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Hello everyone, I'm Stephen Strang and welcome to this very special edition of the Strang Report.
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Today my guest is none other than Mario Marillo and when I have Mario on my numbers go through
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the roof and I'm sure that's going to happen this time because we're going to talk about
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miracles and supernatural events that Mario is going to tell us about.
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So let me first of all welcome you to my podcast.
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Thank you for working it in.
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We had a little trouble finding a time but here we are and I'm eager to find out about
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these miracles and especially to talk about something that I've just learned about recently
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and that's a movie that's going to happen in the fall in which you deal with actual
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miracles.
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Tell us about it.
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Well, it's called Living Proof.
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It'll be in theaters and we had three healings that were so inescapably verified and the
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back stories are so compelling that we produced a film telling the story of these three people.
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And I'm going to talk somewhat about it because I'm very excited but one of the elements
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of it that I am excited about is that in instances in the film the doctors of these people that
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were healed will go on record describing before and after and how the physical changes that
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the patient went through when they were healed.
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All three of these healings happened under our tent and signs and wonders have been a
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part of our ministry since the very beginning in the 1970s and now we brought it to a point
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where the undeniable notable healings, we're going to put it out there because America
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needs hope right now and they need proof that there is a God who cares about them and that
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the gospel is real.
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Even the church is backpedaling on the deity of Christ and the inerrancy of Scripture.
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I think that what we're going to do is be a voice in America to reestablish the inerrancy
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of the Bible.
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Jesus is the Son of God and if you reach out to Him, He will heal you.
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Well I agree with you 100% and you know what you're talking about is really a renewal that
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needs to be constant because the early church which was so powerful that they overcame the
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evil Roman Empire, probably the most evil empire in the history of mankind with no
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armies, no power, no nothing.
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They changed the world as we know it.
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It devolved into the Roman Catholic Church of Martin Luther's day where he had to, and
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he said, how do they say it in Latin?
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I forget it, but it's only Scripture, sola, scriptura or something like that.
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And then there were people who said all these gifts ended with the apostles.
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We believe that the modern Pentecostal movement and Charismatic movements is the renewal of
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the gifts which include miracles.
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And people, I believe people want to believe but you know there are people who say they're
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healed and it was really wishful thinking.
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Or maybe they are healed but there's no real proof to satisfy the critics that something
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happened beforehand.
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So talk to me about these miracles and then I'll share a personal experience.
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Well the first thing I want to do is comment on Dr. Luke.
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The Christian movement relied on Dr. Luke to write the book of Acts and the book of Luke
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of course.
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But the interesting thing about his role in the church history is that's what he did.
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As a medical doctor he examined the stories.
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He gave us a record of what God did through the church in the book of Acts.
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We are not in any way supposing to add to Scripture.
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I won't do that.
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John warns us of that in the book of Revelation.
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But what we can do is extend the ministry of Christ in the modern era and verify its
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existence to do it with discipline and balance and integrity.
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And that's what I feel is important because I'll tell you there are two enemies of the
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miraculous.
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The first is the atheist skeptic on the one hand and the other is the false minister on
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the other hand.
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And I've often told people that the false preacher is the only true atheist because
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he's the only individual that's acting fully as if God did not exist because they're stealing
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money leading a double life, lying about the gospel.
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They couldn't do that and sleep at night unless they were convinced there was no God.
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So the miracles that we are seeing are happening on hearts, bodies, nerves, growths, people
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that have been hopelessly ill that have been healed by the power of God.
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In some instances, Steve, they've been healed watching and were miles away.
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I'm going to tell you one story.
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It happened in Rockland, which is outside of Sacramento.
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Her name is Grace.
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Grace was watching our tent crusade from an assembly of God church in Lincoln, California.
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Now I want to listen to this.
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She didn't come to the meeting because she was in too much pain.
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This is her story.
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Her hands were in excruciating pain.
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Well, she's watching on TV because she found out that locally one of the churches was
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going to televise and use a stream from the event.
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So I point out at the audience thinking that the individual I'm describing is in the audience.
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And I said, there is a woman with excruciating pain in her hands and she's being healed right
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now.
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She was in a room with 50 other people and she started screaming.
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And she said, it's me.
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And everyone in that audience was absolutely electrified at the power of God for which
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we give all the glory to Christ.
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These signs and indications of God's power, Grace is one example of that.
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But in the tent itself, people have been healed, have left, found out later that their symptoms
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had vanished, went to their doctor.
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Doctors found out that growths were no longer in their body.
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These things are happening and the good news is they're happening now.
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The bad news is why they're happening now, Steve, because America is literally on the
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line.
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The survival of this nation is down to a moment where we can feel it without a miracle, without
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an intervention in our culture.
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We're going to lose our freedom.
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And I think that just as the devil knows his time is short and he's in a rage, God also
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knows that America's time is short and he is releasing power.
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And why I want to counsel any minister, any preacher that's watching us today, let the
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spirit of God move in your Sunday morning service.
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Get rid of this hermetically sealed, pre-programmed, packaged Sunday service and open the door
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for the spirit of God to move.
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God will give you miracles and miracles.
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The news of them will go through a neighborhood like no other social media possibly can and
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people will come to God.
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And I'd love to say it's a glorious moment.
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Yeah, we're watching the glory.
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But it's because the hour is so late and the nation is in desperate trouble.
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Well, I agree with you, of course.
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And I want to hear more about these miracles, but let's first of all talk about living proof,
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which is a movie being made.
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And here's a little trailer that people can expect.
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And then we'll be back to talk about it.
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This thing that's been growing inside of you is dying by the power of God.
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And all of a sudden, God said, that was for you.
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And I want you to get a tent and you'll see miracles.
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That was like this tent thing.
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What is this?
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No, this is not for me.
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This is all fake.
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I'm not doing this.
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He wasn't living.
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He was existing.
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When I first met Steve, he was hunched over in a lot of pain.
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You know, I was, I really got hooked on the meds.
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I did try taking my life with the pills.
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He just seemed like he was in pain all the time.
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He walked into the tent and he encountered a miracle that continues to blow all of our
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minds.
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And this room, diseases will start to be healed in people's bodies.
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The next thing I know, I'm shaking.
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I didn't even realize it, but I'm standing straight up and down and I didn't have any
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pain.
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I looked at everybody in the role.
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Like, please, somebody tell me what's happening here.
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Steve was just a whole brand new human being.
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Like, it was a miracle.
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One characteristic of the outpouring of the spirit, or what we call revival, is that it's
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not the end.
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It's just the beginning.
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God is getting his people ready.
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Well, that's exciting.
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Would you tell me a little bit about the background of this and what you're hoping to accomplish?
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Okay.
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Well, first of all, the young lady, Bree, that you just saw with a condition where a toxic
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reaction to antibiotics made her body start to consume itself.
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She's 5'10", went down to 94 pounds.
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And the devastation extended to her motor skills.
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And so they wheeled her in and she demanded that she come to the front of the meeting
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and poured herself out onto the floor and began screaming as you saw in the video.
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And that miracle is absolutely undeniable and it's just the wonder of Christ.
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At the end of the film in the theaters, I'm going to give a 12-minute presentation to
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called people to be saved and to be healed.
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And we're hoping that by the time we get to that portion of the night that the case is
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so incontrovertibly made for the reality of Jesus that the audience will be moved.
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And we're expecting many, many people to be saved in theaters and healed.
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And so we're thrilled about it.
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And we're going to put together a grassroots movement.
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You know, a lot of people know our tent crusades.
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In fact, right now we're getting ready for Phoenix.
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That's the backdrop I've got is Phoenix, Arizona.
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And we're fighting a war there in order to get the crusade done.
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And it's coming together.
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But we are hopeful of using the skills that God has given us to create a grassroots volunteer
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army.
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Sometimes we've had 1,500 volunteers in our tent.
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Well, we have the ability to put together a national army so that when this film appears
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in a theater, there will be a grassroots campaign that is so well organized, that will overflow
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the theaters.
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Wherever the film will be shown, we're expecting to overflow the theaters and for it to take
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on a life of its own.
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And it's thrilling to me as a spirit-filled believer to have a proven something with integrity
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and decency and quality that really does give out the spirit-filled message of the baptism
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in the Holy Spirit and healing and the salvation of Christ.
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Well, it's important that people become part of this grassroots army because the theaters,
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which play all kinds of terrible stuff, have actually recently been much more open to what
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they call faith-based movies.
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Exactly.
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And Charisma Media even had one with Rabbi Jonathan Kahn that was more or less a documentary
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of his book, Harbinger 2.
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It was called Harbinger of Things to Come, and it played just less than two years ago.
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And it was the number two movie.
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It was on a Tuesday night, as I recall.
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In the whole country, only Doctor Strange was bigger, and then it came back later.
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And it was like revival broke out at the end of the film.
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It was phenomenal to see people started praising the Lord and all this kind of stuff.
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And then Greg Locke from Nashville did one out in Jesus' name, a similar kind of thing
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happened, except there were actually, in fact, he had a statement toward the end similar
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to what you just described in which he started praying deliverance, and people were manifesting
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in theaters all over the country.
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Now, these are only two examples or a lot of other examples.
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CBN has done some things.
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Some other ministries.
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We need to support them, partly because these theater owners could care less about the Gospel
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or anything else.
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All they care about is ticket sales, and I'm sorry to be that crass, but that's how it
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is.
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But do you know, on the other hand, we want positive things to go to, and the price of
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a theater ticket is not very much.
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We pay it for other things.
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We need to support ministries like you, and I just applaud you for doing this.
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Now I want to hear about some other miracle stories that happened.
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I know you were in Sacramento recently.
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You've had a lot of miracles, and people are hungry for this.
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They are.
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Things are so bad in our country.
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It's almost as if the pendulum is swinging or beginning to swing the other way, but we
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are a very precarious situation.
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So tell us some other stories of miracles that you've seen in your tent crusades and
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also in places like Capitol Christian Center in Sacramento and other churches that you've
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been to.
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Well, the miracles we've seen in the tent, ironically, happen often to non-Christians.
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That's the element.
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See, both Brie that you see in the film and then Stephen, the other gentleman, neither
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one of them knew Christ at the moment of their healing.
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And that's a remarkable statement.
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I mean, what in the world are we talking about there?
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Well, we have people like Joseph, who I'll tell you about his healing in Fresno.
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Joseph was on his way to work driving along Highway 99, which we call the Corridor of Glory
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in California.
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And as he was driving along Highway 99, he saw the tent at 4.30 in the afternoon, and
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a voice told him, get in the tent.
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Well, he was 19 years old and he's addicted to heroin and he has liver, kidney, and heart
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disease.
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So excuse me, pancreas, liver, and kidneys.
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And when he heard that voice, he went straight over to the tent in the parking lot at 4.30.
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And strangely enough, even though the meeting didn't begin for two hours, there were already
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people there sitting under the tent.
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And so he went and sat in the tent and called his boss and said, I'm not coming in today
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because I'm going to be in this tent.
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And the boss said, if you don't show up, I'm going to have to fire you.
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And he said, well, I guess I'm fired.
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So he sat there.
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I'm now arriving.
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I usually arrive about 45 minutes before start time.
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And I'm pacing outside the tent and all of a sudden the Lord says there'll be a young
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man.
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When you see him, you'll know him.
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And I didn't have any pictures.
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So I don't know how God was going to let me know who it was.
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But he ran down the entire profile that I just described.
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Well, I walk in.
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I'm standing there.
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I'm welcoming the people.
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I look out and they're on the aisle about six rows back on my right side.
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Santa Isle is this kid, Joseph.
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I walked down to him.
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I asked him to stand.
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Now, you would never do this, Steve, in a church.
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It'd be too raw.
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But I looked at him and I said, are you addicted to heroin?
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And he says, yes, I am.
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And then I began to describe the other illnesses in his body.
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And I could watch the visible shaking of the power of God on this young man who a demonic
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spirit was cast out of him.
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His body was healed.
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He was saved.
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And when I thought I had finished my job, God spun me around and said, go back.
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You're not finished yet.
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And I told him, you're going to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit, which is a major
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portion of what we believe in under the tent, because we can't have gangsters and drug addicts
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saved without leaving.
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They got to have the power of God to create that degree of separation with their past.
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So I put my hand on him.
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And all of a sudden, Steve, this beautiful language starts coming out of him.
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Well, I didn't miss an opportunity.
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I lowered the mic near his mouth and that prayer language of the Holy Spirit filled the tent.
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And it was like, it just ignited everyone in the room.
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The praise that went up to God was amazing.
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That was an astonishing miracle.
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And we thank God for it.
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Amen.
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And, you know, you're telling that about the dog addicts and so forth needing the power
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of the Holy Spirit brings to mind a story.
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I'll try to tell it very briefly about David Wilkerson, who started Teen Challenge.
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Right.
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Well, back in the 60s, Teen Challenge was very small.
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They had one center on Clinton Avenue in Brooklyn.
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And they found that the drug addicts who received the baptism in the Holy Spirit stayed off
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of drugs.
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And the ones who didn't receive tended to slip back into their old ways.
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And one day, a Catholic priest who had heard about them, and he came by the center to
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kind of get a tour.
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He asked David Wilkerson about this.
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And so in his book, Cross the Switchblade, you can read it for yourself.
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They stopped the narrative and he tells this Catholic priest about receiving the baptism
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in the Holy Spirit.
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Some Catholic students at Duquesne University in 1967 read that chapter and started seeking
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God.
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And that is the beginning of the modern charismatic renewal in the Roman Catholic Church.
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Because the people have been swept into the kingdom of God, and it was because of the
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story about the fact that the drug addicts needed the power of the Holy Spirit to live
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a life free.
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And really, to some extent, all of us are bound up to something.
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If it's not drugs, it's something else.
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And we all need to have that power.
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That's why the Holy Spirit fell on the day of Pentecost, which was the beginning of the
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church.
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And we're beginning to come to the end, and I want to hear other stories, but I also want
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to encourage people to subscribe to The Strang Report if you don't already.
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Hit the little bell so you know when we're on every Tuesday and Thursday, 4 p.m. Eastern
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time.
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But I'm going to tell a personal story.
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And if Mario has been my guest several times, and I've told how I've known you since 1971,
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which is true.
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And you had a powerful, powerful ministry back then, and I said to myself on today's
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podcast, you know, I'm not going to tell this story one more time.
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People can go back on YouTube or the Chrismas Podcast network and see it.
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But you're talking about miracles.
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And Mario, I've enjoyed good health most of my life, but the most significant healing
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that I had in the answer to prayer was in your meeting in 1971.
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And the story is that I hurt my back when I was about six years old, falling off a swing
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set and it damaged one vertebrae.
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And every once in a while, and so I was 20 years old and having excruciating pain, it
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would be triggered by something.
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It was really probably a pinched nerve.
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And eventually I'd get over it.
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But I was in excruciating pain at that conference that I was at, sitting on wooden benches,
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as I recall.
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And I felt, you know, it's not like having pancreatic cancer or something.
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I mean, everybody's got some level of back problem, I think.
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But I went forward and I was instantly healed.
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I'm going to say of the pain of the pinched nerve.
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And today, occasionally I have a little bit of back problem, but I believe that God really,
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really healed me.
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And I wanted to give glory to God one more time.
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Glory to God.
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And, you know, I've told you that story.
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In fact, you said you remembered it.
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It's hard for me to believe you remembered it was so long ago.
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But maybe that just gives a little bit of credibility that you are not new to the scene.
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You've been doing this for years and God's been using you.
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And really, if God can heal me or help me, that was a very impactful time in my life.
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He can do it for anyone.
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And that's the message I want to communicate in my podcast, is that the things that you
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see and the things we talk about, God can do in your own life.
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And that's right.
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So tell us some more stories because we're going to use up all the time.
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I want to get as many stories about the miracles and the supernatural because a lot of churches
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don't believe the supernatural or they even play it down.
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Yes.
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Sometimes they actually oppose it.
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And then people don't know what to think or they know of a time when someone made it up
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or they misused the power of God in some way.
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You even were talking about it before with, you said these pastors, these apostate pastors
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were the only atheists because they're acting this way.
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If they believed in God, they wouldn't act this way.
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So I believe that your testimony is sort of an antidote to that.
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Tell me more.
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Teresa Stacey was healed in Clear Lake, California.
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And she tried to get in our meeting three times, but the limited space made it impossible.
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She literally had only days left to live.
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And the shopping list of her ailments were virtually endless.
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90% of her liver was not working.
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She had diabetes.
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She had a condition in her spine where the bone was liquefying and she had lost two inches
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of height.
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She had peripheral neuropathy, a nerve problem that a lot of people have isolated to their
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feet, but with her it was all over her body.
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And even bed sheets, putting a sheet on top of her would cause her pain.
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14 years, she and her husband slept in separate bedrooms because of her condition and the pain.
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She couldn't be hugged or touched because of this.
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Even the doctors finally told her, you know, you don't have any time left and go put your
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house in order.
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So she comes to the meeting, can't get in because the line was too long, tries a second
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time.
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And the third time she's standing in a light rain outside of the facility and finally makes
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it in.
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I think she was there 90 minutes early.
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And she's sitting on the aisle and this facility we were in had a cement floor.
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And you have to remember her condition.
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And I looked down at her and God said, this is all that's going on in her.
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And I give him the glory.
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I'm terrified when I share stories like this because I don't want anyone to think I've
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got any power at all because I don't.
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And I went down there and to make it real quick, I asked her to stand.
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And when she began to stand, Steve, I thought I'd done the most cruel thing I'd ever done
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in my life because when she struggled to get on her feet, it was so excruciating.
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And then I reached out to pray for her and she fell on that cement floor with no one
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to catch her.
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And the husband was standing next to her.
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Jim is his name.
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Jim looked at his wife, bounce off cement floor and utterly panicked because he knew
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this would kill her.
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Well, she heard my voice talking to Jim like she was listening from the end of a barrel,
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you know, just a long tunnel, excuse me.
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And so she is hearing this and being operated on by God.
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She was five foot seven when she hit the floor and she was five foot nine when she stood
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up.
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Then all the tests done on her liver, done on her pancreas, her lungs, her heart, she
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was totally healed by the power of God.
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And I'm telling you, it shook people and it shook me even after years of seeing the miraculous.
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That shook me to my core.
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Well, we just have a couple of minutes left and I want to give you the last word.
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Tell people how they connect with Mario Murillo Ministries, how they can find out about the
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meeting you're going to have in Phoenix, about living proof, you know, as things develop
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and as put on a schedule because it's not going to happen until fall of 2024.
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And then end with just a positive encouragement to people to believe God.
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All in two minutes.
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Yes.
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You can do it.
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Go to mario marillo.org.
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That brings you to everything.
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That'll tell you about the film, our next 10 crusade right here in Phoenix on April 21st
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through the 24th.
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You'll find out about the film.
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You'll find out how you can volunteer.
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You'll find out how you can be active.
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And I'm going to say this because I really believe that if you were to ask me the number
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one thing the devil is doing to people right now is he's trying to get them introverted,
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thinking about their problem, thinking about how life affects them.
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And the instantaneous power against that is to become involved in the needs of other people.
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And the minute you do, not only are they going to be touched, but it's going to back up on
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you and it's going to transform your life.
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There is nothing that erases depression as fast as fresh vision.
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And a fresh vision to be used of God is the single greatest cure for all this onslaught
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of bad news.
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Every bit of this evil that's going on right now, my friend, you can solve it just by saying,
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God, make me a source of healing, encouragement and power for other people.
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And the minute you do that, you're going to see an instant relief and the weight of life
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is going to come off of you in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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And Marimorillo, thank you for being with us.
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Thank you for taking time.
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Thank you for being my friend all these years.
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In 1971, I would have never dreamed that God would use you or that God would reconnect
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our lives all these years later.
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Thank you to my viewers and listeners for tuning into the Strang Report.
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As I said, sign up, subscribe, share this with others, share the link, put it on social
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media.
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Let's get the word out.
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Let's be a part of a big army getting out.
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We're not so much about Marimorillo and his ministry, but these examples of what God has
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done, these miracles that have happened.
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Thank you for watching.
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God bless you.