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Miracle Story of Elephantiasis Healing

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00:00 (inspirational music)
00:21 - Hello and welcome to Jesus for Asia Now.
00:23 I'm Natalie Wood and my husband Jon is here with me.
00:26 Today we want to share with you one of the most amazing
00:29 faith in healing stories we have ever heard.
00:32 In fact, it's so amazing that some will find it hard
00:34 to believe that it actually happened.
00:37 But, we will have the testimony directly from
00:39 our Jesus for Asia bible worker, himself.
00:41 Hello love!
00:42 - Hi darling, how are you?
00:43 - Doing all right.
00:44 - Awesome.
00:45 - Glad we can do this
00:46 story sharing. - Oh, I'm so excited.
00:48 When I heard that story, I'm like man, everybody
00:50 is gonna wanna hear this story
00:51 because it's so encouraging.
00:53 And it shows what faith can do.
00:55 It shows somebody that is exercising faith
00:57 and God is just coming through, it's amazing.
01:00 But, I wasn't the only one there.
01:02 - Yeah, you weren't.
01:03 You had our foreign correspondents, Jonathan and Hannah
01:05 there as well as Sharron and Christina
01:07 who work here in the office with us.
01:09 - Yeah, so we all were sitting around interviewing
01:12 a lot of different bible workers in that area
01:16 and we were, it was a hot day, we had just
01:19 done a bible worker meeting and we were
01:22 interviewing some of the bible workers
01:23 and we were kinda like not really paying
01:26 attention and I heard what this guy was saying.
01:30 And I'm like, whoa.
01:31 We just all sat up and listened.
01:34 Now, most of the bible workers have amazing stories,
01:37 amazing testimonies, but every once in a while
01:40 you hear something that God has done that's really special.
01:43 - Yeah, well and the hard thing is
01:45 they have these amazing stories, but we don't
01:47 speak their language and we don't go and visit
01:49 them very often and so, when we do go and visit
01:52 them then we hear their stories,
01:53 but it's very hard for their stories
01:55 to get translated and sent to us.
01:58 - Yes.
01:59 - Longer than one paragraph,
02:00 many times the stories we get are one
02:01 paragraph and it was, they were healed,
02:05 or they came out of being an alcoholic
02:08 and abusing their family.
02:09 You know, it's a very short picture
02:12 of the story, it doesn't have the details
02:15 or what was really going on.
02:16 - Yeah, and this is kind of a choice
02:17 that we have made because this allows us
02:19 to keep our overhead low.
02:21 We want as much of the donated funds
02:23 to go directly to their salaries as possible
02:26 and when you start developing a whole
02:28 administrative staff network to get those
02:31 stories and bring them back that just adds
02:34 to the cost of doing this work, and so
02:37 when we do go we try to maximize as much as possible
02:40 and interview as many as possible.
02:42 These stories are happening all over India,
02:44 all over Asia, we're just getting
02:47 a little sampling of them.
02:49 - Right.
02:50 - But, that's all we really need--
02:51 - Right, to encourage us.
02:52 - Oh, my goodness, yeah, when you hear this story
02:54 it's just, how many other stories are like this
02:58 we just haven't heard.
02:59 But, this is a little sampling.
03:01 - Right.
03:02 - To our friends here in America.
03:03 - Right, and we want to get into our story, I think
03:05 because it shows faith,
03:07 and couraging God that we don't see very often.
03:12 - And I've taken his whole testimony and I've
03:15 split it up so that we can stop and discuss
03:18 and point out some things during his testimony.
03:20 - Right, 'cause there's some terms I think
03:22 that need to be defined and different
03:23 things like that, right? - Yes.
03:25 - The other thing we really wanna see
03:27 is the trust in God.
03:28 - And you'll see that in this story.
03:30 - Right. - Yeah.
03:32 (speaking in foreign language)
03:38 - My name is James,
03:39 I'm working in two places,
03:41 Paliyapulior and Karukkampalayam.
03:44 (speaking in foreign language)
03:47 There are so many witnesses,
03:49 like poisonous insect bites
03:52 and some thyroid problems,
03:55 but I'm going to share with you
03:57 one very important witness today.
04:01 (speaking in foreign language)
04:03 One lady, she's a Hindu lady,
04:07 she was a rich lady,
04:09 but her own relatives were so jealous of her.
04:13 So they were doing some kind of bad things against her,
04:18 black magics and things that would be very terrible for her.
04:24 They were trying to do these things to her.
04:26 - Okay, this isn't something that we normally
04:28 hear about in America.
04:30 We don't have neighbors that get upset with you
04:33 so they hire somebody to come and put
04:35 a black magic curse on you that ruins your life.
04:40 - Right.
04:40 (Jon laughs)
04:41 - But, this is something that's rather normal
04:44 in other countries, especially in India.
04:47 I have seen this, in fact there was
04:49 a bible worker, he was actually a pastor
04:51 that we interviewed back in 2004 and I have
04:54 his testimony on one of the shows that we produced,
04:58 called India Face to Face, his pastor Scotia Nassin
05:03 and he became a black magic sorcerer.
05:07 Do you remember that story?
05:08 - Right, before he became a pastor
05:11 he was a black magic sorcerer.
05:12 And yeah, he would go and do these
05:16 spells, they call them, pujas,
05:18 or whatever, they read the Hindu scriptures
05:20 and say certain words,
05:22 and then-- - And send
05:23 a demon into somebody.
05:24 - Right, and they're paralyzed
05:26 or their life is destroyed or they die, even.
05:29 - Yup, yup, and he learned-- - It's real.
05:31 - Yeah, absolutely, and he learned from his
05:34 black magic guru, his teacher, that if you
05:36 wanna do good you have to pray to Jesus Christ.
05:39 - Right.
05:40 - And that's how he became, he started just serving
05:41 just Jesus Christ and the guy tried to tempt his,
05:44 I mean, it was amazing story.
05:45 - Right.
05:47 - So, this is kind of normal over there.
05:49 - Right, well there was that other time
05:51 when the young man that you were asked to pray
05:53 for in India kept getting woken up in the middle
05:56 of the night because he was levitating.
05:58 - Right, he would wake up two feet off the ground.
06:00 - Yeah.
06:01 - Nothing was under him, just a demon's den,
06:04 and the Mom and they knew that this was demon harassment.
06:07 Now, there's people in America that don't believe in demons,
06:11 but I'd be happy to take them to India.
06:14 - It's far too real there. - It is real.
06:16 - It's far too real and even in Thailand
06:18 Gayle Habricam, one of our missionaries,
06:21 has testimonies about the results of sorcerers
06:24 putting spells on people.
06:26 - One guy had a spell put on him and he died
06:30 and he told his wife, when I die, cut me open.
06:34 So they cut him open and they found fish eggs.
06:36 - Yeah, all over inside of him, it's like?
06:38 - Yeah, well, where did that come from?
06:40 - Yeah, weird.
06:41 - So this stuff is real, and we actually,
06:43 which is fine, in the west we are very scientific
06:48 and so we kinda discount this thing,
06:50 but the truth is, you and I, as Christians,
06:53 we serve a spirit, John chapter four,
06:57 "God is a spirit, and they that worship Him
07:00 must worship Him in."
07:01 - Spirit and in truth.
07:02 - Yeah, another story that goes along with that
07:05 is there was a missionary in western Papua,
07:09 Irian Jaya, that when we first went there,
07:12 people were afraid to walk through the jungles, in fact--
07:15 - Especially at night.
07:17 - Yes, in fact, when he was walking through the jungles
07:20 he always felt this oppressive spirit and one time
07:22 he heard a demon screaming in his ear,
07:25 freaked him out, and so all the jungles were just like
07:28 infested with all these demons.
07:30 But after the planting of the gospel there
07:32 and there was several churches and there was
07:34 believers that were praying, after like 20 years
07:38 of that all the evil spirits were chased out
07:41 and even the unbelievers were able to walk
07:43 through the jungle at night, without fear.
07:46 - Right, so it's amazing what God does,
07:50 when his spirit is invited into places
07:52 and people start believing in him,
07:54 he can open and take the darkness away.
07:57 - Yeah, but this is a spiritual world,
07:59 the unseen is real.
08:01 - It is, it is very real.
08:03 We don't have people in America--
08:05 - Hiring black magic sorcerers--
08:07 - Hiring people to put curses on their relatives
08:09 or their neighbors or whatever.
08:11 - At least, not that we know of.
08:12 - Yeah, I mean, it's more on the rare side,
08:14 But over there it's more normal.
08:15 - So, this lady has received a curse
08:18 from her family and it's actually really,
08:20 and you'll see in this next video
08:22 how it's affecting her life.
08:23 - Right, the other thing is that over here
08:26 our country is based on Christian principals.
08:29 The people that founded our country were Christian.
08:32 And so Christ was invited in, his spirit was invited here,
08:38 his angels were invited here.
08:39 And so we are protected in many ways from this
08:42 type of manifestation.
08:44 - Correct.
08:45 - Because of God's protection.
08:47 But over there, the devil has free reign.
08:49 The gods that they're worshiping are evil spirits.
08:52 And so, it's all, yeah, all hell breaks loose, so to speak.
08:58 I don't know what you wanna say.
08:59 - They don't have that protection,
09:00 I mean-- - No, they don't.
09:01 - The devil has free reign on a lot of ways.
09:02 - Right.
09:03 - And so, when we go over there and we go,
09:06 like sometimes I've gone into Hindu temples
09:09 and things like that, I make sure I'm connected with God
09:12 to have that protection.
09:14 One time I went into a temple and I didn't have that,
09:17 I didn't make that conscious connection with the Father.
09:21 And as I left, there was an evil spirit attached to me.
09:25 And I didn't realize it, I just, I had this bad attitude,
09:28 and I was really negative, and I was really
09:32 getting really depressed. - Mean.
09:32 - And mean, cunning to my,
09:34 and then I realized, oh something's going on.
09:37 I asked my friends, please pray for me.
09:40 And I felt like I was under water swimming
09:42 to reach the surface and it's like, can I make it before?
09:45 And then they prayed and the evil spirit was disbursed
09:48 and I had like that peace again.
09:52 So, this stuff's real.
09:53 - It is very real.
09:55 - We have a friend in Cambodia that he's a missionary
09:58 there and when he goes to Angkor Wat he always
10:01 prays for God's protection because when he goes in,
10:03 one time he went in, he didn't pray, he got jumped
10:07 by the evil spirits.
10:08 - It was like a physical manifestation, I mean
10:12 he didn't see it, but it was physical.
10:15 - Yeah, he could feel it.
10:16 - Right.
10:18 - This is real, so we're telling our viewers the story,
10:19 giving a little glimpse behind
10:21 the scenes into the spiritual life.
10:24 Let's continue with his story.
10:27 (speaking in foreign language)
10:29 - [Man] Because of these satanic things,
10:31 she got the disease called elephantiasis.
10:35 - Now this is really serious condition, because,
10:38 and I knew kind of about this because when I was
10:40 really little, my parents, my Dad was a doctor
10:43 and we were missionaries in New Guinea.
10:45 Which is a very tropical area, and I'd heard about
10:49 elephantiasis as a really dreaded disease
10:53 because there's no known cure.
10:54 - Right.
10:55 - And I researched it online even today
10:57 there's no known cure for elephantiasis.
11:00 They can do therapy and they can manage it
11:02 and treat it but they can't cure it.
11:05 - Right, they can kill the parasites that cause it
11:08 but that doesn't take away the effect
11:10 or it doesn't take away the disease itself.
11:12 - And that's how big her leg swelled up to,
11:14 I mean you can wrap it and try to manage the size,
11:17 but you can't get it back down after it's gotten that large.
11:21 - Wow, so she was a sick lady.
11:24 - Very sick. - With no hope.
11:26 - No - No hope of a cure,
11:28 no hope of, wow.
11:30 - Yeah, I mean this is, it's like leprosy.
11:33 It's like a curse of God.
11:35 It wasn't just the swelling either.
11:37 - Right, there's the next clip.
11:38 - [Jon] Okay.
11:39 - Because of this, there was a big hole
11:42 where you finger can fit inside.
11:45 And from that hole, worms used to come
11:48 and a very rotten smell,
11:52 like how a dead body would smell.
11:54 It would smell like that.
11:56 - Wow, how sad.
11:58 - Can you imagine living with that?
12:00 That smell and then, you could put your finger in,
12:03 well, we'll just move on.
12:04 - Yeah, yeah, but having no hope, that's the main thing.
12:09 All right, well let's move on to the next video.
12:12 (speaking foreign language)
12:15 - 10 of our members and myself,
12:17 we were praying in the church,
12:19 and she was sitting at the back.
12:21 She covered her leg so that no one will notice.
12:24 I was watching her as I was giving sermon.
12:27 From the beginning till the end, she was crying.
12:30 After the sermon, I used to pray for all the members
12:33 in the church, and I called this lady to the front.
12:37 (speaking foreign language)
12:44 When I called her, she came to the front.
12:46 She fell down to my feet.
12:49 She started crying, crying, and crying.
12:51 Continually she was crying for 10 minutes.
12:54 She couldn't speak anything.
12:55 I immediately called my wife
12:58 and asked her to ask her what is the problem
13:01 because she could speak anything, she couldn't talk.
13:03 She was crying.
13:05 She told my wife, since your husband is a pastor,
13:08 he should not touch my feet.
13:10 These ugly feet, these sick feet.
13:14 And I called her, don't worry, I'm a pastor,
13:17 I'm here to serve you.
13:19 Don't feel anything bad, please come closer.
13:22 She came and I took coconut oil in my hand,
13:26 prayed for that oil, and applied where the wound was.
13:32 (speaking foreign language)
13:33 I encouraged her, you too have to pray
13:36 to the living God.
13:38 And I was continually praying for this lady,
13:41 and I told her, within a week of time,
13:44 your wounds are going to be completely healed,
13:47 and you're going to come to this same church,
13:49 you're going to give witness, I told her.
13:52 - That is amazing.
13:53 (Jon laughs)
13:55 - Okay, so he was preaching, it was on a Sabbath day
13:57 in the church, there was only 10 people in the congregation
13:59 because this is a newly reopened church, okay?
14:04 And so she comes in, but she's afraid.
14:06 I don't know why she came, I don't know
14:08 what drew her, but, she was desperate.
14:10 - Her friend brought her, or?
14:11 - Something like that, but she sat in the back
14:13 and she hid and she was crying the whole time.
14:16 But, the amazing thing is what this humble
14:19 bible worker told her, he didn't,
14:22 when somebody comes to us for prayer for sickness,
14:25 I mean, what do we normally do?
14:27 - Well, we pray for healing according to the Lord's will
14:30 but we expect that they'll just have to go to the doctor.
14:33 (Jon laughs)
14:33 - Yeah.
14:34 - I mean, we pray for wisdom for the doctors,
14:36 and I do that too, pray for wisdom for the doctors, and.
14:38 - [Jon] Sure.
14:40 - That they'll be healed - It's a valid prayer, but--
14:41 - According to the Lord's will.
14:43 - But, he took it another step, he didn't just say,
14:44 I'll pray for you, he says,
14:46 Next week you will--
14:48 - Testify.
14:49 - In this place, in this church on the Sabbath.
14:52 What a statement of faith.
14:54 - Yeah.
14:54 - Amazing. - Wow.
14:56 - That's a whole other level, I mean,
14:58 and you read in the Bible, Jesus would say,
15:01 he wouldn't say, I'll pray for you.
15:03 He would say, stand up.
15:07 He would say, take up your bed and walk.
15:09 And then the disciples did the same thing.
15:11 - Right.
15:12 - So, what happens?
15:14 - Right, well, we do have to warn our viewers
15:15 that there's some weirdness coming,
15:18 so just expect that there will be a little bit weird.
15:23 - Yeah, but there are things that we don't know,
15:24 I mean, we don't know everything about the unseen world.
15:27 - Right.
15:28 - So, let's just see what the outcome is.
15:30 - Okay. - And see what the story is.
15:32 - After praying for her in the church.
15:34 I was continually going to her house,
15:37 visiting her two days and praying with her.
15:40 (speaking foreign language)
15:44 I went to her house.
15:46 The moment I went to her house,
15:48 I could feel that here was evil spirit in her house.
15:52 I just stopped in the front portion.
15:56 I asked her to bring some water.
15:58 Then I prayed and I sprinkled it throughout the house.
16:02 When I came to the middle of the house,
16:04 there was something, like I could feel the heat,
16:08 like standing on fire.
16:12 That was the first experience I had.
16:14 It was very hot, I asked the lady to bring some more water.
16:21 And I sprinkled on it and I prayed earnestly.
16:23 Then I told the lady, you dig this place
16:26 and see what is inside.
16:28 When they dig the place they found there was this coconut
16:32 covered with all these evil things.
16:35 And her hair was there, they tied it,
16:39 and they did some kind of puja to keep this lady sick
16:43 and so that she would not come up in life.
16:46 She would be in poverty all her life long.
16:51 (speaking foreign language)
16:55 After we took that thing out, we burned it.
16:58 When we burned it, it was smelling like a dead body burning.
17:05 After that, two hours I was there in that house.
17:07 I prayed with that lady, prayed earnestly.
17:10 Then I came back home.
17:12 - So, that's a bit weird.
17:13 - Right.
17:14 - But, who are we to say that that's not real?
17:20 - Well, we can't say that, it's real.
17:22 He is sharing the story.
17:23 - Yeah.
17:24 - But, we don't see that kind of thing over here,
17:27 but the devil's just as real here,
17:29 he just manifests in different ways.
17:30 - So, we see his presence manifesting in different
17:33 ways, more attractive, the famous, the rock,
17:38 the beautiful people, they're the ones that
17:42 tend to manifest his spirit.
17:44 - Right, the music, movies, entertainment,
17:47 all that stuff.
17:48 - And you can sense God's presence
17:50 being withdrawn from society.
17:52 - Right, which is what the Bible tells us.
17:55 That the angels have been holding back the winds of strife.
17:58 And I think this manifestation of the evil
18:02 is definitely the winds of strife.
18:03 - But, it's the same spirit, and so
18:07 maintain that connection with Christ on a daily basis,
18:09 even in this country is so vital,
18:12 because what you're seeing here,
18:15 that spirit is what's behind,
18:17 I mean, that's what we are guarding against.
18:19 That's not where we wanna go.
18:21 - That's why the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.
18:23 - [Jon] They're the spiritual weapons.
18:24 - But they're mighty through God.
18:25 - Yes, and that's the prayer.
18:27 - Right, the connection with God that we see
18:30 in this bible worker, I mean, How could
18:32 he sense that that was there?
18:34 Because he was connected with God,
18:36 and so the evil was obvious.
18:38 - Yes.
18:39 - And that's what we need to take away from this too,
18:41 is that if we're connected with God,
18:44 then whatever evil it is, whatever way the evil
18:48 ones are trying to attack us, it's gonna be obvious
18:51 because the connection with God gives us that sense.
18:54 - Right, so the question is now, okay, he's made
18:56 this statement, he's gone and done two days
18:58 of this work in her house and stuff.
19:01 What happens next, what does God do?
19:03 - Okay, here we go.
19:06 (speaking in foreign language)
19:08 - That night, when she was freed from that evil thing,
19:12 she had a dream and she saw a bright man
19:15 coming with many bright people
19:18 and that was the image of Jesus Christ.
19:21 That lady, after she saw the image of Jesus,
19:24 she couldn't stay at home.
19:26 She came that night to my house after the dream.
19:29 She said I saw this in my dream.
19:32 I'm excited, I'm so happy.
19:35 Then the next day, I told her that same night,
19:38 you come and give this witness in the church.
19:41 After this dream her leg was completely healed.
19:46 - Wow.
19:48 - Blow my mind.
19:51 - Right, God did it.
19:53 - Yes.
19:54 - And he appeared to her, Jesus appeared to her in a dream.
19:58 That's just so neat.
19:59 - Yeah, and so it wasn't just the healing from the prayer.
20:02 It was Jesus did more than that, he revealed
20:05 himself to her in that dream.
20:07 - Wow, yeah.
20:07 - And she was so excited.
20:09 She went to brother James house at like
20:12 2:00, 3:00 in the morning and woke him up.
20:15 She was so excited.
20:16 - Yeah, that's really, really awesome.
20:20 - I remember there was one young man,
20:21 we were doing an evangelistic series in '99
20:23 in India, and he came in and after that meeting
20:26 he came to me and says, I really like your speech.
20:28 I'm like, oh, thank you, thank you.
20:30 And then the next day, he came back, he says
20:32 huge peace, huge peace, I want to be Christian
20:34 I want to be, what do I have to do?
20:36 I says, well, you have to be baptized,
20:38 and he says, huge peace, last night I prayed to
20:41 all these different gods, but last night
20:42 I gave my heart to Jesus.
20:43 And he came in huge peace, he was so excited
20:46 about this huge peace and when you've never
20:48 experienced that before in your entire life
20:51 and then it comes in and Jesus hits you
20:52 with that peace, wow.
20:55 - Yeah.
20:56 - Powerful, and that's exactly what happened with this lady.
20:58 - Right, so I wanna know the rest of the story, though,
21:01 I wanna know did she go and testify
21:04 on Sabbath that she was healed?
21:06 - Yes.
21:07 - Also, 'cause that was his statement to faith.
21:10 So, let's see the next part.
21:13 - The next day, as he told her the week before,
21:15 next week you will come and give witness in the church.
21:18 She came on the Sabbath.
21:20 She gave that witness.
21:22 Her wounds were completely healed.
21:25 - Yeah, they said that the, even the hole where
21:27 you could stick your entire finger in, was completely
21:31 healed, just a little scar from where that had been.
21:34 - Yeah.
21:35 - In, immediately, basically.
21:37 - Yes, yes, healed elephantiasis, an incurable disease,
21:41 and healed that wound, all within
21:44 one week, exactly as James had said.
21:48 - Yeah.
21:49 - God's good, God can do anything.
21:51 - Yeah, yeah, it's just, you have to stop
21:55 and think about it, you can't just talk about it.
21:59 - And it was so obvious to her, who had healed her.
22:02 - Right, right, and that's what we
22:05 wanna see next is what was her response.
22:07 - Yes.
22:08 (speaking in foreign language)
22:12 - These people, as a whole family,
22:15 now they have accepted Jesus Christ.
22:17 After this mighty miracle,
22:19 now whatever program there in the church,
22:22 she is the first lady, she is there to do everything,
22:25 and whenever I take some workers
22:29 or some pastors with me,
22:31 she respects them as respecting Jesus Christ.
22:34 She has a high regard for this truth and for this church.
22:38 (speaking in foreign language)
22:44 This lady, in that village, is a living witness now.
22:49 People are looking at her,
22:51 and they are accepting Jesus Christ now.
22:53 Through her, many souls are attending the church now.
22:57 I thank the Lord for this amazing miracle
23:00 God has done in her life.
23:02 (speaking in foreign language)
23:05 Same like this lady,
23:07 I pray that many other ladies also will come
23:10 into the church.
23:11 So kindly pray for me and for that village.
23:15 Thank you so much.
23:17 - That's really neat, that the whole family
23:19 was baptized and then it's going through the community.
23:22 - Yeah.
23:24 - Because they knew she was sick, and they're looking
23:25 at her and they're seeing Jesus.
23:26 - God can do this, what a powerful God.
23:28 - Yeah, God is powerful and he's so loving
23:32 and kind, I mean to appear to her in a dream.
23:36 I know I wish that you could've talked to her
23:38 as well, evidently she wasn't around that day.
23:40 - We were just there for a short time,
23:42 but I definitely wanna go back and learn more about
23:44 what did she see that night when she saw
23:47 him in a dream, it's like, what expression
23:49 did he wear on his face?
23:50 I'm sure it was kind, and loving,
23:53 just totally changed her heart, her idea,
23:57 of the cosmos, who was up there in the universe,
24:00 who was powerful and what his character was like.
24:03 - Yeah.
24:04 - Oh, man, so powerful and so now she is like
24:08 this living witness and her whole family has
24:11 accepted Jesus Christ and many more
24:13 are coming into the church through
24:15 her testimony of who God is.
24:17 - Right, it's really encouraging to us here,
24:20 'cause we may see answers to prayer, ourselves,
24:24 but when we hear stories like this it just shows
24:27 so many aspects of God's character
24:29 and it's so encouraging to us as servants
24:32 of these people.
24:33 We're just providing financial pipeline, basically,
24:38 to get their stipends to them.
24:40 - Yup.
24:41 - And sometimes, we get to encourage them
24:42 like we talked about earlier in the show,
24:44 but it's like, it's so encouraging to me
24:46 to see that God still can do those things
24:50 that he did in the Bible.
24:51 He's still able, it's our faith that is weak,
24:55 and it encourages me to have stronger faith.
24:57 - Yes, absolutely, and also--
24:59 - Not that we wanna make rash statements, or whatever,
25:01 I would never make a rash statement,
25:04 but if I'm connected to God,
25:06 and God impresses me something.
25:08 I think God impressed James to say,
25:11 Next week you will testify.
25:13 - [Jon] Absolutely.
25:14 - And to be connected with God,
25:16 to have that kind of faith, it's just beautiful.
25:19 - That's amazing, it's amazing.
25:21 And this is what God can do, and this isn't,
25:23 like often times when I see somebody manifest
25:25 faith like that, I kind of feel like,
25:27 well, I must not be much of a believer.
25:30 And that's condemnation, it's comparing my faith
25:34 with their faiths, I don't think that's the right
25:35 response that I naturally give.
25:39 I think a better understanding would be,
25:41 that's what's possible.
25:43 God's no respecter of persons, he'll do that
25:45 for me as much as he'll do that for James.
25:48 And so there's more in my relationship,
25:51 there's more in my experience with Christ that's possible.
25:54 - There's growth opportunities.
25:55 (Jon laughs)
25:56 It's a very good way to put it,
25:57 there's a lot of growth opportunities
25:58 in my faith and to look at this kind of faith,
26:01 to hold this kind of faith up and see,
26:03 and look and contemplate and say, this is what God
26:06 did for him, this is what's possible with God,
26:09 this is the kind of relationship that I could have,
26:12 an understanding that I could have, and faith
26:14 that I could manifest with God, available to me.
26:17 - Right. - You know?
26:19 - And it's not an old thing, this isn't a story
26:22 from the Bible. - This happened just now.
26:23 - Right.
26:24 - Yeah, this is today, and so, God can do this.
26:30 - Right, he can do anything. - So encouraging.
26:31 - Right, well we wanna close
26:33 our show today in a special way.
26:35 Let's have a prayer time, would you
26:36 like to pray for the Bible workers?
26:39 - Sure, Father God, we just come before you and we're
26:42 awed and humbled being in the presence, contemplating
26:46 such a powerful deed that you've done in this lady's life
26:50 for our bible worker and in response to his faith,
26:54 father we just ask for your blessings to be on
26:57 our bible workers to continue to encourage them,
26:59 to continue to give them this kind of faith,
27:02 this kind of insight, and Father, we ask for more
27:04 bible workers, that they can go out and reach out
27:08 to more people, with this kind of faith, Father.
27:11 And, that we can see this joy, and Father,
27:13 we long for that day when we can all speak
27:15 the same language and we can hear these
27:18 testimonies with our own ears, Father.
27:21 Until that day, Father, strengthen our faith
27:25 as we partner with you in this great commission,
27:28 and we thank you and we praise you,
27:29 in Jesus name, Amen.
27:31 - Amen, I wanna thank you so much
27:34 for joining us on this special show.
27:36 Please pray for our bible workers in India
27:38 and other countries and remember
27:40 that they're praying for you.
27:42 If you would like to sponsor a bible worker, like James,
27:45 you can contact us by mail at Jesus for Asia
27:48 PO Box 1221, Collegedale, Tennessee, 37315.
27:54 By phone at 423-413-7321,
27:58 or visit our website at jesus4asia.org.
28:01 May God richly bless you until we see you again
28:04 next time on Jesus for Asia Now.
28:06 And please remember to pray for our bible workers.
28:09 (inspirational music)


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