WEBVTT NOTE This file was exported by MacCaption version 7.0.11 to comply with the WebVTT specification dated March 23, 2013. 00:00:00.667 --> 00:00:02.936 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% male announcer: The following program is sponsored by friends 00:00:02.936 --> 00:00:04.938 align:start line:85% position:44% size:78% of Life Outreach International. 00:00:06.740 --> 00:00:08.842 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% Billy Wilson: For 15 years, then, my parents were apart. 00:00:08.842 --> 00:00:10.644 align:start line:63% position:50% size:45% They separated, they got divorced. 00:00:10.644 --> 00:00:11.979 align:start line:69% position:50% size:75% Dad made a mess out of things. 00:00:11.979 --> 00:00:15.883 align:start line:63% position:50% size:75% I had all the attributes as a young teenager of someone that 00:00:15.883 --> 00:00:17.251 align:start line:69% position:50% size:56% doesn't have a father. 00:00:17.251 --> 00:00:18.585 align:start line:69% position:47% size:58% I was looking for love. 00:00:18.585 --> 00:00:19.953 align:start line:63% position:48% size:43% I was looking in the wrong places. 00:00:19.953 --> 00:00:23.624 align:start line:63% position:50% size:81% I was a leader, but I led people in the wrong direction, until I 00:00:23.624 --> 00:00:27.561 align:start line:63% position:50% size:65% met Jesus, and then God radically changed my life. 00:00:27.561 --> 00:00:30.297 align:start line:63% position:46% size:68% announcer: After his father abandoned the family, Billy 00:00:30.297 --> 00:00:34.434 align:start line:63% position:44% size:78% Wilson was left with a lifelong wound he describes as a 00:00:34.434 --> 00:00:36.436 align:start line:69% position:48% size:28% father cry. 00:00:36.436 --> 00:00:46.446 align:start line:85% position:48% size:18% [music] 00:00:46.446 --> 00:00:53.754 align:start line:85% position:48% size:18% [music] 00:00:53.754 --> 00:00:55.188 align:start line:63% position:50% size:61% James Robison: Well, I'm excited about today. 00:00:55.188 --> 00:00:58.558 align:start line:63% position:50% size:70% I'm excited about every day, because Jesus is Lord of 00:00:58.558 --> 00:00:59.893 align:start line:69% position:50% size:25% every day. 00:00:59.893 --> 00:01:01.261 align:start line:69% position:50% size:45% I'm James Robison. 00:01:01.261 --> 00:01:02.596 align:start line:63% position:50% size:50% Betty and I welcome you to "Life Today." 00:01:02.596 --> 00:01:04.431 align:start line:63% position:48% size:48% I'm excited because I've got a guest. 00:01:04.431 --> 00:01:06.066 align:start line:79% position:47% size:58% I just have to call him Billy, Billy Wilson. 00:01:06.066 --> 00:01:08.235 align:start line:79% position:50% size:65% You know, Billy Graham let everybody call him Billy, 00:01:08.235 --> 00:01:09.937 align:start line:79% position:47% size:58% even though he had lots of doctorates degrees. 00:01:09.937 --> 00:01:11.805 align:start line:85% position:44% size:78% Well, this is Dr. Billy Wilson. 00:01:11.805 --> 00:01:14.608 align:start line:79% position:47% size:63% He's the president now of Oral Roberts University. 00:01:14.608 --> 00:01:18.245 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% And I got to be real close to Oral, which was quite an amazing 00:01:18.245 --> 00:01:23.116 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% thing for a Baptist to really become so close to a Pentecostal 00:01:23.116 --> 00:01:25.118 align:start line:79% position:50% size:65% that even the Pentecostals were criticizing, and 00:01:25.118 --> 00:01:26.453 align:start line:85% position:50% size:61% everybody's criticizing. 00:01:26.453 --> 00:01:28.956 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% His Methodist family criticized, and Baptists were good at 00:01:28.956 --> 00:01:30.324 align:start line:85% position:50% size:56% criticizing everybody. 00:01:30.324 --> 00:01:33.427 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% And I went to Oral and asked him to forgive me, and he 00:01:33.427 --> 00:01:34.995 align:start line:85% position:48% size:38% started crying. 00:01:34.995 --> 00:01:38.532 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% And I said, "I think God told me you've been lonely, Oral." 00:01:38.532 --> 00:01:39.866 align:start line:79% position:48% size:48% He said, "You don't know how lonely." 00:01:39.866 --> 00:01:41.935 align:start line:79% position:50% size:61% I said, "Well, I'm gonna help change that." 00:01:41.935 --> 00:01:44.104 align:start line:79% position:46% size:68% And by the time I started helping change it, this guy 00:01:44.104 --> 00:01:49.209 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% right here, Dr. Billy Wilson, somehow not too long after all 00:01:49.209 --> 00:01:53.080 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% of that, you and I met, and what was the name of the organization 00:01:53.080 --> 00:01:54.982 align:start line:79% position:50% size:65% you were heading up that was impacting the country? 00:01:54.982 --> 00:01:56.750 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% Billy: I was leading a group called the Awakening America 00:01:56.750 --> 00:01:59.720 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% Alliance, when we really started connecting a lot, James. 00:01:59.720 --> 00:02:01.121 align:start line:79% position:48% size:48% James: And boy, that was beautiful. 00:02:01.121 --> 00:02:02.956 align:start line:85% position:44% size:78% So we started working together. 00:02:02.956 --> 00:02:07.127 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% And then when I found out you were called to Oral Roberts 00:02:07.127 --> 00:02:08.495 align:start line:85% position:50% size:75% University, well, I jumped in. 00:02:08.495 --> 00:02:10.897 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% I knew you needed money, and I didn't have any problem trying 00:02:10.897 --> 00:02:14.735 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% to work along with and encourage Hobby Lobby, David Green and his 00:02:14.735 --> 00:02:17.304 align:start line:79% position:48% size:43% family, and they appreciated that. 00:02:17.304 --> 00:02:19.906 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% And it was just amazing to watch it, and what you and I have 00:02:19.906 --> 00:02:24.544 align:start line:79% position:50% size:65% watched is God bring his family together in ways we 00:02:24.544 --> 00:02:25.879 align:start line:85% position:48% size:38% never imagined. 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:29.549 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% And I'm praying God will use us as we talk about "The 00:02:29.549 --> 00:02:30.884 align:start line:85% position:50% size:31% Father Cry." 00:02:30.884 --> 00:02:35.756 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% I didn't know you had such a bad father situation and fatherless 00:02:35.756 --> 00:02:39.226 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% situation, so to speak, in your family as I did my whole 00:02:39.226 --> 00:02:42.496 align:start line:79% position:47% size:63% journey, but there is a tremendous father hole in 00:02:42.496 --> 00:02:43.864 align:start line:85% position:48% size:33% this country. 00:02:43.864 --> 00:02:46.500 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% I don't know if there's a bigger problem in the country than 00:02:46.500 --> 00:02:50.303 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% fathers not being anything like the Father, not being the kind 00:02:50.303 --> 00:02:52.205 align:start line:85% position:44% size:78% of fathers we desperately need. 00:02:52.205 --> 00:02:53.540 align:start line:10% position:50% size:65% Would you agree with that? 00:02:53.540 --> 00:02:55.275 align:start line:10% position:50% size:75% Billy: I agree, yeah, it's one of the--well, I mean, even 00:02:55.275 --> 00:02:58.245 align:start line:10% position:50% size:70% sociologists say that fatherlessness is one of the 00:02:58.245 --> 00:02:59.780 align:start line:10% position:50% size:61% great issues of America. 00:02:59.780 --> 00:03:02.849 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% Maybe the number-one issue in America is fatherlessness. 00:03:02.849 --> 00:03:04.184 align:start line:10% position:47% size:53% James: I think it is. 00:03:04.184 --> 00:03:07.187 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% Billy: And even in the church, James, you know, we need 00:03:07.187 --> 00:03:09.956 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% spiritual fathers and mothers, and I think the lack of 00:03:09.956 --> 00:03:13.593 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% spiritual fathers in the church is also a critical issue that I 00:03:13.593 --> 00:03:14.961 align:start line:85% position:47% size:58% talk about in the book. 00:03:14.961 --> 00:03:18.532 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% James: No question, and you are so gifted, Betty, that you've 00:03:18.532 --> 00:03:20.300 align:start line:85% position:47% size:63% seen the journey with me. 00:03:20.300 --> 00:03:23.570 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% I've said that you did more to change my life than even any of 00:03:23.570 --> 00:03:24.938 align:start line:85% position:44% size:78% the preachers or people I know. 00:03:24.938 --> 00:03:27.074 align:start line:79% position:50% size:65% You're the greatest force in my life, apart from the 00:03:27.074 --> 00:03:28.408 align:start line:85% position:50% size:31% Holy Spirit. 00:03:28.408 --> 00:03:32.079 align:start line:79% position:46% size:68% But the fatherlessness that we've seen, well, you could 00:03:32.079 --> 00:03:34.214 align:start line:79% position:50% size:56% agree, it's as serious as any problem. 00:03:34.214 --> 00:03:35.582 align:start line:85% position:44% size:78% Betty Robison: It's so serious. 00:03:35.582 --> 00:03:39.086 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% And to me, the father is such a part of the foundation of the 00:03:39.086 --> 00:03:42.122 align:start line:85% position:50% size:75% family, along with the mother. 00:03:42.122 --> 00:03:44.891 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% And so many times they're not there in the home, and the 00:03:44.891 --> 00:03:49.196 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% mother has a responsibility about raising the family the 00:03:49.196 --> 00:03:50.797 align:start line:85% position:50% size:56% best way that she can. 00:03:50.797 --> 00:03:54.401 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% But, you know, you were talking earlier about the different 00:03:54.401 --> 00:03:57.204 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% denominations and stuff, and you know, I was sitting here 00:03:57.204 --> 00:04:01.541 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% thinking, we're all God's children, we're all his family. 00:04:01.541 --> 00:04:06.246 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% We're the ones that put tags and names on people, and cause 00:04:06.246 --> 00:04:07.614 align:start line:85% position:48% size:38% the separation. 00:04:07.614 --> 00:04:10.650 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% But we should realize that, and I think we've come a long way. 00:04:10.650 --> 00:04:11.985 align:start line:79% position:50% size:61% Billy: We've come a long way, Betty, you know. 00:04:11.985 --> 00:04:13.987 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% Again, what the Holy Spirit's doing is really bringing us, 00:04:13.987 --> 00:04:17.124 align:start line:79% position:50% size:65% lifting us above our divisions into what I call 00:04:17.124 --> 00:04:18.492 align:start line:85% position:48% size:43% relational unity. 00:04:18.492 --> 00:04:21.328 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% You know, Jesus's prayer to his Father was that they would be 00:04:21.328 --> 00:04:24.231 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% one as he and the Father are one, which is relationship 00:04:24.231 --> 00:04:27.367 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% first, mission second, and then through the power of the 00:04:27.367 --> 00:04:28.735 align:start line:85% position:50% size:31% Holy Spirit. 00:04:28.735 --> 00:04:32.005 align:start line:79% position:46% size:68% But really God's raising us to a relational connection. 00:04:32.005 --> 00:04:35.108 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% And you know, what happened to me, Betty, I was born into a 00:04:35.108 --> 00:04:40.046 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% preacher's home, and at the age of five, my dad was a supervisor 00:04:40.046 --> 00:04:42.282 align:start line:79% position:50% size:65% in the denomination he was serving at that time in 00:04:42.282 --> 00:04:43.650 align:start line:85% position:50% size:35% West Virginia. 00:04:43.650 --> 00:04:46.987 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% And he walked in one day and told my mom goodbye, and my mom 00:04:46.987 --> 00:04:50.090 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% and my two sisters had to move out of the "state parsonage 00:04:50.090 --> 00:04:53.493 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% within two weeks," and so we moved to Kentucky and with my 00:04:53.493 --> 00:04:55.295 align:start line:10% position:50% size:75% grandparents on my mom's side. 00:04:55.295 --> 00:04:57.998 align:start line:10% position:47% size:58% And for 15 years, then, my parents were apart. 00:04:57.998 --> 00:04:59.799 align:start line:10% position:50% size:45% They separated, they got divorced. 00:04:59.799 --> 00:05:03.069 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% Dad made a mess out of things and Mom backslid as well. 00:05:03.069 --> 00:05:05.739 align:start line:10% position:50% size:70% They both got bitter, angry. 00:05:05.739 --> 00:05:09.309 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% I grew up with my dad being public enemy number one in my 00:05:09.309 --> 00:05:12.812 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% life in many ways, and had all the attributes, as a young 00:05:12.812 --> 00:05:15.382 align:start line:79% position:47% size:63% teenager, of someone that doesn't have a father. 00:05:15.382 --> 00:05:18.385 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% I was looking for love, I was looking in the wrong places. 00:05:18.385 --> 00:05:22.155 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% I was a leader, but I led people in the wrong direction, until I 00:05:22.155 --> 00:05:26.393 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% met Jesus, and then God radically changed my life, and 00:05:26.393 --> 00:05:29.696 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% along the way began to radically change my dad's life again. 00:05:29.696 --> 00:05:31.064 align:start line:85% position:47% size:63% He came back to the Lord. 00:05:31.064 --> 00:05:33.366 align:start line:79% position:50% size:50% He actually got back into the ministry. 00:05:33.366 --> 00:05:37.204 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% God began to talk to me that if he could forgive me of my mess, 00:05:37.204 --> 00:05:41.308 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% couldn't I forgive my dad of his mess, and began to restore 00:05:41.308 --> 00:05:42.642 align:start line:85% position:48% size:43% our relationship. 00:05:42.642 --> 00:05:46.079 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% And then miraculously, after 15 years apart, my mom got her 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:49.916 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% heart right with God, got in the car in Kentucky, drove to way 00:05:49.916 --> 00:05:52.652 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% down in Florida where my dad was trying to plan a church, knocked 00:05:52.652 --> 00:05:56.556 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% on the door of the trailer he was living in and said, "Alva, I 00:05:56.556 --> 00:05:58.124 align:start line:85% position:50% size:61% need you to forgive me." 00:05:58.124 --> 00:06:00.193 align:start line:79% position:50% size:50% He said, "No, I need you to forgive me." 00:06:00.193 --> 00:06:03.463 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% And two weeks later they were married again, after 15 00:06:03.463 --> 00:06:04.798 align:start line:85% position:50% size:31% years apart. 00:06:04.798 --> 00:06:07.634 align:start line:10% position:46% size:68% And for the last 35 years of my dad's life, he was in 00:06:07.634 --> 00:06:09.302 align:start line:10% position:48% size:48% full-time ministry. 00:06:09.302 --> 00:06:13.573 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% And the book is really about, James, what I found in my own 00:06:13.573 --> 00:06:20.580 align:start line:10% position:50% size:75% heart, of crying for a father, longing to have a dad present, 00:06:20.580 --> 00:06:24.818 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% and then what I have heard in this generation of a cry for 00:06:24.818 --> 00:06:29.122 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% both physical, real fathers in the home, but also spiritual 00:06:29.122 --> 00:06:33.493 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% fathers, the cry of a generation for someone to be there for 00:06:33.493 --> 00:06:37.931 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% them, to mentor them, and to be someone they can depend on. 00:06:37.931 --> 00:06:41.201 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% And so I sort of correlate my own journey and my cry for my 00:06:41.201 --> 00:06:44.137 align:start line:79% position:50% size:61% father, our restored relationship and how our 00:06:44.137 --> 00:06:47.374 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% relationship with our Heavenly Father gets restored. 00:06:47.374 --> 00:06:51.378 align:start line:79% position:50% size:56% God ultimately brought my dad and I together. 00:06:51.378 --> 00:06:54.214 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% Just as he brought Mom and Dad together, he brought our family 00:06:54.214 --> 00:06:58.318 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% together, healed my heart, which was a work of the Holy Spirit, 00:06:58.318 --> 00:07:01.888 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% and helped me realize along the way that God is my true Heavenly 00:07:01.888 --> 00:07:06.026 align:start line:79% position:50% size:50% Father, and that God will not forsake us. 00:07:06.026 --> 00:07:09.396 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% I had a problem, and James, I know you probably had the same 00:07:09.396 --> 00:07:12.999 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% kind of problems without a father, of trust issues, and 00:07:12.999 --> 00:07:16.903 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% also of being a good father myself and understanding what it 00:07:16.903 --> 00:07:18.271 align:start line:85% position:48% size:43% takes to do that. 00:07:18.271 --> 00:07:20.073 align:start line:10% position:50% size:50% James: Who do you admire close to you? 00:07:20.073 --> 00:07:24.344 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% Who do you seek to be like, because you've been inspired by 00:07:24.344 --> 00:07:26.346 align:start line:10% position:50% size:75% who they are and what they do? 00:07:26.346 --> 00:07:27.714 align:start line:10% position:50% size:61% They just weren't there. 00:07:27.714 --> 00:07:29.149 align:start line:10% position:50% size:41% And it was a big hole in my life. 00:07:29.149 --> 00:07:31.484 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% Billy: I had a grandfather and he was a provider, but it just 00:07:31.484 --> 00:07:34.154 align:start line:85% position:47% size:63% wasn't the same as a dad. 00:07:34.154 --> 00:07:35.522 align:start line:85% position:47% size:58% It's just not the same. 00:07:35.522 --> 00:07:40.093 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% And so, I had to find God as my Father, which was actually 00:07:40.093 --> 00:07:41.961 align:start line:85% position:50% size:35% awesome, okay? 00:07:41.961 --> 00:07:46.199 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% And then my trust issues, I had to realize that God as my Father 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:49.102 align:start line:79% position:47% size:58% would not be exactly like my earthly father. 00:07:49.102 --> 00:07:50.970 align:start line:79% position:50% size:45% He wouldn't leave when it got tough. 00:07:50.970 --> 00:07:52.772 align:start line:79% position:50% size:56% He wouldn't leave when it was difficult. 00:07:52.772 --> 00:07:56.109 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% He would stay with me, and when I was being blessed, he wouldn't 00:07:56.109 --> 00:07:57.577 align:start line:85% position:44% size:78% pull the rug out from under me. 00:07:57.577 --> 00:08:00.113 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% He really loved me enough to keep blessing me, which has been 00:08:00.113 --> 00:08:03.049 align:start line:79% position:50% size:50% an amazing discovery in my adult life. 00:08:03.049 --> 00:08:06.953 align:start line:79% position:47% size:63% And God healed my heart, and he healed our family. 00:08:06.953 --> 00:08:10.724 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% And by the time my dad passed away, he was my number-one 00:08:10.724 --> 00:08:14.260 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% friend in the world and my best cheerleader, and we were 00:08:14.260 --> 00:08:15.595 align:start line:85% position:50% size:45% together in Jesus. 00:08:15.595 --> 00:08:16.963 align:start line:85% position:48% size:38% It was amazing. 00:08:16.963 --> 00:08:18.698 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% James: Well, I never got to say that about my real father, who 00:08:18.698 --> 00:08:21.668 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% raped my mother and got her pregnant, and came back into our 00:08:21.668 --> 00:08:25.772 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% life later when I was a teenager, and somehow my mother 00:08:25.772 --> 00:08:27.140 align:start line:85% position:50% size:50% let him stay around. 00:08:27.140 --> 00:08:30.610 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% He turned our life into literal hell, and then tried to kill 00:08:30.610 --> 00:08:31.945 align:start line:85% position:50% size:25% my mother. 00:08:31.945 --> 00:08:34.547 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% When I was 14 years old, he told me he was gonna kill me. 00:08:34.547 --> 00:08:36.783 align:start line:79% position:48% size:48% And he didn't know I'd bought a rifle. 00:08:36.783 --> 00:08:38.852 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% And I went and got it and pointed it at him, and if he'd 00:08:38.852 --> 00:08:40.487 align:start line:85% position:50% size:81% have moved, I'd have killed him. 00:08:40.487 --> 00:08:41.821 align:start line:85% position:50% size:50% And I told him that. 00:08:41.821 --> 00:08:44.023 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% I said, "If you move a finger, I'm gonna blow a hole in you." 00:08:44.023 --> 00:08:47.227 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% And thank God he didn't, and I called the operator and told him 00:08:47.227 --> 00:08:49.996 align:start line:79% position:46% size:68% to get the police here quick, and they came within 00:08:49.996 --> 00:08:51.364 align:start line:85% position:50% size:31% ten minutes. 00:08:51.364 --> 00:08:53.967 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% They had him arrested, prison seven years, never knew him. 00:08:53.967 --> 00:08:55.335 align:start line:85% position:47% size:53% I did witness to him. 00:08:55.335 --> 00:08:56.669 align:start line:79% position:50% size:45% I did tell him, "I never knew you, 00:08:56.669 --> 00:08:58.138 align:start line:79% position:48% size:43% but I loved you," Betty and I. 00:08:58.138 --> 00:08:59.773 align:start line:79% position:50% size:61% We couldn't let him come in our mobile home. 00:08:59.773 --> 00:09:03.910 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% We were living in a trailer, 50 foot wide trailer, but we put a 00:09:03.910 --> 00:09:06.579 align:start line:79% position:50% size:45% chair outside, and he slept in it. 00:09:06.579 --> 00:09:10.750 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% I couldn't trust him in my house with my wife and my daughter. 00:09:10.750 --> 00:09:13.286 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% But the point is that I said, "I don't know you, but I love you." 00:09:13.286 --> 00:09:16.589 align:start line:10% position:50% size:65% I did my best to help him, but I never saw a change. 00:09:16.589 --> 00:09:19.159 align:start line:10% position:50% size:65% But I'm telling you, those are big holes in my heart. 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:22.429 align:start line:10% position:50% size:65% And I see the whole nation with that father hole. 00:09:22.429 --> 00:09:25.799 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% And here's what I want to say to all of you, please hear this. 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:29.869 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% I began to glimpse him in people, but I actually met him 00:09:29.869 --> 00:09:33.072 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% through Jesus, and really through the witness of just this 00:09:33.072 --> 00:09:37.310 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% woman that was my wife, loving Jesus so much I could see the 00:09:37.310 --> 00:09:38.645 align:start line:85% position:50% size:35% Father in her. 00:09:38.645 --> 00:09:41.548 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% And she didn't have a perfect father, but boy, she knew 00:09:41.548 --> 00:09:42.882 align:start line:85% position:48% size:23% that one. 00:09:42.882 --> 00:09:47.253 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% And anyway, we just began to grow, but boy, I mean, her 00:09:47.253 --> 00:09:49.722 align:start line:79% position:47% size:58% influence on me, it's amazing how a woman can 00:09:49.722 --> 00:09:53.760 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% fill some of the holes where the man didn't fill them. 00:09:53.760 --> 00:09:55.662 align:start line:79% position:48% size:48% Billy: Well, same with my wife, Lisa. 00:09:55.662 --> 00:09:57.464 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% James: But here's the thing: this father cry is the cry of 00:09:57.464 --> 00:10:04.304 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% the nation, and it's--let me say to all you women, God bless you. 00:10:04.304 --> 00:10:07.807 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% Just pray that God will make the man that you love and perhaps 00:10:07.807 --> 00:10:11.444 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% marry, God, I'm praying that right now, do something in his 00:10:11.444 --> 00:10:16.916 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% heart to make him wanna love and lead the way you want us to love 00:10:16.916 --> 00:10:19.519 align:start line:85% position:50% size:65% and lead, in Jesus's name. 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:24.224 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% Look, ask the Father to become your father through Jesus. 00:10:24.224 --> 00:10:28.428 align:start line:79% position:50% size:56% This Father can teach us how to be a father. 00:10:28.428 --> 00:10:31.731 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% I'm really seeking to spend the rest of my life, and I know 00:10:31.731 --> 00:10:33.066 align:start line:85% position:50% size:21% you are. 00:10:33.066 --> 00:10:35.401 align:start line:79% position:50% size:61% You're the president of Oral Roberts University. 00:10:35.401 --> 00:10:38.104 align:start line:79% position:50% size:61% You're already impacting thousands of students. 00:10:38.104 --> 00:10:42.842 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% I really believe that you are sowing seeds there at Oral 00:10:42.842 --> 00:10:46.045 align:start line:79% position:47% size:58% Roberts that Oral and I prayed before he left. 00:10:46.045 --> 00:10:48.481 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% He wanted that school to become greater than he ever imagined. 00:10:48.481 --> 00:10:49.816 align:start line:85% position:48% size:33% Billy: It is. 00:10:49.816 --> 00:10:52.352 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% James: And he talked about how much he missed the fellowship of 00:10:52.352 --> 00:10:56.589 align:start line:10% position:46% size:68% the family because of the way denominations separate. 00:10:56.589 --> 00:10:59.792 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% I wish we could learn this, and I'm gonna try to help the church 00:10:59.792 --> 00:11:01.160 align:start line:10% position:48% size:23% see this. 00:11:01.160 --> 00:11:04.531 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% We can have serious disagreements in life, serious 00:11:04.531 --> 00:11:07.700 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% disagreements in marriage, serious disagreements in our 00:11:07.700 --> 00:11:12.205 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% family and in the church, and not get a divorce, or not 00:11:12.205 --> 00:11:15.909 align:start line:85% position:45% size:73% amputate or hurt one another. 00:11:15.909 --> 00:11:17.577 align:start line:85% position:47% size:63% We don't need to do that. 00:11:17.577 --> 00:11:22.916 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% I mean, we can be convinced we're right, they're wrong, but 00:11:22.916 --> 00:11:27.253 align:start line:79% position:50% size:50% we're all wrong, and he's always right. 00:11:27.253 --> 00:11:31.291 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% And he loves us with perfect love even when we're wrong. 00:11:31.291 --> 00:11:34.027 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% And we can learn to pour that love out on others, and I've 00:11:34.027 --> 00:11:37.730 align:start line:79% position:47% size:58% learned to do it, and Billy, I know you have. 00:11:37.730 --> 00:11:42.535 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% We as fathers should be leading the whole family the way the 00:11:42.535 --> 00:11:44.504 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% Father wants to lead his family. 00:11:44.504 --> 00:11:47.173 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% Billy: I interviewed my mom and dad years after they'd been 00:11:47.173 --> 00:11:48.508 align:start line:10% position:50% size:35% back together. 00:11:48.508 --> 00:11:52.378 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% I have a television show and so I decided to interview them, and 00:11:52.378 --> 00:11:55.481 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% a bit selfish on my part because I got to ask them questions I'd 00:11:55.481 --> 00:11:57.283 align:start line:85% position:50% size:61% never asked them before. 00:11:57.283 --> 00:11:59.285 align:start line:85% position:47% size:63% And so I asked Dad on TV. 00:11:59.285 --> 00:12:00.620 align:start line:85% position:47% size:58% I mean, we were taping. 00:12:00.620 --> 00:12:02.188 align:start line:85% position:50% size:50% It was live to tape. 00:12:02.188 --> 00:12:05.625 align:start line:85% position:50% size:81% And I said, "Dad, what happened? 00:12:05.625 --> 00:12:08.161 align:start line:85% position:50% size:41% Why'd you leave? 00:12:08.161 --> 00:12:10.396 align:start line:79% position:47% size:53% Cause so much pain, hurt so many people?" 00:12:10.396 --> 00:12:12.699 align:start line:85% position:45% size:73% He started crying on the set. 00:12:12.699 --> 00:12:14.067 align:start line:79% position:50% size:56% He said, "Well, it's pretty simple, Billy." 00:12:14.067 --> 00:12:16.402 align:start line:85% position:47% size:63% He said, "I got selfish." 00:12:16.402 --> 00:12:18.404 align:start line:85% position:47% size:63% He said, "I got selfish." 00:12:18.404 --> 00:12:22.108 align:start line:79% position:50% size:65% Divorce happens because people get selfish, James. 00:12:22.108 --> 00:12:24.944 align:start line:85% position:45% size:73% Good fathers are not selfish. 00:12:24.944 --> 00:12:26.312 align:start line:85% position:48% size:38% That's the key. 00:12:26.312 --> 00:12:27.647 align:start line:79% position:47% size:53% Our Heavenly Father's not selfish. 00:12:27.647 --> 00:12:29.716 align:start line:85% position:50% size:81% He's a Father that always gives. 00:12:29.716 --> 00:12:34.287 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% And if we as fathers, earthly fathers, could learn to give, to 00:12:34.287 --> 00:12:38.324 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% love as our Heavenly Father, we would heal a whole generation, 00:12:38.324 --> 00:12:41.794 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% because what's happened, because of the hurt family, because of 00:12:41.794 --> 00:12:44.764 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% bad fathering all over the world, even in families that are 00:12:44.764 --> 00:12:48.568 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% intact, fathers that are not giving, that are selfish, hurt 00:12:48.568 --> 00:12:49.902 align:start line:85% position:48% size:38% their children. 00:12:49.902 --> 00:12:52.839 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% And so you've got people growing up with this father wound in 00:12:52.839 --> 00:12:56.275 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% their heart, and so their view of the Heavenly Father is 00:12:56.275 --> 00:13:00.146 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% distorted because their earthly father distorted their view 00:13:00.146 --> 00:13:01.514 align:start line:85% position:50% size:35% of fatherhood. 00:13:01.514 --> 00:13:03.316 align:start line:79% position:50% size:50% Now, God is not your earthly father. 00:13:03.316 --> 00:13:05.251 align:start line:79% position:50% size:61% I wanna say that to those that are watching. 00:13:05.251 --> 00:13:06.819 align:start line:79% position:50% size:50% God is not like your earthly father. 00:13:06.819 --> 00:13:09.155 align:start line:79% position:48% size:48% However good he is, God's better, okay? 00:13:09.155 --> 00:13:10.957 align:start line:79% position:50% size:45% God always loves. He's always there. 00:13:10.957 --> 00:13:12.992 align:start line:79% position:47% size:53% He's always faithful. He always cares. 00:13:12.992 --> 00:13:14.560 align:start line:85% position:50% size:65% His arms are always there. 00:13:14.560 --> 00:13:17.230 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% He will never leave you, never forsake you, and he wants an 00:13:17.230 --> 00:13:20.500 align:start line:79% position:47% size:53% intimate relationship with you called Abba. 00:13:20.500 --> 00:13:24.504 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% Abba, Daddy, Father, that you can be in his arms and he can be 00:13:24.504 --> 00:13:26.339 align:start line:85% position:50% size:56% your daddy and father. 00:13:26.339 --> 00:13:28.675 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% But for those of us that are earthly fathers, and I wanna 00:13:28.675 --> 00:13:31.277 align:start line:79% position:47% size:53% talk to a few earthly fathers right now. 00:13:31.277 --> 00:13:35.715 align:start line:79% position:47% size:63% If you're selfish, you're hurting your family, get 00:13:35.715 --> 00:13:41.187 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% yourself to the cross of Jesus Christ and give up and surrender 00:13:41.187 --> 00:13:44.924 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% to him, and let the love of God fill your heart, even for your 00:13:44.924 --> 00:13:46.693 align:start line:85% position:47% size:63% family and your children. 00:13:46.693 --> 00:13:50.229 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% Your words, your deeds, everything you do as a father is 00:13:50.229 --> 00:13:53.733 align:start line:79% position:47% size:58% influencing your family and future generations. 00:13:53.733 --> 00:13:56.703 align:start line:79% position:46% size:68% Your grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be 00:13:56.703 --> 00:13:58.638 align:start line:85% position:50% size:70% influenced by your response. 00:13:58.638 --> 00:14:01.708 align:start line:85% position:50% size:61% Selfishness brings pain. 00:14:01.708 --> 00:14:03.076 align:start line:85% position:50% size:50% Love brings healing. 00:14:03.076 --> 00:14:07.747 align:start line:10% position:50% size:75% James: I've been watching this man for 40 years, and I've 00:14:07.747 --> 00:14:10.983 align:start line:10% position:50% size:75% watched God, literally, in many ways, not only use him to 00:14:10.983 --> 00:14:14.887 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% transform others, but God to transform his life, to change 00:14:14.887 --> 00:14:18.424 align:start line:79% position:50% size:61% him, to where he leads a truly great university. 00:14:18.424 --> 00:14:20.093 align:start line:85% position:47% size:53% He's gifted to write. 00:14:20.093 --> 00:14:24.831 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% This "Father Cry," listen to this, "Healing Your Heart and 00:14:24.831 --> 00:14:27.433 align:start line:85% position:50% size:75% the Hearts of Those You Love." 00:14:27.433 --> 00:14:31.704 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% Billy, I believe the way you write, what you wrote, the 00:14:31.704 --> 00:14:35.541 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% truthfulness of your own journey, what you saw even in 00:14:35.541 --> 00:14:39.345 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% Preacher Daddy and the failures, what you have seen in people 00:14:39.345 --> 00:14:42.982 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% you've ministered to now for many years, I believe what he 00:14:42.982 --> 00:14:46.519 align:start line:79% position:50% size:65% has written here about the father cry could heal, 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:49.522 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% literally, the fathers in this nation, if you would take 00:14:49.522 --> 00:14:50.857 align:start line:10% position:48% size:28% this truth. 00:14:50.857 --> 00:14:52.258 align:start line:10% position:48% size:43% I wanna ask all of you to get it. 00:14:52.258 --> 00:14:54.393 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% You can go online and buy it. 00:14:54.393 --> 00:14:57.964 align:start line:10% position:47% size:63% You can go to Amazon, you can go to the bookstores. 00:14:57.964 --> 00:14:59.732 align:start line:10% position:47% size:58% But I'll tell you what. 00:14:59.732 --> 00:15:04.203 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% If you will help us feed and save the lives of some children 00:15:04.203 --> 00:15:09.142 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% that are literally starving and in Africa now, because all the 00:15:09.142 --> 00:15:11.811 align:start line:10% position:48% size:43% feeding basically has pulled out. 00:15:11.811 --> 00:15:17.316 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% We're one of the immovable ones that will not move, we together. 00:15:17.316 --> 00:15:20.386 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% If you would help us reach out and put God's arm, the Father's 00:15:20.386 --> 00:15:24.524 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% arms around these children that are starving to death and their 00:15:24.524 --> 00:15:27.226 align:start line:10% position:47% size:63% families, we can do that. 00:15:27.226 --> 00:15:32.198 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% So if you would just help us, right now, feed more children 00:15:32.198 --> 00:15:36.435 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% than ever, knowing even more will come, please God, raise up 00:15:36.435 --> 00:15:44.243 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% people to say, "I'll help 1, 3, 5, 10, 100, 1,000, I can." 00:15:44.243 --> 00:15:49.382 align:start line:10% position:50% size:75% God, please, I ask you, touch the hearts of those listening. 00:15:49.382 --> 00:15:53.252 align:start line:10% position:50% size:65% You just help us get God's arms around the starving. 00:15:53.252 --> 00:15:57.957 align:start line:10% position:47% size:58% Billy, I wanna see America read this book. 00:15:57.957 --> 00:16:01.360 align:start line:79% position:50% size:65% I believe God brought us together to help bring his 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:05.798 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% family together, and the best way to do that is help everybody 00:16:05.798 --> 00:16:10.736 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% know that Father, and become the family he desires. 00:16:10.736 --> 00:16:12.605 align:start line:85% position:50% size:61% And we can inspire that. 00:16:12.605 --> 00:16:14.640 align:start line:79% position:48% size:48% That's what I think we do as ministers. 00:16:14.640 --> 00:16:17.476 align:start line:79% position:47% size:63% That's what we do as fathers in our own homes. 00:16:17.476 --> 00:16:21.414 align:start line:79% position:48% size:43% So please, please give it a shot. 00:16:21.414 --> 00:16:23.883 align:start line:79% position:47% size:58% Billy, I really do love you and appreciate you. 00:16:23.883 --> 00:16:25.218 align:start line:85% position:47% size:58% Billy: Love you, James. 00:16:25.218 --> 00:16:27.453 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% James: And don't you believe this "Father Cry" is going to 00:16:27.453 --> 00:16:29.021 align:start line:85% position:47% size:63% experience a move of God? 00:16:29.021 --> 00:16:31.324 align:start line:10% position:50% size:56% Billy: Yeah, we are in a move of God, James. 00:16:31.324 --> 00:16:34.360 align:start line:10% position:46% size:68% Generation Z is in revival. 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:38.231 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% God is moving in young people today like never before. 00:16:38.231 --> 00:16:41.467 align:start line:10% position:47% size:53% They are blessed, but they're also broken. 00:16:41.467 --> 00:16:43.703 align:start line:79% position:50% size:50% They're on fire, but they're also frail. 00:16:43.703 --> 00:16:47.740 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% And they need men and women of God to be their spiritual moms 00:16:47.740 --> 00:16:52.178 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% and dads and put their arms--or put us to put our arms around 00:16:52.178 --> 00:16:54.513 align:start line:79% position:47% size:53% them and love them through this journey. 00:16:54.513 --> 00:16:57.817 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% Lisa and I see ourselves as spiritual parents at ORU, and 00:16:57.817 --> 00:16:59.986 align:start line:85% position:45% size:73% it's the honor of a lifetime. 00:16:59.986 --> 00:17:04.323 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% James: Well, it is, and Betty and I see ourselves as just-- 00:17:04.323 --> 00:17:06.959 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% Billy: Well, you're spiritual parents to hundreds of thousands 00:17:06.959 --> 00:17:08.494 align:start line:85% position:50% size:25% of people. 00:17:08.494 --> 00:17:10.129 align:start line:79% position:50% size:56% James: Yeah, we're great-grandparents and 00:17:10.129 --> 00:17:13.499 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% grandparents to an awful lot of people, millions of people all 00:17:13.499 --> 00:17:14.967 align:start line:85% position:48% size:38% over the world. 00:17:14.967 --> 00:17:20.006 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% And what we say to those of you who watch us, and we go and show 00:17:20.006 --> 00:17:24.410 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% you the legitimate needs that can be effectively met by the 00:17:24.410 --> 00:17:25.745 align:start line:85% position:50% size:31% love of God. 00:17:25.745 --> 00:17:28.314 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% The only way you get the Father's arms, God's arms around 00:17:28.314 --> 00:17:30.883 align:start line:79% position:50% size:45% people, is for his family to do it. 00:17:30.883 --> 00:17:34.186 align:start line:79% position:50% size:56% The family is his body, it's his church. 00:17:34.186 --> 00:17:35.521 align:start line:85% position:50% size:56% I want you to look in. 00:17:35.521 --> 00:17:37.356 align:start line:79% position:50% size:45% I want you to look in real careful. 00:17:37.356 --> 00:17:42.361 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% I want you to listen to a young girl with what she sees looking 00:17:42.361 --> 00:17:44.363 align:start line:85% position:50% size:61% at some little children. 00:17:44.363 --> 00:17:49.235 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% But I want you to see what she sees the way she sees it. 00:17:49.235 --> 00:17:53.539 align:start line:85% position:47% size:58% And you are the answer. 00:17:53.539 --> 00:17:55.541 align:start line:85% position:47% size:58% Watch this prayerfully. 00:17:57.209 --> 00:17:59.812 align:start line:10% position:50% size:75% announcer: This is a clinic for mothers whose children are 00:17:59.812 --> 00:18:02.281 align:start line:10% position:50% size:61% suffering from the effects of malnutrition. 00:18:02.281 --> 00:18:06.319 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% Kiera Pretorius, daughter of Isak Pretorius, is seeing for 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:10.056 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% the first time Angolan children struggling to survive the 00:18:10.056 --> 00:18:14.293 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% consequences of not having enough food to keep them alive. 00:18:14.293 --> 00:18:15.628 align:start line:53% position:50% size:61% Isak Pretorius: So you can see the other signs. 00:18:15.628 --> 00:18:18.197 align:start line:53% position:46% size:68% I mean, you can see how his ribs are just sticking out. 00:18:18.197 --> 00:18:20.566 align:start line:53% position:47% size:63% You see how, I mean, look how little his arms are. 00:18:20.566 --> 00:18:24.303 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% I mean, his arms are like the size of my thumb, you know? 00:18:24.303 --> 00:18:26.439 align:start line:79% position:47% size:63% Kiera Pretorius: And it's just skin, there's like-- 00:18:26.439 --> 00:18:29.575 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% Isak: No, it's just skin and bone really, because that's the 00:18:29.575 --> 00:18:32.078 align:start line:79% position:50% size:45% state at which its nutrition is at. 00:18:32.078 --> 00:18:36.882 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% It's so weak and so malnourished that literally the body starts 00:18:36.882 --> 00:18:38.718 align:start line:85% position:48% size:33% to shut down. 00:18:38.718 --> 00:18:40.486 align:start line:79% position:48% size:48% Kiera: Do you think he'll recover? 00:18:40.486 --> 00:18:44.223 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% Isak: Chances are that he will survive, that we will be able to 00:18:44.223 --> 00:18:49.195 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% save his life, but there are so many children in this state that 00:18:49.195 --> 00:18:53.966 align:start line:85% position:50% size:75% don't leave clinics like this. 00:18:53.966 --> 00:18:55.401 align:start line:85% position:48% size:28% Just do it. 00:18:55.401 --> 00:18:56.736 align:start line:85% position:48% size:43% It's good to cry. 00:18:56.736 --> 00:18:58.104 align:start line:85% position:50% size:25% It's okay. 00:19:01.807 --> 00:19:04.610 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% Kiera: I've grown up knowing many of these stories and seeing 00:19:04.610 --> 00:19:11.584 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% the photos, and hearing here the heart-wrenching stories of young 00:19:11.584 --> 00:19:15.221 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% mothers with their young children that want to do the 00:19:15.221 --> 00:19:19.058 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% best for them, but genuinely just don't have the resources. 00:19:19.058 --> 00:19:23.729 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% Every time I see or hear these stories and being here today, it 00:19:23.729 --> 00:19:26.866 align:start line:79% position:50% size:56% affects me and it deeply hurts my heart. 00:19:26.866 --> 00:19:31.170 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% So I'm asking you to not let it become normal to you, don't let 00:19:31.170 --> 00:19:36.375 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% it--don't let it become something you become immune to. 00:19:36.375 --> 00:19:41.747 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% Isak: I ask you to hear that appeal from a 19-year-old girl 00:19:41.747 --> 00:19:48.320 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% who knows what happens if you look away, who knows what 00:19:48.320 --> 00:19:55.394 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% happens when this starts to become normal, when we shut our 00:19:55.394 --> 00:19:59.899 align:start line:79% position:46% size:68% hearts down, when we try to think through this with our 00:19:59.899 --> 00:20:03.135 align:start line:79% position:50% size:61% heads instead of just listening to our hearts. 00:20:03.135 --> 00:20:06.372 align:start line:79% position:46% size:68% And so I'm asking you today to listen to your heart. 00:20:06.372 --> 00:20:09.075 align:start line:85% position:45% size:73% Listen to the heart of Kiera. 00:20:09.075 --> 00:20:13.279 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% Listen to my heart, listen to your heart, because our hearts' 00:20:13.279 --> 00:20:16.282 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% cry is the same as this mother's, and I believe yours 00:20:16.282 --> 00:20:17.683 align:start line:85% position:48% size:18% is too. 00:20:17.683 --> 00:20:21.720 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% And that is to do everything that we can do to save this 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:27.593 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% little boy, everything that we can do to give this mother what 00:20:27.593 --> 00:20:29.595 align:start line:85% position:50% size:61% she needs for her child. 00:20:32.565 --> 00:20:38.637 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% James: Peter Pretorius and I started more than 40 years ago 00:20:38.637 --> 00:20:44.210 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% together, and Peter and I stood real close to each other for, 00:20:44.210 --> 00:20:47.713 align:start line:79% position:50% size:56% you know, 35 years, I guess, and he left us. 00:20:47.713 --> 00:20:50.716 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% And I'm so glad that Isak has picked it up and now that 00:20:50.716 --> 00:20:54.653 align:start line:79% position:50% size:61% beautiful little 19 year old, looking at those 00:20:54.653 --> 00:20:56.021 align:start line:85% position:50% size:41% little children. 00:20:56.021 --> 00:20:57.723 align:start line:85% position:50% size:50% Please listen to me. 00:20:57.723 --> 00:21:00.025 align:start line:85% position:46% size:68% I want you to look at them. 00:21:00.025 --> 00:21:02.595 align:start line:79% position:48% size:43% And look what it did to her heart. 00:21:02.595 --> 00:21:05.531 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% But you see, that's what it did to my heart the first time I 00:21:05.531 --> 00:21:06.866 align:start line:85% position:48% size:23% saw them. 00:21:06.866 --> 00:21:10.936 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% And Betty, when I saw the graves of 10,000 of them, most of them 00:21:10.936 --> 00:21:14.573 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% less than 4 years old, they were 2 and 3 and just little graves 00:21:14.573 --> 00:21:19.278 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% and no markers, maybe a little picture of a child or a little 00:21:19.278 --> 00:21:23.849 align:start line:85% position:50% size:81% toy, I just said, "God, please." 00:21:23.849 --> 00:21:27.786 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% And we sold a bunch of stuff the ministry owned because we didn't 00:21:27.786 --> 00:21:29.755 align:start line:79% position:46% size:68% know if our viewers--we didn't know if people would 00:21:29.755 --> 00:21:31.724 align:start line:85% position:50% size:35% help missions. 00:21:31.724 --> 00:21:33.792 align:start line:85% position:50% size:50% Oh boy, but you did. 00:21:33.792 --> 00:21:37.630 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% When we showed you the reality of what they face, and we showed 00:21:37.630 --> 00:21:40.132 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% you the love of those missionaries that move their 00:21:40.132 --> 00:21:43.736 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% families across the ocean and plant their lives in the midst 00:21:43.736 --> 00:21:49.241 align:start line:79% position:50% size:75% of death, and they said to me and to Betty, "Please go home, 00:21:49.241 --> 00:21:52.678 align:start line:79% position:44% size:78% see if you can get us some help so we can stay here and not be 00:21:52.678 --> 00:21:55.447 align:start line:79% position:50% size:65% empty-handed, so we can stay here with more than a 00:21:55.447 --> 00:21:56.782 align:start line:85% position:50% size:35% broken heart." 00:21:56.782 --> 00:21:59.785 align:start line:79% position:47% size:63% And Betty, we came back and did our viewers help? 00:21:59.785 --> 00:22:01.353 align:start line:79% position:47% size:58% Betty: Oh, they absolutely have, James. 00:22:01.353 --> 00:22:04.523 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% And one thing that really struck me that Kiera said, she said, 00:22:04.523 --> 00:22:08.360 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% "Don't become immune, because you've seen scenes similar to 00:22:08.360 --> 00:22:09.695 align:start line:85% position:48% size:33% this before." 00:22:09.695 --> 00:22:11.063 align:start line:85% position:50% size:50% They're still there. 00:22:11.063 --> 00:22:12.398 align:start line:85% position:50% size:50% They're still needy. 00:22:12.398 --> 00:22:14.099 align:start line:79% position:50% size:45% Different ones, but they're needy. 00:22:14.099 --> 00:22:17.770 align:start line:79% position:45% size:73% So I want you to know that my heart was so deeply touched. 00:22:17.770 --> 00:22:21.574 align:start line:79% position:50% size:70% I thought, God, don't let me ever become immune to a need 00:22:21.574 --> 00:22:22.942 align:start line:85% position:50% size:25% like that. 00:22:22.942 --> 00:22:25.377 align:start line:79% position:50% size:81% We've been over there many, many times through many, many years. 00:22:25.377 --> 00:22:29.014 align:start line:79% position:50% size:65% I never felt on any of the trips that, "Oh, I've seen 00:22:29.014 --> 00:22:30.482 align:start line:85% position:48% size:33% this before." 00:22:30.482 --> 00:22:35.287 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% No, it was always fresh on my heart, and I pray that it'll 00:22:35.287 --> 00:22:39.091 align:start line:10% position:50% size:70% stay that way for you as you let God speak to your heart. 00:22:39.091 --> 00:22:41.927 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% James: Well, I pray that Betty and I believe--I know for a fact 00:22:41.927 --> 00:22:45.598 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% we're as faithful supporters of the mission outreaches as any of 00:22:45.598 --> 00:22:49.235 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% all the thousands of people that do help us, and I just pray God 00:22:49.235 --> 00:22:52.605 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% everybody would be that faithful and even more faithful. 00:22:52.605 --> 00:22:58.811 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% Please, did you realize that for $30 you can feed 3 children, for 00:22:58.811 --> 00:23:03.616 align:start line:10% position:50% size:56% $50, 5 children, for $100, 10, $1,000, 100? 00:23:03.616 --> 00:23:05.985 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% Did you know there are many of you who could give part of your 00:23:05.985 --> 00:23:09.221 align:start line:10% position:48% size:43% estate, who could give large gifts? 00:23:09.221 --> 00:23:12.424 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% And right now we're being told, as people are moving out of 00:23:12.424 --> 00:23:16.161 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% Africa to feed, that there's gonna be the highest starvation 00:23:16.161 --> 00:23:20.566 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% rate in history on that greatest continent that has so much to 00:23:20.566 --> 00:23:26.538 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% offer, and if only God's people would put his arms around those 00:23:26.538 --> 00:23:29.074 align:start line:10% position:46% size:68% desperate suffering people. 00:23:29.074 --> 00:23:34.580 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% We have beautiful gifts to send to you, and one thank you is the 00:23:34.580 --> 00:23:37.549 align:start line:10% position:48% size:43% "Father Cry" book that Billy wrote. 00:23:37.549 --> 00:23:39.652 align:start line:10% position:48% size:43% We would love for you to have that. 00:23:39.652 --> 00:23:43.255 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% But please, right now, would you go get your bank card and use it 00:23:43.255 --> 00:23:44.623 align:start line:10% position:48% size:33% like a check? 00:23:44.623 --> 00:23:47.693 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% If you write a check, make it to Life, but call us and tell us 00:23:47.693 --> 00:23:49.528 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% what you're putting in the mail. 00:23:49.528 --> 00:23:51.530 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% And we need a miracle response. 00:23:51.530 --> 00:23:54.333 align:start line:10% position:46% size:68% Please, don't put this off. 00:23:54.333 --> 00:23:59.672 align:start line:10% position:50% size:75% Go online with that card, call the number, make the gift. 00:23:59.672 --> 00:24:03.309 align:start line:10% position:50% size:65% If you get a busy, be determined to get through. 00:24:03.309 --> 00:24:08.213 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% And let's put God's loving arms around these desperate children. 00:24:08.213 --> 00:24:12.051 align:start line:10% position:47% size:53% We can give life to them by the millions. 00:24:12.051 --> 00:24:13.919 align:start line:10% position:47% size:58% We've done it together. 00:24:13.919 --> 00:24:15.254 align:start line:10% position:48% size:38% Please help us. 00:24:15.254 --> 00:24:19.725 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% The need has never been greater. 00:24:19.725 --> 00:24:22.728 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% announcer: Right now, across the continent of Africa, children 00:24:22.728 --> 00:24:26.965 align:start line:10% position:50% size:70% are suffering, facing severe malnutrition and even death. 00:24:26.965 --> 00:24:30.135 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% With food reserves critically depleted and many areas 00:24:30.135 --> 00:24:34.373 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% experiencing devastating famine, we urgently need to replenish 00:24:34.373 --> 00:24:38.377 align:start line:10% position:50% size:70% supplies to keep feeding the 350,000 children who are 00:24:38.377 --> 00:24:40.713 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% counting on us every single day. 00:24:40.713 --> 00:24:44.450 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% Through Life's Mission Feeding outreach, your gift of love can 00:24:44.450 --> 00:24:47.953 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% be an answer to a prayer for a hurting and hungry child in 00:24:47.953 --> 00:24:49.488 align:start line:10% position:48% size:48% their time of need. 00:24:49.488 --> 00:24:54.893 align:start line:10% position:50% size:75% Call now with your life-saving gift of $30, $50, or $100 to 00:24:54.893 --> 00:25:00.866 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% help feed and care for 3, 5, or 10 children for 3 full months. 00:25:00.866 --> 00:25:04.670 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% With your gift, we'll send you "The Father's Heart" devotional. 00:25:04.670 --> 00:25:08.374 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% Drawing from Scripture and his past, James Robison takes you on 00:25:08.374 --> 00:25:12.044 align:start line:10% position:50% size:70% a 90-day journey to help you experience a deeper, more 00:25:12.044 --> 00:25:15.614 align:start line:10% position:50% size:65% personal relationship with God as your loving Father. 00:25:15.614 --> 00:25:19.518 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% With your gift of $100 or more, you will receive the "Father's 00:25:19.518 --> 00:25:20.886 align:start line:10% position:50% size:35% Heart" bundle. 00:25:20.886 --> 00:25:24.323 align:start line:10% position:50% size:81% This stationery set paired with the devotional is a thoughtfully 00:25:24.323 --> 00:25:27.793 align:start line:10% position:50% size:75% designed collection created to help you share encouragement, 00:25:27.793 --> 00:25:31.263 align:start line:10% position:50% size:75% prayer, and the love of our Heavenly Father with those you 00:25:31.263 --> 00:25:32.631 align:start line:10% position:48% size:28% care about. 00:25:32.631 --> 00:25:36.468 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% Finally, with your gift of $1,000 or more, which will help 00:25:36.468 --> 00:25:41.073 align:start line:10% position:50% size:75% feed 100 children in desperate need, request Life's beautiful 00:25:41.073 --> 00:25:43.575 align:start line:10% position:50% size:50% bronze sculpture, "The Good Shepherd." 00:25:43.575 --> 00:25:46.578 align:start line:10% position:50% size:70% So, please call, write, or make your gift online today. 00:25:50.015 --> 00:25:53.218 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% James: And we will also send you not only the other books we 00:25:53.218 --> 00:25:56.922 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% talked about, but "Father Cry." 00:25:56.922 --> 00:26:00.626 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% And that's the Father, Billy, that everybody needs to cry out 00:26:00.626 --> 00:26:01.994 align:start line:10% position:50% size:21% for too. 00:26:01.994 --> 00:26:04.963 align:start line:10% position:50% size:75% Billy: James, I wanna say on behalf of the Spirit-empowered 00:26:04.963 --> 00:26:08.333 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% world, believers all over the world, thank you for having a 00:26:08.333 --> 00:26:13.205 align:start line:10% position:45% size:73% father's heart for children that no one else cares about. 00:26:13.205 --> 00:26:17.776 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% And you've done this for years, expressing God's fatherly love 00:26:17.776 --> 00:26:21.280 align:start line:10% position:47% size:58% for kids who are dying, and saving their life. 00:26:21.280 --> 00:26:22.648 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% That's what a good father does. 00:26:22.648 --> 00:26:24.716 align:start line:10% position:50% size:70% James: Amen, that's what the Great Father does through 00:26:24.716 --> 00:26:27.653 align:start line:10% position:48% size:48% yielded fathers and yielded people. 00:26:27.653 --> 00:26:32.024 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% And we wanna thank you, because you are the key to life for 00:26:32.024 --> 00:26:35.494 align:start line:10% position:44% size:78% these precious children whose mothers are praying desperately 00:26:35.494 --> 00:26:37.796 align:start line:10% position:50% size:70% for them, thank you so much. 00:26:37.796 --> 00:26:39.364 align:start line:10% position:50% size:45% Billy, thank you, and God bless you. 00:26:39.364 --> 00:26:40.699 align:start line:10% position:50% size:45% Billy: Great to be with you, James. 00:26:40.699 --> 00:26:42.034 align:start line:10% position:48% size:43% We love you guys. 00:26:42.034 --> 00:26:43.435 align:start line:10% position:47% size:53% James: And bless ORU. 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