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- And welcome to the PrayerLink, I'm Wendy Griffith.

- And I am Charlene Aaron.

Wendy, how many weeks has it been now

since you've gotten married?

- It has been four weeks.

- Four weeks, still honeymooning.

- And several days,we're still celebrating.

It just seems like everyone's asking me

how's married life, and, of course,

I'm not an expert yetmonth and several days.

But I like it, so far, so good.

- Well, marriage looks good on you.

- Thank you, thank you.

You know, it was worth the wait,

and I'm glad it happenedin this season in my life.

- God's appointed time.

- And what I'm finding out is so cool is

a lot of women on Facebookthat are writing to me.

They're like, we read your first book,

my only book, You Are A Prize To Be Won,

and your story encouraged us,because you shared your pain,

and now we're so excitedabout what happened-

- Look at the encouragement.

- So they're saying that,and they always add,

God will do it for me, andI love writing back to them

and saying, "Yes, He will,"because He's no respecter.

- Second book, right?- He's no respecter.

He did it for you.- Yes, He did.

- And He did it for me.- Yes, He did.

And we prayed togetherfor many, many years.

We were over 40 and prayingand then God did it.

- Yes.- And there we are.

Testimonies.- Amen.

- Of His grace, of His grace.- I'm just so excited

about what God is gonnado for other women now.

- Absolutely.- We're gonna pass it along.

- That's right.

- Well, it's time for Hot Topics.

Let's start with this one, aGirl Scouts of America chapter

recently awarded its top honor to a girl

who organized a pro-abortioncampaign, this is so sad.

LifeSite News reports the Girl Scouts

of Southern Arizona honored Megan Gopalan

for her work, MeghanaGopalan, for her work

on so-called reproductive health justice.

Gopalan told a Tucsonpublication at the time

she became interested inadvocating for abortion

after the Supreme Courtnomination of Brett Kavanaugh.

You can read the fullstory at CBNNEWS.com,

including reports on theGirl Scouts partnering

with Planned Parenthood,

although the organization denies it.

I've seen the-- This is interesting.

- The Girl Scouts outwith their cookies lately.

- To give her the top award.- Horrible.

And it's everything thatgoes against womanhood.

- Yeah, that's pure, andyou think of Girl Scouts

being this wonderful organization,

but the fact that they have ties

to Planned Parenthood is not good.

- It's time to give upthose cookies anyway.

- Yeah, we don't need the cookies.

- We don't need the cookies.- Definitely.

Well, an Alabama judge isallowing a 19 year old man

to sue on behalf of his aborted baby.

I love this story.

According to WHNT News 19, Ryan Major's

ex-girlfriend aborted their unborn child

in February, 2017 at theAlabama Women's Center

for ReproductiveAlternatives in Huntsville.

Court documents show thatMajors urged his girlfriend

at that time, who was 16, notto terminate the pregnancy.

Several states, including Alabama,

define unborn babies aspersons, humans beings

or children with rights, andtherefore Majors filed a suit

on behalf of his unborn child and himself.

I love the fact that thisjudge in Alabama says

that this unborn baby had rights.

- I think this case isnot gonna be the first one

we're gonna see like this.- I believe it.

- I think this started something here.

- I'm happy about it.

- Whoopi Goldberg hasshared a health update

after being absent fromThe View for over a month.

Goldberg says she hadpneumonia in both lungs

and became septic.

In a video message to The View fans,

she says she was close todeath, but has made a recovery.

She says she's received wellwishes from many people,

including some who are not even fans,

which she called brilliant.

She said she hopes to beback on the show soon.

- God bless Whoopi Goldberg for salvation

and a closer walk with God.

- We thank God that she's on the mend.

- Doing better, yeah.

- And do pray that Godwould just bless her.

- Bless her, amen.

Meanwhile, Justin Bieberis asking for prayer.

The pop star recently took to Instagram,

opening up about his personal struggles.

In the emotional post, he shared a picture

of his manager and KanyeWest and him praying.

He says he has been struggling a lot,

and this the most humanseason of his life.

But he is facing stuff head on.

The singer didn't mention in detail

what he's struggling with, but asked his

105 million followers to pray.

He also said that he knows God is faithful

and that prayers really work.

- I love it, if I had105 million followers-

- Hey, pray for me.

But know you, there was a prophetic word

his mother shared that JustinBieber got over his life

when he was, beforeanyone knew who he was.

Yeah, in Canada.- That he had what?

- That God was gonna use Justin Bieber

to really reach a lot of young people.

And the blew up as this huge pop star,

and it looked like hewas going the other way,

and now he's come back to Christ,

so we need to pray for him.

- I just have chills as you said that,

because he's only 25 right now.

- He's very young, yeah.

- Already has thisincredible amount of fame,

just got married-- That's a lot of pressure.

- He does need prayer.- God bless him.

- We bless Justin Bieber.- We're gonna pray for him.

- Give him your peace andyour wisdom right now.

God, we just thank you for his life,

and we'll pray more about that later.

- Absolutely, absolutely.

- Well, American Idol has beengoing to church this season.

17 year old contestant Drake McCain stood

before judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie

and Luke Bryan and sang the gospel hymn,

His Eye Is On TheSparrow, I love that one.

Perry, who grew up in church, joined in.

The pair then sang the hymn, O Happy Day,

which Perry posted about on Instagram.

- [Charlene] I saw that,and this week before,

the week before contestantKalifa Wilson told judges

that her background was rough,

growing up in shelters andsometimes living out of a car.

She said that her churchbought her a guitar

and made a way for herto attend the audition.

Perry burst into tears, telling Wilson

she was raised in the church too.

She said, "I didn'tgrow up with any money.

"Money was always a problem.

"It was the cause of everythingnot great in my life.

"We had food stamps andwere at the food bank,

"all that stuff, because my parents

"were traveling ministers."

And Lionel Richie toldWilson that she was here

for a reason and a purpose.

He said, "God can only do for you

"what He can do through you."

That was a veryinspirational American Idol.

- Basically he's quoting Ephesians 3:20.

- Absolutely.- God will do it

through the power that works in us.

- Absolutely, absolutely,it was powerful to see Katy,

who grew up in church,singing O Happy Day.

And she's talking a lotabout church and God

as the auditions are coming through,

so God's doing something, I think.

- Is revival coming?- I believe it.

- I love it.- I believe it.

- Well, do you wanna seetransformation of your city?

Randy and Barbara Walterhave a surefire way

to make it happen.

In their book, Name Your Gatesand Take Back Your Cities.

Love it, they encourage believers

to rededicate their streets, towns,

and cities to God's Kingdom.

- For example, in Salisbury, Maryland,

implementing this techniquehas seen crime fall

to its lowest recorded level after decades

of prayer in nearby Ocean City Gates.

It is now the safest it'sbeen since the 1990s.

And Randy Walter joins us now.

Randy, thank you for beingwith us on Prayer Link.

- Hello, Charlene and Wendy.

- Hey.- Randy, first of all,

how did you learn about naming gates?

- When we were told to pray in Salisbury,

after we had prayed inhundreds of locations

around the ChesapeakeBay, the Lord directed us

to find and pray at thegates, and this was new to us.

Then He asked us a question.

He said, "Why don'tyour gates have names?"

He said, "The gates of my city had names.

"The gates of my temple had names.

"Why don't your gates have names?"

So, when we named the gates,they became centers of prayer.

We named the four gates peace,holiness, justice and truth.

And what we found about naming gates

that's really a key tothis whole strategy is,

it's so simple a child can do it.

It's part of strategic intercession,

which is something we pray.

And what we found is that prayer without

a strategic focus is likefiring a gun without aiming it.

So we led prayer teamsto hundreds of locations

in Salisbury to pray, because we found out

that when you pray withyour feet on the ground,

rather than praying forsomeone's house or praying

from a sanctuary, if you go to the places

you're praying for, you'reactually taking the territory,

the land with your feet.

- So Randy, you're talkingabout this strategy

that we need to implement in prayer.

Talk a little bit more howdid you apply this strategy?

- First of all, we approachedthe Chief of Police

and the Mayor, and we asked for their help

in identifying places to go pray.

And they were verycooperative and supportive.

So as we were firming up our strategy,

we interacted with thegovernment at different levels.

We even went to councilmeetings as silent intercessors,

and we started takingteams of people to pray

at the courthouse, government offices,

the police and fire headquarters,

places they directed us wherethere was human trafficking,

drug dealing, we went to thePlanned Parenthood office,

crime hot spots, places wherethere was gang activities,

homeless camps, we went to places

where they sent us in order to pray.

And one of the thingswe did that we thought

was most effective was we organized

what we called a freedom ridewhere we took intercessors

on a school bus around the city limits

and laid down a hedgewith prayer and praise

as a way to secureSalisbury for the Kingdom.

- Amazing.- You also mentioned

what happened with the crimerate there in Salisbury.

Tell us about the timeyou prayed for the homes,

the houses in your neighborhood.

- While we were praying in Salisbury,

our own street 20 milesaway where we live,

was having a lot of problems.

There was a huge drug bustright down the street from us.

There was a guy who wasarrested for kiddie porn

on his computer, one of his neighbors

was threatening to kill people.

So we realized we needed aprayer walk our own street.

And as we did so, we anointed the soles

of our feet to take ablessing wherever we walked.

We took communion, we puton the whole armor of God.

And as we went to thesedifferent houses of offense,

we repeated the process there.

Then we came to the head of our street

where the town war memorial is,

and we recognized that that is a gate.

So thinking that it would have a name

like the gates in Salisbury,we asked the Lord,

"What's the name of this gate?"

And we were shocked when He said,

"The name of this gate is perversion,

"until you change it.

"If you don't name yourgates, someone else will."

- Randy, that is so powerful.

You say that if we don't name our gates,

someone else will, can youelaborate a little more on that?

- Well, obviously, if the name of the gate

of our street was perversion,someone named it ahead of us,

and it was our responsibilityto rename that gate

in order to declarerighteousness to our street.

And we asked the Lord, "Howshould we name this gate?

"What should we call it?"

And He said, "Call this gate Journey,

"and call everybody wholives on your street

"on to the journey intothe Kingdom of God,

"or pray them off," so we did that.

And within two weeksseven houses were vacated.

- Wow!- That is powerful!

- People, obviously theydidn't own the homes,

so maybe they were just rentingor squatting or something.

What happened to the houses?

- There was one house wheresomebody who ran for mayor

who had sort of an alternative lifestyle,

just seemed to evaporate overnight.

The same thing happened with the lady

across the street from uswho had a cement gargoyle

in her yard, she was just gone.

They were just like vapors that vanished.

There was a house that hadpeople who were hoarders in it

and the Health Department condemned it.

This was the kind ofactivity that happened,

but the thing we find is really excited,

Charlene and Wendy, is that the people

who are still on our street obviously,

whether they know it or not,

are on their way into the Kingdom.

- Amen, I love it, I love it!

Randy, really quickly, howhave you gotten the word out?

What's been the more responses

and how are you gettingpeople involved with this?

- The first thing we did after this was

we wrote a piece that wasposted on the elijahlist online.

And as a result of the response we got,

we heard from people in 25states and six countries

as a result of that postwho were not only agreeing

with what we were doing, butthey were implementing it.

So they started doing thesame thing where they were.

We heard from South America,we heard from the Middle East,

we heard from Europe, we heardfrom all around the world,

and we heard from all around the country.

So as a result of that postbeing so well-received,

that's how we came up with our book,

which you mentionedearlier, Name Your Gates

and Take Back Your Cities.

We're in our second printing now,

and as we've distributed that book,

one of the majorministries in the country,

Aglow International, madeit recommended reading,

so that all stateintercession leaders from

around the country havebeen ordering quantities

of our books and they distribute them.

- Awesome.- So exciting, Randy.

- Awesome, Randy.- We just applaud you

with your efforts, we thankGod for what you all are doing.

And now that it's spreadingall over the world,

man, it just makes mewanna get out on the street

and claim the land.- Take back your cities.

Randy, thank you somuch for being with us.

And you can find the book, Name Your Gates

and Take Back Your Citieswherever books are sold.

- [Wendy] Hallelujah.

- And up next, I sit downwith Phil and Kay Robertson

to talk faith, culture and family.

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- I was Muslim for four years.

I had spells cast on me.

Just everything you can think of.

I never got what I was looking for.

There was no real power to change my life.

I had tried everything,it just came to a point

where it was like, you know what,

I don't wanna do this anymore.

The little old lady at the church,

she'd come and get me, she prayed for me.

And all I know is I felt the love of God.

We would read from Genesis to Revelation,

and we just went deep in the Word of God.

Everything about me,even my very countenance,

began to change after that point.

And now I just have a desire to see them

experience the loving kindness of God

that I have experienced,to see that true change

is possible and that what you thought

that you were looking forcan only be found in Christ.

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- I am here with Phil and Kay Robertson.

We all know them from Duck Dynasty.

Welcome to Prayer Link, guys.

- Thank you.

- You guys have a book out, Phil,

wonderful book, TheTheft Of America's Soul.

Very important book atthis time in our culture.

First of all, for those whomay not know your testimony,

how did you come to faith in Jesus Christ?

- Well, a preacher came to a bar

and he's going to try toconvert me in that bar.

And I'm about half drunk, you know,

and I'm listening tohim, so I was mean to him

and ran him off.

About a year later or so,I had run Miss Kay off,

the kids, and life was, and Miss Kay said,

"Why don't you talk to that old guy

"who was brave enoughto come into the bar?"

And for the first time in my 28 years,

I actually heard that Jesushad come down in flesh,

died for my sins, I had a lot of 'em,

and was buried and raised from the dead.

There was my physicaldeath problem solved.

So I hear that, and I'm like,

how in the world did I ever miss that?

- Wow, that's amazing.

- Well, he wasn't withthe people that would

be sharing that, either, were you?

I called him the devil,because that's how he acted.

- Speaking of the devil, onceJesus sets you free from him,

I look back, I didn't know I was

under the control of the devil

until Jesus released me from him.

Once I got out from underhis control, I looked back

at where I had been andI thought to myself,

"What was I thinking?"

- I knew that when we first were together,

he was a good, good person.

Had a good heart and everything.

But then he got under thecontrol of the evil one

and off he went.

- You got a text like First John 5:19,

we know we are the children of God,

'cause all of us have beenon both sides of this,

we know we are the children of God

and the whole world,everybody who's not in Jesus,

are controlled by the evil one.

That's pretty scary.- That is very scary.

- That's why I wrote thebook, and someone says,

I noticed you didn'tuse terms like liberals,

conservatives-- You called it what it is.

- I just blamed our problems on the devil

and what he's done to us.- Yes.

And speaking of the book,the motivation for it.

We're living in a time rightnow where we're seeing things

that we've never seen in our culture.

- And when you read oldwritings 2,000 years old,

they're as pertinent today as they were

when they were written,so I'm just gonna try to,

through the book, just to remind America,

look at the lawlessness and look

at the robbery, rape, mayhem-

- It's playing out right before our eyes,

we're seeing thescriptures being unfolded.

- I think that, especially when I hear

about the colleges and all, it's terrible.

Because they're not getting about God,

they're getting all this other.

And I see also people arenot grateful nowadays.

Kids are just out of control.

- About 2,050 you won't even recognize it.

You'll say, what in the worldever happened to America?

You already see this undercurrent

of socialism comingup, you already see it.

I reject all words with i-s-m behind them.

Socialism, communism,atheism, agnosticism,

humanism, I said I rejectall isms except two.

That's capitalism and baptism.

(laughing)

Those two I hold on to,all the rest of 'em-

- Who helps you remember those?

- Miss Kay does, I said, "You know,

"I don't even know whetherthere's an ism in the Bible?"

And Miss Kay's lying onthe couch and she said,

"Baptism."- Amen, Miss Kay.

- I said, "Miss Kay,you're right about that."

- Miss Kay, remember.

- That's the only ismthat you're gonna find

in the entire Bible, baptism, that's it.

Everything else is notin there, pretty amazing.

You know, if you look at it, humanism,

atheism, socialism, it'sjust cheap concoctions

by man to try to get around God.

- Christians right now arereally faced with this pressure.

You keep your mouth shut, youdon't say anything about God.

What do you say to Christians who fear

speaking out about theirfaith in the public square?

- This John the baptist takes off.

- The bottom line is, you say,

we ran God out of the school system.

We took the 10 commandmentsout of the courthouses,

which is where you go whenyou break the 10 commandments.

You say, that oughta bewhere they would put 'em.

And we ran them out of theinstitutions of higher learning.

We ran 'em out ofgovernment, we ran 'em out,

you're like, so how'sthat working out for us?

- How would you encourageChristians to speak up?

- A lady that's a friendof mine that's a teacher

at one of our poorer schoolssaid there was a little boy,

I think he was likeseven or eight years old,

and he went into the lunchroom and he asked the teacher,

he said, "Miss," whatever her name was,

he said, "Can everybody at my table today,

"could I say a prayer likethey do on Duck Dynasty?"

- Oh wow.- And they let him.

And then the next group said,"Why are they doing that?"

And they said, "Don'tyou watch Duck Dynasty?

"You pray when you sit at the table."

And they told me aboutthat, all just went through

that little school likethat, because one little boy

stood up and said that.

- Look at the impact that you had.

- But I think people arejust scared of confrontation

or whatever, or they'll think,I don't know all the Bible.

- We've gotta be bold for Christ.

The bible says the righteousare as bold as a lion.

- And this one, I callhim John the baptist,

but he just became a Christian

and went to preaching right off the bat.

But other people, like I cook for him,

or I encourage him or I just love on him.

Somebody in one of mygroups said, "You've never

"been loved unless you'reloved by Miss Kay."

That's what they said,made me feel so good.

- Well, you're such a sweetheart.

- Salt and light of the world,

and that can't be accomplished by,

as they call it, going to church.

You have to be this way,loving, kind, gentle,

patience, goodness, self-control,

you have to watch your mouth.

You have to be that way all the time.

- [Charlene] Not just on Sundays.

- That way your culture seesthat, and they're like, hm.

We've just confinedGod to these structures

on the side of the road onetime a week, it's not enough.

- He said let your light so shine, why?

- Worship every day.- So that they may see.

- That's right.- That is right.

- See your good works.

So, what's your message in this book?

What do you hope people,when they read it,

that they walk away andtake away from this?

- Woven throughout thewhole thing is simply

God coming down in flesh,your calendar documents it,

2,018 years ago God becomes flesh,

dies on a cross for the sins of the world,

is buried, like we all will be,

and three days later, whoops,we have been delivered

from physical death, a wayof escape has now appeared.

That's why it's thegreatest story ever told.

He spent 40 days, Hegoes back and sits down,

the bible says, to intercede for us

so that not only wereour past sins removed,

the blood that He shed,no sin that we ever commit

will be counted against us.

And there's immortality waiting on us.

That's really what I'veweaved throughout each thing.

I would say, don't forget now,

there's a way off planet Earth alive.

Look, here's the deal, America,if the bible's not true,

we're never getting out of here, ever.

Unless someone has a better story,

and so far I've not heard it.

- [Charlene] Ever.- Ever.

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- What a great interview withthe Robertsons, love them.

- That was so much fun, so much fun.

- Well, we wanna spendthe next couple of minutes

praying for you and your needs,

but first we wannaencourage you to email us

your prayer requestsat prayerlink@cbn.org.

Well, let's go ahead and pray.

You know what's on myheart right now, Charlene,

is the entertainment world, Justin Bieber,

Whoopi Goldberg-- So many.

- Let's pray for them, Lord,we just lift up Hollywood,

the entertainment world, thosethat are in the limelight.

Everyone's watching them, God, and we do,

we lift up Justin Bieber,who is asking for prayer.

He says this is his mosthuman, hardest season

he's been through, hejust got married, Lord.

We ask, Lord, that you would make him,

not only give him your peaceand your wisdom right now,

but, Lord, make him alight to the nations.

Lord, we ask, Lord, for Whoopi Goldberg,

for complete healing and, Lord,

that you would save her, God.

She is a wonderful actress, Lord,

and we know that you love her

and you died for her as well.

God, we pray for revivalin Hollywood right now.

- Yes, Jesus.

- And pass it over to you, Charlene.

- And Lord, we do pray, Lord, for revival

in the church, in Americaand in our nation.

Father, we know that judgment begins

at the house of God first, oh Lord.

Things that are in us that need to change,

Lord God, that we would be better stewards

of the gospel, Lord, makeus better stewards, Lord.

And we just thank you forrevival from the White House,

Lord God, to the churchhouse to the courthouse-

- Our streets.- College campuses, Lord.

Take back our cities,name our gates, Lord God,

that, Lord Jesus, revivalwill sweep this nation

like never before, Lord.

We thank you for what you're doing.

In Jesus' name, amen.- Amen.

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- Welcome back, before we go,here's the word of the week

from our good friend,evangelist Matt Brown.

- I'm a Christian, but I'm not perfect.

In fact, I have many imperfections.

But I'll tell you this,I don't even want to know

where I would be without Jesus.

Christians are not perfect,and the bible makes that clear.

When you look to the writingsto the early churches,

they had a ton of problems.

And the crazy thing is,the bible doesn't even try

to cover it up, it justtells it like it is.

Christians are not perfect,but when we come to Christ,

He works in us to follow Him,

and He works to love otherpeople around us through us.

Christians aren't perfect,but the trajectory

of our lives is completelydifferent when we come to Christ.

I was sitting down with myfriend Lee Strobel recently,

and he shared the differencethat Christ has made

in his life over the last 30 years

since he put his trust in Christ

and the difference thatit made in his family

and his kids and now in his grandkids.

The trajectory of his lifeis completely different

than what it would havebeen, all because of Jesus.

It's basically the differencebetween taking a plane

to either New York City or to Los Angeles.

It's completely different directions.

Second Corinthians 5:17 saysthat if anyone is in Christ,

they are a new creation.

The old things have passed away,

and the new things have come.

- Amen, good word.

And if you're looking forsolid bible teachings,

check out Matt's website at thinke.org.

You can also follow him on Instagram.

- Well, it has been a fantastic show.

Thanks so much for being with us.

That's gonna do it for thisedition of the Prayer Link.

- Until next time, God bless you.

And remember, prayer works, keep praying.

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