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Fire on the Earth - May 22, 2026: Miracle Stories · Fire on the Earth

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This Encore program for Fire on the Earth was chosen based on
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the request from many listeners.
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SPEAKER_00: Ave Maria Radio and Renewal Ministries presents Fire on the Earth,
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SPEAKER_00: a compelling look at the new evangelization through inspiring teachings,
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SPEAKER_00: interviews,
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SPEAKER_00: and testimonies.
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SPEAKER_01: Welcome friends, this is Peter Herbeck, your host.
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SPEAKER_01: We're here for one more day with our special guest this weekend.
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SPEAKER_01: It's really been a lot of fun and very inspiring.
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Patrick Rice is the co-founder and executive director of
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Encounter Ministries and
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we've had a full week of extraordinary stories understanding
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about what the
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ministry is about we're going to dedicate today to just stories
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of how we've seen
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the Lord work and the signs and wonders and what God can do and
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what he wants to do
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in your life and he wants you to get involved he wants you to
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be engaged in his
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mission time is short friends we're all going to be dead before
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you know it the
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SPEAKER_01: Bible says life is short it's a passing shadow and
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SPEAKER_01: and every one of us who's baptized into Christ,
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SPEAKER_01: I don't care who you are,
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SPEAKER_01: what little education you have,
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you are called and the Lord wants you to come into an
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understanding of what he's
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SPEAKER_01: given you that you don't even know about yet.
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SPEAKER_01: Amen.
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SPEAKER_01: So welcome back, Patrick.
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SPEAKER_02: Thank you, Peter.
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SPEAKER_02: It's so good to be here this week, man.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it is.
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SPEAKER_01: It's rich.
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SPEAKER_01: It's rich.
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let's just share some stories of I want you to start and just
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share some stories of
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how you've seen the Lord work in many ways to bring healing
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freedom deliverance
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empowering people into mission whatever stories are in your
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heart at the moment
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just share I know there's a ton of them yeah it's just uh it
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kind of goes back like
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SPEAKER_02: I mentioned yesterday that
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SPEAKER_02: At the Encounter School,
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SPEAKER_02: we teach,
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SPEAKER_02: equip,
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and activate disciples to demonstrate the love of God through
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the power of the Holy
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SPEAKER_02: Spirit in their spheres of influence.
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SPEAKER_02: So the way we see it,
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SPEAKER_02: and you kind of come to see it,
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SPEAKER_02: is wherever I have influence,
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SPEAKER_02: that's my mission field,
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SPEAKER_02: my ground.
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SPEAKER_02: So when I'm at my home, my kids, I'm building them up.
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When I'm out doing errands,
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I'm always looking for being led by the Holy Spirit.
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The children of God are those who are led by the Holy Spirit to
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make Jesus known.
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SPEAKER_02: And yeah,
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so I'm just always looking for opportunities And actually the
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one that comes to
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SPEAKER_02: mind is Last month,
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SPEAKER_02: a good friend of mine,
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Father Patrick Ganyal Who's one of our associate leaders at
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Encounter We were
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invited to do the Croatian National Charismatic Conference It
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was being held in
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Mostar in Bosnia For Croat-speaking Bosnia There were about
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2,000 people there And
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SPEAKER_02: we got to do their conference It was amazing
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actually one crazy thing happened they had their upper church
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it was the largest
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church in the whole region and the upper church held 1500
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people and they had a
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lower church a crypt church that was almost the same size but
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they had about 800
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seats there and so they had us do a healing service but they
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wanted one in the top
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and one in the bottom like no live stream and so father patrick
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led one in the top
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And I led the one in the bottom And there was probably close to
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a thousand people
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there that were in the lower part So we got to this point where
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after we preach the
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SPEAKER_02: good news of Jesus the healer Because we all know,
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everyone knows Jesus the Savior But we want to talk the good
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news of Jesus the
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healer The one that everyone that came to Jesus for healing in
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the gospel stories
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SPEAKER_02: was healed He actually loves to heal And so we're building faith in that
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And then we do a series of corporate prayers where we have
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everyone pray with
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authority of the name of Jesus over the people near them that
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have conditions.
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SPEAKER_02: And right as I start to,
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SPEAKER_02: you know,
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SPEAKER_02: lead the prayer,
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SPEAKER_02: repeat after me,
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SPEAKER_02: in the name of Jesus,
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SPEAKER_02: and everyone speaks,
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SPEAKER_02: in the name of Jesus,
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SPEAKER_02: I speak to you,
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SPEAKER_02: shoulder,
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SPEAKER_02: arm,
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SPEAKER_02: wrist,
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SPEAKER_02: whatever it is that we're praying for at the time.
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And right when I started to say,
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in the name of Jesus,
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and everyone repeated,
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a demon manifested in a woman shrieking like ah like so
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annoying and so and
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everyone kind of stopped and freaked out and I just started
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saying in the name of
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Jesus never repeated the name of Jesus and I said I speak to
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you demon and I wonder
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all the hundred people a thousand people I speak to you demon
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shut up now in Jesus
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name and they respond in Croatian shut up now in Jesus name and
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all of a sudden
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SPEAKER_02: this screaming went hey
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and it was like a sign and a wonder in and of itself and it led
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to just it was like
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wow the name of Jesus is more powerful than any evil spirit
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that's starting to
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freak people out here that that just popped in my mind right
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there that the name of
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Jesus really is powerful over any evil spirit but too many
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baptized people are
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SPEAKER_01: afraid of the devil
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are afraid of like dark spirits and all that kind of stuff and
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if you're baptized
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into Christ you don't have to be afraid of anybody they're
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defeated I mean they're
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totally defeated the devil's afraid of us yeah yeah that's why
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he makes noise
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that's why yeah yeah so we had an amazing conference it was
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really good to be with
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SPEAKER_02: our brothers in Croatia but we had a free day and we got to
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Spent some time in Split where we were gonna fly out of the
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next day and the the
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couple that was with us amazing couple spirit-filled couple
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they took us to a
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restaurant it was right on the sea and they had fish and
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everything and the
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waitress that was there her name was Maria and she was in her
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mid-20s we're just so
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high off all of the conference stuff and Father Patrick was
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like hey there like is
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SPEAKER_02: there anything um we like your cross she had a cross on
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we're just sharing good news and she said is there anything
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that we could pray for
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you for and she said uh no honestly like I believe in God
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that's fine but you don't
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need to pray for me and I stopped her I said why like what
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what's going on Maria
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like why do you say that and she said honestly my I'm going
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through a terrible time
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right now my my husband who I married has divorced me I have a
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two-year-old son by
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myself and I'm going through an annulment right now yeah I I
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don't think I'm going
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SPEAKER_02: to get a second chance in my life
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And I remember stopping and feeling like the Holy Spirit being
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saying like,
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SPEAKER_02: I need you to tell her the good news right now.
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SPEAKER_02: And I stopped and I said, Marty, I got to tell you something right now.
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The only reason that you believe that God's not going to do
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anything good for you
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SPEAKER_02: right now is because your faith in God,
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SPEAKER_02: you believe in God,
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but your faith in God is based upon your experience and your
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past with him.
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SPEAKER_02: If you put your faith in what God hasn't done in your life in the past,
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SPEAKER_02: nothing ever is going to change in your life.
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The focal point in reference of faith is not what's happened in
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your past,
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SPEAKER_02: but it's his word himself.
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SPEAKER_02: It's based upon who he is right now.
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SPEAKER_02: He is God and that his word is good.
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And if you actually believe that and invite that into your
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life,
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your life will change.
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SPEAKER_02: And why do I say that?
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Because that's exactly what happened in my life and continues
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to happen in my life.
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and she stopped and she started started to kind of tear up and
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she said why is it
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that I've been Catholic my whole life and no one's spoken to me
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like this and then
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she started to basically go on and share all of her frustration
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with her Croatian
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Catholic experience she goes to Mass every week she even goes
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to adoration and
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nothing changes and she realized I've been putting my faith in
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God based upon what
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SPEAKER_02: he hasn't done in the past
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and I basically said I'm gonna give you some scripture verses
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here and I'm gonna
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invite you to pray and do this and as I'm saying this Father
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Patrick is like hey I
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feel like the Lord says that there's something going on
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medically in your body
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right now and is it is it your back or something and she said
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actually I just had
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SPEAKER_02: I got diagnosed with cancer on one of my vocal cords.
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SPEAKER_02: That's why my voice is a little rough.
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SPEAKER_02: How did you know that?
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SPEAKER_02: And Father Patrick was talking about prophetic gifts.
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And so we ended up praying for her for healing,
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and she felt the presence of God come upon her.
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SPEAKER_02: She had just been re-diagnosed with another tumor.
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SPEAKER_02: It was so profound.
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SPEAKER_02: So she ended up, as we left that night, we kind of closed out the night.
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SPEAKER_02: Basically, we saw a woman with very little hope, very little faith.
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who told us that what happened in that one night restored her
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faith in Jesus
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completely and has given her a new connection with God that
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she's never had because
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SPEAKER_02: of one encounter with God.
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The encounter of God that we were able to bring through the
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power of the Holy
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SPEAKER_02: Spirit completely changed this woman's life in 30 minutes.
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SPEAKER_02: And I just, I give thanks for all of the amazing miracles that we saw.
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We saw hundreds of people claim to experience 80% or more
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healing in their body,
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hundreds.
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But seeing this woman changed in the midst of a normal life,
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it just fills me up,
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man.
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SPEAKER_01: No, it's beautiful.
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SPEAKER_01: You made me think about this last year,
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SPEAKER_01: Bishop Scott McKagan and I were doing a priest retreat,
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and then we offered anybody who wanted to come to do just get
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some prophetic prayer
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SPEAKER_01: individually with us.
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SPEAKER_01: And so this one priest came in,
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SPEAKER_01: he was an older man who had probably was just into retirement,
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SPEAKER_01: but had been a major leader in the diocese for years.
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SPEAKER_01: And
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and we just sit down and person sits down like you guys do this
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all the time where
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just say you know before we pray for what you'd like prayer for
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we're just going to
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listen to the Lord and see what he would like to say to you if
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we have something
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you know so we just prayed for a minute and as soon as we
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turned and asked the Lord
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and he had his eyes closed this was totally new for him and he
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never had an
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experience like this at all a prayer time kind of thing like
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this at all and um
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immediately I just almost started weeping the Lord said he has
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been he's carrying
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huge wounds being seriously mistreated by superiors he's very
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very hurt and I said
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Father I don't know I know this is true but I'm just going to
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share with you what I
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SPEAKER_01: feel in my heart right now
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and i i said that to him is i said is this true and he looked
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up all of a sudden he
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looked up he goes who told you that who told you that and he
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was like really
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intense like no who told you that and and i said father no one
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no one told me that
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jesus told me that like i don't know a single thing about you
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i've never met you
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and then it dawned on him and he started to cry and he goes
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does jesus know me like
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SPEAKER_01: that whoa and who is this guy there's a priest
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Yeah and like a retired priest who was a major leader like it
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just hit him like he
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SPEAKER_01: knows me he knows my heart
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of stuff and he's a noble guy and he doesn't talk about it but
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he's carrying a deep
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deep hurt and deep wound even from the church in him and isn't
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that beautiful and
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it's so simple and it happened in five and ten minutes and it
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was yeah what's
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what's going to do more for a person's life than hey can I just
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can I pray with you
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and just listen to the Lord for you yeah I mean it's so good
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like and Peter like
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what what we've experienced what we've been equipped to do is
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something that God
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SPEAKER_02: wants for
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right it's not the problem people listen to well that's of
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course that's Patrick
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Rice the guy's like super gifted or Peter Herbeck's been around
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doing this forever
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could never happen to me that's not true it's simply not true
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and we could tell you
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tons of stories of brothers and sisters who God uses just
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because they believe they
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have faith they believe they trust and they put themselves out
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there and say Lord
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and they love they love the person they're ministering to and
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give God permission
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SPEAKER_01: and there's so much more
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then what 90% of Catholics have ever even thought of was
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possible and that's really
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the heart of what you're doing to try to bring people to see it
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and know it not
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only for their own sake and to bring healing to themselves and
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their marriages and
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their families but healing for the church at large and reaching
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the loss but go
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SPEAKER_01: ahead
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I want to share one more story I love impossible circumstances
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like things that on
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the outside look like these are impossible circumstances
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because that's that's what
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Jesus encountered like day in and day out in his life on the
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earth we had at our
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summer intensive last year so our summer intensive is where you
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can actually go
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SPEAKER_02: through four
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sample classes of each of the first four quarters to discern
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like whether this
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SPEAKER_02: might be a good fit for you in this season.
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We believe the Encounter School is for everyone,
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but it has to be the right time in your life.
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And so last year we had a guy come through the summer intensive
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and he had just
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SPEAKER_02: been in a car accident and his spine was at a 90 degree angle,
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SPEAKER_02: completely deformed.
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And the doctors were not able to do any more reconstructive
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surgery on it.
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SPEAKER_02: So it was like the craziest thing in the world.
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so he's at the summer intensive and during the third night on
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physical healing
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ministry we taught the prayer model and then we had an
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opportunity to be prayed for
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and this guy he from what we gathered didn't seem to like I
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don't know how much
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faith he had but he was being prayed for with with just a team
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of our students when
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they when they pray they say hey what's going on is praying for
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you do you
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experience it are you experiencing anything and he said no and
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then all of a sudden
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one of the guys said hey can you just like test it out try and
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do something you
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couldn't do and he said something along the lines of like well
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yeah i can't like
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bend over and then he said well can you just try to do it
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anyway and he started to
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bend over and all of a sudden we heard pop pop pop pop pop and
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his spine went from
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a 90-degree angle to the proper curvature completely healed
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glory to god goes to
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SPEAKER_02: his doctor
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x-rays all of it's completely legit and actually we're going to
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be filming a mini
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documentary on it oh wow impossible circumstances Jesus broken
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through normal
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people yeah that's so good Patrick thank you for being with us
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it's been a blessing
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we're going to tell our listeners how they can find out more
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about all the work
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you're doing yes we have an encounter conference July 16th of
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the 18th in Toledo
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Ohio and you can check that out at encounterconference.org and
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you can learn about
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SPEAKER_02: the encounter school at encounterschool.org
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SPEAKER_01: Friends, don't forget, please take in what you've heard today.
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God has a great plan for you and He desires much to draw you
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into His mission.
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SPEAKER_01: God bless you.
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SPEAKER_01: Have a blessed weekend.
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