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Welcome to The New Journey
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where you meet real life people
with real life testimonies
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and real life
working ministries for Jesus.
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I'm your host Aaron Chancy.
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Today, we have a very
exciting program of a ministry
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by the name of Button to Christ.
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It's an amazing
powerful prayer ministry.
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This is part one
of a two-part program.
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Join us on the new journey.
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My name is Jay Beckles,
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and I'm from the
Button to Christ Ministry.
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Today, I'm here
with the president
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and founder of the
Button to Christ Ministry,
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Patrick Baker.
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We're here to tell
about God's goodness
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and His love and His mercy
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and how He has worked in
lives and has brought change.
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So while we go right
into it Brother Patrick,
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could you tell us
a little bit about
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Button to Christ Ministry,
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what it is, how
did it get started?
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Okay, Button to
Christ, as you noticed,
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the word button meant closeness.
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So we're thinking
about getting close to Christ
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and how closer can
you get than a button.
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So it's about relationship,
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building
relationship with Christ.
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So that's what it's all about.
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It is pretty amazing
that you buttoned this.
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You thought about that button
and being connected to Christ.
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So in the ministry, I know
that we've done a lot of things,
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helping people is
the main priority,
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right, within the ministry.
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Could you tell us about
your experience, what we do?
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Could you just tell us
a little bit about that,
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tell the audience about
how is it that we impact lives?
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Okay, for sure,
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it goes way back to 13 years ago
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when we got started.
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And it was two
young men in the church
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looking for just prayer.
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And when we were
searching, we were wondering,
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"Is there anyone
within the church
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who knows about
the Spirit of authority
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that can pray and
something really happened?"
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So what we started to do
was actually go into the church
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and said, "Why
don't we be those people?"
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And I'm talking about
praying without ceasing.
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So we will go to the church
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from early in
the morning at times
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and we will pray
at the altar of God,
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and praying there,
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we experienced
a lot of miracles.
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Okay, you said the
altar, what's the significance,
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could we just pray at the house?
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What's the significance
of praying at the altar?
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You see, Button
to Christ Ministry
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takes prayer to
a different level.
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It's like when you've
gone through the Bible
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and seen the experiences.
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I'll share with you.
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There was one day we
were at the altar praying,
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and while we were praying,
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I felt like an
unfamiliar spirit enter,
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so right away,
I stopped praying,
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I opened my eyes, I look,
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everybody's eye was closed
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and I saw a young man
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turn his back to the altar
with his fingers in his ears.
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And I ran over and
said, "You have to face God."
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And immediately, I
felt the power withdraw.
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So here it is know
what we are saying,
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facing the altar, it's powerful.
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We learned that
through this ministry.
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And I think in
the initial stage,
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God was just encouraging us
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to press forward
with the ministry.
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Never to mention, I
should mention also that
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there was one time a
young man was with me
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and he had two
big diamond earrings.
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And we never tell
people what to do,
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it's all between you and God.
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And here it is now,
while we're praying,
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I turn around I saw
the young man standing
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and his tears rolling.
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And I said, "What happened?"
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And he goes like this,
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and I look I saw other
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two diamond
earrings on the ground.
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I said, "What happened?"
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He said, "The Lord spoke to me
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and said you are on holy ground,
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take them out."
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And he was
tearing and he was crying.
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I had to embrace him and said,
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"The Lord loves you
and I prayed with him."
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That's the initial
stage of God saying,
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"I have a plan
for this ministry."
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And that's when we
started to press on.
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Amazing, amazing.
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So what's important about
that is that the Holy Spirit led
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that individual to
remove the earring.
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No one told him to. Right.
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And we see that
that's the power of God
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moving and working
in the lives of people.
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But tell us more about,
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you know, we've been
in several other missions.
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Tell us more about
what you've encountered,
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what board spectrum of people
that we meet from day to day.
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Okay.
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This ministry, as I said,
has been around for 13 years
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and we have prayed
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for more than
5,000 requests per year,
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and we visit, I'll say,
up to 60 homes per year.
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And what we've seen
happening within the church
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and within the whole
aspect of reaching out,
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we've seen
molestation within the home,
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where we've seen
eight out of ten people
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within the family
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are being
molested by family members.
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And we've seen accursed things,
we've seen generational curses,
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and we've seen abuse
is at its highest level,
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and we've seen a lot of
witchcraft within the families.
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So because of that
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and because of the
ministry going around
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and reaching people,
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we're being flooded with
calls from around the globe.
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Well, people want to
know how do I go through this.
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For example, you may be sleeping
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and you felt something
holding you down at night
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and you're
wondering is this a disorder?
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What is happening?
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But this ministry
is able to break down
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and have the
experiences of everything
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that happened
within the home that's,
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so as to speak, strange.
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Right. I'll give
you an example then.
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There was one day I
was called to a young lady
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who got married
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but she attempted
suicide several times.
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And as a matter of
fact, before we visited her,
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just the day before
she attempted suicide,
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so when we got to the
home, I went to the pastor,
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an Adventist
pastor, and we went in.
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And when we got
there, her husband was there
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and we sat at the table with her
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and we said, "We are here."
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Deliverance in this ministry
is based upon forgiveness.
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So when we got there,
we said, "You know what,
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we're going to pray and
see where the hurt and pain,
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what would want you
to take your own life."
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By praying, we recognized that
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she was molested
by a family member,
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like close family,
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and it went even
to a higher level.
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So by we praying with her
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and she was
willing to ask the Lord
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for forgiveness and to say,
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"I have forgiven
those who hurt me."
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That's the key.
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When she agreed on that,
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she jumped up
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and she just ran to the kitchen.
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And we ran with her
and she opened the drawer,
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trying to get
the knife and said,
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"I'm going to end it now."
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But when you look at
her, it wasn't her anymore,
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she was taken over by a
spirit, her eyes changed.
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So what we did now,
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we held her, me and the
pastor, and we had a hard time.
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We had to call
on the power of God.
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And as if the power of
God came down and subdued her,
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and when we were able
to get the knife from her
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and we took her back
to the living room area,
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she was able to pray
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and she prayed a
powerful prayer of saying,
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"Lord, forgive me.
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I am going to
forgive those who hurt me."
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And that's when the breakthrough
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came at that moment
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and she was
delivered right there
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and her life
never been the same,
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so many testimonies.
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Praise the Lord.
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So that's one amazing testimony,
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and I'm sure
there are many others.
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I know that we've
talked several times
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about your visit to Jamaica.
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We had callers on the
prayer line from the UK,
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could you just
share a little bit
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more about those
scenarios or those testimonies
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that would help,
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you know, explain
to the people of God,
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what it is that
God's power does for them?
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Okay, you see as an
Adventist all my life,
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we have discovered
that within the church
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we need to claim
the Spirit of authority,
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Matthew 10:1, because
God has commissioned us.
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So what happened is
now we claim this Spirit.
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I was in Jamaica visiting
a beautiful little church
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in Spanish town,
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and at the
church we went for lunch
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and somebody
came after they heard
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about the ministry and says,
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"Can you go and help
that family over there."
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So they were two
young pastors, and I said,
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"Why don't we go over there?"
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And they were
saying, "Well, we got to know
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what we're
getting ourselves in."
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So when we enquired,
there's a young man over there,
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15 years old,
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and where he was living
with his mom, fire came,
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and everywhere
he goes in the home,
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real fire would come and burn
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until the entire
home was burnt down.
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He went next door
to his grandmother
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and stone was thrown and
broke all the windows out,
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all the glass windows,
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and they said to me that
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anywhere they take
this young boy for help,
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stone will come and break out
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all the windows
of whoever helps him.
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So here it is now, I'm
on the hot seat, they said,
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"We need your help."
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And this is what
the ministry does.
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So I said, hear
what, "This is my card
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because we don't run
after people to help them,
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people come for help."
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So the next morning I went home,
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I received a call
from the grandmother
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and the grandmother
said, "We truly need help."
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And I asked her, she said,
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"Sometimes the piano will move
by itself into the backyard.
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Strange things happen,
things levitating in the home."
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So when she told
me, I said, "Okay.
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This is my address.
They can come and see me."
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I was a little bit shaky
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because my sister is
Adventists all her life,
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you know, as Adventists,
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we don't really
understand the spiritual warfare
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and we don't
believe some people.
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So I went home and my
sisters, I did not tell them,
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I just tell them a
visitor was coming.
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So here it is their
mom came with two sons,
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a 15-year-old and a 19-year-old.
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And the mom had a big cut
in her face from here to here,
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and I asked her, she said,
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it's one of the stone
that hit her and cut her.
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She had stitches in her face.
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So I sat them
down and I asked them,
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"What is the
background of this boy?"
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We found out that
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the boy's father is a Freemason,
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he's from the
lodge and he passed away.
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So I prayed to
the Lord and said,
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"Lord, I'm asking You
to show us what to do."
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And the Lord
says, "Accursed things.
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Get rid of all the clothing
that he have, that is a curse."
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So I asked him to change,
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I gave him a new
pair of jeans and a shirt
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and also I called
the grandmother and said,
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put all his clothing out.
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And what I did, I
got the olive oil,
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I blessed it, and I anoint
him, the mom, and brother.
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And while we were there...
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Not to cut you, but can you
just tell us a little bit about
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the olive oil and the anointing,
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accursed things,
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as you give us
a little bit more,
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what's the
significance of the anointing
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and the accursed item?
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As the Bible said,
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the anointing shall
break the yoke of the enemy.
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Anointing is so powerful,
nothing to do with the oil,
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but when you blessed it,
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the Lord adds
power to anointing oil
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and every parent
should anoint their children.
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So what I did now, I
blessed the anointing oil,
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I anoint him, and
we changed his clothes,
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and then his
phone started to ring.
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And he said that the
demon actually called his phone,
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and he picked it up
and he said, "That's them."
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And I said, "We
don't answer spirit here."
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So what happened now is that
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we anoint him and
he said, "That's it."
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He said, "People
come from all over Jamaica
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and they had to run
away from the house.
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And you haven't come
there and you say that's it."
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I said, "It's not about us.
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Our power comes
from God." Praise God.
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So he went home,
the next morning,
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he texts me and
said no stone came.
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It's the first,
the next day none,
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and the next day.
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So two young men came and said,
"We had to come and see you.
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Who are you are you? Are
you really an Adventist?"
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I said, "Of course."
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Adventists, most people
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don't believe in
spiritual warfare,
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but we have seen it.
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So what happened is
that the next morning
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we received a
message the next, the next,
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until I went back to Canada.
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After I went back to Canada,
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I received a bad news
that the spirit returned."
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The reason why
he went back outside
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and put on all clothes
and the accursed things.
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So we're still working with them
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to tell them what
to do at this moment.
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I know that we've helped
people in the penal system
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who have been incarcerated.
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Why don't you tell
us a little bit about
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those type of situation,
how they were delivered?
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I want to tell you,
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this is a really
huge part of the ministry
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going into jail and
into the court system
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and seeing what really goes on
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because a lot of mothers
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are going through a lot of pain.
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And this part of the ministry
is really huge as I said
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because the mothers
will come to us and say,
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"My son or my
daughter is locked away.
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Can you help?"
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And we are practical
people. We actually get lawyers.
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We have a few lawyers
that work with the ministry
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and we actually
go to the court house
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and be practically visible.
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As a matter of fact, one year,
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we had this amazing story
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where this young
lady from Toronto
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was going through a
lot of spiritual warfare,
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mental sickness also.
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And she jumped in her car
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and drove her
car to the US border
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and she ran the border,
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going at over 190 miles per hour
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and they were chasing her
until they had to call it off,
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and she crashed.
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When she crashed, they got her,
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she wasn't injured
and they brought her
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to the hospital nevertheless,
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and they handcuffed her
after and brought her to jail.
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So we got the
message now from her mom
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that she needed help.
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And this was
about an hour and a half
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from the Niagara
Falls Canadian border.
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So we drove down
and we went to visit.
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I'm just going to
highlight a few points
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because we are people
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that believe in
the power of prayer.
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There was one day,
we were going to visit.
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And when we got there,
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the mom was there
and the lawyer was there.
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Her own lawyer wasn't showing up
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because he had never
seen a case like this.
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The charges against
her were stark high,
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hundreds of charges.
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The lawyer said he don't
know what to do with this case.
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So when I got there,
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I saw her and
she was all in chain,
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and I said to the mom,
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"I'm going to ask the Lord
for the Spirit of authority
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and I'm going to go to them
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and we're going to
get what we want today.
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And the mom says, "Really?"
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So when they came out with her,
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I went up to the
prison guard and I said,
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"Listen, I want to pray for her.
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I want you to walk
and follow me outside.
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I want to pray for her."
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That was the
Spirit of authority.
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Wow.
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And when I did that,
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they walked out with
her beyond the barriers
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and walked and she
followed me, I stood outside,
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I laid a hand on her and
prayed for her right there.
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Now when I prayed for her,
the prison guard says, "Wow!
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I'm going to take care of her."
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And her own
lawyer came up and says,
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"What religion are you?"
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Because they have never
seen such Spirit of authority.
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We are just
talking about helping
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and now she is doing well,
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you know, we have invited her
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to Button to Christ Ministry
and her testimony is beyond,
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how the Lord has been using...
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I heard about
that testimony once
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and, you know,
it gives me chills
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to know that God is amazing,
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that he could break
beyond all shackles.
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And I remember the Bible
story about Paul and Silas
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and how God was able to cause
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that earthquake to
remove that shackle.
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I think we have to claim
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that type of
power and it's amazing.
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Tell us, share a little bit
more about like rape victims,
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you know, we've seen these
type of molestations happening
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and we've talked
about generational curses.
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We've done all that stuff,
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how that helps
relieving the forgiveness
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that caused them
to break that barrier
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and we see that the
Holy Spirit comes in
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and remakes and
remolds that person.
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You know what, I mentioned that
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abuse in the home
is the main thing.
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And most times
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when we go to
jail to help people,
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we recognize that
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the upbringing have
a lot to do with it.
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What happened within the home
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is what really
impacts their lives
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because when we
visit the jail system
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and interview people
that we have worked with,
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whom we have helped
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to get out of jail
always from a broken home.
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And sometimes mom
and dad is in the home
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but the home is
broken, there's no connection.
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I remember we went
to visit this young man.
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And this young man is actually
on the Button to Christ website
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where his name is Sam,
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and he was a Buddhist
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and he shared the
testimony of meeting Christ
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within the jail system.
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And when he got out,
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he desired to work with us
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and he started to knock doors
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and help us so
much in the ministry
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and reaching other young people
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because of how
God had helped him
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while he was in the jail system.
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So we have been working
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with hundreds of
people within the system.
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So tell us how the move
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from being in
bondage on one side
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to being free today
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that they could
come back and help us,
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how the testimony is
so powerful that others
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when they see their testimony
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and when they're
part of the ministry,
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it helps us more in that realm.
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You know what, when
I asked one young man,
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I asked him,
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"How has God impact your
life so far working with us?"
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He's saying that
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he don't really have a
role model within his family
00:20:17.95\00:20:21.08
and when he sees
00:20:21.12\00:20:22.45
how we pray
together as a family,
00:20:22.48\00:20:24.59
and how we help
others, it helps him.
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And people within his peers,
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recognizing
that there's a change
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within his life.
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Like for example,
there was one time,
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I was at a mall.
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And I saw a young
lady on the phone.
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And the young lady was crying.
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And anywhere help is needed,
00:20:43.67\00:20:46.71
that's where
Button to Christ goes.
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And I saw her crying and I said,
00:20:48.91\00:20:51.38
"Lord, I have to
reach this young lady."
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And when she was
finished on the phone, I said,
00:20:54.18\00:20:56.89
"Can I help you?"
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And she said, "You
don't know where I've been."
00:20:58.49\00:21:01.12
She said, "I have
been on crack cocaine.
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They have taken
away my children."
00:21:05.23\00:21:08.00
So what we did,
00:21:08.03\00:21:09.36
I took her and
brought her somewhere
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and I gave her food.
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And I explained that
this ministry is here to help.
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But her story goes beyond
00:21:17.47\00:21:19.97
because she
shared that her family
00:21:20.01\00:21:22.64
was an abusive family.
00:21:22.68\00:21:24.91
And she saw
where her mother died
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because of her dad.
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So right there, again,
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there's a
connection with the home,
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what goes on within the home,
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how it reflects what
goes on in the society
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with what impact the jail system
00:21:40.36\00:21:43.43
and the people out there.
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So as I said, there is
so much to share concerning.
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You know, I remember also
00:21:49.07\00:21:50.81
being at one of
the all night programs
00:21:50.84\00:21:54.78
and I remember you
interviewing a young man who,
00:21:54.81\00:21:57.55
you know, has been in
crack cocaine and addicted.
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And also what I needed to share
00:22:01.18\00:22:03.42
also that when
we pray for someone,
00:22:03.45\00:22:05.29
it doesn't mean that they
deliver that instant time.
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Sometimes, deliverance could
come over a period of time.
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Amen.
00:22:09.86\00:22:11.19
So could you just
share a little bit more about
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sometimes, we have to go
back on a mission as we call it,
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on several occasions,
00:22:17.47\00:22:18.80
all we have to
pray for that person
00:22:18.83\00:22:20.17
two, three,
four, five, six times
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until they're delivered.
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Could you just tell us
a little bit about that?
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Amen. You know that
there is this young man.
00:22:26.14\00:22:28.41
We were doing in door knocking
in a community reaching souls.
00:22:28.44\00:22:33.31
And when we got
to this young man,
00:22:33.35\00:22:35.85
he had just attempted
suicide, slit his wrists.
00:22:35.88\00:22:40.82
And after speaking with them,
00:22:40.86\00:22:43.36
I took him to the
church and prayed for him.
00:22:43.39\00:22:46.93
And he said, "Can't you help me?
00:22:46.96\00:22:50.07
You see I have this addiction
00:22:50.10\00:22:52.37
to crack
cocaine and I need help.
00:22:52.40\00:22:55.70
Could you ask God to help me?"
00:22:55.74\00:22:58.24
Tears were rolling,
00:22:58.27\00:23:00.11
we tried to reach this young man
00:23:00.14\00:23:02.41
and it takes over
the period of time.
00:23:02.44\00:23:05.41
I've known him now
for five to six years
00:23:05.45\00:23:08.12
and we're still
working with him.
00:23:08.15\00:23:10.05
I visited a facility in Sarnia,
00:23:10.09\00:23:14.79
a facility where he
went to this rehab center
00:23:14.82\00:23:18.26
to try to get rid
of the crack cocaine.
00:23:18.29\00:23:20.96
And when I went
to the graduation,
00:23:21.00\00:23:23.26
they were able to introduce me,
00:23:23.30\00:23:25.20
and I went up,
I spoke with them.
00:23:25.23\00:23:27.67
And he said,
"God has been good."
00:23:27.70\00:23:30.14
And we continued
to work with him.
00:23:30.17\00:23:32.54
So some cases takes
a lot energy and time
00:23:32.57\00:23:37.45
but God has
never given up on us.
00:23:37.48\00:23:39.78
God always want us to
continue to reach out.
00:23:39.81\00:23:44.22
And one of the things I want
to tap into that story is that,
00:23:44.25\00:23:46.55
you know, it
takes two instead of...
00:23:46.59\00:23:49.82
you have to want
that help from God,
00:23:49.86\00:23:52.03
you know, to be
released from the bunch of sins.
00:23:52.06\00:23:54.40
So that first initial step
00:23:54.43\00:23:55.96
has to come from the individual.
00:23:56.00\00:23:57.33
We have to
recognize that they need help,
00:23:57.37\00:24:00.24
they're addicted to something
00:24:00.27\00:24:01.77
or the devil is
holding them back to something.
00:24:01.80\00:24:03.74
And then they say,
"Who can I go to for help."
00:24:03.77\00:24:07.14
And then we direct them to God
00:24:07.18\00:24:09.11
because He is the one
who ultimately helps them.
00:24:09.14\00:24:11.55
So I've seen it.
00:24:11.58\00:24:13.05
The story is
amazing, that young man,
00:24:13.08\00:24:14.98
because every time he comes
he always give God the praise.
00:24:15.02\00:24:18.25
Yes, the enemy comes
back because of the addiction
00:24:18.29\00:24:20.89
but he always
gives God the praise.
00:24:20.92\00:24:22.69
And this is one of the stories
00:24:22.72\00:24:24.06
that always
continue to bless my heart
00:24:24.09\00:24:25.43
every time I see him.
00:24:25.46\00:24:27.70
I know we have
countless other stories.
00:24:27.73\00:24:30.30
What other story you
think that is so powerful
00:24:30.33\00:24:34.14
that you've seen
God work in such a way
00:24:34.17\00:24:39.01
like instantly
that brings about change
00:24:39.04\00:24:41.64
and their
testimony is so powerful.
00:24:41.68\00:24:43.98
Well, I may have shared this
00:24:44.01\00:24:45.35
that this ministry has
really impacted a lot of lives
00:24:45.38\00:24:48.95
around the globe.
00:24:48.98\00:24:50.32
And it goes back to
the spirit of authority
00:24:50.35\00:24:53.72
and believe in
the power of prayer
00:24:53.76\00:24:55.52
and seen God work.
00:24:55.56\00:24:57.19
I remember they
brought one young lady to us.
00:24:57.23\00:25:00.63
And actually, it was
such an emergency case
00:25:00.66\00:25:03.23
that they
brought her to my house.
00:25:03.26\00:25:05.47
And when they
brought her to my house,
00:25:05.50\00:25:09.24
I claimed again
the Spirit of Authority
00:25:09.27\00:25:11.97
because it's all
about their family.
00:25:12.01\00:25:14.48
Their family is disjointed,
it's not functioning right,
00:25:14.51\00:25:19.15
because of the abuse, the hurt,
00:25:19.18\00:25:20.72
the pain everything is
connected to the family.
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So here it is.
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I raised my hand, and said,
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"In the name of Jesus Christ,
I'm going to pray for you now."
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And immediately a voice came
and says, "My name is pride."
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And I said, "Pride,
we're going to bind you."
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Because the pride is a character
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that was taken on by the spirit.
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And I say, "I'm
going to bind you
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and cast you down."
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And he said, "Could you
send me into somebody upstairs?
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You can't send
me out like this."
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And I was able to
bind and this family...
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When I say bind,
according to Matthew 18:18,
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"Whatever is bound on
Earth will be bound in heaven."
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So I was able to
pray against this spirit
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and everything was restored.
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We have seen that
board for substance abuse,
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no matter what
you're going through,
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once you claim the power of God
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and seeing God
work in these last days,
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I'm telling you,
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there's so much to share
of the power of God working,
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all we have to do is
make ourselves be available
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to the Spirit of God.
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God is so powerful.
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So how can one make
themselves readily available?
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Because I don't think there's
anything special about you
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or special about me
or special about anyone
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in the ministry
as a matter of fact.
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God could use anybody.
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How could we make
ourselves available?
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We have to confess our sins
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and go before the throne of God.
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God is so powerful.
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What we have
seen in this ministry,
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no matter what
you're going through,
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substance abuse,
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many mothers
under hurt and pain,
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what you have to do
is claim the promises,
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confess your sin and
go in authority to God
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and when you go in authority,
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you're gonna see
God work with such power
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that you're going to say,
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"All these days, I
was just plain church.
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God is calling His
people to a higher level.
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Come out of the quiet
zone and the comfort zone
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and come higher with the Lord."
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And if you come higher,
bonds are going to be broken,
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people are going to see your
whole life reflected in Christ
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all over the globe.
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God's people need to
wake up and smell the rose
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because it's high time.
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Christ is about to come
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and God wants to
empower His people.
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Wow!
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Thank you for sharing
such amazing testimonies.
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I was tremendously blessed
to hear about the power of God.
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We thank you
for joining us today
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and we look forward to
seeing you for part two.
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Join us for part two
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of this amazing
ministry Button to Christ,
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join us next time
on The New Journey.
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