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- A lot of the past fewyears, Anne Graham Lotz

has seen life's dark storms.

That includes the deaths ofher husband, and her father,

and her own battle througha cancer diagnosis.

As terrible as those storms have been,

Anne says even the blackclouds have a silver lining.

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- [Narrator] She's known the world over

as the Reverend Billy Graham's daughter,

and as an evangelist in her own right.

- Would you use this momentto recommit your life,

to surrender your lifefully to the Holy Spirit?

Live your life.- Anne Graham Lotz

looks at life throughthe lens of scripture,

and has publicly expressed her perspective

on the global pandemic, in her writing,

interviews, and her latestbook, "Jesus in Me".

Anne explains how we can lean on the Lord

for our every need.

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- Anne Graham Lotz joins us now via Skype.

Anne, it's wonderful to have you with us.

- Thank you so much, good morning, Terry.

- Good morning.

Well, a few weeks ago, you had an article

in "Decision" magazineasking if this was a sign

of the end times.

So many people are askingthat, do you think it is?

- You know, nobody knows.

I think when Jesus comes back,

we'll look back and we'llsay oh, that's what that was.

(laughs)

When you put everything together, Terry,

the signs that Jesus gave in Matthew 24

that he said were like birth pains

when they increase infrequency and intensity,

and you put that togetherwith other things

that are taking place, itseems that we're very close

to the, what I believe willbe the Rapture of the Church

before the Tribulation, butcertainly we're going through

worldwide, life-altering,game-changing events,

and I believe it's time to look up.

It's time to get to get right with God,

it's time to get ready,get right with each other

to the best of our ability, and just,

'cause we know they're goingto face God sooner or later,

you know, either in our deathor when He comes to get us,

so this is a good timeto get right with Him.

- Well, as we mentionedearlier, you have found

some silver linings duringsome very dark times.

I mean, when two peopleclose near and dear to you

die within a short period of time,

and then you face your own mortality,

it had to have createdsome things in your heart

that weren't there before.

What's the silver liningthat we can all be finding

in the coronavirus?

- Well, I think the silver lining, Terry,

is that when you're a childof God, God is with you.

When I received JesusChrist as a little girl,

He came into my heart, andthe person of the Holy Spirit,

and the Bible says thatHe will never leave me,

never forsake me.

So when, and I say Hisdeath, as you pointed out,

in the last four years,the death of my husband

and my father, and then my own

life-threatening cancer experience,

but I never lost my peace,and never lost my joy,

and one reason was becauseof the constant companionship

of the Holy Spirit, butI believe even then,

I could of lost my joy andpeace had I not maintained

just a consistency inmy walk with the Lord.

So my challenge to those who right now

are going through lockdown,just make the time every day

to read your Bible, tospend time in prayer,

and not just in prayer asking God

for what you want orneed, but talking to Him

about your hopes, and yourdreams, just developing

your personal relationship with Him.

And then whatever comes,you're going to have peace now

in your heart, and whatever comes,

whether we meltdowncompletely as a nation,

or whether Jesus comesback, or whether we regroup

to where we were, you'regoing to be better off.

Your faith is going to be stronger,

your relationship withthe Lord will be closer,

and I think that's the silver lining.

I believe, Terry, thatthis could be a moment

that God would awaken the Church,

and bring us to that point of revival.

So, it's a time to bethankful, and to praise Him,

and to look up, and to look around

and see if there are otherpeople we can share Jesus with.

- And it's an interesting dichotomy

because we're at a timewhere churches are closed

for the most part, and we'reused to going and finding

maybe a moment on Sundayor Wednesday nights

or Sunday evening or wheneverwe find ourselves worshiping,

and then coming back intothe fray of the world,

you in your "Jesus inMe" book, the subtitle is

"Experiencing the Holy Spiritas a Constant Companion".

Have we missed out onthat, Anne, do you think?

Because of the noisy world around us,

that we kinda go to church and we take

a little dose of worship,and then we go back

into the craziness.

- Well, I think the craziness,at least muscles you know,

and can put out a focus onrelationship of the Lord,

and some might of described this pandemic

as like Sabbath rest.

And it's as though God hasjust forced the whole world

to go back home, andto take a Sabbath rest.

And the purpose of Sabbath wasnot just to physically rest,

but to spiritually berefreshed and refocused.

And as we would refocus onGod, and have a relationship

with Him, and His call in our lives,

so for this time of thepandemic, when we're at home,

this is a time for us,I believe, to spend time

with our Lord, to strengthen our faith,

to share our faith withothers, and we can do that

when we walk, we can dothat you know, on the phone,

or by email, text, however you communicate

with other people.

This is a time to seizeopportunities to tell other people

about Jesus because Terry,I think you're right,

those who are weak in faith went to church

for their spiritual fix everyweek, now they don't have it.

So they're scared, and they're lonely,

and God, who knows, that Godhas put us in their lives

for this very moment to helpdraw them closer to the Lord.

- Will you talk about what you're time

with the Lord looks like?

Because I think if we'vegotten away from that,

and people are feelingrestless by this loneliness

they're experiencing,how do you experience

the presence of the Lordwhen you spend time?

- Well, the Lord, sometimesit's not a feeling Terry,

so I wanna get us away from that

because there're times whenI don't feel His presence,

and in fact, in the lastfour years there were times

I felt abandoned by Him.

There was no feelingof His presence at all,

but I don't walk by feelings, you know?

I walk by faith.

And so, I open my Bibleevery morning, I get up,

and after I fix myself a cupof coffee and do my stretches,

and you know, make myselfwake up, but I open my Bible

to just this small portion of scripture,

and I ask myself what itsays, I list the facts,

what it means, I draw alesson from each fact,

and then I take the lessonsand I put it in the form

of a question to ask myself.

And I just spend time in God's words,

just talking to Himabout what I'm reading,

and that prayer is just talking to Him.

You know, when I read myBible, He's talking to me,

but when I pray, I'm talking to Him,

and so it's like a conversation.

And then during the day,it's amazing, Terry,

how many times I connect with someone,

and what they need, or thequestion they're asking,

is the very thing thatGod had the answer for

in my morning time with Him.

So I want in the morning,to spend time with Him,

to fill myself up, so that Ican overflow into the lives

of others as I have that opportunity.

- Well, your book is a wonderful book.

I just wanna mentionthat it's a great book

for the time that we're in right now.

It's called "Jesus in Me",

it's available in stores nationwide.

Anne, thank you, you alwaysbring such a wonderful

word of wisdom to us, the Lord bless you.

- Terry, thank you so much,

and thank you for having me this morning.

God bless you.- You too.