WEBVTT - Hour 1:  The Supernatural World Around Us

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<v S1>Hi friend, thank you so much for downloading this podcast

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<v S1>And I absolutely love this topic because if you're like me,

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<v S1>going out into the night sky and looking up and

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<v S1>seeing a million stars, don't you just stop and think

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<v S1>about God? And are you not in a moment of

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<v S1>awe and wonder or looking out over the vast expanse

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<v S1>of an ocean and you start thinking, what is man,

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<v S1>that thou art mindful of him? And it makes you

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<v S1>wonder about the magnificence of God? I think that sense

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<v S1>of wonder was put there on purpose, and this wonderful

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<v S1>from their perspective as a scientist, or a historian, or

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<v S1>a mathematician or an artist, on why they all have

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<v S1>this sense of awe through the work that they do.

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<v S1>In other words, the heavens declare the glory. And as

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<v S1>it tells us in Romans, we are really without excuse

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<v S1>because his handiwork is everywhere. And this book invites you

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<v S1>to walk through the chapters written by people who all

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<v S1>ever wondered? And now please enjoy the broadcast.

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<v S2>Here are some of the news headlines we're watching.

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<v S3>The conference was over. The over, the president won a pledge.

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<v S4>Americans worshiping government over God.

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<v S5>Extremely rare safety move by a major 17 years.

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<v S4>The Palestinians and Israelis negotiated every time.

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<v S1>Hi, friends. Welcome to In the Market with Janet Parshall.

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<v S1>A very happy Thursday to you. Thank you so much

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<v S1>for spending the hour with us. Well, I do hope

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<v S1>that as you spend time in the word and spend

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<v S1>time at his feet, because we've been given permission to

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<v S1>go just right there with the absolute authority from the

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<v S1>King himself to enter into the throne of grace. I

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<v S1>don't know about you, but that takes my breath away.

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<v S1>I know I've met a lot of important people in

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<v S1>my life. And let me tell you, the rules of

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<v S1>deportment are generally you don't talk unless spoken to, you

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<v S1>don't ask questions, you don't touch. The list goes on

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<v S1>and on and on. I have yet to have any

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<v S1>world leader ever say, you can come boldly into my

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<v S1>office anytime you want to. And yet the king, the

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<v S1>king of all creation, says just that. I hope you

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<v S1>take him up on his invitation and spend time in

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<v S1>his presence all day long. Not just when you put

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<v S1>your head down at the pillow at night, but when

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<v S1>you start your day an all day long. After all,

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<v S1>prayer is nothing more and nothing less than the love

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<v S1>language between two people who love each other. And I

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<v S1>hope you're in constant communication with him. One of the

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<v S1>things I talked to him about all the time was,

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<v S1>what's going on in Israel? Now, remember, this has been

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<v S1>this is Intel. There's no entity on planet Earth that

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<v S1>has Intel. You haven't heard Bill gates say this earlier

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<v S1>this week. There's no country on planet Earth that has

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<v S1>the Intel capabilities than Israel. Better than the United States,

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<v S1>bar none. And they have been watching and watching and watching.

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<v S1>When you got a neighbor down the road, a piece

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<v S1>who's saying, I'm going to blow you up, you're the

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<v S1>little Satan. We've got nuclear capabilities. We're going to annihilate

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<v S1>the Zionist regime. You can decide that they're calling Wolf,

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<v S1>or you can decide that they're deadly serious. And then

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<v S1>you plant some Mossad, as they did inside Iran. How's

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<v S1>that for chutzpah? Inside Iran. And they knew beyond a

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<v S1>shadow of a doubt that their nuclear capabilities were literally

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<v S1>inches away. They said, nope, got to strike now. But

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<v S1>this is not parallel warfare by any stretch of the imagination.

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<v S1>With pinpoint precision goes after nuclear sites where the heavy

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<v S1>water is, etc. where the military jets are. Right now.

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<v S1>Israel has domination in the air power part of this confrontation,

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<v S1>but they also do it with pinpoint specificity. That's not

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<v S1>what Iran does. That's not what Iran does. When you're

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<v S1>fomented by hate and blindness, spiritual blindness, you don't play

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<v S1>the same way. Here's Chris Mitchell from CBN news. Have

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<v S1>a listen.

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<v S4>With.

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<v S6>The Soroka Hospital in Beersheba took a direct hit. One

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<v S6>of the doctors there stated just yesterday we evacuated the

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<v S6>old surgical building that took a direct hit. Today. It's

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<v S6>a great miracle. As Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz put it,

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<v S6>these are the most severe kinds of war crimes, and

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<v S6>Khamenei will be held accountable for his crimes. Katz described

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<v S6>Israel's new goal to destabilize the Ayatollah regime. Meanwhile, in Washington,

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<v S6>President Trump has approved the Iran attack plans but is

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<v S6>holding off on giving the orders, according to the Wall

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<v S6>Street Journal. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump

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<v S6>says he's not looking for a fight with Iran.

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<v S7>But if it's a choice between fighting and them having

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<v S7>a nuclear weapon, you have to you have to do

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<v S7>what you have to do. We're not looking for a ceasefire.

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<v S7>We're looking for a total, complete victory. Again, you know

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<v S7>what the victory is no nuclear weapon.

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<v S6>In an address to the nation Wednesday night, Israeli Prime

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<v S6>Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the president for standing by Israel

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<v S6>and told Israelis the goals of the war.

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<v S8>We've embarked on this operation to eliminate two existing threats

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<v S8>to the State of Israel, the nuclear threat and the

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<v S8>ballistic missile threat. We're moving step by step towards eliminating

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<v S8>these threats. We control the skies over Tehran. We're striking

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<v S8>the ayatollahs regime with tremendous force. We're striking the nuclear weapons,

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<v S8>the missiles, the headquarters, the symbols of the regime.

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<v S6>Despite the attacks, Ayatollah Khamenei remains defiant.

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<v S8>Iran.

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<v S9>The Iranian nation, will stand firmly against the war imposed

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<v S9>on it, as it has done so far. It will

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<v S9>also stand firmly against imposed peace. The Iranian nation will

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<v S9>not surrender to anyone aiming to impose anything on it.

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<v S6>Yet the Israel Defense Forces are now expanding their target list.

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<v S9>During the strikes, we struck more than 20 targets around Tehran.

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<v S9>These targets belong to the regime's military industries and security apparatus.

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<v S6>That includes the regime's centers of power, Israeli Defense Minister

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<v S6>Israel Katz told the Iranian people it's time to rise

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<v S6>up and overthrow Khamenei's regime, he said. Symbols of power

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<v S6>are being bombed and collapsing from the broadcasting authority and

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<v S6>soon other targets as masses of residents flee. This is

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<v S6>how dictatorships fall. Iranian American journalist Lisa Vitari tells CBN's

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<v S6>Raj Nair the people of Iran have long endured a

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<v S6>brutal dictatorship.

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<v S10>This is not just since October 7th. This is not

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<v S10>just since Friday. This is something that has been building

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<v S10>up in the Iranian people for 46 years. They are

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<v S10>sick and tired of it. You know, to see someone

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<v S10>who is hanged because of a Facebook post or because

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<v S10>they are a journalist or an athlete or a dancer,

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<v S10>this is the life and the reality that they have

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<v S10>been living.

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<v S6>Earlier this week, Netanyahu told Israeli Channel 14 history is

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<v S6>being made.

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<v S8>That we are at a historic turning point and everyone

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<v S8>is slowly turning to realize it after victory over Iran.

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<v S8>A new Middle East will emerge.

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<v S6>Chris Mitchell CBN news, Jerusalem.

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<v S1>I want to pick up on that last point after

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<v S1>victory over Iran. A new Middle East will emerge now.

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<v S1>I spent some time yesterday with a retired IDF officer

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<v S1>who gave me a briefing on what is happening, and

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<v S1>I thought his perspective on this was crucial enough for

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<v S1>me to want to share it with you. And I

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<v S1>think it's important because this is how we counter being

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<v S1>good Bereans. Some of the things you're hearing in the

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<v S1>press that are fomented by spiritual hatred, spiritual blindness, and

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<v S1>an animus toward the Jewish people. So it's important that

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<v S1>we get the facts. First of all, Israel is right now,

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<v S1>whether it's talked about on the alphabet soup networks or not,

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<v S1>Israel is shaping the future of the Middle East. It

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<v S1>is why we've got protection in the air in Syria

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<v S1>and in Lebanon and in Saudi Arabia. All of those

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<v S1>countries think that Iran is a problematic nation. You get

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<v S1>rid of them, you take care of them. And if

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<v S1>Iran's nuclear capabilities were eliminated, that would completely change the dynamic.

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<v S1>One of the princes in Saudi Arabia said, look, if

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<v S1>they say that they have nuclear capability, we're going to

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<v S1>have to take them at their word and then we're

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<v S1>going to get nuclear capability. So a couple of other

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<v S1>things right now, there are still 5000 hostages. 20 are

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<v S1>presumed to be alive. Israel at this point does have

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<v S1>air superiority. Iran needs launchers to be able to fire

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<v S1>off their missiles, and their launchers are being destroyed as

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<v S1>we speak. So that's causing a problem. By the way,

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<v S1>more than a third of Iran's missiles are already gone.

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<v S1>There's a shortage of cash as a result of what's

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<v S1>been going on, and that's helping to create civil unrest,

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<v S1>which is a blessing, because if the people want to

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<v S1>overthrow the Ayatollah and you just heard that in the story,

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<v S1>this might be the moment to be able to do

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<v S1>just that. By the way, if you hear a Western

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<v S1>journalist say Israel is targeting journalists, that building, by the way,

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<v S1>where that person in the hijab was there when the

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<v S1>bomb was dropped. That is the propaganda center for Iran.

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<v S1>It is not about journalism. They call it the execution

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<v S1>network because they broadcast executions back after this. So many

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<v S1>in our culture today are spiritually curious but hesitant about religion.

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<v S11>All people fundamentally within their DNA, within their very makeup,

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<v S11>have a belief in the supernatural that which is beyond nature,

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<v S11>that which is beyond merely the collision of atoms, as

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<v S11>it were, in our everyday lives.

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<v S12>I don't think we should fear looking at phenomena, I

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<v S12>think we should look at them on their own terms,

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<v S12>analyze them very carefully and very critically, and see what's there.

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<v S13>And explicitly. The worry of scientific naturalists is that this

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<v S13>is going to thrust us back into the dark ages.

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<v S14>A lot of skeptics will say, well, miracles are impossible. Why?

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<v S14>Because they violate the laws of nature. You can't violate

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<v S14>the laws of nature.

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<v S12>People would pray for me, and sometimes it felt like

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<v S12>this power that just zapped me.

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<v S11>When I woke up. She says, can you do anything

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<v S11>that you didn't do before? I looked at my hand

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<v S11>that was clutched. I said, hand move!

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<v S15>Oh my goodness.

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<v S16>Another doctor came in and he said, what is going

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<v S16>on in here? He's dead. It's over. I said, shock

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<v S16>him one more time.

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<v S17>Well, maybe it happens, maybe it doesn't. Let's look at

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<v S17>the evidence.

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<v S1>And that's exactly what Billy Hallowell does in his brand

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<v S1>new spectacular documentary called Investigating the Supernatural, and he takes

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<v S1>a look at miracles. When you watch this, you may

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<v S1>be starting from the position of a skeptic, but I

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<v S1>guarantee you by the time this is over, you're going

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<v S1>to have to ask yourself a lot of questions about

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<v S1>is Aslan still on the move today? By the way,

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<v S1>this documentary is peppered with some of our best friends.

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<v S1>Lee Strobel is in there. You just heard Doctor Sam

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<v S1>Storms talking as well. In fact, I want you to

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<v S1>hear one more little bit of the documentary. Take a listen.

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<v S17>According to a recent poll, 80% of people in the U.S.

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<v S17>believe in a supernatural dimension to reality. But sometimes it

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<v S17>feels like it's 80% who don't believe in it. And

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<v S17>I think part of that is in terms of the

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<v S17>dominant culture, which comes partly out of academia.

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<v S14>Colleges and universities have been co-opted by a kind of

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<v S14>scientific materialism or naturalism, which teaches that all that there

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<v S14>is is what we can touch and what we can

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<v S14>feel and what we can see and experience. Science is

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<v S14>the determiner of what is true and what is false.

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<v S17>But the truth.

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<v S11>Is, there is a conflict between what the world proposes

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<v S11>they believe and what they actually believe. When you really

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<v S11>ask deep questions or you look at the way that

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<v S11>people behave, it's very clear that within all people there

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<v S11>is a sense that there is something more.

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<v S14>I did a scientific survey of American adults and I

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<v S14>asked the question, have you ever had at least one

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<v S14>incident in your life that you can only explain as

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<v S14>a miracle of God? And 38% of American adults said yes.

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<v S14>So almost four out of ten. Now you extrapolate that number.

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<v S14>That would mean there is almost 100 million miracles just

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<v S14>in America. Now, let's say 99% of them are wrong.

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<v S14>Let's just throw out 99% and say no. It was

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<v S14>just a huge coincidence. So let's throw those out. That

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<v S14>still leaves a million miracles having taken place just in

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<v S14>the context of our continent.

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<v S17>When you've got that many people claiming those things, you

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<v S17>can't start with the premise that uniform human experience excludes miracles.

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<v S1>Now, do I have your attention? You are so going

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<v S1>to want to watch this. It's called investigating the supernatural miracles.

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<v S1>I've got a link on my information page so that

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<v S1>you can click on through and discover how you can

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<v S1>watch it. But in the meantime, I'm going to spend

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<v S1>some time with Billy. Billy Hallowell is a journalist, a commentator,

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<v S1>a digital TV host. He has covered thousands of huge

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<v S1>stories dealing with faith and culture. He has written tens

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<v S1>of thousands of stories on faith, culture and politics. And

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<v S1>by the way, he's the author of four books, playing

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<v S1>with Fire a modern investigation into demons, Exorcism, and Ghosts

0:14:32.850 --> 0:14:36.290
<v S1>The Armageddon Code one Journalist's Quest for End Times answers

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<v S1>Fault Line how a seismic shift in culture is threatening

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<v S1>free speech and shaping the next generation, and left standing

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<v S1>the miraculous story of how Mason Wells faith survived the Boston,

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<v S1>Paris and Brussels terrorist attack. The list goes on and

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<v S1>on and on right now. He is currently working with

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<v S1>CBN News and Faithwire and Billy boy. God's anointed you

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<v S1>you know how to tell a good story and chase

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<v S1>one down. But what I love about this in particular

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<v S1>is you start out where I think an overwhelming majority

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<v S1>of people will start when they watch this documentary, which is, um,

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<v S1>not so much. Maybe I read it in scripture. I'm

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<v S1>not so sure it's happening today. So I'm going to

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<v S1>quest this. You know, one of the old adages we

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<v S1>have in journalism is you have to have independent verification, right?

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<v S1>And so you decided to pursue this, but you started

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<v S1>out as a skeptic. Tell me about why you wanted

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<v S1>to do this documentary.

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<v S18>You know, I love that you're starting there because I

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<v S18>think a lot of us, we'll even say that we

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<v S18>believe in our minds, right? We'll say, okay, I believe,

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<v S18>I believe, I read it in Scripture, I know it happened,

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<v S18>but I'm not really quite sure if it happens today.

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<v S18>Or you know what? Maybe I don't even care if

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<v S18>it happens today because I don't want to commit to it,

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<v S18>so I'm not going to think about it. And I

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<v S18>think that's where I sort of was. I would have

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<v S18>said I believed, but I hadn't really experienced anything in

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<v S18>my heart that would have led me to that place.

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<v S18>And so when it came to different projects that were

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<v S18>coming up with with CBN Christian Broadcasting Network, we I

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<v S18>pitched some ideas and we were just talking. And really

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<v S18>I know we say this a lot in the faith space,

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<v S18>but it really was a God thing. I mean he

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<v S18>just opened doors within a couple of weeks. I mean,

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<v S18>this doesn't normally happen. Within a couple of weeks, we

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<v S18>were greenlit to do a TV series, which is not

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<v S18>what we ended up doing. We were going to do

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<v S18>a three part TV series on Angels and Demons, Heaven

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<v S18>and Hell and miracles, and we started out going into

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<v S18>the field and starting with miracles, and as soon as

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<v S18>we got into it, it was immediately apparent that we

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<v S18>could not tell a true miracle story in 30 minutes

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<v S18>that we needed a full film. And so this project

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<v S18>morphed very quickly. Again, total God thing into a documentary

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<v S18>film series.

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<v S1>Wow. And I want to talk about some of the

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<v S1>miracles in there. I'm not going to give it all away.

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<v S1>I want you to watch it. But I'm telling you.

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<v S1>By the way, can I just tell you the craftsmanship,

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<v S1>the way that I'm not surprised? This is CBN everything

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<v S1>is five star but the the production values on this.

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<v S1>The research the cinematography the way the arc of the

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<v S1>story is told it is absolutely riveting. Again it's called

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<v S1>investigating the supernatural miracles. And I have a link on

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<v S1>my page Billy when we come back, the first question

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<v S1>I want to ask you is I want to talk

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<v S1>about you. How did this change you as a human being?

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<v S1>Because you may have been the investigator, but you were not.

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<v S1>You were not a totally neutral position. You walked in,

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<v S1>as you just said, kind of questioning like the overwhelming

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<v S1>majority of us do. But I want to know if

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<v S1>this documentary changed you personally, and then we're going to

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<v S1>tease a little bit a couple of the miracle stories

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<v S1>that are in this, because I'm going to tell you

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<v S1>what he's God, we're not. His thoughts are far above us.

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<v S1>His ways are not our ways. I'm never going to

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<v S1>put God in a box. And do I believe he's

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<v S1>a miracle working God? Oh yes indeed. Deed much more

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<v S1>after this.

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<v S14>The question of why God does miracles in some cases

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<v S14>and doesn't do them in others is not just an

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<v S14>intellectual challenge. It is a personal issue to people who suffer.

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<v S14>And I think there are several ways to look at it.

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<v S17>If God healed everybody now who asked him? People would

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<v S17>become Christians just to get the benefit. That's not what

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<v S17>following Jesus is about.

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<v S14>You know, God is not a vending machine that we

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<v S14>put in a certain prescribed prayer and he automatically heals.

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<v S14>He is sovereign. He understands things that we don't understand.

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<v S14>He sees things that we don't see.

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<v S19>Maybe God wants to use that particular affliction, disease, or

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<v S19>your suffering to accomplish something in you that in his

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<v S19>infinite wisdom he knows can only be achieved as you

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<v S19>respond to your pain and your suffering by ever increasing

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<v S19>dependence upon him.

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<v S20>Here's a different take on this because God intervenes at

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<v S20>times we think, well, then he can always intervene whenever

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<v S20>he wants. But the reason we can't ever make sense

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<v S20>out of what he does or when he doesn't, is

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<v S20>because there's a whole lot else going on in this

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<v S20>cosmos that we don't know about, the myriads of myriads

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<v S20>of angelic beings that are in that heavenly realm. They

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<v S20>all make decisions and, well, I don't know much of

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<v S20>what goes on up there. I know that sometimes those

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<v S20>decisions affect what goes on down, what goes on down here.

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<v S20>And so if God doesn't intervene, it seems like it

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<v S20>would have been good to I have to assume that

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<v S20>there's there's something's blocking that.

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<v S19>You know, in the final analysis, I go to Romans 828.

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<v S19>There we are told that God causes all things to

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<v S19>work together for my good. If I'm called according to

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<v S19>his purpose and if I love him.

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<v S14>Some people will say, well, my suffering is too much.

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<v S14>God can't possibly in this world or the next cause,

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<v S14>good to emerge from my suffering. To which I say,

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<v S14>God has taken the worst possible thing that has ever

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<v S14>happened in the universe, which is the death of the

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<v S14>Son of God on a cross. And out of that

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<v S14>he has created the best thing that's ever happened in

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<v S14>the universe, which is the opening of heaven to all

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<v S14>who follow him. So if God can take the worst

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<v S14>thing in the universe and turn it into the best

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<v S14>thing in the universe, he can even redeem our suffering

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<v S14>in this world or the next and draw good from it.

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<v S1>Amen. You know, I have to tell you, what I

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<v S1>find so important about this documentary is not just the

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<v S1>aspect that it's investigating the supernatural as it manifests itself

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<v S1>in miracles. It forces every one of us to have

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<v S1>to deal with the question of suffering. And that's something

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<v S1>we've dealt with since we walked out of the garden.

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<v S1>And this really also speaks to how we see God,

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<v S1>how we view the character of God, the wisdom of

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<v S1>both Lee and Sam in that clip that you just

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<v S1>heard all things working together for good. We think it

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<v S1>means it all has to turn out good as we

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<v S1>define it. No, no, no, no, that's not what that

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<v S1>verse means. It means that in God's good and perfect will,

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<v S1>he will make sure that what needs to be done

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<v S1>will be done. As we are being conformed to, transformed

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<v S1>to the image of Christ. Billy Hallowell is the brains

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<v S1>behind this new documentary investigating the supernatural miracles. He is

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<v S1>a superb creator of content. He is a journalist, a

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<v S1>commentator and a digital TV host. So my question for

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<v S1>you personally, it's real easy to say it's subjective. I'm

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<v S1>going to keep it all in arm's reach. You were

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<v S1>deeply immersed in all of this. Did it change you, Billy,

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<v S1>and your beliefs?

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<v S18>Oh, absolutely. And I can't stop talking about it. I

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<v S18>actually haven't been able to stop thinking about it. Um, honestly,

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<v S18>you know, this has been. It's been such an amazing experience.

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<v S18>I thought going into it, we're going to create this documentary.

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<v S18>It's going to hopefully inspire people to to see, you know,

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<v S18>they're going to be presented with information. They can make

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<v S18>a decision on what they believe. But selfishly, I walked

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<v S18>away from it. Deeply changed, really. It kind of obliterated

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<v S18>everything I thought I knew, you know, all of these things.

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<v S18>I thought I knew about miracles and, you know, really,

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<v S18>it forced me, just like you were just saying, to

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<v S18>ask all the same questions. And I think the biggest question,

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<v S18>and this is what I'm still processing, am I experiencing

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<v S18>everything that God has for us? Am I open to it?

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<v S18>Have I been have I been too quick to maybe

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<v S18>dismiss certain elements of the supernatural? You know, we throw

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<v S18>that word around. Supernatural. I'm reading the Bible. I read

0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:07.760
<v S18>the Bible every year. The last couple of years. I

0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:09.879
<v S18>read through the whole entire thing. And I'm focusing right

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<v S18>now just on the New Testament this year and every

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<v S18>page the supernatural now is popping off the page at me.

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<v S18>And it's so funny because in the past I would

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<v S18>have read it and I would have just kind of

0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:23.360
<v S18>kept going. And now I'm pausing and I'm pondering and

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<v S18>I'm wondering, you know, what? What is still happening today

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<v S18>and what is not. And I think that's a big

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<v S18>question that the church is grappling with right now. And

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<v S18>a lot of people have decided, well, it's all dead.

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<v S18>It's not happening. And I think the evidence really is

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<v S18>on the other side of that, that that things are happening,

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<v S18>that people are being healed. But to your point, there's

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<v S18>still pain. Even Lazarus died again, right? So, you know,

0:22:48.190 --> 0:22:50.830
<v S18>the miracles run out at some point. But but that

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<v S18>doesn't mean they're not happening.

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<v S1>Amen. And Brother Paul asked for that thorn to be removed,

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<v S1>and it was not. So I think this really is

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<v S1>so important, Billy. Not just because we're all, hey, look,

0:23:01.310 --> 0:23:03.870
<v S1>we love touched by an angel who doesn't love miracle stories.

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<v S1>But the reality is this goes much deeper because it

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<v S1>really does go to the core question of suffering. And

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<v S1>who is God and why? Why does he allow fill

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<v S1>in the blank? And why didn't he do fill in

0:23:12.990 --> 0:23:15.070
<v S1>the blank? And I think this is going to cause

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<v S1>some spiritual growth as a result of this. The other

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<v S1>thing too, is the people that you got with credentials,

0:23:19.869 --> 0:23:22.990
<v S1>you have neuroscientists, you have people who got their education

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<v S1>at Harvard. You have people the husband and wife team

0:23:25.420 --> 0:23:30.260
<v S1>in Indiana are absolutely amazing, doing objective empirical studies on

0:23:30.260 --> 0:23:33.179
<v S1>this where they've got the Sanhedrin of the medicine world

0:23:33.180 --> 0:23:36.380
<v S1>looking at this going, something's going on. Am I right

0:23:36.380 --> 0:23:37.220
<v S1>about that?

0:23:37.300 --> 0:23:39.820
<v S18>You're 100% right. And I think that was so important

0:23:39.820 --> 0:23:43.340
<v S18>to us going into this, because, look, faith is about faith.

0:23:43.380 --> 0:23:46.780
<v S18>You know, it's not all. Even if you can prove

0:23:46.780 --> 0:23:49.180
<v S18>and I think you can you can get 98% of

0:23:49.180 --> 0:23:51.219
<v S18>the way there proving that a miracle happened. Right? You

0:23:51.220 --> 0:23:53.540
<v S18>get to a place where you say there's no other explanation.

0:23:53.540 --> 0:23:55.619
<v S18>And I think the miracles we show in the film,

0:23:55.619 --> 0:23:59.060
<v S18>I have not had one atheist, agnostic, or skeptical Christian

0:23:59.060 --> 0:24:01.700
<v S18>who doesn't believe in miracles come to me and say,

0:24:01.700 --> 0:24:03.820
<v S18>here's another explanation. They don't have them.

0:24:04.060 --> 0:24:05.899
<v S1>But but it requires faith.

0:24:06.380 --> 0:24:06.780
<v S18>It requires.

0:24:06.780 --> 0:24:10.420
<v S1>100%. Yep. And I love Lee Strobel's example about prove

0:24:10.420 --> 0:24:12.780
<v S1>me your name. And if you don't know what that means,

0:24:12.780 --> 0:24:14.939
<v S1>get the DVD. All right. Which takes me to how

0:24:14.940 --> 0:24:16.700
<v S1>exactly you can watch this. So I have a link

0:24:16.859 --> 0:24:19.740
<v S1>on my website on the information page, right under the

0:24:19.780 --> 0:24:21.939
<v S1>definition of the two hours we do every day, you're

0:24:21.940 --> 0:24:24.170
<v S1>going to see a red box. It says Program details

0:24:24.170 --> 0:24:26.210
<v S1>and audio. Click then on takes you to the info page.

0:24:26.330 --> 0:24:28.050
<v S1>I have a hot link. Turn it on. You can

0:24:28.050 --> 0:24:31.050
<v S1>either order the DVD or you can watch it streaming.

0:24:31.050 --> 0:24:33.129
<v S1>But either way, do it. And can I tell you

0:24:33.130 --> 0:24:36.050
<v S1>something else? Don't do it by yourself. Invite a skeptic,

0:24:36.050 --> 0:24:38.850
<v S1>someone who doesn't yet know Jesus as their personal savior,

0:24:38.850 --> 0:24:41.410
<v S1>because this is going to start a conversation that could

0:24:41.410 --> 0:24:46.330
<v S1>have eternal consequences. Billy. Let's talk again soon. Absolutely. Outstanding

0:24:46.330 --> 0:25:17.970
<v S1>documentary back after this, friends. Oh, even if you've never

0:25:17.970 --> 0:25:19.490
<v S1>been on the back of a horse, does that not

0:25:19.490 --> 0:25:21.850
<v S1>make your heart race just a little bit faster? And

0:25:21.850 --> 0:25:24.280
<v S1>could you not feel the snorting from his nostrils on

0:25:24.280 --> 0:25:26.480
<v S1>the back of your neck? And can you not smell

0:25:26.480 --> 0:25:28.359
<v S1>the leather of the saddle? Boy, I tell you what,

0:25:28.359 --> 0:25:30.240
<v S1>I love horse stories. And that's why I love the

0:25:30.240 --> 0:25:32.760
<v S1>writings of Rebecca. And she's got a new book out

0:25:32.760 --> 0:25:37.080
<v S1>called Great Horse Stories Wisdom and Humor from our Majestic Friends.

0:25:37.280 --> 0:25:39.840
<v S1>And I love the fact that Rebecca, who spent 15

0:25:39.840 --> 0:25:41.800
<v S1>years doing ranch work. And by the way, you know

0:25:41.800 --> 0:25:45.200
<v S1>anything about running a ranch? Wow. You don't punch a clock.

0:25:45.240 --> 0:25:47.760
<v S1>It's every single day. You got to turn them out.

0:25:47.760 --> 0:25:49.399
<v S1>You got to bring them in. You muck the stalls,

0:25:49.400 --> 0:25:51.000
<v S1>you feed them, you water them, you nurse them, you

0:25:51.000 --> 0:25:53.480
<v S1>baby them, you deliver them. And in addition to all

0:25:53.520 --> 0:25:55.880
<v S1>of that, she was guiding some pack trips. She also

0:25:55.920 --> 0:25:59.120
<v S1>worked as a wilderness ranger. What an awesome job. And

0:25:59.119 --> 0:26:01.920
<v S1>she's the author of several Christian books about horses and

0:26:01.920 --> 0:26:04.800
<v S1>the West. And she's won all kinds of writing competitions,

0:26:04.800 --> 0:26:06.760
<v S1>so it wouldn't it would be a full life just

0:26:06.760 --> 0:26:08.320
<v S1>to be on the back of a horse and to

0:26:08.320 --> 0:26:10.679
<v S1>do all the ranch work. But then God makes you

0:26:10.680 --> 0:26:13.000
<v S1>a writer. So then she blends these two together, and

0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:16.040
<v S1>she teaches about our relationship with the Lord by taking

0:26:16.040 --> 0:26:18.880
<v S1>a look at horses. Just amazing stuff. And I'm going

0:26:18.920 --> 0:26:26.830
<v S1>to let you jump in at any time. Friends at 1877548367518775483675. Rebecca,

0:26:26.830 --> 0:26:28.550
<v S1>I think I've asked you this before. And by the way,

0:26:28.550 --> 0:26:30.590
<v S1>I treasure every single time I get to spend time

0:26:30.590 --> 0:26:32.910
<v S1>with you. How old were you when you first fell

0:26:32.910 --> 0:26:33.990
<v S1>in love with horses?

0:26:34.869 --> 0:26:38.150
<v S21>Oh, I think it happened in my DNA from God.

0:26:38.670 --> 0:26:43.510
<v S21>It had to have. I think my first word was

0:26:43.510 --> 0:26:47.030
<v S21>probably horse, to my mother's dismay. But I've always had

0:26:47.030 --> 0:26:49.830
<v S21>a fascination with horses, haven't you? Janet, I know you're

0:26:49.830 --> 0:26:50.670
<v S21>a horse lover.

0:26:51.030 --> 0:26:54.270
<v S1>Mhm. Mhm. And it just, you know, it's amazing. In fact,

0:26:54.270 --> 0:26:57.230
<v S1>I was just spending time with a mare this morning,

0:26:57.230 --> 0:26:59.950
<v S1>an eight year old mare who had had some very

0:26:59.950 --> 0:27:02.830
<v S1>rough handling, and it was so obvious that she looked

0:27:02.830 --> 0:27:05.270
<v S1>at human beings and thought, are you someone who can

0:27:05.270 --> 0:27:07.470
<v S1>be trusted, or do I have to fear all of you?

0:27:07.750 --> 0:27:09.430
<v S1>And as I just walked with her for a while

0:27:09.430 --> 0:27:11.230
<v S1>and loved on her neck, you could see her eyes

0:27:11.270 --> 0:27:13.830
<v S1>soften and her pace slow down, and then she'd start

0:27:13.830 --> 0:27:15.830
<v S1>to rub the back of my neck and I thought, wow,

0:27:15.830 --> 0:27:17.990
<v S1>what a picture of learning to trust God and feeling

0:27:17.990 --> 0:27:20.700
<v S1>safe in his arms. I mean, that's what you write about.

0:27:20.700 --> 0:27:23.020
<v S1>You see it. And I even think you have to

0:27:23.020 --> 0:27:25.740
<v S1>have a background in horses. You just see that idea.

0:27:25.740 --> 0:27:28.380
<v S1>And isn't it cool that God writes so much about

0:27:28.380 --> 0:27:30.899
<v S1>horses in Scripture, talks about the bit and the bridle,

0:27:30.900 --> 0:27:32.740
<v S1>and that says a lot about us, doesn't it?

0:27:33.859 --> 0:27:36.500
<v S21>Yes it does. But the best part is we get

0:27:36.500 --> 0:27:38.060
<v S21>to come back on horses.

0:27:38.619 --> 0:27:42.700
<v S1>Yes, yes. And that Jesus is a writer. That Jesus

0:27:42.740 --> 0:27:44.500
<v S1>is a writer. Don't you love that?

0:27:44.940 --> 0:27:45.460
<v S21>Yes.

0:27:46.859 --> 0:27:49.980
<v S1>I'm so glad. So I think that it was important

0:27:49.980 --> 0:27:52.140
<v S1>to remember that he came in on a donkey. But

0:27:52.180 --> 0:27:54.419
<v S1>he's coming back on a horse, which tells me something

0:27:54.420 --> 0:27:56.820
<v S1>about the place that horses have in the heart of Jesus.

0:27:56.820 --> 0:27:58.899
<v S1>By the way, I want you to tell me about

0:27:58.900 --> 0:28:01.020
<v S1>Wind Dancer, and I'd love for you to explain to

0:28:01.020 --> 0:28:03.940
<v S1>our friends what's the difference between a donkey and a mule?

0:28:03.980 --> 0:28:06.260
<v S1>Because I bet some folks listening don't know the difference.

0:28:06.900 --> 0:28:09.300
<v S21>Oh my gosh, there is a huge difference because they're

0:28:09.300 --> 0:28:12.500
<v S21>actually different species with different number of chromosomes. And I

0:28:12.500 --> 0:28:15.900
<v S21>don't know the exact numbers, but a mule is a

0:28:15.940 --> 0:28:20.440
<v S21>horse mom and a donkey, dad. And it's a hybrid

0:28:20.440 --> 0:28:23.359
<v S21>animal that's made from those two species. Because a mule

0:28:23.359 --> 0:28:27.240
<v S21>is usually sterile and can't be bred. Wind dancer is

0:28:27.280 --> 0:28:30.960
<v S21>a mule that I was blessed enough to own a mare,

0:28:31.000 --> 0:28:35.800
<v S21>and through a tumultuous relationship, a breeder lied to me,

0:28:35.840 --> 0:28:37.920
<v S21>a trainer lied to me, and I brought a bought

0:28:37.920 --> 0:28:39.720
<v S21>a horse who had been vet checked and it turned

0:28:39.720 --> 0:28:44.120
<v S21>out she had had a broken hind leg. And um,

0:28:44.120 --> 0:28:48.560
<v S21>so that actually those stories are coming up in, um,

0:28:48.960 --> 0:28:54.400
<v S21>another book. However, God redeemed that situation by giving me

0:28:54.400 --> 0:28:57.520
<v S21>the idea to breed this mare and get a mule.

0:28:57.880 --> 0:29:00.080
<v S21>And so Wind Dancer is a mule out of that

0:29:00.080 --> 0:29:02.239
<v S21>Tennessee walk and mare out of a gaited jack, and

0:29:02.240 --> 0:29:05.880
<v S21>I'm going to hopefully be riding her this year. She

0:29:05.880 --> 0:29:09.200
<v S21>is a ham. She loves people because I talked to

0:29:09.200 --> 0:29:11.120
<v S21>her in the womb every day from the day she

0:29:11.120 --> 0:29:12.080
<v S21>was conceived.

0:29:12.920 --> 0:29:15.760
<v S1>Wow. And you say that she recognizes your voice right away.

0:29:16.470 --> 0:29:17.230
<v S21>She does.

0:29:18.110 --> 0:29:18.910
<v S1>She knows.

0:29:19.510 --> 0:29:22.310
<v S21>She knows who I am. Just like we. Just like

0:29:22.310 --> 0:29:26.230
<v S21>we recognize God's voice in our spirit. It's a it's

0:29:26.230 --> 0:29:29.270
<v S21>an amazing. It's a relationship. It's a communication between the

0:29:29.270 --> 0:29:31.270
<v S21>two of us. Just like our relationship with God is

0:29:31.270 --> 0:29:33.870
<v S21>a communication between the two of us, between God and I.

0:29:33.870 --> 0:29:35.790
<v S21>I'm not doing all the talking. God's not doing all

0:29:35.790 --> 0:29:37.990
<v S21>the talking. But we work together.

0:29:38.470 --> 0:29:41.710
<v S1>Wow. Wow. Well, speaking of God and talking, that leads

0:29:41.710 --> 0:29:43.390
<v S1>me to prayer. And I want you to tell our

0:29:43.390 --> 0:29:47.110
<v S1>friends about Skysong, because I can just picture you doing

0:29:47.110 --> 0:29:48.830
<v S1>what you say you love to do on the back

0:29:48.830 --> 0:29:51.590
<v S1>of Skysong, which is talking to the Lord. Some people

0:29:51.590 --> 0:29:53.670
<v S1>are going talking to the Lord. I'm hanging on for

0:29:53.670 --> 0:29:55.670
<v S1>dear life. How can you possibly be praying at the

0:29:55.670 --> 0:29:59.070
<v S1>same time? But that's your favorite place to pray, isn't it?

0:30:00.590 --> 0:30:03.670
<v S21>It is, it is. It is so amazing. And a

0:30:03.750 --> 0:30:06.990
<v S21>matter of fact, that's how he got his name I was.

0:30:07.030 --> 0:30:09.510
<v S21>Names of horses are very, very important to me. And

0:30:09.510 --> 0:30:11.110
<v S21>I was saying, God, what am I going to name

0:30:11.110 --> 0:30:13.790
<v S21>this horse running through all these different names? And I thought,

0:30:13.990 --> 0:30:16.660
<v S21>I pray when I ride, that's the primary thing that

0:30:16.660 --> 0:30:20.020
<v S21>I do is that's my time, my personal time, intimate

0:30:20.060 --> 0:30:23.820
<v S21>time with God. So I'm going to name him Skysong

0:30:23.820 --> 0:30:27.860
<v S21>because that means because prayer is a song in the

0:30:27.860 --> 0:30:29.100
<v S21>sky to God.

0:30:30.380 --> 0:30:35.300
<v S1>Yeah. Wow. How wonderful, how wonderful. Talk to me about Nana.

0:30:35.540 --> 0:30:36.860
<v S1>A lot of you say that, and a lot of

0:30:36.860 --> 0:30:39.860
<v S1>people are thinking about their precious grandmother. But there's a

0:30:39.860 --> 0:30:42.380
<v S1>different Nana that you write about in your latest book

0:30:42.380 --> 0:30:45.180
<v S1>called Great Horse Stories. And let me say the subtitle

0:30:45.180 --> 0:30:48.420
<v S1>Wisdom and Humor from Our Majestic Friends. And that certainly

0:30:48.420 --> 0:30:50.500
<v S1>is an apt description of a horse. But you talk

0:30:50.540 --> 0:30:52.020
<v S1>about Nana. What was she like?

0:30:52.820 --> 0:30:56.500
<v S21>Well, Nana was a Norwegian fjord horse, and if anybody

0:30:56.540 --> 0:30:59.180
<v S21>has had a Norwegian fjord horse, they know that God

0:30:59.180 --> 0:31:03.140
<v S21>put extra personality in their little bodies. They're not necessarily

0:31:03.140 --> 0:31:07.260
<v S21>big horse. They're usually cream. But, um, their manes have

0:31:07.260 --> 0:31:11.700
<v S21>got their black and white, so they're very stunning. And

0:31:11.740 --> 0:31:14.290
<v S21>there was some people over in eastern Montana. Friends of

0:31:14.290 --> 0:31:17.130
<v S21>mine and the daughter wanted a horse, and she'd saved

0:31:17.130 --> 0:31:20.330
<v S21>all her money. And they or was saving it on

0:31:20.330 --> 0:31:23.170
<v S21>a on a plan. And they picked out this horse

0:31:23.170 --> 0:31:25.370
<v S21>and it ended up to be a young horse. The

0:31:25.370 --> 0:31:28.050
<v S21>daughter had had a problem with her temper, and the

0:31:28.050 --> 0:31:32.930
<v S21>mother was very, very concerned that the daughter would totally erupt.

0:31:33.410 --> 0:31:37.570
<v S21>So they and perhaps even ruin the horse. They're out

0:31:37.570 --> 0:31:41.690
<v S21>on a trail ride. Nothing's going right. The little girl

0:31:41.690 --> 0:31:46.290
<v S21>gets upset because the the situation is looking like it

0:31:46.290 --> 0:31:49.370
<v S21>could blow up. She was not trusting Nana, which was

0:31:49.370 --> 0:31:53.850
<v S21>a fairly new horse to her, and she started having

0:31:53.850 --> 0:31:57.090
<v S21>a fit. Well, Nana was going slowly because she was

0:31:57.090 --> 0:32:00.170
<v S21>carrying precious cargo on her back on the trail and

0:32:00.170 --> 0:32:02.810
<v S21>she was not about to get her feathers flustered by

0:32:02.810 --> 0:32:05.729
<v S21>the other horses acting up, and the daughter wanted to

0:32:05.730 --> 0:32:08.730
<v S21>go as fast as the other horses, and Nana decided

0:32:08.730 --> 0:32:12.040
<v S21>she wasn't going to participate, and the little girl was

0:32:12.040 --> 0:32:15.840
<v S21>kicking her and screaming at mom, saying, mom, Nana's not

0:32:15.840 --> 0:32:18.720
<v S21>doing what I want. And mom is saying, it's okay,

0:32:18.760 --> 0:32:24.320
<v S21>calm down. The little girl's temper skyrockets. Nana turns off

0:32:24.320 --> 0:32:27.240
<v S21>the trail, ignoring the little girl, and walks out into

0:32:27.240 --> 0:32:29.400
<v S21>the middle of the field and lets the girl have

0:32:29.400 --> 0:32:33.360
<v S21>her temper tantrum and little girl screaming at the top

0:32:33.360 --> 0:32:33.959
<v S21>of her lungs.

0:32:34.000 --> 0:32:37.640
<v S22>Just screaming, mom, she won't do anything I want.

0:32:37.800 --> 0:32:42.360
<v S21>And Nana's just standing there like a wonderful grandmother, totally patient,

0:32:42.400 --> 0:32:47.920
<v S21>just letting the little girl. And finally, finally Katie settles

0:32:47.920 --> 0:32:53.280
<v S21>down and she she just goes, oh. And instantly Nana

0:32:53.520 --> 0:32:55.760
<v S21>scuttles over to the other horses and takes her. And

0:32:55.760 --> 0:33:01.200
<v S21>it was like Nana was that girl's nanny. It was amazing.

0:33:01.680 --> 0:33:04.880
<v S1>Wow. Was Nana her name before this incident? Because there's

0:33:04.880 --> 0:33:08.320
<v S1>a paradox there that she was protective like that and

0:33:08.360 --> 0:33:11.430
<v S1>had the name Nana, or was it named after the fact.

0:33:12.670 --> 0:33:16.030
<v S21>Nana was named beforehand. Wow. And I don't I don't

0:33:16.030 --> 0:33:18.430
<v S21>know if she came from the breeder with that name,

0:33:18.910 --> 0:33:21.310
<v S21>but oh my gosh, what an amazing horse! And she

0:33:21.310 --> 0:33:24.510
<v S21>was so young at that time. Here is here's this

0:33:24.550 --> 0:33:27.190
<v S21>young horse and a young girl. And the horse had

0:33:27.190 --> 0:33:29.230
<v S21>the wisdom of an ancient horse.

0:33:30.070 --> 0:33:32.590
<v S1>Mhm. Mhm. And Katie ended up getting a lot of

0:33:32.590 --> 0:33:34.469
<v S1>ribbons on the back of Nana did she not.

0:33:35.030 --> 0:33:37.950
<v S21>She did. And she's showing again this year. She's gotten

0:33:37.950 --> 0:33:41.070
<v S21>tons of ribbons. But the most wonderful thing is, is

0:33:41.070 --> 0:33:44.470
<v S21>that Nana was so different for eastern Montana. You think

0:33:44.510 --> 0:33:46.750
<v S21>eastern Montana you've got quarter horses?

0:33:46.790 --> 0:33:47.070
<v S1>Yes.

0:33:47.110 --> 0:33:51.910
<v S21>You're doing roping. You're doing all this different stuff. Well, Katie, um,

0:33:52.550 --> 0:33:55.830
<v S21>Katie actually wrote English in a show in eastern Montana

0:33:55.830 --> 0:33:59.070
<v S21>and was the only contestant. It was obviously.

0:33:59.070 --> 0:34:02.190
<v S22>Stuck out like a sore thumb. And this little chubby Norwegian.

0:34:02.230 --> 0:34:05.630
<v S21>Fjord horse with a black and white mane and riding

0:34:05.630 --> 0:34:08.109
<v S21>an English saddle, wearing a helmet. And everybody else had

0:34:08.110 --> 0:34:12.500
<v S21>cowboy hats on western saddles. And Katie is just devastated

0:34:12.500 --> 0:34:16.980
<v S21>because she's always been a bigger boned gal, always been

0:34:17.460 --> 0:34:23.460
<v S21>a maybe, um, a little, um, she would express herself

0:34:23.500 --> 0:34:28.700
<v S21>very poignantly, oftentimes wonderful gal, heart of gold, but she

0:34:28.700 --> 0:34:30.379
<v S21>always felt like she was on the outside. So now

0:34:30.380 --> 0:34:33.259
<v S21>she's really on the outside. She has a misfit horse.

0:34:33.260 --> 0:34:37.420
<v S21>She stands out like a sore thumb. But you know what?

0:34:37.460 --> 0:34:41.379
<v S21>That horse, um, did so well. And as the day

0:34:41.380 --> 0:34:45.860
<v S21>progressed in that show, Katie discovered that it was wonderful

0:34:45.860 --> 0:34:49.180
<v S21>to be different because all the other kids in eastern

0:34:49.180 --> 0:34:52.060
<v S21>Montana were going, tell me about your horse. I've never

0:34:52.060 --> 0:34:56.580
<v S21>seen a horse like that before. So instead of Katie being, um,

0:34:56.620 --> 0:35:00.700
<v S21>put on the outside as a misfit, she discovered that

0:35:00.700 --> 0:35:04.380
<v S21>being different is wonderful because people like to find out

0:35:04.380 --> 0:35:08.010
<v S21>about different things. And she's gone on to excel. She's

0:35:08.010 --> 0:35:11.810
<v S21>just an amazing young lady. Wow. But all because of

0:35:11.810 --> 0:35:12.290
<v S21>a horse?

0:35:12.730 --> 0:35:15.129
<v S1>Yes. And, Rebecca, what I love in this book is

0:35:15.130 --> 0:35:17.410
<v S1>that you give us thoughts to ponder at the end

0:35:17.410 --> 0:35:19.609
<v S1>of each one of these precious little stories. And each

0:35:19.610 --> 0:35:21.730
<v S1>one of them is a jewel. And in the story

0:35:21.730 --> 0:35:24.570
<v S1>of Katie and Nana, you remind us that God made

0:35:24.570 --> 0:35:28.169
<v S1>us unique and that he might possibly have made us

0:35:28.170 --> 0:35:32.049
<v S1>to stand out like a Norwegian fjord. So what you're

0:35:32.050 --> 0:35:35.610
<v S1>saying is celebrate your uniqueness, rather than being so concerned

0:35:35.610 --> 0:35:39.210
<v S1>about blending in completely in the crowd. Here's Katie now

0:35:39.250 --> 0:35:43.689
<v S1>who has this very different perspective in Montana. She's not

0:35:43.690 --> 0:35:47.009
<v S1>doing barrel racing. She's doing English instead. And yet that's

0:35:47.010 --> 0:35:50.089
<v S1>exactly how she was designed to be made. Wow. There's

0:35:50.090 --> 0:35:53.489
<v S1>a great lesson there about celebrating the uniqueness of who

0:35:53.489 --> 0:35:55.730
<v S1>we are in God. I want to ask you a question,

0:35:55.770 --> 0:35:57.450
<v S1>and I'm coming up to a break and the music

0:35:57.450 --> 0:35:58.969
<v S1>is going to start to roll in a second, and

0:35:58.969 --> 0:36:00.450
<v S1>I'll give you a chance to think about it. But

0:36:00.450 --> 0:36:02.689
<v S1>in all your years of working with horses and doing

0:36:02.690 --> 0:36:06.120
<v S1>ranch work, and particularly because we draw so many parallels

0:36:06.120 --> 0:36:08.640
<v S1>through your writings about how God works with us and

0:36:08.640 --> 0:36:11.160
<v S1>the messages that he sends us. Have you ever found

0:36:11.160 --> 0:36:16.040
<v S1>a horse where you said utterly, totally, completely unredeemable on

0:36:16.040 --> 0:36:18.920
<v S1>his way to the glue factory? There's nothing here. Just

0:36:18.960 --> 0:36:21.400
<v S1>throw him on the ash heap of history because he's

0:36:21.400 --> 0:36:24.080
<v S1>no good for anybody. Did you ever run into a

0:36:24.080 --> 0:36:26.239
<v S1>horse like that? I'll leave that question hanging and we'll

0:36:26.239 --> 0:36:28.920
<v S1>get an answer from Rebecca on Dev right after this.

0:37:15.510 --> 0:37:18.830
<v S1>Rebecca again has written several Christian books. Her newest is

0:37:18.830 --> 0:37:22.950
<v S1>called Great Horse Stories. Wisdom and humor from Our Majestic Friends.

0:37:22.950 --> 0:37:24.989
<v S1>And before the break, Rebecca, I asked you because of

0:37:24.989 --> 0:37:27.069
<v S1>all your years. And it's tough stuff. It's what? It's

0:37:27.070 --> 0:37:29.549
<v S1>what my husband calls the Charlotte's Web experience. You take

0:37:29.550 --> 0:37:31.590
<v S1>it all or you can't take any of it because

0:37:31.590 --> 0:37:34.830
<v S1>it's all in there. Especially when an animal gets sick

0:37:34.830 --> 0:37:36.589
<v S1>and you don't think the animal is going to make it.

0:37:36.590 --> 0:37:39.549
<v S1>But as particularly in the horse world and you've seen this,

0:37:39.550 --> 0:37:41.950
<v S1>I'm sure, a thousand times over, where someone goes, ah,

0:37:41.989 --> 0:37:43.710
<v S1>that's just a bad horse. Just put him down. Just

0:37:43.710 --> 0:37:48.230
<v S1>get rid of him. Untrainable so damaged. So, um, non-usable,

0:37:48.230 --> 0:37:51.190
<v S1>you might as well just euthanize the horse in your years.

0:37:51.190 --> 0:37:52.870
<v S1>Have you ever seen that? And do you think there

0:37:52.870 --> 0:37:53.830
<v S1>is such a horse?

0:37:55.830 --> 0:37:59.069
<v S21>Boy? You know, that's a really tough question. Um, if

0:37:59.070 --> 0:38:02.430
<v S21>it were an injury, I would have to go with the,

0:38:02.430 --> 0:38:05.140
<v S21>see that report as to whether the horse would be

0:38:05.140 --> 0:38:07.340
<v S21>in pain or not. That would be my deciding factor.

0:38:08.260 --> 0:38:09.899
<v S21>If a horse was going to be in severe pain,

0:38:09.900 --> 0:38:13.740
<v S21>then I would say I would choose to have to

0:38:13.780 --> 0:38:16.260
<v S21>euthanize the horse. But other than that, Janet, I have

0:38:16.260 --> 0:38:19.940
<v S21>seen so many miracles, miracle after miracle after miracle of

0:38:20.219 --> 0:38:22.940
<v S21>horses who have recovered from injuries that never should have,

0:38:23.060 --> 0:38:26.100
<v S21>horses that lived through things that never should have, and

0:38:26.100 --> 0:38:30.900
<v S21>horses that turned around personality wise, that really never should

0:38:30.940 --> 0:38:34.219
<v S21>have from what they had been through. So it's it's

0:38:34.219 --> 0:38:36.859
<v S21>hard to say. Are you willing to give up on

0:38:36.860 --> 0:38:41.220
<v S21>a horse for me? No I can't. But the interesting

0:38:41.260 --> 0:38:43.219
<v S21>thing is, is there's actually a story in this book.

0:38:43.219 --> 0:38:45.940
<v S21>It's called The Castaway, and it's about a woman who

0:38:45.940 --> 0:38:48.620
<v S21>found a horse that had been abandoned at a ranch

0:38:48.620 --> 0:38:51.899
<v S21>where she was boarding her horse. And the rest, it

0:38:51.900 --> 0:38:54.380
<v S21>had come in on a cattle truck because the person

0:38:54.380 --> 0:38:56.420
<v S21>who was selling the cattle didn't want the horse, and

0:38:56.420 --> 0:38:58.580
<v S21>he was just a rack of bones, hadn't been taken

0:38:58.580 --> 0:39:00.900
<v S21>care of. And he sent him he loaded him on

0:39:00.900 --> 0:39:03.129
<v S21>the cattle truck to get rid of them. And this

0:39:03.130 --> 0:39:07.130
<v S21>gal discovered him in a. It was in California, but

0:39:07.130 --> 0:39:09.890
<v S21>it was a winter weather. It was sleeting. The horse

0:39:09.890 --> 0:39:11.969
<v S21>was hypothermic. She saw it at night and took it

0:39:11.969 --> 0:39:16.130
<v S21>in and rescued this horse. It became her favorite saddle horse.

0:39:16.530 --> 0:39:19.610
<v S21>And as I was writing that story, God reminded me

0:39:19.610 --> 0:39:22.930
<v S21>of a time. And I still fight with this. There

0:39:22.969 --> 0:39:25.489
<v S21>are there are times when I see people, and I

0:39:25.489 --> 0:39:28.129
<v S21>think you people have made the decision to be who

0:39:28.170 --> 0:39:31.689
<v S21>you are, and you're pretty disgusting. And sometimes it's hard

0:39:31.690 --> 0:39:34.650
<v S21>for me to love those people. It's easier for me.

0:39:34.650 --> 0:39:36.969
<v S21>And God showed me through different times that it's easier

0:39:36.969 --> 0:39:39.770
<v S21>for me to love a hurting animal than a hurting person.

0:39:39.770 --> 0:39:44.130
<v S21>And God said, but I created people in my image.

0:39:46.250 --> 0:39:49.089
<v S21>And that puts them on a whole different plane than

0:39:49.090 --> 0:39:51.690
<v S21>a hurting animal. Why don't I have the same compassion

0:39:51.690 --> 0:39:55.169
<v S21>for people that I do for animals? When people are

0:39:55.170 --> 0:39:59.129
<v S21>created in the image of God and he really, he

0:39:59.130 --> 0:40:02.790
<v S21>really shook me to the core. Janet on that. When

0:40:02.830 --> 0:40:05.870
<v S21>at one time I had an opportunity, God asked me

0:40:05.870 --> 0:40:08.630
<v S21>to feed a man who had dreadlocks in his hair.

0:40:08.670 --> 0:40:11.870
<v S21>He was hunched over. He was old. He was rotten teeth.

0:40:11.870 --> 0:40:14.469
<v S21>He was disgusting. And I drove past him on the

0:40:14.469 --> 0:40:17.310
<v S21>road and he was standing next to a fast food

0:40:17.310 --> 0:40:21.630
<v S21>joint and God said, go feed him. And I said, ah,

0:40:22.070 --> 0:40:23.629
<v S21>I don't have any cash. Let me go to the bank.

0:40:23.670 --> 0:40:26.190
<v S21>If he's still there when I get back, I'll feed him.

0:40:26.310 --> 0:40:28.470
<v S21>So I did. I went and got cash, came back

0:40:29.590 --> 0:40:31.590
<v S21>and the guy wasn't there, and I kind of breathed

0:40:31.590 --> 0:40:33.590
<v S21>a sigh of relief and God said, no, go into

0:40:33.590 --> 0:40:36.790
<v S21>the parking lot. And the guy was standing back by

0:40:36.790 --> 0:40:39.750
<v S21>the dumpsters, getting more treasures for his black bag that

0:40:39.750 --> 0:40:43.230
<v S21>he was carrying around. And I pulled over next to

0:40:43.270 --> 0:40:45.230
<v S21>him and, and I said, you know, I'd like to

0:40:45.230 --> 0:40:47.910
<v S21>buy you something to eat. And he he had those

0:40:48.030 --> 0:40:51.230
<v S21>his eyes were like they were shifty eyes and he

0:40:51.230 --> 0:40:54.589
<v S21>was squinty and he stunk. The man hadn't changed his

0:40:54.590 --> 0:40:57.509
<v S21>clothes in years or taken a bath. I mean, excuse me.

0:40:57.989 --> 0:41:03.260
<v S21>It was totally disgusting. And he said yes. My vision

0:41:03.260 --> 0:41:04.859
<v S21>of what God asked me to do was to go

0:41:04.860 --> 0:41:06.860
<v S21>in there and buy the guy a meal and leave.

0:41:07.140 --> 0:41:10.219
<v S21>I didn't want to sit with him, so I went in.

0:41:10.219 --> 0:41:12.340
<v S21>I asked the guy what he wanted. He said one taco,

0:41:12.340 --> 0:41:15.060
<v S21>so I bought him the whole meal like a box

0:41:15.060 --> 0:41:17.300
<v S21>because it looked like he needed more than one taco

0:41:17.700 --> 0:41:19.940
<v S21>and he wouldn't ask for it. And then God told

0:41:19.940 --> 0:41:22.819
<v S21>me to go sit with a man, and I went, really?

0:41:23.300 --> 0:41:25.259
<v S21>Now see if it would have been a horse, I

0:41:25.260 --> 0:41:28.060
<v S21>would have been cooking them, cooking the mash on the

0:41:28.060 --> 0:41:32.299
<v S21>stove and adding molasses. And but because it was a

0:41:32.300 --> 0:41:35.580
<v S21>human being now think how warped my thought pattern is

0:41:35.580 --> 0:41:37.940
<v S21>in this. This is the image of God. This man

0:41:37.940 --> 0:41:40.899
<v S21>wearing dreadlocks in filthy clothes is created in the image

0:41:40.900 --> 0:41:43.259
<v S21>of God, and I'm treating him like he's a piece

0:41:43.260 --> 0:41:47.900
<v S21>of trash. There's something wrong with that. So, God, God

0:41:47.900 --> 0:41:49.980
<v S21>proceeded to work on my heart. So I sat down

0:41:49.980 --> 0:41:52.419
<v S21>with a man and watched him eat. And he's just

0:41:52.420 --> 0:41:55.060
<v S21>shoving it in his mouth. Of course, no manners and

0:41:55.100 --> 0:41:57.610
<v S21>wiping his hands. And he's got this beard. And he

0:41:57.610 --> 0:42:00.330
<v S21>had been chewing and he had this chew stuck in

0:42:00.330 --> 0:42:03.730
<v S21>his beard. It was disgusting. And then he he takes

0:42:03.730 --> 0:42:05.609
<v S21>a couple bites and he looks up at me and

0:42:05.610 --> 0:42:07.330
<v S21>he says, who do you want me to kill?

0:42:08.450 --> 0:42:08.850
<v S1>Whoa.

0:42:10.170 --> 0:42:13.970
<v S21>And I, I said, no. See, this is the story. This.

0:42:14.010 --> 0:42:16.450
<v S21>The stories in this book are so powerful. Janet, that's

0:42:16.450 --> 0:42:20.810
<v S21>the castaway story. Um, I looked at him and I said,

0:42:20.810 --> 0:42:22.569
<v S21>I don't want you to kill anybody. And he said,

0:42:22.570 --> 0:42:24.250
<v S21>then why did you buy me a meal?

0:42:25.489 --> 0:42:26.770
<v S23>Mhm. Wow.

0:42:26.890 --> 0:42:30.130
<v S21>See, because he had been living on the streets so long,

0:42:30.210 --> 0:42:32.969
<v S21>life had no importance to him anymore. And he was willing.

0:42:33.010 --> 0:42:35.210
<v S21>People had asked him to kill somebody else for buying

0:42:35.210 --> 0:42:36.210
<v S21>him a taco.

0:42:37.330 --> 0:42:37.650
<v S23>Mhm.

0:42:38.010 --> 0:42:42.370
<v S21>So I, I, I said I bought you a meal

0:42:42.410 --> 0:42:45.410
<v S21>because Jesus told me to buy you a meal and

0:42:45.410 --> 0:42:47.890
<v S21>he looked at me really strange then, and I said

0:42:47.890 --> 0:42:50.009
<v S21>I just poured out the salvation message. I told him

0:42:50.010 --> 0:42:52.330
<v S21>that God loved him, that it didn't matter what he

0:42:52.330 --> 0:42:54.930
<v S21>had done, that God would forgive him, give him a

0:42:54.930 --> 0:42:57.879
<v S21>brand new life and redeem him. And he opened up

0:42:57.880 --> 0:42:59.400
<v S21>to me, and he said that he had been a

0:42:59.400 --> 0:43:03.280
<v S21>World War or a Vietnam vet, and because of drugs

0:43:03.280 --> 0:43:05.440
<v S21>and alcohol and the stuff he had dealt with, he

0:43:05.440 --> 0:43:07.759
<v S21>lost his family and his greatest desire was to be

0:43:07.760 --> 0:43:13.600
<v S21>reunited with his son. And I went, okay, well, Jesus

0:43:13.600 --> 0:43:15.319
<v S21>can do that. Well, he didn't want to have anything

0:43:15.320 --> 0:43:17.359
<v S21>to do with Jesus. And I proceeded to tell him,

0:43:17.360 --> 0:43:19.440
<v S21>there's nothing that you can do that's bad enough that

0:43:19.440 --> 0:43:21.799
<v S21>you can keep Jesus away. You can. Jesus will love

0:43:21.800 --> 0:43:24.880
<v S21>you no matter what. You just have to receive him. Anyway,

0:43:24.880 --> 0:43:28.000
<v S21>it was time to go and I stood up and

0:43:28.160 --> 0:43:31.719
<v S21>God said, give him a hug and I'm going, okay, see,

0:43:31.719 --> 0:43:34.239
<v S21>now God's got my heart to the spot where I

0:43:34.239 --> 0:43:36.680
<v S21>can do that. He softened my heart. I had a

0:43:36.680 --> 0:43:40.040
<v S21>hardened heart. It wasn't the man. It wasn't about buying

0:43:40.080 --> 0:43:44.400
<v S21>the man food. It was about Rebecca's heart. And so

0:43:44.719 --> 0:43:47.760
<v S21>I gave the guy a hug. And as I'm giving

0:43:47.760 --> 0:43:50.120
<v S21>him a hug, he said, I haven't had a hug

0:43:50.120 --> 0:43:52.120
<v S21>in over 40 years.

0:43:55.550 --> 0:43:56.030
<v S1>Wow.

0:43:57.230 --> 0:43:57.790
<v S23>And he had.

0:43:57.830 --> 0:44:00.350
<v S21>Tears flowing down his cheeks. And of course, his face

0:44:00.390 --> 0:44:03.629
<v S21>is a filthy mess. And he's got these lines where

0:44:03.630 --> 0:44:07.109
<v S21>his tears were. Well, the crazy part was a month. No,

0:44:07.110 --> 0:44:10.549
<v S21>a couple weeks later, I. Oh, I'll have to wrap

0:44:10.550 --> 0:44:12.069
<v S21>up real quick. A couple of weeks later, I met

0:44:12.070 --> 0:44:14.589
<v S21>him at a shelter and he had given his life

0:44:14.590 --> 0:44:15.310
<v S21>to the Lord.

0:44:15.989 --> 0:44:16.310
<v S23>Oh.

0:44:16.830 --> 0:44:21.350
<v S1>Wow. Rebecca, what a story. Wow. Now, see, this is

0:44:21.350 --> 0:44:23.510
<v S1>why I tell you whether you like horses or not,

0:44:23.510 --> 0:44:25.830
<v S1>you're going to learn so much about who you are

0:44:25.870 --> 0:44:29.070
<v S1>in his eyes by reading Rebecca's book. And you know what?

0:44:29.310 --> 0:44:31.030
<v S1>I want to give it to you. Can I first

0:44:31.030 --> 0:44:33.230
<v S1>ten callers. Ten callers. That's how much I want to

0:44:33.230 --> 0:44:38.230
<v S1>give this book away. 1-877-548-3675. Rebecca, come back again soon.

0:44:38.230 --> 0:44:41.149
<v S1>Let's talk the whole hour. I would love to do that.

0:44:41.150 --> 0:44:48.150
<v S1>1-877-548-3675 great Horse Stories wisdom and humor from our Majestic Friends,

0:44:48.150 --> 0:44:51.550
<v S1>the latest book by Rebecca. And I'll see you next time, friends.