Urban Report

Personal Testimony

Three Angels Broadcasting Network

Program transcript

Participants: Yvonne Lewis (Host), Yolanda Palmer

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Program Code: UBR000075


00:01 Stay tuned to meet one of my best friends
00:03 on the planet... who is doing great things for God
00:06 My name is Yvonne Lewis and you're watching
00:08 Urban Report...
00:31 Hello and welcome to Urban Report.
00:33 My guest today is Yolanda Palmer
00:36 Singer, Writer, Producer, and one of my dearest friends.
00:41 Welcome to Urban Report Precious...
00:43 Thank you Yvonne...
00:44 so good to have you... a lot of our viewers know you
00:48 because you have been a part of 3ABN's family for a long time
00:52 coming back and forth, but some don't...
00:54 and I'd like for them to really kind of know your story...
00:59 So, let's talk about your journey... a bit...
01:01 and let people know where you came from...
01:05 Okay... well... it's interesting because
01:08 back in 1985... along with yourself
01:11 we were both singing jingles and doing a lot of work
01:15 in the world... and making a lot of money...
01:17 and God is so amazing... I was brought up in a
01:20 Christian home... but never became converted...
01:23 Hmmm... And once I moved to New York
01:25 and studied music and we began to sing
01:27 and do all of those things... making all the money...
01:30 having all the furs and the diamonds...
01:32 and all those things...
01:33 my sister came to me and she said,
01:34 "Yolanda, when are you going to give your life to Jesus?
01:37 because all the material wealth in the world
01:40 one day... is going to burn up" Hmmm... you know what...
01:44 I have to stop you for a second Lala...
01:45 Viewers... you need to know you know how I give you
01:49 all the 411 right? You have to know
01:52 that Yolanda was a game changer when she came to the job
01:58 with the jingles and stuff... she was dressed to the nines
02:03 she raised the game... on the studio...
02:06 furs and diamonds... and... to a job in the studio...
02:10 she always looked fabulous... okay, so... go ahead Yolanda...
02:13 Oh my... why... I had to say that...
02:15 I don't know why... I had to let them know
02:16 why, you know, what the real deal was...
02:18 okay, go on... You know, I praise the Lord
02:20 Yvonne... because... since then...
02:22 God revealed to me that even though I thought I was
02:24 fantastically dressed and all of that...
02:26 the Lord revealed to me that I was looking like
02:29 Jezebel's sister... Oh...
02:31 So now, He totally... thank God, has changed that for me
02:35 because... that was my god... as you know...
02:37 so, God is good... God is good...
02:40 but, you know, after going through that experience
02:43 with... singing for the world, making all the money
02:45 doing all those things... it turned out that my sister
02:48 came and visited me one day and she said,
02:49 "Yolanda, when are you going to give your life to the Lord?"
02:51 And I said... Well, you know...
02:53 I'm doing so well... I said...
02:54 "Why would I want to do that?" I said, "because I'm enjoying
02:57 what I'm doing... I'm making all this money,
02:59 I don't have any problems... " so I said,
03:01 "People need the Lord... when they have problems and issues"
03:04 so, she looked at me... she says "Oh Yolanda, don't you realize
03:07 that one day when Jesus comes...
03:09 if you're not in Christ... you're going to die...
03:11 an eternal death... " and I thought,
03:13 "Well, Sonya, are you sure about that?"
03:15 She said, "I'm positive... " she said, "Read the Bible...
03:18 we were brought up in the Church you understand these things... "
03:20 so I said, "Well, look, just pray for me...
03:22 if my life's ever threatened...
03:24 that the Lord will give me a moment to say... a prayer... "
03:27 and when we all get to heaven I'll be there too... "
03:30 So you just kind of brushed it off a bit...
03:34 feeling like... that salvation is for someone else
03:38 but not for you... Yes... that's right...
03:40 "when I get older," I told her, "when I finish my life, you know
03:44 what I want to do now... " I said,
03:46 "then... I'll give my life to Jesus. "
03:48 and she said, "Yolanda, the Bible says...
03:50 tomorrow... is not promised to you... "
03:52 Hmmm... She said,
03:53 "Give your life to the Lord now
03:54 before it's too late... "
03:55 so I said, "No," I said, "Sonya, I'm really not ready
03:58 to do that... but... pray for me and... one day...
04:01 the Lord is going to call me to give my life to Him... "
04:03 so she prayed for me, Yvonne, thinking... "Yolanda will never
04:07 give her life to the Lord... she's got all this
04:09 material wealth and friends and she's hanging out with
04:11 people like Luther and singing with people like
04:14 Michael Jackson and all these famous people...
04:17 she'll never do it... " and so, about a month later
04:21 I was traveling... on a plane... and, as you know,
04:24 we traveled and did all kinds of things...
04:26 and so I was singing with Ashford and Simpson at that time
04:28 and while I'm on the plane... it turns out...
04:31 it was three in the morning... the plane began to have
04:33 turbulence because we had flown into a terrible storm...
04:36 a stewardess woke everybody up with a flashlight...
04:38 and says, "Be prepared...
04:40 we don't know what's going to happen
04:42 but be ready... " and when she said,
04:44 "be ready"... the Holy Spirit said,
04:47 "You're not ready... "
04:48 Oh... And every time I think about it,
04:51 I just want to choke up and cry, because... God is so merciful...
04:57 He is... He is... and He heard my little prayer...
05:01 and the plane leveled off we flew safely
05:04 to our destination and that's when you and I met...
05:07 as Christian sisters... or sisters to say,
05:12 "You know, we'd better get ready... "
05:14 Because the Lord was dealing with me...
05:16 Yes on the other end...
05:18 Yes... you know and I had started
05:20 to come back to Him too because I had left
05:23 the Church for a while I was raised as an Adventist...
05:25 and I'd left the Church for a while
05:27 Right... so, when you came back...
05:29 Hmmm... hmmm... and your life had changed...
05:32 and I had started... reading the Word...
05:35 and started studying... we started studying together
05:39 Yes... it's so... God is so good...
05:43 Yes... Amen... so many of our young people
05:46 I call her "Lala" so... so many of our
05:49 young people Lala... think that money and fame...
05:53 just give you everything... Yes...
05:56 and what we found... hmmm... hmmm...
05:59 is that... it's nothing...
06:01 I'd never go back to that...
06:03 Amen, praise God... Amen... Never...
06:05 Yes... because this is
06:07 the abundant life... Yes, it is...
06:09 and so, what you're saying... and what I know
06:12 our viewers are hearing... is that
06:14 that one prayer... was pivotal in your life...
06:17 Yes... absolutely... It turned everything around
06:20 and from then on... Hmmm... hmmm...
06:22 you began to seek God in a whole new way...
06:25 Yeah... yes, yes... What happened in your life
06:27 when you made that decision? Well, what happened was
06:30 I called my sister and I said,
06:32 "You won't believe it... " I said,
06:34 "I think I'm a born-again Christian because
06:36 I feel different... I feel like I want the Lord,
06:40 that I want to know Him... " and she says,
06:42 "Yes, did you pray... what did you do?"
06:44 and I said, "Yeah, I just asked the Lord to come into my heart
06:46 forgive me for my sins, and if He would
06:48 give me power... to overcome the world
06:50 and the things of the world, then I would give my life to Him
06:53 and serve Him for the rest of my life... "
06:55 She said, "You are born again" she said,
06:57 "The Lord heard that prayer... " she said,
06:59 "Now just study... read the Word of God
07:01 and pray and ask Him what His will is...
07:03 for your life... " when I did that...
07:05 I came back to New York, from the other trip
07:07 and I saw you at a session, and I said,
07:10 "Yvonne! you won't believe what happened... "
07:12 so I told you all about it...
07:14 and you were like, "Lala, this is amazing...
07:17 because your grandmother had called you to come to Church
07:20 and Pastor C.A. Murray was the pastor...
07:23 Exactly... Oh, I'm getting chills... this is so good
07:26 you said, "Lala, come to Church with me...
07:28 let's go to Church together... " and I said,
07:29 "Well, Yvonne" I said, "Okay... "
07:31 I said "but... " and you said,
07:32 "Okay, but there's one thing... "
07:34 and I said, "Well, what's that?" you said,
07:36 "I go to Church on the Sabbath" I said,
07:38 "Well I've been reading about that but I didn't know
07:40 Black people went to Church on the Sabbath...
07:41 I thought it was just for the Jews... "
07:43 so you said, "No, come and go to Church with me...
07:45 we have a new pastor... it's C.A. Murray...
07:47 and you've got to hear him preach... "
07:49 so we started going to Church together...
07:50 but you kept going with me for a little while...
07:53 to the Sunday Church, because I said,
07:54 "If you go with me... I'll go with you... "
07:56 so we traded off... then you kind of like...
07:58 "Okay... Yolanda... that's enough... okay... "
08:00 "May the Lord help you" you know... "from here... "
08:03 and so, we begin to do the Friday night Bible Studies...
08:05 with all the seekers...
08:07 Oh, we need to hear about that because...
08:08 that... for me... that was so amazing...
08:12 we had all... a lot of our friends would come
08:16 we would sing... we would read the Word...
08:19 and we had people from different doctrinal foundations
08:23 they weren't Adventists necessarily
08:26 but they were all seeking... Yes...
08:28 and we would come together and sing and pray...
08:32 and have praise... to me that was...
08:34 every Friday night... we had the Bible Study...
08:36 it was phenomenal Yes... it was awesome...
08:38 And we're not talking about...
08:40 like last year... we're talking about in 1984 or 85
08:44 Yes... yes... and I remember you invited Roberta Flack
08:48 and we had a lot of models there and actors and actresses
08:53 and some really good pastors came.. John... what was his name
08:57 John... yeah... they would come and study with us...
09:03 John Nixon... Nixon... yes... Nixon...
09:05 so, it was an amazing time... and so, at that point,
09:08 you know... you all prayed for me
09:09 because I was going off to Uchee Pines...
09:10 and ended up at Uchee Pines... Okay... wait...
09:13 no, I'm not going to let you get away with that...
09:17 So, Yolanda decided that she was going to sell her clothes
09:23 because she wasn't going to take the same clothes to Uchee Pines
09:27 so... she had... if you could have seen it
09:31 it was like a store... I mean racks...
09:34 you literally had racks of clothing...
09:36 I know... I think I got a couple of
09:39 pairs of boots myself... Yes, you did... you did...
09:42 I got a couple of pairs of boots for myself...
09:43 You did... but you were determined...
09:46 Yeah... one thing about you Lala
09:47 that's always been...
09:48 when you were in the world... and since you've come back
09:51 to the Lord... Hmmm... hmmm...
09:52 is that... you've always been very disciplined...
09:55 Oh, praise God...
09:56 like when you had something... a goal or something
10:00 that you were trying to do... you were always focused...
10:03 and the other thing that our viewers should know...
10:05 is that... you were never like into the alcohol or the drugs...
10:10 because we used to go out sometimes...
10:12 and we weren't drinking... we weren't smoking... we weren't
10:14 but we were still lost... I mean, this... you know
10:17 we can't delude ourselves and think
10:18 we were... you know on the right path...
10:20 but we didn't get into all of that...
10:23 Yes... but yet... we were still
10:24 disillusioned... so, you sold... all of your stuff
10:28 Yes... praise God... and how did... tell our viewers
10:33 just how the Industry reacted to your conversion...
10:37 They thought I was crazy... okay... the people...
10:41 my friends... my family... the people in the Industry
10:45 saying, "Yolanda, but we always thought you were a Christian...
10:48 what do you mean you can't sing for Budweiser
10:51 or Michelob or any of these things or wine... or...
10:55 and I said, "Oh Burger King even... "
10:57 because.. you know... but anyway God is so amazing because...
11:00 when they would say to me, "What are you doing...
11:03 you're selling everything and you don't
11:05 dress like you used to," they said,
11:06 "You look dead... what have you done?"
11:09 and I said, "Praise the Lord, I'm dead in Christ... "
11:13 Hmmm... "and yet I'm alive... "
11:15 and so... that was... that was an incredible
11:17 experience for me because the Lord told me...
11:20 like the rich young ruler... "Go and sell all that you have
11:22 and then follow me... " Hmmm... yes...
11:25 And so, that's what I did... and just on that one day, Yvonne
11:27 with that sale... with my diamonds
11:29 and all these things... $20,000 worth of stuff
11:32 in that one day in Ashford and Simpson's home
11:35 was sold... unbelievable... $20,000...
11:37 $20,000... See, I wasn't exaggerating...
11:39 I wasn't exaggerating... when I said...
11:42 it was like a store... and I didn't know it was a
11:44 $20,000 price tag though... Yeah... yeah...
11:47 Wow... and then... gave the rest
11:49 of the stuff away that didn't sell...
11:51 to one of the... I think it was...
11:53 the "Eyes for the Blind for New York"
11:55 something like that... Yes...
11:56 But girl, I tell you...
11:57 I am free in Jesus... and I am so thankful...
12:01 Yes... there's no comparison... None...
12:03 there's no comparison...
12:04 and the gifts that God has given you... now you use them for Him.
12:09 Yes... Because when we sang about
12:10 you know, like, Potato Chips or Burger King or whatever,
12:14 when we did that
12:16 yeah... it was lucrative... Hmmm... hmmm... Oh yeah..
12:18 but it didn't do anything for the spirit...
12:21 Right... right... I mean you go there
12:22 you go to work... you do it... you leave... you get money...
12:25 I mean... that part was really nice...
12:27 but there was nothing about it that was spiritually redemptive.
12:33 Right... right... and so now...
12:35 to now come full circle... use your gifts... for God...
12:40 Yes... What... I mean...
12:42 there's nothing better... nothing better...
12:44 but let's talk a little bit about Uchee Pines...
12:46 so you sold all your stuff... you went to Uchee Pines...
12:50 What were you going there for? Well, to be honest...
12:53 I was going there because a friend of mine... Judy and Todd
12:56 had told me... there was a young man they wanted me to meet...
12:59 so, you don't pause... oh boy... I remember that...
13:07 I went there thinking...
13:09 Okay God... it's been several years now...
13:12 I've been in the Church and, you know, okay,
13:15 it's time to get married... Yes... Amen...
13:18 and so I got there
13:19 and it wasn't God's will for me
13:22 for me to be with this person but it was because
13:25 He wanted to be my husband truly...
13:28 wanted to be my husband... God did...
13:31 God did... and so He showed me that...
13:33 that's not why I brought you here...
13:34 He showed me the Scripture... you know...
13:36 "The Lord thy God is your husband... "
13:38 and so I said, "Okay Lord, I'm going to be content
13:41 but... I can't stay here... " I said "Lord, I'm from New York"
13:44 you know... "and from the motor city... "
13:46 yeah, I'm in culture shock... and you know,
13:48 it was just amazing Yvonne because
13:50 people had on suspenders and they were saying.. "Y'all... "
13:53 you know... "I'm so happy y'all... are here... "
13:56 I was like... "No, no way... " but God is awesome...
14:00 because He wanted to humble me and teach me
14:03 and root me and ground me in the truth
14:05 of the Seventh-day Adventist Church...
14:06 through... the Biblical teaching...
14:08 and that's what he gave me there then He showed me how
14:11 to humble myself in that... because you know...
14:13 we were two sisters that had it going on with our apartments
14:17 we would have people come in and clean for us...
14:20 and iron our clothes and you know.. we were doing that
14:24 We were BAPs... Oh, they call us BAPs?
14:25 yeah, Black American Princesses. Oh my! I never heard that term,
14:30 but anyway... that's what we were in to...
14:32 the Lord had to take me to Uchee Pines...
14:34 in the country... you know... no lights... no flash...
14:37 no glamour and really convert me and so, while there,
14:40 the first job I had... even though I was going there
14:43 as a student... the first job they gave me...
14:45 and in conjunction with the studies...
14:48 I had to clean 8 toilets everyday...
14:52 for three months... I was shocked... I was in shock
14:56 Whoa... you went from the diamonds and furs
14:59 to cleaning... not that there's...
15:01 let's be clear... not that there's anything wrong
15:03 with cleaning toilets but we're just talking about
15:06 the difference... in... what you had to do...
15:09 Yes... yes... It really was eye-opening
15:11 for you... right... It was eye-opening, Yvonne,
15:15 and it was such a wake-up call, and so humbling and
15:19 it gave me that "servant attitude"
15:22 you know... "you're here to serve... not to be served...
15:25 but to serve... " and so when the Lord
15:27 taught me these wonderful lessons of sacrifice
15:31 and servitude... and all these things
15:33 that He wanted to teach me... how to "love" in Christ
15:36 you know... how to really be converted...
15:38 Yes... I was just so happy...
15:40 so thankful... and then I left Uchee Pines
15:43 after studying there... and studied the
15:47 Medical Missionary Work and all of that...
15:50 Which... we're going to come back to that...
15:53 which is so deep to me... because see God
15:56 even though you went down to Uchee Pines for one reason...
15:59 Yes... yes... Amen... you learned
16:01 the Medical Missionary work which is really is a part of...
16:05 where you are now... which we'll talk about...
16:07 Okay so you left Uchee Pines... you completed the Program...
16:11 I completed the Program... You left Uchee Pines...
16:13 where did you go? I ended up back in New York...
16:15 Okay... and at that point...
16:18 I was trying to see, "Okay, God what do you want me
16:21 to do now... you took me out of the jingle world
16:23 you separated me from the man I was going to marry... "
16:26 who was unfortunately not totally converted...
16:29 and you helped me with that remember?
16:30 You said I had to fast and pray about that...
16:34 We've helped each other through the years...
16:38 Yes... yes... So, God revealed to me
16:40 that wasn't what He wanted me to do...
16:44 and so, He just got me into singing...
16:47 as a singing evangelist... so I started singing
16:50 for different pastors... and traveling
16:53 and singing for people like Cleveland
16:56 and just different evangelists and that's kind of when
16:59 the Lord rooted me and grounded me.. in ministry...
17:03 and you and I kind of stayed in touch for a while...
17:06 and kept praying for each other and you were so encouraging
17:09 because God used you to bring me into the Church...
17:12 Well, praise the Lord...
17:14 you know, so it's an amazing thing...
17:15 along with Pastor Murray
17:16 it's amazing... For sure... for sure...
17:19 Yes... yes... So now, because our time
17:22 is going and I cannot believe where we are in time...
17:25 What are you doing... now... tell us about
17:29 your latest ministry... Yes, now, I'm,
17:34 thank God, married to the most wonderful man...
17:38 his name is Schubert Palmer...
17:40 Yea... Yea...
17:43 and you were there at our wedding...
17:46 and you were my Matron of Honor, I have to say...
17:49 It was the most beautiful wedding that I've ever been to,
17:52 not just because... of the aesthetics...
17:56 but the Spirit of God was so...
18:00 it was almost palpable... I could just sense His presence
18:04 and then... everybody sang, I mean,
18:08 I've never been to a wedding like that before... ever...
18:11 it was just the most beautiful event... and the Holy Spirit
18:15 you had praise to God during the wedding...
18:18 Amen... and so, it's as though...
18:19 you know the Bible says that...
18:21 "God inhabits the praises of His people... "
18:23 so, we felt His presence there it was so beautiful Lala...
18:29 so beautiful... And we were blessed too...
18:31 because, of course, your being there with us
18:33 and John Lomacang was moving to 3ABN at the time,
18:36 and I was like, "John, no you can't cancel...
18:39 you have to sing at my wedding... "
18:41 You interrupted his move to come out there...
18:44 Yes... so anyway he said,
18:45 "Okay, I'm going to do it
18:47 and then I have to run home and pack and get out of here
18:49 and go to 3ABN... " so he was there, with us as well
18:52 so, it was such a blessing... It was tremendous...
18:54 and so, at this point... being married to my husband...
18:57 and seeing how God has... brought back
19:00 my Uchee Pines experience with Medical Missionary work...
19:03 with my husband so, we do a Program called,
19:05 "Is There a Doctor in the House"
19:06 which is... is a wonderful health first program...
19:09 People need to know your husband is a physician...
19:11 Yes... I mean he is... he is...
19:13 he is... tell us about him... Yeah, he is the
19:16 Chief of Cardiology at the Wright Memorial Hospital
19:20 in Los Angeles... and... just a humble man...
19:24 humble, kind, gentle... He's so kind, you know,
19:29 I've told the viewers on...
19:32 I guess on the Today Program
19:34 I haven't talked about it on this Program yet... but
19:37 about my experience with the acupuncture and everything,
19:39 and how you and your husband were so instrumental
19:43 in bringing me... away from that,
19:46 God used us in each other's lives so profoundly...
19:50 Yes... and to accomplish
19:53 His purposes, spiritual purposes Amen...
19:57 and he's just... Schubert is just such..
20:01 he's a wonderful brother in the Lord... and he's a musician...
20:04 Yes, yes, yes... So God gave you that doctor
20:07 and musician... wow! He did...
20:10 Praise Him... And so the Lord had...
20:13 mentioned to me... you know... years and years ago...
20:15 about putting His music... His words to music...
20:19 and I thought, What is that Lord,
20:22 I don't understand... I don't know what that is...
20:23 but as time went on... and I got involved in
20:28 doing some production and writing and that sort of thing,
20:31 the Lord led us to put together the 10 Commandments to music...
20:36 and we praise God for 3ABN... because the encouragement came
20:40 through Danny Shelton... when he started doing those
20:43 Ten-Commandment-Week Programs Yes...
20:46 we would watch intently... and having all these different
20:48 ministers speaking on each of the Commandments...
20:51 it was powerful... and so about 3 years later...
20:54 and we had watched all these Programs...
20:55 we thought, "Oh honey, wouldn't it be great to put
20:58 God's Commandments to music... " and so, that really encouraged
21:02 us through watching 3ABN and we praise God for Danny
21:05 and for this whole program for what God is doing
21:08 through 3ABN and you... and all of this...
21:10 and so... as we started doing it and praying about it...
21:13 we just took the Ten Commandments...
21:16 put it to music... but we didn't have...
21:18 the love... in the music... it was just
21:20 straight commandments... you know...
21:22 and the music was beautiful but it didn't touch the heart...
21:25 it didn't inspire you to love God, you know...
21:28 it's God's love letter to us... the Ten Commandments...
21:31 and so, we got a call from Wintley Phipps and he said,
21:33 "Yolanda," he said, "I love the project,
21:35 I love the idea," he said,
21:37 "but God told me to tell you to put 'love'
21:39 in His Commandments... " So he reinforced what...
21:42 the Holy Spirit had already revealed to you...
21:45 Pr. Wintley Phipps reinforced that...
21:48 Yes... but he basically... when he said it...
21:52 it was something that my heart was moved by... you know...
21:56 because... we didn't think of it in those terms,
21:59 we just thought, this is God's
22:00 Commandments...
22:01 and we're going to just put beautiful music to it...
22:03 but we didn't understand how God really wanted us
22:06 to bring out the words... like in the 3rd Commandment...
22:08 the only time He mentions the word "Love"
22:11 in the Commandments, is in the 3rd Commandment...
22:13 so, God said, "Title the song... 'Love Me'"
22:16 and so, the 2nd Commandment was about, you know,
22:20 not worshipping idols and all this...
22:22 and so he built... He had us build these
22:25 choruses around His glorious presence...
22:28 Yes... His name...
22:29 you know... the 2nd Commandment...
22:30 Worship God... He deserves the praise...
22:33 so God sent Wintley through the Holy Spirit's power
22:37 brought to our minds... you have to bring
22:39 "love" out of the Commandments so that people will be
22:41 drawn... to Jesus... Hmmm...
22:43 and so that's what happened there...
22:46 and then the Lord had us to put Bible Studies
22:49 to each of the Commandments, and put the Bible Studies
22:52 in song as well... and so that's what we're doing
22:55 right now... we put the 10 Commandments
22:57 in song... the Bible Studies... in song...
22:59 and we just completed it... and God is taking it
23:03 and using it... and it's just been a blessing...
23:06 That's so tremendous... you know
23:07 when I was in California at the Camp Meeting
23:11 Soquel Camp Meeting... Yes... yes...
23:13 I had a chance to come to a concert...
23:16 where you were doing all the songs...
23:19 on the CD... on the DVD... Hmmm... hmmm...
23:21 Viewers, if you have an opportunity
23:24 to go and see this in concert, please do it...
23:28 it is so inspirational... Amen...
23:31 and if you can, of course, please get the CD and DVD
23:35 because it's truly a blessing... Amen, oh we praise the Lord...
23:39 we praise God... We thank you too because you are
23:42 partnering with us and donating some Units to us
23:46 so that we can make some revenue for Dare to Dream
23:50 we have pictures on the screen now...
23:52 Amen... of the Project...
23:54 so we thank you so much, what a blessing that is...
23:57 Oh, thank you... Yvonne... such a blessing...
24:00 So what's your plan... you have two parts here
24:03 you got the music and the Bible Studies...
24:06 so, tell us a bit about the Bible Studies now...
24:09 What does that entail? Okay... the Bible Studies were
24:12 drawn out of each of the Commandments
24:15 and of course the one that is very obvious
24:18 is the Sabbath Commandment so that study, is on the Sabbath
24:21 and we took the actual song that God gave us
24:25 on the 4th Commandment and it's incorporated
24:29 in a list of about 10 key texts that have been put to music
24:34 for each Study... so when you.. come to understand
24:37 the doctrine of the Sabbath, you will also learn
24:41 by memorization the key texts that go with that Study
24:45 so if you're at a Mall or in a Bakery or wherever you are
24:48 you will have all those texts on the doctrine in your mind
24:52 you can give a Bible Study even without the Bible...
24:54 in your heart... so it's in your heart and in your head...
24:57 so that's what God has done it's just an amazing thing...
25:00 That is so amazing... and the music is so beautiful
25:04 and lush... it's lush... I mean... the orchestration,
25:08 everything is so... beautiful... and you and Schubert wrote...
25:13 again... under the unction of Holy Spirit...
25:16 all of the songs... Yeah...
25:17 The Lord gave us all the songs and then we had
25:20 a miracle story too... Martin Anduet...
25:23 Oh, tell us... Yes, he always talks about you..
25:27 it's just so interesting because it was just a miracle
25:30 how we met him at a function for the Church
25:34 and he was doing their Sound... and we went to a little lunch
25:37 together after the Program was over
25:39 and there he was... I said to my husband,
25:41 "I think I know this gentleman,
25:42 he looks so familiar... " so we ended up sitting together
25:45 at the same table... there were many areas
25:46 where he could have sat, but he came and sat with us,
25:48 we began to talk... he began to tell me,
25:50 "I used to sing," you know
25:51 "with Joseph Corella in New York"
25:55 and I thought, "No, you're not the same person"
25:57 he started talking about Yvonne Lewis and all of that
26:01 and I said, "Lord, this is amazing... "
26:03 and so, he's the person God used...
26:05 to do all the orchestrations for us along with some other
26:08 very, very well qualified Adventist musicians...
26:13 Tell us some of the artists on it...
26:15 Yeah... we have Jennifer LaMountain and
26:18 Rudy Micelli, Charles Haugabrooks,
26:20 Steve Darmody, Rachel Hyman, I wanted you on there
26:26 I know... I know... I forget what happened
26:29 that I wasn't able to do it... yes... and many others...
26:33 Christian Berdahl and quite a number of other people...
26:37 there are about 10 of us... Anika Sampson...
26:40 oh, incredible voice Anika Sampson... yes... and
26:43 Javier... I can't think of his last name right now...
26:47 so, a lot of different singers in the Church have participated
26:53 and we are just so blessed to have all of them...
26:55 God has done an incredible thing He has... He has and again...
26:59 His Spirit... you can just sense His Spirit when you listen
27:02 to the music... I know...
27:04 You are such a blessing and I'm so proud of what God
27:08 has been doing with you and with the Production...
27:12 with Ready and how can people find out more about this Project
27:17 Well, it's going to be at the ABCs
27:19 in the Adventist Book Centers and they can go on our website
27:22 at www. readysda. org Say it one more time...
27:30 Ah huh, readysda. org readysda. org
27:36 Yes... Thank you Sweetie,
27:38 You're welcome... Thank you so much...
27:39 for being with us and for blessing us
27:41 with your music and that spirit of service
27:45 that God has given you... Amen...
27:47 Thank you... Thank you...
27:48 And I ask you to go out and purchase...
27:51 this or call... go to the website
27:53 and purchase this product...
27:55 It will bless you...
27:57 Well, we've come to the end of our Program...
28:00 Thanks for tuning in...
28:01 Join us next time... It just wouldn't be the same...
28:03 without you...


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