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00:01 As you're well aware,
00:02 we're living in unprecedented times. 00:05 Join us now for Today special program. 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:17 Mending broken people 00:23 I want to spend my life 00:29 Removing pain 00:33 Lord, let my words 00:39 Heal a heart that hurts 00:44 I want to spend my life 00:49 Mending broken people 00:55 I want to spend my life 01:00 Mending broken people 01:15 Hello, friends, and welcome to 3ABN Today. 01:18 We are so thankful and blessed that you are joining us. 01:20 We know that you could be doing anything else, 01:22 and you're joining us at this time, 01:24 and we appreciate that. 01:25 We thank you for your love, 01:26 your prayers and support of 3ABN ministry 01:29 for obviously right now, 01:30 because of you, this message, these three angels' messages, 01:33 the gospel truth, the love of Christ 01:35 is going all around the world right now as we speak. 01:38 And so thank you. And you know what? 01:41 You're not gonna want to change the channel, 01:42 whatever platform you're watching this through, 01:44 whether it be YouTube 01:45 or you're watching it through satellite 01:46 or whatever platform you're watching 01:48 and don't change the channel. 01:49 Don't click off this video because we have a powerful, 01:52 powerful story of transformation 01:55 and some information 01:56 that we're gonna be sharing this hour 01:58 that could potentially save your life. 02:00 And I'm very excited about the guests we have. 02:03 We have Chad and Fadia Kruezer 02:05 from Anchor Point Films that are joining us today. 02:08 And how are you guys doing? 02:09 Wonderful, we're happy to be here. 02:11 Amen. Praise the Lord. 02:12 And we're gonna get right into your story in just a moment. 02:15 But before we go any further, we have a wonderful blessing 02:18 that's gonna be brought to us by Mary Grace. 02:20 She's going to be playing for us the song, 02:23 "The Lord's Prayer." 05:14 Amen. Thank you so much Mary Grace. 05:17 I love hearing her play. 05:18 The Lord has blessed her so much 05:20 with a wonderful ability to make the piano come alive. 05:24 And I love that song, The Lord's Prayer, 05:26 reminds us of how much we depend on God 05:28 to see us through. 05:30 And I wanna get right in to this story, 05:33 powerful story of transformation. 05:35 And we're gonna be learning so much from Chad 05:37 and Fadia Kruezer from Anchor Point Films. 05:39 And we've already asked you how you're doing. 05:41 We know you're doing great. 05:43 And we know the Lord has brought you here to share 05:45 with us who you are 05:47 and a little bit about your ministry. 05:48 And you also have a story to tell us about 05:51 how the Lord has made 05:52 a transformation in your life, Chad. 05:55 And we'll get into that in just a moment, 05:56 but you know, there may be 05:57 someone watching at home right now 05:59 that doesn't know who Chad and Fadia Kruezer are. 06:01 So tell us a little bit about yourself 06:02 and where you're from and all that good stuff? 06:05 Yeah. We... 06:07 Fadia and I have been married for what, 06:09 13 years now 06:11 and we live in Michigan, presently. 06:13 I was born and raised in Michigan, 06:15 but then we traveled 06:16 for 19 years doing ministry around the world, 06:20 living in Europe and traveling around the world. 06:22 But then we moved back to Michigan 06:25 just before COVID struck 06:28 and we have a ministry Anchor Point Films 06:30 and a YouTube channel called Health and Homestead. 06:32 Wow. 06:34 Praise the Lord, Anchor Point Films. 06:35 And I have to say, 06:36 I was telling you this a little bit about 06:39 this before we had came out around the set, 06:41 but Anchor Point Films, for those of you don't know, 06:44 you guys have produced several documentaries, 06:46 powerful documentaries. 06:48 And the one that I remember specifically 06:49 that made an impact in my life 06:51 was when I was back in AFCO in 2013, 06:54 they played as kind of a part of the curriculum there, 06:56 "The Forgotten Dream." 06:59 And that was one about Daniel too. 07:01 And you guys have done several documentaries. 07:02 Tell us a little bit about what Anchor Point Films does? 07:04 Yeah, we were, so we worked in Europe, 07:06 we were working with atheists, agnostics. 07:10 Most of the people that we were coming in contact 07:11 were just simply, they didn't believe in God. 07:13 And then we moved to Oregon and as we were visiting 07:18 with people in Oregon, 07:19 we were even studying the Bible with people. 07:21 One of the things that they shared with us 07:22 over and over... 07:24 Would be things like, "Oh, I know about the Bible." 07:26 Right. 07:27 Because they wanna be open-minded 07:29 and have a conversation. 07:30 Like I know about the Bible and we were like, 07:32 "Oh, what do you know about the Bible?" 07:33 And they're like, "I watch the history channel." 07:35 And we were like, "Oh really?" 07:37 And so then they'd tell us 07:38 what they would watch, you know, 07:39 some documentary they would see 07:42 and we'd have such great conversations with them. 07:46 And then we'd say, "Oh, would you like this pamphlet?" 07:49 On whatever it was we had talked about 07:52 and they were like, "Oh, I don't like to read." 07:53 Right. 07:55 Oh, we had such a great conversation 07:56 and we have nothing to leave them with. 07:59 And so then we would come together 08:01 as a group and say, "What do we do?" 08:04 Like, we don't wanna give a sermon, 08:07 you know, not that we have a problem with that, 08:09 but these people just aren't into that. 08:11 And so we eventually had this burden, 08:16 well, they seem to watch documentaries 08:18 that are religious, they're kind of religious. 08:20 So why doesn't somebody in the church 08:23 make a documentary? 08:24 Right? 08:26 I mean, a lot of us said things like that, 08:27 like, "Why doesn't the church do this? 08:29 And why doesn't the church do that?" 08:30 And then God's like 08:31 "You're the church and I gave you the idea. 08:34 So you do it." That's amazing. 08:36 And so the door opened, 08:37 so we made the first documentary 08:39 to establish that the Bible could be trusted. 08:41 The second one was to establish that 08:43 Jesus was who He claimed to be 08:46 through history, through prophecy. 08:47 And then it just went through things like, 08:49 if God is good, 08:50 why is there so much pain and suffering? 08:51 And we touch on things like death 08:53 and the change of God's law and all of these things 08:56 that it just began to be something 08:58 that we just wanted to make one. 08:59 And we were simply making it. 09:01 So we would have a tool 09:02 to share with people personally. 09:03 We really weren't thinking of like distributing them. 09:05 It was more like, "Man, 09:06 we want this thing to share with people 09:08 that we're talking with." 09:09 And the first one took off 09:11 and the Lord just blessed from there on out. 09:12 That's amazing. 09:13 And there's gotta be a lot of work, you know, 09:15 when you think of documentary, 09:16 like when you watch a documentary, 09:17 I mean, it seems like there's so much 09:19 that goes into something like that. 09:21 It's not necessarily, which I know, you know, 09:23 television and film work in general, 09:25 there's a lot of work that's put into it. 09:26 When you think about a documentary being so precise 09:28 and you know, the flow of thought, 09:30 the flow of how you're gonna... 09:32 So talk a little bit about how much work 09:33 did you have to put into something like that? 09:34 It just seems like such a big task. 09:36 Yeah. 09:37 So we were doing like 09:39 Bible prophecy seminars at the time. 09:40 And so initially we went around 09:42 and we interviewed archeologist scholars 09:45 and all these different people. 09:46 So we interviewed 09:48 the different scholars out there 09:49 and then we had to edit them, but we're doing meetings. 09:52 So during the day 09:53 or during the evening, we're speaking. 09:55 And then I would come home at night 09:56 and I would work almost all night editing. 09:58 And we don't do that anymore. It's super unhealthy. 10:01 I don't suggest anybody doing something like that, 10:04 but we would work literally almost all night. 10:06 And then we would go visit people during the day 10:08 and then do our meetings again at night. 10:10 And it was just really unhealthy, 10:11 but it was a ton of work. 10:12 The editing process is the hardest work, 10:14 you're just meticulously going through 10:16 and you have all these interviews 10:18 and then putting it together in a way that seems coherent. 10:21 Like there really was a storyline 10:23 all the way through, 10:24 even though you just have a bunch of interviews. 10:25 And so, that process 10:28 it's kind of almost mind boggling to me 10:30 while you're doing it. 10:32 It's actually confusing. 10:33 But finally, by the grace of God, 10:34 it all comes together. 10:36 And, you know, we wanted it to be 10:38 something that would both touch people's hearts, 10:41 lead them to Jesus and the truth of God's Word. 10:43 And so, we didn't have 10:45 any previous experience in that, 10:47 we just kind of learned as we went. 10:48 And the beauty is that God only allowed us to see 10:53 what we could handle at the time, 10:55 because if we could see the end from the beginning, 10:56 we would have never been willing to do it. 10:58 Never would we have been like, "Are you kidding me? 11:01 We're not doing that." "That's way too much work." 11:02 "That's way too much work." 11:04 But He just let us see 11:05 what we needed to do right then and there. 11:08 And we stepped forward. 11:09 He gave us the abilities 11:10 and you know, a lot of people ask, 11:13 "Oh, what kind of background did you have?" 11:14 And then Chad says... 11:16 "Well, you know, 11:17 I have probably 19 years in film. 11:20 I used to watch television all the time for 19 years." 11:24 So that was my background. 11:25 And so like not really much of an education in it, 11:28 but you've watched a ton, you know? 11:31 And so, but I mean, there's more than that, 11:32 obviously YouTube teaches you how to do anything, right? 11:36 You can learn how to do anything on there. 11:38 That's amazing. 11:40 Just being here at 3ABN and seeing how much, 11:42 how much work and all of the integral 11:45 different parts of that 11:47 goes into producing something like 11:48 what you're watching right now, you know, many people just see 11:51 and it's like, "Oh, you know, they're sitting in a room 11:52 and there's a camera on them 11:54 and they're just talking and that's all they do. 11:56 They'll have a couple of cameras in the room 11:57 and they just, you know, click a button." 11:59 But there's just so much that goes into it. 12:00 And when I watch your, 12:01 you know Anchor Point Films productions, 12:04 and I see these powerful documentaries, 12:06 it's amazing to see how much work goes into that 12:09 and how much of a blessing I know it has been to me 12:11 and I know it has been to other people. 12:12 And so thank you guys so much for that, 12:15 it's a blessing indeed. 12:16 So you mentioned your ministry, you said you were preaching. 12:18 Yeah. 12:20 Also, you know, 12:21 while you were doing editing or making, 12:23 you know, producing these films. 12:25 Tell us a little bit about your preaching ministry? 12:27 So we would do, we did full time, 12:31 basically Bible prophecy seminars 12:34 for how many years would you say nine years, 12:36 10 years, something like that. 12:38 And then we started doing it part-time 12:39 'cause we were traveling around making the documentaries 12:42 and doing speaking. 12:43 So we traveled around the world. 12:45 Like we said, we've lived in Norway, 12:46 we've lived in Iceland 12:48 and we've traveled around Europe, Africa, and Australia, 12:52 and the United States speaking all over the place. 12:55 But in the midst of that, 12:57 we'd also be, the nice thing was that people 12:59 were asking us to come to speak, 13:01 but because we're already traveling speaking, 13:03 we can interview people. 13:04 So it worked perfectly. 13:06 It's like we had an option to, we're in Australia, 13:08 hey, we're making something on heart disease. 13:10 Well, there's, you know, 13:12 here's a medical professional there we can talk to. 13:13 So it was a mixture of speaking and then it just, 13:16 God brought it all together. 13:18 So we could do the video ministry 13:20 at the very same time. 13:21 That's powerful. Yeah. 13:22 Praise the Lord. Amen. 13:24 You know, I have to plug in here. 13:25 We're gonna toward the end of this program again, 13:27 if you're just now tuning in, don't change the channel. 13:30 Don't turn away because we're talking 13:31 with Chad and Fadia Kruezer 13:33 from Anchor Point Films ministry, 13:35 and you guys have produced 13:36 so much wonderful content, 13:38 documentaries and films that have blessed so many. 13:41 And we're going to tell you how you can get those films 13:44 or how you can get in contact with them 13:46 to get a hold of that content toward the end of this program. 13:48 So stick with us. 13:50 But Chad, I wanna kind of segue now 13:52 into probably what we're gonna spend 13:54 the bulk of our time talking about 13:55 during this program. 13:57 And feel free, if there's anything 13:58 we've left out about Anchor Point Films, 13:59 feel free to clean that up 14:01 and tell us whatever we might have missed. 14:02 But during this time of ministry during, 14:06 while you're preaching, 14:07 while you're doing this film ministry or whatnot, 14:09 you had something that happened in your life, 14:13 something came upon you and that would change you. 14:16 And you have a powerful story of transformation on that. 14:19 Tell us about what happened? Yeah. 14:21 So we were actually living 14:23 in Iceland a beautiful country and it is... 14:27 It's not all icy, right? 14:29 You know, it's funny, that they, 14:30 so what you actually find that is that Greenland is icy. 14:33 Right. And Iceland is green. 14:35 Right. 14:36 So, you know for whatever reason, 14:38 that's the way they're named. 14:39 But although they do get plenty of ice in the winter 14:42 and the wind is very, very intense, 14:44 but it's a very beautiful country. 14:45 Photographers love to go there. 14:47 So we lived there for the better part of a year 14:49 and we ended up getting stomach trouble. 14:52 Fadia did, I did, 14:53 our friend Nathaniel was working with us. 14:55 So we all lost a lot of weight. 14:58 And Fadia and I were, you know, just gone after being, 15:02 I lost like 30 pounds and I wasn't very big before. 15:04 So you lose 30 pounds when you're not very big. 15:06 And we were just ridiculously skinny, 15:09 sunken cheeks 15:10 and but we were eating plenty of food, 15:12 but we had stomach trouble. 15:13 It just wouldn't stay in us very well. 15:15 And with that for the first time in my life 15:19 experienced depression. 15:21 And it was deep, but we kept going forward. 15:24 We kept sharing the love of Jesus with people. 15:27 We did health seminars, 15:28 we did Bible prophecy seminars, 15:30 and we finished our time in Iceland. 15:32 Then we came back to the United States 15:34 and then every year for about at least eight years, 15:37 I would go through at least seasonal depression. 15:40 So the winter, you know, you've probably heard 15:42 of seasonal affective disorder or SAD. 15:45 I would at least have it during the winter months 15:48 and probably some of the summer months, 15:50 and then ended up having the last two years 15:53 I got bit by a tick. 15:54 I think we were out in Tennessee. 15:56 I believe it was and got bit by a tick 15:57 and a doctor friend of mine gave me some prescription 16:00 to take some antibiotics. 16:01 And as a result ended up going into 16:04 two years of just nonstop depression after that. 16:06 So a total of 10 years of depression 16:09 and the depression for me, 16:11 people experience depression differently. 16:13 Some people feel worthless. I didn't feel worthless. 16:15 I always knew God had a purpose and a plan for my life. 16:17 And I believed in God, 16:19 but my depression was mainly terrible guilt. 16:24 I just felt guilty for everything. 16:27 Some of it was legitimate in the sense that you know, 16:30 I had done things in the past. 16:32 And so I paid thousands of dollars 16:33 to try to right the wrongs of the past 16:35 and try to make my life right. 16:37 But none of it would make me feel any better. 16:39 So there was, you know how like you try to make, 16:41 you do something wrong and then you confess your sin. 16:43 You're, "Hey bro, I'm sorry for what I did." 16:45 And then there's a piece that comes 16:46 with it afterward typically. 16:48 Nothing would make me feel any better. 16:50 So it was just this deep, deep guilt. 16:52 And some of it I knew was irrational. 16:54 Like it was just beyond standard, 16:57 like you've done something wrong. 16:59 Like it became so fanatical that like, 17:02 you know, if I went and pinched a peach 17:03 or something at the store, 17:04 'cause I was seeing if it was the, 17:06 you know, if it was ripe, 17:07 I was like, "Oh, I pinched that too hard. 17:08 I have to buy it." Like everything was guilt. 17:10 I just felt guilt. 17:11 And I realized like, and I knew this is irrational. 17:13 This doesn't even make sense. Right. 17:14 So just to add in here, 17:16 was this something that kind of crept in silently 17:18 or was it like flipping on a switch? 17:20 You know, you could like one day 17:22 you were this way and the next day it just came. 17:23 How did that work? 17:24 Probably a little more, probably more gradual, 17:28 but it did all start in Iceland. 17:31 At some point while we were in Iceland 17:32 while we all had this stomach trouble. 17:34 And I think probably all of us 17:36 probably experience it in some form. 17:37 I mean, when you were down, I'm sure. 17:39 Well, we were all down there, 17:41 but then having it, when we were back, 17:43 it was somewhat gradual and it got worse over time. 17:45 I can say that. 17:47 But even in the midst of it, 17:48 I was reading my Bible every day, 17:50 seeking the Lord, trying to make my heart right, 17:52 even though every time I opened the Bible, 17:54 it felt like it was condemning me, 17:56 like a 100% of the time. 17:57 The very first thought I would have in the morning 18:00 was just guilt from the past. 18:02 Like every single day, you'd hope that you'd wake up 18:04 and not have that, but it was there every, 18:07 like almost every waking moment. 18:08 It was just, it was overwhelming and... 18:12 It's amazing. It was so... 18:13 He tried and sorry. 18:15 He tried like, you know, exercising, 18:18 doing whatever he could, you know, 18:20 try doing all the things to help himself. 18:23 And I think that kept him from getting any worse. 18:26 Absolutely. 18:27 You know, I think that kept him being functional 18:30 because I think had he not been 18:31 doing any of those things, you know, 18:33 spending time with Jesus hours in prayer, 18:35 things like that, had he not been doing that, 18:37 I think he would have just been like, you know, 18:40 in his bed all day or something like that. 18:42 But I think because he did all these other things, 18:45 it kept him going, 18:46 it gave him something to live for, you know? 18:50 And he... 18:51 I mean, we kept working, 18:53 we just kept going around the world, 18:54 traveling, teaching people, 18:56 telling people about the love of Jesus 18:57 and righteousness by faith, 18:59 yet I wasn't sensing into my own soul, 19:02 even though I believed it, I could preach it. 19:04 I could give you all the verses from memory. 19:07 I could, you know, I have memorized it 19:08 and I could share that love, 19:10 but in my own heart couldn't sense 19:13 the true love of God, even though, 19:15 just because of the darkness. 19:16 And that's, you know, 19:17 one thing to think about for people that 19:19 just because you don't feel you are saved, 19:23 doesn't mean you're not 19:24 and it doesn't mean that you're lost. 19:25 Absolutely. 19:27 Jesus, as He went to the cross, 19:29 you know, He was, as He's hanging on the cross, 19:31 He says, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken?" 19:33 And He felt as if He could not ever come forth 19:36 from the tomb and yet He did. 19:38 And so Jesus knows what it's like to be depressed. 19:41 He knows what it's like to feel lost. 19:42 And just feeling loss 19:44 is not an evidence necessarily that you are. 19:45 That's a good point 19:47 'cause I was, as you were speaking, 19:48 I'm thinking to myself, 19:49 there's gotta be somebody watching this, 19:51 probably hearing what you're saying, 19:52 or they have this perception in their mind that, 19:54 oh, that person's dealing with depression or anxiety 19:57 or whatever it is that they're dealing with. 19:59 You know, this is a real mental health condition, 20:02 but many of those mental health conditions 20:04 that people deal with, many people perceive them as, 20:06 well, they don't trust in God 20:08 or they don't really have God as their personal savior. 20:10 They don't really know the Lord, 20:12 but if they knew the Lord, 20:13 you know, they were genuine Christians, 20:14 then they wouldn't be dealing with this 20:16 because the Lord would just, 20:17 you know, snuff it out of their life. 20:18 And He would take that away from them. 20:20 Talk a little bit about it. 20:21 I know you spoke a little bit about it, 20:22 but, you know, speak on the fact 20:24 that that's not always the case that it can be more 20:26 there more to the equation than just, 20:28 you know, there's the spiritual, 20:30 it can be physical. 20:31 I appreciate that insight from you 20:32 because that is so true, 20:34 that if a Christian always felt saved, 20:38 then Jesus shouldn't have felt lost. 20:41 He was Christ and Christians are Christ-ians. 20:44 They are people who are like Christ. 20:46 Christ was man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. 20:49 So he's acquainted with our human suffering, 20:52 our personal experiences, 20:54 even with that depression, that experience that we have. 20:57 I mean, he's a man of sorrows. 20:58 So having that experience is not a testimony 21:02 that you don't have Jesus. 21:03 When people say that 21:04 there are people out there who act like, 21:06 I mean, we were with a woman 21:07 who she had gone through radiation for cancer 21:10 and distorted part of her face. 21:11 It was very, very difficult for her... 21:13 And she had a trach. She had a trach. 21:15 That she would breathe in, 21:16 and then in the midst of the Bible study 21:18 she'd fall asleep. 21:19 It was a group Bible study and she'd fall asleep. 21:21 And it was just so discouraging. 21:24 And there was a group of people that were with her. 21:27 They were of a certain faith 21:29 that believed if you are with Jesus, 21:31 He will heal all of your problems. 21:33 And so they kept telling her that 21:34 and telling her that and... 21:36 And then every week at the end of the study, 21:37 they'd come around her and pray over her. 21:39 And you know, 21:40 like try to cast it out of her or whatever. 21:42 And our hearts, every week, 21:44 we would just be like, "Oh, Lord, be with this woman." 21:47 And finally, as we got to know her better, 21:49 we opened up to her and shared some scripture 21:53 with her to tell her, you know, 21:55 Paul had something that he cried out to the Lord. 21:59 He begged the Lord to take it from him. 22:01 But in our weakness, he is made strong, right? 22:05 He is uplifted. 22:06 And so we shared that with her and it just brought 22:09 such joy to her heart to know that 22:11 she had faith, you know. 22:13 Just because you're not healed, 22:15 doesn't mean you don't have faith. 22:16 And I remember 22:17 at the very darkest moment of this, 22:20 and once again, she likes, she said, 22:21 I was reading my Bible. I was exercising. 22:23 I was eating a healthy diet. I was getting out in the sun. 22:25 I was doing what I could from the health principles 22:28 to try to get rid of it, but it just wasn't happening. 22:31 And then at the very darkest moment, 22:32 the thought came to me. 22:34 "What if I have to live with this 22:36 for the rest of my life?" 22:38 And then the very next thought was, 22:42 "Then I just accept it." 22:43 Because I know Jesus is the answer. 22:45 And even if I don't, even if I can't sense Him, 22:48 I know He really is the answer. 22:50 And I think I'm actually glad I got to that point. 22:53 And I don't mean, I'm glad I got to the point 22:55 where the thought came, 22:56 what if you're gonna have to suffer with this 22:58 for the rest of your life? 22:59 What if? That is a possibility, right? 23:02 And praise the Lord. 23:04 We finally did find a way out of it, 23:06 but don't give up just because you're suffering 23:10 and you feel guilty or whatever you suffer 23:13 with depression, anxiety, PTSD, 23:16 whatever it may be, 23:17 don't give up just because it seems hopeless. 23:19 And you may have to live this way forever. 23:21 Quick point on this. 23:23 They have surveyed people 23:25 who jumped off the most popular place 23:27 to commit suicide is jumping off 23:28 the Golden Gate Bridge. 23:30 Most people die because the impact is so hard 23:32 from that height that it just, they break their back. 23:34 They can't swim and they die because they broke their back. 23:38 But several people have lived and they've interviewed them. 23:40 And they said, "Did you regret jumping?" 23:43 And they all said, "Yes." 23:46 And then they ask them, "When did you regret it?" 23:48 And they said, "The moment I jumped." 23:50 And so this is the thing the devil may get us 23:52 to in a fit of depression, like, I just wanna end it. 23:57 But if you got on the other side 23:58 a half second on the other side, 24:00 you would regret it. 24:02 So doing these things, they don't fix the problem. 24:05 Jesus can, but even if you have to suffer 24:08 for the rest of your life, 24:09 which by God's grace, I hope you don't. 24:10 And I'm glad that God brought me out of it. 24:13 Don't give up, just don't give up. 24:14 Absolutely. 24:15 And I have to add this, you know again, 24:17 not to uplift you as a person, 24:18 but the fact that it speaks to your faith 24:20 as an individual, 24:21 that you came to that conclusion. 24:23 What if I have to deal with this, the rest of my life? 24:27 There are some people that only serve God 24:29 based on the things that He does for them. 24:30 I think of Job, right? 24:32 Job, you know, just that implied accusation 24:34 that Satan tell, "Oh, you know, 24:36 take away your hedge of protection, 24:37 take away all the goodies 24:39 that you've prospered him with and that you've given to him. 24:41 And then he'll curse you to your face." 24:43 In other words, there's an implied accusation 24:45 there that you Lord in and of yourself are not worthy 24:48 to be worshiped, not worthy to be served 24:50 because he's only serving you 24:51 because of the good things that he's giving you, right? 24:54 And this is a case in point, 24:55 as I'm listening to you, you came to that conclusion, 24:57 Lord, You are worthy for me to spend my life 25:01 serving You and worshiping You. 25:02 Whether You save me or you don't, 25:04 whether You take this away from me or you don't, 25:06 You are still Lord, and that doesn't change. 25:08 That's powerful, brother. That's powerful. 25:10 And even then, 25:11 even when I felt totally guilty, totally lost, 25:14 I thought, well, if other people are saved 25:16 by the ministry that I'm doing, it will be worth it. 25:19 Even though you hope you would be. 25:21 But in this, at that time, I couldn't have any sense 25:24 within my soul that I could be saved 25:25 even though I believe it. 25:26 If you'd say, "Do you believe it?" 25:28 With my head I do, but not with, 25:29 I just don't feel it. 25:31 And so once again, Jesus didn't feel saved. 25:34 Feeling saved is not proof that you are saved 25:37 or not feeling saved is not proof 25:40 that you are not saved. 25:41 We trust even in the midst of if we don't feel it. 25:44 Absolutely. 25:45 I think of Him, like you said, you pointed to Him, 25:46 "My Father, My Father, why have you forsaken me?" 25:49 In Psalm 22, He says, "I'm a worm and no man." 25:52 And it's like, wait a second, Jesus, 12 hours before 25:54 You were just claiming to be the Son of God 25:56 and you know, praising Your Father for Him 25:58 bringing you this far. 25:59 But now it's like, He doesn't know Him, right? 26:01 And so it's powerful to see the Lord, 26:04 the Lord allowed you to go through this experience. 26:06 And it's powerful to also consider the fact that 26:08 you said you were doing 26:09 all that you knew to do at that time. 26:11 You were practicing good health practices. 26:13 You were exercising. 26:15 So you're dealing with this depression. 26:18 And so I just had to ask real quickly. 26:20 I know we're gonna get to how this helped your marriage, 26:22 but how did, I mean, going through this, 26:25 you had said, I think you said she had also dealt maybe 26:28 with a little bit of this, not the same. 26:30 But how did you deal with this 26:31 and the process that he's going through? 26:33 Yeah. 26:34 I was just about to say when he was talking about it, 26:36 that when he would be in this frame of mind, 26:40 it was hard to rationalize with him. 26:43 So let's say he's got 26:45 some guilty thought or some sort. 26:47 And I tell him, well, Chad look at it this way, 26:49 you know? 26:50 And I tell him, I give him a Bible verse 26:53 or something, and then he says, "You just made it worse." 26:56 Like, I feel more guilty. I'd feel more guilty. 26:59 And then let's say I had, you know, 27:01 we'd have our devotions. 27:02 And in the morning I wanted to share with him 27:04 like, look what I saw and this, 27:06 and then I'd make him feel more guilty. 27:08 "You just added another thing 27:09 that I have to think about now." 27:11 And so then it just got me feeling like 27:14 it doesn't matter what I say, he just feels worse. 27:17 And I can't even share my devotions with him 27:19 because he feels guilty all the time. 27:21 And it really, it wears on your marriage, 27:24 you know, it's just like, you start to feel like 27:27 we can't even be close to each other 27:29 because I never know when it's gonna trigger. 27:32 He's just gonna feel worse. 27:34 And then I try to tell him, well, you know, 27:37 maybe if you, and it affected, 27:39 it got to the point where it affected 27:40 our documentary work as well, 27:44 because he started feeling guilty. 27:45 Should I use this? Can I do this, can I do that? 27:47 And we contact lawyers, is this okay? 27:49 Is this legal? And it was just over the top. 27:53 It was just over the top sensitivity. 27:55 It almost seems like with the depression, 27:57 there's a sense, I'm not trying to diagnose you 27:59 or anybody here. 28:00 I'm just 'cause I have family members 28:01 who deal with this OCD, intrusive thoughts. 28:04 And that's essentially, it seems like 28:06 what you were dealing with. 28:07 And I didn't realize it at the time. 28:08 But later on looking back on it, 28:10 I realized it was totally depression 28:12 with probably OCD. 28:13 Not that I'm a medical professional 28:14 stating that, but just from the experience, 28:16 that's what it was like 28:18 continual thoughts on the same lines. 28:20 And I memorized not exaggerating 28:22 at least a thousand verses to try to fill in, you know, 28:25 as to like claim the promises. 28:26 And I did that and I know that was a great blessing to me, 28:30 but it was when you have those continual thoughts, 28:32 it's just, it's a heavy, heavy experience. 28:34 But looking back on it, 28:35 I'm actually glad that I went through it. 28:39 I mean, it sounds crazy 28:40 because for a couple of years, after going through it, 28:42 I would literally get chills 28:44 just thinking back on those times. 28:45 It was so dark 28:47 and it was so terrible that I would like, 28:49 "Whoa, man, that was crazy going through that." 28:51 Like what a, what a difficult experience, 28:53 but I'm just glad the Lord... 28:55 The dark ages. Yeah, the dark ages. 28:57 Your 1,260 years experience, right? 28:59 Wow. 29:00 So, but the fact that we're sitting here 29:03 and you're talking to us, 29:04 you're obviously not in that state of mind. 29:05 Yes. 29:07 There came a time when something happened 29:09 and the Lord began to bring you out of this. 29:12 Tell us how, what was the transition? 29:13 How did you reach the point 29:15 to where things began to change? 29:18 We were working on our health documentary 29:21 and as we were working on our health documentary, 29:23 you know, we thought we were doing things healthy 29:26 and all this other stuff. 29:27 But when you interview 29:29 a lot of health professionals, doctors, 29:33 and all kinds, and that have a wide spectrum 29:36 of what would you call it? 29:38 Practice. Practice and knowledge. 29:41 You start to gain a lot. 29:43 And then we always like 29:46 look into things before we film it. 29:48 And so we're studying a lot more 29:50 and we're actually reading 29:52 a lot of a Spirit of Prophecy on health 29:54 and well, what does she have to say 29:56 about these things, you know? 29:57 Thousands of pages I was reading, 29:59 I was trying to read everything 30:00 that I could find on this because people have their ideas 30:02 and people think 30:03 whatever the internet says about health, 30:05 blogs say about health, that's the truth, right? 30:08 WebMD, you go there and it will tell you the truth. 30:10 And so like, you just look at random people's blogs 30:13 and you have all these ideas, but God has His own standards. 30:17 And then there's real science 30:18 because a lot of things that people say 30:20 aren't even scientific at all, 30:21 but it's popular knowledge on a blog or whatever. 30:24 And so... Yeah. 30:25 So then we were looking into these things 30:27 and Chad also had like gallbladder issues 30:32 and he didn't wanna do the surgery 30:36 because his grandpa, I mean, it's a very, 30:38 it's one of the most simple surgeries, 30:40 but his grandpa actually died from it 30:42 because they nicked his bowels and they didn't know it. 30:44 His grandmas had it, 30:46 his aunts had it, so he had issues. 30:48 And so one of the doctors we were interviewing, 30:51 we were actually staying with her and her family. 30:53 And I was telling her this about Chad's issues. 30:57 He had hypoglycemia and all these different things. 31:00 And she said... Migraines. 31:01 Migraines, yep. And so... 31:04 Sounds like you had the mother load, man. 31:05 He did. 31:07 When I list them out and I say, 31:08 hey, all these things have been changed 31:10 because of this lifestyle change. 31:11 It almost sounds like a bad infomercial, 31:13 like yeah, right. 31:14 Like it could do all that, but it really has. 31:16 That's amazing, brother. Wow. 31:19 Well, that's how God works, right? 31:21 Amen. 31:22 So I'm talking to her about this 31:25 and she says, 31:26 "Look, if Chad wants to save his gallbladder 31:29 and doesn't want to go through surgery, 31:30 he's going to have to go..." 31:32 Change his diet. "Change his diet completely." 31:35 And so she said, 31:37 "Why don't you eat with me while you're here?" 31:40 You know, I'll feed you guys. 31:42 And while you're filming and we were with them 31:44 for a couple of weeks, but within days... 31:48 It started, the pain went away. 31:49 My gallbladder pain went away in a few days. 31:51 And I started having more energy 31:53 than I had ever had. 31:54 Than I had had as a teenager, 31:56 you know, I was 35 at that time. 31:57 And I was like, my body started feeling so good 32:02 that if I had to go grab a book out of my car, 32:05 I would run to the car and not because I was like, 32:08 my body just was functioning so well. 32:10 And I thought, this is incredible. 32:12 And then we were still actually with them. 32:17 Yeah, go ahead. Right. 32:18 But then we came back again. 32:20 So it helped him physically with the gallbladder, 32:24 with the migraines, with the hypoglycemia, 32:26 with the joint pain. 32:27 It helped him in all those areas, 32:29 but he was still depressed. 32:31 And which, it was just like a wow, 32:34 but it's okay, because God was preparing him. 32:37 God was like cleansing his body. 32:39 He was preparing him for what was coming next. 32:41 Because I think if it was flipped around, 32:43 he wouldn't have been prepared for it. 32:45 So you know, 32:46 that's why we need to just trust God 32:48 in every step of the way and never give up trying 32:52 'cause he could have just been like, 32:53 "It didn't help my depression. 32:55 What's the point?" 32:56 But it was like, "I'm gonna keep looking. 32:58 I'm going to keep searching. I'm going to keep trying this." 33:00 And I thank God that he did that 33:02 because, well, you hear 33:04 how it's helped other people, right? 33:05 Anyway, so then he ends up doing that. 33:08 He has all this, 33:10 but the depression is still there. 33:11 We come back to their house another time 33:13 and we were watching something and he heard a quote. 33:16 And this quote, it sounded kind of extreme. 33:20 But I was, if you would have told me, 33:22 Chad, the trick to getting over your depression 33:24 is standing on your head for two hours a week 33:26 or two hours a day, I would have done it. 33:28 I'd have been like, "Hey, whatever, you know, 33:29 I'll do whatever." 33:30 You know, at that point you've gone through this for so long. 33:32 Right. 33:33 But we heard this quotation that said, 33:36 you know, we're coming to the time 33:37 when recipes for cooking 33:38 will not be needed for the food. 33:40 God gave Adam in his sinless state 33:42 is best for keeping the body in a sinless state. 33:45 And I thought, wow, that's such a strange thought. 33:46 And then there's this other quote 33:48 that talks about in many cases of sickness, 33:51 this is a quote in many cases of sickness, 33:53 the very best remedy is for the patient 33:55 to fast for a meal or two 33:58 that the overworked organs of digestion 34:00 may have an opportunity to rest. 34:02 Then a fruit diet for a few days 34:06 has often brought great relief to brain workers. 34:10 And then it goes on to say, 34:11 and then on a STEMIs or a simple diet 34:13 for a month or two will reveal to many that 34:16 the path of self denial is the path to health. 34:20 So I went on a very simple diet for a time. 34:23 Okay. For a time. 34:24 And I, this is so to back up a little bit, 34:28 they've done research and I didn't know about it. 34:30 I tried it. 34:31 I was like, okay, so I'll eat a fruit diet for a time. 34:33 And then I'll start transitioning 34:35 back to a simple diet 34:36 for a month or two, or, you know, 34:38 kind of something along these lines. 34:39 So within it was January, 34:41 which is the roughest time of year 34:43 if you're having seasonal depression, 34:44 although mine was chronic by this point. 34:46 So it wasn't even seasonal, but January is about the worst 34:48 it is normally for somebody if they have that. 34:51 And then I began to eat a fruit diet 34:53 for a number of days. 34:55 And within two weeks, my depression began to go away. 34:58 For the first time in two years, 35:01 even though I had a 10 years off and on, 35:02 but the last two years solid 35:04 that for the first time in two years, 35:06 I could choose where I focus my thoughts. 35:09 Instead of having them 35:10 constantly go back to these things. 35:12 And as I did, I thought, man, this is interesting. 35:15 I didn't say anything to Fadia because it was like, 35:17 "Ah, maybe it's just a good day or something like that." 35:20 But then it got better and better and better. 35:22 And then I mean, 35:24 we can't really fill in all that 35:26 we did within a very short show to explain it all. 35:29 But we, what ended up happening was we thought, 35:32 why did this work? 35:34 Why did this make such a difference in my life? 35:36 Then I began to look at the research. 35:37 I love science and going 35:38 right to the scientific research, 35:40 going to the scientific journals, 35:41 began to study 35:43 what's called the gut brain connection. 35:46 And researchers are finding that many of the things 35:50 that can take place within our gut, bacteria, 35:53 various things what's going on in the gut 35:55 can actually positively 35:57 or negatively affect your mental state. 36:00 And so as my gut began to heal, remember, you know, 36:04 10 years before that in Iceland, 36:05 I had had this stomach trouble. 36:07 And so here I was still struggling with it. 36:09 When my gut healed, 36:11 my brain ended up actually healing at that point. 36:14 As we studied that out, 36:15 we then began to present it around the world. 36:18 The first place we presented, 36:19 it was in London or New England. 36:22 And while we were there 36:23 and then it just kind of began to take off 36:25 and we began to make a series 36:27 called simply the gut brain connection. 36:29 Showing the research studies on the various things 36:31 we can do to have a healthy gut. 36:33 And even in that area, 36:35 people come up with all kinds of things. 36:36 You'll hear on like, 36:38 "Oh, for the gut brain connection, use this." 36:39 And you're like, "No, 36:41 the research actually says don't use that." 36:42 You know? 36:43 And so the point is, but we were given a standard. 36:47 We were told long ago, all the research, 36:50 almost all the research before it ever came out. 36:52 And now the scientific studies sound like 36:54 they're actually quoting these wonderful messages 36:57 that we were given over a hundred years ago. 36:59 It literally just changed my life. 37:01 And I'm so thankful that I went through it 37:05 because I wouldn't have been willing to do this 37:10 if I hadn't gone through so much suffering for so long. 37:13 So all of this stemmed from a quote that you found, 37:16 I guess, was it Ministry of Healing? 37:18 Ministry of Healing is one of them. 37:19 Yes. 37:21 And another one's Manuscript Releases. 37:22 And to think that this information 37:25 was given by God, 37:27 to someone over a hundred years ago, 37:30 back in the late 1800s. 37:31 And it sounded like quackery back then. 37:33 Actually it sounded like quackery 20 years ago 37:36 until the research came out and showed like, 37:38 no, no, no, no, no, that's cutting edge. 37:40 So some of that stuff that like people read 37:42 and they're like, "Yeah, I wish that wasn't written." 37:44 You know, it turns out no, it was just before its time. 37:47 When the research comes out 37:48 it is literally life-changing science. 37:50 That's amazing. Okay. So let's talk with this. 37:52 I know we don't have 37:53 a lot of time to get into details, 37:54 but give us kind of a quick synoptic 37:57 kind of juiced version of the diet 37:59 that you kind of went through 38:01 in order to get from point A to point B? 38:02 Yes. 38:04 So one of the things that I tried, 38:05 which didn't totally work for me, 38:06 but there's something 38:08 called the elimination challenge diet. 38:09 And you know, when you give out our, 38:12 I can send it to people for free. 38:14 It's basically a list of things to eat 38:17 and a list of things to avoid. 38:18 Many of the things to avoid are actually good foods, 38:21 but there's some of the most common allergens. 38:23 And so it's a temporary diet to find out 38:25 what may be troubling your stomach. 38:28 And it could be something totally healthy, 38:29 like some people are allergic to apples. 38:31 Right. 38:32 That doesn't mean apples are bad. 38:33 They're great fruit, but if you're allergic to them, 38:35 well, they're bad for you, right? 38:37 And so part of it is finding the offending foods 38:40 for your personal body 38:41 is an important issue for people. 38:43 And so that's one aspect. 38:46 I tried that didn't really actually work for me, 38:49 but a simple diet once again. 38:51 So this will sound crazy, 38:54 but I have, I actually have a video 38:55 on YouTube about it, 38:56 the research on how certain spices 39:00 can actually negatively impact the lining of the gut. 39:04 And as they negatively impact the lining of the gut, 39:07 they can actually cause inflammation 39:08 and they have something called IED. 39:14 And what that is intermittent explosive disorder, 39:19 where someone's just furious and angry, 39:21 and certain food 39:23 can actually potentially that inflammation in the gut 39:26 may actually promote people's anger problems, 39:29 their anxiety, their depression, 39:31 these things, though, they may have high levels 39:33 of antioxidants in those spices, 39:35 they can also increase 39:36 the chances that you have this inflammation 39:38 in your gut, even though 39:40 there is strangely enough anti-inflammatory foods, 39:43 they can cause inflammation to the gut. 39:44 And as they do that, 39:46 I don't want to get too technical, 39:47 but they can cause things to actually pass through 39:49 undigested proteins and bacteria 39:51 to pass through the lining of your intestines, 39:54 right into the bloodstream and cause inflammation 39:56 in the rest of the body 39:58 and inflammation affects things like diabetes, cancer, 40:01 heart disease 40:02 and all of these different things. 40:04 And so... And depression. 40:05 Is this something, is this what they call leaky gut, 40:07 or somebody got some leaky gut... 40:09 It is what they call leaky gut. 40:10 And I know for some time doctors 40:11 didn't think it was a reality, 40:13 but now there's study after study, 40:14 after study research 40:16 and in peer reviewed scientific journals 40:17 that reveal that this is a legitimate issue. 40:19 And so certain foods can increase your likelihood 40:22 of having leaky gut, 40:23 that things pass through into the bloodstream. 40:25 And so as I get rid of those and by the way, 40:30 it doesn't go away in a day. 40:32 Just like, for instance, 40:34 if you cut yourself on your arm, 40:35 does the inflammation, the redness, the swelling, 40:38 if you're actually cut, does the... 40:39 You wake up the next day and well, no more cut. 40:42 No, it takes days and days to finally heal. 40:44 So too with the gut that is, we eat these foods. 40:46 They may not affect us the day of, 40:50 it actually may take time for it to move through the, 40:52 you know, intestines. 40:54 And finally they caused that inflammation. 40:56 And also you think, well, I don't see a difference 40:58 when I eat those spicy foods today 41:00 and tomorrow 41:02 I'm just the same way I was yesterday. 41:03 So we did a test of avoiding spices 41:07 to just to test it. 41:09 'Cause we didn't know which ones would do it. 41:10 So we decided we were gonna go 41:12 a whole month without any spices, 41:15 just to see what would, and by the way, 41:16 someone might be thinking like, 41:18 what does this guy know about spicy food? 41:19 Like what does he know? 41:21 I mean, we would eat things like habanero 41:24 and habanero makes a jalapeno seem like a carrot, right? 41:27 Like, I mean, it's just like habaneros just like, 41:29 boom in spices. 41:31 On another level of heat. 41:32 It's a whole new, I loved any kind of, 41:33 you know, like Indian food, 41:35 Thai food, all these, I loved all this. 41:36 So I'm sometimes... 41:38 We had Thai food at our wedding. 41:39 Yeah, Thai food at our wedding. We love spicy food. 41:41 We've been around the world, you know, but we decided, 41:43 hey, we're gonna see what happens 41:45 if we avoid spicy food for a month. 41:47 And just to be honest, I wish this weren't, 41:50 but I'm going to tell you weren't true. 41:51 But my wife and I, 41:53 we struggled with arguing all the time 41:55 in our marriage all the time. 41:57 And we didn't want to, 41:59 we're reading our Bibles every day. 42:00 We say every night before bed, 42:02 "Hey, I'm sorry for doing that." 42:04 And we'd apologize. 42:05 We pray and we did not wanna do it the next day, 42:07 but we would do it. 42:08 And like over and over and over. 42:10 And I hated it. I hated doing that. 42:12 And a lot of times as wives, 42:14 we want to please our husbands and we cook, right? 42:16 And so he tends to like, "Oh, that was really good." 42:20 So you do it more and you do it more 42:22 and you don't realize you're making him sick. 42:25 You know, it's just like, you're pleasing his tongue, 42:27 but you're making him absolutely sick. 42:29 And so then his sickness turns around 42:30 and hurts you then, right? 42:32 And so, it's a temptation as women, 42:35 but I think, you know, 42:38 keeping it simple ends up being such a blessing. 42:42 It's like such a blessing. 42:43 I mean, I'd never go back to that 42:45 because Chad always says it 42:47 when somebody says, well, don't you ever feel like 42:49 he's like, I'd rather have to have it. 42:50 Don't you miss this food or whatever? 42:51 Yeah. 42:53 So there's people, I just have to jump here 42:54 and add this, there's people 42:55 that's going to be watching and think, wait a second. 42:57 But a habanero is a plant, 42:58 you know, God created it and it's, 43:00 you know, we can eat these types of things, right? 43:02 So what I hear you saying, when you say spices, 43:04 you're not necessarily talking about like, 43:05 you know, onion powder, garlic powder, 43:07 or maybe you are, I don't know, 43:08 clarify what you mean by spices? 43:10 So I can't tell you exactly which ones will impact you, 43:14 but so I'll tell you what happened. 43:15 And then this will give a little idea. 43:17 So we got rid of all spices for one month. 43:20 And the next day we argued just as much as the day before. 43:24 And the next day we did too 43:26 and the day after that, but I don't remember it. 43:28 We don't know exactly when it was, 43:30 but it was like seven to 14 days. 43:32 Within a week to two weeks, we started to calm down. 43:35 We started to become more patient with each other, 43:37 more loving, 43:38 the things that formerly would make us angry, 43:40 we would maybe chuckle out, and our relationship got better 43:43 and better and better for a month. 43:45 And so we didn't stop at a month. 43:47 We went to two months and then we had some folks who, 43:51 from another country or, you know, different background. 43:52 And they're like, 43:54 "Hey, you want to go out eat with us." 43:55 And you know, we like to have good time with people. 43:56 So we went out and it was a very, very spicy restaurant 43:59 and I loved it. 44:01 It was really good. It was super tasty. 44:03 And the day after the day we ate it, nothing changed. 44:06 We were the exact same. We were happy. 44:09 And the next day I spoke totally rude to Fadia. 44:11 The next morning even. 44:12 The next morning I spoke totally rude to her. 44:14 She had something with someone that 44:16 she got frustrated and she didn't say anything. 44:18 She held it in like a good Christian, 44:20 hold it in and get angry in your heart. 44:21 Well, no one was there to do anything, 44:24 but I get so angry that 44:28 I didn't know what to do with it. 44:29 And I started to cry because I was just like, 44:31 "Lord, why can't I just sit 44:34 and think through and like rationalize this." 44:37 And I couldn't, I was just so angry. 44:39 I got on my knees and cried and like, 44:41 Lord, help me take this away. 44:42 I don't understand these feelings. 44:44 And I was like, I gotta go to church, you know? 44:47 And so then that happened. 44:48 And then later on, 44:50 I relayed this to him and I said, 44:51 do you know what happened to me today? 44:52 And then he was rude again. 44:54 And then I said, what's wrong with you? 44:57 Why are you acting like this? 44:58 And then he put the two and two together, 45:00 the way he's acting, the way I'm acting. 45:02 And I said, "That spicy food we ate? 45:05 That's what he said. I said, "We knew it." 45:07 And I said, "You know we ate yesterday, right?" 45:08 And she said, "No." And I said, yeah, 45:11 I think so now this is a nice anecdotal story. 45:13 But we have tried this over and over and over 45:15 with near a 100% correlation in our lives. 45:18 And then as we traveled in the world, 45:20 talking to people about it and showing the research, 45:22 we have had people contact us after hearing it 45:24 and implementing these things. 45:26 So I can't say exactly what it is, 45:28 but doing these 45:29 kind of elimination diets for a time, 45:31 you eliminate them. 45:33 And then you, if you try it again 45:34 and you see an effect within the next few days, 45:36 you can see, oh, that is actually impacting. 45:38 We noticed that it helped us with levels of lust, 45:41 levels of anger, uh, anxiety and depression, 45:44 literally it changed our lives. 45:46 And so that's part of it also eating a very simple 45:49 plant-based diet. 45:50 What's called a whole food diet. 45:52 So that means not refined simple foods, 45:54 but a whole food diet in general, 45:56 that's our lifestyle. 45:57 And as we did that, we cooked food. 46:00 It's not that we don't eat cooked food, 46:01 but it's non refined cooked food generally. 46:03 And so it began to just settle us down 46:06 and it changed our lives. 46:08 And then the Lord opened the door 46:09 for having a ministry, 46:11 teaching people about these things. 46:12 And so, that's one of the things 46:13 we do is travel around teaching people, 46:15 because we wanna see, 46:16 I want other people to have happy marriages, happy. 46:19 You know, some parents may be literally, 46:21 they may be abusive because they have stuff 46:24 going on in their head 46:25 because of what's actually going on in their gut. 46:27 I mean, it's amazing. That's amazing. 46:29 So we have about five minutes 46:30 before we go to the address roll. 46:31 If you're just now joining us in the last part, 46:33 we're talking with Chad and Fadia Kruezer 46:35 from Anchor Point Films, 46:36 and God has transformed their life. 46:39 Chad having gone through a series of serious depression 46:43 and just by simply doing an elimination diet, 46:46 the gut brain connection, you changed your gut health. 46:49 It helped your brain health. 46:50 You no longer suffer from anxiety and depression 46:53 and all these things that you were dealing with. 46:55 It's helped your marriage. That's powerful. 46:57 It's changed your outlook on marriage 46:59 and to be around each other. 47:01 And so now God is using you. 47:02 We have about almost five minutes, 47:04 a little over, 47:05 a little less than five minutes here. 47:07 Let's talk about how God is using you to share this 47:08 and to help others with this information 47:10 that God has shared with you? 47:12 So we began to, 47:14 I shared it the first time Fadia was praying 47:16 because anybody who's been through depression, 47:18 it's kind of an embarrassing thing. 47:20 You know, it's like, you feel like 47:21 I don't wanna tell people that I've been depressed. 47:23 You know, even though I was terribly depressed, 47:25 you try to just cover it up. 47:26 But she was praying. 47:28 I was speaking on some of the research behind it 47:30 and it was, you know, I mean, 47:32 there were quite a few people there 47:33 and she's praying. 47:34 She's like, God help him to share his testimony on it. 47:36 And the Lord broke through the stubborn old me 47:39 and I shared my testimony. 47:40 We're in England, Northern England 47:42 for, at that time. 47:43 And as I shared that testimony, 47:45 I realized that it touched people's hearts way 47:47 more than the research. 47:49 The research is powerful, but a personal testimony, 47:52 when you hear a personal testimony, 47:53 you think, "Hey, if that worked for you, 47:54 maybe it could work for me." 47:56 That's right. 47:57 And like, we would rather not tell people about 47:59 all our arguing and those kinds of things. 48:01 I'd rather be like, "Oh, we've lived 48:02 a really perfect life together." 48:04 But there's somebody watching right now 48:05 that's going, 48:06 hey, you're looking at their wife or their husband. 48:08 We argue all the time. 48:09 Maybe we should try this diet, right? 48:10 Yeah. 48:12 And I say like, listen, it is worth trying. 48:15 What if it works? 48:16 I mean like, what if you can live 48:18 a happier life for the rest of your life? 48:19 I mean, I believe depression is, 48:21 there are other aspects. 48:22 Like we said, exercise, sunlight, you know, rest, 48:25 getting away from drugs. 48:26 All of these things are important too, 48:28 but I was doing those. 48:29 So somebody else may be struggling with 48:30 some of the other issues 48:32 and that's causing their depression. 48:33 But the thing that I was struggling 48:34 with was the gut issue. 48:36 And a lot of people have gut issues these days. 48:37 Oh, for sure. I mean, tons of people. 48:39 And in part, because of all the craziness, 48:41 that's in the food chain, it's not the right word, 48:43 but in the stores, you know, 48:44 in the grocery stores on the shelves. 48:46 And so learning to do these things, 48:47 it changed my life. 48:48 And as we were sharing these things with people, 48:50 we wanted to do kind of like 48:51 a YouTube channel to teach people. 48:54 Yeah, go on. But before we do that. 48:55 We were praying, we were asking the Lord, 48:58 "Lord, if You really want us to share these things, 49:00 and this is all legitimate, it's not just our thing. 49:03 Then You open doors." 49:05 And we specifically asked for some doors to be opened 49:09 within the medical sphere. 49:12 Like medical professionals and things like that, 49:14 just to legitimize it, you know, 49:16 like if this is legitimate. 49:19 Science and all of that, then you do that. 49:21 And in short order, we got call after call on, 49:24 "Oh, come to this medical conference 49:29 or something, come speak at this, 49:30 come speak at that." 49:32 And it's just like one after another people 49:34 wanted to have us come speak on the gut brain connection. 49:36 And we had hardly told anybody about it, 49:39 but enough had heard that 49:41 they started to have us come out for that. 49:43 And then Chad was able to share his testimony, 49:47 which made an impact on people. 49:49 You wouldn't believe 49:50 how many people have contacted us and said, 49:52 "This has been such a blessing for me." 49:54 And how it's changed their lives. 49:56 You know, we even had doctors 49:58 come and tell us how it changed their lives. 50:00 Absolutely. 50:01 And so, as we were doing it 50:03 then COVID hit and long story short, 50:06 we couldn't travel anymore 50:08 because not because we weren't willing, 50:09 but because everything shut down. 50:11 And so as it all shut down the door opened too, 50:13 we thought, man, 50:15 we still wanna share with people. 50:16 And the Lord opened the door. 50:17 We live out in the country and we started a ministry 50:19 on YouTube called Health and Homestead. 50:22 People just look up Health and Homestead. 50:25 We have some of the things that we've just talked about 50:27 here on that, 50:28 a little bit of the gut brain connection. 50:30 And we'll have more coming out in the future, 50:31 but sharing with people around the world now 50:35 simply even though we still travel now, 50:37 'cause things are opening up again, 50:38 but being able to share with people both 50:40 about the blessings of spending time in the country 50:42 about health and also about how they can be healthier, 50:47 happier people that the health message 50:49 we're told. 50:50 One of the reasons 50:51 we were given the health message 50:53 was to make us happy. 50:55 A lot of times we're afraid of it. 50:56 I know I was, 50:57 when this doctor told me you know, 50:59 to change my lifestyle, 51:00 I didn't want to 'cause we were like, 51:01 "Ah, no, I like what I'm doing." 51:03 Right. But it changed my life. 51:04 That's amazing. Praise the Lord. 51:07 It's just like to pray for that 51:09 clock to give us some more time, right? 51:11 There's just so much to talk about 51:12 and so little time to do it. 51:14 You guys have been such a blessing. 51:15 We're not quite finished yet, but we're gonna actually go to 51:19 an address roll in just a moment. 51:21 If you wanna know how to get a hold of 51:22 Chad and Fadia and Anchor Point Films 51:26 and their ministry, 51:27 you want to know more about Health and Homestead. 51:28 We're going to give you an address roll 51:30 here in just a moment. 51:32 And so don't go anywhere, we're going to come back 51:33 on the other side of this address roll 51:35 and tie up this interview. 51:37 But this is important, as you have heard the story, 51:40 it works it's proof. 51:42 And so here's how you can contact them 51:45 through Anchor Point Films Ministry. 51:50 If you would like to reach or to know more about 51:52 Anchor Point Films, you can contact them 51:55 at (708) 285-5433. 51:59 That's (708) 285-5433. 52:03 You can also mail them at PO Box 960, 52:07 White Cloud, Missouri 49349. 52:10 You can also visit their website, 52:12 anchorpointfilms.com. 52:14 That's anchorpointfilms.com. 52:17 You can also email them at anchorpointfilms@gmail.com. |
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