.13
"You know, it doesn't
matter if you don't play again,
00:35:30.16\00:35:33.19
you're still My child,
and you're still special."
00:35:33.23\00:35:36.26
When I understood that,
00:35:36.30\00:35:37.90
that changed my mind, my heart.
00:35:37.93\00:35:41.54
I started
recovering spiritually,
00:35:41.57\00:35:44.17
emotionally, physically.
00:35:44.21\00:35:46.94
And I realized that I
could do other things for God.
00:35:46.98\00:35:50.51
Yes. Not just...
00:35:50.55\00:35:51.88
And I was willing to
surrender it all to my Jesus
00:35:51.91\00:35:56.38
to give it back to Him
the gift that He gave me.
00:35:56.42\00:35:59.62
So I said, "Okay, Lord,
00:35:59.65\00:36:01.22
if I'm not going
to play ever again,
00:36:01.26\00:36:03.69
I'll be happy anyway with You
00:36:03.76\00:36:06.36
because I know my
identity and it's in You."
00:36:06.39\00:36:09.43
That's right.
00:36:09.46\00:36:10.80
So after that,
00:36:10.87\00:36:13.34
it was a very
special transition in my life
00:36:13.37\00:36:16.27
that I start actually composing
the most beautiful music ever
00:36:16.30\00:36:22.18
when I was not able to play.
00:36:22.21\00:36:26.45
And I could know more my Jesus.
00:36:26.48\00:36:30.79
And that was precious to me.
00:36:30.82\00:36:33.46
Amen.
00:36:33.49\00:36:34.82
Now I know we're
going to go to another song
00:36:34.86\00:36:36.39
because we have to get
the rest of these songs in
00:36:36.42\00:36:38.19
but before we do that
00:36:38.23\00:36:39.56
you played for the
Super Bowl 2017 in Houston.
00:36:39.59\00:36:42.56
That's right.
00:36:42.60\00:36:43.93
And what song did
you play for that?
00:36:43.97\00:36:45.30
Actually I
played, I composed a piece
00:36:45.33\00:36:47.44
two weeks before that audition.
00:36:47.50\00:36:50.77
And I said this
piece is the one for that,
00:36:50.81\00:36:54.14
I felt that in my heart.
00:36:54.18\00:36:55.88
And as soon I
played it for the judge,
00:36:55.91\00:36:57.51
they said, "You
know, you are in it."
00:36:57.55\00:36:59.65
Wow. That was amazing.
00:36:59.68\00:37:01.38
They were blown
away by the piece.
00:37:01.42\00:37:03.35
There is that picture
00:37:03.42\00:37:04.75
where I was almost
going to be at the audition.
00:37:04.79\00:37:09.49
Okay, this is just
before the audition?
00:37:09.52\00:37:10.86
Yes.
00:37:10.89\00:37:12.23
And I think we have a
newspaper clipping too.
00:37:12.26\00:37:13.63
Yes, that's right.
00:37:13.66\00:37:14.96
As far as you
playing that piano.
00:37:15.00\00:37:16.67
Yes. Amen.
00:37:16.70\00:37:18.20
It's amazing when
you give your life to God
00:37:18.23\00:37:20.44
and let Him lead
where He takes you.
00:37:20.47\00:37:23.84
Let's go to the next song
which is Anywhere With Jesus.
00:37:23.91\00:37:28.11
Amen.
00:40:32.93\00:40:34.23
Anywhere with
Jesus we can safely go.
00:40:34.30\00:40:36.60
And God is bringing
Martha all over the world
00:40:36.63\00:40:40.17
to share His love,
00:40:40.20\00:40:41.87
and His light with other people.
00:40:41.90\00:40:43.47
So tell us what
you're involved in now
00:40:43.54\00:40:45.74
and some of your
dreams for the future?
00:40:45.77\00:40:47.98
Well, right now, I'm
in full ministry in music,
00:40:48.01\00:40:50.31
you know, giving
concerts, I teach too.
00:40:50.38\00:40:52.71
I teach piano
lessons, harp lessons.
00:40:52.75\00:40:56.25
Where you're based right now?
00:40:56.28\00:40:57.62
Obviously, you're not in
Dominican so where is home?
00:40:57.65\00:40:59.79
Texas. Okay.
00:40:59.82\00:41:01.22
I'm in Texas
00:41:01.26\00:41:03.09
and, well, I have being actually
00:41:03.12\00:41:04.69
working for a church
too as a music director.
00:41:04.73\00:41:07.73
And I am involved now
trying to get a harp CD.
00:41:07.76\00:41:13.60
Nice because you
don't have a harp CD.
00:41:13.64\00:41:16.37
No, I don't have a harp CD.
00:41:16.40\00:41:18.14
So that's one of the
projects for the future.
00:41:18.17\00:41:21.24
And also I started a
year ago a project for kids.
00:41:21.28\00:41:25.08
I started putting music,
00:41:25.11\00:41:27.22
some verses from
the Bible for kids
00:41:27.28\00:41:29.45
and also taking
all of those hymns
00:41:29.48\00:41:32.42
that all very old songs for kids
00:41:32.45\00:41:35.16
when I was a kid
00:41:35.19\00:41:37.59
and put it in music
with harp and piano.
00:41:37.63\00:41:40.20
So those two
projects I'm working on it.
00:41:40.26\00:41:44.70
Amen.
00:41:44.73\00:41:46.07
I know many times
when we do a Today program,
00:41:46.10\00:41:47.60
we'll put up contact information
00:41:47.64\00:41:49.17
but in this program,
00:41:49.20\00:41:50.67
we want to put up
your email address.
00:41:50.74\00:41:52.34
I know maybe you want to
contact Martha for yourself,
00:41:52.37\00:41:55.54
you want her to
come to your church
00:41:55.58\00:41:57.18
or to your community
center for a concert,
00:41:57.21\00:42:00.05
you would like her to come speak
00:42:00.12\00:42:01.48
or maybe the Lord
has put on your heart,
00:42:01.52\00:42:03.69
"I want to support
one of these projects,
00:42:03.72\00:42:06.15
the project for
kids or the new harp CD
00:42:06.19\00:42:08.89
or something else, I
want to support that."
00:42:08.92\00:42:11.13
What is your email address?
00:42:11.16\00:42:12.49
How can people
get in touch with you?
00:42:12.53\00:42:13.90
MarthaDeLuna, like my name...
00:42:13.93\00:42:16.40
MarthaDeLuna0@Yahoo.com. Okay.
00:42:16.43\00:42:23.30
Okay. MarthaDeLuna0...
00:42:23.37\00:42:26.17
Yes. At Yahoo.com.
00:42:26.21\00:42:28.48
So I just want to
encourage you at home,
00:42:28.51\00:42:30.61
if you did not get a
chance to write that down
00:42:30.65\00:42:33.48
or you're driving in
your car and you can't,
00:42:33.52\00:42:35.52
you can always call us at 3ABN,
00:42:35.55\00:42:37.35
and we would love to put
you in touch with Martha.
00:42:37.39\00:42:40.06
Now I know we're
going to do one more song
00:42:40.12\00:42:41.86
before the
newsbreak, We Should Behold On
00:42:41.89\00:42:43.69
which I think is one of
my all time favorite songs.
00:42:43.73\00:42:46.36
But before we
go to that, Martha,
00:42:46.39\00:42:47.83
what would you tell
someone if they're contemplating
00:42:47.86\00:42:50.80
or they have a
passion for music,
00:42:50.83\00:42:52.57
how would you
want to encourage them?
00:42:52.60\00:42:54.20
What would you say?
00:42:54.24\00:42:55.57
I will say never give up
00:42:55.60\00:42:57.44
if you don't have it
all in your hands, like,
00:42:57.47\00:42:59.81
I didn't have a piano
00:42:59.84\00:43:01.38
or you don't see
anything going well at first.
00:43:01.41\00:43:07.02
Keep praying,
keep trusting in Jesus
00:43:07.05\00:43:09.38
and move forward
00:43:09.42\00:43:10.92
because God has a
purpose in our lives
00:43:10.99\00:43:13.89
and music is a beautiful gift
00:43:13.96\00:43:16.56
that touch people
in a very special way.
00:43:16.59\00:43:21.06
And if you have
the gift of music,
00:43:21.10\00:43:22.96
use it for His glory,
00:43:23.00\00:43:24.83
always recognize
Him first than anything.
00:43:24.87\00:43:28.57
Amen. Praise the Lord for that.
00:43:28.60\00:43:31.17
We'll just know that
00:43:31.21\00:43:32.54
you're part now
of the 3ABN family
00:43:32.57\00:43:35.18
that we consider you
are part of our family.
00:43:35.21\00:43:37.11
Amen. Thank you.
00:43:37.15\00:43:38.48
And we would love to
have you back anytime
00:43:38.51\00:43:40.02
but just a joy to have you here,
00:43:40.08\00:43:42.28
your spirit, your love for God,
00:43:42.32\00:43:44.25
and the gifts
that He's given to you.
00:43:44.29\00:43:46.25
So I'm very excited about that.
00:43:46.29\00:43:48.12
Right now, we are
going to our final song,
00:43:48.16\00:43:51.86
We Shall Behold Him,
00:43:51.89\00:43:53.36
and then when we
come back after the song
00:43:53.40\00:43:55.23
and after the newsbreak
00:43:55.26\00:43:56.60
we'll have a few moments
for some closing thoughts.
00:43:56.63\00:43:58.93