AGREEMENT.

TODAY ON THE 700 CLUB

WELCOME TO THE 700 CLUB

HEZBOLLAH.

A MASSIVE ASSAULT ON ISRAEL

THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN EVEN THAN

THE HAMAS ATTACKS ON OCTOBER

7TH.

ISRAELI IN LEBANON ARE

CAPTURING THE WEAPONS THAT

WOULD HAVE BEEN USED ATTACKS.

PAUL STRAND BRINGS US THE STORY

FROM JERUSALEM.

IN SOUTHERN LEBANON, THE IDF

,THE WORLD HEZBOLLAH WAS SET

TO USE MANY HOMES JUST ACROSS

THE BORDER AS LAUNCHING PADS

FOR A MASSIVE INVASION OF THE

THE JEWISH NATION.

EVERY HOUSE IS A TERROR BASE

.

THE IDF CHIEF SPOKESMAN SAYS

HEZBOLLAH'S ELITE RADWAN UNITS

SET TO STRIKE FROM SIX OF THESE

LOCATIONS SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH

SOME 4 TO 6000 TERRORISTS.

THEY USE ALL THESE HOMES FOR

STORAGE.

YOU SEE THE HAND GRENADES

HERE, SNIPER RIFLES EXTREMELY

HIGH SNIPER RIFLES.

THE IDF SAYS THE INVASION

WOULD HAVE EVEN BEEN BIGGER

THAN HAMAS'S OCTOBER 7TH

ATTACKS.

HEZBOLLAH HAD PLACED ITS

TERRORIST ALONG THE BORDER

BORDER DAYS AFTER THOSE ATTACKS

WAITING FOR THE ORDER TO STRIKE

WHILE ISRAEL.

ISRAEL PREVENTED THAT POTENTIAL

INVASION.

IT'S ALSO PROMISING TO STRIKE

BACK AT IRAN FOR LAUNCHING MORE

THAN 180 BALLISTIC MISSILES AT

IT.

AND ISRAEL'S DEFENSE MINISTER

SAYS IT WILL HIT HARD IN

ANOTHER ATTACK WILL BE LETHAL,

PRECISE AND ABOVE ALL.

THEY WILL NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT

HAPPENED AND HOW, HOW IT

HAPPENED.

BUT A SENIOR IRANIAN

MILITARY ADVISER IS WARNING FOR

EVERY ONE LOCATION ISRAEL HITS

IRAN WILL TARGET DOZENS OF

ISRAELI BOTH CIVILIAN AND

MILITARY AND THE U.N..

THE U.N. RELIEF AND WORKS

AGENCY IS BACK IN THE NEWS THIS

TIME AS A NOMINEE FOR THE NOBEL

PEACE PRIZE AFTER BEING

NOMINATED IN FEBRUARY BY A

NORWEGIAN.

IT'S BELIEVED AT LEAST NINE

GAZANS ON UNRWA'S PAYROLL HAVE

TAKEN AN ACTIVE PART IN HAMAS'S

BRUTAL ASSAULT ON ISRAEL.

OCTOBER SEVEN.

SO THERE'S FRESH OUTRAGE THIS

WEEK THAT THE COMMITTEE PICKING

THE WINNER THE NOBEL PEACE

PRIZE REFUSED TO REMOVE UNRWA'S

NOMINATION PROTESTS FROM

THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.

ONE MORE CRITIC HILLEL NEUER

U.N. WATCH WAS FURIOUS AT

PREDICTIONS THE U.N. RELIEF

AGENCY COULD.

IT WOULD BE REALLY AN AN

ABOMINATION.

IT WOULD BE OBSCENE.

I YELL AT SOME IRAN HIS SON SON

YONATAN WAS MURDERED ON OCTOBER

SEVEN AND THEN AN ULTRA SOCIAL

WORKER HAULED HIS BODY OFF TO

GAZA.

I YELL IT IS DISGUSTED UNWRA IN

THE RUNNING FOR THE PRESTIGIOUS

PEACE PRIZE.

WE ARE TALKING AN

ORGANIZATION THAT IS TAKING A

VERY ACTIVE PART THE MURDER,

RAPE AND KIDNAP OF OF INNOCENT

PEOPLE.

THE U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL

WHO'S CRITICAL OF ISRAEL AND

THE U.N. INTERNATIONAL COURT OF

JUSTICE WERE ALSO NOMINATED BUT

NONE OF THEM WON THE PRIZE

WHICH WENT TO A JAPANESE

ORGANIZATION OF ATOMIC BOMBING

SURVIVORS.

PAUL STRAND, CBN NEWS,

JERUSALEM.

NOW LET ME REMIND EVERYONE

THE U.N. WAS SUPPOSED TO KEEP

SOUTHERN LEBANON AS A WEAPONS

FREE ZONE AND HERE ISRAEL IS

SHOWING THE EVIDENCE THAT WELL,

THERE ARE A LOT IN FACT EVERY

SINGLE HOME ALONG THAT BORDER

WAS USED THEM AND YOU GO WHERE

WAS THE U.N. WHERE WHERE WAS

THE RESOLVE TO MAINTAIN PEACE

AND INSTEAD OF MAINTAINING THE

PEACE THEY'RE ACTUALLY FUNDING

THE WAR UNWRA HAD SALARIED

EMPLOYEES WHO WERE PART OF

HAMAS PARTICIPATED IN THE

OCTOBER 7TH ATTACKS.

IS ABSOLUTELY MIND BOGGLING

THAT THAT WOULD BE ALLOWED.

BUT THEN THERE WOULD BE

CRITICISM FROM THE U.N. STANDS

UP AND SAYS WE CAN'T HAVE UNWRA

OPERATING.

IT'S OBVIOUSLY COMPROMISED.

WE WE WE JUST CAN'T HAVE THAT.

LET'S RECOGNIZE THE TRUTH

HERE AND RECOGNIZE THAT THE

U.N. SEEMS TO ARRAYED AGAINST

ISRAEL.

AND ANYTHING COMING OUT OF THAT

ORGANIZATION DIRECTED AT ISRAEL

SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO STAND

AND THE U.S. SHOULD STAND

ABSOLUTELY IT.

WELL, HERE AT HOME JEWS ALSO

FACE THREATS THEIR LIVES RIGHT

IN THE U.S..

JOHN JESSUP, THAT STORY FROM

OUR CBN NEWS BUREAU IN

WASHINGTON.

JOHN THAT'S RIGHT, GORDON.

JEWS AROUND THE WORLD AS

WELL AS HERE THE UNITED STATES

WILL OBSERVE YOM KIPPUR

BEGINNING TONIGHT.

IT IS DAY ON THE JEWISH

CALENDAR.

AMERICAN JEWS THOUGH THOUGH

ALSO FACE GROWING THREATS

SIMPLY BECAUSE OF WHO THEY ARE.

THIS MONTH AN ARMED GUNMEN

KILLED 11 PEOPLE AT THE TREE OF

LIFE SYNAGOGUE THE WORST

MASSACRE IN THE HISTORY OF THE

AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY.

CBS 20 GRIFFITH SPOKE WITH A

SECURITY EXPERT WHO WAS THERE.

HE EXPLAINS WHO HE NOW TARGETS

FOR FULL TIME TRAINING AND WHAT

TO DO IN A WORST CASE SCENARIO

TRAIN THE COMMUNITY TO SURVIVE

FOR 3 TO 5 MINUTES.

AND WHY DO WE DO THAT?

IT'S THAT TIME WHEN SOMETHING

BAD HAPPENS AND LAW IS CALLED.

WHAT IS THE PROTOCOL IS RUN,

HIDE, FIGHT AS PITTSBURGH'S

FIRST JEWISH COMMUNAL SECURITY

DIRECTOR BRAD ORSINI WILL NEVER

FORGET SATURDAY, SEVENTH, 2018.

IT WAS A RAINY MORNING MORNING

.

WE ALL WENT DOWN THEN TO OUR

SANCTUARY SPACE.

I TURNED AROUND AND THERE

WAS THE MAN WITH THE GUN NOT

FAR SHOT BUT THEY HAVE AN

ACTIVE SHOOTER IN THE BUILDING

WAS AN UNIMAGINABLE WORST CASE

FOR THE JEWISH COMMUNITY THAT

AN INDIVIDUAL WENT IN WITH A

HIGH POWERED RIFLE, AN AR 15

AND JUST SHOT PEOPLE WHILE

THEY'RE PRAYING THEIR MOST

VULNERABLE.

11 PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES.

THERE WERE TWO BROTHERS AND A

HUSBAND AND WIFE AND IT WAS A

HORRIFIC CRIME SCENE.

ORSINI.

IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE HAD

CONGREGATES AT TREE AT TREE OF

LIFE SYNAGOGUE NOT BEEN

TRAINED.

THE PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY AND

THE JEWISH COMMUNITY TRAINED

FOR THIS AND WE SPENT FROM THE

TIME THE PROGRAM STARTED IN

JANUARY OF 2017 UP UNTIL THE

SHOOTING WE TRAINED OVER 6000

PEOPLE IN THE JEWISH ON BASIC

SAFETY MEASURES HOW TO SAVE

YOUR LIFE, ORSINI SAYS THE

NUMBER ONE RULE IN A SHOOTING

ATTACK IS RUN.

IT'S HARD TO HIT A MOVING

TARGET AND GIVE THEM

STATISTICS, SAYS, SAYS SOMEBODY

MOVING.

EVEN A TRAINED PROFESSIONAL

MIGHT HAVE TROUBLE HITTING A

MOVING TARGET.

THAT'S WHY ACTIVE SHOOTERS ARE

SO SUCCESSFUL.

PEOPLE LAY ON THE GROUND AND

THEY'RE EXECUTED.

AND WE BECAUSE THEY'RE

PARALYZED WITH FEAR BECAUSE

THEIR MIND CAN'T REACT.

THEIR HEART RATE IS SO HIGH.

DURING THE TREE OF LIFE THERE

WAS A 90 YEAR OLD MAN WHO RAN

UP TO FIGHT TWO STEPS

BARRICADED AND LIVED.

STEPHEN WEISS CREDITS THE

TRAINING AS AS WELL AS GOD FOR

SAVING HIS LIFE THAT DAY.

I RAN UP THE SIDE OF THE

CHAPEL ACROSS THE BIMA AND OUT

A DOOR THAT'S ON THAT SIDE OF

THE BIMA AS I WAS GOING OUT OF

THE DOOR.

SHOTS WERE STARTING TO HAPPEN

IN THE CHAPEL ITSELF.

I LOOK BACK ON IT AND TO GOD

HAS A REASON WHY I'M STILL

HERE.

ORSINI NOW TRAINS THE

COMMUNITY IN SECURITY ON A

NATIONAL LEVEL.

HE SAYS

OF ANTI-SEMITISM THE NEED IS

MORE IMPORTANT EVER.

WE'RE DOING A TRAINING

MODULE FOR JEWISH CAMPUS

STUDENTS AS WELL TO GIVE THEM

THAT HEIGHTENED AWARENESS TO

GIVE THOSE TOOLS NECESSARY SO

THEY CAN FEEL MORE EMPOWERED

BECAUSE WE WANT THEM TO LIVE

THEIR BEST BEST JEWISH LIFE.

ESPECIALLY ON CAMPUS THEY

SHOULD FEEL FREE TO WEAR A

KIPPAH, WEAR A STAR.

DAVID THAT IS MOVIES THROUGHOUT

THE CAMPUS THEY DON'T FEEL THAT

WE ARE LOSING.

AS THE THREAT OF MORE

WIDESPREAD VIOLENCE GROWS

COMBINED WITH STUDENTS BACK ON

CAMPUS AND JEWS CELEBRATING THE

HIGH HOLY DAYS, ORSINI SAYS THE

PRIORITY IS TO BE PREPARED AND

REMAIN VIGILANT.

WE'RE ENCOURAGING THE

COMMUNITY.

WE'RE BEGGING THE COMMUNITY.

YOU SEE A SIGN, A HATE REPORT

TO US AND WE WILL MAKE SURE WE

SURE WE ASSESS IT AND GET AT

THE LAW ENFORCEMENT IF

ACTIONABLE.

WENDY GRIFFITH CBS NEWS THE

THANK YOU, WENDY.

WELL, TURNING NOW TO THE

AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE MILTON,

RESIDENTS IN FLORIDA ARE TRYING

TO PUT THEIR LIVES BACK

TOGETHER IN THE WAKE STORM.

STILL, DESPITE THE DESTRUCTION,

MANY ARE RELIEVED WORSE.

SO WE STILL HEARD HAS A STORY.

FLORIDIANS ARE STILL

DISCOVERING THE FULL EXTENT OF

MILTON'S DESTRUCTION AND

LEARNING STORIES OF SURVIVAL.

THIS MAN WAS FOUND FLOATING 30

MILES OFF THE GULF COAST

CLINGING TO A COOLER TO STAY

AFLOAT.

THE COAST GUARD RESCUED HIM

AFTER HE TRIED TO RIDE OUT

MILTON ON HIS FISHING BOAT IN

FIVE FOOT SCENES.

MILTON CAME ASHORE WEDNESDAY

SOUTH OF TAMPA AS A CATEGORY

THREE HURRICANE.

THE.

THE HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY

SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT WAS GOING

DOOR TO DOOR ON BOATS RESCUING

MORE THAN 700 PEOPLE.

PLEASE BE.

IF YOU FEEL BETTER, GO ON

THE DRY GROUND.

WE CAN TAKE YOU THERE.

FIVE WERE RESCUED FROM THIS

APARTMENT COMPLEX.

THIS THIS 14 YEAR OLD BOY

WAS FOUND FLOATING ON A PIECE

OF FENCE IN TAMPA.

A MOTHER AND SON USE THEIR

FISHING BOAT TO HELP STRANDED

PEOPLE.

THESE PEOPLE ALL NEED HELP.

NOBODY HAS BEEN HERE TODAY.

IN GULF COAST COMMUNITIES

FROM NAPLES TO VENICE, SOME

HAVE FOUND THEIR HOMES BURIED

UNDER AS MUCH AS THREE FEET OF

SAND.

EIGHT REPORTED TORNADOES

DAMAGED HUNDREDS OF HOMES ON

THE OTHER SIDE OF FLORIDA IN

PALM BEACH GARDENS.

THIS DUMPSTER WAS PICKED UP BY

A TORNADO AND THROWN ON TO OUR

HOUSE.

AT LEAST SIX PEOPLE WERE KILLED

WHEN A TORNADO HIT THIS

RETIREMENT COMMUNITY.

WHEN I WAS COMING BACK

AROUND THERE'S PEOPLE SCREAMING

IN THE TRAILER PARK AND TWO OR

THREE OF US JUMPED A DITCH TO

GO CHECK IT OUT AND.

ONE GUY WAS ALREADY PASSED AWAY

AND IT LOOKED LIKE THERE WAS A

BOMB WENT OFF RIGHT THERE.

THE PALM BEACH COUNTY

SHERIFF CALLED THE DAMAGE AREA

EXTENSIVE 200 HOMES HE SURVEYED

WERE UNINHABITABLE.

AND I CAN I CAN TELL YOU WHY

BECAUSE THE PLACES THAT I SAW

IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS AN ATOMIC

ATOMIC BOMB BLEW IT UP.

OPERATION BLESSING ALREADY

HELPING VICTIMS OF HALLOWEEN IN

NORTH CAROLINA IS SENDING

PREDEPLOYMENT TEAMS INTO THE

TAMPA BAY AREA.

OB RELIEF WORKERS WILL BE

TAKING MOBILE KITCHENS,

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT,

CHAINSAWS AND OTHER SUPPLIES TO

HELP THOSE IN NEED.

DALE HURD CBN NEWS.

HEARTBREAKING SCENES NOT

JUST PROPERTY UPROOTED GORDON

BUT LIVES ALSO UPROOTED.

THE DEATH TOLL IS HORRIBLE.

THESE THESE TRAGEDIES ARE JUST

AFTER ANOTHER AND WE WE CAN'T

GET INTO ABOUT THIS.

WE HAVE TO SAY WE NEED TO DO

OUR PART NEED TO SAY LET'S

LET'S BE OF HELP.

.

THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE

SUFFERING WHO ARE IN ABSOLUTE

DESPERATE NEED AND WE WANT TO

BE THERE FOR THEM TO LET THEM

KNOW THAT WE LOVE THEM AND WE

CARE FOR THEM.

OUR MOTTO IS QUITE CLEAR WHEN

STRIKE WE STRIKE BACK WITH LOVE

AND COMPASSION.

WE PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT PEOPLE

CARE ABOUT THEM AND ARE DO

WHATEVER IT TAKES IN ORDER TO

HELP THEM.

IF YOU WANT TO BE TO BE A

PART OF THE RELIEF EFFORT IT'S

REAL SIMPLE PICK UP A PHONE AND

CALL US.

1-800-700-7000.

SAY I I WANT TO GIVE TO THE

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RELIEF FUND.

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ACROSS OUR PLATFORMS.

MOST ISRAELI TEENAGERS ARE

DRAFTED INTO THE MILITARY RIGHT

AFTER THEY FINISH HIGH SCHOOL.

SOME OF THEM SPEND TIME A YEAR

AT AN ARMY PREP SCHOOL.

SINCE OCTOBER, THE FIVE FINGERS

IDF PREP SCHOOL HAS BEEN GIVING

A CRASH COURSE IN DEALING WITH

THE TRAUMA OF THE ONGOING.

CBS MIDDLE EAST CORRESPONDENT

JULIE STAHL REPORTS.

THEY CALL IT FIVE FINGERS

WHICH MEANS WHATEVER YOU DO DO

IT WITH YOUR FULL HEART, MIND,

SOUL AND STRENGTH.

THIS IS LIKE A PREPARATORY

SCHOOL FOR LIFE WHERE STUDENTS

LEARN THEIR HEARTS AND EVEN LAY

DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR THE GOOD

THE GOOD OF OTHERS.

IT'S A WAY OF LIFE.

IT'S A PHILOSOPHY.

FORMER ISRAELI SEAL DRAW

YANAI LEADS THE FIVE FINGERS

MACHINA, A ONE YEAR PROGRAM

HELPING.

YOUNG PEOPLE GET READY FOR

CHALLENGES THEY'LL FACE IN THE

IDF AND LIFE OVERALL.

THE FIVE FINGERS.

IT'S A VALUE THAT YOU

UNDERSTAND FROM DAY

ONE EVERYTHING YOU DO YOU DO IT

TILL THE END.

THAT YOU DO THE BEST THAT

YOU CAN.

KEY PRINCIPLES INCLUDE THE

MIND AND BODY IN THE FIVE

FINGERS METHOD WITH A FOCUS ON

COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND SOCIAL

AWARENESS.

VERY HARD TO TEST THOSE

THINGS ALL IN THE COURSE LIFE.

IT TAKES TIME TO SEE THE

IMPACT.

THIS PAST YEAR 67 STUDENTS FROM

ISRAEL AND OTHER COUNTRIES TOOK

PART IN MONTH PROGRAM.

IT BEGAN ABOUT A MONTH BEFORE

THE OCTOBER WAR.

FIVE FINGERS BOARD MEMBER SAW

FELDMAN SAYS DEALING WITH THE

IMPACT AND REPERCUSSIONS OF

THAT TURNED THEIR CRASH COURSE.

AND WHAT THE MACHINE THAT

DID WAS.

IN A WEEK THERE WAS A WHOLE

PROGRAM TO HELP KIDS THAT WAS

REFUGEES FROM THE SOUTH.

SUDDENLY THE SITUATION PUT

STUDENTS LIFE TEST AND IT WAS

AMAZING TO SEE.

THEY WERE BECOMING LIKE

TEACHERS LIKE COACHES FOR KIDS

AND NOT FOR

KIDS THAT CAME WITH ALL THE

IMPACT AND ALL HORROR THAT

THEY'VE SEEN.

15 PAST GRADUATES HAVE DIED

DURING THE WAR.

A HIGH PERCENTAGE LEADERS

ATTRIBUTE TO MANY SERVING IN

TOP UNITS AND TO LAY DOWN THEIR

LIVES FOR OTHERS.

CBN NEWS NEWS MET THREE

STUDENTS FROM THE U.S. AND

CANADA WHO JOINED THE SCHOOL.

19 YEAR OLD JILL DORI FROM

PHILADELPHIA FINISHED THIS YEAR

AS PART OF THE SCHOOL'S SIXTH

GRADUATING CLASS.

I'M A GAP YEAR BEFORE THE ARMY

AFTER HIGH SCHOOL A VERY

SPECIAL YEAR A YEAR WHERE I

WANTED TO BETTER TO BETTER

MYSELF.

I WANTED TO LEARN NEW THINGS.

I WANTED TO COME TO ISRAEL AND

AND THE CULTURE AND THE

LANGUAGE.

WHILE DORY THE GREAT

GRANDSON OF THE IDF OF STAFF

DIDN'T HAVE TO SERVE IN THE

ARMY, HE CHOSE SO.

IT'S BEEN GREAT.

THERE'S BEEN ROUGH PARTS BUT

OVERALL IT'S BEEN A GREAT YEAR

AFTER THE WAR AND EVERYTHING

WE'VE DONE AND THE WHOLE YEAR

THAT WE WE SPENT HERE I THINK

THERE'S THERE'S NOTHING MORE

MEANINGFUL THAT I'VE DONE IN MY

LIFE THAN THIS.

BORN IN ISRAEL LEHIGH MOVED

TO BALTIMORE, MARYLAND AT EIGHT

YEARS OLD.

SHE THE PROGRAM LAST SUMMER.

I HEARD THAT WE'RE MOVING

MOVING DOWN SOUTH TO VOLUNTEER

AND HELP KIDS.

I WAS WONDERING IF I'M

COMING BACK.

I DON'T CARE.

I WANT TO HELP.

FRIEDMAN SAYS WHILE IT'S

DIFFICULT BEING AWAY FROM HER

FAMILY, SHE THE RIGHT CHOICE.

IT WAS DEFINITELY THE

HARDEST YEARS THAT I'VE EVER

HAD IN MY HAD IN MY LIFE BUT

THE BEST YEAR WHEN I WANT TO DO

ANYTHING ELSE.

DESPITE THE CHALLENGES OF

HELPING CHILDREN WHO'VE HAD TO

DEAL WITH TRAGEDY, FRIEDMAN

SAYS IT'S WORTH IT.

IT WAS DEFINITELY HARDER

HEARING ALL THE TRAUMA THEY

WENT THROUGH.

WHILE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S

GOING ON WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT.

SO IT WAS DEFINITELY HARD BUT

AT THE END WE REALLY JUST SAW

HOW IMPACTFUL WE WERE THEY

STILL TALK TO US.

WE REALLY MADE A CONNECTION

WITH PEOPLE THAT WE NEVER KNEW

WE WOULD EVER IN OUR LIVES.

ABRAHAM FROM TORONTO, CANADA

FIRST CAME TO ISRAEL HALF YEARS

AGO.

I JUST FELT SOMETHING

DIFFERENT IN THE AIR.

I JUST LOVED IT.

I FELT LIKE MYSELF HERE.

MY LIFE GOAL IS TO GET ARMY

DRAFT AND TO COMBAT TO PROTECT

THIS COUNTRY THAT I LOVE SO

EVENTUALLY YOU LIVE HERE AND

RAISE KIDS HERE.

ABRAHAM CAME CAME TO THE

MAFIA IN ORDER TO ENTER THE

DRAFT AND THEN OCTOBER HAPPENED

.

MY MOM CALLED ME AND SHE

SAID EZRA, YOU'RE COMING HOME.

STOP IT.

I'M SORRY.

I'M PART OF THEM THAT I'M PART

OF.

I JOINED JOINED THE ISRAELI

CULTURE AND THIS IS THE

ULTIMATE TEST.

IF THEY'RE ALL STRUGGLING I'M.

IF THEY GO TO WAR, I GO TO

WAR.

A FEW WEEKS LATER THEY BECAME

CERTIFIED COACHES HELPING

EVACUEES IN A LOT AND WE

BASICALLY TAUGHT THESE KIDS

VALUES AND GAVE THEM A REASON

TO WAKE UP UP EVERY MORNING.

EVEN WHEN I WASN'T GIVING

THEM WORKOUTS I WAS JUST WITH

THEM BECAUSE THAT BIG BROTHER

THEY BUILT THEIR HEARTS AND ME

THEY CAN CALL ME WHATEVER THEY

WANT.

THAT'S WHERE IT'S LIKE AND

WITH SOME KIDS HAVING A LITTLE

BIT OF A MELTDOWN AND I ASK THE

DOG AND TALK TO DAD DAD'S A

HOSTAGE.

WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THAT?

.

WHILE HE ENTERED HERE AS A

STUDENT, ABRAHAM SAYS THE WAR

HIM QUICKLY MATURE.

IT'S THE STORY OF THESE KIDS

AND GIVING KIDS THAT WENT

THROUGH SO MUCH.

THERE'S NOTHING BETTER THAN

GIVING BACK TO THESE PEOPLE.

THAT'S THE ULTIMATE DORI SUMS

UP WHAT THIS YEAR HAS MEANT TO

HIM.

I ALWAYS SAID TO MYSELF WHEN

I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND STUFF

WE STARTED.

THAT TAUGHT ME ABOUT LIFE ABOUT

AND IT TAUGHT ME ABOUT HOW I

CAN BE PERSON AND THIS IS THAT

THIS IS EXACTLY THAT.

SITTING THROUGH THESE LECTURES

AND STUFF IS LESSONS THAT YOU

CAN TAKE TO YOUR LIFE THAT THEN

YOU CAN PROCESS AND USE ONWARD.

AND THAT'S WHAT LIKE THE GOAL

THAT THAT LIES HERE.

JULIE STAHL NEWS.

FIVE FINGERS MINA'S CORNEA A

COVE.

WELL THAT'S JUST ONE OF THE

REASONS WITH ISRAEL.

JUST IMAGINE THAT KIND OF

PROGRAM.

SOMEONE WHO HAS THE

OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE IN THE

UNITED STATES BUT THEY SAY NO,

I WANT TO BE WITH PEOPLE.

I WANT TO BE IN ISRAEL.

I WANT TO RAISE TO RAISE A

FAMILY HERE.

THIS IS WHERE I WANT TO LIVE.

AND RIGHT NOW THAT HOMELAND IS

IN DANGER AND WANT TO DO

EVERYTHING IN MY POWER TO

PROTECT IT.

WHAT AN INCREDIBLE CULTURE.

WHAT AN INCREDIBLE HEART SAY

I'M ALL IN.

IT'S JUST PART OF THE GENIUS

.

WHY IS ISRAEL IN THE MIDDLE OF

ALL THIS CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE

TERRORISM, ALL THE OPPOSITION

THAT IS SEEMINGLY MARSHALED

AGAINST THEM FROM AROUND THE

WORLD?

THEY STILL STAND STRONG AND ON

RATINGS OF WHAT ARE THE

HAPPIEST NATIONS IN THE WORLD.

THEY STILL RANK IN THE TOP TEN.

IT'S ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE.

.

AND I WANT YOU TO HAVE A

WONDERFUL DOCUMENTARY THAT

WE'VE PUT TOGETHER CALLED THE

GENIUS OF ISRAEL THAT EXAMINES

ARE THE ASPECTS OF THEIR

CULTURE THAT MAKE SUCH A

SIGNIFICANT AND THE CONTRAST

BETWEEN ISRAELI AND THEIR VALUE

OF LIFE AND THE CULTURE OF

HAMAS AND THE CULTURE OF

HEZBOLLAH AND THE CULTURE OF

THE IRANIAN THEOCRACY.

THOSE ARE CULTURES OF DEATH

WHERE THEY SOMEHOW THINK

THEY'RE GOING TO PARADISE IF

THEY.

THEY DIE IN AND IN ATTACKING

JEWS.

IT'S JUST ABSOLUTELY A STARK

CONTRAST AN ISLAMIC DEATH CULT

VERSUS THIS WONDERFUL

FLOURISHING CULTURE THAT'S A

LIGHT TO THE NATION OR STARTUP

NATION THIS WONDERFUL SHOWS YOU

THE REASONS WHY.

WHAT ARE THE VARIOUS THINGS IN

ISRAELI THAT ALL COME TOGETHER

TO MAKE THIS SO UNIQUE SUCH A

LIGHT TO THE NATIONS?

YOU CAN HAVE IT FOR A GIFT OF

AMOUNT AND YOUR CONTRIBUTION

WILL GO INTO A FUTURE DOCUMENT

.

RIGHT NOW WE'RE WORKING ON

ONE CALLED THE ORACLES OF GOD

WHICH EXPLAINS HOW WE GOT THE

SCRIPTURES AND HOW THE SAME

BIBLE JESUS AND THE DISCIPLES

READ 2000 YEARS AGO IS THE

ONE WE HAVE TODAY.

I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT

TO GET THAT GET THAT MESSAGE

OUT AND YOUR GUEST WILL GO INTO

THE PRODUCTION COSTS OF THAT.

SO TO GET A DVD COPY OF THE

GENIUS OF ISRAEL THEN INSTANT

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YOU CAN ALSO TEXT GENIUS TO

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CALL

LEE HAUER HAUER FELT LIKE HE

WAS BEING STABBED BY NEEDLES AT

TIMES HIS LIPS TURNED BLUE.

THIS BOY HAD A HOLE IN HIS

HEART AND WITHOUT AN OPERATION

HE COULD DIE.

LEE HOWE HAS BEEN AN

ASPIRING AUTHOR SINCE.

HE WAS TEN ALTHOUGH I STARTED

WRITING ABOUT A BOY WHO ALWAYS

OVERCAME HIS ENEMIES.

THERE WAS A LOT OF HOPE IN MY

STORIES WHICH GAVE ME HOPE.

LEE HOWE WAS BORN WITH A

HOLE IN HIS HEART.

HIS MOTHER ABANDONED THE FAMILY

LEAVING HIS FATHER TO RAISE LEE

HOWE ALONE.

HIS CLOTHES WERE MUCH WORSE

THAN THE OTHER KIDS HE CARVED

AND CARVED.

IT IS HARD BEING REALLY

POOR.

IT WAS DIFFICULT TO WATCH HIM.

MY HEART WAS REALLY BAD LIKE A

BIG STONE PRESSING ON THAT.

MR. STONG WORKED LONG HOURS

.

WHENEVER POSSIBLE HE RESEARCHED

REMEDIES AND WENT TO THE

MOUNTAINS TO GET HERBS HE

THOUGHT MIGHT CURE LEO'S.

BUT NOTHING WORKED AND LEE HOWE

CONTINUED GET WORSE.

THE LARGER THE HOLE GOT THE

WAS ON HIS HEART AND THE MORE

PAIN JUST JUST SOMETIMES DEEP.

CAUSE MY HEART BEAT REALLY

FAST LIKE A NEEDLE NEEDLE WAS

PIERCING ME.

I FELT DIZZY AND MY EYES GOT

HOT AND COVERED MY CHEST AND

LAY ON THE GROUND.

MY CLASSMATES AT ME.

SOMETIMES HE GOT PNEUMONIA.

I LOOK AWFUL.

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FOR MONTHS DON SPICER

WORKING PART TIME AT HER CHURCH

SHE WAS SINGING ON THE PRAISE

TEAM CONDUCTING BIBLE STUDIES

AND HAVING AN AN AFFAIR WITH A

COWORKER.

ALL THE WHILE SHE THOUGHT IT'S

GOING TO BE OKAY.

DON AND JEREMY SPICER'S

MARRIAGE HAD GOTTEN OFF TO A

GREAT START.

THE COUPLE LOVED THEIR TIME

TOGETHER.

WE SEEM TO GET ALONG VERY WELL

AND YOU KNOW, I NEVER SAW ANY

RED FLAGS.

I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE HAD

PROBLEMS.

IT WAS GOOD.

IT WAS GOOD.

BUT THAT STARTED TO WHEN THREE

YEARS INTO THEIR MARRIAGE THEY

HAD TWIN BOYS.

I BELIEVE OUR FOCUS CHANGED

FROM BEING FOCUSED ON EACH

OTHER BEING BEING FOCUSED ON

OUR MARRIAGE TO BEING FOCUSED

ON OUR BOYS BEING PARENTS.

OUR MARRIAGE WAS STRAINED

BECAUSE.

HOWEVER, I DON'T THINK EITHER

OF US REALLY SAW THAT.

IN ADDITION TO TAKING CARE OF

THE DON WORKED PART TIME AT

THEIR CHURCH AND WAS A SINGER

ON THE WORSHIP WORSHIP TEAM.

OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS SHE

STARTED FEELING OVERWHELMED AND

THAT SHE WASN'T BEING A GOOD

MOM OR WIFE.

SAW MYSELF AS NEVER BEEN GOOD

ENOUGH.

I NEVER WAS CONFIDENT IN

ANYTHING.

ALWAYS FELT LIKE I HAD MOM

GUILT THAT I COULD DO SOMETHING

BETTER AND AS A WIFE I FELT

LIKE I COULD DO BETTER.

I FELT LIKE, YOU KNOW, JEREMY

DESERVED BETTER.

THERE WAS NOTHING THAT ANYONE

ELSE WAS MAKING FELT LIKE IT

WAS MY OWN INSECURITIES.

JEREMY HAD HIS OWN STRUGGLES

AND THE COUPLE STARTED GROWING

APART.

DAD WAS FOCUSED ON TAKING CARE

OF THE BOYS AND JUST REALLY NOT

PUTTING THE FOCUS ON HER AS

MUCH FOCUS ON HER AS LIKE I

SHOULD BE FEELING ALONE.

DON WAS DRAWN TO A COWORKER'S

AFFIRMATION.

HE WOULD TELL ME GOOD JOB OR

.

HE DID GREAT TODAY OR THINGS

LIKE THAT WHICH KIND OF BOOSTED

MY CONFIDENCE AND MADE ME FEEL

GOOD.

THAT WAS FILLING A VOID OF

OF NOT BEING GOOD ENOUGH AND

ALL OF THAT AND HEARING THOSE

THINGS FROM HIM LED US INTO A

BAD PLACE THAT BAD PLACE WAS AN

AFFAIR THAT LASTED THREE MONTHS

AND THE ONLY WAY TO IN IT WAS

TO JUSTIFY IT.

I NEVER THOUGHT I'M GOING TO

LEAVE.

I NEVER THOUGHT I'M GOING TO

LEAVE MY CHILDREN.

I WOULD JUST KIND OF PRETEND

THAT JEREMY WASN'T IN THE

PICTURE WHEN WHEN I WAS WITH

HIM AND VICE VERSA WHEN I WOULD

COME HOME

BOX AND PRETEND IT WASN'T THERE

AND I WOULD JUST BE WIFE AND I

WOULD JUST BE MOM.

AND SO JUST IN MY HEAD

JUSTIFIED IT ALL AND JUST SAID

JEREMY JEREMY WILL NOT FIND OUT

AND IT'S ALL GOING TO BE OKAY.

DON SPICER IS HERE WITH US

NOW FOR MORE OF HER STORY, WE

WELCOME YOU TO THE PROGRAM.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

YOU HAD THE PERFECT FAMILY KNOW

YOUR COUPLE THAT LOVED EACH

OTHER STARTED TWO PERFECT

LITTLE BOYS.

WHAT HAPPENED?

I WAS TRYING TO FILL A VOID

THAT I FELT INSIDE OF ME WITH

SOMETHING OTHER THAN GOD.

AND SO I WAS CRAVING THE

ACCOLADE AFFIRMATIONS FROM

PEOPLE AND THAT'S WHAT I

THOUGHT WAS GOING TO COMPLETE

ME.

DON IN YOUR BOOK YOU TALK

ABOUT THE FACT THAT YOU WERE

EVEN FEELING SOME OF THOSE

THINGS AND JEREMY EVER MARRIED

AND YOU KNOW WHEN WE'RE IN

CHURCH THE DOING THE RIGHT

STUFF AND GOING THROUGH THROUGH

ALL OF THAT AND WE FEEL THAT

EMPTINESS THERE'S ALWAYS

SOMETHING BEFORE US THAT WE

THINK IS GOING TO WHEN I GET

HERE WHEN I MEET THIS PERSON I

DO THAT.

BUT YOU TALK ABOUT THE FACT

THAT REALLY INTENDED THAT THIS

WOULD DESTROY YOUR MARRIAGE SO

OF THIS WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING,

HOW DID YOU JUSTIFY IT?

WHAT WAS IN YOUR HEAD, IN

YOUR HEART?

IT WAS A DISTURBING PLACE TO BE

WHEN LIKE I SAID.

I WOULD COMPARTMENTALIZE

THINGS.

SO WHEN I WAS AT HOME I PLAYED

THAT PART AND WHEN I WAS WITH

HIM I PLAYED THAT PART I KIND

OF JUST BLOCKED EACH OTHER OR

EACH THING OUT.

BUT IN THE DEEPEST, DARKEST PIT

OF SIN I THOUGHT GOING TO MAKE

THIS GOOD AND REDEEM IT.

YEAH.

YEAH.

WELL HE DOES BUT IT'S NEVER

EASY, IS IT?

NO.

YOU SHARE WITH WITH A FRIEND

THINKING THAT THE FRIEND WHO'S

A VERY CLOSE PERSONAL IS GOING

TO KEEP THIS CONFIDENCE AND

WHAT?

SHE SHE KEPT IT FOR A LITTLE

BIT AND THEN SHE REALLY JUST

SAID YOU'VE GOT TO TELL OR I.

AND SO KIND OF GAVE THAT

ULTIMATUM WHICH REALLY SAVED MY

IN A WAY.

SO YEAH THAT THAT'S THAT'S A

TRUE FRIEND THAT WILL CALL YOU

TO ACCOUNTABILITY.

WHAT WAS IT LIKE WHEN YOU

FINALLY SAID I HAVE TO TELL

JEREMY?

WHAT WAS THAT LIKE?

THAT WAS KIND OF THE MOMENT I

THINK I'VE EVER FELT THINKING

ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION THAT WAS

GOING TO COME FROM THAT.

THE PAIN FOR HIM THAT WAS GOING

TO COME COME FROM THAT AND SO

IT WAS A TERRIFYING THING BUT

IT WAS AN ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY

THING.

HOW DID YOU MANAGE WHAT HE

WAS FEELING?

BECAUSE IT WAS YOU LOVED HIM

BUT TO WATCH SOMEONE LOVE GO

THROUGH PAIN LIKE THAT WHEN YOU

KNOW YOU'RE THE ONE CAUSING IT

HOW YOU DEAL WITH THAT.

THAT WAS A HARD SPACE TO BE

REALLY.

IT WAS JUST FULLY SURRENDERING

TO THE LORD AND BEGGING FOR HIS

HELP.

THERE WAS A MOMENT WHERE JEREMY

WAS LAYING ON THE BATHROOM

FLOOR UNABLE UNABLE TO EVEN GET

UP BECAUSE HE WAS SO DEVASTATED

AND I LAID THERE BESIDE HIM

THINKING I SHOULD BE THE

ONE THAT'S COMFORTING HIM BUT.

I'M THE ONE THAT HAS INFLICTED

SO MUCH OF THIS PAIN.

AND SO IT WAS A VERY STRANGE

DUALITY TO BE IN.

YEAH, BUT IT'S NOT AN

UNUSUAL STORY REALLY.

I MEAN WE SEE THIS HAPPENING

NOT JUST OUT THERE THE WORLD

BUT IN THE CHURCH AND WITH

PEOPLE WHOM PROBABLY EVER

THOUGHT THEY'D SEE THEMSELVES

THERE THROUGH OF THIS GOD HAS

REALLY TAUGHT YOU THINGS,

SPOKEN THINGS TO YOU WHERE THIS

AND BEGIN YOU KNOW IT GETS A

FOOTHOLD AND THEN WE SAY YES TO

ONE THING AND PRETTY SOON WE'RE

UP TO OUR ELBOWS.

TALK ABOUT DYING.

IT STARTS WITH SMALL

DECISIONS THAT REALLY JUST IN

THE MOMENT BUT STUFF THAT

ONE DECISION OF JUSTIFICATION

THAT JUST LEADS TO THE NEXT.

AND I HEARD THE SAYING OFTEN

ARE ALWAYS ONE DECISION AWAY

FROM A BAD DECISION AND I

DIDN'T EVER UNDERSTAND THAT

UNTIL I WAS IN THAT POSITION

AND IT REALLY DOES IT STARTS

WITH THAT ONE LITTLE JUSTIFIED

NATION WHERE YOU JUST DON'T

THINK IT'S A BIG DEAL AND IT

SLOWLY BECOMES A STRONGHOLD.

SO YOU TELL TELL YOUR

HUSBAND AND YOU'RE WALKING

THROUGH THE MUCK AND THE MIRE

OF ALL OF THIS WHICH HAD TO BE

AWFUL FOR ALL OF YOU, FOR YOUR

HUSBAND, YOUR FAMILY, YOU BUT

GOD HAS OBVIOUSLY REACHED INTO

YOUR HEART AND YOUR MIND AND

THAT EMPTINESS WAS THERE EVEN

BEFORE JEREMY WHILE YOU WERE

GOING THROUGH ALL THE

PERFUNCTORY CHURCH IS NOW FULL.

HOW DID GOD MINISTER WHOLENESS

TO YOU IN SUCH A PLACE OF

BROKENNESS?

WHEN YOU GET TO THAT PLACE OF

BROKENNESS YOU'RE COMPLETELY

EMPTY.

THERE'S NOTHING LEFT.

AND DAY IN AND DAY OUT FOR

MANY, MANY MONTHS I SAT AT OUR

KITCHEN TABLE AND IT STARTED

OFF WITH ME JUST BEING ABLE TO

JUST SAY JESUS HELP AND I JUST

CONTINUED TO JUST DIVE WORD AND

SEEK HIM AND SURRENDER AND THE

FREEDOM THAT COMES FROM FULL OR

FULLY SURRENDERING TO HIM IS

LIKE NOTHING ELSE THAT YOU CAN

POSSIBLY FATHOM IN YOUR LIFE.

AND SO FEELING THAT FREEDOM FOR

THE VERY FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE

HAS GIVEN ME FULLNESS THAT HOPE

AND THAT JOY THAT I WILL LIVE

WITH.

I AM IN ETERNITY WITH HIM.

WHAT ARE THE OTHER ELEMENTS BE

A PART OF THIS FOR THIS TO ALL

TRANSITION INTO A MIRACULOUS

RECOVERY HAD TO BE JEREMIAH'S

FORGIVENESS?

ABSOLUTELY THAT COME ABOUT.

HE AS SOON AS I CONFESS

ABSOLUTELY BROKEN BUT HE

IMMEDIATELY LOOKED AT ME AND HE

SAID I HAVE A GOD THAT FORGAVE

ME.

HOW DARE I NOT FORGIVE YOU?

HE DID JUST THAT.

AND THAT'S NOT TO SAY THAT IT

IT WASN'T A STRUGGLE.

IT WASN'T A FIGHT.

BUT HE NOT ONCE DID IN MY FACE

AFTER THAT HE FULLY FORGAVE ME

AND FROM AND FROM THAT POINT ON

JUST DECIDED THAT WE WERE GOING

TO FIGHT HARD AND WORK THIS OUT

.

THE OTHER ASPECT OF THAT HAD

TO BE YOU FORGIVING YOURSELF.

ABSOLUTELY.

ABSOLUTELY TO BE A

CHALLENGE.

IT WAS A AND THAT'S WHERE

COUNSELING CAME IN.

THAT'S WHERE THE ACCOUNTABILITY

.

I DID ABSOLUTELY.

YES.

I THINK COUNSELING IS AN

ABSOLUTE DEFINITE IN THIS AND I

HAD A SMALL INNER CIRCLE OF

THAT SURROUNDED ME AND SPOKE

TRUTH TO ME AND THAT IS CARRIED

ME TO THE NEXT LEVEL.

YOU TALK ABOUT THAT HOW

IMPORTANT IT IS TO HAVE PEOPLE

IN YOUR LIFE TO WALK THROUGH

THE MUDDY PLACES WITH YOU TO

GET TO THE THE WHOLENESS.

IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU FOUND THAT

GROUP.

I DID.

THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT

RAN.

THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT

RAN RAN AND YOU CAN'T BLAME

THEM FOR THAT BECAUSE THESE ARE

SITUATIONS THAT YOU DON'T KNOW

HOW KNOW HOW TO HANDLE.

A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HOW

TO HANDLE IT.

BUT I DID I HAD A SMALL CIRCLE

OF WOMEN AT THE CHURCH THAT

CHOSE TO STEP IN THE MUD, CARRY

ME THROUGH AND AND EXODUS

THERE'S A STORY TALKS ABOUT

MOSES WHERE HE IS ON THE HILL

ON THE HILL THEY'RE FIGHTING

AND JOSHUA THAT WERE WITH HIM

CAME AND CARRIED HIM OR HELD

HIS ARMS UP SO THAT THEY COULD

FIGHT.

AND I REALLY FEEL LIKE THAT'S

WHAT MY PEOPLE DID FOR FOR ME

WAS THEY HELD MY ARMS UP AND

CARRIED ME TO FREEDOM TO THE

FINISH LINE.

WHAT DO YOU.

YOUR BOOK IS CALLED EVEN STILL

THE JOURNEY FROM BETRAYAL TO

FORGIVENESS AND REDEMPTION.

WHAT DO TAKEAWAY TO BE FOR

PEOPLE?

I WANT THE TAKEAWAY TO BE

FOR ONE IF YOU ARE IN DARKNESS

RIGHT NOW, IF ARE SITTING IN

SIN OR WHATEVER POOR CHOICE OR

STRUGGLE THAT YOU TURN THE

LIGHT ON.

STEP INTO THE LIGHT BECAUSE THE

DARKNESS WILL ONLY GET DARKER

AND THERE IS SO MUCH FREEDOM

AND THERE IS A LOVES YOU MORE

THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY FATHOM

LOVES YOU MORE THAN ANY ANY

POOR DECISION THAT YOU'VE MADE.

AND SO JUST TURN THE LIGHT ON

AND TAKE THAT FIRST STEP.

WELL, THE BOOK IS CALLED EVEN

IT'S AVAILABLE NATIONWIDE.

DON, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR

BEING WITH US TODAY.

HER FROM THE DARKNESS AND I'D

NEVER CRIED THE WAY I CRIED IN

THAT MOMENT.

MONDAY BABA ARGUED ABOUT

EVERYTHING.

THEY DIDN'T SEE EYE ANYTHING.

THEY DIDN'T EVEN LIKE EACH

OTHER.

THIS THIS COUPLE'S MARRIAGE WAS

MISERABLE UNTIL THE DAY THEY

TOOK TOOK A BOAT RIDE.

SEPTEMBER 19TH, 99 WE TOOK

THE BOAT OUT ONTO THE RIVER FOR

A CRUISE.

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?

IT CHANGED OUR LIVES FOREVER.

CAROL AND I WERE MARRIED ON

AUGUST 24TH, 1984.

WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A DAY

THAT USHERED IN MARITAL BLISS

WAS INSTEAD THE BEGINNING OF A

VOLATILE UNION.

WE ARGUED ABOUT EVERYTHING

WE ARGUED ABOUT NOTHING.

CAROL TO GET MARRIED AND I

DIDN'T AND I FIGURED IF I

MARRIED HER THAT THE ARGUMENT

WOULD STOP AND WE'D GET ALONG A

LITTLE BETTER AND OBVIOUSLY

THAT DIDN'T WORK OUT VERY WELL.

WE'RE TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE.

WE'RE JUST TOTAL OPPOSITE.

SO MANY PEOPLE ARE TOTAL BUT WE

DON'T SEE EYE TO EYE ON

ANYTHING.

WHAT MADE MATTERS WORSE WAS

THAT I GREW UP IN AN ITALIAN

AND IT SEEMED LIKE THE MEN GAVE

THE WOMEN WHATEVER WANTED AND

THAT'S WHAT I EXPECTED ALSO.

OUR WORLD WERE SO DIFFERENT AND

WE REALLY DIDN'T LIKE A MARRIED

COUPLE.

WE WERE MORE LIKE ROOMMATES.

WE JUST I THINK I THINK THERE

WAS ALWAYS A SPARK OF LOVE

THERE BUT WE JUST DIDN'T LIKE

EACH OTHER.

I THINK WE BOTH WANTED TO BE

RIGHT AND COULDN'T UNDERSTAND

WHY THE OTHER PERSON WASN'T

THINKING THE THE SAME AS CAROL

BECAME MORE AND MORE BITTER.

I ESCAPED THROUGH DRINKING

ALCOHOL AND STAYING GONE.

I A PILOT I WAS ABLE TO PICK UP

THE LONGEST TRIPS I COULD PICK

PICK UP I STAYED HAS GONE AS

MUCH AS I COULD.

THE MORE THAT TRIED TO

CHANGE HIM, THE MORE THAT HE

STONEWALLED.

HE AND THAT'S WHY HE DIDN'T

EVEN WANT TO COME HOME.

ALCOHOL JUST SEEMED TO DOLE THE

PAIN.

DRINKING WAS A REAL PROBLEM FOR

ME.

IF HE HAD ONE DRINK HE WAS

GOING TO HAVE DRINKS AND THEN

HE WOULD JUST NOT BE BE FUN TO

BE AROUND FOR THE NEXT 15

YEARS.

WE FURTHER AND FURTHER

APART.

WE SORT OF SETTLED INTO

MEDIOCRE OR LESS THAN MEDIOCRE.

EVERYTHING ON SEPTEMBER 19TH,

1999.

IT IT STARTED WITH US ATTENDING

MY FRIEND'S WEDDING AT THE

BEGINNING OF THE WEDDING BILLIE

GOES DOWN TO THE FRONT OF THE

CHAPEL AND HE GAVE US HE JUST

TALKED ABOUT WHAT JESUS HAD

DONE IN HIS LIFE AND I JUST

KNEW GOD WAS SPEAKING TO ME.

GOD WAS TELLING ME BOB TO GET

OFF THE FENCE.

IT'S TIME TO QUIT DRINKING AND

IT WAS JUST PROBABLY THE

CLEAREST I'D EVER HEARD GOD

SPEAK AND I JUST KNEW THAT MY

LIFE WAS GOING TO CHANGE.

LATER THAT DAY WE TOOK OUR

BOAT OUT ONTO THE OHIO RIVER A

CRUISE.

I TOLD CAROL WHAT I FELT GOD

HAD SPOKEN ME THAT DAY.

I'M THINKING WELL THAT

SOUNDS REALLY GOOD.

I DON'T REALLY KNOW THAT'S

GOING TO HAPPEN BUT ONE COULD

ONLY HOPE.

BOB WENT TO START THE BOAT BACK

UP BUT.

THE ENGINE WAS DEAD.

THERE WAS A FUEL LEAK AND AND I

FIXED THE FUEL LEAK, CLEANED

EVERYTHING UP AND I THOUGHT

EVERYTHING WAS GOING TO BE

FINE.

BOB HIT THE STARTER SWITCH.

THE BOAT EXPLODED, BLEW UP

FLAMES EVERYWHERE AND CAROL I

LOOKED AT HER AND SHE WAS

ACTUALLY FLYING BACKWARDS OFF

OF THE BOAT AND I'M GUESSING 20

OR 25 FEET FROM THE BOAT SHE

WAS JUST IN THE AIR GOING SINCE

I WASN'T A SWIMMER I DIDN'T

HAVE A LIFE JACKET ON.

I WAS PRETTY SURE I WOULD DROWN

AND THAT'S WHEN I CRIED OUT GOD

AND I SAID LORD, PLEASE DON'T

LET IT END LIKE THIS.

I WAS COMPLETELY SURROUNDED

BY FLAMES AND AND I.

I SAW CAROL COME TO THE TO THE

SURFACE OF THE WATER.

I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT BUT JUST

IT WAS SERENE JUST LOOKING

AROUND LOOKING AT A BURNING

BOAT NOT, UNDERSTANDING WHAT

WAS REALLY HAPPENING AT THE

MOMENT.

BOATERS SAW THE ACCIDENT AND

CALLED 911.

THEY HELPED US TO SHORE AND AN

OFF DUTY NURSE TENDED TO US.

I WAS REMARKABLY UNSCATHED.

CAROL, HOWEVER, SUFFERED FIRST,

SECOND AND THIRD DEGREE BURNS.

SHE SPENT A WEEK IN THE

HOSPITAL RECOVERING AND THE

NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE WAS A

WAKE UP CALL FOR BOTH OF US.

WE KNEW THAT GOD SAVED US FOR A

PURPOSE.

JUST NO QUESTION ABOUT IT.

CAROL AND I WERE IN TOTAL

AGREEMENT ON THAT.

OF THE FIRST TIMES WE EVER

AGREED ON ANYTHING.

ALL OF A SUDDEN WHEN YOU

ALMOST THAT YOU LOVE EVEN

THOUGH THE MARRIAGE WASN'T GOOD

GOOD WE WERE BOTH IMMEDIATELY

ON BOARD TO FIND A WAY TO HAVE

A GOOD MARRIAGE.

WE JUST IMMERSED OURSELVES IN

GOD'S WORD AND EVERYTHING WE

COULD DO TO GET CLOSER JESUS.

WE BEGAN A FAITH JOURNEY THAT

DAY.

WAS TEACHING ME THINGS THAT I

DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT MYSELF AND

DOING THE SAME THING.

ALL OF A SUDDEN WE FOUND

OURSELVES TO BE ON THE SAME

PAGE.

WE WERE CHASING AFTER THE SAME

THINGS WE HAD DONE IN OUR OWN

WAY FOR WAY TOO LONG.

AND ONCE WE STARTED BEING

OBEDIENT TO WHAT GOD WAS

TELLING US WE FELL IN LOVE.

OVER THE NEXT 15 YEARS OUR

MARRIAGE FROM BEING SOMETHING

THAT CAUSED US PAIN TO BECOMING

SOMETHING TO THIS DAY.

AS A RESULT, 2014 WE STARTED A

MINISTRY WE CALL MERCY TO

STRUGGLING IN THEIR MARRIAGE BY

THE GOD I JUST WANT TO PRAY FOR

EVERY THAT'S WATCHING THIS LORD

GOD HAS TRANSFORMED EVERY AREA

OF OUR LIVES WHICH MADE IT

EASIER FOR US TO DO WELL IN

MARRIAGE.

WHEN WE DO GOD'S WAY IT'S

BEAUTIFUL.

WE DO IT OUR WAY.

MAYBE NOT SO MUCH.

LOVE IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT WHEN

IT'S UNSELFISH.

IT'S LIKE FINDING THE CURE FOR

CANCER.

YOU JUST WANT TO SHOUT IT FROM

THE ROOFTOPS THAT IF COULD SAVE

OUR MARRIAGE HE COULD SAVE

EVERYBODY'S MARRIAGES.

WE WENT THROUGH FIRE AND WATER.

YET YOU TOOK US TO A PLACE OF

ABUNDANCE AND THAT'S THE LIFE

WE'RE LIVING NOW LIVING A LIFE

OF ABUNDANCE FOLLOWING GOD'S

AND SHARING IT WITH OTHER

PEOPLE AND WE CAN'T HAVE A

GREATER THAT.

DON AND JEREMY, CAROL AND

BOB VERY CANDID ABOUT THE

STRUGGLES THAT THEY'VE GONE

THROUGH.

IF YOU'RE WATCHING TODAY AND

YOU'RE MARRIED YOU KNOW,

MARRIAGE IS HARD.

IT'S HARD.

IT HAS TO BE WORK THAT WHEN WE

FIRST MARRY IT'S USUALLY PRETTY

IMPRACTICAL AND IT IS PRETTY

SELFISH.

WE REALIZE THAT OR NOT WE FEEL

LIKE SOMEONE IS LOVING US WANT

AND NEED TO BE LOVED AND WE GET

TO LOVE THEM BACK AND THEN WE

HAVE TO LIVE TOGETHER.

GOD USES ALL OF THIS TO REFINE

US BECAUSE THE THE PERSON WE'RE

SUPPOSED TO BE MOST IN LOVE

WITH IS HIM.

IT'S NOT LIKE HE LEAVES US

HANGING OUT THERE.

HE'S MADE PROVISION.

THE PROBLEM IS THAT MOST WE TRY

TO SOLVE ALL OF THIS ON OUR OWN

AND MOST OF THE TIME OUR FOCUS

ISN'T GETTING TO HIM.

IT'S MEETING OUR OWN NEEDS.

WHAT WOULD ME HAPPY?

WHAT WOULD MAKE ME FEEL

FULFILLED?

WHAT WOULD MAKE ME FEEL?

WHAT KIND OF PERSON WOULD IT

TAKE?

LOVE ME.

THE TRUTH IS WE DON'T EVEN

REALLY REALLY KNOW WHAT THAT

WOULD TAKE FOR OURSELVES.

IF YOU'RE STRUGGLING IN YOUR

MARRIAGE TODAY I HOPE THAT BOTH

OF THESE HAVE BEEN AN

ENCOURAGEMENT TO YOU.

YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES BE DIFFERENT

BUT WHAT ISN'T DIFFERENT IS THE

ABILITY TO STEP RIGHT INTO THE

MIDST OF IMPOSSIBLE SITUATION

WHERE LOVE IS LOST, WHERE

PEOPLE DON'T SEE ANY OR ANY

FUTURE AND REDEEM IT TO IS TO

BUY BACK WHAT WAS LOST.

YOU KNOW CAROL SAID WE WERE

SUDDENLY LOOKING OUTWARD IN THE

SAME DIRECTION THAT SOMETHING

BIGGER THAN US.

WE NEED THAT IN OUR MARRIAGES.

THAT'S JESUS.

HE'S THE ONE WHO CREATED IT.

HE'S THE ONE WE MAKE OUR VOW

BEFORE WHEN WE COMMIT TO EACH

OTHER.

LET HIM HEAL YOUR MARRIAGE IF

IT'S BROKEN.

CAN FOR YOU RIGHT NOW, FATHER.

MARRIAGE IS A IS A UNION AND IT

REALLY TAKES THREE.

IT TAKES YOU AND THE BRIDE AND

THE GROOM AND SO GOD LIFT UP

EVERY COUPLE THAT'S LISTENING

RIGHT NOW THAT'S WATCHING

THAT'S STRUGGLING RIGHT NOW.

AND I ASK YOU YOU TO HELP US TO

BE HONEST WITH OURSELVES BEFORE

YOU HELP US TO BE WILLING TO

SURRENDER OUR NEEDS OUR WAY.

HELP US TO BE WILLING TO

CHANGE.

HELP US TO GIVE AND TO MAKE

WHAT WE GIVE PERCENT NOT 5050

BUT WITH YOU AND FOR YOU AND IN

YOU GOD HELP US TO TRUST YOU.

WHEN IT ALL LOOKS SO BLEAK

TODAY WE JUST SURRENDER TO YOU

OUR RELATIONSHIPS WE TO OUR

FAMILIES AND WE ASK YOU TO HEAL

US AND TO MAKE US WHOLE AND

JESUS MIGHT BE MORE IF THAT'S

YOU AND YOU'D LIKE MORE

INFORMATION ON GOD'S WHAT DOES

HE SAY ABOUT MARRIAGE?

WE'VE GOT A LOVE AND MARRIAGE

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HERE'S A WORD FOR YOU FROM

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ABOVE ALL LOVE EACH OTHER

DEEPLY BECAUSE LOVE COVERS OVER