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- Well, welcome to "The 700 Club".

The stock market has taken a nose dive

while consumer prices havespiked the most since 2008.

Is a surge in COVID cases the culprit

or is something else drivingthis plunge in the market?

What's the president's responseto the economic free fall?

And what does it mean to your wallet?

Jenna Browder explains from Washington.

- Yesterday stocks skid asvirus fear shook the markets.

The Dow falling 2.1%,

the S&P down 1.6% after settinga record the week before.

In another sign of worry,

over the past year consumerprices have jumped 5.4%,

the most since 2008.

- We also know that as oureconomy has come roaring back,

we've seen some price increases.

Our experts believe, and the data shows

that most of the priceincreases we've seen

were expected and areexpected to be temporary.

- [Jenna] At the White House,President Biden hit back

at what he called doomand gloom predictions

and defended his record on the economy.

- Six months into my administration,

the US economy has experienced

the highest economic growthrate in nearly 40 years.

- [Jenna] Conservatives argueBiden inherited an economy

already making a strong recovery

from the 2020 COVID shutdowns.

The president called on Congress

to pass a $1.2 trillionbipartisan infrastructure package

aimed at fixing roads,bridges, and broadband.

- We should be united in one thing,

passage of the bipartisaninfrastructure framework,

which we shook hands on.

- [Jenna] On Capitol Hill,Republicans and Democrats

are battling over thedetails of that bill.

They have until Wednesdayto make it happen

before Senate MajorityLeader, Chuck Schumer

forces a Senate vote.

- We're still working on it,

Chuck Schumer with all due respect

is not writing the bill, noris Mitch McConnell, by the way.

So that's why we shouldn't have

an arbitrary deadline of Wednesday.

- [Jenna] Of greaterconcern is the $3.5 trillion

social infrastructure plan,

which pours federal dollars

into entitlements like childcare,

college tuition andgreen energy initiatives.

Republicans are solidlyopposed to the plan

and economic experts

believe it will harm theeconomy in the long run,

Republicans stand unifiedin their opposition

to the social infrastructure plan

and even some Democrats areexpressing their concerns.

The White House needs everyDemocrat vote to bypass the GOP

and pass it through reconciliation.

In Washington, Jenna Browder, CBN News.

- You know, folks, weall want infrastructure,

we want good roads,

we want the airplanesto fly appropriately,

we don't want a bunch of potholes,

we don't want bridgesbreaking and falling down.

I mean, there obviously is some problems.

So we've gotten the deal together,

a bipartisan group hassaid, okay, we'll pass it,

but the trouble is,

the Democrats want to slip along with this

so-called budget reconciliation

and put through an enormouspackage of social deals

where these children areput into public schools,

free tuition in colleges,

all kinds of supposed socialist spending

and the Green New Deal.

And the American people don't want that.

As somebody said,

we didn't vote for socialismand that's socialism.

Well then let's take alook at the stock market.

CBN Financial Editor, DrewParkhill's with us right now,

and Drew look, is this amomentary pause in a bull market

or is this something more serious?

- No, this is a momentarypause in a bull market.

How long that pause is gonnalast, Pat, we don't know.

The media was blaming it on COVID

and I knew they were gonnablame it on something.

I thought they probably blamedit on the big spending bill,

which they did and they said,

oh, it's the rising COVID cases,

well, they're not at that level yet,

but Pat, you know howthe market works, I mean,

the excesses have been building up,

the Russell 2000, which I know you follow,

which is smaller stocks forpeople out there in TV land,

that's been going down for a while.

So there was fewer andfewer stocks going up

and that's always a sign thatyou're gonna have a drop.

We did Monday, we may havesome more sideways moves,

wild up and down swings for a while,

but longer term, the market's gonna go up.

It's not gonna be a ragingbull market necessarily,

but it's gonna keep goinghigher over the years ahead.

- You have forecast TheDow is gonna hit 10,000,

what do you think?

- A hundred thousand, yeah, it's gonna go,

before this is over.

Now this is down the road,this is not next week.

This bull market will top outand you can quote me on this

around 155,000 on The Dow,

plus or minus 10,000 or 5,000 points

between 150,000 and 160,000.

- So if people are watching this, I mean,

the market is funny, I mean,it's individual stocks,

so do you say stay investedor get out or what?

- No I think longer term,

I mean, you can have an ETF,

which is basically thewhole market in one stock

like SPY or QQQ, or it canhave individual stocks,

I mean, it's up to everybodywhat they wanna do,

but longer term, the overallmarket's gonna go higher,

individual stocks willhave their own, you know,

ups and downs, but overall,

the market is gonna go higher no question,

depending on some of the problemswe see out of Washington.

- What about this crazyspending of trillions of dollars

that Biden wants onso-called entitlements,

they'll never go away,

what kind of impact willit have on the economy?

- Bingo, that's a big problem.

I want to,

look, here's the problem, Pat,

I've got a graphic Iwanna show in a second,

but before I say that,I wanna point this out,

these programs, as you justsaid, they never go away,

they become institutionalized,

they become part of the government.

So let's say the Republicans

take the House next year and the Senate,

and a Republican wins in2024 or 2028 and whenever,

and he wants to make somecuts to these programs

that Biden and theDemocrats want to create,

the media will go crazy,the Democrats will go crazy,

you'll hear the wholeheartless Republican thing,

so what you're gonna have isbigger and bigger government

and more and more programs.

Now I want to show you this quote

from the "Wall Street Journal" yesterday,

talking about Biden's programs.

Every new Biden program isa burden on the economy,

reducing its natural market-driven ability

to create high paying jobs

while entrenching state-run,impossible to kill

zombie entitlements.

That was an opinion columnin "The Journal" yesterday,

which really sums it up the waya lot of people are thinking

because Pat, the bigbattle in Washington now,

or this three and a halftrillion dollar bill

is not gonna be Republicans and Democrats,

it's gonna be Democrats versus Democrats

because a lot of moderate Democrats

are really worriedabout this big spending,

and they're reallyworried about these taxes,

every time I turn around,

I'm reading about a new taxincrease they're talking about,

and there's no way you canget all these and sustain

an economy that would be asstrong as it would be otherwise.

- Drew, thanks for your insights.

Drew Parkhill our economics editor,

and ladies and gentlemen,have you heard it here,

and I believe in what he says.

Well in other news,

this is not your typical summer camp,

the youth of Gaza or gathering

in what are called killer camps,

run by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

And they're definitely notplaying around like swimming

and playing tennis and volleyball.

These boys and young menare equipped with AK47s,

antitank weapons and videosimulations for target practice.

And what's the goal of these youngsters?

You guessed it,

the annihilation of Israel.

Chris Mitchell brings us thisalarming story from Jerusalem.

- [Chris] They call themthe Pioneers of Liberation

and the sort of Jerusalem summer camps

run by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

These videos posted by MEMRI,

the Middle East Media Research Institute

show what the youth ofGaza are doing this summer.

- We did not come here toenjoy ourselves or to play

or anything like that,

we came with our souls,our blood, our martyrs,

and our wounded to sacrificeourselves for Palestine

and for our people.

- [Chris] This promotionalvideo urges students

from primary school, high schooland college to participate.

In the camp, targetpractice involves AK47s,

anti-tank weapons and video simulations.

(speaking in a foreign language)

- So that in the nextphase, Allah willing,

these boys will be able toconfront the plundering enemy

and disfigure its face in the next war.

- [Chris] In May, Hamas and Islamic Jihad

called the 11 day war withIsrael, the sword of Jerusalem,

their goal, preparing the nextgeneration for the next war.

(speaking in a foreign language)

- We say to the enemy,

these children picked up these weapons

and we train them how to use them

as well as how to take security measures

so that they will follow inthe footsteps of their fathers

and take up arms, Allah willing.

(speaking in a foreign language)

- I chose to spend my vacation

in the "Pioneers ofLiberation" summer camp

in order to continuethe path of my father,

the martyred commanderWalid Shamaleh Abu Bilal,

in order to strengthen our determination

and to liberate Jerusalem, Allah willing.

- [Chris] These young men and boys

learn antisemitism at an early age.

(speaking in a foreign language)

- We asked Hitler why heleft some of you alive.

He did so in order to showus how wicked you are,

we will come to you from under the ground

and hammer fear into your hearts

and above the ground wewill tear your bodies apart

with our rockets.

Scram into the shelters, you mice,

you sons of Jewish women.

- [Chris] MEMRI has beenmonitoring these summer camps

for 10 years.

- [Yael] The videos andthe images from those camps

illustrates and reflectthe way Hamas is operating

and deepening its control.

In 10, 15 years from now, thekids will be adults or parents

and maybe even an officialin Gaza and decision-makers,

so the extremism inGaza, will be even worse.

- [Chris] Hamas took overthe Gaza Strip 13 years ago

in a bloody battle withthe Palestinian Authority.

- [Yael] So since birth, thisgeneration has been raised

only on the values ofthese terrorist movement.

This is of course onlydeepening the crisis there,

forfeiting any chance fora dignified, peaceful life

for the kids and for allthe residents of Gaza.

- [Chris] She feels theinternational community

needs to speak up about these camps.

While these kids are in camp,

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh

is visiting nations like Mauritania,

pledging to continuethe war against Israel.

(speaking in a foreign language)

- Let me tell you my brothers and sisters,

the sword of Jerusalemwill not be sheathed

until the blessed Al-AqsaMosque is liberated.

- [Chris] Given these summer camps,

it appears clear the goal isthat the battle for Jerusalem

will continue into the next generation.

- Chris is joining us now from Jerusalem.

Chris, let me ask you something,

how can there possiblybe a two-state solution

when Hamas is building upsuch hatred toward Israel?

There's no way that Israel

can go along with something like that.

- No, when you seesomething like this Pat,

you know, a two-statesolution seems like a dream.

You said years and yearsago, I was at Shamira

and it's not just HamasPat, it's also Fatah.

If you look at some of their social media,

they talk about annihilating Israel,

they talk about takingover all of Palestine

from the river to the sea,

which means the elimination of Israel.

So a two-state solutionseems like a dream right now.

When you see this indoctrinationof the next generation,

what struck me in our interview with that

MEMRI person that monitorsthis kind of a recruitment

is that the next generation, think of it,

13 year old kids in Gaza,

have never known anything but Hamas

and right now in 10 years, 15 years,

they're gonna be the next generation

making decisions in Gaza,

and I don't think it's gonnabe a two-state solution, Pat,

I think they're lookingfor a one-state solution.

- You know, it looked likewhen those Abraham Accords

were put through, they bypassed the PLO,

just said, let's not even consider them.

And how can any intelligentgroup of international statesmen

consider Hamas and the PLO as is anybody

that should be allowedto engage in peace talks?

- You would think Pat, thatthe international community

would be outraged about this,

the UN would be outraged about this,

actually UNICEF andpart of the UN says that

if you're recruiting, you know,

kids under 18 or under 15,it's actually a war crime.

So you would think thatthe international community

would be outraged about this,

and this goes hand in handwith some of the curriculum

that they find in schools,many of them funded by the UN.

And I would add Pat, thatone role that goes into this

whole scenario is thatwhen Hamas took over

from the Palestinian Authority,

they took over thePalestinian Authority in 2007.

Two years prior to that,

that's when Israel withdrew,called the disengagement,

they withdrew from all of these places,

they had, 8,500 Jews wereliving in at 21 communities

within the Gaza Strip and wewere there reporting on it,

you remember that well Pat,

and it was supposed to bringpeace, this disengagement,

we remember a spokesmantold us at the time,

listen, we're the fingerin the dyke of terrorism,

don't pull us out.

And since then, Hamas took over,

and now for the last 14 years,

this is what we've had,

more Hamastan and now fourwars in the last 14 years.

- It was Sharon that forcedthose Jewish settlers

out of that area,

they actually uprooted themand the pointed the gun

and forced them to give uptheir property, is that correct?

- That's exactly what happened.

This whole idea was Ariel Sharon's idea,

along with many in theinternational community,

the US was supporting it as well,

the whole idea was that

if Israel has unilaterallypulled out of the Gaza Strip,

there'll be peace.

That's exactly what didn't happen,

it's really become Hamastan.

We were there at the border

when they were evicting these 8,500 Jews

out of these 21 communities.

It was really, to my mind,one of the saddest chapters

we're seeing in the last 20 years here,

and also it goes to the lesson, Pat,

when Israel pulled out of South Lebanon,

back in May of 2000,

and then when Israel pulled out

unilaterally in 2005 out of Gaza Strip,

it filled the vacuum withHezbollah on the Northern border,

Hamas on the Southern border,

and now we have episodeslike in May, 11 day war,

4,300 rockets from Hamas and Islamic Jihad

fired into Israel, supported by Iran.

- Chris, thank you so much.

Ladies and gentlemen,

we're told to pray forthe peace of Jerusalem,

if there was ever a time,

Israel is under assault throughoutthe nations of the world

and the United Nations andthe, the so-called UNRWA,

which should have beendisbanded a long time ago,

now Hamas is a breeding ground for terror.

But as I said some time ago,

the Muslims believe inthe Mahdi, the 12th Imam,

and they do believe that ultimately,

before the Mahdi shows up,

there's going to be adestruction of Israel, chaos,

and that's what theybelieve in their hearts,

and they're going to pursue it,

and anybody who thinks thatthey're gonna be brought

to the peace table is just in a chimera,

it's just crazy that anybodywould think that way, Terry.

- Well, still ahead,

a heart attack in themiddle of the highway.

This woman blacked out andcrashed into the median.

She was dead for 28 minutes.

So what brought her back to life?

Her supernatural survival,that's coming up.

Plus, one vote for one candidate,that's the American way,

but maybe not for long.

Ranked choice voting is gaining steam.

What is it, and how couldit affect your vote?

Find out after this.

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- What does it say?

The inmates have taken over the asylum,

it's just unbelievable.

We keep being assaulted

by the nonsense that's being brought up.

Well, now they've got a new one.

You know, we usually think youhad one vote for a candidate

and that's the American way,

but that could be changed, andguess what they want to do?

They want to have ranked choices

where you rank severalcandidates by your preference

and the ballot, and thenthey're having what's called

an instant runoff.

So you talk about confusion,it is confusion of square.

Jennifer Wishon explains.

- Ranked choice voting letsvoters rank candidates,

giving them control over their second,

third, fourth, evenfifth choices for office,

but it's not without controversy.

- [Narrator] The attendingelection official

admits him to the machine.

- [Jennifer] The technology Americans use

to cast their ballots haschanged over the years.

- I pull the lever back to the left,

and then your vote is cast.

- Please allow me to introduceyou to the ESNS DS200

and the Dominion ImageCast.

- [Jennifer] What hasn'tchanged is most Americans

still cast just onevote for one candidate,

but a growing number of localitiesare opting to let voters

rank every candidaterunning in an election.

- And ranked choice voting

embraces allowing more than two choices,

accommodates the reality that we often

do have more than two choices,

whether it's a primary election

or a non-partisan city election,or our general elections.

- [Jennifer] Ranked choicevoting lets voters rank

all the candidates running,

once the votes are tallied, ifno candidate wins a majority,

the candidate with the leastvotes drops off the list.

Voters who ranked thatlast place candidate

as their first choice,

then have their second pick moved up

to count as their first, inwhat's called an instant runoff.

That process keeps goingfor multiple rounds

until finally onecandidate gets a majority.

- If that sounds confusing, it is.

- [Jennifer] Criticslike Hans Von Spakovsky,

senior legal fellow atThe Heritage Foundation

argue the methoddisenfranchises some voters

because of what's calledballot exhaustion,

where some votes are rejected.

Here's how it works.

If it takes several rounds to get a winner

and a voter hasn't rankedevery candidate running,

then their ballot gets thrown out.

The ninth round of tabulation

in the recent New YorkCity mayoral primary

left more than 117,000 ballots discarded,

about 12% of the vote.

And Spakovsky points to anumber of other examples,

like the first time the state of Maine

used ranked choice voting fora 2018 congressional race.

- They had to do several rounds

and by the time they were over,

the ballots of over 14,000people had been thrown out

because they hadn't ranked all four people

who were running for Congress.

- [Jennifer] On election night

at the Democratic primary inthe New York City mayoral race

candidates found themselvesexplaining to supporters

why there wasn't a winnerand wouldn't be for weeks.

- 50% of the ranked choicevote has not yet been counted.

- We know there's going tobe twos and threes and fours,

we know that.

- [Jennifer] And despitethe painfully long

two week vote count, apoll by CBS New York finds

77% want to use it again.

83% ranked more than one candidate,

95% found the ballot simple to complete.

And its popularity is slowlygrowing across the country.

According to Fair Vote,

the method is being usedon some level in 29 states.

- Just this year alone,

where we've seen a doubling of cities

that have decided to use it,

we now have ranked choicevoting for two states

for presidential elections.

- [Jennifer] But manyRepublicans remain skeptical.

Ranked choice voting is a corrupt scam,

tweeted Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton.

House Minority Leader, KevinMcCarthy called it woke.

- On one hand we have voter ID

that doesn't disenfranchise anyone,

and on the other hand, wehave ranked choice voting,

which definitely disenfranchises voters

and yet no one's referringto it as Jim Crow 2.0.

- [Jennifer] And critics say

candidates aren't winning a majority

if tens of thousands of ballotsare routinely not counted

after multiple rounds of tabulations.

Jason McDaniel, AssociateProfessor of Political Science

at San Francisco State University

examined 2,500 precinctsover five elections

and found turnout amongboth African-American

and white voters dropped

when the city adoptedranked choice voting,

and ballot errors increased.

Still, Ritchie predicts within a decade

ranked choice voting will become the norm.

- I think that as we adapt,

I think there'll be sortof the collective sigh

of relaxation and relieffor some like, oh,

it's actually pretty easy, right?

Which I think is true.

- It's not just voters,

this method makes candidateschange their strategies too.

If a candidate isn't polling well,

he or she may campaign tobe a voter's second choice.

Advocates say it alsoreduces negative campaigning

because candidates arevying for a good rank,

although observers in theNew York City primary say

that wasn't the case.

Either way, if it hasn't already,

ranked choice voting could sooncome to your local precinct.

Jennifer Wishon, CBN News.

- You'd be amazed, theleft screamed so loudly

about a Georgia, fairly obviousvoter identification law,

they called it Jim Crow onsteroids, 2.0 and so forth,

and now they've gotsomething much, much worse

that will disenfranchiselarge numbers of voters

and lead to total confusion in elections.

And yet they want to put it in.

Why does everybody want to destroy

this great democracy we've got?

It's the greatest experiment of government

in the history of mankind, butthe left wants to destroy it

and this is just one more shot, Terry.

- Well still ahead,

this young woman got the shock of her life

from her birth mother.

What was it, and howhas her stunning story

resonated around the world?

You'll find out coming up.

But first, the words nohusband wants to hear,

your wife might not makeit through the night.

So where did this manturn for a second opinion?

See for yourself after this.

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A heart attack behind the wheel.

Kim Gustin blacked out and her car

smashed into the highway barrier.

For 28 minutes, Kim had no heartbeat.

At the hospital, her husband said goodbye,

thinking she was dead.

So what happened next?

Well, you're about to find out.

- [Narrator] It was a hot summerafternoon in Argyle, Texas

when Gerald Gustin got an unusual message

from his wife, Kim.

She goes, I don't like theway I feel, I'm gonna go home

- [Narrator] She never made it there.

(car crashing)

(phone ringing)

- I kept calling her over and over again,

and finally, somebody answered the phone.

Your wife's been in an accident.

Right now CPR is beingadministered to her.

Is it bad?

And she said, yes, sir, it's bad.

- [Narrator] Kim hadpassed out at the wheel

and brushed the highway barrier.

The woman who'd answered was a nurse

who had stopped to help.

Gerald stayed on the phone

as she and a police officer performed CPR,

trying to get a pulse.

- Reality sank.

I'm like, she's dead.

Lord, just let me get to her,

let me get to her, let me seeher don't let this happen.

- [Narrator] Kim was takento Medical City Denton,

where she was intubated andtreated for cardiac arrest.

It was estimated she hadbeen without a heartbeat

for 28 minutes.

Gerald remembers talking to the doctor

soon after he arrived.

- Her body, her liver and herorgans were shutting down.

One thing they needed to do

is control the bleeding in her lungs

and get the lungs stabilized.

We're not sure that she'sgonna make it to the night.

- [Narrator] Already, Geraldwas trying to come to terms

with losing his wife.

- To say, I release you, I'll let you go.

If God really wants you,this is the ultimate.

I mean, you can't choosebetween this place and heaven.

- [Narrator] Even then, Geraldand their friends and family

put their hope in God.

- I said, you're theGod of the impossible.

I remember saying your wordsays in Second Corinthians that

your grace is sufficient and that

your power is madeperfect in our weakness.

I said, I'm begging you for miracle.

- [Narrator] Although Kim survived night,

she was still in critical condition.

As Gerald prayed in the coming days,

he says God spoke to him.

- He said, I'm doing a miracle.

I'm answering your prayer.

If he tells me this iswhat's going to happen,

it doesn't matter what man says,

this is what's gonna happen,

you just hold onto it.

- [Narrator] Kim began to stabilize

and doctors ordered an MRI.

The results proved worrisome.

- She's had a stroke onher left side of her brain

is scattered over to the right side,

we don't know what we're looking at,

it's highly likely thatshe's gonna be a vegetable.

I kind of broke downafter he left, I'm like,

this can't be acceptable for me, please.

- [Narrator] Though herheart and lungs had improved,

there was no way togauge Kim's mental state

until they took her off the ventilator

and brought her out of the coma.

That day soon came.

Gerald held onto God'spromise of a miracle.

- Remember what he's told you,

and cling to what he's told you,

and know that hispromises are yes and amen.

And his word says he has begun a good work

and will bring it to completion,so if he says something,

when God speaks, I don't careif he just, if he says, no,

you've heard the voice of God.

- [Narrator] After beingextubated the next day,

Kim was awake, she couldn't talk,

but her family knew she waswell on her way to healing.

- 24 to 36 hours she was up in her bed

and looking at her phone andI thought, this is remarkable.

Me and my son would stand over her

and she would followour voice in our face.

And we're like, this is awesome.

I mean, I was just like,man, let's just go,

let's just bring her home.

- Hello.

- What do you really wanna tell them?

- Feed the dogs.

- [Narrator] On August 4th,

three and a half weeks after her accident,

Kim left the hospital tocontinue her journey to healing

through prayer and rehab.

- Literally the daythat I left the hospital

and I was transported there,I remember that whole day,

and I realized that itwasn't gonna be a quick fix.

You know, it was gonna be a journey

and it was gonna besomething that with God

I would have to do.

- [Narrator] Kim wouldspend several weeks in rehab

before finally coming home

with most of her functionality returned.

And though she nearly diedthat afternoon in July,

today, Kim enjoys time with her family

as they give thanks for thelife she's been given back.

- And I'm thankful that theywere able to see God work

and see the miracles that alot of people don't get to see.

He completely restored

what was supposed be taken away from me.

- Kim is a living proof of a resurrection.

We see it every day.

She lives a resurrected body.

- God is a miracle worker, isn't he?

28 minutes without oxygen and here she is,

her story to her family.

- A stroke and all of that,

another miracle ladies and gentlemen.

Listen, here's some others though,

we want to pray for you right now

'cause you see these things,

you say, why not me?

Well, why not you?

Beth, on the email said I've been dealing

with that unusual bleedingfor over a month and a half.

Followed my doctor's instructions,nothing seems to help.

I was watching "The 700 Club"

with faith to receive his touch.

And Terry said God was going to heal me,

said, I believed it, and sincethen the bleeding stopped

and I have canceled my followupand she's completely healed.

What else you got?

- Well, here's another,

this is Marcia, she says eversince she was a little girl,

she lives in new Fairfield, Connecticut.

She was gripped by fear and worry

and Pat, on June 7th of this year,

she decided to watch this program

and during our prayersegment, she heard you say,

you've been afraid sinceyou were a little child,

I believe the name is Mercy.

You are just scared of everything.

The Lord is lifting that from you,

the spirit of fear isleaving you right now.

Marcia believed that Godwas speaking to her by name

and she felt something lift from her.

She has not felt any fear or worry since.

- You know, folks, I don'tknow Marcy, but God knows her

and God knows her name and where she lives

and she knows you and he knows your need,

he knows everything about you.

And what he's asking for is,

all you can do is just trusthim and the Bible says,

Abraham believed God,

and it was counted tohim for righteousness.

Terry and I are gonnajoin hands right now,

we're going to believe God for you.

Let's pray together.

Father, thank you for this report,

thank you for the healing ofthis woman who had a stroke

and was near death,

thank you for healing, Marcia,thank you for healing others.

Thank you for touchingthe lives of people.

Lord, we praise you in the name of Jesus.

Thank you Lord.

Now we pray that youwould touch people's lives

all over this audience.

As faith is rising, all thingsare possible with the Lord,

with you all things are possible.

Somebody right now, you got a neck brace,

I think the name is George,

you have had a serious accident and

it may have injured one of your vertebrae

and if you just put yourhand in that area right now

in the name of Jesus, touch him.

An electricity just went through you

and you are completely healed, Terry.

- And I don't know ifthis is George or not,

but someone you have hadan injury to your throat.

And as you saw Marcy speaking,and kind of whispering there

it just made your desireto have your voice back,

God's restoring your voice to you.

Just begin to speak gently atfirst, but it will come back.

- There's a fellow, name's Tom or Tommy,

you've had your right kneehas been twisted severely,

and there may be that you don't have

the appropriate meniscus, Idon't know what all is going on,

but right now God is justworking inside of you

and that knee is completelyhealed in Jesus' name, Terry.

- There's someone else, you have,

I think you'll know this is you,

I don't know what this means,

but you have episodes like,

brain episodes that kind of throw you off.

God is healing your brainactivity right now in Jesus name,

just lift your hands andpraise him and receive that.

- May the anointing of the Holy Spirit

come upon this audience,

may you sense the power of God,

may the anointing ofthe spirit be upon you.

And Lord once again, we pray for Cuba,

we pray for the peoplestruggling against tyranny.

Lord send help to them, causethe leaders of this nation

to come to their rescue,

and Lord we pray for deliverance.

Let a miracle take placewhere that great island

with those wonderful people is set free

in the name of Jesus, we speak that word

and we thank you Lord in Jesus' name.

Amen and amen.

Praise God, he's doing wonderfulthings, today is your day

and so keep on praising

and if you need further prayer,

even though this programis not on the air,

you might not see this show anymore,

the folks are at thetelephones 24 hours a day

and you can call in, wewanna hear your answers,

we want to have your questions,

we wanna do everything we can to help you.

It's 1-800-700-7000.

It's easy to remember andtoll free so you can call in,

even though this program is no longer,

I mean, not beingbroadcast at that moment,

folks are the phone's righthere right now, Terry.

- Well coming up, your questionsand Pat's honest answers.

Bobby wants to know,

should I tithe on the monthlychild stimulus payments

that are going out?

Stay tuned for Pat's answer, plus others.

And then, this survivor wantedto thank her birth mother

for choosing life.

But when she did, her birthmother dropped a bomb.

What was it?

You'll never guess, so stay tuned.

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- Welcome back to "The 700Club" for the CBN news break.

Potential severethunderstorms are threatening

the large wildfire spreading in Oregon,

but it's a bit of a mixed blessing.

Oregon officials are asking wildfire crews

to prepare for additionalfires due to lightning strikes.

Right now, the Bootleg fireis spanning 537 square miles

and burning three milesSoutheast of Portland

at about a third of thesize of Rhode Island.

At least 70 homes and over 100 buildings

have gone up in flames,

so far 2000 homes have been evacuated.

Well, the first January 6th Capitol rioter

to be convicted of a felony

was sentenced to eightmonths in prison Monday.

Police arrested Paul AllardHodgkins of Tampa, Florida

more than a month after video footage

showed him carrying a Trumpflag on the Senate floor.

He pleaded guilty to onecount of obstruction,

rather, obstructing anofficial proceeding,

which carries a maximumof 20 years in prison.

Hodgkins who did notengage in any violence

or property destruction told the judge

he regretted entering the Capitol

and the hurt caused tothe country he loves.

Prosecutors sought an 18 month sentence,

but the judge said he deserved leniency

for quickly pleading guiltyand giving a sincere apology.

Well, you can always getthe latest from CBN News

by going to our website at cbnnews.com.

Pat and Terry will be backwith more of "The 700 Club"

right after this.

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- A fairy tale relationship.

That's what Claire Culwell was envisioning

with her birth mother.

Claire thanked her birth momfor choosing life for her.

So what happened next?

A stunning revelation.

- [Narrator] Claire Culwellwas adopted as an infant

and grew up in a loving home.

When she decided to meether biological mother,

what she was told was shocking.

- They told my birth mother,

that she had been pregnant with twins

and that I had survived her abortion.

- [Narrator] In her new book, "Survivor"

Claire shares how she chose forgiveness

and found redemption.

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- Please welcome to "The700 Club" Claire Culwell.

Claire, it's great tohave you with us today.

- Thank you so much for having me.

- You were adopted intoa very loving home,

tell us about your mom and dad.

- I was,

I was adopted as soon as I wasreleased from the hospital.

In fact, my sister and I are both adopted

and so we were adopted byTexans who loved the Lord.

They spoke such encouragementover us as adopted children,

we knew that we were wantedchosen and loved by them,

but also by God,

and so meeting our birthmothers one day we knew was,

could possibly be part of our story,

but we knew that circumstancesdidn't define us,

it was what our family said about us

and what God said about us,

so it was an incredible experience.

- So what made you wantto meet your birth mother?

And what did you expect from her?

- My sister had actuallymet her birth mother,

and so that moment that Imet my sister's birth mother

and saw how much they looked alike

and how much they acted alike,

it got me thinking aboutmy own birth mother.

I knew that I was so gratefulfor my sister's birth mother

because she gave me my sister.

And so I decided I wantedto meet my birth mother

and I just hoped that I could thank her

for giving me my life,

I obviously hoped

that she would want arelationship with me,

but I didn't know what I was walking into.

Ultimately, I just wanted to thank her

for giving me my family and my life.

- So it was the second meeting with her

that was really a challenging one for you,

talk about what happened.

- I walked into the shock of a lifetime.

I had met her just a couple months before

and we had this incrediblereunion, I brought my family,

she brought her family,

I remember the moment she opened the door

and it was like looking in the mirror,

I knew that I instantly loved and adored

my birth mother, Tonya.

And so the secondmeeting I kind of thought

would go the same way,

I would fly to Oklahomawhere she lived from Texas

and I would thank her again

for giving me my life and my family

and continue to get toknow her, but what happened

is when I thanked herfor giving me my life,

she broke down into tears,

and I sat face to facewith my birth mother,

as she describes beingpregnant at 13 years old

and her mother telling her thatthere was one choice for her

and that was to have an abortion,

and so my birth motherdescribed this experience

of going through this, this gruesome DNE,

which is a dismembermentabortion at 13 years old,

and when it failed,

she had to go to Kansas totry to have a second one,

and then when that didn't workbecause they turned her away

due to possible infection,she placed me for adoption.

And so I found out in that moment

that I was unwanted,rejected and even aborted,

and that I had been a twin,

that I had survived to mybirth mother's abortion

and had been living mylife without my twin,

because my twin was successfully aborted.

But her tears, her tears are what

every single day gets me up in the morning

and helps me to share my story because

I knew instantly that I forgave her,

and I knew instantly thatI wanted to fight for her

and for people like my twinand myself and generations

who are being affected by abortion.

- So here you are sittingwith your birth mom

with the understanding thatshe chose to give you life

and then you learn that you'rethe survivor of an abortion,

what was your immediate response to that?

- Gosh, I couldn't believe it.

I mean, I felt like I was in this movie

having this like outer body experience

that this can't really be me.

I mean, I lived my lifeas a Christian thinking,

I would never be the type of person

who had been affected by abortion,

but here I was, learning thatI was the face of abortion

and so it was absolutely shocking,

but like I said, my birth mother's tears

were so loud in that roomthat day that I knew that I,

God's fingerprints were all over this

and this was an opportunity for me

to model the love and theforgiveness of Christ that I knew

that I grew up knowingabout, hearing about,

being modeled for me,

because I knew that that was available

for my birth mother too,

what Christ did on the crossfor me, he did for her too,

and so I embraced her and I forgave her.

- One of the thingsthat forgiveness is does

is sets us free.

Do you feel like your birthmom was able to receive that?

- She was, a few years later,it took her a little while,

you know, I was for a long time,

the reminder of what happenedto her at 13 years old

and that was reallyhard for her and for me,

but she has come to know the Lord,

she's come to accepthis forgiveness of her

and she did say to me, thefirst time she shared her story

on a program similar tothis, she said, Claire,

thank you so much for thisopportunity, I feel free.

And that was the freedomthat she found in the Lord

and his love and forgiveness for her.

- Do you have arelationship with her today?

- I do, I do, I have arelationship with her, her family,

I have three half sistersthat she kept and raised,

and so I have a relationship with them

and I'm just so grateful.

You know, the first timethat I was on your show was

right after I met my birth mother,

and I said then, and it's still true today

that she is my hero

because she didn't have to tellme this story, but she did,

and because of thatlives are being changed.

- Absolutely,

thank you for being so candidand sharing your story.

I want to share with you Claire's book,

it's called "Survivor".

It's available where books are sold,

a tremendous story offorgiveness and redemption.

Great to have you back again, Claire,

thank you for being with us.

- Thank you so much for having me.

- Well, still ahead,

inspirational, informative,and always unpredictable,

your questions and Pat's honest answers.

Karen asks, what about statins?

My doctor wants me to start them,

but the side effects are memory loss,

diabetes, and muscle loss.

What's the alternative?

Pat will tell it like it is after this.

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- Welcome back, we've donesome tremendous things,

still coming up in this program for you,

I want to introduce you to acouple, Ed and Cindy Avilas,

they've been running

a successful small business for decades,

so what happened to them when COVID hit?

Instead of barely survivingEd and Cindy are thriving.

So what's their secret?

It's something they heardright on this very program.

- [Narrator] Ed and Cindy Avilas

have been businessowners for over 30 years.

As independent contractors forLowe's, they won many awards.

- For a small business,we did extremely well.

We were always, achievementlevel was at gold level.

- It just continued to multiply,

they would give us more stores.

- [Narrator] During a slow period in 2005,

they were watching "The 700 Club".

- Pat had said, I'm challengingall of you to give in faith

and you shall see how God will multiply,

he says in his word.

She handed me the phone

and I called in and I made my pledge.

And not even 20 minuteslater, the phone rang

and the customer said, youknow, I'm ready to go ahead and

go ahead with the proposed work

that Ed had given me an estimate on.

Once we signed a contract and I went back

and I crunched all the numbers,

we profited probably close to$5,000 on that one job alone.

- [Narrator] They became CBN partners,

and in 2011 opened an Italian restaurant.

They were able to purchaseone with no money down

and say, God even sent them a chef.

- I didn't know anythingabout the kitchen,

so a gentleman walkedin and off the street

and he said, I wanna be your chef.

He came in the next day, hehelped me to create a menu,

he gave me the recipes, he hadeverything that I had needed.

- [Narrator] When Ed andCindy sold the restaurant,

they were offered positionsmanaging a mobile home park.

She would do the bookkeepingend of the business,

and I would do the groundskeeping.

And we ended up

taking over that mobilehome park as managers.

- [Narrator] And theycontinue to partner with CBN.

- I love Operation Blessing.

When a disaster happens,

Operation Blessing isthe first to be there.

- If we don't give asChristians, then who is?

Who is gonna reach out?

- [Narrator] Ed and Cindy believe

that because of theirwork ethic and faith,

God has prospered them.

- From the beginning when I began tithing,

I have seen God's faithfulness.

We're so grateful to the Lordfor what he's done for us.

He's been so faithful through the years.

You can never out-give God, never.

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- She said it right.

You know, I wanna point out something,

God, isn't some beggar,some old man with a tin cup

asking you to throw a littlefew of scraps his way.

We have to give,

because if we don't, we miss a blessing.

It's just that simple,

give and it'll be given unto you,

pressed down, good measure, running over

will men heap, heap into your bosom.

So with God, it's a multiplication.

The Lord has everything,he's got everything.

The world is his, thecattle, the gold is his,

the silver his, the cattleon a thousand hills,

it's all his.

So what he says in order to

tap into the blessing thatI have, I want you to give.

And as you give, I will give unto you.

And as you give more, I will give more,

and those that give deliberatelywill reap liberally,

that's what the Bible says, all right?

Now the Avilas have a blessing,

there were multiple blessings.

And they joined "The 700 Club"

then they were upgrading to the founders,

and I think they became,I don't know what else,

how many membership,

but we have $20 a month, $40 a month,

we have a hundred dollars a month

and we have thousanddollars and we have 5,000,

and whatever you want to do,

because we're big enough

to take care of a whole lot ofthings and we need your help.

So everybody that participates

is part of an army of thousands

to make this a better world to live in

and to help those who are less fortunate.

Now I'll ask you, if you would, call in

and say, you can count onme as a "700 Club" member,

$20 a month or double 40,whatever it is, you know?

And when you join, I wantto send you something

I hope will bless you.

This is a teaching, I mean,it's a reading, actually, I did

called God For Us, Verses ofSalvation, Peace and Victory

from the book of Romans.

And we're also going to bedoing something pretty soon

on Ephesians as well.

But I hope this is a blessing.

- Well, it sure has been to Henry.

He lives in Knoxville,Tennessee, and he says,

Pat's reading of Romansin "God is For Us",

was very helpful inexplaining the Christian faith

and God's plan of salvation

and how we can share it withpeople we come in contact with.

So Henry loved it.

- Amen, okay, well, pick up the phone,

it's an easy number toremember 1-800-700-7000.

We'd love to count on you

as a honored member of our "700 Club".

Okay, let's take some questions.

- Okay this is Audi who says,

should I tithe on the monthlychild stimulus payments

that are going out?

- Here's the deal, shouldyou, or should you not?

I think the more you're able to,

if God puts more money into your hand,

it gives you something you can give away.

It means you're sowing aseed that will come back

and be blessed, so should you have to?

You shouldn't have to do anything.

Do you want to?

Of course you do.

- Okay, this is Karen whosays Pat, what about statins?

My doctor wants me to start them,

but the side effects are memory loss,

diabetes, and muscle loss,what's the alternative?

- Look I am an anti-statin person.

Statins, they, you know,

our nurse expert say,they're vitamin muggers,

they take away from you

the essential CoQ 10 that's necessary

to keep your heart in place.

The whole idea of a statin isbecause cholesterol is bad,

actually cholesterol is goodand it keeps your brain going.

Cholesterol is if you want to load,

your problem with whateverit is that's there,

you've got a high bloodpressure, what have you,

start eating right.

Stop eating sweets, stop eating flour,

stop eating all that kind of stuff

and eat fresh fruits and vegetables,

and everything'll take a, you know, right,

but I'm not a doctor,

so please I can't give medicaladvice, but I, for one,

I think statins are the pits.

And I think everybody is,

if the whole idea isto reduce cholesterol,

as if cholesterol is bad.

But I mean, I eat eggs, I love eggs,

egg's not gonna hurt you.

- No.

- But they've got cholesterol in them.

- Yes.

But you eat right the rest of the time.

- Absolutely I have great forbeans and all the rest of it.

Okay, what else?

- Diane says, Pat, the word of God states,

no one knows the day nor thehour when the son of man cometh

only the father and not the son.

How can this be?

Since our God is one but three persons,

how can one know somethingand not the other?

- I think, what Jesus sayswhile he was here on earth,

is that, this is a thingthat is kept in the father.

So Jesus, as a man,didn't know the exact time

that he was coming back,but only the father knew it.

But of course in the Trinity,

I mean, they don't keepwords from one another,

but I think we're talkingabout the fleshly Jesus,

as opposed to the eternal.

Well today's powerminute is from Psalm 27.

The Lord is my light and my salvation,

whom shall I fear?

The Lord is the strength of my life,

of whom shall I be afraid?

From Terry and all of us,this is pat Robertson,

and listen tomorrow, wegot a special vox populi,

you don't wanna miss it,

see you then bye-bye.

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