>> As you're well aware, we're living in unprecedented times. Join us now for today's 00:00:02.40\00:00:06.53 special program. >> WE ARE LIVING UNPRECEDENTED 00:00:06.53\00:00:08.14 TIMES DURING HIS STAY MOUTH JOIN US TODAY NOW FOR THIS 00:00:08.14\00:00:15.01 UNPRECEDENTED PROGRAMMING. >> HELLO, GOOD EVENING. 00:00:15.01\00:01:19.14 THURSDAY NIGHT AND WE WILL SPEND THE NEXT TWO HOURS OF LIVE WITH 00:01:19.14\00:01:22.94 YOU AT HOME. WE WILL SHARE FROM THE WORD OF 00:01:22.94\00:01:25.55 GOD AND out. That's right. Tonight 00:01:25.55\00:01:31.39 TONIGHT IS LADIES NIGHT OUT TONIGHT THE LADIES island as we 00:01:31.39\00:01:34.62 focus on faith. AROUND THE ISLAND AND WE WILL FOCUS ON 00:01:34.62\00:01:37.96 SAINTS. ARE YOU STRUGGLING WITH YOUR CHILDREN? 00:01:37.96\00:01:39.89 TONIGHT IS FRIO YOU, ARE YOU STRUGGLING WITH YOUR HEALTH? 00:01:39.89\00:01:46.50 TONIGHT ARE YOU STRUGGLING IN YOUR MARRIAGE? 00:01:46.50\00:01:48.54 TONIGHT IS FOR YALE. ARE YOU STRUGGLING WITH FEAR OF 00:01:48.54\00:01:52.97 THE FUTURE? AND WHAT YOU DO WITH YOUR 00:01:52.97\00:01:56.54 FUTURE? TONIGHT IS FOR YOU. 00:01:56.54\00:01:58.71 AND I SAID IT'S LADIES NIGHT OUT IT'S MY SISTERS AROUND THE TABLE 00:01:58.71\00:02:02.98 TONIGHT BUT THIS PROGRAM IS FOR MEN AND WOMEN OLD AND YOUNG IT 00:02:02.98\00:02:08.22 IS FOR EVERYONE BECAUSE WE ALL NEED TO FOCUS ON THE FACE. 00:02:08.22\00:02:12.79 THIS TIME ESPECIALLY IN THESE DAYS OF COVID IT, THIS A DAY OF 00:02:12.79\00:02:17.63 ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY, OF POLITICAL UNREST, NOT KNOWING 00:02:17.63\00:02:22.37 WHERE TO TURN, WE NEED TO TURN OUR ATTENTION TO THE WORD OF GOD 00:02:22.37\00:02:27.18 AND TO FOCUS ON FAITH, LOOK TO JESUS. 00:02:27.18\00:02:29.94 I WANT TO INTRODUCE TO MY SISTERS TONIGHT TO MY RIGHT WE 00:02:29.94\00:02:33.88 HAVE DOCTOR YVONNE SHELTON YOU ARE LIKE MY OLDER SISTER AND MY 00:02:33.88\00:02:37.69 MOM ALL and my mom all wrapped 00:02:37.69\00:02:39.59 >> I LOVE THAT. IT'S GREAT TO BE HERE ON THIS 00:02:39.59\00:02:43.16 TOPIC OF FAITH IS SO IMPORTANT AND IT IS SO VITAL TO OUR 00:02:43.16\00:02:48.40 CHRISTIAN WALK. IT IS SO REWARDING. 00:02:48.40\00:02:51.40 REWARDING TO LOOK AT IT AND TO SEE HOW FAITHFUL OUR GOD IS A >> 00:02:51.40\00:02:57.24 AMEN. >> WE ARE LOOKING AT FAITH BUT 00:02:57.24\00:02:59.01 REALLY IT IS OUR GUIDE TO. THAT'S BEAUTIFUL. 00:02:59.01\00:03:02.11 >> SITTING NEXT TO YOU WITH ANOTHER SISTER OF MINE THIS Doctor Yvonne is no 00:03:02.11\00:03:07.42 HILDEBRANDT DOCTOR VAUGHN NO STRANGER TO YOU AT HOME SHE IS 00:03:07.42\00:03:10.52 THE COFOUNDER OF THREE ABN DARED TO DREAM. 00:03:10.52\00:03:22.36 WE'RE SO GRATEFUL. AND D HILDEBRAND IS OUR 00:03:22.36\00:03:23.47 PRODUCTION COORDINATOR AND WE LIKE TO SAY SHE TELL US US WHAT 00:03:23.47\00:03:24.90 TO DO. >> I DON'T ALWAYS SUCCEED AND I 00:03:24.90\00:03:32.17 HAVE LEARNED TO GET GENTLER WITH MY SUGGESTIONS BUT YES I'VE BEEN 00:03:32.17\00:03:36.18 COORDINATED FOR MANY YEARS AT SUCH A JOY TO BE HERE BECAUSE I 00:03:36.18\00:03:38.75 THOUGHT ABOUT WHO I WOULD BE WITH AND I HAVE KNOWN EVERYONE 00:03:38.75\00:03:42.32 OF of you for many years and you've impacted my 00:03:42.32\00:03:45.02 IMPACTED MY LIFE AND IT BROUGHT JOY TO MY LIFE SO IT IS A JOY TO 00:03:45.02\00:03:49.22 BE HERE AND YOU HAVE CHANGE MY FUTURE IN EVERY SITUATION AND SO 00:03:49.22\00:03:57.30 I WANT TO SHARE SOME OF THAT WITH YOU PEOPLE BECAUSE GOD HAS 00:03:57.30\00:04:00.64 YOUR FUTURE IN MIND. HE HAS PLANS FOR YOU. 00:04:00.64\00:04:05.14 >> THAT'S BEAUTIFUL. JEREMIAH 2911 AND YOU CAN TRUST 00:04:05.14\00:04:08.98 HIM WITH THOSE PLANS YOU him those plans to. 00:04:08.98\00:04:10.58 ABSOLUTELY CAN APPEAR >> I LOVE THAT. 00:04:10.58\00:04:12.88 >> SITTING NEXT TO YOU ANOTHER ONE OF MY SISTERS THIS IS OUR 00:04:12.88\00:04:17.12 OWN ANGIE. AND WE LOVE YOU AS WELL, EACH 00:04:17.12\00:04:19.25 ONE OF YOU LADIES ARE ONE THOSE WHO WOMEN OF GOD AND WOMEN OF 00:04:19.25\00:04:25.39 FAITH AND YOU HAVE LIVED INCREDIBLE LIVES. 00:04:25.39\00:04:27.93 IF YOU ARE A THREE B AND producer and editor. And I guess 00:04:27.93\00:04:30.30 HOST AND EDITOR AND I GUESS EVERYTHING. 00:04:30.30\00:04:32.33 >> YES I AM SO HAPPY TO BE HERE WITH MY SISTERS I AND TONIGHT WE 00:04:32.33\00:04:39.74 WILL TALK ABOUT MY TOPIC AS WELL YOUR SPOUSE YOUR FAITH AND SO And so it's going to be an 00:04:39.74\00:04:45.88 interesting THIS WILL BE AN INTERESTING 00:04:45.88\00:04:48.38 TOPIC I LOOK FORWARD TO SHARING WITH YOU WITH THE LORD IS PUT ON 00:04:48.38\00:04:52.02 MY HEART AND AS THE SONG SAYS WE HAVE ALL COME THIS FAR BY FAITH 00:04:52.02\00:04:56.29 BUT THIS IS A GREAT TOPIC WHICH I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO SHARING 00:04:56.29\00:05:02.96 WITH YOU you. 00:05:02.96\00:05:04.07 >> SITTING NEXT TO THE A MINUTE WHO IS THAT. 00:05:04.07\00:05:07.37 I DON'T KNOW WHO IS THAT IN THE CHAIR NEXT TO YOU. 00:05:07.37\00:05:10.97 THAT MEANS ONE OF THE LADIES IS NEW HERE TONIGHT BUT HASN'T 00:05:10.97\00:05:15.38 SHOWN UP YET. WE ALWAYS SAY IT BETTER LATE 00:05:15.38\00:05:18.58 THAN NEVER. >> THAT'S RIGHT THERE'S FOR 00:05:18.58\00:05:21.75 BEING our very own 00:05:21.75\00:05:24.35 CLASS THAT'S GREASY. I WILL WAIT UNTIL SHE GETS HERE 00:05:24.35\00:05:27.06 TO INTRODUCE YOU TO HER BUT WE WILL GO TO OUR MUSIC BUT FIRST I 00:05:27.06\00:05:30.59 WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT THIS IS A LIVE PROGRAM DOCTOR YVONNE 00:05:30.59\00:05:34.03 WILL SHARE A LITTLE BIT LATER AFTER WE SET THE STAGE ABOUT 00:05:34.03\00:05:37.03 ABOUT HOW YOU CAN HAVE FAITH WITH YOUR CHILDREN MAY Don't 00:05:37.03\00:05:39.90 walk CHILDREN DON'T WALK WITH GOD OR MAYBE THEY DO BUT HOW CAN 00:05:39.90\00:05:43.97 YOU HAVE A -- FAITH WITH YOUR CHILDREN, D can have faith with 00:05:43.97\00:05:47.58 HOW YOU CAN HAVE FAITH WITH YOUR FUTURE MAY BE SOME OF YOU DON'T 00:05:47.58\00:05:50.98 KNOW HIM BUT LOST HER SPOUSE AT A YOUNG AGE SHE WILL SHARE THAT 00:05:50.98\00:05:55.08 JOURNEY WITH YOU AND HOW WE CAN HAVE FAITH WITH AND YOU WILL 00:05:55.08\00:06:01.16 SHARE SOMETHING ABOUT FAITH AND REASON HE WILL TALK TO US ABOUT 00:06:01.16\00:06:06.36 FAITH WITH HEALTH AND SPIRITUALITY. 00:06:06.36\00:06:08.83 HERE SHE COMES NOW. I THOUGHT I'D BETTER DRESS 00:06:08.83\00:06:21.31 APPROPRIATELY. >> I LOVE THIS HAT. 00:06:21.31\00:06:25.35 >> IT'S MY FARMER HAT AND I WILL USE IT WHEN IT'S APPROPRIATE >> 00:06:25.35\00:06:30.75 I WISH SHE JUST BROUGHT US SOME FOOD. 00:06:30.75\00:06:37.16 >> SPEAKING OF KNOWING EVERYONE, GREASY AND I HAVE KNOWN EACH 00:06:37.16\00:06:41.33 OTHER LONGER THAN I HAVE KNOWN ANYONE ELSE HERE. 00:06:41.33\00:06:45.53 GREASY WAY BACK IN 9097 YEP. WHEN WAS YOUR DAUGHTER BORN? 00:06:45.53\00:06:52.74 >> 98. >> WE MET 98. 00:06:52.74\00:06:54.74 >> WE MET BEFORE SHE WAS BORN BUT YES I CAME HERE THEN. here. 00:06:54.74\00:06:57.98 So >> WE HAVE KNOWN EACH OTHER. >> YOU HAVE BEEN COMING TO THREE 00:06:57.98\00:07:01.58 ABN FOR HOW LONG? >> THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. 00:07:01.58\00:07:03.85 BEFORE THEN. night 00:07:03.85\00:07:10.29 IT WAS IN THE MID- 90s BUT HIS TIE AND JAMES ARE BOTH COMING 00:07:10.29\00:07:15.93 HERE BEFORE I GOT HERE. THAT'S A LONG TIME AGO. 00:07:15.93\00:07:18.63 >> HE'S AN OLD TIMER HERE. SHE IS A YOUNG ONE. 00:07:18.63\00:07:24.34 >> I DON'T THINK SO. >> FOR RECEIPT AND HER HUSBAND 00:07:24.34\00:07:28.41 PASTOR JAMES THEY HAVE BEEN OF COURSE PART OF THREE ABN SINCE 00:07:28.41\00:07:32.61 THE 90s BUT OFFICIALLY PART OF THE MINISTRY OF THEE ABN JUST 00:07:32.61\00:07:36.02 THIS YEAR. YOUR HUSBAND IS THE DIRECTOR OF 00:07:36.02\00:07:39.15 DISCIPLESHIP AND RECEIPT WORKS WITH HEALTH MINISTRIES AND WERE 00:07:39.15\00:07:40.96 SO BLESSED TO HAVE YOU HERE TONIGHT. 00:07:40.96\00:07:43.39 >> THANK YOU THANK YOU. >> SO EXCITED ABOUT THE PROGRAM 00:07:43.39\00:07:47.23 AND YOU'RE yes and healing. 00:07:47.23\00:07:50.93 >> YES AND HEALING. >> YES THERE IS A LOT OF COOL 00:07:50.93\00:07:55.30 PROMISES IN THE BIBLE ABOUT FAITH AND I THINK THAT HAT MAY 00:07:55.30\00:07:58.97 HAVE MESSED UP MY HAIR DO I LOOK OKAY? 00:07:58.97\00:08:02.94 >> OKAY. >> YES. 00:08:02.94\00:08:07.08 LET'S GO TO SONG YOU CAN FIX YOUR HAIR APPEAR >> THIS IS A 00:08:07.08\00:08:11.62 LIVE PROGRAM AND WE WANT TO DO TONIGHT IS TO PRAY FOR YOU, YOU 00:08:11.62\00:08:14.79 ARE PART OF OUR FAMILY MAY BE YOU'RE BATTLING WITH YOUR FAITH, 00:08:14.79\00:08:18.56 YOUR WALK WITH GOD, MAYBE YOU'RE DEALING WITH STRUGGLES WITH HER 00:08:18.56\00:08:22.13 CHILDREN OR YOUR MARRIAGE OR YOUR FUTURE OR YOUR HEALTH AND 00:08:22.13\00:08:25.53 YOU NEED HEALING IN YOUR LIFE I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU RIGHT NOW 00:08:25.53\00:08:28.14 THAT YOU CAN TEXT US, WE WILL READ YOUR PRAYER REQUEST THE 00:08:28.14\00:08:32.77 SECOND HOUR AND WE WILL you need. So Texas is 6, 1, 8, 00:08:32.77\00:08:34.68 YOUR NEEDS TEXAS -- TEXAS AT (618)228-3975, THAT NUMBER AGAIN 00:08:34.68\00:08:39.95 THE TEXT THIS 8, 2, 2, 8, 3, 9, 7, 5, or i 00:08:39.95\00:08:45.42 IF YOU LIVE OVERSEAS YOU CAN E-MAIL AS OR YOU CAN E-MAIL US 00:08:45.42\00:08:48.76 IN THE STATES AS WELL I JUST MET THE TEXTING DOESN'T WORK 00:08:48.76\00:08:52.19 OVERSEAS BUT YOU COULD E-MAIL US AT LIVE AT THREE ABN .TV. 00:08:52.19\00:08:57.80 THE E-MAIL ADDRESS ONE MORE TIME AT THREE ABN .TV. 00:08:57.80\00:09:03.57 I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO what God is going to 00:09:03.57\00:09:05.41 IS GOING TO DO IN AND THROUGH EACH ONE OF MY here tonight. And 00:09:05.41\00:09:08.58 first, we're going to h TONIGHT AND FIRST WE WILL HEAR 00:09:08.58\00:09:10.38 FROM ANOTHER WOMAN OF GOD THIS IS HOPE VASQUEZ WHO WILL BRING 00:09:10.38\00:09:14.78 US MUSIC TONIGHT AND THE SONG THAT SHE WILL safety. 00:09:14.78\00:09:20.79 WONDERFUL MERCIFUL SAVIOR. [MUSIC PLAYING] >> A MAN, THANK 00:09:20.79\00:12:57.74 YOU FOR THAT HOPE I LOVE THAT SONG WONDERFUL MERCIFUL SAVIOR 00:12:57.74\00:13:01.41 AND HE TRULY IS TO EACH ONE OF US AND IF YOU HAVE NOT ASKED HIM 00:13:01.41\00:13:05.98 INTO YOUR LIFE IF YOU HAVE NOT ASKED HIM TO BE THE LORD OF YOUR 00:13:05.98\00:13:08.92 LIFE TONIGHT WOULD BE A GOOD NIGHT TO DO THAT JUST OPEN UP 00:13:08.92\00:13:11.72 YOUR HEART AND SAY YES JESUS. I GIVE YOU MY HEART AND I WANT 00:13:11.72\00:13:16.16 ALL OF YOU, TONIGHT IS ALL ABOUT THE LADIES. out. But really 00:13:16.16\00:13:21.00 REALLY THE PROGRAM IS FOR MEN AND WOMEN AS WE MENTIONED BEFORE 00:13:21.00\00:13:23.13 OLD AND YOUNG AND FOR EVERYONE BECAUSE WE WILL FOCUS ON FAITH 00:13:23.13\00:13:27.44 SO BEFORE WE GET INTO EACH ONE OF YOU PLEASE LET'S SHARE A 00:13:27.44\00:13:33.34 STORY OR SCRIPTURE MOTIVATIONAL puts on your heart for your specific topic before we 00:13:33.34\00:13:35.94 HEART TO SHARE WITH US BEFORE THAT BUT SET GROUNDWORK, WHAT IS 00:13:35.94\00:13:41.58 FAITH? MAYBE SOMEONE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT 00:13:41.58\00:13:43.39 IT IS THE WHAT -- SO WHAT IS FAITH? 00:13:43.39\00:13:51.89 >> DON'T EVERYONE TALK. >> I'LL GET IT STARTED. 00:13:51.89\00:13:56.40 >> LET'S GO THERE. I LOVE THAT IS THE SUBSTANCE and the 00:13:56.40\00:14:07.71 THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN. THERE IS EVIDENCE BECAUSE THAT 00:14:07.71\00:14:22.52 FACT HAS HAPPENED BUT FAITH IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT, FAITH IS 00:14:22.52\00:14:26.23 SOMETHING VERY real. 00:14:26.23\00:14:28.10 OBJECT IS THAT IT IS LOOKING AND IT'S NOT REALITY to us, it's 00:14:28.10\00:14:37.87 like IN THE DICTIONARY IT SAYS IT HAS CHANGED THE DEFINITION 00:14:37.87\00:14:40.61 THE CHRISTIAN DEFINITION OF CHANGE AND IT'S A COOL THING 00:14:40.61\00:14:45.35 THAT WE CAN EXPLORE. >> IT'S SO REAL TO ME THAT NO 00:14:45.35\00:14:50.82 ONE CAN TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME. WHEN I TALK ABOUT THE LORD AND 00:14:50.82\00:14:55.69 WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR ME IT IS SOLID EVIDENCE IN MY FAITH 00:14:55.69\00:15:03.10 BELIEVING IN HIM KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING AND PUTTING MY 00:15:03.10\00:15:05.90 TRUST IN HIM, TRUST AND FAITH PRETTY MUCH GO TOGETHER THE MORE 00:15:05.90\00:15:09.90 YOU HAVE FAITH THE MORE feed each and 00:15:09.90\00:15:12.91 TRUST AND THEY FEED EACH OTHER AND THEY GROW AND SO EVEN WHEN I 00:15:12.91\00:15:19.11 HAVE FAITH IN MY FATHER. I KNOW THAT HE WILL TAKE CARE OF 00:15:19.11\00:15:23.92 ME BECAUSE I TOLD HIM I AM YOUR PROBLEM. 00:15:23.92\00:15:28.46 >> I LOVE IT. >> SO FAITH IS SUBSTANCE EVEN 00:15:28.46\00:15:35.96 THOUGH OTHER PEOPLE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SEE IT OR IDENTIFY WITH 00:15:35.96\00:15:39.47 THAT HER ANYTHING, MY FAITH TO ME IS VERY REAL AND VERY can. 00:15:39.47\00:15:45.27 AND SOMETHING THAT IS THE REAL SUBSTANCE TO ME. 00:15:45.27\00:15:47.61 >> I LOVE THAT. >> I THINK FAITH TO ME IS 00:15:47.61\00:15:54.28 CONFIDENCE THAT THINGS ARE GOING TO WORK OUT TO THE BEST. 00:15:54.28\00:15:59.32 WHETHER IT IS EXACTLY WHAT I ASK FOR OR NOT IT IS TO PROCESSED IN 00:15:59.32\00:16:06.16 A GOD WHO WILL WORK EVERYTHING OUT FOR MY GOOD ALL THINGS WORK 00:16:06.16\00:16:12.57 TOGETHER FOR GOOD. AND ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS 00:16:12.57\00:16:18.14 PURPOSE, IT IS TRUST AND CONFIDENCE CONFIDENCE IN A 00:16:18.14\00:16:24.38 FAITHFUL GOD, IT IS ALL ABOUT HIS FAITHFULNESS, IT IS ALL 00:16:24.38\00:16:28.48 ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE CAN TRUST HIM AND WE KNOW THAT HE IS GOING 00:16:28.48\00:16:34.02 TO LOOK OUT FOR OUR BEST INTEREST NO MATTER WHAT it's not 00:16:34.02\00:16:39.39 SOMETIMES IT IS NOT WHAT WE PRAY FOR BUT I KNOW I'M GETTING AHEAD 00:16:39.39\00:16:43.53 OF MYSELF BUT I THINK THAT YOU KNOW WE HAVE TO TRUST THAT best. 00:16:43.53\00:16:48.90 IS GOING TO DO WHAT IS BEST REGARDLESS. 00:16:48.90\00:16:53.24 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> YOU ALL SET IT ALL, FAITH IS 00:16:53.24\00:16:59.61 OF COURSE THE SUBSTANCE OF HOPEFUL EVIDENCE DID NOT SEEN 00:16:59.61\00:17:02.88 AND TRUST IS SOMETHING WE HAVE NOT THAT'S AND TRUSTING SOMEONE 00:17:02.88\00:17:06.05 WE HAVE NOT SEEN IS SOMETIMES NOT EASY WE HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT 00:17:06.05\00:17:09.79 HE IS BECAUSE HE SAID THAT HE WILL REWARD OUR SOULS BUT I LOVE 00:17:09.79\00:17:13.50 THE LORD AND I HAVE TO TRUST HIM BECAUSE ONE DAY RIGHT WITH THE 00:17:13.50\00:17:21.34 WORD OF GOD BUT WE MAY HAVE FAITH IN THIS PERSON OR THAT 00:17:21.34\00:17:23.77 PERSON BUT TO HAVE FAITH IN GOD OUR CREATOR OUR REDEEMER IS 00:17:23.77\00:17:29.48 AWESOME BECAUSE HE IS OUR FATHER. 00:17:29.48\00:17:32.98 WE WILL SEE HIM ONE DAY. IT IS TRUST IN WHAT HE SAID, 00:17:32.98\00:17:38.85 TRUST AND HAVING FAITH. Also inactivate 00:17:38.85\00:17:45.96 >> PEAK AND ACTIVATOR, A COMMON TRUST BUT ALSO AN IGNITER IN OUR 00:17:45.96\00:17:49.90 LIVES AND THE LIVES OF OTHERS, IT ACTIVATES GOD'S POWER ON THIS 00:17:49.90\00:17:55.30 PLANET. IN SOME AMAZING WAY. 00:17:55.30\00:18:01.34 >> YES. >> WHEN WE TRUST AND HAVE FAITH 00:18:01.34\00:18:03.78 AND BELIEVE IN GOD AND WHEN WE STEP OUT IN FAITH, WHEN YOU 00:18:03.78\00:18:08.22 CAN'T SEE IN FRONT OF YOU BUT step out in faith and then he 00:18:08.22\00:18:13.69 THEN HE COMES THROUGH. IT GROWS YOUR FACE AND ALSO IT 00:18:13.69\00:18:18.53 IS EVIDENCE TO YOU AND SO YOU GROW MORE AND MORE ON IT. 00:18:18.53\00:18:22.60 >> SPEAKING OF THAT I LOVE THAT, HOW DO WE GROW IN FAITH BECAUSE 00:18:22.60\00:18:25.33 I LIKE WHAT YOU SAID, FAITH IS ACTION. 00:18:25.33\00:18:29.74 I WROTE THAT IN MY BIBLE FAITH IS ACTION BECAUSE IT REALLY IS 00:18:29.74\00:18:33.84 BUT HOW DO WE DEVELOP FAITH? HOW DO WE GROW FAITH? 00:18:33.84\00:18:37.38 SOME OF YOU MAY SAY I DON'T HAVE FAITH. 00:18:37.38\00:18:40.95 I HAVEN'T SEEN GOD SO I DON'T EVEN HAVE FAITH HOW DO I DEVELOP 00:18:40.95\00:18:47.76 FAITH? >> TAKE A CHANCE. 00:18:47.76\00:18:50.16 THERE IS SOMETHING IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU WANT CHANGED OR THAT 00:18:50.16\00:18:54.13 YOU WANT DIFFERENT AND YOU DON'T HAVE THE POWER TO DO IT TAKE A 00:18:54.13\00:18:57.27 CHANCE ON GOD YOU KNOW, OKAY I much 00:18:57.27\00:18:59.70 DON'T HAVE MUCH FAITH AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REALLY DO THIS 00:18:59.70\00:19:02.27 or not. But this OR NOT BUT THIS IS MY PROBLEM, THIS IS MY ISSUE 00:19:02.27\00:19:08.01 SHOW ME THAT YOUR GOD, HE WILL, HE MAY NOT SHOW THE WAY ARE 00:19:08.01\00:19:11.98 EXPECTING BUT THAT IS HOW take 00:19:11.98\00:19:13.98 HAVE TO TAKE A CHANCE. >> AND IN ANY RELATIONSHIP THAT 00:19:13.98\00:19:18.82 YOU HAVE A, DIDN'T YOU HAVE TO STEP OUT AND TAKE A CHANCE? 00:19:18.82\00:19:23.69 WHETHER IT'S WITH YOUR -- EVEN YOUR PARENTS YOU TAKE A CHANCE 00:19:23.69\00:19:28.43 ON TRUSTING THEM WITH SPOUSES WITH FRIENDS YOU KNOW, Well, 00:19:28.43\00:19:34.00 when you go on an airpla YOU'RE GONE AIRPLANE WHAT HE 00:19:34.00\00:19:35.00 THINK THAT IS? IT IS, WE ON THE CHAIR BY FAITH 00:19:35.00\00:19:42.44 HOPING THAT IT WON'T BREAK BREAK SO WANT TO TAKE A CHANCE IN YOUR 00:19:42.44\00:19:51.95 CREATOR >> IN ROMAN 123 IT SAYS EVERY PERSON IS GIVEN A MEASURE 00:19:51.95\00:19:57.19 OF FAITH SO WE HAVE A MEASURE OF FAITH AND THEN WE DEVELOP IT 00:19:57.19\00:20:05.27 THROUGH COME ON, COME ON, COME ON COME ON RECENTLY. 00:20:05.27\00:20:08.64 >> COME ON GIRL. >> ALL RIGHT, COME ON. 00:20:08.64\00:20:12.84 >> BUT YOU HAVE TO TAKE A CHANCE YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING WITH 00:20:12.84\00:20:16.28 THAT LITTLE MEASURE. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:20:16.28\00:20:18.45 THE ACTION YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. >> YOU EXERCISE IT. 00:20:18.45\00:20:22.08 >> HOW BIG DOES YOUR FAITH HAVE TO BE FOR GOD TO HONOR IT? 00:20:22.08\00:20:30.56 >> THE SIZE OF A MUSTARD SEED. >> THE BIBLE SAID THAT THE SOWER 00:20:30.56\00:20:42.64 WENT FORTH FOURTH AND HE JUST SAID IT. 00:20:42.64\00:20:46.07 KEEP AN PASSED ONLY IF HE APPEARED >> THAT'S FINE, SOME 00:20:46.07\00:20:49.71 ARE GIVEN MORE SUMMER GIVEN LAST BUT TO EVERY MAN HAS BEEN GIVEN 00:20:49.71\00:20:55.08 WHAT? A MEASURE. 00:20:55.08\00:20:57.25 THAT'S RIGHT. SO HE IS GIVEN A MEASURE OF 00:20:57.25\00:21:02.36 FAITH SO SOME TEN SOME FIVE SOMEONE BUT WHAT WE measure? And 00:21:02.36\00:21:05.76 I think that parables are THAT I MEASURE? 00:21:05.76\00:21:07.93 AND THAT PRAYER IS A COOL EXAMPLE OF WHAT CAN BE DONE TO 00:21:07.93\00:21:11.13 INCREASE OUR FAITH, I THINK IT'S A BEAUTIFUL THING TO REALIZE 00:21:11.13\00:21:14.54 EACH ONE OF US GOD HAS GIVEN FAITH. 00:21:14.54\00:21:17.07 >> IN DON'T YOU THINK GOD GAVE US A MEASURE THAT WE NEEDED FOR 00:21:17.07\00:21:21.81 EACH Everyone 00:21:21.81\00:21:22.71 EVERYONE GETS A MEASURE THAT THEY NEED. 00:21:22.71\00:21:25.18 BUT DO THEY DO SOMETHING WITH IT? 00:21:25.18\00:21:28.38 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> THIS IS FAITH A CALMING -- 00:21:28.38\00:21:31.22 THIS IS FAITH ACCORDING TO A FARMER WHICH IS WHY I'M WEARING 00:21:31.22\00:21:34.79 THE SILLY HAT. >> I LOVE THAT. 00:21:34.79\00:21:38.49 >> SO, FAITH ACCORDING TO A FARMER BECAUSE REALLY JESUS USED 00:21:38.49\00:21:44.17 SO MANY ILLUSTRATIONS OF of farming to to 00:21:44.17\00:21:46.27 TO TEACH US SPIRITUAL TRUTHS THAT WE COULD RELATE DETAIL AND 00:21:46.27\00:21:49.90 WHEN YOU LOOK AT HIS SEED YOU REALIZE THAT RIGHT NOW THE SEE 00:21:49.90\00:21:56.51 IS DORMANT. BUT YOU PUT THIS SEED FERTILE and some 00:21:56.51\00:22:03.08 SOIL AND THEN THERE IS SOME WATER AND SUNSHINE AND THERE'S 00:22:03.08\00:22:05.29 NO WAY THIS THING WILL STAY DORMANT. 00:22:05.29\00:22:08.42 IN THE COOL THING THAT I LOVE ABOUT talked about that. It's 00:22:08.42\00:22:12.73 it's a it's an THINK ABOUT WHAT SUNSHINE like, oh, this is 00:22:12.73\00:22:19.23 CAN YOU TOUCH SUNSHINE AND SAY THIS IS SUNSHINE OR BE LIKE ADAM 00:22:19.23\00:22:22.84 YES HE CAN DRAW ON ADAM BUT WERE LIKE KNOW THIS IS CRAZY GOD'S 00:22:22.84\00:22:28.08 UNIVERSE IS AMAZING BECAUSE we we draw 00:22:28.08\00:22:30.11 IS STUFF THAT WE DRAW SUNSHINE JON WERE LITTLE KIDS OR WE TRY 00:22:30.11\00:22:33.98 TO SOMEHOW MAKE IT TANGIBLE FOR OURSELVES BUT WE ARE TALKING 00:22:33.98\00:22:37.52 What it is is what THIS IS ENERGY WHAT IT IS IS WHAT IT DOES AND FAITH WHAT IT 00:22:37.52\00:22:40.82 IS IS WHAT IT DOES. >> THAT'S GOOD. 00:22:40.82\00:22:47.56 WE CAN'T SAY I DON'T HAVE ANY FAITH. 00:22:47.56\00:22:50.07 THE POINT IS, WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THE FAITH THAT YOU HAVE 00:22:50.07\00:22:53.27 BEEN GIVEN AND ARE YOU SOWING THE SEED? 00:22:53.27\00:22:56.10 BECAUSE THE MORE WE SOW THE SEED THE MORE IT WILL GROW AND THAT 00:22:56.10\00:22:59.87 IS WHERE THE CHALLENGE of 00:22:59.87\00:23:01.18 OF LIKE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, ARE WILLING TO TAKE THE CHANCE? 00:23:01.18\00:23:04.81 ARE WE WILLING TO THROW IN OUR SEED IN GOD'S VINEYARD BECAUSE 00:23:04.81\00:23:09.42 HE HAS PROMISED THAT IT WILL GROW? 00:23:09.42\00:23:12.69 HIS BUSINESS IS THE GROWING PART AND OUR PART IS THE SPELLING. 00:23:12.69\00:23:16.62 >> OURS IS THE SELLING HIS IS THE GROWING. 00:23:16.62\00:23:20.00 >> I LOVE THAT. >> YOU SAID IT BETTER. 00:23:20.00\00:23:28.37 >> BUT IT REALLY IS TRUE. IT REALLY IS AND THE MORE WE SO 00:23:28.37\00:23:33.58 THE MORE IT DOES the more it does him that's just I mean, the 00:23:33.58\00:23:36.71 more I MEAN THE MORE WE SHARE THE MORE WE SHARE OUR FAITH WITH 00:23:36.71\00:23:42.35 OTHERS, THE MORE GROWS. >> YES I THINK OF YOUR HUSBAND 00:23:42.35\00:23:45.82 AND I THINK GOD GAVE HIM EXTRA MEASURE OF FAITH BECAUSE HE WILL 00:23:45.82\00:23:49.29 NEED IT AND THAT DOESN'T MAKE IN A BETTER PERSON ARE HIGHER THAN 00:23:49.29\00:23:53.26 ANYBODY ELSE BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT MEASURE OF FAITH TO DO God 00:23:53.26\00:23:56.60 gave him GOD GAVE HIM TO DO AND GOD GAVE ME A FAITH MAY BE LESS 00:23:56.60\00:24:03.71 THAN TO BE FAITHFUL IN MY HOME WITH MY KIDS BUT I'D STILL KNEW 00:24:03.71\00:24:05.07 THAT MEASURE OF THE FAITH AND THE MORE I SELL IT IN THE 00:24:05.07\00:24:07.44 MORNING EXERCISE IT THE STRONGER I'm the stronger it's 00:24:07.44\00:24:09.84 BECOME WHICH WAS MY SECOND SECOND PART. 00:24:09.84\00:24:17.69 I BROUGHT THESE EXERCISE BANDS LOCALLY HERE AT WALMART BECAUSE 00:24:17.69\00:24:20.09 HER TRAVELING AND GETTING OUT OF SHAPE AND SO I WAS GOING TO HAVE 00:24:20.09\00:24:24.46 DAK DO THIS BUT YOUR ARM IS BAD. >> I CAN DO THIS TIME. 00:24:24.46\00:24:28.93 >> OKAY LET'S SEE IF WE CAN DO THIS. 00:24:28.93\00:24:36.84 >> is 00:24:36.84\00:24:41.84 >> I WANTED HER TO DO IT BECAUSE SHE STRONG. 00:24:41.84\00:24:44.85 YOU SEE HOW HARD THAT IS? >> YES IT IS NOT EASY. 00:24:44.85\00:24:48.82 I HAVE TO EXERT MY MUSCLE AND PUT SOME EFFORT INTO IT. 00:24:48.82\00:24:52.09 >> BUT THE MORE YOU DID THAT THE MORE YOU DO THAT THE STRONGER 00:24:52.09\00:24:56.02 YOU WILL GET RIGHT? THE MORE WE EXERCISE FAITH, THE 00:24:56.02\00:25:00.20 STRONGER THAT I THINK THAT WE WILL get right. 00:25:00.20\00:25:03.90 >> it's kind of interesting AND IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE YOU 00:25:03.90\00:25:07.17 THINK ABOUT HOW FAITH HAS GROWN AND I THINK ONE OF THE BEST WAYS 00:25:07.17\00:25:11.71 THAT FAITH IS GOING WRONG IS FOR YOUR OWN TRIBULATIONS AND THAT 00:25:11.71\00:25:15.44 DOESN'T SOUND VERY PLEASANT TO US. 00:25:15.44\00:25:17.75 FIRST First, Peter, 1, 7, let's say 00:25:17.75\00:25:19.28 >> I LIKE THAT. >>. 00:25:19.28\00:25:23.92 >> IS ONE OF THE THINGS I LOOKED UP. 00:25:23.92\00:25:27.99 IT SAYS THAT THE GENUINENESS OF YOUR FAITH BEING MUCH MORE 00:25:27.99\00:25:32.53 PRECIOUS THAN GOLD SO YOUR FAITH IS SO PRECIOUS IT'S MORE 00:25:32.53\00:25:34.76 PRECIOUS THAN GOLD OR ANYTHING ELSE BY PARISHES -- AND THEN 00:25:34.76\00:25:42.54 COLD THAT PERISHES YOUR FAITH IS MORE PRECIOUS -- YOUR FAITH IS 00:25:42.54\00:25:49.94 MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD THAT DOES PERISH THOUGH IT IS TESTED 00:25:49.94\00:25:56.99 BY FIRE FIRE MAY BE FOUND TO PRAISE HONOR AND GLORY AT THE 00:25:56.99\00:26:01.26 REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST IT IS POWERED TRIALS THAT CHANGE you all in this. You greatly 00:26:01.26\00:26:10.27 rejoice, thou GREATLY REJOICE NOW FOR A LITTLE 00:26:10.27\00:26:12.20 WHILE IF NEED BE YOU HAVE BEEN FREED BY YOUR VARIOUS TRIALS. 00:26:12.20\00:26:17.04 >> >> OUR TRIALS DO CREATE CREATIVE AS THEY ARE DIFFICULT 00:26:17.04\00:26:19.17 THEY ARE HARD THEY ARE NOT EASY HOWEVER WE NEED TO REJOICE UP TO 00:26:19.17\00:26:22.71 THEM KNOWING WHAT WE WILL COME THROUGH ON THE OTHER END, the 00:26:22.71\00:26:26.82 other side, our OTHER SIDE, OUR FAITH WILL GROW AND BE STRONG. 00:26:26.82\00:26:31.65 BUT DURING THOSE TRIALS, WHAT IS SO BEAUTIFUL IS THAT WE ARE NOT 00:26:31.65\00:26:35.46 IN THE TRIAL ALONE. ISAIAH 433. 00:26:35.46\00:26:45.80 ISAIAH 431 THROUGH THREE. >> NEVER ALONE. 00:26:45.80\00:26:48.00 >> IS FROM THE SECOND HALF OF 43 -- ONE. 00:26:48.00\00:26:53.41 >> YOU ARE NOT ALONE I HAVE REDEEMED YOU HAVE CALLED YOU BY 00:26:53.41\00:26:55.98 YOUR deemed you all due by your name, your mind when 00:26:55.98\00:26:57.58 WHEN YOU PASS THROUGH THE WATERS WILL BE WITH YOU INTO THE RIVERS 00:26:57.58\00:27:01.28 THEY SHALL NOT OVERFLOW YOU WHEN YOU shall not 00:27:01.28\00:27:05.65 NOT BE BURNED NOR SHALL THE FLAME ESCORT YOU FOR ALL I AM 00:27:05.65\00:27:10.19 THE LORD YOUR GOD THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL SEE SAVIOR, YES WE 00:27:10.19\00:27:15.10 WILL HAVE TRIALS AND YES WE WILL HAVE OUR FAITH TESTED AND HONED 00:27:15.10\00:27:20.27 AND SHAPED TO THE TRIALS he says when you go through 00:27:20.27\00:27:22.67 SAYS WHEN YOU GO THROUGH THOSE TRIALS I WILL BE WITH THEO, I 00:27:22.67\00:27:26.81 NOT LEAVING YOU THERE TO GO TO THE TRIAL ALONE I WILL GO 00:27:26.81\00:27:31.11 THROUGH IT AND AT THE END OF IT YOU WILL COME OUT A BETTER 00:27:31.11\00:27:35.15 PERSON IF YOU HOLD ON IF YOU HOLD ONTO HIM. 00:27:35.15\00:27:38.79 I LOVE THE IDEA THAT HE SAYS FEAR NOT I HAVE REDEEMED YOU, I 00:27:38.79\00:27:43.36 HAVE CALLED YOU BY YOUR NAME. YOU ARE MINE, THERE IS NOTHING 00:27:43.36\00:27:48.30 SO INTIMATE THAN BEING CALLED BY YOUR NAME BY THE CREATOR OF the 00:27:48.30\00:27:54.67 universe will UNIVERSE WHO CALLS US BY NAME WHO KNOWS EVERY HAIR 00:27:54.67\00:27:58.54 ON HER HEAD AND HE KNOWS HOW MUCH WE CAN BEAR AND HE WITH 00:27:58.54\00:28:04.95 WHATEVER GOES ON HE WILL TEMPER THAT AND MAKE SURE IT IS NOT 00:28:04.95\00:28:10.62 MORE THAN WHAT WE CAN BEAR BUT HE WILL BRING US THROUGH AND WE 00:28:10.62\00:28:15.12 WILL HAVE OUR FAITH IMPROVED AND HEIGHTENED AND HE WILL SHOW so 00:28:15.12\00:28:20.16 >> strong when all have each of our trials 00:28:20.16\00:28:22.63 STRONG. >> EACH OF OUR TRIALS ARE 00:28:22.63\00:28:27.04 CUSTOM-MADE TO US. CAP >> CUSTOM-MADE TRIALS. 00:28:27.04\00:28:31.44 >> IN THE BIBLE IS FULL OF EXAMPLES OF HOW GOD NEVER -- THE 00:28:31.44\00:28:37.45 HEBREWS WERE NOT IN THE FIRE ALONE AND EVERYONE THOUGHT THEY 00:28:37.45\00:28:39.71 WERE ALONE, OVER OVER AND OVER THE BIBLE HAS STORIES AND 00:28:39.71\00:28:46.19 TESTIMONIES THAT SHOWS US THAT WE DO NOT WALK ALONE WITHOUT 00:28:46.19\00:28:49.62 HIM. MY HEART BREAKS JUST BECAUSE I'M 00:28:49.62\00:28:52.29 A CHRISTIAN DOES NOT MEAN THE SAME THING DOESN'T HAPPEN TO ME 00:28:52.29\00:28:55.40 THAT HAPPENS OTHER PEOPLE IN THE WORLD BUT IT BREAKS MY HEART 00:28:55.40\00:28:58.40 THEY ARE GOING THROUGH THOSE SAME TRIALS ALONE. 00:28:58.40\00:29:05.17 I AM NEVER ALONE IN MY TRIALS AND MY PAIN THE LORD IS RIGHT 00:29:05.17\00:29:08.91 THERE WITH ME. >> AMEN. 00:29:08.91\00:29:10.45 >> AND THAT GROWS YOUR FAITH. >> IT SURE lot of faith grows 00:29:10.45\00:29:15.38 through sewing face >> FAITH GROWS THROUGH SHARING 00:29:15.38\00:29:18.15 AND FAITH GROUPS TO TRIALS. >> FAITH IS REVEALED IN TRIALS. 00:29:18.15\00:29:23.22 >> YES. >> AMEN TO THAT. 00:29:23.22\00:29:26.33 I FEEL THAT. >> AND FAITH GROWS TO THE WORD 00:29:26.33\00:29:28.70 OF GOD. >> THAT'S RIGHT. 00:29:28.70\00:29:31.90 >> FAITH COMES BY HEARING AND HEARING BY THE WORD OF GOD. 00:29:31.90\00:29:36.27 >> THAT'S RIGHT. >> WE COULD SPEND A LONG TIME 00:29:36.27\00:29:39.41 JUST DISCUSSING FAITH BUT I WILL JUMP IN AND LET LADY SHARE 00:29:39.41\00:29:43.48 INDIVIDUAL TOPICS BUT BEFORE THAT I WANT TO REMIND YOU THIS 00:29:43.48\00:29:45.78 IS A LIVE PROGRAM WE WILL TAKE YOUR PRAYER REQUESTS, if you 00:29:45.78\00:29:50.25 have BEFORE THE THRONE OF CHRIST IF YOU HAVE A NEED, IF YOU HAVE 00:29:50.25\00:29:54.19 A BURDEN, IF SOMETHING IS TROUBLING YOU TONIGHT AND YOU that situation, send us a text 00:29:54.19\00:29:59.13 THAT SITUATION IS AND IS A TEXT RIGHT NOW, (618)228-3975 THAT 00:29:59.13\00:30:05.43 NUMBER IS (618)228-3975 OR YOU COULD E-MAIL US YOUR PRAYER 00:30:05.43\00:30:13.11 REQUEST AT THE LIVE EVENT AT THREE ABN .TV. 00:30:13.11\00:30:18.18 E-MAIL ADDRESS ONE MORE TIME IS LIVE AT THREE A ABN As we're 00:30:18.18\00:30:24.19 talking just now. AND WE ARE TALKING JUST NOW I SAW A PROMPTING IN MICE THAT I 00:30:24.19\00:30:31.19 NEGLECTED TO PRAY WITH YOU ALL. LET'S GO TO THE LORD IT'S A 00:30:31.19\00:30:34.56 LITTLE BIT LATE WHICH SHOULD HAVE AT THE BEGINNING AND I'M 00:30:34.56\00:30:37.00 BEING HONEST WITH YOU WE HAD PRAYER BEFORE HE before we ever 00:30:37.00\00:30:41.77 went live But we didn't pray with you together. So let's pray. And then I'm going to kick 00:30:41.77\00:30:45.61 it over to Doctor DIDN'T PRAY WITH YOU TOGETHER SO 00:30:45.61\00:30:46.71 LET'S PRAY THAT I WILL KICK IT OVER TO DOCTOR BOND AND WILL 00:30:46.71\00:30:48.08 SHARE ABOUT FAITH. >> HOLY FATHER WOULD COME BEFORE 00:30:48.08\00:30:50.21 YOU TO NAME OF JESUS AND WE ARE SO GRATEFUL FOR YOUR WORD. 00:30:50.21\00:30:54.15 WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR SPIRIT, WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE BLOOD OF 00:30:54.15\00:30:59.25 JESUS THAT CLEANSES US FROM ALL SIN AND TONIGHT WE ARE GRATEFUL 00:30:59.25\00:31:05.06 FOR TRIAL. WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR FAITH, WE 00:31:05.06\00:31:10.20 ARE GRATEFUL THAT those trials. You want to 00:31:10.20\00:31:15.04 TRIALS TO GROW US INTO THE INDIVIDUAL OF YOU AND RIGHT NOW 00:31:15.04\00:31:18.71 WE ASK YOU FOR HEART THAT IS OPEN, A mind that is receptive 00:31:18.71\00:31:23.38 to the words in TO THE WORD IN YOUR WORD THE 00:31:23.38\00:31:27.85 BIBLE. TO THE WORD THAT MY SISTERS WILL 00:31:27.85\00:31:30.52 SHARE TONIGHT UNDER THE ANOINTING OF YOUR HOLY SPIRIT 00:31:30.52\00:31:33.99 THAT YOU WOULD GIVE US A RECEPTIVE HEART TO HEAR AND TO 00:31:33.99\00:31:38.66 WALK IN OBEDIENCE TO WHAT WE HEAR WE GIVE YOU THIS NIGHT OUR 00:31:38.66\00:31:45.07 HEARTS AND OUR LIVES AND WE THINK in 00:31:45.07\00:31:50.57 >> So Doctor, Yvonne, talk to us about faith. 00:31:50.57\00:31:52.87 AMEN. >> DOCTOR BOND, TALK TO US ABOUT 00:31:52.87\00:31:55.64 FAITH WITH YOUR CHILDREN. >> THIS IS SUCH AN NEAR AND DEAR 00:31:55.64\00:32:03.35 TOPIC TO ME BECAUSE, I WATCHED MY CHILDREN AND CHILDREN BOTH OF 00:32:03.35\00:32:12.16 THEM GO AWAY FROM GOD. I WANT TO START WITH A VERSE 00:32:12.16\00:32:18.50 THAT IS DEUTERONOMY 77 VERSE NINE. 00:32:18.50\00:32:24.71 >> DEUTERONOMY 79. IT IS THEREFORE KNOW THAT THE 00:32:24.71\00:32:30.38 LORD YOUR GOD, HE IS GOD, THE FAITHFUL GOD WHO KEEPS COVENANT 00:32:30.38\00:32:36.58 AND MERCY FOR A THOUSAND GENERATIONS WITH THOSE WHO LOVE 00:32:36.58\00:32:40.19 HIM AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, AND THEN VERSE 12 SAYS THEN IT 00:32:40.19\00:32:45.66 SHALL COME TO PASS BECAUSE YOU LISTEN TO THESE JUDGMENTS AND 00:32:45.66\00:32:49.16 KEEP AND that the Lord, your God will keep you. 00:32:49.16\00:32:50.57 YOUR GOD WILL KEEP YOU WITH -- WILL KEEP WITH YOU THE COVENANT 00:32:50.57\00:32:56.20 AND THE MERCY WITH HEAT -- WITH HIS SWORD TO YOUR FATHERS. 00:32:56.20\00:33:03.65 MY JOURNEYING JOURNEY STARTED ACTUALLY BEFORE MY CHILDREN. 00:33:03.65\00:33:14.06 MY GRANDMOTHER AND MY PARENTS PRAYED FOR ME BECAUSE I LEFT THE 00:33:14.06\00:33:20.66 LORD LORD WANTED WENT TO THE MUSIC BUSINESS I was 19. My 00:33:20.66\00:33:23.37 sister I WAS 19 MY SISTER WAS NINE YEARS OLD AND SO I WENT TO 00:33:23.37\00:33:29.84 THE MUSIC BUSINESS AND MY SISTER WENT AND JUST GOT INVOLVED IN 00:33:29.84\00:33:36.24 THE STREET TO STREET VIOLENCE AND MY GRANDMOTHER MY PATERNAL 00:33:36.24\00:33:40.15 AND MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER'S WERE PRAYING WOMEN OF GOD AND THE 00:33:40.15\00:33:46.49 PRAYED FOR US AS THEY WATCHED US GO OUR SEPARATE WAYS AND LEAVE 00:33:46.49\00:33:56.67 LEAVE GOD BUT GOD IS FAITHFUL BECAUSE HE KEEPS COVENANT WITH 00:33:56.67\00:34:01.80 THE GENERATIONS AND SO MY GRANDMOTHERS, MY MOTHER WHO IS 00:34:01.80\00:34:08.98 SLEEPING WITH JESUS PRAYED FOR US AND IN 1985 I CAME the Lord 00:34:08.98\00:34:13.55 as a Newell. THE LORD AND AS A OF MY CRANE GRANDMOTHER. 00:34:13.55\00:34:19.79 I CAME then I had my own children. Mark is my 00:34:19.79\00:34:22.59 OWN CHILDREN AND MARK WAS MY FIRST BORN AND I GOT HIS 00:34:22.59\00:34:27.40 PERMISSION TO SHARE HIS TESTIMONY I SAID IS IT OKAY IF I 00:34:27.40\00:34:29.50 TELL YOUR STORY AND HE SAID So I want you to so. 00:34:29.50\00:34:31.77 WANT YOU. >> MARK WAS VERY STRONG-WILLED 00:34:31.77\00:34:37.61 AND HE WAS MY STRONG-WILLED CHILD, HE DID HIS OWN things the 00:34:37.61\00:34:41.11 HAD TO LEARN THINGS THE HARD WAY, HE TRAINED US. 00:34:41.11\00:34:48.32 PASSED. SET UP US TRAINING HIM HE 00:34:48.32\00:34:50.42 TRAINED US, HE WAS QUITE AN INTERESTING CHILD, AND HE WAS A 00:34:50.42\00:34:55.12 PRIVILEGE CHILD BECAUSE OF THE TIME I WAS THE MUSIC INDUSTRY 00:34:55.12\00:34:58.19 AND I HAD A LOT OF MONEY AND SO I GAVE THEM THE BEST OF 00:34:58.19\00:35:01.96 EVERYTHING CLOTHES, EVERY TIME THAT EVERY KIND OF LESSON HE 00:35:01.96\00:35:04.50 WANTED HE GOT ALL OF THAT BUT WHAT I DID NOT GIVE HIM WAS A 00:35:04.50\00:35:10.27 STRONG SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION BECAUSE AT THAT POINT I WAS NOT 00:35:10.27\00:35:14.11 WALKING WITH THE LORD AND SO MARK WHEN HE WAS ABOUT 18 JUST 00:35:14.11\00:35:22.18 HE HAD JUST GONE INTO got a call from 00:35:22.18\00:35:25.72 THINGS. I GOT A CALL FROM A FRIEND FROM 00:35:25.72\00:35:28.06 CHURCH AND SHE SAID, I HATE TO TELL YOU THIS BUT MARK HAS BEEN 00:35:28.06\00:35:33.96 SELLING DRUGS, HE OUT THE WRONG PEOPLE, AND I JUST WAS 00:35:33.96\00:35:40.30 OVERWHELMED BECAUSE I KNEW BY THAT TIME I WAS BACK WITH THE 00:35:40.30\00:35:43.30 LORD AND THANKFUL TO BE BACK WITH HIM AND I KNEW HOW SATAN 00:35:43.30\00:35:49.71 ROLLS, I KNOW HOW HE OPERATES AND I KNEW THAT HE WOULD TRY TO 00:35:49.71\00:35:53.65 KILL MY CHILD WHILE HE WAS NOT so 00:35:53.65\00:35:56.02 WITH GOD AND SO I FELL ON MY KNEES AND I WAS CRYING I MEAN 00:35:56.02\00:36:00.49 BOO-HOO AD BEFORE GOD UGLY FACE OF TEARS AND THOSE RUNNING 00:36:00.49\00:36:06.09 THE-WHOLE NINE. AND I WAS SAYING my child 00:36:06.09\00:36:09.20 DO NOT LET MY CHILD DIE IN HIS HANDS UP PLEASE SAVE HIM AND 00:36:09.20\00:36:13.90 WHILE I WAS PRAYING AND I KNEW THIS WAS GOD THE LORD SPOKE TO 00:36:13.90\00:36:20.54 ME SO CLEARLY AND HE QUOTED ISAIAH 4925. 00:36:20.54\00:36:28.82 HE SAID CONTEND WITH ME AND I WILL SAVE FIVE CHILDREN AND WHEN 00:36:28.82\00:36:32.02 HE SAID THAT I STOPPED CRYING RIGHT AWAY BECAUSE I KNEW IT HE 00:36:32.02\00:36:35.46 MADE A PROMISE TO ME RIGHT THEN AND THERE THAT HE WOULD SAVE MY 00:36:35.46\00:36:41.66 CHILDREN, MY CHILDREN. AND SO OVER THE YEARS I WATCHED 00:36:41.66\00:36:47.27 MARK JUST GO DOWN down. He had to hit rock bottom. Many ended 00:36:47.27\00:36:51.51 up HE HAD TO HIT ROCK BOTTOM IN HE ENDED UP GOING TO A DRUG 00:36:51.51\00:36:56.38 REALITY -- BUT CHRISTIAN DRUG REHABILITATION CENTER BEFORE HE 00:36:56.38\00:37:00.28 WENT THERE HE HAD ALL THESE TWISTED IDEAS ABOUT GOD. 00:37:00.28\00:37:04.29 HE HAD GOTTEN INTO A FERRY AND IDEOLOGY THINKING THAT LUCIFER 00:37:04.29\00:37:08.49 WAS STRONGER THAN GOD AND I WOULD LIKE WHO WAS A KID IS 00:37:08.49\00:37:13.36 THIS. HOW IS THIS MY CHILD AND WHERE 00:37:13.36\00:37:15.86 DID THIS COME FROM AND YET I'M KNEW THAT NO MATTER WHAT HE 00:37:15.86\00:37:21.87 SAID, NO MATTER WHAT HE DID, HOW FAR DOWN HE WENT GOD HAD 00:37:21.87\00:37:26.88 PROMISED ME THAT HE WAS GOING TO SAVE HIM AND I DIDN'T KNOW IT 00:37:26.88\00:37:29.88 WILL BE ON HIS DEATHBED I DIDN'T KNOW didn't know what how how. I 00:37:29.88\00:37:36.08 knew. KNOW I KNEW -- I DIDN'T KNOW HOW 00:37:36.08\00:37:37.95 BUT I KNEW IT. I KNEW THAT GOD WAS GOING TO 00:37:37.95\00:37:42.02 SAVE HIM AND SO MARK HE IS JUST FLOUNDERING. 00:37:42.02\00:37:48.96 HE WAS FLOUNDERING AND THEN JASON WHEN HE WAS ABOUT 14 HE 00:37:48.96\00:37:55.37 STARTED EXPERIMENTING WITH MARIJUANA AND wrong 00:37:55.37\00:37:58.57 WRONG PEOPLE AS WELL AND THEN HE WENT AND STAYED WITH HIS DAD AND 00:37:58.57\00:38:03.65 HE WAS JUST GETTING INTO MORE DRUG USE AND I'M THINKING THIS 00:38:03.65\00:38:09.62 IS JUST YOU KNOW MY KIDS THEY ARE NOT WALKING WITH GOD AND SO 00:38:09.62\00:38:17.83 I KNEW AGAIN THAT GOD IS FAITHFUL. 00:38:17.83\00:38:23.16 HE IS A FAITHFUL GOD GOD. I WATCHED BOTH OF THEM AS THEY 00:38:23.16\00:38:30.61 WERE GOING AWAY FROM GOD AND I PRAYED, I WAS PRAYING FOR BOTH 00:38:30.61\00:38:36.01 OF THEM. JASON ENDED UP COMING HERE AND I 00:38:36.01\00:38:43.62 GET SO MANY PEOPLE SAYING HOW THEY HAVE WATCHED HIM GROW OVER 00:38:43.62\00:38:49.09 THE PASS YEARS. THE LORD BROUGHT HIM HERE WHILE 00:38:49.09\00:38:54.20 HE WAS -- JASON WAS AND THE LORD I NEEDED -- Dallas line news. 00:38:54.20\00:39:04.94 NEEDED AN ASSISTANT HERE HE HAD ASSISTED ME AND I THOUGHT MAYBE 00:39:04.94\00:39:09.41 I COULD GET HIM HERE AND HE CAN BE IN A SPIRITUAL ENVIRONMENT 00:39:09.41\00:39:13.85 AND THERE IS A METHOD TO MY MADNESS BUT HE HAD A VERY 00:39:13.85\00:39:17.29 SUCCESSFUL LIFE GOING ON HE DID BUT WHEN HE CAME HERE HE CAME 00:39:17.29\00:39:21.49 HERE DURING THE DAY OF PRAYER AND DURING THE DAY OF PRAYER 00:39:21.49\00:39:26.90 DANNY HAD SAID IF YOU LEAVE HERE AND YOU CAN'T GET THIS PLACE OFF 00:39:26.90\00:39:31.40 YOUR MIND THIS IS WHERE GOD WOULD HAVE EBAY AND JASON 00:39:31.40\00:39:34.70 THOUGHT HE NEEDED A CHANGE AND SO THE LORD BROUGHT HIM HERE AND 00:39:34.70\00:39:40.61 YOU HAVE SEEN WHAT GOD So Jason, got 00:39:40.61\00:39:44.01 WITH THE JASON HE GOT BAPTIZED IN HIS WALKING WITH THE LORD AND 00:39:44.01\00:39:47.85 I CAN SAY BY THE GRACE OF GOD THAT HE IS A MAN OF GOD NOW. 00:39:47.85\00:39:53.66 I AM THANKFUL FOR THAT. I WAS STILL WATCHING MARK 00:39:53.66\00:39:59.63 FLOUNDER BUT THEN AFTER HE LEFT THE CHRISTIAN REHAB, WHILE HE 00:39:59.63\00:40:05.90 WAS THERE THEY STARTED HAVING WORSHIP AND READING THE STEPS TO 00:40:05.90\00:40:10.44 CHRIST AND THAT TURNED HIM AROUND HE BEGAN TO PERCEIVE GOD 00:40:10.44\00:40:16.71 DIFFERENTLY HE BEGAN TO SEE THAT MAY BE THERE IS MORE TO THIS 00:40:16.71\00:40:21.88 THAN I HAVE GIVEN YOU CREDIT FOR AND THEN HE LEFT THAT REHAB BUT 00:40:21.88\00:40:29.06 HE STARTED PRAYING AND AS HE BEGAN TO PRAY HIS LIFE BEGAN TO 00:40:29.06\00:40:34.96 CHANGE, HE GOT A TRADE, HE BECAME A TRUCKER, TRUCK DRIVER, 00:40:34.96\00:40:42.87 AND HE BEGAN TO HAVE WORSHIP AND HE BEGAN TO TRUST GOD AND HE 00:40:42.87\00:40:51.88 BEGAN TO SEE THAT GOD WAS ALL-POWERFUL AND HE WENT FROM 00:40:51.88\00:40:56.92 THINKING THAT CRAZY THING ABOUT LUCIFER CALLING JESUS HIS MASTER 00:40:56.92\00:41:02.59 TO CALL JESUS HIS MASTER TO CALL HIM JESUS IS SAVIOR SAVIOR AND I 00:41:02.59\00:41:09.56 HAD THE PRIVILEGE LAST SABBATH OF WATCHING MY CHILD GET 00:41:09.56\00:41:14.34 BAPTIZED AND SO NOW HE IS A BAPTIZED MEMBER OF OUR CHURCH 00:41:14.34\00:41:18.14 AND THEN ON SUNDAY HE GOT MARRIED AND THAT IT WAS A 00:41:18.14\00:41:23.61 POWERFUL WEEKEND. >> IT COULDN'T GET BETTER. 00:41:23.61\00:41:27.35 >> HE IS MARRIED HE GOT BAPTIZED, HE CLAIMS JESUS AT HIS 00:41:27.35\00:41:32.55 SAVIOR, AND I JUST WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU NEW MOTHERS WHO 00:41:32.55\00:41:36.39 ARE FEELING LIKE YOUR CHILDREN ARE NOT WALKING WITH THE LORD, I 00:41:36.39\00:41:41.36 KNOW WHERE YOU ARE BUT JUST TRUST GOD, HE IS FAITHFUL. 00:41:41.36\00:41:45.17 IT IS HE WHO IS have to keep. 00:41:45.17\00:41:49.64 MUST KEEP PRAYING. WE HAVE TO KEEP LAYING THEM OUT 00:41:49.64\00:41:52.94 BEFORE GOD AND ASKING GOD PLEASE TO SAVE THEM AND GOD IS WORKING 00:41:52.94\00:41:57.98 BEHIND THE SCENES. HE IS CHIPPING AWAY AT SELF, HE 00:41:57.98\00:42:02.45 IS MANIFESTING HIMSELF TO THEM SO THAT THEY COME TO KNOW HIM 00:42:02.45\00:42:07.49 FOR THEMSELVES. OUR CHILDREN CAN'T KNOW GOD 00:42:07.49\00:42:12.06 THROUGH US. THEY HAVE TO HAVE THEIR OWN 00:42:12.06\00:42:16.06 RELATIONSHIPS, THEIR OWN TESTIMONIES, THEIR OWN JOURNEY 00:42:16.06\00:42:20.24 AND IF WE CONTINUE TO LIFT THEM UP WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE, THE 00:42:20.24\00:42:26.51 LORD IS FAITHFUL, BUT PRAYER AND FAITH TO GO THERE IS SOMETHING 00:42:26.51\00:42:36.99 THAT I WANTED TO READ, PRAYER AND PROMISES, THESE ARE COMMENTS 00:42:36.99\00:42:42.96 FROM EDUCATION, ELLEN WHITE'S BOOK EDUCATION PAGE 257 57 to 00:42:42.96\00:42:47.56 58. It IT SAYS PRAYER AND FAITH ARE CLOSELY ALLIED AND THEY NEED 00:42:47.56\00:42:52.50 TO BE STUDIED TOGETHER AND THE PRAYER OF FAITH THERE IS A 00:42:52.50\00:42:55.10 DIVINE SCIENCE, IT IS A SCIENCE THAT EVERYONE WHO WOULD MAKE HIS 00:42:55.10\00:42:59.91 LIFE WORK AS SUCCESS AND MUST UNDERSTAND, CHRIST SAID, WHAT 00:42:59.91\00:43:04.38 THINGS EVER YOU DESIRE WHEN YOU PRAY BELIEVE THAT YOU RECEIVE 00:43:04.38\00:43:07.82 THEM AND YOU SHALL HAVE THEM MARK 1124 HE MAKES IT PLAIN THAT 00:43:07.82\00:43:14.19 OUR ASKING MUST BE ACCORDING TO GOD'S WILL, WE MUST ASK FOR THE 00:43:14.19\00:43:18.33 THINGS THAT HE HAS PROMISED AND WHAT EVER WE RECEIVE MUST BE 00:43:18.33\00:43:23.10 USED IN DOING HIS WILL THE CONDITIONS MET THE PROMISE IS 00:43:23.10\00:43:27.60 UNEQUIVOCAL UNEQUIVOCAL BOTH. AND SO WHEN WE PRAY WE MUST HAVE 00:43:27.60\00:43:32.51 FAITH THAT GOD IS GOING TO ANSWER THE PRAYER THIS IS HIS 00:43:32.51\00:43:36.81 WILL HE LOVES HER CHILDREN MORE THAN WE DO AND SO WE had. 00:43:36.81\00:43:43.85 THIS JOURNEY THAT THEY HAVE IS THAT GOD IS LIKE A GIANT 00:43:43.85\00:43:50.66 FISHERMAN AND HE LET YOU GET OUT THERE AND THAT HE JUST THRILLS 00:43:50.66\00:43:54.83 YOU IN. HE REELS YOU BACK IN AND I FEEL 00:43:54.83\00:43:58.10 LIKE THAT IS WHAT GOD HAS DONE WITH MY CHILDREN AND I JUST 00:43:58.10\00:44:04.27 PRAYED TO HIM BECAUSE I KNOW THAT HE ANSWERED MY PRAYERS 00:44:04.27\00:44:07.41 EVERY other thing I wanted to tell you every day. 00:44:07.41\00:44:09.68 I WANTED TO TELL YOU EVERY DAY AT NOON ONE OF MY FRIENDS AT A 00:44:09.68\00:44:16.12 PRAY FOR YOUR SONS EVERY DAY AT NOON AND SO EVERY DAY WE BEGAN 00:44:16.12\00:44:20.72 TO to pray for you've 00:44:20.72\00:44:22.99 >> YOU TO BE DOING THAT FOR YEARS. 00:44:22.99\00:44:24.29 >> I HEAR YOUR ALARM GOING OFF IN THE OFFICE. 00:44:24.29\00:44:27.66 >> I GOTTA PRAY FOR MY BOYS. >> YES YES AND GOD AGAIN HE 00:44:27.66\00:44:35.60 ANSWERED THE STILL I OF COURSE CONSTANTLY KEEP THEM LIFTED UP 00:44:35.60\00:44:41.11 BUT I SEE THE FRUIT OF PRAYER AND KNOWING THAT GOD HAS A PLAN 00:44:41.11\00:44:48.12 FOR THEM, HE HAS HIS OWN PLAN FOR THEM AND SO have to 00:44:48.12\00:44:52.02 BELIEVE AND KNOW THAT GOD WILL ANSWER THE PRAYER. 00:44:52.02\00:44:55.32 >> PRAISE THE LORD. >> DID MARK DISQUALIFIED HIMSELF 00:44:55.32\00:44:59.73 A WIFE? >> WHILE KIND OF. 00:44:59.73\00:45:03.77 THE LORD SAID I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO SAY HOW BUT THE LORD 00:45:03.77\00:45:05.93 SENT HER TO HIM AND SHE IS SUCH A BLESSING. 00:45:05.93\00:45:11.77 SHE IS FROM HAWAII. >> HE BROUGHT HER A GODLY WOMAN 00:45:11.77\00:45:16.95 THAT WILL HELP HIM GROW TOGETHER AS A COUPLE. 00:45:16.95\00:45:20.95 >> ABSOLUTELY THAT WAS ANOTHER PRAYER THAT I HAD. 00:45:20.95\00:45:24.75 >> LORD PLEASE SEND MY SON A GODLY WIFE BECAUSE WE EVERY 00:45:24.75\00:45:29.82 MARRY WILL IMPACT YOUR I mean, did 00:45:29.82\00:45:33.16 THE IMPACT YOU FOR ETERNITY EITHER YOU ARE GOING TO AND SO 00:45:33.16\00:45:40.14 THE LORD SENT HIM A WONDERFUL WIFE AND HIS LIFE IS TOTALLY 00:45:40.14\00:45:46.74 TRANSFORMED, HIS COUNTENANCE IS TRANSFORMED, HE different 00:45:46.74\00:45:49.78 DIFFERENT PERSON BECAUSE HE IS WALKING WITH THE LORD, SO BE 00:45:49.78\00:45:53.82 ENCOURAGE MOTHERS AND FATHERS WHO HAVE CHILDREN WHO ARE 00:45:53.82\00:45:59.62 OUTSIDE OR OUTSIDE, DON'T BE DISCOURAGED, KNOW THAT GOD HAS 00:45:59.62\00:46:03.46 MADE PLANS FOR YOUR CHILDREN. >> SHE IS IN LOVE WITH HIS GOD 00:46:03.46\00:46:07.76 AND HE IS IN LOVE WITH HIS WIFE. >> I LOVE YOUR STORY I THINK 00:46:07.76\00:46:15.64 ABOUT THAT VERSE THAT YOU you read. >> Where you were sobbing. 00:46:15.64\00:46:18.41 Yeah. And you read it and you YOU READ IT AND YOU ACCEPTED IT 00:46:18.41\00:46:22.71 BUT YOU HEARD IT. >> THEY BROUGHT IT TO YOUR MIND 00:46:22.71\00:46:27.18 AND THEY BELIEVED IN THE WORD OF GOD SO MUCH SO THAT YOU yet you 00:46:27.18\00:46:31.39 CRYING AND HE WENT OUT FROM THERE BUT I'M SURE THROUGH THAT 00:46:31.39\00:46:35.26 PROCESS THERE ARE TIMES OF AGONY AND PRAYING YOUR >> pain and 00:46:35.26\00:46:39.56 agony. NEVER DOUBTED my thought, right? But I was another like I 00:46:39.56\00:46:57.38 was You know, I was in agony waiting the low end when he spoke to me. >> I knew it was he 00:46:57.38\00:47:05.35 so why would a cry anymore? He I'm YOU I CRY? I didn't know 00:47:05.35\00:47:09.96 I WILL SAVE YOUR CHILDREN I DIDN'T KNOW HOW FROM THAT DAY 00:47:09.96\00:47:12.69 MARK WAS 18 HE IS 45 YEARS OLD NOW AND SO UNTIL HE HE WAS OUT 00:47:12.69\00:47:21.27 THERE THERE. >> WE FEEL PAIN FOR OUR CHILDREN 00:47:21.27\00:47:26.14 YOU HAD FAITH YOU KNEW GOD WOULD SAVE HIM BUT AS YOU SAW 00:47:26.14\00:47:29.34 SOMETIMES EASY WITH OUR CHILDREN ARE GOING >> EMPATHY AND PAIN. I knew he was The low was 00:47:29.34\00:47:39.52 I KNEW THE LORD WOULD SAVE THEM. >> I KNEW HOW THAT VERSE WAS FOR 00:47:39.72\00:47:43.43 YOU BUT ALSO FOR ME AND ALSO FOR EVERY MOTHER AND FATHER THAT 00:47:43.43\00:47:49.10 WORD IS FOR ALL OF US. WE WILL CLEAN IT BY FAITH WHAT 00:47:49.10\00:47:54.37 HE HAS DONE FOR OTHERS HE WILL DO. 00:47:54.37\00:47:59.91 CHECK. >> AND WE HAVE TO HOLD ONTO we 00:47:59.91\00:48:02.61 THAT. THIS IS WHERE WE SEE THE WORD OF 00:48:02.61\00:48:12.59 GOD COMBINED SAINTS WE LOVE THAT, CLAIMING THAT PROMISE OVER 00:48:12.59\00:48:16.56 YOUR SON'S LIFE, LET'S SPEND A MOMENT IN PRAYER HERE FOR MOMS 00:48:16.56\00:48:20.53 AND DADS. I DON'T KNOW AT right now. You might be having 00:48:20.53\00:48:23.06 children, MAYBE OR GRANDCHILDREN WHO HAVE 00:48:23.06\00:48:26.17 WALKED AWAY FROM GOD. THEY ARE DOING THEIR OWN THING 00:48:26.17\00:48:30.34 WHO ARE SELLING NOT GOOD SEEDS BUT WILD OATS AND YOU MAY BE 00:48:30.34\00:48:34.34 SAYING BUT GOD IS GONNA SAVE THEM IN HIS KINGDOM KNOW THAT 00:48:34.34\00:48:39.35 GOD WANTS TO SAVE YOUR his 00:48:39.35\00:48:41.32 AND HIS KINGDOM AND HE WILL CONTEND WITH THOSE THAT CONTEND 00:48:41.32\00:48:44.55 WITH YOU AND HE WILL SAVE YOUR CHILDREN. 00:48:44.55\00:48:48.39 ANGIE, DO YOU WANT TO PRAY ESPECIALLY FOR THE MOMS AND 00:48:48.39\00:48:51.46 DADS? >> YES LET'S BOW OUR HEADS. W 00:48:51.46\00:48:54.46 >> GRACIOUS HEAVENLY FATHER WE COME TO THE NAME OF JESUS THE 00:48:54.46\00:48:57.30 NAME OF THE LORD, I THINK YOU FOR THIS TESTIMONY UPON GAVE. 00:48:57.30\00:49:03.37 SHE IS A LIVING WITNESS OF WHAT GOD CAN DEAL WITH. 00:49:03.37\00:49:06.78 I PRAY FOR THE MOTHERS EVEN THE FATHERS OUT THERE GRANDPARENTS 00:49:06.78\00:49:12.78 WHO ARE RAISING THEIR GRANDCHILDREN AND AUNTS AND 00:49:12.78\00:49:14.68 UNCLES WHO ARE RAISING NIECES AND NEPHEWS AND I THAT THE WORD 00:49:14.68\00:49:21.06 not THAT THEY WILL NOT LET GO OF FAITH AND THAT THEY HOLD ON AND 00:49:21.06\00:49:27.00 THAT THE BIBLE SAYS CONTEND WITH ME AND I WILL CONTEND WITH YOU 00:49:27.00\00:49:29.93 THAT'S A PROMISE I WILL SAVE YOUR CHILDREN. 00:49:29.93\00:49:33.17 >> I PRAY FATHER IN A SPECIAL WAY FOR THOSE PARENTS THOSE WHO 00:49:33.17\00:49:37.21 WERE IN THE PARENT ROLE I JUST PRAY THAT YOU TOUCH THEIR 00:49:37.21\00:49:42.04 CHILDREN GRANDCHILDREN WHATEVER THEY ARE PEEK TO THEM AND I PRAY 00:49:42.04\00:49:46.58 FATHER THAT HAVE BEEN, WE NOW HAVE WILL BE BEAUTIFUL WHEN THEY 00:49:46.58\00:49:51.32 GET THERE AND THEY TURNED AND THEY SEE THAT CHILD WHO THEY 00:49:51.32\00:49:54.52 HAVE BEEN PRAYING I JUST PRAY FOR GUIDANCE AND PROTECTION OF 00:49:54.52\00:49:58.23 HER THEM AS THEY WERE IN THE WORLD AND THAT NO HURT HARM OR 00:49:58.23\00:50:02.46 DANGER COMES TO ANY OF THEM AND WE PRAISE we 00:50:02.46\00:50:07.20 JESUS ON AMEN. >> AMEN. 00:50:07.20\00:50:09.90 >> THINK YOU FOR TEXTING AND YOUR PRAYER REQUESTS, THEY ARE 00:50:09.90\00:50:13.71 COMING IN ALREADY AND I WANT TO READ ONE RIGHT NOW, IF YOU HAVE 00:50:13.71\00:50:16.51 A PRAYER REQUEST SPECIFICALLY REGARDING YOUR CHILDREN OR YOUR 00:50:16.51\00:50:21.88 HEALTH OR YOUR HEALING on your 00:50:21.88\00:50:23.28 PASTOR OR ANYTHING ELSE ON YOUR HEART TONIGHT TEXT US AND WE 00:50:23.28\00:50:27.09 WANT TO PRAY FOR YOU YOU ARE OUR FAMILY AND WE LOVE YOU TEXT US 00:50:27.09\00:50:32.73 2, 8, AT (618)228-3975 THAT NUMBER AGAIN IS (618)228-3975 OR 00:50:32.73\00:50:40.47 YOU CAN E-MAIL US E at 3 a p n 00:50:40.47\00:50:43.67 33 A . T DATES. WE WILL CHANGE IT UP WE WERE 00:50:43.67\00:50:47.24 GOING TO RECEIVE BUT NOW WE WILL SWITCH ON THE SPOT BECAUSE OF 00:50:47.24\00:50:50.38 THIS REQUEST BECAME CAME. THIS IS FROM. 00:50:50.38\00:50:56.08 LOSING A SPOUSE AT A YOUNG AGE IS TOUGH. 00:50:56.08\00:50:59.09 I LOST MY HUSBAND AT THE AGE OF 46. 00:50:59.09\00:51:03.16 WHAT CAN HELP ME? person again. 00:51:03.16\00:51:04.96 HOW CAN I FIND MY OWN PURPOSE? >> I UNDERSTAND THAT PERFECTLY 00:51:04.96\00:51:12.07 BECAUSE I WAS MARRIED TO MY HUSBAND I WAS 48 WHEN HE PASSED 00:51:12.07\00:51:15.57 AWAY AND WHEN YOU WERE MARRIED EVERYONE THAT'S MARRIED IS A 00:51:15.57\00:51:20.34 COUPLE WHO'S MARRIED LONG YOU KNOW IT'S NOT LIKE YOU AND us 00:51:20.34\00:51:25.55 right now. It's IT'S US. IT IS US. 00:51:25.55\00:51:28.05 AND WHEN YOU LOSE A SPOUSE IT IS LIKE I DOESN'T EVEN EXIST YOU 00:51:28.05\00:51:32.89 DON'T HAVE MY EYE IS YOU HAVE TO RE- FIND YOURSELF. know that I 00:51:32.89\00:51:40.50 I KNOW THAT I REMEMBER VIVIDLY TELLING THE LORD THAT I AM YOURS 00:51:40.50\00:51:46.80 LORD, BECAUSE DAVE AND I WERE TOGETHER ALL THE TIME WE WERE 00:51:46.80\00:51:51.27 24, SEVEN, WE WORK TOGETHER, IT WAS ME AND DAVE AND DAVE AND ME 00:51:51.27\00:51:54.54 IT JUST WAS. AND, IF I HAD LOST HIM IF I 00:51:54.54\00:52:00.82 DIDN'T HAVE THE LORD I DON'T KNOW IF I WOULD HAVE SURVIVED IT 00:52:00.82\00:52:03.92 BUT I DID HAVE THE LORD AND I LITERALLY COMMITTED MY LIFE TO 00:52:03.92\00:52:06.79 HIM AND I REMEMBER VIVIDLY DOING THAT AND I WANT TO READ FIRST 00:52:06.79\00:52:12.96 BECAUSE I THINK WE GET SOME THINGS A LITTLE BIT CONFUSED, IT 00:52:12.96\00:52:19.10 CAN BE DIFFICULT SOMETIMES BUT JEREMIAH 2911, WE we all know 00:52:19.10\00:52:23.57 FOR I KNOW THE THOUGHTS THAT I THINK TOWARD YOU SAYS THE LORD, 00:52:23.57\00:52:28.08 THOUGHTS OF PEACE AND NOT OF EVIL, TO GIVE YOU A FUTURE AND 00:52:28.08\00:52:32.61 HOPE. WE LOOK AT THAT AND IT'S GREAT 00:52:32.61\00:52:37.15 TO READ IT LIKE A LITTLE LORD HAS PLANS FOR ME. 00:52:37.15\00:52:40.42 AND WE THINK IN EARTHLY TERMS I THINK. 00:52:40.42\00:52:45.33 MOST OF WITH -- WE THINK EARTHLY TERMS BUT LET'S LOOK AT THE 00:52:45.33\00:52:50.87 SCHEDULE AT TO GIVE YOU A FUTURE AND TO HELP, IS THAT NOT maybe 00:52:50.87\00:52:57.84 the THE FUTURE HE HAS PLANNED FOR US AND IT MAY NOT 00:52:57.84\00:53:04.51 NECESSARILY BE ON HIS ART. THAT HOPE IN THE FUTURE I LOOK 00:53:04.51\00:53:08.52 FORWARD TO SOME DAY WALKING WITH MY LORD FACE-TO-FACE TO FACE AND 00:53:08.52\00:53:16.32 FACE-TO-FACE. AND SO I HOLD AND IF SO NOT 00:53:16.32\00:53:21.70 CONFUSE AND GOD STILL HAS PLANS FOR US EVEN ON THIS EARTH MAYBE 00:53:21.70\00:53:25.27 THERE NATURALLY -- MAYBE IT'S NOT WE THINK THEY ARE Timothy 00:53:25.27\00:53:29.87 SECOND TIMOTHY 312 SAYS, YES, AND ALL WHO DESIRE TO LIVE GODLY 00:53:29.87\00:53:35.68 Christ, Jesus will IN CHRIST JESUS WILL SUFFER PERSECUTION. 00:53:35.68\00:53:39.65 THINK ABOUT PAUL'S LIFE. DID GOD NOT HAVE A FUTURE FOR 00:53:39.65\00:53:44.49 PAUL? OF COURSE HE DID IT DID HAVE A 00:53:44.49\00:53:46.49 FUTURE FOR PAUL, HE PLANS FOR PAUL, PAUL'S LIFE, I CAN'T 00:53:46.49\00:53:51.56 IMAGINE WALKING PAUL'S LIFE, THE PERSECUTION OF WHAT HE WENT 00:53:51.56\00:53:56.63 THROUGH YOU KNOW HE SHOULD HAVE DIED MANY TIMES OVER. 00:53:56.63\00:54:01.34 SO THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN difference between 00:54:01.34\00:54:04.11 GOD'S PLAN AND OUR PLAN AND SO I HOLD ON TO JEREMIAH 2911, I KNOW 00:54:04.11\00:54:10.61 THE LORD HAS PLANS FOR ME AFTER DAVID DIED. 00:54:10.61\00:54:13.92 HE HAD VERY GOOD PLANS, PLANS BEYOND MY dreams. I 00:54:13.92\00:54:18.32 I NEVER THOUGHT OF COMING TO THREE ABN, AND I WATCHED HIS 00:54:18.32\00:54:24.63 PLAN UNFOLD AND I CERTAINLY DIDN'T THINK I WOULD BE -- I'VE 00:54:24.63\00:54:27.76 NEVER BEEN ANYWHERE IN MY LIFE FOR MORE THAN FIVE YEARS MAXIMUM 00:54:27.76\00:54:31.40 AND THAT WAS only a 00:54:31.40\00:54:33.10 TIMES I'VE BEEN HERE OVER 25 YEARS. 00:54:33.10\00:54:35.87 I NEVER DREAMED I WOULD EVER HAVE A HOME AGAIN I COULD NOT 00:54:35.87\00:54:39.71 AFFORD A HOME GOD PROVIDED IT GOD BECAME MY HUSBAND. 00:54:39.71\00:54:43.38 AND HE CARED FOR ME AND BEING SINGLE AND ALONE AND A WOMAN 00:54:43.38\00:54:49.12 THINK OF ALL THE FEARS THAT COULD OVERCOME THE ELF THINK OF 00:54:49.12\00:54:52.12 ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU MIGHT THINK ABOUT, THE DANGERS, BUT IF 00:54:52.12\00:54:58.86 YOU IF YOU REALLY COMMIT YOUR LIFE TO HIM AND YOU LEAN UPON 00:54:58.86\00:55:02.80 HIM WITH YOUR FUTURE AND THAT MEANS YOUR FUTURE HERE ON EARTH 00:55:02.80\00:55:08.20 AND YOUR ETERNAL FUTURE HERE PUT YOUR ETERNAL FUTURE FIRST. 00:55:08.20\00:55:16.11 MAKES THAT COMMITMENT, THAT DECISION BECAUSE WE GO THROUGH 00:55:16.11\00:55:18.95 in stages in life. ALL THE DIFFERENT CHANGES IN STAGES IN LIKE THE ONE THING WE 00:55:18.95\00:55:24.05 CAN GUARANTEE IS THAT WE WILL CHANGE. 00:55:24.05\00:55:26.86 HOW MANY TIMES HAS YOUR LIFE CHANGED? 00:55:26.86\00:55:29.96 >> EVERY My 70's? I can't 00:55:29.96\00:55:31.13 >> AND IN MY 70s AND I CAN'T EVEN BEGIN TO TELL YOU HOW MANY 00:55:31.13\00:55:33.76 LIVES I'VE LIVE. AND YOU ARE VERY very 00:55:33.76\00:55:38.07 CAKE WILL THANK YOU NOTED SHE LOOKED ON THAT END. 00:55:38.07\00:55:44.87 >> YOU LOOK YOUNGER THAN I. >> ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS IN 00:55:44.87\00:55:49.78 YOUR LIFE AND THE DECISION YOU'LL MAKE IT AS TO FOLLOW 00:55:49.78\00:55:54.25 JESUS. AND I DON'T CARE IF YOU WERE 00:55:54.25\00:55:55.85 RAISED IN THE MOST GODLY HOME AND YOU HAVE BEEN A CHRISTIAN 00:55:55.85\00:55:58.89 ALL YOUR LIFE, NOT REALLY BECAUSE AT SOME POINT AS A CHILD 00:55:58.89\00:56:03.79 YOU MADE A DECISION TO FOLLOW JESUS OR NOT TO FOLLOW I CAME 00:56:03.79\00:56:09.40 OUT OF THE WORLD. OUT OF THE WORLD I WAS By the 00:56:09.40\00:56:14.54 OLD BY THE TIME I DECIDED TO FOLLOW JESUS. 00:56:14.54\00:56:16.30 >> HOW OLD ARE YOU BUT SAY OKAY NOW YOU HAVE ME ON THE SPOT. 00:56:16.30\00:56:25.28 >> I WAS IN MY 30s SOMEWHERE IN THE LATE 30s AND THEN WE 00:56:25.28\00:56:29.48 FELL AWAY VERY QUICKLY BUT THEN GOD BROUGHT US BACK AND SO WHEN 00:56:29.48\00:56:33.89 I REALLY GOT ANCHORED IN THE LORD I WAS IN MY 40s. 00:56:33.89\00:56:36.22 AND I WAS JUST A BABE BUT I HAD TO HAVE SPACE TO LET GO OF MY 00:56:36.22\00:56:46.10 LIFE EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS PAIN IN IT IN AGONY AND IF THERE WAS 00:56:46.10\00:56:50.51 BLACKNESS IN IT, still had a lot of 00:56:50.51\00:56:52.04 LOT OF GOOD LITTLE PARTS THAT WERE VERY TO THE OUTSIDER OUR 00:56:52.04\00:56:57.35 LIFE LOOKED PRETTY SUCCESSFUL IN PRETTY GOOD BUT WE HAD A NICE 00:56:57.35\00:57:02.55 CAR NICE HOME ASSIGNMENT WE TRAVELED the life looked one 00:57:02.55\00:57:04.39 WHEN WE PUT ON INSIDE IN YOUR HEART IS ALWAYS BUT WHEN YOU LET 00:57:04.39\00:57:11.56 GO OF CONTROL AND YOU MAKE THAT CHANGE YOU HAVE TO HAVE A SPACE. 00:57:11.56\00:57:17.90 FAITH TO FOLLOW JESUS, THAT'S THE FIRST DECISION, AND THE 00:57:17.90\00:57:21.47 THING IS, I THINK ABOUT THIS NOW. 00:57:21.47\00:57:24.51 >> LET'S HOLD THAT FOR ONE MOMENT WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A 00:57:24.51\00:57:27.51 BREAK WE HAVE 18 SECONDS. >> I WAS ON A ROLL. 00:57:27.51\00:57:32.81 >> WE WILL COME AT THE TOP OF OUR STAY WITH US WERE TALKING 00:57:32.81\00:57:37.95 ABOUT FOCUS ON FAITH HOW YOU CAN GROW AT HOME IN YOUR FACE AND 00:57:37.95\00:57:41.26 WALK WITH in walk with God. Don't go away. We'll be right. 00:57:41.26\00:57:43.16 WILL BE RIGHT BACK. 00:57:43.16\00:57:58.14