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  1. Welcome.

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  6. Good evening everyone, before you take your seats. High five

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  8. Good evening.

  9. I'm Larry, one of the pastors here in Victory Green

  10. Hills is joyed to be invited once again.

  11. I'm already what do you call this?

  12. I'm stationed at our at our every nation building, by

  13. being the doing admin works there. But then I praise

  14. God for Pastor Francis, who once in a while who

  15. would call on me, especially now that he's in New Zealand,

  16. New Zealand and he's he celebrating their tenth Pam and

  17. And and Phastor Francis are celebrating the tenth year anniversity.

  18. Please do pray for our for your pastors, uh In

  19. people be pastor and thank you, thank you for praying

  20. for them.

  21. I'm sure.

  22. But stories and card causin a New Zealand Stories, okay,

  23. how many of you, I'll tell him that I can

  24. see your face? How many of you you've actually followed

  25. the whole the whole series.

  26. Okay, premier and see.

  27. Lord will be Okay. Yeah, this is a this this

  28. wonderful series. We actually started the series last year path

  29. if you if you notice it last year right after

  30. Prayer Fasting, we also had a series on the Gospel

  31. and know something about the Gospel also and and and

  32. it's good that we we saw different stories, uh, the

  33. different stories in the Book of Look they remember the

  34. first to the first two Sundays we talked about the widow,

  35. the widow, the crying widow who.

  36. Lost the mourning widow who lost a son.

  37. And then last week talked about the sinful woman was

  38. actually forgiven. And then they were gonna be talking about

  39. the blind beggary. And what I love about this series

  40. is that we would actually see people who.

  41. Encounter Jesus Christ. They not just encountered in the encounter Jesus.

  42. Christ led to transformation and they didn't stop there. Hey,

  43. right after being led to transformation, actually proclaimed the Gospel

  44. and the whole town or the whole community got actually saved.

  45. My prayer is that that's.

  46. That that's us la paramatto. This is not a classroom

  47. it's not a classroom. What we learn here should be

  48. applied out there. And maybe some of you you're thinking, boy,

  49. to miss more. The journey that I am in right

  50. now is not it's not that great. That's why we

  51. hang on again to the promise of the Gospel. That's

  52. why the title is Grace changes everything. You might not

  53. be perfect now, but again grace is sufficient for you,

  54. for each one of us. That's a promise I do believe.

  55. That's that's among the very very to go to, top

  56. five verses that I've ever memorized. That grace his grace,

  57. not our grace, not not our grace. If we rely

  58. only on our grace, guess what, you won't.

  59. Finish this straight.

  60. That the race strong, but you have to hang on

  61. to His grace, his grace that is sufficient for us.

  62. If it's been a sufficient never ending because it comes.

  63. Can we see in mosa good looks, Mulang think and

  64. good looks. My question, Guess what? It doesn't change anything.

  65. Only his grace is sufficient. And we said sufficient, it's

  66. never ending, never ending. We're gonna look at the life

  67. of this blind beggar. Okay, maybe some of you you've

  68. you've read through this the Bason Sarah it's it's a

  69. good story trivia trivia. This actually is probably as recorded

  70. in the Bible, the very last miracle of Jesus. The

  71. very first miracle is the wedding at Canaan, and this

  72. probably is the last recorded last recorded in reverence to

  73. God's word, can ask everybody to stand, Let's read the

  74. word of God, and let's let's pray.

  75. Let's open this service with the prayer.

  76. As he drew near to Jericho, a blind man was

  77. sitting by the roadside roadside, begging and and hearing a

  78. crowd going.

  79. By, he inquired what this meant.

  80. They told him, Jesus of Nazareth is passing by, and

  81. he cried out, Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.

  82. And those who were in front rebuked him, telling him

  83. to be silent, but he cried.

  84. Out all the more, son of David, have mercy on me.

  85. And Jesus stopped and.

  86. Commanded him to be brought to him, And when he

  87. came near, he asked him, what do you want me

  88. to do for you?

  89. He said, Lord, let me recover my sight. And Jesus

  90. said to him, recover your side.

  91. Your faith has made you well, and immediately he recovered

  92. his side and followed him, glorifying God, and all the

  93. people when they saw it, gave praise to God.

  94. Let's pray, Father, may this be just more than a

  95. story for us. Father.

  96. I pray Lord that we will actually find our place

  97. in this story and be humble enough to admit, be

  98. humble enough if we need to repent. But Lord, I

  99. pray Lord that you are working, working something in our hearts. Father,

  100. transform us use this word. Is this preaching of your

  101. word Jesus name, We pray and everybody say amen, let

  102. me take your seats. I'm sorry due to some technical difficulties.

  103. There you go.

  104. Okay, context there was Hey, I don't know if you've

  105. seen the movie vantage Point, but it's one of the

  106. nice movie that I like. I love those politically thrilling

  107. plots to watch. Okay, this is this movie vantage Point.

  108. It was actually set in Europe and somebody somebody like

  109. assassinated or no, actually bummed bombed a square where a

  110. political leader was, and they they had witnesses everywhere, of course,

  111. and they took u I believe three or four dvantage

  112. points to show show us the viewers, actually what happened.

  113. The advantage point from the bomber, the vantage from from

  114. a tourist, advantage point from from from a police official,

  115. so advantage point. What I love about that we showed

  116. it actually showed that we sometimes when we see things,

  117. we have our own personal biases. It's it's it's just

  118. according to one vantage point. My prayer is that as

  119. we go through this, this movie, but we movie story

  120. story in the Bible, that we would look at the

  121. different advantage point from the from the different characters. Different characters,

  122. the three characters. First is a blind band, a blind

  123. mat who was just sitting by the road, blind beggar.

  124. Okay, just sitting by the road. It's hard.

  125. It's like Dobamy, he's not just blind, he's also a

  126. beggarin blind para, not a beggar. Maybe if somebody was

  127. taking care of him, he won't be a beggar. Okay,

  128. But this person blind beggar par dob and.

  129. It talks about it.

  130. It actually points to so many things. Maybe because even

  131. his family has turned his back on him. Why if

  132. he's just blind, pair of my family copin to be

  133. with him, right, But no, he's a beggar.

  134. He's left on the street all along like an outcast.

  135. And you know those times there are actually lots of

  136. blind people because of course what happened means and then

  137. and sickness is prevalent, so people become become blind, become blind.

  138. But then, uh, there's also a myth or some wrong

  139. misconceptions that if you are blind, maybe it's because you sinned,

  140. or if you're born blind, maybe it's because of your

  141. father's sin that caused you to be blind, or your

  142. mother's sin that caused.

  143. You to be blind.

  144. So you're like treated like an outcast dobbolami so to

  145. speak at a blind beggar, he's actually very helpless, helpless,

  146. left alone in in society to rap.

  147. And then there's advantage point of the crowd at.

  148. This time, Uh, whenever, wherever, wherever Jesus is, a big

  149. crowd follows him. Okay, he's already famous kilinasa, why kilnessa

  150. because of his.

  151. Miracles left and right.

  152. He's the mean is actually at this point he was

  153. he just had the ministry in Galilee and he was

  154. going to attend a past the passover in Jerusalem.

  155. That's why he passed by Jericho.

  156. So so when when when the blind man on the

  157. street beggar on this it can changeous.

  158. Imagine he's on the.

  159. Floor, arms of al happally, mos, there you go, Pally.

  160. He was hearing a crowd, hearing a crowd following, and

  161. that's not usual. It's actually quite unusual. So he asked

  162. that question.

  163. Who is who? Who?

  164. Who is there? Why is there a crowd? Then the

  165. crowd said, oh, it's Jesus of Nazareth who is passing by.

  166. Jesus of Nazareth. Hang on to that word Jesus of Nazareth.

  167. That time, when you actually refer to a person, it's example, uh,

  168. Larry of kestern City or.

  169. John of you would be referred by your name and

  170. then where you came from. Hey, but.

  171. The the blind beggar, I don't know if it was

  172. a mistake. He said no, he didn't call him Jesus

  173. of nazaidth he said, Jesus, son of David, this blind person,

  174. though he was actually blind. Have heard of Jesus as

  175. the son of David? Maybe some of us? Oh yeah, okay,

  176. pastor son of David Good. So what's what's unusual about

  177. the son of David, son of David. If you go

  178. back to all the way to your to your Old Testament.

  179. The Second Samuel h chapter seven. It would tell us

  180. about the lineage of the Messiah. Remember Romans, Roman Era.

  181. They were wait, they were already so anxious for a king.

  182. Why they was being persecuted left and right, hard labor,

  183. hardship in apa. Not only not only that, especially when

  184. you're a Christ. And they were looking and waiting for

  185. a Messiah who they heard, they read would come from

  186. the lineage of As the son of David. And they

  187. knew this blind person knew all along that it is

  188. Jesus Christ, early on, early on, he knew that, I'm

  189. reminding you, he's blind. He's on the floor, and he

  190. knew once he heard it's Jesus of Nazareth who is

  191. passing by.

  192. That's Jesus.

  193. He talks about already his faith, his faith that he's

  194. been waiting for. And he knew all along that this

  195. is the person who would actually take him out of

  196. his misery. And then the crowd you advantage point, No, no, no,

  197. blind beggar, no, Now now the advantage point of the crowd.

  198. What did the crowd do? The crowd who could see

  199. the crowd who was already.

  200. With Jesus told you Galishan, Galiley, Galli Shang, probably I.

  201. From Nazareth what he did from Canaan the miracles fend

  202. right and then Casamanila. But what did the crowd do?

  203. The crowd silence the beggar. You know this part. It's

  204. took me a while to get through this part.

  205. When I was preparing for this, because I had to search,

  206. I had to think and had to ask myself.

  207. Might like that.

  208. As a pastor now, as a Christian for twelve thirteen years,

  209. if I become a part of the crowd, that would

  210. silence somebody who needs help. Remember the Bible said Jesus

  211. came to seek the loss, the weak, the sick, the poor,

  212. the widow. Soame blind beggar, helpless, black beggar.

  213. Who should have who should have helped him? Probably the crowd.

  214. The crowd have heard of his teaching, have seen all

  215. the miracles. But what did they do?

  216. They silence him, They rebuke him, They said, stop, that

  217. does Jesus and do me bam we He's not going

  218. to give you money. But this beggar, you know what,

  219. this beggar, the blad beggar, he has nothing.

  220. To give it he's nothing to give.

  221. All he have is well or no no family, no money, beggar,

  222. remember begging, no, not even side probably hell. But he

  223. shouted all the more because of his faith, remember his

  224. faith that he knew this is Jesus, the Sign of David,

  225. this is Jesus the Messiah. So he shouted all the more,

  226. Son of David, have mercy on me. Son of David.

  227. Can you imagine.

  228. Put yourself there, a lot of people, there's a crowd.

  229. Jesus the only one walking. Those streets were not actually paved,

  230. they're coupled streets.

  231. And talk and a lot of people were walking ing

  232. eye crowd. But he still yelled at the very top

  233. of his voice, Son of David, have mercy on me. Mercy.

  234. Mercy is big here. He's not only asking Jesus Jesus begging,

  235. but ah, Jesus, Jesus pansing in moro. He's literally asking him.

  236. Asking if God would take his life, take his life,

  237. or God would prolong his life, prolong his life. You

  238. know why, during those times, it's already an act of

  239. rebellion when you say that you're a Christian. Another vantage

  240. point of the crowd is maybe they're silencing that blind beggar,

  241. so that in thepos.

  242. Saying why they're scared some of us, some of us

  243. who follow Jesus, at times we're actually.

  244. Scared to proclaim it or scared to demonstrate it, or

  245. sometimes you Christian nathing as a social media it can

  246. be I don't know different vantage points. I'm asking you

  247. to place yourselves where you are. We go through different seasons,

  248. we go through different stuff, and.

  249. Where you are right now. But for that blind beggar,

  250. it was a desperate call. It was desperate.

  251. I don't care whether I'll be thrown to jail because

  252. of rebellion.

  253. I'll be cut, my head be cut. But it's okay.

  254. It's okay because I know that only him, only that Jesus,

  255. Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus the Son of David. Can you

  256. rescue me?

  257. Dvantage point up, place yourselves where you're nears or place

  258. yourself where you are.

  259. It's a desperate call. Milliam Webster Dictionary.

  260. Describes desperation as the feeling when you have lost almost

  261. all hope, at least my almost no feeling when you

  262. have lost almost all hope. In doing some research, these

  263. are the things that the top five that makes us

  264. desperate during this time in this time, relationships, whether you

  265. have a relationship, you're into a relationship, you don't have

  266. a relationship, or your relationship is complicated. It makes you desperate,

  267. makes people desperate. Money makes people makes people desperate. We

  268. have seen so many stuff on money. Glory makes people desperate.

  269. Work work makes you desperate, desperate to perform, desperate for

  270. a new bass, They're desperate.

  271. Discincution in promotion, status, status in life because you can

  272. match up or cool makes you desperate. I'm surprised that amount.

  273. The top five is social media. Social media, you're desperate

  274. because you see people there, but make it makes makes

  275. us desperate.

  276. And what do people do when? When? When? When? When

  277. people are desperate? She signed.

  278. And some people who are desperate for stuff sometimes turns

  279. to crime. Some people turns to drugs or even to

  280. sex or even lies.

  281. Let's go back to the blind beggar. Have you experienced

  282. being blind?

  283. If it's blindness, can say such as physical, it's also

  284. spiritual blindness. Sometimes we can actually see physically see, but

  285. then spiritually we're blind. I I I remember one time

  286. years back, I have a problem with my eyes and

  287. there were times that that that that because of I

  288. mean the up because of the I don't know, maybe

  289. the fluids in my eyes had problems. So there were

  290. times that I could hardly open my eyes. It would

  291. actually cost me me like momentary blindness. Okay, even sometimes

  292. I opened my eyes. It doesn't only hurt, but I can't.

  293. See anything, okay.

  294. And then one time I went to pick up my

  295. girlfriend who was my my my wife now from her school.

  296. And on the way home, I.

  297. Said, I could not drive. Okay, I could not drive.

  298. I want you, I want you to drive, right, I

  299. want I want, I want you to drive. Okay, take

  300. on who looks a stage, So I'm I'm gonna. So

  301. I was just closing my I said, yet you drive,

  302. take the keys, you drive. And then and and and

  303. she was she was driving. And you know sometimes when

  304. when when you're when you're locked looking. I don't know

  305. if you've experienced this. Maybe you're in the car and

  306. then you're taking a nap. You close your eyes sometimes

  307. but I'm blissed. But everything goes fast and you just

  308. hear stuff and everything's like zooming. It's like times to

  309. the speed times too or times three the speed and

  310. and I had my eyes closed and said, what's going on?

  311. I just I just hear blaring horns and.

  312. Every peep and then and then it really hurts.

  313. But when I opened my eyes a bit, okay, there

  314. I saw yet my girlfriend then who I married now

  315. were driving in the opposite side of the road. Ohay,

  316. so right then and there I I I accepted the

  317. Lord Jesus Christ and the Lord save me the RISTI

  318. and that that that's not true. But yeah, she was

  319. on the opposite side and said, pull over, pull over.

  320. I love you.

  321. You felt blindness, But sometimes in darkness is it's your life,

  322. the life that you live. And I came from a

  323. retreat recently, came from a retreat, uh to three days

  324. to night retreat where I'm blind. Well, I'm gadgets. Okay,

  325. it's just focusing on God. No gadgets, get it, God

  326. gadgets corneada corn corn. One of the lesson is teaching

  327. us how to breathe. Maybe you're not in the dark,

  328. or you're not blind now, but because of situation, you're desperate,

  329. desperate and the and suddenly I remember this. We were

  330. going through l a X coming from the World Con

  331. in public.

  332. This is in l A.

  333. Everyone's going through something. So everyone going through somethings. I go, okay,

  334. watch that, and then when I checked, it's actually a hotline.

  335. Where you could call. You could email if you need prayer.

  336. In some people who are out of desperation are on

  337. the last straw in their lives. Some people even thinking

  338. about committing committing suicide. They don't know where to call.

  339. I don't know what your dvantage point is.

  340. But then.

  341. There's hope in Christ in Lamentations three twenty one twenty

  342. three says this, I recall to mind, therefore.

  343. I have hope.

  344. The first part there is very important. You have to

  345. recall to mind. What does that mean? India? Kalang buboskalan

  346. Bibolmo came emergency inn in Bibolkadisha.

  347. Is that a break the.

  348. Glass in case of emergency that you use during emergencies?

  349. You call to mind what you have read. You call

  350. to mind because you have started a relationship with God.

  351. You call to mind what he promised you. So why

  352. now you call call it to mind? And then you

  353. put on hope on that. They said the Lord's loving

  354. kindness indeed never cease, for his compassions never fail. They

  355. are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. There is faithfulness.

  356. There's a covenant. There's a covenant that was given two

  357. thousand years ago. The mercy plea here is actually a

  358. covenant that was made to Abraham, Jacob and Isaac. You

  359. don't see, oh good story in the Old Testament Egypt,

  360. a promised land that was not God and Jesus. It

  361. is the same covenant that we have now. The mercy

  362. that the blind beggar was asking mercy, mercy, hallo blind beggar,

  363. Why not.

  364. He asked for mercy. He's saying, Lord, in all humility,

  365. I repent, I repent.

  366. Mercy is a powerful word. Why because only God can

  367. give us mercy? Blind beergar, but Bara and big guy.

  368. But he knew all along that only Jesus, the son

  369. of David, the Messiah, can give mercy.

  370. What's mercy? Mercy is.

  371. Unmerited thing. Mercy is you don't actually deserve it, but

  372. I give it to you. Example, cinemam to raise your

  373. hands Latin grade Latin greed, pola Latin greed. If and

  374. greed if lowest of the lowest usaid, okay, the noble

  375. allow once they are and we begin the noble allowance.

  376. You know, and you know we don't actually deserve it,

  377. but God gave it to us, and only Jesus, and

  378. only through Jesus, God gave us mercy. Mercy is actually

  379. one of the most powerful attributes of God. In here,

  380. the blind beggar is demonstrated demonstrating desperate faith almn.

  381. A to only struggle.

  382. He knows this, and he knew that he had to

  383. pursue God more, son of David, have mercy on me.

  384. In desperate moments.

  385. We have to put our trust in a faithful God,

  386. not on our bank account, not on our wisdom that

  387. is limited, not in our own the Bible said, in

  388. our own understanding, but in desperate moments trust and hope.

  389. Put our hope. Be in our hope and a faithful God.

  390. And we should been a faithful God. He will never

  391. leave you nor forsake you, the Bible says. And in

  392. faithful God, trust in me, he said, and I will

  393. make everything for you and any faithful God.

  394. I am your strong power. I am your strong power.

  395. I am your I'm the source of your everything. I

  396. am the alpha and the omega, the beginning in the end,

  397. that is a faithful God in Hebrews ten twenty three said,

  398. let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess. We

  399. don't just profess it in our social media. In the

  400. in in our victory group Pastor in Victory Group of

  401. Pastor Latina Services attend Gostor Edgar, Pastor Day, Pastor Day

  402. and his pastor Francis Mi name preaching Victory group Latinam

  403. Victory groups in the Rehagana Manday Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

  404. In the victory group.

  405. Breas not in our and serving, not hold on things

  406. that are unswerving, but put our hope in God.

  407. Put and hope on our abba Father, the one who

  408. gave us his son to be our hope, to be

  409. our living hope. It's continue.

  410. Jesus stop and went and asked the blind beggar to

  411. be brought to him. That's a three king question at all.

  412. What do you want me to do for you, parag lord,

  413. the research power lord, trick question. But when I'm in

  414. a blind chad, I'm a beggar chad.

  415. But why why did he ask this?

  416. I do believe it's Jesus by times advantage Moe it's

  417. it's two three different vantage points here. First, Jesus wants

  418. the blind beggar to profess what he actually needs, God

  419. needs Jesus. Faith is an inward conviction that brings about

  420. an outward action.

  421. Faith. You need to be humble in faith.

  422. You have to understand where you are, accept where you are,

  423. and be humble and repent, and then a manifestation would

  424. come out. MERI la labas you faith and my action, James,

  425. Faith without.

  426. Action is dead. Something has to be seen. So Jesus

  427. was actually listening. What do you want? My side?

  428. Different vantage point also is I do believe Jesus is

  429. also teaching the crowd.

  430. Remember the crowd was with him all the while. The

  431. crowd is there watching.

  432. It's a learning moment for the crowd and also a

  433. teaching moment for Jesus. He wants the crowd to learn

  434. that you have to put your faith in action. Remember

  435. it was the crowd who rebuked the blind beggar. Stopped there,

  436. don't meddle with Jesus. We're going somewhere. We're going to

  437. go pass over. We're just passing Jericho, so stay there.

  438. Jesus is actually teaching them. Now, look at this person

  439. who has nothing, yet he believes in me. Yet he

  440. knows I'm the Messiah, Yet he put his faith on me.

  441. Do believe Jesus is calling us, each and every one

  442. of us, in different seasons of our lives.

  443. He's calling us my son, my daughter? Where are you,

  444. my son? My daughter? Who do you put your faith in?

  445. My son? And daughter? Where are you? Now?

  446. Moving on, he said, Lord, let me recover my side.

  447. I believe that he has seen before. I believe that

  448. he he's saying now. He could have said, Lord, give

  449. me some change, some money, Lordico. He knew only Jesus

  450. could give him what nobody else could give his sight back.

  451. No doctor, no, no one can give what Jesus give.

  452. But heal him. But it did not stop there what

  453. was lost, and Jesus said, recover your sight. Your faith

  454. has made you well.

  455. Six times in this short passage it mentioned sight, sight,

  456. sight when you dig deeper. It's not only the physical

  457. sight that's being attributed here. Why because the crowd could

  458. actually see.

  459. The crowd experienced Jesus his miracles.

  460. They were following him, being part of the Howie Boys,

  461. being being part of the crowd. And yet there's something

  462. not right with the crowd. It's more than the physical side.

  463. It's the spiritual side. Where are you in your Where

  464. are you in your faith? I'm not asking how many

  465. victory gives you that atten Daniel on the Victory Weekend Ryo.

  466. By the way, we have a Victory weekend September seventh

  467. and eighth. Sign up if you need to sign up,

  468. finish your one to one, if you need to finish

  469. your one to one.

  470. It's not that it's not that you know. Faith actually

  471. precedes sight.

  472. Jesus could heal when we pray for somebody, now it

  473. alamna men when we're asking Jesus name mahiiliad.

  474. But faith precedes sight. You have to ask it for it,

  475. you have to loan for it.

  476. First.

  477. You need to know that he is the son of

  478. David the Messiah, just like that his side was give him.

  479. I don't know if there's any more desperate story that

  480. I heard about a person than this person that I'm

  481. going to call on stage. She's a very good friend

  482. of thirteen fourteen years. I've known her even before I

  483. was I was a Christian.

  484. Uh and I do believe that.

  485. In times of death, and I do believe union Pinaca

  486. ultimately sometimes gonna die at the very point of death.

  487. Lord Thea.

  488. There even stories now, okay, right before they gave they

  489. they they died, then they gave their life to Jesus.

  490. Sometimes it's that desperate.

  491. And I'm going to invite Lisa, one of our Victory

  492. Group leaders, to share her to testimony on stage.

  493. Isa.

  494. Yeah, I've known Pallari and Yet for quite some time.

  495. I'm now even before he became a pastor. I wasn't

  496. a Christian then yet, and Pastor Larry really reached out

  497. to me and my husband. We were separated then, and

  498. we were separated for three years and now we are restored. Anyway,

  499. that's not my story to tell. Actually, tonight, about two

  500. thousand and nine, we were childless for seventeen years, my

  501. husband and I and one a lady who was only

  502. seventeen years old then had two daughters, the other one

  503. she couldn't take care of her, so she asked me

  504. if I could take care of her.

  505. So I did so.

  506. About two days Palansha with me, I asked Pastor Larry

  507. to dedicate her. He was a new he was a

  508. new pastor then, Yan I missed here, Yeah, yeah, and

  509. that's SOPHIEA and that's her mother, okay. And then we

  510. noticed that there was something coming out of for years,

  511. so we meet brought her to the hospital. She had

  512. a titis media that was that hell properly, so it

  513. went to her brain. The sepsis men enjoy this. She

  514. was having seizures. The doctor said, you know, it's okay

  515. for as long as we contained to twelve minutes. More

  516. than twelve minutes, it's going to be a problem. She

  517. was having forty five minute seizures NonStop. Because of that,

  518. she had to go undergo lumbertop. She had to take

  519. all these very strong medicines to control the seizure. And

  520. the doctor told me, ma'am, she now has cerebral palsy.

  521. She will not be normal. She cannot walk, she cannot talk,

  522. she cannot hear because it has severely damaged her brain.

  523. When we had to move her to the ICU at

  524. that time, my husband and I we just got back together,

  525. and you were financially we had financial struggles at that time,

  526. and we took her in and we brought her to

  527. Cardinal Santos because that was the closest one to our place.

  528. I didn't know Nagar and Palakamahal. The doctor told us

  529. prepare one to two million. At that time, we were

  530. so desperate, I said, Bahalana. We sold everything we had

  531. just to and asked help from our friends here in

  532. church and from people to help her, to help us

  533. with the finances, to help her with all the medical bills.

  534. And I called Pasor Larry. I said, Passer Larry. The

  535. doctor told me, waal Aana her eyes, it doesn't her

  536. pupils weren't moving anymore, practically brain dead. The nun came

  537. from Cardinal and did the light the last rites and

  538. they said, call your pastor, this is it. We signed

  539. a waiver already. Pastor Larry came. I remember pass Larry shorts.

  540. The money.

  541. Yes yet, and Pastor Larry came. Santaola. They came and

  542. they were with us, and I said, Pastor Larry, this

  543. is it. You already designed the waiver. I think she's

  544. gonna be done anytime soon. And Pastor Larry came. He prayed,

  545. he prayed for Sophia. Then her mother was there, but

  546. she was so young, she was only seventeen, so she

  547. really didn't know what to do. Pastor Larry came and

  548. did that the prayer for her, and when he left,

  549. two minutes later, the doctor came.

  550. In bosmona very new as a pastor. Okay, last right,

  551. and I last right, because I last right. It's actually

  552. a simple prayer. Lord, we commit thank you, Lord, for

  553. the life of Sophia. We commit to you now this

  554. life and thank you for the fruitfulness of her. And

  555. then in Jesu's name, wakaya, I I knew what to say,

  556. I know what to say. It doesn't come it didn't

  557. come out. Knugging her brother Randall, a good friend of mine,

  558. was there. Uh man, you know what we did. We

  559. prayed hard, warfair, warfare prayer. It's not committed. Lord, we

  560. know our God that this is this is not a

  561. destiny you have for Sophia. We claim her life right now, Lord,

  562. nugging warfare and then play.

  563. And then when he left, the doctor came in. You

  564. know what happened. She opened her eyes and smiled. So

  565. that was a miracle. Then, so I called passe Larry.

  566. You will not believe what happened. So, because we couldn't

  567. anymore afford the medical bills, we moved her to a

  568. public hospital and there she stayed for three weeks, she

  569. became well, so the mother told me at I cannot

  570. take care of her, please take her in Muna. So

  571. we took her in. After a few days, she had fever,

  572. so I brought her back to the hospital. She had

  573. pneumonia sabadi. So she was there for the next eight

  574. days and at that time the mother had to go

  575. to work and I was the one taking care of Sophia.

  576. When she got well, I brought her home. Ky, come

  577. back after a week for your checkup. During her check up,

  578. they measured her head. She had hydrocephalus. You know, at

  579. that time, I didn't We really did not know anymore

  580. what to do.

  581. We were.

  582. Emotionally, physically and financially drained already. But God just told us,

  583. just go she has a purpose in your life. La

  584. la ba laame. After a few days, we brought her

  585. back to the hospital. The time that they were gonna

  586. drain her brain, the water wasn't there anymore. Supernaturally, she

  587. was healed from hydrocephalus. She was with us for the

  588. next few months. After five months, she was going to therapy.

  589. After five months, she had another episode of seizure and

  590. we found out that she had epilepsy. You know, church,

  591. Kaka and her husband going on. Financially, we were really struggling,

  592. but we had we had a family here in church.

  593. They were with us throughout our journey, some financial, some

  594. they were really just holding the ropes with us. They

  595. were praying with us, and I think that was I

  596. think that was really what really helped us really overcome

  597. and really just had peace this by of the situation

  598. that we were going through right now. After that, I

  599. now have a nine year old daughter and eleven years

  600. restored to my husband, and we have also have a

  601. foster daughter now, So that is indeed faithful.

  602. And there you can give God praise.

  603. What reminded me of that story is that because we

  604. knew all along that she couldn't, you could she couldn't.

  605. She couldn't walk, she couldn't walk.

  606. Couldn't hear sometimes in glassy and then you walk in

  607. see her feet a club, so she doesn't her foot

  608. is not straight side. And then but it's coming in

  609. is a airporty picture video. She showed me this video.

  610. Yeah, we still get her now she's back with her parents,

  611. with their mother, but we borrow her from time to time.

  612. The doctor said, she couldn't be here.

  613. She's walking and she could hear, and she studies in

  614. a regular school.

  615. She studies in a regular school.

  616. How desperate dimma gul aditomo almno means a desperate comil

  617. hood come, How desperate you can you be? But our

  618. Abba Father is always there for us. Thank thank you,

  619. Lisa's this is now their beautiful family. An Akoreian dela

  620. sometimes out of desperation. But do you still have to

  621. wait for that desperate moment to call on God to

  622. rely on her on him? I don't know what what's

  623. what you're going through, But then what you're part of

  624. the crowd, part of you, the blind beggar, But same

  625. vantage point that doesn't change.

  626. Jesus is the son of David, the Messiah.

  627. The Lord of Lord, the name above all name, our healer,

  628. our restorer, our hope, living hope.

  629. That is Jesus Christ. Let's let's close this and I'm

  630. gonna ask the worship him come up.

  631. And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him, glorifying God,

  632. and all the people when they saw it gave praise

  633. to God. The blind beggar has a name. His name

  634. is bartimeeos If you if you research it. Bartimeos in

  635. the Book of Mark. Upon the research, we figured out

  636. why okay, the Dealersha with Dealersha boy in Delsha armored

  637. Bartimeus because he became famous.

  638. Why did he become famous?

  639. Because if he's story, can you imagine I was the

  640. blind Now I see, oh, I remember you.

  641. You didn't give me any change when I ask the

  642. ha blind shad in person. I'm I'm that stinky guy

  643. on the road. Now I see who made me?

  644. Well? The one that you called Jesus of Nazareth is

  645. actually Jesus, son of God, son of David. He became famous,

  646. and he became famous proclaiming God. And my prayer is

  647. that now that we have transformed lives. Because of our

  648. transformed lives, now we preach Jesus, sometimes the more preaching.

  649. But when Jesus, when people see that hope in you,

  650. they would want that hope. They won't want that living hope.

  651. In next slide boom in closures one that say said

  652. God has chosen you to make don't among the gentiles

  653. the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you.

  654. What we have to profess is Christ in me. Can

  655. you say that christ in me? Christ in me.

  656. Christ in me means now I am bold and courageous.

  657. Christ in me means I am an overcomer. Christ in

  658. me means I have the name above all names. Christ

  659. in me means Abbah is my father. Christ in me

  660. means he never, He will never leave me nor forsake me.

  661. Christ in me means.

  662. I can do all things because he gives me strength,

  663. because his grace is sufficient.

  664. Because I am in Christ.

  665. Hope glory, we proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with

  666. all wisdom, so that we may present everyone.

  667. Perfect in Christ.

  668. Can I ask everybody to stand up, Lord, cans have

  669. worshiped him, to come on stage.

  670. Father.

  671. Wherever we are, Lord, meet us. Maybe some of us

  672. we have to repent and turn our ways. Maybe some

  673. of us we have to stop running because we're running away,

  674. we're not running to you.

  675. Maybe some of us we need to be full in

  676. the spirit. Maybe some of us, though we see, we

  677. are blind.

  678. But Lord, I pray, right now, Lord, search our hearts,

  679. Search our hearts, right now, Search our hearts. Jesus, Thank

  680. you Lord that your peace transcends all understanding. Thank you

  681. Lord that your love Lord, God is in hope your

  682. love Lord, cast out fear your love.

  683. Lord. God never seizes and does it end. S Worship God.

  684. Thank you for listening. We hope that you enjoy today's episode.

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  686. God bless you all.