Carlos Whittaker, author of Reconnected, joins Life Today host and Stream founder James Robison to share the deep truths he learned by removing the distractions of technology and being still in the presence of God. Whittaker spent seven weeks away from screens, spending half of the time with monks in a monastery and the other half with Amish farmers. Afterward, he found the experience healed his mind and reconnected his spirit to God.

 

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The following program is sponsored by Friends of Life Outreach International. In a world dominated by screens, Carlos Whittaker goes completely screen free and shares what he learned.

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Carlos Whittaker
I don’t think people are addicted to their phones. I liken the phone to a needle. The phone isn’t the drug. It’s just the needle. What is it that the that the needle is administering to you, that you’re addicted to and that, I think is where the deceiver can come in? It’s always a lie that you believe about yourself, which is why you’re looking at it so much, trying to medicate whatever that lie is.

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James Robison
You know, I’m really. I’m. By the way. I’m not excited. He’s not here. This too has happened that I had two guests available that were here where we had. I just I got to talk to this guy. This is. This is Carlos Whittaker three disconnected. You know one. He doesn’t even have a title of a minister, even though he was a musician in an established church.

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James Robison
And, you know, he’s had of Charles Taylor, he’s probably now maybe more famous in his day. But. But Carlos just found himself being led by God in a very supernatural way. Which one thing that happened to him was he was literally separated from, I don’t even word divorced, but he was separated from the phone and the tech world bugging the controllers.

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James Robison
All. And I let him tell us about it. Carlos Whitaker has a book called re disconnect. Okay, Carlos, let’s just cut to the chase. Yes. What do you mean by re disconnect?

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Carlos Whittaker
Well, let’s look at this. So disconnected is what a lot of people said. Oh, you weren’t on your phone for eight weeks. You must have been disconnected. And I thought, I guess that was true. But you know what? Actually, I feel like I got reconnected with God when I went, and that’s why I scratched out the disc. And it says, it says reconnected on there.

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Carlos Whittaker
So it’s kind of a little play on.

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James Robison
The connect is far more important than the Dis. Yes, but if the dis hadn’t happened?

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Carlos Whittaker
Right.

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James Robison
The re might not have happened.

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Carlos Whittaker
Oh, now you’re this is why you’re so good at your job. That’s so good. It is true.

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James Robison
I’m not a tech person. Yeah, I’m the lowest level tech person on the planet. Yeah. I have to call somebody to help me with anything connected with technical. I had to literally ask him. Must have wanted to go ahead of hanging my iPhone up. Can you believe that? I mean, well, what’s with this? Okay, I’m. I’m not a tech person, but I do not live, let’s say, in the tech world, because I do use iPhones, thank God.

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James Robison
So all of these are used in a lot of other ways we have to go. But but I can easily see how distracted people become. Yeah. By the tech route and by the phone was was a phone in some way just consuming your time?

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Carlos Whittaker
It absolutely was. You know, one of the things that you’ve taught many of us, your entire career in ministry is how to hear the voice of God. I would say that that you were a conduit of that. And I would say that my ability to hear the voice of God was getting muted and muted and muted. And the one correlation that I could find was that the more time I was looking at my phone, the harder it was to hear the voice of God.

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Carlos Whittaker
So I started to think, well, I wonder what my actual screen time is now. As a 51 year old man that runs a solopreneur company. I’m on my phone a lot, and I realized I was on my phone 7.5 hours a day. That’s how long I was on my phone. Now, before the rest of your viewing audience judges me, the average American is on their phone six hours a day.

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Carlos Whittaker
Well, James, I did the math. Seven hours a day is 49 hours a week. That’s two entire cycles of the sun. I was looking at my phone. That equals 100 days a year. So three months a year. And if I lived to be your glorious age of 81 years old, I will actually lose 12 years of my life looking at my phone.

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Carlos Whittaker
That was the moment of definition for me. And I said, Lord, I don’t know what I was created to do, but I know it wasn’t this. What can I do? So I decided to do an experiment, and the experiment was could I live for two months, seven and a half weeks and never look at a single screen? So I didn’t look at an iPhone, an Apple Watch, a TV, a laptop, an iPad.

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Carlos Whittaker
I never consumed any information.

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James Robison
How did you let everybody know you weren’t dead?

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Carlos Whittaker
Yeah, that’s a great question. Well, so. So I moved to a monastery for the first half of it, a Benedictine monastery. And then I moved to an Amish farm for the second half of it. And my wife would actually have to call me on a payphone. Like it was 1985. Like, I literally I would walk to a payphone at 3:00 every other day, and I was like, I had to wait for its ring, and it would ring and my wife would call me.

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Carlos Whittaker
And so.

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James Robison
And the Amish didn’t have any phones.

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Carlos Whittaker
I didn’t have any phone. So so she, you know, she just had to wait until I was done there. But so the the kicker is I wanted to not only know what happened in my soul, I think a lot of us would say, gosh, maybe these devices are muting, the voice of God in our soul, but I want to see what it was doing in my brain.

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Carlos Whittaker
So I went and got my brain scan by neuroscientists before and after this experiment. And yes, I lived with monks. I lived with Amish farmers. And then I lived with my family for a few weeks without a device as well, and got my brain scan and let me tell you about the brain scan first, and then I can get into some of the lessons that I learned when I got my brain scan before, when I was on my phone seven hours a day, my cognitive memory score.

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Carlos Whittaker
So my father has dementia. All I take for my father along with my mother every day. So I see, the effects of what dementia has on somebody. And I just tried to do everything I can. Like what can I do in my life and what I eat and how I exercise and do things for this maybe to not happen with me.

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Carlos Whittaker
I was in the 50th percentile of memory for men in America before this experiment. When I finished and did not look at a phone for seven and a half weeks, when I got my brain scan and did my cognitive memory score, my brain was at the 99th percentile of memory for men in America, only care. Only 1% of men had better memory than me.

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Carlos Whittaker
And I thought to myself, these are not smart phones. They’re dumb phones. They’re making us dumb. And so it was. It’s pretty mind blowing. The effects. My my, the big part of my brain healed about five years in those seven weeks. And so just the data, scientifically itself is proof in the pudding that maybe we need to spend a little bit less time.

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Carlos Whittaker
So, I spent those seven weeks, with the monks in the Amish, and I had an incredible time and lots of great lessons from the monks. Lots of great lessons there.

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James Robison
You recollect they learned anything from, you know.

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Carlos Whittaker
They.

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James Robison
Didn’t show.

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Carlos Whittaker
No, absolutely they did.

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James Robison
What do they think about you telling them what you had separated yourself from?

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Carlos Whittaker
So. So oh, gosh, I love that question. Because the monks, you never know it. But monks have phones. And so so when I’m sitting there with Father Francis in his study and he’s got all these books around him, and he’s this big brown robe with his big black belt and I’m talking about life and God, I’ll never forget.

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Carlos Whittaker
I’m sharing my deepest, heartaches. And his phone goes on his desk right in front of him. And I thought, did this monk just leave this conversation? He picked up a son. He’s like, I’m sorry, Carlos. And he’s like, hold on. It’s my my brother. And he types, really. And he puts it back down. And I was like, this is actually what I’m trying to get.

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Carlos Whittaker
And so he goes, oh, Carlos, I’m so sorry. Maybe I need to read your book when you’re done writing it. Because even monks, even the Amish, we’re all going through this season of life where where technology might just get in the way of us hearing the voice of God and being present with other people. So, yeah, they learned a lot from me as well.

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James Robison
Have you failed in your own spiritual lives? What has come to you is a very significant difference.

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Carlos Whittaker
Oh my goodness. It’s a gigantic difference. Let let me let me tell you this. One of the first things I learned when I was with the monks, that was a difference in who I was before and who I was after, is I think God created us with a certain capacity to know what we know, but these devices have given us the ability to, I honestly believe no more than God actually ever intended us to know.

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Carlos Whittaker
I don’t think we were supposed to know every answer to everything in the universe, but Google I call the Wonder Killer. So. So do you remember those days when people used to say, well, I wonder what happened in 1934? And you just have to wonder, well, now people don’t wonder anymore what happens. They pick it up and they find out the answer.

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Carlos Whittaker
So something that I’ve done that I started to do with all my friends. If you’re at a dinner party or something and someone says, I wonder is I know if someone picks up the phone, I go, nope, put it down. We’re just gonna wonder. We’re just going to sit here and sit in the beauty of who God created us to be and wonder.

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Carlos Whittaker
So there’s all these practices, James, that, I’ve been able to reconnect with, the practice of savoring, of silence, be still and know that I am God. Well, I was not being still before I went to the monastery or the Amish. I was moving at 100 miles an hour. But I looked at the ministry of Jesus, and Jesus is.

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Carlos Whittaker
And his disciples walked everywhere. They didn’t get in the car. Does not say they were riding horses. Maybe they were. I don’t think so. So when a human being walks, they walk at three miles an hour. And I thought, Jesus, his ministry was three miles an hour. How fast is my ministry going? Oh my goodness, maybe if I’m moving at 100 miles an hour and Jesus moved at three miles an hour, well, now who’s following who?

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Carlos Whittaker
So I realize that I’ve got to slow down. I can still do great things with you. Do great things with television and all these amazing things. But I think we have to purposely move it. Godspeed. In order to truly follow. Right.

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James Robison
What some of the first things that you saw happening in your own life.

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Carlos Whittaker
Oh my goodness. I got home and my 16 year old daughter said, dad, daddy, this is the purest version of a father I’ve ever had. I mean, when she told me that, she said, you’re so present in every single conversation that you have with me. And I was like, I was, you know, I had nothing buzzing on me.

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Carlos Whittaker
I had no no sounds happening around me. I was completely focused. I was focused on her. My wife said, she says, now I miss Amish Carlos because you were. Yeah. I came home and I started fixing things around the house and I started, you know, just being more present, even to my family and caring for them. Some of the things that I initially did when I got home that is I think can be really helpful for some of your viewers, is I put my phone on a, setting called Do Not Disturb.

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Carlos Whittaker
And it’s been on Do Not Disturb for almost two years now where I don’t get any notifications anymore. My phone does not tell me when to pick it up. If I pick it up, there’s notifications on the screen. I’m like, oh, I should call this person back. They called me, but it will never interrupt me. In the middle of a conversation, I bought an alarm clock, put it next to my bed.

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Carlos Whittaker
Does everybody remember alarm clocks? We used to have these things before the phones, and now the alarm clock just wakes me up in the morning. I don’t pick it up. And there’s not 15 messages from people that I’m swiping through. No, the Lord just wakes me up and I don’t look at my phone and I just have an incredible time with God before I even pick up my phone.

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Carlos Whittaker
I make sure that I spend time in the word. I’m spending time praying, and my connection with God has been reconnected in ways I never thought it would be before.

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James Robison
Okay. Have you had people already with just a little bit that you’ve been sharing? And yeah, the people having access to be around you. Yeah. Are you finding them very curious and very excited about it?

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Carlos Whittaker
Yes. I think that we’re at a pain point in America right now where everybody is swimming in what I call like an ecosystem of rage. Everyone’s just angry. A lot of anger happening right now, and most of the time, the reason why people are angry, James, is not because of a conversation they’ve had with somebody face to face.

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Carlos Whittaker
It’s because of what they’re reading off of this seven inches of glass that they pick up in their hand. What I’m finding is that more and more people are desiring to spend less and less time reading all the news and, you know, constantly bickering with people with their thumbs on a screen. And they’re really desiring this human connection.

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Carlos Whittaker
So I think it’s a pain point in America right now where I think it’s very important to understand current cultural context, to understand what’s happened in politics policies. All of these things are very important, but I think we spend too much time swimming in it. And what it does is it sets us up to be in a space of constantly being frustrated and mad about things.

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Carlos Whittaker
When I think the Lord wants us to see the beauty, that’s all around us that we’re missing, because we’re just walking around looking at our phones.

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James Robison
You know, I was telling you before we came out here that I do hear God clearly. Yes, louder than out loud enough. But he I heard him just say while you were talking about what’s going on, they’re being manipulated. They’re being manipulated by others, but they’re also being manipulated primarily by the deceiver.

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Carlos Whittaker
Yes.

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James Robison
And the distractor.

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Carlos Whittaker
Yes.

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James Robison
And that’s precisely what happened. Okay. So the book is out now and you tell me it’s going quite well.

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Carlos Whittaker
The book is going really well. It’s called reconnected. There’s also a documentary, that I have based on the book as well. So the documentary, people are watching that with their families. And I took a small camera with me on this journey, and every single night I would talk to it and kind of, you know, pour out my thoughts a little bit.

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Carlos Whittaker
And yeah, so I think the documentary, the book, it’s really helpful not only for individuals to help with their screen time, but for families as well. You know, people are, saying that this rising generation behind us, they’re just addicted to their phones. They’re addicted to their phones. And the one caveat I would add there is I don’t think people are addicted to their phones.

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Carlos Whittaker
I liken the phone to a needle. The phone isn’t the drug, it’s just the needle. What is it that that that the needle is administering to you, that you’re addicted to and that, I think is where the deceiver can come in? It’s always a lie that you believe about yourself, which is why you’re looking at it so much.

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Carlos Whittaker
Trying to medicate whatever that lie is.

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James Robison
Can’t be another form of unhealthy distraction or attraction. Also be the television.

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Carlos Whittaker
Absolutely, absolutely. You know, the television, can just numb us. You know, it can get us to a place where I don’t want to face reality. I’m just going to watch this show that’s going to take us, take me somewhere else. And I think it’s okay. We all love different television shows. We love to be entertained. But when it becomes and I think you can just ask yourself, is this medicating something, a lie that I believe about myself?

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Carlos Whittaker
Television can become a distraction. You know, the phones and screens that just that’s just like this current day and age. Needle. There was an article that came out in the New York Times in 1918 where it was on the front page, and it said that the kaleidoscope is going to be the downfall of mankind because the kids were walking around New York City looking at these kaleidoscope, walking in a stop sign, stepping in the street.

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Carlos Whittaker
And they were addicted to the kaleidoscope.

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James Robison
So it’s hard to believe. Yeah. And you have such a kaleidoscope today.

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Carlos Whittaker
Exactly. So this is just our current kaleidoscope, and there will be something else in 100 years. We just have to maintain our connection to the voice of God.

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James Robison
If they want to watch you see your website. Yeah. Say what? They go.

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Carlos Whittaker
Dot Carlos Whittaker with two T’s dot com. The book is there, the documentary is there, and all my ministry is.

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James Robison
If they go to the book, what do you think and pray they’ll come.

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Carlos Whittaker
Away with? Yes. I hope that they pick this book up. They read the book. And I honestly believe that you’re going to realize that the phone isn’t the problem. It’s it’s not that way that screens are bad. It’s what’s beautiful on the other side of the phone. I think they’re going to fall in love with, wondering, noticing, savoring, getting lost and finding our way.

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Carlos Whittaker
All these uniquely human experiences that the screens have just taken away from how we’re living day to day. And I think they’re just going to fall back in love with living again.

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James Robison
And are you having people now that you’ve been doing it long enough to hear back and see the outcome? Are you having expressions of real gratitude? That is like, I came alive in some way, a very unique and meaningful way.

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Carlos Whittaker
Absolutely.

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James Robison
That are very important to God.

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Carlos Whittaker
Yes, yes. I’m seeing people send me messages every single day going, Carlos, not only can I hear the voice of God louder, but my kids are getting more of me. If you just cut two hours a day of your screen time, you literally gain a month back of your life a year. That’s how important people aren’t living 12 months a year anymore to living like ten months a year.

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Carlos Whittaker
And I’m like, if you just implement some of these practices that the Amish and the monks taught me, you can live your entire life again.

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James Robison
Okay, let me let me just pause. I want to go directly to you. This is really important to pray. Father. Unhealthy attractions. Yes.

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Carlos Whittaker
Jesus.

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James Robison
Unhealthy distractions. And then our damaging.

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Carlos Whittaker
Yeah.

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James Robison
Deadly. Sometimes father free us. Yes, yes. From those distractions and let us be captivated by you.

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Carlos Whittaker
Yeah.

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James Robison
That’s turn off many of the things that have truly damages with distraction. And bless Carlos. Thank and bless all to read the book. I hope you’ve heard God today because God’s talking to him and truly I’m excited about it. I hope you get this. You know, Carlos, our viewers love to help the overlooked. They love to help the least of these.

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James Robison
And I always to my viewer, if you want to know who really the Christians are, just remember this Jesus said, the ones who feed the hungry. You want thirsty, care for the suffering? Visit those in prison and you say they’re ministering to me as well as the least of these. But the significance of these are mushy. If you wonder who is he going at?

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James Robison
They notice the unnoticed, the overlooked, those who appear to be loved, and they pour out the love of God. One of the things our viewers tell us, there’s not one thing we do to help the overlooked. It gives us more excitement than giving clean water.

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James Robison
To those who have never had clean water, and who are seeing their children die young, oftentimes as two and three years old. Holies. In most instances below five. And we give them the miracle of life. When I say we who we who notice the overlooked and the least of these, please listen, watch, listen and know you are the needed miracle.

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James Robison
You are the miracle.

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What do you see in this scene, captured in a remote area of Africa? There is the obvious children collecting and drinking water that does not look clean. Why would they drink that water if they can see it’s not clean? If you were to ask them, they would tell you they have no other choice. This is the only water source they have access to.

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They are temporarily winning the battle against thirst, dehydration and ultimately death. But it’s an unending struggle that comes with a price. Unfortunately, as they take this unsafe water home, it oftentimes causes sickness and in more severe cases, even death from the effects of a water borne illness. This cycle of misery caused by unclean water does not have to follow these children into adulthood.

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We can break that cycle by providing them and their families with a water well in their village.

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John Yeatts
So while we were here in a village evaluating the severe drought that’s come to gone to Angola, we found one of the water wells that we’ve drilled more than ten years ago. And I want you to see just how pure the water is. I put this in the sunlight yesterday and could not tell the difference. I’ve told you many times before that I am completely comfortable drinking the water that we provide.

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John Yeatts
So our water wells and it’s true.

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John Yeatts
And with nothing like life, we need your help to bring water for life to a village like this, so that we can assure that their children will not suffer from water borne illness anymore.

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James Robison
You know, so many times mothers, once you are old enough to carry water, they’ll walk five kilometers. Ten kilometers to get water, sometimes daily. But many times a week. And what they’re bringing back is water. They have to have just a little another bag, but they’re also bringing back germs and disease. And they watch their loved ones and their children too often die a very hard, terribly painful disease.

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James Robison
And it works. Their heart. So many have lost at least one child. Many have lost as many as 3 or 4. But when you give them a will, you just give them. Realize you’ve given them hope. You’re giving them joy, you’ve given them opportunity. And we always tell them, through the voices of the missionaries who planted their lives in the midst of suffering and pain to reveal life, to share life, and in the form of water.

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James Robison
It is so transformed to you realize that we win virtually everyone that is touched by the people in that village or in that area, we want them to Christ. And I mean they have a conversion experience because the world is transforming. You know, when we talk about giving away the beautiful bronze, this is the Lion of Judah and the cross.

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James Robison
The Lion of Judah was my favorite bronze we ever gave away, because the power of the Lion of Judah is the cross. And I think this is beautiful. We want to ask you, could you help us to do well? Could you possibly drill a well? It’s $4,800. Could you do that? You know, many people say they have every year to have that joy and they make that a goal.

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James Robison
But then there are many people who say, James, I can do that, but I give 1200 and pray. Three join me. And so often they do. I give 24 and pray. Another joins me. But we are sending the Lion of Judah, that beautiful bronze, to everyone who will give at least $1,200 total. What could you do that? But do you know where most of the support comes?

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James Robison
$48. We’ll give ten people. What are the rest of their lives? Did you hear what I said? $48. It’s hard to go out and eat with a small family at a very inexpensive restaurant for that price can hardly do it, which is at 144, and give 30 people for the rest of their lives. There’s a level at which you can reach out and be able to talk to someone.

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James Robison
Jesus gave his life for. Would you go get you my calling right now and use it like a check? Please go get 12 the them or go on one and use that mike or like a check if you write a check, make it to life. But please call us and tell us you’re putting it in the mail. Because if we’re going to be able to drill the 350 wells, we got to know what’s coming.

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James Robison
You provide 12. Please do it now. Thank you so much for sharing God’s Word in demonstration. Thank you.

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Every day thousands of lives are lost to waterborne disease, and nearly half of those are children under the age of five. Through Mission Water for life, you can give mothers hope and children a future as we provide clean, life giving water for thousands of children and their families before it’s too late. With your gift today, you can help drill and establish 350 water wells.

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This year, your gift of $24 will help provide clean water for five children. A gift of $48 will help provide for ten, and $144 will help provide life giving water for 30 people for a lifetime with a gift of any amount. We’ll send you doctor Don Colbert’s new book, Spiritual Health Zone Discover the Key to Living and Divine Health as you find a roadmap to adding joy, peace, and years to your life with your gift of $100 or more, you may request the He Restores My Soul candle set this decorative candle and that set will inspire you to remember the restoring presence of Jesus, the true light of the world.

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Finally, please consider a gift of $1,200 to help provide water for 250 people, or a gift of $4,800 to help sponsor a complete well and request our new bronze sculpture, Lion of Judah, inspired by revelation five five. Please call right or make your gift online today.

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James Robison
You know, I want to thank you because I believe you’re going to help Antarctica Colbert’s the Health South. I mean, this is a spiritual health song, not just physical, but it’s really good. And the beautiful really. It’s kind of a worship. Candles, what it is. But we also send you Carla’s book. Great. I can I just feel like you like to have it.

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James Robison
You help us anyway. You can feel those oils. And if you want to book A, you can go online and get it. You can go to most organic, or you can give to give a drink of water. And we’ll gladly send it to you, Carlos. Humbly, people go to be visiting your website, reading your book, and I just pray God continues to pour his blessings out upon you, and then through you and then through millions of people.

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Carlos Whittaker
Amen.

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James Robison
Because of what you share. Thank you for being with.

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Carlos Whittaker
Thank you so much. God bless.

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James Robison
Thanks for watching. Thanks for sharing life.

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For over 60 years, Life Outreach International has shared the transforming truth of God’s love in both word and deed. Our ministry to the lost and hurting is only made possible because of the prayers and generous gifts of our friends and partners who provide consistent, faithful support. Call now or go online to become a friend for life. Your monthly support will help us continue to bring God’s love, hope, and healing to a world in need.

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One life at a time. Even though doctor Don Colbert explains how love is the eternal, nourishing root of all wellness in the spiritual health to own tomorrow on life today. Life today is made possible by the supporters of Life Outreach International. Your gift will be used exclusively for the purposes of life. The ministry features specific outreaches as examples of the programs it supports and conducts.

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Gifts are considered to be without restriction as to use unless explicitly stipulated by the donor. The ministry is a member of the ECFA.