James and Betty Robison: Spiritual Awakening

James and Betty Robison call believers to express God’s kingdom by sharing the light that overcomes darkness in this half-hour video.

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And I believe God has shown me that if we will release a river of life, a river of transforming love and transforming truth, we can see the greatest spiritual awakening in the history of the world. Baby, I believe it is possible to bring billions of people to a personal relationship with Jesus in a very short period of time.

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James and Betty shared their heart’s desire to reach the masses with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Next on life today.

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I’m so glad you’re joining us. I’m James Robertson, Betty, my wife of 62 years, and I have spent most of our married life putting God’s arms around the the hurting and the helpless. And that started out just in local churches and cities all over America. 600 city wide crusades. Billy Graham encouraging me and helping me. And then I got to help Franklin.

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And I think that encourage you. He launched the Samaritan’s Purse, and we’ve been one of his very faithful supporters. I think he’s one of the greatest people on the planet. And the most part of the Graham family. I’ve been able to be a part of their lives, and they’ve been encouragers to me. But Betty and I have been really putting God’s arms around people now for the last 30 to 40 years, the first 30 to 40, I was doing the stadium and coliseum crusades and the win millions of people to the Lord.

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You know, when God sent me literally to the Third World, we then began to put arms around millions of people, but we begin to lead more people to the Lord in a year than I had lived to the Lord and ten years in the crusade, because we were having missionaries that had literally resurrected the dying and showed them the power of love, not just in a message, but in demonstration.

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And we were just win millions all over the Third World. And it was just an amazing thing. And maybe one of the things that while we’re doing all this, God began to show me what he wanted to do in the last days. And we are 80 years old and we’re definitely living in our last days. If we lived to be 100, we live 80% of life.

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If you are 60, you live 60% of your life. If you go to a hundred and most people don’t give that thought. So we’re living in our last days, most of the people who are past 40 or 50, they realize we’re in trouble. And we need a miracle. In the miracle that we need is a supernatural spiritual awakening.

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And I believe God has shown me that if we will release a river of life, a river of transforming love and transforming truth, we can see the greatest spiritual awakening in the history of the world. Maybe I believe it is possible to bring billions of people to a personal relationship with Jesus in a very short period of time, but what we need to do is we need to stream the river of life.

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Years ago, God showed me how you can take the power of a river. Let’s just say, like the Colorado River, the Colorado River was flowing water everywhere. And of course it had natural tributaries and they would be less areas. But the idea of holding that river back, damming it like Boulder Dam, like other big dams, were to hold it and then release it under control and then direct the water to the thirsty areas on the planet.

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You can take a totally barren desert and turn it into one of the most luxurious, beautiful places, an oasis on the planet. And you can see that in places like Arizona, all over, all around Phoenix. I was in Phoenix when it was like a desert, and then I saw it just exploded. Like everywhere. You put water on a fertile field and you get the most beautiful crops.

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You give it to your wildlife and to your, your animals and everything that we need. And it makes it better. So think about this. Jesus is the water of life. We can release the water of life to in tributaries, directly to the most barren areas, in greatest need, to the most potentially productive areas in the world, to areas where if I have water, it’ll explode.

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And that’s the same thing that we can do with the truth that transforms. Maybe God gave me a vision years ago to launch what would be called the stream, and that stream would be the stream of living water, proclaiming in demonstration through our lives and through our messages proclaimed by the churches, not just in a sermon, but in the testimonies of lives that have been transformed.

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And living water is flowing freely through us, so that everything we touch, we have a positive effect on it. And the Lord has just given me such a burden to build it. I launched a stream years ago, and I wanted to wait for God to show us the people, and then raise up the people that would finance it, so that we could build it to the point that every person on earth could access it.

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And this has to be not a television channel, but a free marketing. And I don’t even understand all that’s going on in the high tech world of the. But I do know that you can stream a message that everybody can have access to, no matter where they are. So we could take the transforming truth of God’s gospel of love and life to the whole world through what I’m referring to as a stream, the stream rather, I know you put this on our heart and as you raised up people, that would real fresh water will that would feed the starving, that would take care of those who are sexually abused, that would do surgeries like cleft

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palate on children. All these areas of need here. People have put your arms of love around those in need and they have become a miracle, a transforming, life giving miracle of love. We need that now and we want to strengthen your truth in transforming power to every ear, every person on this planet. Lord, give us that kind of prayer warrior and that kind of support in Jesus name, baby.

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We’ve watch God work miracles of love through people who are willing to support the transforming power of the gospel of the Kingdom. I’m praying God will raise up people to help us.

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Right now I do to and you know, if if you allow God to run his stream of love and joy and peace and his wisdom through your life and flow continually, he will fill you up to that overflowing. And you know, I’m watching James through every sense. God called him in the ministry. I watched you, James, allow God to flow his love through you.

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We never go anywhere if he a restaurant anywhere and driving down the street of our neighborhood, if he see someone out, he will stop and talk to them and just a moment have shown them that he cares about them. That blesses me. I wish it came as natural to me as it does to you. But that’s why we join together.

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God gives us different years. He gives gave James the gift of proclaiming his truth in His Word through preaching, and now through reaching out to those that are hurting, through need of water and food. Right now. And he cares different things for all of us to do. But if we work together, we can accomplish so much through his love.

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And I pray that you will join us through streaming. He is truth and his love is James is shared with you.

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You know, the Lord has shown me very clearly what it is he wants us to hear about. For the gospel of the Kingdom that will be preached in every nation before Jesus comes the gospel of the kingdom. That’s his will, the father’s will being done on his earth in this kingdom, not the next kingdom. There’s no enemy. There is no reason to wear an armor.

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There’s nothing to walk over. There’s nothing to conquer, there’s nothing to overcome. So if we’re going to fulfill the gospel of the kingdom, if we’re going to do what God left the disciples here to do and lift every one of us as a believer and as a Christian, who we are to be witnesses here in this kingdom, be witnesses of the gospel.

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His kingdom prevailing now in the midst of all the chaos, all the deception, all the distractions. That’s what we’re supposed to do. And we must do it. He’s coming back for a church that looks like him. His body. That looks like him. He’s coming back for a family that looks like the father we have right now. Tremendous chaos and tension where you can’t even have a healthy debate or dialog because there’s actually a prevailing many.

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It’s a prevailing spirit of destruction. That’s what it is here. As Christians, we know the spirit of destruction is the same as the spirit of deception. It’s Satan. It’s the enemy. It’s the father of lies who destroys the essence of life. The powers and principalities and the realms of darkness and deception are prevailing in too much of the world.

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What we say today, when a good person tries to do something for all the right reasons, our phones today are controlled by the spirit of destruction. They don’t try to just out, divide or defeat a candle or a person they disagree with. They literally bury. Try to destroy them. And that’s what even today, they’re calling out for it in assassination or get rid of.

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Tear down the home, burn my home, care of the cars. Anything we disagree with destroyed. The deceiver is the destroyer. He is the father of lies and the father of death and destruction. The same is true right now in this tragic disagreement, even in theological circle, we amputate people rather than doing surgery on God help us. For the Christian, we have to understand that we can enter into serious, heated debates and discussions.

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I’ve done it for years with not with the desire to prove a point. Now it’s the experience of destroying that person we’re disagreeing with. But in the Christian’s life, we need the spirit of redemption. God, please help everybody watching to know there’s a spirit of redemption we can discern evil spirits in. We’re being controlled by the spirit of redemption, even if we have great theological differences.

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A redemptive spirit helps the other person see more clearly, helps us see more clearly. Sometimes it takes time. That’s what love is. It’s persistent. It’s patient is determined. It is unkind, cruel or mean and hateful. There can be strong rebukes, but there’s still such an important line between the spirit of redemption and the spirit of destruction. Surely you can see it.

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We desperately need the spirit of redemption in our country to redeem everything, value everything valuable, and restore everything important, and rebuild the walls of security and protection. God is not opposed to walls, even the sea walls, the natural seawall, offer protection that only a tsunami can overcome. This enemy of deception and destruction and division is prevailing like a symbolic don’t prejudge the people.

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If you disagree with them, don’t pass harsh judgment on them. That harsh judgment comes back on us. Pray that God will help us all in these very serious times. I am, along with leaders that I know and love and care about and spend a lot of time with. We’re having very serious discussion concerning the important issues we face life and death issues, freedom and bondage issues.

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You’ve got to be controlled by the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, the spirit of redemption. Mary, have we not seen that spirit of redemption prevail in the lives of many leaders that you’ve watched me bring into our studio? We have brought church leaders in our studio. I’ve gone all over the country for the last 15 to 20 years, meeting with leaders who were taught that the other leader was not even a Christian, and then they would be angry at.

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We watched him come together and begin to sit in the presence of God, begin to change them until they actually not only had a deeper love for God, but had a love for the person that they disagreed with and that they were trying to help correct. And because of the spirit of redemption, they were able to lead them to see more clearly.

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Haven’t you been amazed at what you’ve watched for the leaders.

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Who really have James? And it’s it is a work beyond themselves. Just watch and we know what it is. It’s God working. And he has worked beyond what they could ever foreseen. And I think he’s bringing them to the light and to the truth of his word and his love. And they are seeing that the only way is to trust him, and the only way is to follow him, and the only way is to serve him with our whole hearts, and to know that God is in the business of redeeming.

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I believe, the great things that are happening. Mary is answered prayer, I believe, is because people have been caught up in the vision of God for kingdom impact, and they’re praying for the power of the kingdom and the power of redemptive love, transforming love and transforming truth to impact every person on this planet. And I believe we’re seeing it, and I believe we’re going to continue to listen.

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I think we’re about to witness the greatest awakening in the history of the world, and billions will come to Christ before he comes. Mary, I’ve been telling everybody watching, if you’re going to live the gospel of the Kingdom, you are going to have to be obeying the commands of Jesus and the vision of Christ in this kingdom, because there’s no enemy to overcome.

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There’s nothing to conquer, there’s nothing to walk over. There is no enemy in the coming kingdom. It’s now that we do his will and make a kingdom impact. Would you join us right now in feeding 350,000 children and their families, many of which will starve to death in the coming months, but we can feed them. We found the missionaries and their families are there, ready to give their lives for these children and their families.

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Would you help us feed them $350,030 age 3050 510. Dear God, $1,000 will feed 100 children for the next month. Please thank God what you can do to help save lives. What you can do to help rich life. We have some gifts to give to you, to bless you in your life. I want you to watch our missionary partner and his dollar right now, dealing with the situation that we’re asking you to be.

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The miracle answer to this. Watch this prayerfully. Thank you for your help.

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Here. And I’ve just been talking to this mother, and I say you and she’s been explaining to us the trauma that is her life.

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Not help. But at the. Family divorce asking.

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For the children have died. She said the three year old died in the last year. She said stuff to today because there just isn’t any food. She goes into the bush and she collects what wild fruit she can find and she brings that home to children. But she said even now she struggles to even find that. She said, I fear that my other children are going to die.

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She expressed that because there’s no food or she said, I’m I’m hopeless. I have no hope.

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At that moment, I looked into her eyes and I. I realized that I was looking at a mother who has done absolutely everything to save her children, but she can’t, and that is why she’s hopeless. But then she said, now that you have seen, now that you know my story, my hope is that you will help. And that’s our hope today.

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Donate her story. Be wasted. Don’t let it become common. Let her story touch your hearts and give so that she may be one of the last ones who loses her children from malnutrition.

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Powerful words shared with you from.

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A young lady who is not yet to mother and yet has heard too many stories of her. Who life of mothers just like this. Please make her one of the lost that has to lose a child just because there isn’t enough food.

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While you know James, I heard them say that. And I told her that her children would probably lose their lives. But can you imagine? They hear nothing like that. Your children are going to lose their life because they don’t have enough food. That’s just unspeakable. It doesn’t make sense to us. We have food on our tables every day.

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This mother is crying out to be able to watch her children grow up, to be able to feed them anytime they’re hungry. Please help us help these mothers that are crying out for help with their children. They have no one else to turn to. You be the one they turn to. Please.

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Oh, would you please them if you had to give up a meal or two to give us a meal? Maybe not try to be as good of givers as possible to be. And we give to every program an outreach of life. From the moment we found the starving and the thirsty, who you started giving faithfully, regularly. And God did seem like he said, I will bless you when you do my will in my kingdom.

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My purpose is from field through your life. I’m going to fulfill your dreams. I tell you one thing, I’m going to do better for the rest of my life. I’m going to lose my life to see the father’s dream fulfilled. And that’s where the gospel of the kingdom will be preached and demonstrated in every nation. And the gospel of the kingdom is what you’re seeing.

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Those missionaries, this and what you’re seeing. The people who watch life and support those missionaries do. That’s the gospel of the Kingdom. That is the kingdom impact of God on this planet. In this time, in this kingdom, because the next kingdom, there’s nothing to conquer, nothing to overcome. The enemy is gone. Who are you belongs. But we can overcome him now.

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And I’m asking you, please, please help me make the greatest gift you possibly can. If there’s any way you can give $1,000, you can feed 100 kids for the next month. $30 will feed three and 50 will feed five and 100 of the ten. Can you do that? What better place to put a $100? Would you do it now?

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Go get your bank card, go online or call that number. It’s your check. Make it to life. But call us and tell us your mailing it. We need to know we’ve got 350,000 children and the missionaries working with them. When you hear the food on the way, you’ve provided it. Would you do that please and be praying for us and praying for the stream to become that river of life, taking God’s transforming truth to every nation on earth.

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The gospel of the Kingdom. Would you help? Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. Thank you. We have some gift for you. You simply ask, but thank you for giving life. Thank you so much.

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Do it today I’m here at a malnutrition clinic in Boma, South Sudan. You can see the mothers are here. The they brought their children. They’re here for one reason. The children are sick. We’re seeing symptoms of malnutrition in the skin and the hair and the bones protruding. The listlessness. We’re seeing that right now. Their chances, like I said, are not good.

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There are other mothers in other villages, some several days walk from here who can’t make the journey to this malnutrition clinic. In time. We need to move further. We need to continue the operations that are going. We need to move further into places where children are dying. You can give them a chance. You do it by partnering with us today.

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You do it by going online, going to the phone, making the best gift you can towards mission feeding and saying you know what I care? I want to give that child a better chance. Will you do it today?

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I’ve often wondered what would happen if every person watching would just give something. God, I’d like to see that miracle. Well, you could be the miracle of one part of that group. Would you do it? Please make the best gift you can because you’re actually giving the greatest gift. You’re giving the gift of life right now, and the missionaries present in Christ likely to thank you so much.

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You need.

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Me?

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