Do you think that miracles
are a thing of the past?
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Well, stay tuned
to meet some folks
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who witness God's miraculous
power on a regular basis.
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My name is Yvonne Lewis
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and you're
watching Urban Report.
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Hello and
welcome to Urban Report.
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My guests today
are Patrick Baker
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and several of
the members of his
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Button to
Christ Ministries Team.
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I had a chance to talk to them
when they came here to be on
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the Dare to Dream
Program, The New Journey.
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Let's see what they had to say.
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I feel so blessed to be sitting
on the Set of The New Journey
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even though
Aaron Chancy isn't here
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and he's the normal
host for this program,
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we're doing Urban Report
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so we're doing it here on
the Set of The New Journey
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with a ministry that
Aaron introduced me to.
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It's called: Button
to Christ Ministries,
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I almost said, "Buttons"
but it's "Button" singular...
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to Christ Ministries...
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and they're here
with us from Canada...
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all the way from Canada and
we are so blessed to have you
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so let's find out who you
are and then we'll get into
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more about the ministry
so we'll start with you.
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Hi, my name is Shanice Whitely
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and I have been
with the ministry
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for over four years now.
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Great, thank you Shanice.
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Okay, my name is Patrick Baker
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and I'm the
Founder of the ministry
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and I'm just happy to be here.
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Yeah, we're glad to have
you. Patrick: Praise God.
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Hi, my name is Shea Manhertz
and I've been in the ministry
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for about four years as
well, so, yes, it's been great.
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Yvonne: Great.
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My name is Andrew Wilson
and I've been a part of the team
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for just under two years now.
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Are you the baby on the team?
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Andrew: Ah... somewhat, I think.
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Yvonne: Okay...
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My name is Jay Beckles,
I'm a part of the ministry now
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for just two years
and two months I think.
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Okay, so who is
newer on the team?
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Andrew: I am...
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Okay, all right,
he's still the baby, okay.
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I'm Melanie Mullings and
I've been with this ministry
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for about four
years, I would say, yeah.
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My name is Claudetta Mitchell
and I've been with the ministry
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for just... little over a
year, I think I'm the baby.
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You're the baby...
Claudetta is the baby, okay.
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It's great to have you here.
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I'm just... I'm so thankful
that God has brought you here.
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Tell us, Patrick,
about the ministry,
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What is Button to
Christ Ministries?
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Okay, Button to Christ Ministry
is a family-help network
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and when I say
"Network" we network together
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to help people, so we
actually go into the home
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and get our hands
dirty, so as to speak because
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we're seeing a lot of different
issues and we address them
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we don't just
leave it until tomorrow.
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We reach out, we get the team
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and we have a
huge... other team members
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that is not here with us
and people go into the home
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for example, we visit one family
and the place was really a mess,
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they had no food and we
have volunteers like Shanice
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and others who
actually go into the home,
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clean the home up and
we brought food to them
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so it's a practical
ministry as the name says,
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"Button... " close to
Christ... relationship.
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I love it, I love it,
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so how many people
are on the team totally?
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Okay, you see...
there's a different segment
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for example, we have,
probably around 80 or 90 people
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that come on to the
Prayer Line on a regular basis
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that are willing
and available to help
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but for going into homes...
we have, probably around
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say... ten or twelve people
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but the real issues like
helping to "loose" people
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of demon possession... we
only have like... four people
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because, you see,
it's a specialized ministry
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and it's not everyone...
can tolerate levitation
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and all these
high-level spiritual things
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so it's a specialized ministry.
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So, you have... then...
and correct me if I'm wrong,
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you have different
segments of the ministry,
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you have a Deliverance
Ministry, a deliverance team...
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that goes in... maybe
four or five of you...
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then you have... also...
the team that goes into the home
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which might be
ten or twelve of you
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and they go in and clean
and prepare food and all that
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and so what you're
doing... and I love this...
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this is what Christ
did... what He did...
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He... it was practical,
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it was meeting
people where they were
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and that's what...
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that's what your
ministry is doing.
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Meeting people at
their point of need
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and what a
beautiful thing that is
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so, how did you...
what brought you to do this?
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What made you
decide to do this ministry?
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You know what? A lot
of people ask the question
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and say, "Were
you demon possessed?"
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The reason why... because...
Yvonne: I know it's not funny
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but, I mean, I
can't imagine somebody
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asking you if you
were demon possessed.
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Yes, because
they're figuring then...
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if you're going into
homes delivering people,
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you must have probably
been in that predicament
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but actually, we
were at our church,
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in AY... me and a
good friend of mine...
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and we were
looking around and saying,
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"We want to be different,
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we want to tap
into the power source,
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let us look around and
see if there is one person
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in this
church... Adventist church
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that if they need the
deliverance from whatever,
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depression, struggles of
life, can we get help now?"
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We could not find
anybody so, therefore, we said,
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"Why don't we be those people?"
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So we started
to go to the church
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and pray without ceasing...
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and don't ask if we
started seeing miracles...
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miracles upon miracles,
like the Lord had said.
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I have to share this
one... Yvonne: Yes please.
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Listen, we went
one day to the Park
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and we were having
lunch... about eight of us
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and while we were
praying in the public Park,
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somebody was squeezing my
hands so, I opened my eyes
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when I opened my eyes, a
bird was sitting in the center
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going in the
circle, a big enough bird,
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and I was just
talking to God and saying,
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"How is that possible?"
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Because if the
bird is going there,
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we would have heard
the wings or something
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and I said to God,
"God, if this is a sign,
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allow the bird to
come and perch on me"
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immediately, as we said, "Amen"
and there are kids screaming...
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the bird flew and
perched right here
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and people were backing off
and taking pictures and saying,
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"Well, probably, something
is wrong with the bird"
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as if the bird heard,
he flew down on the table
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and surged up into the hills,
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there are
hundreds of testimonies
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of God showing us
that... we got to be different,
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we have to move forward
with a ministry like this
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that needs to
reach the needs of people
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and that's what
we have been doing.
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That is incredible, so
you guys were in the park
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and this bird... you
know what I thought about
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when you were saying
that, how at Jesus' baptism
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the Holy Spirit came
in the form of a dove,
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and so, God manifests
Himself in different ways
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or uses His
creation to show His approval
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or whatever, so...
that's so interesting
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that bird...
was letting you know
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that this is the path
that God wants you to be on
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He was confirming your mission.
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Patrick: Yes, yes, yes.
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That is
tremendous so as you have...
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this was like... how long
ago that you started this?
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This is... goes back to
13 years and what happened...
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as the Lord increased
and we started praying more
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we started to see miracles,
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we'll be at the
altar... praying...
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and the altar will start
to shake... physically...
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and the Lord will say,
"You are on holy grounds,
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take your shoes off,"
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Yvonne: Come on, brother...
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And people will
start to come with crisis,
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there are sometimes...
people that are demon possessed
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come right there where
we start to have prayer
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and other people will
run out of the Sanctuary
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because they've never
experienced "manifestation,"
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so, God started to work with
us and that's how we discovered
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that the power of
God is teaching us
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how to reach brokenness, like,
people who are demon possessed
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within their families and
that's how the ministry started
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going to "Deliverance Ministry"
and then people will...
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mothers will call us and say,
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"Could you visit the
jail, my son is in jail?"
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And we will go
and seek deliverance
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like, one day I was
doing a program at a church
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and a mother came
to me after and says,
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"My son is home, he cannot walk,
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he just got married
and he can't go to work,
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he can't drive, he
has to be lying down,
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could you help?"
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I said, "Okay. " The
Sunday, I went to visit
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and I think Shanice was with me
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and while we
were there visiting,
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we started to pray for
him, he was lying down,
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he can't sit, can't walk,
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he's only 28...
we started to pray.
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This was a new development,
this wasn't something that...
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he hadn't... he had
been born walking...
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but he recently could not walk?
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You got it, he was working
in a nice job for the Government
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and he just got married
to a young wife, everything,
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then, all of a
sudden, he can't walk,
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he'd been to the doctor,
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checked out
everything physically
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and nothing was happening,
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so while we were
praying... because we are people
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that when we pray,
God speaks and we listen,
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just as the Bible
days, so now we prayed
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and the Lord says,
"A curse stings... "
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so we prayed again,
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and the Lord says,
"Their wedding band"
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so I noticed that his wife
wasn't wearing her wedding band
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and so I said, "Where is it?"
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and she said, "I just
don't feel to wear it"
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but he was wearing
his, so I asked him,
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"Where did you get the
gold to make the ring?"
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He said, "My mother
found it back in our Country
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and brought the gold. "
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I said, "Mercy... " so we prayed
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and the Lord says,
"The gold was a curse. "
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They took the gold,
they were living in a Condo
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and they dropped both,
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diamond, expensive
rings down in the garbage,
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within one week, turnaround,
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within two weeks,
he was playing soccer,
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it's one of the
greatest miracles,
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he has been on many
of the shows that I ran
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and it's incredible to
see what God has been doing.
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You know, as you're
talking, I'm thinking,
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"Look at God... look at... "
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one of the things
that people don't realize
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is that... that
objects invite spirits
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and so you can
bring into your home...
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you invite... you
give the spirits permission
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to be in your home when
you bring in certain objects.
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It gives them
permission to be there
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and so, any of you,
who have anything like
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tarot cards or Ouija
boards or astrology in any way
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or anything like that,
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you are inviting
demonic presence into your home
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and so, what you're saying,
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is, this guy had given
them license to be there.
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Are any of the others of you
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on the Deliverance
Team? Shanice: Yes.
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Are you Shanice, okay,
tell us a little bit about
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your experience on
the Deliverance Team,
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what have you found,
what miracle have you seen,
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I know you've
seen a bunch of them,
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pick one and tell us one
that God has just brought...
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brought His presence into that
room with what you were doing.
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Okay, like you said,
there are many but...
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there is one that I can recall
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where we were
in a specific home,
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and this lady... she was
under high demonic influences
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and when we... while
she was in the form...
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under the...
manifestation... so to speak...
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and then... we
started to read Matthew
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and there was a
Scripture in Matthew that said,
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"... and the devil bowed
his knees and worshipped Jesus"
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right... somewhere there...
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and immediately, when that
specific Scripture was read,
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the demon within the
woman fell down on her knee
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so it goes to show
that, even the devil...
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the Bible says,
"every knee shall bow
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and every tongue shall confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord"
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so, for me that
was powerful because
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the demon within her was very
aggressive and very negative
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but at the sound of the
Word, the devil had no power
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had no authority...
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Yvonne: come on,
you're giving me chills now.
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I'm getting
chills from this today.
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Shanice: He had nothing...
he had no other choice
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but to bow to the most High God,
and that was really, like...
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the demon just threw
the woman off the table
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not on the face but on
the knee, to show reverence
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to say "Listen, I am
God, I am the Creator"
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He's the God who made
the heaven and the earth
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so yes, the devil
is here causing trouble
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but when the devil
hears the Word of God,
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he has to bow.
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Yes, so he is subject
to the authority of God
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because God is sovereign,
I mean, that's the thing,
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I think if more people
understood who God was,
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who God is, and how there
is no power that compares this,
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Satan wants people to think
that the power that he gives
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is the greatest
power and so, you know,
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he deceives people and all that
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but he is subject to the
authority and power of God
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and so, he's going to
yeah... bow and confess
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and the demons
have to bow and confess.
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What are some of
the... the Prayer Line...
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Melanie, you are on
the Prayer Line, right?
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Tell us about
that... what is that about?
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It's about connecting
with other individuals
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not only Seventh-day Adventists,
but those who believe in God
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or want to learn more
about Him, we come together,
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we worship, I will
sing special music,
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we give great testimonies of
what God has done in our lives.
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Is this a daily Prayer
Line or is it weekly or monthly?
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Well, we have it
on Tuesday morning,
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and Tuesday... in
the evening as well
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and then we have
it on Friday mornings
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early in the
morning like... five...
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and then in the evening as well.
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So, anyone is welcome,
we have the opportunity to
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just testify of God's greatness
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but also, He uses,
Brother Patrick, His manservant,
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to come with powerful words
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from His Word and
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at times when
Brother Patrick gives a word
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or even before... prior...
sometimes he wouldn't even have
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anything like... you know
how some preachers or pastors
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they'll have...
like little... set up
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or know what they're saying,
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usually he just comes, he prays,
he asks the Lord, "Use me"
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and God uses him
with such might and power.
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Amen, praise the Lord.
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Sister Claudette,
what have you found
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to be the most powerful
aspect of this ministry?
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Well, as I mentioned earlier,
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the part that I
play in this ministry
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is... encouraging
others, in such a fallen world,
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in such a hopeless world,
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the only way we can
receive encouragement
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is through the Word.
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And I believe that
it's through the Word
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where people can find
life because the Word is life
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and I find it very impactful
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when others can
receive that encouragement,
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and take that with them and
know that they have this hope,
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this hope which
is in Jesus Christ.
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So, I really look
forward to encouraging people
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on the prayer line
as Melanie mentioned,
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Tuesday mornings
and Friday mornings
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I come on the line and
however the Spirit leads
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is how I encourage
others on the Prayer Line.
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So I'm just happy and blessed
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to know that I can
reach out to others
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and make an impact in
their lives in that aspect.
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Yes, that's wonderful
and... now do you sing as well?
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No, I don't sing...
only in the shower...
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Melanie and Shay are the
singers here, is that it?
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And also Brother Jay...
Brother Jay sings as well.
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Oh, Brother Jay... okay...
all right... that's good.
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Jay, tell us
about your experience
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with the Button Ministries,
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Button to Christ Ministries,
what have you found to be
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the most exciting
aspects of it, for you.
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Well, the most
exciting aspect... I would say
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I get to do a lot of
things in ministry like
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say, for instance, God
has given me so much ability
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I didn't know I had so much
stuff inside of me to come out
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so it's like...
I'm doing like...
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Camera work, I'm
doing music, I'm speaking,
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so it's a lot of
stuff that we have to do
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but most importantly,
what really impacted me
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is more like the relationship
that you get to have with God,
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you really have to
experience God as to high level
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it calls you to
push like... to go more
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say, for instance, if
you would spend like, say...
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15 minutes in
the morning with God
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you are pushed
to... like double that...
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to like... half
an hour, an hour,
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so when you spend
more time with God,
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you get more power,
more of an experience
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to overcome your
problems, to encourage others,
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and you get called to do
even more in the ministry
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because you are on the higher
level... higher experience.
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So, what you're saying is that
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this ministry has not...
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is not only used by God
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to strengthen the
people that you're working with
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it's used to
strengthen you as well.
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That's right.
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So the more time
you're spending with God
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and getting to
know Him, of course,
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the more you can impart
to others... but this is...
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you're getting your spirit
watered... as you water others.
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That's right.
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God is using this... God is...
to me He is just so awesome
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because He accomplishes
so much with just one move.
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One move can just do
so many different things
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but that's why He's God, right?
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But Andrew, what about you,
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what have you found that
is the thing or the things
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that keep you really wanting
to be a part of this ministry?
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I would say, definitely for me,
would be the outreach aspect.
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You know, the
practicality, I'm from...
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I'm from the Islands,
right, I'm from Jamaica,
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I migrated to Canada
and there you find that
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to be practical... you
know, having that hands on...
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to learn how to do
things, you grow up,
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that's instilled in
you and this ministry...
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what I found out is
that it's practical,
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you go in the home, you help,
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you go to the jail, you
encourage... you pray...
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sometimes you yourself
might feel a little bit low
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or broken in a bit but
as you encourage others
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you find that Christ uses
even somebody else's experience
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to encourage you and... so
I found that the practicality
00:19:23.79\00:19:27.56
of this ministry... to
be really... just on par
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and I praise God,
I thank God for it.
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Amen, Brother Jay,
last but not least,
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I haven't asked
you anything yet,
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what have you found to
be the most challenging
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aspect of being a
part of this ministry?
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Jay: Faith...
Yvonne: Hmmm... how so?
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So, yeah, I was just
going to say, because
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we go on so many missions as
part of the Deliverance Team,
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and without faith,
there is no movement.
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Hmmm...
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And it takes the faith
that we have, that we bring,
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because we're going not
of our strength but of God's
00:20:03.57\00:20:07.34
and believing that He is
able to deliver that person
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from whatever
condition that he has
00:20:11.14\00:20:12.74
and weakness sometimes steps
in remember... God said that...
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Jesus... when He
walked... with... with...
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Thomas was there
and he doubted, He said,
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"Great is he that
believes without seeing. "
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So sometimes it
becomes a challenge,
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and you say...
you're there praying
00:20:28.62\00:20:30.49
for five hours and sometimes
you say, "God, where are you?"
00:20:30.53\00:20:32.69
And God is just
teaching us to that dependency
00:20:32.73\00:20:36.06
and then in that
moment of weakness,
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God breaks through... because
we're calling on Him more
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and Brother Patrick is
one of those guys who says,
00:20:42.84\00:20:44.54
"God, you've got to
do it. " Hmmm... hmmm...
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And we are there, we are
praying for that 9th hour
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and God comes right through,
00:20:48.34\00:20:49.68
so the faith is
the most challenging
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but the faith is
the most rewarding.
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Wow! you know, as I look at you,
00:20:53.65\00:20:55.65
I just... I feel so
grateful that the Lord
00:20:55.68\00:20:59.85
is using young people
like you, you are young people
00:20:59.89\00:21:04.66
that have dedicated
your lives to ministry
00:21:04.69\00:21:09.46
and to doing God's work,
that, to me, is so beautiful
00:21:09.50\00:21:12.70
because a lot of
times... as you get older
00:21:12.73\00:21:15.14
I'm one of the
older saints, you know,
00:21:15.17\00:21:16.97
people from
church... they call us "saints"
00:21:17.07\00:21:19.47
for those of you
who are not "churchy,"
00:21:19.51\00:21:22.78
the older folks
are sometimes called,
00:21:22.84\00:21:25.15
the "older
saints" or whatever...
00:21:25.18\00:21:27.48
so, I'm one of the older saints,
you have history with God.
00:21:27.52\00:21:30.49
So you know He's
brought you through
00:21:30.55\00:21:32.42
you know He did this for
you, He did that for you,
00:21:32.45\00:21:34.82
He did this for you,
He did that for you...
00:21:34.86\00:21:36.19
and He continues to show
Himself strong on my behalf.
00:21:36.22\00:21:40.46
So, I'm thankful for that
but when I see young people
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who could be
doing anything else,
00:21:44.83\00:21:47.30
you guys could be
doing anything else,
00:21:47.37\00:21:49.97
but you've chosen to dedicate
your lives to Jesus Christ
00:21:50.04\00:21:54.54
and His work,
that is so beautiful
00:21:54.58\00:21:56.68
and I know that you know
00:21:56.71\00:21:58.05
that there's
nothing better than that.
00:21:58.08\00:22:01.35
If more people
knew what it really was
00:22:01.38\00:22:04.85
to do things for Jesus Christ
00:22:04.89\00:22:07.89
and to actually
sense His presence
00:22:07.92\00:22:11.16
and His power,
00:22:11.19\00:22:12.63
we'd have so many
more people doing that.
00:22:12.66\00:22:15.40
What would you
say, Brother Patrick,
00:22:15.43\00:22:17.80
what would you
say to young people
00:22:17.87\00:22:20.20
who are thinking about
getting involved in ministry
00:22:20.24\00:22:22.70
but just... just feeling like...
00:22:22.74\00:22:24.44
"I'd do that later when I
get old... I'll do that later. "
00:22:24.51\00:22:27.14
What do you say to them?
00:22:27.18\00:22:28.51
You know what? The
most important thing is
00:22:28.54\00:22:30.95
to know whom you serve.
00:22:30.98\00:22:32.51
When we know God, then
the expectation is huge
00:22:32.55\00:22:37.35
because we know who God is
00:22:37.39\00:22:39.19
and that's what
this ministry is about.
00:22:39.22\00:22:41.32
Knowing God and digging
deeper than the surface.
00:22:41.36\00:22:44.69
You know, the other day, I
was a little bit discouraged
00:22:44.73\00:22:49.00
because, we had a situation...
00:22:49.03\00:22:50.80
we were praying
for a young person,
00:22:50.83\00:22:53.30
we had to bring her to
my office for six weeks,
00:22:53.37\00:22:56.77
the heaviest demon
possession we have ever seen
00:22:56.84\00:23:00.28
and it got to a
point the other day
00:23:00.31\00:23:02.64
where I was discouraged because
she is delivered to a limit
00:23:02.68\00:23:06.18
but the manifestation is
beyond explaining on television.
00:23:06.21\00:23:09.68
But listen, I was
saying, "God, you need to work,
00:23:09.72\00:23:13.86
and something is not right,"
00:23:13.89\00:23:16.19
and while I was
there, I was doing a sermon,
00:23:16.22\00:23:18.79
preparing to do a telecast,
00:23:18.83\00:23:21.03
a young man walked into
the Head Office, 17-years-old
00:23:21.06\00:23:25.07
and He said, "I have
a problem in stealing
00:23:25.10\00:23:29.07
and I need help"
00:23:29.10\00:23:30.67
So, what do you do? He
said, "I need your help. "
00:23:30.71\00:23:34.44
I haven't seen him before...
I haven't met him before...
00:23:34.48\00:23:37.61
somebody invited him there
and I went into the room...
00:23:37.65\00:23:40.72
into the office and said,
00:23:40.78\00:23:42.42
we're going to pray for him
because he asked for prayer.
00:23:42.45\00:23:44.59
I asked Sister
Claudetta to come in with me
00:23:44.62\00:23:47.72
because I didn't have
the Deliverance Team there
00:23:47.76\00:23:50.59
but this man
needed attention now.
00:23:50.63\00:23:53.86
So we started to
pray and by praying,
00:23:53.90\00:23:57.00
I raised my hand and
said, "Lord, this young man,
00:23:57.03\00:24:01.00
by his faith, he
needs to be delivered,"
00:24:01.04\00:24:03.81
and he just bent
up like... in an "S"
00:24:03.84\00:24:06.44
I've never seen a
body... like a deformity
00:24:06.47\00:24:09.58
and he started to scream
with a voice I've never heard,
00:24:09.61\00:24:12.88
I didn't know
that he was possessed,
00:24:12.91\00:24:15.22
I had no idea and
Claudette was there,
00:24:15.25\00:24:17.52
she had never experienced
anything like that before
00:24:17.59\00:24:21.69
and I commanded the
spirit, and the spirit told me
00:24:21.72\00:24:23.86
where they came
from and their name
00:24:23.93\00:24:25.56
and I was able to bind
and cast the demon out.
00:24:25.63\00:24:28.80
The reason I'm telling you this,
00:24:28.83\00:24:30.43
after it happened, I
said, "God, you're still there
00:24:30.47\00:24:33.70
it's a reason why You allow
us to go through certain things"
00:24:33.74\00:24:37.51
because when I called at
that moment, God answered
00:24:37.57\00:24:42.84
and that was a
turning point within my life
00:24:42.88\00:24:45.95
to tell a lot of
Viewers and young people
00:24:45.98\00:24:49.05
that if you look
beyond and look deeper
00:24:49.08\00:24:52.09
than the regular churchgoers,
Sabbath School goers,
00:24:52.12\00:24:56.36
you're going to discover a
goal, a power that is hidden
00:24:56.39\00:25:00.73
that ordinary
Adventists had no idea
00:25:00.76\00:25:04.20
because half the church is
sleeping or fighting for offices
00:25:04.27\00:25:08.27
while power goes on,
the power is available.
00:25:08.34\00:25:12.04
Wow! isn't that funny,
half the church is sleeping
00:25:12.07\00:25:15.41
or fighting for
offices but you know what?
00:25:15.44\00:25:17.38
A lot of times that's
true, we miss the whole thing,
00:25:17.45\00:25:22.75
God wants us to
go to work for Him,
00:25:22.78\00:25:25.55
I mean, the... it's like
00:25:25.59\00:25:29.19
"the harvest is plentiful
but the workers are few"
00:25:29.22\00:25:31.53
we need to have
more people like you
00:25:31.56\00:25:35.50
that are out in the
field working for God.
00:25:35.53\00:25:39.47
Tell us one...
for we have one minute
00:25:39.50\00:25:41.54
give us one quick... one
more story Brother Patrick.
00:25:41.57\00:25:44.77
God is so powerful,
there's a story where
00:25:44.81\00:25:47.91
a pastor called, we
work with many pastors
00:25:47.94\00:25:51.01
and the pastor called
and said, "I need help"
00:25:51.05\00:25:53.92
and this was a young man
who was smoking marijuana
00:25:53.98\00:25:58.35
and one day he was
smoking the marijuana
00:25:58.39\00:26:01.06
and he felt a
spirit enter his body
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and he needed help,
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so he went to this pastor,
the pastor was praying for him
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and it went out of control
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and this is a big
pastor, Adventist pastor,
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six deacons and elders
could not hold this young man
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and finally, when
the minister went there,
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we sat the young
man down and prayed
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and I did a special prayer,
it's all about forgiveness.
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I did a special prayer
and when I prayed for him,
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I asked God, "Show him
what he needs to confess"
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and the Lord says to him,
"You need to confess drugs,
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alcohol, pornography,
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all these things
that you're doing"
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and when he confessed,
I raised my hand and said,
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"In the name of Jesus, Satan,
you have no more legal right,
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come out of his
body," and immediately,
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we don't have time to
break down what took place
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with thirteen
people in that room,
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it's an unbelievable experience
where he was set free.
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Praise God... God is so good.
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Oh! that is so rich, I need
you guys for like an hour...
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God is so good.
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Thank you so much for being
with us... what a blessing...
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I know our Viewers have
been blessed by your testimonies
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and your stories and all that
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and we're going to
put your website up
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so that people can
know how to reach you.
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God bless you, thank you.
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God bless, praise the Lord.
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Website: buttontochrist. org
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These folks are
serious about the Lord,
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as we sat and talked with them,
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and Jason and I heard
them talk about their ministry
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and how they really are
really praying with people,
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some of them even sang
for us, it was wonderful.
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Their sincerity and their love
for Jesus just shines through.
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Well, thank you so
much for joining us,
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we really want you to
continue praying for us.
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Please, please pray for us
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because we're on the
frontlines as you know
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and we need Jesus
to really step in there
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and be with us every step.
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Thanks for joining us,
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join us next time
because you know what?
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It just wouldn't be
the same without you.
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