Participants:
Series Code: IIWC
Program Code: IIWC202108S
|
00:01 for joining us on
00:03 It Is Written Canada. 00:04 Did you know that there is 00:06 such a thing as invisible 00:08 light, light beyond our visual 00:10 spectrum such as ultraviolet 00:13 and infrared light? 00:15 >> There is also such a thing 00:16 as "silent sound," sound 00:19 beyond our ability to hear. 00:21 >> There is also scentless 00:23 smells, scents beyond our 00:25 ability to smell. 00:27 >> Dogs, for example, can hear 00:29 sounds that are silent to us 00:31 and they have a sense of smell 00:33 10,000 to a hundred times as 00:36 sensitive as ours. 00:38 >> Dogs can sense up to one 00:39 part per trillion. 00:41 This means that because humans 00:43 can tell if there is a 00:45 teaspoon of sugar in a cup of 00:47 herbal tea, a dog can sense 00:49 that same teaspoon of sugar in 00:51 a million gallons of water, 00:53 the amount of water in two 00:56 Olympic-sized swimming pools. 00:59 [RENÉ] The truth is that we 01:00 are surrounded by invisible 01:02 forces such as microwaves, 01:04 radio waves... 01:06 [MIKE] And WiFi, magnetism, 01:09 gravity... 01:10 [RENÉ] Radiation, even 01:12 electricity. 01:13 [MIKE] And nuclear forces or 01:15 the forces that hold the 01:17 nuclei of molecules together. 01:19 >> The Bible encourages us to 01:22 walk by faith and not by sight 01:24 because we look not at the 01:26 things which are seen, but at 01:29 the things which are not seen. 01:31 >> All these invisible forces 01:34 can serve as object lessons 01:36 that can open our eyes to 01:38 spiritual realities for it is 01:41 by seeing Him who is invisible 01:43 that spiritual strength and 01:45 energy are gained and the 01:48 conflicting power of dark 01:50 forces over mind and character 01:52 is broken. 01:54 >> Today on It Is Written 01:55 Canada, you will meet Clay and 01:57 Sarah Weppler and hear how 01:59 they had their eyes opened to 02:01 see God's hand working in 02:04 their lives. 02:07 ♪♪ 02:55 >> Welcome back to 02:57 It Is Written Canada. 02:58 Thank you for joining us. 02:59 Our special guests today are 03:01 Clay and Sarah Weppler whose 03:03 lives are daily being 03:05 sanctified by the power of 03:07 God's hand and His Spirit 03:10 working within them. 03:12 >> Clay and Sarah, welcome to 03:13 It Is Written Canada. 03:14 >> Thank you for having us. 03:16 >> Thank you. 03:17 >> So, Sarah, I'm gonna begin 03:18 with you, can you tell us 03:20 where your spiritual 03:21 walk began? 03:23 >> My spiritual walk, I've 03:25 been a Christian ever since I 03:27 was a toddler, I come from an 03:29 amazing Christian family. 03:31 Back to my grandpa, he was a 03:32 missionary in Africa for 03:34 years, lived in a little mud 03:35 hut and did all that. 03:37 My mother, she was a huge 03:39 factor in my life. 03:41 She very much instilled God 03:43 and just teaching us about Him 03:46 and His love. 03:47 >> So God was a big part of 03:50 your identity. 03:51 >> He was everything, yeah. 03:54 >> That's really beautiful. 03:55 And we were talking about this 03:57 yesterday, Clay, and you were 03:58 saying how you have come to 04:00 realized that Jesus has to be 04:01 a big part of your identity, 04:03 but when you were younger, 04:05 hockey was a big part of 04:06 your identity. 04:08 >> You know, just growing up, 04:10 you know, when I was three 04:11 years old, Dad had my out on 04:13 the rink and I was, you know, 04:16 learned to skate and... 04:18 And you know, it's not 04:19 necessarily, you know, that 04:22 you choose that identity, but 04:24 it just kinda becomes who you 04:25 are, right. 04:26 And that was the thing, too, 04:27 you know, when I got one of my 04:29 bad injuries and all of a 04:30 sudden I'm, you know, just out 04:33 of commission, I mean you 04:34 realize how fickle that whole 04:36 identity is, right, so... 04:38 [MIKE] Yeah, right, right. 04:39 So you're fit one moment, 04:41 you're not the next, you're 04:42 cut and you just gotta get 04:43 back into the game and get 04:44 yourself fit again. 04:46 [CLAY] Yeah, that's right. 04:47 >> So it's an up-and-down-- 04:48 that's a lot of pressure. 04:49 [CLAY] It is, yep. 04:50 [RENÉ] And, Sarah, you're a 04:52 figure skater so Clay's an ice 04:54 hockey player, you're a figure 04:55 skater, real Canadians here, 04:57 so... 04:58 [SARAH] (laughs) Yes, we are. 05:00 >> So, Sarah, can you tell us 05:01 how you found your identity in 05:03 figure skating? 05:05 >> My, uh...mine is different 05:09 than Clay's, just because he 05:11 came from, you know, a 05:13 non-Christian background, I 05:14 came from the Christian 05:15 background and it really does 05:16 change the way you look at 05:19 life when you're a Christian. 05:22 Skating was a huge part of 05:23 our life, but... 05:26 ...when your identity is 05:27 in Christ and you know that 05:29 you're a princess of The King, 05:31 skating is just a thing that 05:33 you do, you know. 05:35 So even though-- 05:37 being a Christian 05:38 in a non-Christian world... 05:42 ...you are different, but... 05:45 when you're a Christian you've 05:46 got this joy and this peace 05:49 and you just don't care, 05:50 right. 05:51 >> So, Clay, what was it that 05:54 started to open your eyes? 05:55 I mean, you're playing hockey, 05:57 were there times God showed up 05:59 for you? 06:00 >> I ended up going to 06:02 Caronport High School because 06:04 it was just the way the whole 06:06 politics worked and stuff. 06:07 And so I was there to play 06:10 hockey and I remember learning 06:12 about this whole Christian 06:13 ethnics and, you know, 06:16 studying about-- 06:18 And like, really, I had some 06:19 knowledge about "there is a" 06:21 "God" and stuff, but not a 06:23 whole lot, right, and just 06:25 kinda seeing in the Bible 06:27 that, you know, there was kind 06:28 of, you know, some corrections 06:32 and some things that I needed 06:33 to deal with in my own 06:36 personal life and stuff and, 06:39 you know, I remember just 06:41 like, one morning I just went 06:42 to the chapel and just being 06:45 frustrated, I was like, 06:46 "Lord, like, I don't" 06:48 "understand any of this stuff." 06:49 You know, just being 06:51 completely frank with Him, you 06:53 know, just like, "I don't" 06:54 "really even fully know who" 06:56 "You are, I don't know what" 06:57 "this is, but, like, I know" 06:59 "that I have these kind of" 07:00 "issues and this and that," 07:01 and I said, you know, 07:03 "Please, Lord," like, 07:04 "I just, I'm crying out to You" 07:08 "to show Yourself to me and" 07:10 "just help me through this." 07:11 I remember when I walked to 07:13 the chapel there was this guy 07:15 standing there and he's 07:16 telling me, he's like, "Man," 07:17 "could I read you this thing" 07:18 "in the Bible?" 07:19 And I wasn't talking out loud, 07:21 I was by myself in the chapel 07:23 and I said, "Uh, OK, yeah, I" 07:25 "guess so, whatever," not 07:27 thinking that it was anything 07:28 and so then he follows me and 07:30 he's like, "Man, please let" 07:32 "me read this to you," and I'm 07:33 like, "What is this weirdo?" 07:35 you know, I just wanna say, 07:36 you know, and so I'm like, 07:38 "Yeah, OK, I guess you can." 07:40 And so we go up that night or 07:42 whatever and he reads me and 07:44 literally everything that I 07:46 was praying, God answered 'em, 07:49 point by point. 07:52 >> How did things start really 07:54 getting serious for you? 07:56 Like, were there times where 07:58 God showed up even when you 08:00 were playing hockey? 08:01 >> After I was done with 08:03 Caronport, I went to play AAA 08:05 and, I don't know, I just 08:06 kinda got back into the world 08:08 and stuff, right, and just 08:09 totally forgot about all 08:11 this-- these cool things that 08:12 God had done to me, I think 08:14 it's so easy for anyone to do. 08:15 And I remember just like 08:16 blowing my knee out, like, 08:18 terribly, right, and where 08:20 did I go? 08:21 Right back to Caronport, 08:23 right, and so I kind of like, 08:25 "Yeah, OK, I got this," you 08:27 know, it's an ongoing thing, 08:29 it's a dying to self every 08:31 day, it's growing in Christ 08:35 and studying His word and 08:38 understanding Him and... 08:43 You know, that just kinda kept 08:44 developing 'til finally I 08:45 started kinda studying the 08:46 Bible on my own. 08:49 [MIKE] So you were climbing in 08:51 the ranks of hockey, you got 08:53 to Junior A and you're in Fort 08:56 McMurray and you're playing 08:57 hockey, but you're also 08:59 studying the Bible on your 09:00 own, learning all these cool 09:02 things and it's just getting 09:03 brighter and brighter. 09:05 >> Here I was, I was always in 09:07 a position where it was like, 09:08 K, like, when I seen my buddy 09:10 scored a couple goals and 09:12 whatever, he moved up to the 09:13 first line or whatever, I'd be 09:14 like, "Oh, man," like, "That 09:16 sucks," you know, "I wish" 09:17 "that was me," right. 09:18 But I was able to put myself 09:20 in that position now where I 09:21 was like, "K, like, I'm part" 09:23 "of something that's bigger" 09:24 "than all this." 09:25 And through my whole hockey 09:27 career I was actually seen 09:28 God's divine hand, like, just 09:29 wherever I was placed 09:31 with hockey. 09:32 It didn't really seem like it 09:34 had to do with the hockey, but 09:35 more what the people that I 09:37 had to meet and the things 09:39 that were going on that needed 09:41 to form my character, 09:43 you know. 09:44 And I think that, you know, 09:47 yeah, having that 09:49 understanding of my identity 09:50 in Him that, man, like, even 09:52 if hockey ends, there's so 09:53 much more things that God has 09:55 out there. 09:57 Like, we're talking about, you 09:58 know, it says that the heavens 10:02 are His dwelling place and the 10:03 earth is His footstool, you 10:04 know, and we're talking like 10:06 this whole earth is like, 10:07 every little thing that could 10:08 be invented in this earth is 10:09 small to God, right, and 10:12 that's the God that I got to 10:13 know, you know. 10:14 So, you know, hockey was just 10:16 a part of me then, it wasn't 10:18 who I was, but it was just a 10:20 part of what I did, you know. 10:23 [MIKE] And then you came to 10:24 a place where you're just 10:25 like, "I'm prepared to give" 10:26 "this up," and you went on a 10:28 mission trip. 10:29 >> I kinda came into conflict 10:31 with hockey and certain parts 10:33 of faith and so I decided to... 10:39 ...to pursue God instead and so 10:44 it was just His leading and I 10:46 think that, you know, I think 10:50 the Lord knew what I needed. 10:53 When I went down there, yeah, 10:55 it was unique because they 10:56 didn't care whether you were a 10:58 hockey player or not, right, 10:59 so you had to kinda learn to 11:03 be humble, right, and that's, 11:08 you know, that's the next 11:09 steps, I think, of the 11:11 Christian character is 11:12 considering others and not 11:14 exalting self, but, you know, 11:18 being happy in who you are 11:20 and... 11:21 And, yeah, just 11:23 exalting Christ. 11:26 >> So, Sarah, can you tell us 11:27 how you and Clay met? 11:29 [SARAH] Yeah! 11:30 It was our early twenties and 11:34 that actually was a God thing 11:35 in itself, too, because Clay 11:37 lives in Saskatchewan, I'm in 11:39 Ontario and I just happened to 11:40 be flying out at the time that 11:42 he was fixing my sister's 11:44 house up and it was good 11:45 timing, too, because we 11:47 realized if we met any sooner, 11:49 we probably wouldn't have even 11:51 started dating, really, so... 11:53 So yeah, that's was us when I 11:55 was-- I was a city girl from 11:57 Toronto so he took me gopher 11:58 hunting, it was very exciting. 12:01 (laughs) 12:04 >> So you're looking into the 12:05 Bible, were there scriptures 12:07 that really spoke to you? 12:10 >> I mean, I have hundreds, but 12:12 one that I've always loved, 12:15 it's short, but I feel like 12:16 it's so powerful is 12:17 1 Peter 5:7... 12:22 You know, it's-- so whether it 12:24 comes to identity or stress of 12:26 life or anything, right, it's 12:28 just... 12:30 He cares for you, right. 12:33 Another one that I really, 12:34 really like is Isaiah 43:2. 12:35 It says... 12:48 And sometimes you maybe, it 12:49 doesn't feel it in the moment, 12:52 but you get led through it and 12:53 once you reach the other side 12:55 you look back and you realize 12:56 how much He was present, 12:57 right. 12:58 >> Yeah. 12:59 >> With me, like, going back 13:02 to kind of like choosing to go 13:04 certain directions and 13:06 whatever, it was like, "K," 13:07 "so, Lord, what direction do" 13:09 "you want me to go in?" 13:10 That was those things that I 13:11 struggled with. 13:12 I'm like, "K, so like can You" 13:14 "just, like, point a finger" 13:15 "or something for me or" 13:16 "whatever?" 13:17 And so when I found this in 13:19 Proverbs I thought it was, 13:21 you know, quite refreshing, 13:23 it said... 13:42 >> So, Clay and Sarah, 13:43 can you tell us when the 13:45 Sabbath became important in 13:46 your lives? 13:48 >> Yeah, so like I'd gotten to 13:49 this point now where I'd study 13:50 the word of God, I'd tested it 13:52 to be true, you know, and so 13:54 we come across creation where 13:57 God had created the earth in 13:59 six days and the seventh 14:00 He rested. 14:01 And then you got in Exodus 31, 14:04 I think it is, where it talks 14:06 about, "It's a sign of my" 14:07 "people." 14:08 And I mean, there's just a lot 14:10 of texts in the Bible that 14:12 show you that this is an 14:14 important thing. 14:15 And I remember testing the 14:17 waters with other people, like 14:19 other denominations as to, 14:21 you know, why should we not 14:23 follow this? 14:24 I couldn't figure out a reason 14:26 why you shouldn't, so... 14:28 So I guess you just gotta walk 14:30 in it, right. 14:33 >> And for you, Sarah, where did 14:35 the Sabbath come in for you? 14:37 >> Clay actually introduced it 14:39 to me when we were together 14:40 and me being a hard-core 14:42 Sunday-keeper, I had no idea 14:44 what on earth he was talking 14:46 about when he told me the 14:47 Sabbath was on Saturday. 14:49 So he had this Doug Batchelor 14:52 seminar that he introduced to 14:54 me and I watched that. 14:56 So it is tricky 'cause when 14:58 you are a Sunday-keeper and 15:00 people start hearing that 15:01 you're considering to keep the 15:03 Sabbath day over Sunday, the 15:05 amount of people that come and 15:08 attack and, you know, not 15:10 literally attack, but just... 15:11 I feel like it's attacking the 15:13 word of God, you know. 15:17 Over time I realized that if 15:20 you really wanna find truth, 15:22 you know, Satan's working 15:23 extremely hard, he's going to 15:25 in every church be attacking 15:26 the church in certain ways or 15:28 trying to lead people astray 15:29 and I started realizing that, 15:31 that... 15:34 you can't go to people 15:36 for answers, you have to go 15:41 strictly to the word of God. 15:43 And so we were doing that and 15:45 when you actually search the 15:47 Bible, it's-- you can't deny 15:51 it, the Sabbath is 100% legit. 15:57 >> And so when that happens, 15:58 and like you said, Sarah, you 16:00 put your faith in God and not 16:02 your faith in man... 16:03 [SARAH] Exactly. 16:04 >> He leads in such a powerful 16:07 way and makes things so clear 16:09 to you, like, even for you, 16:11 Clay, you couldn't play hockey 16:13 anymore because that happened 16:14 on a Friday night and a 16:15 Saturday so your hockey games 16:18 were done, but you were so 16:21 happy to do that because you 16:22 wanted to honour God and you 16:23 wanted to make the 16:24 Sabbath special. 16:26 >> You learn about Him, you 16:27 learn from obedience to Him, 16:29 good things come and so then 16:33 you, you know, you just wanna 16:35 keep in it. 16:36 It's not that you're doing it 16:37 because of rules, you're doing 16:38 it because you love God, 16:40 you know, and so... 16:42 [SARAH] And it does turn into 16:43 a blessing and it is amazing 16:44 that once a week the Creator 16:45 of the universe wants wants to 16:47 meet with you, you know, 16:48 it's-- it is amazing. 16:50 >> Yeah, for sure. 16:51 >> And so then the Sabbath 16:53 becomes a delight. 16:54 [SARAH] It is, it really is. 16:55 [CLAY] Yeah, yeah. 16:56 You don't always understand 16:58 why God has these things for 17:00 you, but you just trust Him 17:02 and you walk in them. 17:03 And then when you do that, 17:05 then the blessings follow. 17:06 It's just like when God told 17:09 Joshua, you know, when you put 17:10 your feet into the river, then 17:12 it'll split. 17:13 It's-- when you walk in 17:17 obedience to God, then you 17:18 find the blessings that 17:19 follow, and so-- but you have 17:21 to take that step first and 17:23 sometimes that step is tough 17:26 because, you know, it takes 17:29 sacrifice, it takes trust, it 17:31 takes, you know... 17:33 But when you do it then you 17:36 realize, like I said, the 17:38 blessings will follow, so... 17:40 >> So, Sarah and Clay, now 17:42 that you had found your 17:43 identity in Jesus, God had 17:45 brought you together and you 17:47 had a happy relationship and 17:49 then you found out that you 17:50 were expecting your first 17:52 baby, but it wasn't exactly 17:53 what you expected. 17:55 >> Yeah, so as I was finding 17:57 out about the Sabbath, I got 17:59 pregnant and our first 18:01 ultrasound we found out that 18:04 our son had gastroschisis. 18:06 So basically just a little 18:08 part of his stomach, when he 18:10 was forming, the skin doesn't 18:11 form and his intestines were 18:13 all outside of his tummy. 18:15 So...actually the day that I 18:19 was supposed to get baptized 18:21 into the church, six weeks 18:23 early my son was born so he 18:26 was a premie. 18:27 [CLAY] We ended up getting 18:29 flown to Saskatoon and we-- 18:33 They put them in a-- put the 18:36 intestines in a bag over top 18:37 of his stomach and they slowly 18:39 worked them back into the 18:43 stomach area, like the 18:45 bowel there. 18:47 And so, you know, everything 18:52 went fast and good and 18:56 effective then and so we got 18:58 out the of the neonatal in 19:02 good time, but when we had 19:04 gotten home, it was a few 19:06 weeks later that he ended up 19:08 having a, like a... 19:09 >> Inguinal hernia. 19:11 >> Yeah, and so we had to-- 19:14 like we just heard him 19:16 screaming like terrible and so 19:18 we thought, "OK, this isn't" 19:19 "good, we better get him in," 19:21 and then we went to the 19:22 doctor, he said, "Get him up" 19:23 "there fast," so we sped up 19:24 fast to Saskatoon. 19:26 And so when we got up there, 19:29 the surgeon looked at it and 19:31 he said, "OK, I need you guys" 19:33 "to make a choice." 19:34 He said, "You can push the" 19:36 "hernia back in and we can" 19:37 "just hope the intestines are" 19:39 "good, if they're not, if" 19:40 "they've become distended" 19:42 "then, you know, they'll die" 19:45 "quickly and we'll have to" 19:47 "remove intestines and stuff." 19:49 "Or I can bring it out and" 19:50 "check it out and see how..." 19:54 "...see how it is and then" 19:55 "we can put it back in." 19:58 So we made the decision, we 19:59 thought we'd better take the 20:01 cautious thing and have them 20:02 remove it again. 20:04 Well, once they removed them, 20:06 then we were just in a whole 20:08 wad of complications because 20:11 the-- they put him back in 20:13 that situation where they had 20:14 to, like, slowly put the 20:16 intestines back in, but it 20:18 ended up getting a bacterial 20:20 infection called klebsiella 20:22 which spiked his white blood 20:24 cell count and so we had a 20:26 12-hour notice that, you know, 20:29 he was gonna die for that one 20:32 and he pulled through with, 20:34 you know, the most powerful 20:35 antibiotics they had. 20:37 And then I remember us, we 20:39 were just like feeling, like, 20:41 just sick, we were just 20:42 feeling beside ourselves. 20:43 [SARAH] And you keep on trying 20:45 to make decisions for your son 20:46 and everything just keeps 20:47 backfiring, right. 20:48 >> Yeah. 20:49 So, you know, we're just 20:53 thinking, like, we're kinda 20:54 seeking God on this and we're 20:55 like, "Hey, Lord," like, 20:57 you know, "we've aligned" 20:59 "ourselves with Your will as" 21:00 "much as we possibly can," 21:02 like, "what is possibly" 21:03 "happening here," like... 21:06 And so I remember, you know, 21:08 just seeking His face and 21:10 praying and, you know, we just 21:11 kinda got to this position 21:13 where we were just thinking, 21:14 "Lord," like, "whatever it" 21:16 "is, I mean, if he's gonna" 21:19 "pass, you know, then we'll" 21:21 "trust You and if he lives" 21:24 "we'll trust You, too, but," 21:26 "like, we trust You in this," 21:27 and, like, just giving it to 21:29 His hands, right. 21:30 And at the same time, camp 21:32 meeting was going on. 21:33 We were in contact with Pastor 21:35 Scott and he was telling the 21:36 whole camp meeting, everybody 21:38 was praying and, you know, I 21:40 think of the verse, "When my" 21:42 "people who are called by My" 21:43 "name will humble themselves" 21:45 "and pray, I will hear" 21:46 "on high." 21:47 And so we made another 21:50 decision to close him up and 21:52 put the intestines in for good 21:55 and from that he got into a 21:57 compulsive swelling syndrome 22:00 and we thought to ourselves, 22:01 "OK, well, this might be," 22:02 "the end," right. 22:04 [SARAH] Yeah. 22:05 I mean, it got to a point 22:07 where the doctor came and 22:08 asked if we wanted a priest or 22:09 something 'cause they said, 22:11 you know, "If what we're" 22:13 "gonna do doesn't work," 22:14 "he could be dead in three" 22:16 "hours," so... 22:17 [CLAY] So we called and we 22:18 said, "Pray, just pray like" 22:19 "you've never prayed before." 22:21 Like we had said, we'd already 22:22 got to that position where we 22:24 were kind of released and gave 22:25 it into God's hands. 22:26 And then I remember it was 22:28 sometime that night when 22:30 Pastor Scott walked down to 22:32 the river or whatever and 22:34 these lights appeared and he 22:36 said that God always speaks to 22:38 him through nature and so he 22:43 called us, I don't know, like, 22:47 just-- like he, yeah, he gave 22:49 us a phone call and he said, 22:50 "I just want you to know," 22:53 "I've just kind of received" 22:55 "affirmation that Cruz is" 22:56 "gonna be OK. 22:57 And it was moments after that 23:00 the surgeon walked in and said 23:03 that, yeah, he's seen a 23:05 miracle. 23:06 He said he wasn't sure how 23:09 to-- like, how did he say it? 23:13 "Whatever God you believe in," 23:15 he said, "created a miracle," 23:17 or something to that matter. 23:19 But, you know, the swellings 23:21 had gotten so bad that they 23:22 had to end it and then this 23:24 turned around. 23:26 [MIKE] And there's a beautiful 23:27 Bible verse on there. 23:29 [CLAY] Yeah, yeah, so it 23:30 says... 23:37 And so I guess I would like to 23:38 tie that into the whole story 23:40 where, you know, when we 23:44 thought that we were hopeless, 23:47 that's when God could show us 23:49 His marvellous light. 23:52 [SARAH] That and just fully... 23:54 fully giving things over to 23:55 God, you know. 23:57 I'm really bad at that. 23:58 I always tell Him I trust Him, 24:00 but I always try to do things 24:01 in my own power and it always 24:03 backfires and it was like in 24:05 that moment, you know, we were 24:08 just finally giving it to God 24:09 and telling Him, like, you 24:11 know, "Whether You have my" 24:12 "son or..." 24:23 Um...yeah it was in that 24:26 moment where we finally just 24:28 gave our son to God that 24:31 suddenly things turned around. 24:33 It was just another 24:34 purifying moment. 24:40 [MIKE] And how's he doing 24:41 academically? 24:43 >> Yeah, I mean, the teachers 24:44 have said he's above average 24:46 with his thinking and 24:49 speaking, he's a very good 24:51 speaker and, yeah, so... 24:54 [MIKE] That's awesome. 24:56 >> Clay and Sarah, he really 24:58 is your miracle baby, so... 25:01 It's amazing when we give, 25:03 when we give our children to 25:05 God because they really are a 25:06 gift from Him and they belong 25:09 to Him and so it's so 25:11 beautiful to see how He took 25:13 care of the treasure and the 25:15 gift that He gave to you. 25:16 >> And just how faithful 25:18 God is. 25:19 There's so many times where I 25:21 almost feel like I'm unworthy 25:23 or, you know, you-- we 25:25 struggle, right, you-- 25:27 We know about truth, but then 25:29 worldly things, you know, you 25:31 fall back and just, I feel 25:34 like our life has proved how 25:36 faithful God is 'cause He's-- 25:39 He gives us way more than we 25:41 deserve, that's for sure. 25:43 >> Clay, could you please pray 25:45 for us right now? 25:46 [CLAY] Yes, for sure. 25:49 Father God, I just wanna thank 25:51 You for the opportunity and 25:53 for making us willing to be 25:55 made willing to know Your will 25:57 and I just pray that... 26:01 just pray that You keep 26:03 guiding us in the future and 26:05 that we keep growing in You 26:08 and again, we just wanna thank 26:09 You for this incredible 26:11 journey and for the 26:14 opportunity to know You, 26:16 and to continue getting 26:17 to know You. 26:19 In Jesus' name, amen. 26:21 [MIKE] Amen. 26:22 Clay and Sarah, thank you very 26:24 much for sharing your story 26:26 with us on It Is Written 26:28 Canada. 26:29 [SARAH] Thank you for 26:30 having us. 26:31 [CLAY] Thank you. 26:34 >> Friends, it was such a 26:35 blessing to hear how Clay and 26:37 Sarah had their eyes open to 26:39 see God's hand working in 26:41 their lives. 26:42 A part of their ongoing 26:44 journey is the keeping of the 26:46 weekly Sabbath which may have 26:49 opened up some questions in 26:51 your mind about what the Bible 26:53 teaches about the Sabbath. 26:56 >> Our free offer for you is 26:58 What the Bible Says About 27:00 the Sabbath. 27:02 This free, full-colour booklet 27:04 has been prepared to help you 27:06 clearly understand and 27:07 appreciate what the Bible 27:09 says about the Sabbath. 27:12 This little book will provide 27:14 practical answers that will 27:16 help you see how God wants to 27:18 bless your life with the 27:20 special temple made of time. 27:24 Before you go, we would also 27:25 like to invite you to follow 27:27 us on Instagram and Facebook 27:30 and subscribe to our YouTube 27:32 channel and also listen to our 27:34 Podcasts and if you go to our 27:37 website, you can see our 27:38 latest programs including our 27:41 cooking demonstrations, our 27:42 short spiritual messages 27:44 entitled Daily Living and our 27:46 exercise workouts called 27:49 Experiencing Life. 27:51 >> Friends, we want you to 27:52 experience the truth that is 27:54 found in the words of Jesus 27:55 when He said, "It is written," 27:58 "man shall not live by bread" 28:00 "alone, but by every word" 28:02 "that proceeds out of the" 28:03 "mouth of God." 28:05 ♪♪ |
Revised 2021-11-17