Participants: Danielle Harrison (Host), Penny Nickels
Series Code: PC
Program Code: PC000110A
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00:01 The following program discusses sensitive issues.
00:03 Parents are cautioned that some material 00:05 may be too candid for younger children. 00:40 Hello and welcome to Pure Choices. 00:43 My name is Danielle Harrison, 00:44 and I'm an associate member of Coming Out Ministries. 00:48 Today, I have the great privilege 00:49 and honor of interviewing 00:51 my precious mother Penny Harrison. 00:53 Thank you for joining us today, Mum. 00:55 Thank you for having me. 00:56 It's really a pleasure and a privilege to be here. 00:59 Amen, amen. 01:00 You know, Mum, I believe that 01:02 what we have to share today is very dynamic 01:05 and it's going to be a great blessing 01:06 to a lot of different people 01:08 across the board from both sides. 01:11 So since we're talking about sexual purity, 01:14 I'm just interested, Mum, 01:16 was there sexual sin in your life 01:18 and did it affect you in your experience? 01:21 Yes, there was sexual sin in my life. 01:24 My husband and I both had sexual sin 01:29 on both sides of our marriage. 01:31 It destroyed our marriage, it really did. 01:34 After the divorce, 01:36 I looked for love in all the wrong places 01:39 and continued living in sexual sin. 01:44 Okay. 01:45 And I know that you are married again after that. 01:48 Did sexual sin play a part in the dynamic 01:50 between you and your second husband? 01:52 It did. 01:53 I moved in with my present-day husband 01:56 before he was divorced. 01:58 We lived in sexual sin, and eventually, 02:02 he was incarcerated for sexual sin. 02:04 It reached through his whole life. 02:08 Sure, sure. 02:09 Okay, and I know that there was... 02:12 in that time, there was a dynamic 02:14 of you wanting to go to church but something holding you back, 02:18 and was that you sexual sin? 02:21 Well, I really did have a desire to go church. 02:25 I felt left for the first time in a long time. 02:29 And I worked as a cashier, 02:31 I would see people come through the grocery store 02:35 and they would be coming from church, 02:37 and I wanted that feeling again. 02:40 And I would ask them, you know, 02:42 "Where do you go to church?" 02:44 And they would tell me all about their church service, 02:47 their song service, their minister, 02:49 how they loved him, but they never invited me. 02:52 And I really wanted to go to church, 02:54 but the one thing that held me back from church was, 02:57 I knew if I started going to church 02:59 and drew close to the Lord, 03:01 that I would have to deal with my sexual sin, 03:04 and that's one thing that really kept me out of church. 03:07 You would have to deal with it. 03:08 What do you mean by that? 03:09 I cannot live in sexual sin 03:12 and devote my life to the Lord. 03:15 Okay, so you weren't ready to 03:18 or willing to give it up to make that commitment. 03:21 I couldn't give up my sin, amen. 03:23 Okay, okay. 03:25 So your present-day husband then... 03:28 This was before you were married, 03:30 and you said he was incarcerated for sexual sin, 03:33 and what was that like for you being, 03:36 you know, in this situation, 03:37 now he's gone and here you are, 03:39 what was that like for you? 03:40 I was devastated. 03:42 I was very much out of my element. 03:44 I was in the city. 03:45 And I'm a country girl. 03:48 Let me just tell you a little bit about 03:49 where I came from. Sure. 03:51 I grew up in a small town in Illinois, 03:55 and I didn't come from a background of church. 03:59 I was allowed to walk around the corner to the church, 04:02 and I went to Sunday school a lot, 04:04 I enjoyed vacation Bible school 04:06 and the missionaries that would come in to church, 04:09 and that's how I got acquainted with church 04:11 and came to love the church. 04:14 I was baptized at the age of 10 and gave my life to Lord, 04:18 but I never grew in the Lord 'cause I never read my Bible. 04:22 I would go to youth functions, roller skating parties, 04:27 and vacation Bible school, and prayer meetings, 04:32 even went to nursing homes, and minister to the elderly, 04:36 I loved that, singing with the old people 04:40 and talking to them. 04:41 I really enjoyed that, 04:43 but I never was grounded in the Lord, 04:45 I didn't have a life that grew. 04:49 Read my quarterly but never reading the Bible. 04:52 So after I found myself devastated, my husband, 04:58 my man at that time, we weren't married until later, 05:03 he was gone. 05:04 I had nowhere to turn. I was hopeless. 05:07 And that's when I turned to the Lord. 05:09 I remember falling face down 05:11 on the carpeting in the living room 05:13 and just dedicating myself to God 05:16 and telling Him that I wanted a true relationship 05:21 and I wanted to be completely dedicated 05:24 and submitted to Him. 05:26 And that's when I found a church, 05:27 I had a guy at work, 05:29 who had invited me to church finally 05:32 and started attending with him, 05:36 going to Sunday school, 05:40 and prayer meetings, 05:44 and just doing everything I could. 05:46 I went and bought me a Bible 05:47 and began reading the Old Testament. 05:50 Wow. And the New Testament. 05:52 I started reading as much as I could, 05:55 and that made all the difference 05:57 in drawing close to the Lord. 05:59 Excellent. 06:01 So do you believe that the dynamic between you 06:06 and who is now your husband 06:08 did that change 06:09 also as you were coming closer to the Lord in that time? 06:11 Yes, it really did. 06:13 As he was incarcerated, he gave his life to the Lord 06:17 and he started studying with a chaplain. 06:19 And I stayed close to him, 06:22 I had made a personal commitment 06:24 to him in our sin, 06:26 and I thought that how could I dishonor 06:31 that now that we were both in the Lord 06:33 and we knew each other intimately. 06:36 So I made a commitment to him 06:38 and we talked to a chaplain about getting married, 06:40 I talked to my pastor about getting married, 06:44 whether it was right in the Lord or not, 06:47 and we all came into an agreement 06:49 and we were married in the facility 06:52 where he was at. 06:53 Beautiful, very beautiful. 06:55 So here you are, 06:56 you're turning back to the Lord, 06:58 you're making this commitment to your husband, 07:00 did you see any other changes in your life 07:02 not just in your relationship with your husband 07:05 but other changes also in your life 07:07 as you were coming closer to the Lord? 07:09 Yes, I did. 07:11 Prayer became very meaningful for me, 07:14 and I was living back here in Illinois, 07:17 and my children were in Washington with their daddy. 07:22 So since I couldn't reach out to my children, 07:25 a mother always prays for her children, 07:28 I began praying steadfastly for those. 07:31 And at that time, 07:32 I also started praying for my mother. 07:34 I was in transition from where I had lived 07:39 with my boyfriend, now husband, 07:43 into Central Illinois with my parents 07:47 so that I could find a place of my own 07:50 and I had a job secured 07:53 and I started praying for my mother 07:55 when I was living with him. 07:57 And at that point, 07:58 she was in a really dark place too, 08:02 an alcoholic and lots of bad habits, 08:08 but I started praying for my mother, 08:09 and I started praying for Deidre. 08:12 Deidre had a real soft spot in my heart 08:15 and I didn't know why, but in the mornings, 08:17 before I'd go to work, I would sit down 08:20 with my Bible and I would pray, 08:22 I would pray very concentrated prayers 08:25 for Deidre and my mother. 08:26 And Deidre is my sister. 08:28 Yes, your sister Deidre. Yeah. 08:31 And I would pray for those 08:33 and I began to see the Lord working. 08:37 I don't know why I prayed so hard 08:39 and I would pray tearful prayers 08:42 prayers that just made me weep, 08:45 and God honored that. 08:47 At some point, I came into communication with Deidre 08:51 and she told me that she was seeing the boy next door 08:57 and he was from an Adventist family. 09:00 And I was so surprised, 09:02 I had prayed that God would send 09:03 His people to Deidre and he sent the Adventists, 09:09 and it really surprised me 09:10 'cause I didn't know anything about the Adventists. 09:13 I was a Baptist at that time. 09:14 Sure, sure. 09:17 And so now you have seen some of the fruition 09:21 of those prayers that you prayed both for your mother 09:24 and also now you understand how God was answering 09:27 your prayers also for Deidre 09:28 not just in sending the saints to her other ways. 09:32 Can you share those things also? 09:34 Yes, whenever Deidre... 09:36 Excuse me, that's right, Deidre. 09:38 Whenever Deidre was to get married, 09:40 in 2003, 09:44 I went to the wedding and I flew out to Washington. 09:48 And that's when I saw the things 09:50 that were going on in your life, Danielle. 09:52 I saw that you were in a very dark place. 09:56 I saw the posters in your bedroom, 09:58 some of the lyrics on your wall, 10:00 and I understood why, during the summer visits, 10:03 that you had rejected the efforts 10:06 that I had made to try 10:08 and talk to you about the Bible, 10:09 I even tried to present you with a Bible, 10:11 but you shut me down. 10:13 And now when I'm coming out to your house 10:14 and seeing your room, 10:16 I understand why there was demonology stuff 10:21 all over your walls, 10:23 lyrics of songs that were so scary. 10:26 I happened to see your My Space page at that time, 10:30 and it just made me weep. 10:32 It was so full of rock and roll pictures 10:35 and just pictures where you had stitches drawn 10:38 all over your face and your arms. 10:40 And that scares a mother, it really does. 10:44 Yeah, so was it during that trip 10:47 that Deidre shared her testimony, 10:49 and you learned what she had been going 10:52 through back in those times 10:53 when you were weeping those prayers for her? 10:56 At that trip, no, not that trip. 10:58 Was it later? 11:00 It was another trip, yeah, after that. 11:02 I found out that during those times of prayer, 11:05 where I would weep and pray for Deidre, 11:08 that she had been going through an abortion, 11:10 and she didn't tell any of us about it. 11:12 She was all alone, going through all of that, 11:14 but the Lord was with her 11:16 and He was pulling on your heart 11:17 to pray earnestly for her, right? 11:19 Yes. 11:20 I think that's a beautiful and encouraging thing. 11:22 You know, when the Lord lays someone on our heart 11:24 and we pray, we don't really realize 11:27 what we're moving 11:28 or what God is moving through those prayers. 11:31 Amen. And what about grandma, 11:33 did you see the Lord answer your prayers for her? 11:37 Hallelujah, yes I did. 11:40 It happened 9/11, 11:43 when I saw my mother started attending church with me. 11:47 I had never seen that before. 11:49 As a child, my mother never took me to church 11:51 or went to church with me, 11:53 but she started attending church with me, 11:55 and I saw my mother attend regularly, 11:58 and I saw my mother quit drinking. 12:00 And that was amazing to me 12:02 'cause she had been drinking for years. 12:03 Wow. That was a great change in her. 12:06 It's so encouraging when we see the Lord 12:08 moving in response to our prayers, isn't it? 12:11 Yeah, and that was in 2001. 12:13 And I was so thankful 12:15 that the Lord did that for my mother 12:16 because she ended up being diagnosed with cancer 12:20 in September of 2004 and died in January of 2005. 12:25 Wow, praise the Lord. 12:27 Amen. Amen. 12:29 Not that she died 12:30 but that she came to Him before she did, right? 12:32 Yes. Amen. 12:33 So as you had come out 12:36 and you had seen these things in my room 12:38 and you saw the dark place that I was in, 12:40 that must have been so hard for you 12:42 to see your child going through that, 12:46 how did you deal with that for me? 12:49 How did you respond? 12:51 The first thing I thought of was, 12:52 "Why haven't I been praying for Danielle 12:54 like I prayed for Deidre?" 12:56 And I started concentrating my prayer for Danielle, 13:00 and I thought, "Lord, how do I pray for Danielle?" 13:03 I can't just say, "Lord, please bless my child," 13:06 because Danielle's in a dark place. 13:08 She's living in sexual sin, she can't come to the Lord 13:14 whenever she is in the sin, the sin has to be addressed, 13:20 the sin has to be looked at as sin. 13:24 I said, "Lord, convict her of her sin, 13:26 let her see her need for Christ, 13:29 and interrupt her life." 13:34 Amen, amen. 13:35 You wanted me to have 13:37 the scales fall off my eyes so I could really see 13:40 the desperate place that I was in. 13:42 You know, and I love sharing that with people 13:45 that you prayed those kind of prayers for me 13:48 because I think it gives direction, 13:52 you know, because I think sometimes 13:53 we just pray for people to be blessed and have peace. 13:56 And that's not necessarily always what they need. 13:59 They need to see their need of a savior 14:02 and see the ugliness of sin and really what it does. 14:05 Amen. I think that's powerful. 14:07 I appreciate you sharing that. 14:10 So I know also that you are praying 14:15 that I would end up going to South Dakota that summer. 14:20 And I know that that was encouraging for you also 14:23 when I really ended up going out there. 14:26 And did you really sense that it was going to make 14:30 a big impact in my life like it did? 14:33 Were you hoping for that or were you just hoping 14:36 that I would get away from the situation 14:38 that I was in for a little while? 14:40 Well, I knew if you went to South Dakota, 14:42 that would be a perfect opportunity 14:44 to separate you from your boyfriend, 14:45 and I knew, from my experience, 14:48 that if you're living in sin, it's hard to give up that sin 14:51 when you're living in it. 14:53 And I knew that if we could 14:54 get you out of that environment, 14:57 out of your boyfriend's house, 14:59 you would be more likely to see the sin, 15:01 and I thought, "This is a great opportunity 15:03 for Danielle to be able to get away from her sin 15:08 and to be convicted of what her life was 15:12 and to see what it could be, living out there, 15:15 working out there with the people that are there, 15:18 working in the earth." 15:21 I knew it was a great opportunity for you 15:23 and I prayed for the Lord to bring that about 15:25 so that you could make that choice 15:27 and that you would choose that avenue 15:29 because I knew the choice was up to you. 15:33 How beautiful, how beautiful that you shared that, Mom, 15:35 because really that is exactly 15:37 what happened while I was there. 15:39 I think that being away from the environment that I was in, 15:44 I got to sober up a little bit to the intoxification 15:49 that I was in in that relationship, 15:52 and, you know, all the things that you were hoping for, 15:55 that was what followed. 15:57 So, wow, I think that's so very beautiful. 16:01 Now as you were praying for me, 16:04 Mom, did you just pray by yourself for me 16:08 or did you get others involved? 16:10 No, like I said, I was going to church regularly. 16:13 And every prayer meeting that we had, 16:17 we would pray for Danielle. 16:18 I would bring up, let people know 16:21 where Danielle was at, what she was doing. 16:24 I would also talk to my coworkers at work, 16:27 friends that I knew prayed, 16:29 and I would ask them to pray for you 16:30 and tell them where you were at, 16:32 what you were doing, what your needs were. 16:35 I would get as many people involved as I could, 16:38 not just coworkers but also friends. 16:41 Amen, amen. 16:43 So in this rich prayer experience 16:45 that you're having and sharing with others, 16:47 you must have felt like 16:49 your prayer life was perfect and complete, right? 16:51 No, no, not at all. 16:54 A mother always prays for a child, 16:56 but there were a lot of times where I felt like, 16:58 I'm not praying enough. 17:00 I didn't pray enough yesterday, 17:01 I missed some prayer yesterday, you know, sometimes, 17:04 "Oh, I haven't prayed for Danielle yet today." 17:07 So yeah, we always need to improve our prayer life 17:10 and we always feel that 17:12 we fall short in our prayer life. 17:13 But the main thing is, 17:15 when somebody crosses your mind, 17:17 that's when you need to say a prayer for them. 17:18 Amen. 17:20 Wherever you are, whatever you're doing. 17:22 So even in the richest prayer experiences, 17:24 we can sometimes be hard on ourselves, 17:27 we can sometimes beat ourselves up 17:30 that we're not praying enough, 17:31 and we have to trust that God is moving 17:33 and honoring our prayers despite 17:35 maybe those feelings that can come in. 17:38 Amen. Amen, amen. 17:39 So, you know, Mom, I think it's so amazing 17:45 and profound the way that you prayed for me. 17:49 And, you know, as I'm stepping into the faith 17:53 and joining the Seventh-day Adventist church 17:56 and becoming on fire for the Lord 17:59 and excited about the truths 18:02 that I was learning in the Bible, 18:04 I wanted you to have the joy 18:08 of some of those truths as well, 18:10 especially the Sabbath. 18:12 And I started to pray for you more, 18:14 and I really... 18:17 I really wanted you to come to know the joy of the Sabbath. 18:19 That was specifically something that I prayed a lot for. 18:22 And as I was praying 18:27 these prayers more consistently, 18:29 like you talked about trying to pray every single day. 18:31 That's what I was, that's what I really committed 18:34 to was praying for you every day. 18:35 And as I started to pray for you more consistently, 18:37 I started to feel convicted 18:39 to appeal to you about the Sabbath. 18:42 And that was challenging for me 18:44 because you had always been gentle 18:46 and prayerful and patient. 18:49 You hadn't stepped up and tried to talk to me 18:53 about spiritual things, you know. 18:54 And I just wanted to be prayerful 18:55 and gentle for you as well. 18:58 So I was intimidated by that conviction. 19:03 And I just prayed and I said, 19:04 "Okay, Lord, if you want me to talk to Mom about this, 19:07 then you're going to have to open up the doors 19:09 and give me the words." 19:11 And that was exactly what He did as you well know, 19:16 He opened the doors for me 19:17 to have a little speaking tour that summer. 19:20 And I went to South Dakota 19:21 and spoke in a few different places there 19:23 and also in Illinois 19:25 and spoke at a few different churches near your home. 19:28 And you came every time. 19:30 That was when I really learned the manner of the prayers 19:33 that you had been praying for me 19:35 when someone walked up to me or us, and said, 19:37 "It must have been so hard for you to watch Danielle 19:40 go through all of these things." 19:42 And you said, "Yes, it was. 19:43 But I just kept praying and I was praying 19:45 this and this and this for her." 19:46 That was when I learned of really 19:49 what you were praying, and you came every time. 19:52 And I remember one church in particular, you said, 19:55 "I like this church. I could go to this church." 19:59 And you didn't just say that once, 20:00 you said it more than once while we were at the church 20:04 and more than once again during the week after that. 20:07 And I thought this really must be the Lord opening up 20:09 the doors for me to talk to her about, 20:12 you know, attending the Adventist church 20:14 and talk to her about the Sabbath. 20:16 So on the last week, 20:19 the last Sabbath that I was there, 20:21 you had to work, and I thought, 20:23 I'll talk to you before you go to work 20:27 and just appeal to you then. 20:29 And I thought maybe you would go 20:30 to your shift manager, whatever, 20:32 and talk to them about getting the Sabbath off. 20:35 But it didn't work out that morning. 20:37 The timing wasn't right, and we didn't end up 20:39 talking that morning, did we, Mom? 20:41 Nope. 20:42 And I believe that that was God's divine interjection. 20:48 And at the time, as I was sitting there 20:49 and you walked out the door to go to work, 20:50 I thought "Lord, what just happened?" 20:52 I thought we were going to have this conversation 20:54 and at first, I was a little bit 20:57 discouraged by that, 20:58 but it's a beautiful thing because I decided, 21:03 in that moment, that I was going to say, 21:04 "No, Lord. I'm going to trust your timing. 21:06 I told you to open the door." Amen. 21:08 And I had peace about that, and I went 21:10 and had a beautiful Sabbath day 21:11 in fellowship with the church 21:13 there in your hometown, and I talked with your husband 21:16 for a few hours in the afternoon 21:18 about what I had heard at church 21:20 and, you know, it was just a beautiful Sabbath. 21:23 And when you got home, 21:25 we started to watch some little videos, right? 21:30 And we watched some stuff on creation. 21:35 And as we were watching these little videos on creation 21:37 then the Sabbath was coming to a close, 21:40 I realized that this was the moment 21:43 because thoughts started coming into my mind 21:44 of what I could say to you and how I could appeal to you 21:47 and how I could come into this conversation. 21:49 I knew God was giving me the words. 21:51 And so I said, "Okay, well, 21:53 the Sabbath is coming to a close. 21:54 So you know, maybe we can have a little worship 21:56 and so let's pray to open up the worship," 21:59 'cause I didn't want to appeal to you without praying first. 22:04 So I prayed and you had left some things on my Facebook, 22:09 you know, just saying "Happy Sabbath," 22:11 and stuff like that over the last couple years. 22:14 So I just said, "Mom, you refer to Saturday 22:18 as the Sabbath, do you believe that it's the Sabbath?" 22:21 And what did you say? 22:23 I do. I believe it is God's Sabbath. 22:25 Right, and then I asked you, 22:27 "Do you just think that God doesn't want us 22:30 to keep it anymore, right?" 22:33 Right. And what did you say? 22:35 No, I think He wants us to keep it. 22:37 Yeah. 22:39 And then I asked, "Well, do you just think that 22:41 it doesn't matter what day you keep as the Sabbath?" 22:45 No, I've been feeling more and more convicted about that. 22:49 The more I read my Bible, 22:51 the more I learned about the Lord, 22:53 the more he taught me about it. 22:55 And Danielle and Deidre never missed a time 22:58 to explain to me and tell me 23:00 more about the Sabbath all the time. 23:03 Matt was very relentless about teaching me things. 23:06 Deidre's husband Matt, yes. 23:09 He loves to share. 23:10 You know, and I think that was when I really realized 23:14 how much God was leading me into that conversation 23:16 because I could have never known 23:17 that you had been feeling convicted about it but he did. 23:20 Amen. He did. 23:21 And so we ended up just talking together 23:24 for almost three hours. 23:25 We studied the Bible together. 23:27 And that was a really beautiful time. 23:31 I remember that, 23:35 at one point in the conversation, 23:36 you turned to David, and do you remember 23:39 what you said to him, Mom? 23:41 Yes, I do. 23:42 I said, "I don't know what kind of choice 23:44 you're going to make, 23:46 but I hope that you will start keeping 23:48 the Sabbath with me." 23:49 Amen. And I'm still praying for that. 23:51 Amen, amen. 23:53 So when you said that, you know, 23:56 asked him if he was going 23:57 to start keeping the Sabbath with you, 23:59 I knew that you were going to start keeping the Sabbath. 24:03 And you did, you did, you took the steps forward 24:06 to get the time off. 24:08 I remember when we started talking about the Sabbath, 24:12 you started sharing with me some of the things 24:15 that were holding you back from keeping the Sabbath. 24:18 Can you share with me exactly what those things were? 24:21 Do you remember what you said? 24:23 I remember the biggest point was my work. 24:26 I work in retail, 24:28 and that's the busiest time for retail. 24:30 Sure. And at that time... 24:32 I had approved Sundays off to go to worship. 24:35 So I had to go in and say, 24:38 "I need to change my worship days." 24:41 And that was a little bit intimidating for me, 24:44 but I took the step forward 24:47 and I did it and they honored it right off. 24:50 They understood, they honored it, 24:52 and I felt truly blessed because a lot of times 24:56 there is a lot of confrontation. 24:59 But God made it come through for me. 25:01 So you were humbled and he was honored. 25:03 Amen. That's beautiful. 25:06 And another thing I remember 25:07 you sharing with me was that you said, you know, 25:10 "I really love my church family, 25:12 and it would be hard." 25:14 Amen. "Hard to miss out on them." 25:18 And I encouraged you that 25:20 you might have to make an effort 25:22 to continue that friendship with them 25:24 because you wouldn't see them just every week at church, 25:27 but, you know, if they were true friends, 25:29 then you wouldn't lose them 25:31 just because you weren't going to the church there. 25:33 So I think that's a blessing because I think that 25:36 these are common things 25:38 that hold people back from making changes, 25:41 not just on keeping the Sabbath... 25:43 But, you know, there's little things 25:44 that the enemy gets us caught up looking at, 25:46 over here, what about this, 25:48 what about that, instead of you know trusting in the Lord. 25:52 So as you started to keep the Sabbath, 25:58 you really drove into a study of the Word 26:01 and you started to come in harmony 26:03 with a lot of the other Bible truths as well. 26:06 I remember talking to you on Skype 26:09 and noticing that you weren't 26:10 really wearing any jewelry anymore, 26:12 and little by little, eventually, one day, 26:15 you called me and you expressed to me 26:19 that you were considering being re-baptized. 26:22 And why did you make that decision, Mom? 26:26 Well, even though I was baptized as a child, 26:29 I had lived in sin since then. 26:32 And I had come into a new truth afterwards, 26:35 and I wanted to make a concentrated 26:40 dedication to the Lord. 26:41 I wanted to be truly submitted, committed, 26:43 and devoted to the Lord. 26:46 And I talked to my church family, 26:48 my new church family, about it, 26:50 and they responded 26:52 with cheers of hurrays and hallelujahs. 26:55 So I knew that it was approved. 26:57 Excellent, excellent. 26:58 You know, it's beautiful to me, 27:01 Mom, to see how you started in an intentional 27:05 and consistent prayer experience 27:07 for your mother, for your daughter, 27:10 for both your daughters, 27:11 and how He heard those prayers 27:13 and honored those prayers, and then He brought me 27:15 into an earnest prayer experience for you, 27:19 and how it brought it around, you know, for all of us. 27:25 The prayers made such a huge difference 27:27 in each one of our lives, 27:28 and so we'll have to keep praying for David, 27:30 for my dad, and for my brother. 27:33 Amen. And we will keep doing that. 27:35 We've just got a few seconds here, Mom, 27:37 is there anything else you want to share? 27:39 Keep praying. 27:40 Pray, pray, pray, and know that it's not us, 27:43 it's not the power that we put into the prayer. 27:46 It's the power of the one that we pray to. 27:49 That's where the power and majesty is. 27:51 Amen, amen. Isn't He a beautiful God? 27:53 God is great. 27:54 Thank you for joining us today on Pure Choices. 27:57 May God bless you. |
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