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Mission SONlight Chatt Season 4 Ep. 27 Abraham Ramos · Mission SONlight CHATT

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Welcome to Network 7's Mission Sunlight Chat.
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Thank you for joining us today as we are at the
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General Conference Session Exhibit Hall in St.
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Louis, Missouri for the General Conference Special
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Business Meeting of the Seventh -day Adventist
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Church. They hold this every five years. Great
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exhibitors around the hall here. And, of course,
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they're handling business. for the church but
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also ministries are sharing what they're doing
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how they're doing it around the globe with other
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ministries with church leaders with different
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vendors and and so there's a lot of buzz of activity
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as you look around the exhibit hall here we are
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thankful to be here at booth 325 and we have
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had an opportunity to visit with many different
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ministries as you hear the sound around us don't
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let that distract you as we want to share what
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god is doing good in these ministries. So my
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new friend Abraham Ramos is here. Abraham, thank
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you so much for joining us. Thank you for inviting
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me. You are in music ministry with your wife
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and a pastor. And so today we're going to just
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talk about first a little bit about who you are.
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Tell us where you grew up and about your family.
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Okay, so I am from Ecuador. I grew up in Santo
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Domingo. It's like a small city. And then I lived
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there until 14 years old. Then I moved here to
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the U .S. just for a summertime. And then when
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I came here, my life changed completely, right?
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Because it's a different world. Totally different.
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Yeah, totally different. It's my first time getting
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out from my country, from South America. I am
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very thankful with my family and God because
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I have the opportunity to study in my school,
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in my high school, in the Adventist school, like
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CADE, Colegio Adventista del Ecuador. Okay. And
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then it was simply amazing, right? And then I
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recently lived here in the U .S. about two years
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in Atlanta, exactly in Beaufort, with my wife.
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I got married here. Actually, tomorrow is our
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anniversary for marriage. It's July 9th, and
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July 8th is our anniversary for Baptists. So
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I read Baptists two years ago, and my wife knows
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the Adventist Church through me. So it's a big
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blessing. You grew up there in Ecuador, went
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to school at Cade, the Seventh -day Adventist
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school, which is a full array of classes. You
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can start in kinder and all the way up in through.
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There's a college program, correct? So a full
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educational opportunity, and that's where you
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went to school. Yes. Siblings, do you have brothers
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and sisters? I have my sister. She attended the
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same school as me. The university, she went to
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UAP, University in Argentina, University of Plata.
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That's the thing that I changed, right? Because
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when I have the opportunity to go into university,
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I have an offer from the government to attend
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to a public university. So that's where the thing
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started, right? Because sometimes, you know,
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I am 28 right now. In that age, I was like 18
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years old. I have a good connection with God,
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but sometimes we believe that we can be so strong
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for going to the war, you know? And then when
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we are in the war, it's difficult, right? Actually,
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I remember my first day in my class, in my university,
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I stand up. And, you know, I was waiting for
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pray and start to singing, right? Like normally
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schools, Adventist schools did. And then my friends
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say, sit down. We don't do this here, right?
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So for me, it was like a big impression because,
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you know, if you grew up in like environment,
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Adventist, Christians, and then you're going
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to university, it's completely different. So,
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when you mentioned earlier you met your wife,
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was she here in the United States? Yeah. So,
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basically, when I go to the university, step
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by step, I was getting far from God, right? So,
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that's sad, right? And then, thanks God, he get
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me right back. And then he... I have the opportunity
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to restore, renew my communion with God. So I
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was so sad because, you know, happened a lot
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of bad stuff in my life. I was, I get some addictions,
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right? They try to avoid, but it was very difficult,
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you know, because it's addiction, right? So,
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and then I was praying, praying, and then I meet
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my wife and I pray to the Lord and say, Lord,
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this woman is amazing. And she don't know about
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the Adventist. She was Christian, right? So I
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say, Lord, please, I want to be a good example
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for her. Change my life. If you really exist,
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change my life. So this week was like Holy Week
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in 40 days, you know? So I say, please, Lord,
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please change me in 40 days. Please. But I surrender
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myself. So that's why one of my beautiful verses
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here is Psalm 51, right? Psalm 51, verses 17.
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That's my favorite verses because it says that
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the best that we can give to the Lord is our
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heart, right? Our surrender to ourselves, to
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them. And then I surrender to the Lord and say,
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please, oh Lord, change me in 40 days. So after
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that, I take a flight to come back to the U .S.
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And then when I land in here, The police officer
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stopped me and said, hey, you cannot come right
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now because you recently was here. And I got
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surprised, right? Because I have a visa since
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I was like 14 years old. And then he said, you
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have two options. The first option is to go back
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to your country, wait, and then you can come.
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Or the second option, we're going to keep you
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here and then we're going to ask you some questions.
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And after that, we're going to decide what we're
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going to do with you. Okay. So, and then I pray.
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So these were immigration officers. Exactly.
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I pray, say, oh, Lord, I know that you are starting
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to work in this because, you know, it's not normal
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that it happened this. And I know that was the
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plan of God. So then the police officer came
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and said, hey, Abraham, you need to. to go back
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to your country or we're going to put you in
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a detention center if you want to ask for asylum.
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But if you ask for asylum, you're going to have
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there like nine or ten months, right? So I get
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surprised and I was crying, right? Because it's
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like a shock, you know? And then I have the opportunity
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to choose, right? If I want to go in the easy
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way, go back to my country and then wait and
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come back or be transformed because I believe
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that is the way that God wants to transform myself,
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right? So I say, okay, I want to go to the GIL.
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You know, I know that a lot of people, they never
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choose that. Never. But I decide. So they take
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me to the jail. Actually, there's a detention
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center, but the problem was they don't have a
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space in the detention center. So they say, okay,
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we don't have a space in the detention center,
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so we want to put you in a regular detention
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center, like a regular, not prison, like detention,
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regular detention center, but with a lot of people
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that have problems with not just migration, different
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problems, right? So when I get there, I get surprised.
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I start to praying, praying, praying, praying.
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Actually, the first night there, I remember it
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was like a dream, you know? Like, not dream,
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like bad dream, you know? Yeah, nightmare. Nightmare.
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I can't believe. The next day when I opened my
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eyes, I inside exactly the space like this, like
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this, like 10 feet by 12 feet, a small cell.
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Our little studio here triggering you? Exactly.
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Making you think of it, huh? No, because now
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I can tell you this with the bottom of my heart.
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That time there was the most wonderful time of
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my life. The most wonderful time of my life.
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Because when I get there, that's why I already
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wrote the book. The name is 40 Days of Freedom.
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Because when I was there, I get more freedom
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than the freedom that we have now, you know?
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Because it's a proof that God can transform yourself
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and can transform your life. Don't matter where
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you are. Don't matter if you are inside of the
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detention. Don't matter whatever you are. God
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can transform yourself if you truly believe in
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God, right? So in that beautiful time. I started
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praying. And, you know, I grew up, that's why
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I told you, I grew up in the Adventist church
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all my life, but I never had the opportunity
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to read the Bible completely, right? Because,
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you know, the people like me, very young, you
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know. We have a lot of distractions. Maybe now
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more, you know? We have Instagram, WhatsApp,
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TikTok, more than 10 social medias, the schools,
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the TV show, the series, the Netflix, Amazon
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Prime, everything, right? So we don't have time
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for God right now, right? So in that time, the
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officers take everything, take my phone, take
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everything, and they just put me in a room like
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this, and they give me the Bible. So what's wonderful?
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I have the opportunity to read the Bible, listen.
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understand praying you know normally before that
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my my regular pray they just take like four minutes
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one minute that's the longer prayer right but
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when i was there my normally prayers take like
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two hours three hours sometimes four hours yeah
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so it's wonderful right and it's exactly that
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i was asking right i see here in this general
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conference that they have some programs right
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some like Some places that you go in like a retirement,
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right? You go in there and forget everything,
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you know? And you have to pay for that, right?
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For exactly this ministry in the front, next
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door. God do it for me for free. Because he changed
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my life. Amen. He provide food. He give me a
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bed. He give me a lot of other books, Christian's
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books. And actually, I start to preach in the
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detention center to others. I meet with one guy
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there. Pastor Ramos was born. Yeah, exactly.
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I meet with one guy there. His name is Miguel.
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When I meet with this guy, he normally uses a
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lot of marijuana, drugs, you know. So his mind
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was very destroyed, right? So sometimes when
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you try to speak with him, he starts to make
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some hallucinations, right? And then when I get
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there, I say like this, Oh, Lord. If I transform
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this guy, please take me out from here, right?
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So I start to preach to him. I start to read
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the Bible with him. And you can't believe this.
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You have any idea? This guy read the Bible completely.
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Wow. Right there. Exactly. And I can't believe
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that. So I start to ask him some questions. And
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he said, yeah. So he gave me the verses. So I
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truly believe that this guy read the Bible, right?
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And then finally. When we are near to the 35th,
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36th day, this guy says, Hey, Abraham, I truly
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believe in God, and I set God in my heart. So
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I know that I am near, right? Because you remember
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what I asked to the Lord? Before I took that
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airplane in Ecuador, I said, God, transform me
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in 40 days. Because I was in Ecuador, my wife
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was here, living here. So I take the airplane,
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landing here in the city of the sink, Las Vegas.
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Disappeared for 40 days in a room like this.
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Nobody knows where I am. I have the same uniform
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like everyone. Like a prisoner. Exactly. Don't
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matter how much money do you have. Don't matter
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nothing, right? They just put you in a cell without
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seeing. Because in any time I can say, I want
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to go back to my country, and they take me and
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bring me back to my country, right? But I really
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enjoyed that time there. I really enjoyed, right?
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I was praying every day. I don't have any distraction
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with my phone. I usually do business with my
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phone. I normally work with my phone a lot, right?
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But no more, nothing, just with God, you know?
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So that's sad because God had to put me in that
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situation for give you time to Him, right? Yes.
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It's sad, right? But normally, sometimes, that's
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God's words, right? Amen, amen. So... When I
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was there, the other thing that I want to share
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with you is this, the faith. Because I don't
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have any paper that says you're going to release
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in 40 days, right? So you are not 100 % sure
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that you're going to release in 40 days. But
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my prayer was this, God, if you really exist,
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if you really want to change me, change me in
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40 days, right? So that's my trust in God. And
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when I told this to the other parishioners, they
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laughed at me. They said, you're crazy. Nobody's
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going to release you in 40 days. It's impossible
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that somebody releases you in 40 days. They can
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release you maybe nine months, 12 months, one
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year. It's unbelievable, right? But God released
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me on the day 39. It was Friday. I took a flight,
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met with my wife, with Chiara, who at that time
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was my girlfriend. We meet, and the next day
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we went to the church. I give you my testimony.
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Exactly 40 days was Sabbath. Amen. Amen. What
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God does. Beautiful. Incredible. Wow. I want
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to hear more about the ministry that you and
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Karen, you said? Uh -huh. Kara. Kara? Kara. All
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right. I want to hear more about your ministry
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with your wife in just a moment. But first, we're
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going to take a break. Thank you for being a
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Being a media missionary can mean many different
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things. It means the love of a home at the heart
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of the planet. The intrepid spirit of a village
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and the vibe of a great metropolis. It means
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camera one and camera two. It means transforming
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a school, orphanage, or hospital. It means fire,
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rain, ice, and snow. It means gifts by the dollar
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and by the check. It means donations that roll
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and donations that fly. It's a movement on a
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trail or down a motorway. It means family. All
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of us together. And individually. It's who you
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are or who you are becoming. And to her, it's
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a simple gesture that means hope. Whatever it
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means to you, being a media missionary. means
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more than you might think. Welcome back to Mission
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Sunlight Chat. We are talking with Abraham Ramos.
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Abraham, you are in ministry with your wife,
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but in a different kind of ministry. You guys
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are in lay ministry together. So you both are
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engineers, civil and mechanical engineers. And
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God has still called you to also be in lay ministry.
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Tell me what your ministry is. So after that
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difficult moment that I told you before, right,
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in the detention center when I meet God, I have
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a communion with God, right? I know God like
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Job says. I was hearing about you, but now I
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know you, right? Right. So that's my principal
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testimony, that we cannot love God if we don't
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have a personal encounter with God. We don't
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have a personal communion with God, right? So
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that's the most fundamental, right? So I make
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three promises when I was in the detention center.
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The first one, give you all my ties to the Lord.
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Because in that time, I recognized God is the
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owner of everything that I have, right? Second
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one. Serve God. Don't matter where he needs me.
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I'm going to serve God. Right? And the third
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one, listen and be an example and reach others.
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Right? Because my wife knows. Actually, that's
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why. When they release me, I start to preach
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to my wife. And then my wife gets baptized. You
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know? All my life in the Adventist church, and
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I never bring somebody to the Baptist. Right?
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So. And the Bible says that it's not nice if
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you are a big tree, but you don't give you fruit.
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We have to give you fruit, right? So actually,
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when I finished that, we started a ministry preaching
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my testimony, right? Actually, I already wrote
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two books, right? The first one is for the kids.
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It's free. And the second one is my personal
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testimony. So now we travel around the U .S.
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My wife has a beautiful talent. She plays the
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guitar. She plays piano. She plays ukulele. And
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she seems very beautiful. So we have a ministry.
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The name is 40 Days of Freedom. It's in TikTok.
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So we do Bible studies. We do Bible studies online,
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in person. And I am the icon in my church. My
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wife is a kids teacher. So, and now, God, no,
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now, exactly when they released me from the detention
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center, other promise that I told to the God
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is this one. I promised that I'm going to write
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this testimony in a book. It's very difficult
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writing a book, right? Right. Because it takes
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a lot of time and a lot of distraction, right?
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When they released me, I gained the distraction
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coming, but I tried to handle that, right? Actually,
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that happened exactly two years ago. Not much,
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right? Two years ago. But I promised to write
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this book. So I write this book. Exactly when
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I finish write this book, God sent me my work
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permit and my papers to US, right? So that's
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my gift, right? So I started working and God
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give me a job in like a consulting engineering
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firm. It's very famous firm here. And then...
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They teach me about foundations, right? How to
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do DCPs, soils, river inspection, everything
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in the construction, right? We actually do, our
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main focus is like warehouses. So, and I pray
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to the Lord, say, Lord, you want to use me like
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a pastor or you want to use me like an engineer,
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right? But now I understand that God used me
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right now like an engineer, right? Because here
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in this general conference, I meet with some
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ministry that need a volunteer, engineer, volunteers,
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for make some soil studies, right? For check
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the soils, proctor, make the maximum drag density
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in the soils, you know, check everything about
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the soils. And I know how to do it. And my wife,
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she's a mechanic engineer, and she knows how
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to design the parts for the buildings, right?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's a big blessing. And
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we just have three years of marriage, and we
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saw the hand of God in every step of our life.
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You really have two ministries, it sounds like.
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You have your music and preaching ministry where
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you go into other churches. She's sharing her
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music. You're sharing from the Word. But you
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found a way, by God's grace, He found a way in
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you. To do ministry through the engineering work
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that you're doing as well, where you can do engineering
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for organizations that are in full -time ministry.
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Wow. Yeah. What a blessing to have all that kind
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of connected and certainly was never part of
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your plan. Yeah. Just to see how God could do
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those things. Yeah. It's amazing, right? Because
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I don't deserve nothing. We don't deserve nothing,
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right? I was a sinner, right? God... You don't
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have to reach me. But I know that I truly believe
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that God has a purpose for you if you are willing
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to listen to His voice, right? So God reached
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me. And my wife, she never has a boyfriend before.
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I am his first boyfriend. She's too much for
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me. But God gives more than we ask. Well, let
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me just say this to you, brother. Jordan and
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I can... Share a word of encouragement here.
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We don't deserve the wives that God blesses us
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with. Amen. Yeah. Yeah. Our wives are pretty
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amazing. Yeah. Well, thank you for sharing not
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only your testimony, but also the story of your
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marriage and your ministry as well. I want to
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come back in a moment with a little bit of an
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encouraging word and wrap some things up. Don't
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go anywhere. And to our listeners and viewers,
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stay with us. We'll be back with more Mission
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Sunlight Chat. Our salvation is a day -to -day
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matter, isn't it? The real principle of the Sabbath
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is reconnecting ourselves with the Creator. We
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must learn to abide in Jesus' name. We move ahead
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with our mission objectives, recognizing that
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we are serving together the Most High God. Welcome
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back to Mission Sunlight Chat. We are at the
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General Conference Session in 2025 here in the
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United States, in the U .S. state, rather, of
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St. Louis, Missouri. And we want to welcome you
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to the program again and to the testimony we're
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hearing from Abraham Ramos. And Abraham, as we
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chat this afternoon, as it is for us right now,
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there are just hundreds of exhibitors. around
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us that are sharing what Jesus is doing and encouraging
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one another. And that's the blessing. Network
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7, our organization that operates Mission Sunlight,
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is part of ASI. And ASI does this on a small
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scale every summer and even a slightly smaller
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scale every spring in our southern area of the
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U .S. But when you have this meeting every five
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years like the General Conference does and we
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get to meet with hundreds and we have the church
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institutions blended in, it is just incredible
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to see and hear what God is doing. And so your
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story is just one piece of the puzzle of hearing
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and sharing what God is doing. So thank you for
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sharing what you have done. I know you've got
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a preparative thought for us. I'm just going
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to turn that over to you. Okay. Yeah. Just for
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closeness, I want to encourage you guys, especially
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the kids or young people, that give your life
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to the Lord. That's the most important, right?
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I know that sometimes it's not easy, but surrender
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yourself. Like, read Psalm 51. Read the psalm
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and remember that David was used by God. Don't
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remember what he was, his past, right? he was
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used by god and let me share with you my my beautiful
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verse that i have in my wall when i was in the
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detention center so every day that when i open
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my eyes i see this verse in my in my in my wall
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and this verse is in first thessalonica 5 18
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and say give thanks in all circumstances for
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this is god's will for you in jesus christ does
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mean say thank you for Everything, right? When
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I get down in the detention center, I should
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be saying, no, I don't want to stay here, you
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know? Oh, why, God, you put me here. But I just
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say, thank you, thank you. And God was molding
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me. And now I can tell you, it was the most wonderful
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time of my life. I wish to go back there because
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it was an amazing time with God. It was a perfect
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communion with God. And the other verse that
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I want to share with you, other verse that I
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have in my wallet is this one. James 1, verses
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2 to 3. My brethren, come eat all joy when you
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fall into various thrills, knowing that the testing
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of your faith produces patience. So that means
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enjoy when you are passing through difficult
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times. Because you're going to see the hand of
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God in every moment. And then when you pass that
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difficult time, you're going to see back and
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you're going to say, wow, God was simply amazing.
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That's the two verses that I want to share with
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you. Yep. Thank you, Abraham, for sharing and
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sharing throughout the program today, but for
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sharing those powerful verses. One thing before
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you go, what does the future hold? What are you
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looking for next with your journey with Jesus?
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For sure, I was praying this because I travel
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across the Georgia, all Georgia, checking projects,
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you know. And that's other testimony, right?
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Because when I come to this country and I don't
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put God first, I was working like a restaurant,
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washing dishes, you know. And now I am the inspector
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of a big project. So I am the boss. of the old
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project when I go into check. You know how God
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put me in that position? Yes. So you say, wow,
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wow, it's incredible, simply incredible, right?
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So now me and my wife, we're trying to save some
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money, right? And then our goal is be a missionary.
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My wife, she wants to go in, you know, like three,
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two months outside of the country, help make
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some buildings, help with these people, and then
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come back and then come back to our life because
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we don't have kids yet. So that's why it's easy,
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right? Right. Because when you have kids, it's
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going to be so difficult. But now, actually,
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next Sunday is going to be my birthday. I'm going
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to turn 29. Happy birthday. Thank you. And my
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wife, she's just 25. So maybe we can give you
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10 years. more of the missionary full -time or
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let's see what God wants for me I really love
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to be 100 % time 100 % of my time but my wife
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she believed that is good just going like three
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two months outside the country help and then
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come back to your life amen and keep working
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the church because we are working the church
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you know so but I want to preach the Lord that
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God can give you freedom because you remember
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that I told you I have addiction with some stuff
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After that time in the detention center, God
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gave me the freedom. So I am very grateful with
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God because actually my first step from out of
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the detention center, I feel like... I feel like
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I was flying. I feel the freedom because it's
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difficult to understand that you have freedom
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when you never was in the detention. If I put
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you in one month or 40 days in the detention
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or in whatever place, when you go outside and
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say, wow, I am freedom. You have freedom to take
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shower. You have freedom to eat. You have freedom
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to do whatever you want. But in the detention
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center, no. You have to follow the rules, right?
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You cannot eat whatever you want. You have to
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wait for your time. You cannot take... You cannot
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go to sleep because you have a light over your
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eyes, so you cannot sleep until day one that
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you sleep. So you don't have freedom, right?
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So you can compare this like the dead, right?
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Because I told you, I depart from Ecuador, landing
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in U .S. disappeared for 40 days, and then God
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gave me a new creator, exactly like that. So
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I feel like that 40 days changed my life because,
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you know, God gave me a new opportunity. Abraham
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Ramos, thank you so much for sharing your testimony
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today, what God has done for you and through
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you and the opportunities that not only are you
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enjoying now that you're free sharing your ministry,
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but also with the plans to come. Thank you so
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