Lorenzo Sewell: Hope for the Nation

Lorenzo Sowell, the pastor who prayed at Donald Trump’s second inauguration ceremony in January, joins Life Today host and Stream publisher James Robison to share his story of deliverance from addiction, crime, and hopelessness.

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Listen to Sowell’s inauguration prayer:

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Lorenzo Sowell
I go to the guy I was distributing for. I sit down with him, I give him all the drugs, give him all the money. I said, I’m done. He says to me, what’s wrong? Are the cops on to you? Are you sick? I said no. I give my heart to Jesus.

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Lorenzo Sowell went from dope dealer to hope dealer to leading the world in prayer.

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Lorenzo Sowell
Then I turned to go and shake President Trump’s hand. He hugged me, full hug.

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James Robison
Betty, do you like this guy?

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Betty Robison
Oh, I do. The first time I saw him I loved him.

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James Robison
I tell you what. This guy prayed the stars down at the inauguration. And I’m going to tell you something. That was an incredible day, because God was moving mountains that people thought could not be moved. But when Lorenzo stepped up and he prayed — and I’ve heard a lot of prayers.

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Betty Robison
Yeah, I started shouting I was so excited.

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James Robison
Yeah, I’m going to tell you something. I’m just — to God be the glory. Lorenzo, you don’t have any idea how you blessed everybody that heard you.

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Lorenzo Sowell
Thank you so much.

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James Robison
I mean, it was a God thing.

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Betty Robison
It was awesome.

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James Robison
Did you did you feel a special touch from God?

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Lorenzo Sowell
Well, when you look up in the rotunda, can you imagine that?

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James Robison
Sure.

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Lorenzo Sowell
Can you imagine praying and talking to the good Lord? It it was almost as if the prayer you could see the prayers of our forefathers and our foremothers.

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Lorenzo Sowell
Something I never. Typically they allow you to stand behind the podium at the RNC. They let you speak, but they didn’t let us at the rotunda. It was locked down.

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James Robison
There you were in it.

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Lorenzo Sowell
Franklin Graham, he tried to go up before, the day before the rehearsal. They didn’t let us. So in that moment when you’re praying, “My country tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.” And you look up.

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James Robison
Wow.

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Lorenzo Sowell
Ain’t no party like a Holy Ghost party, because a Holy Ghost party don’t stop. Right?

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Betty Robison
That’s right.

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James Robison
Oh man.

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Lorenzo Sowell
So the Lord used me for his glory. And I’m very excited. It was on Doctor King’s birthday, as we know. And President Trump. He announced that it would be Liberation Day because I still didn’t know of the good Lord, Betty, would have me pray that prayer. I still didn’t know it. I didn’t know until he said that. When President Trump said, this is Liberation Day, I said, Holy Ghost, I got it. You want me to pray Dr. King’s dream.

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Lorenzo Sowell
So we prayed. And you and I know that when you pray, free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty,

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James Robison
I remember when he said it. I was watching him.

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Lorenzo Sowell
But when you pray, it, we know the scriptures. Where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. Whom the Son sets free is free indeed. But I didn’t know until the end of the prayer that the Lord would get that verse out of me: where the spirit of the Lord — Now in Detroit, that’s on the back of the spirit of Detroit.

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Lorenzo Sowell
The verse is actually there. Second Corinthians chapter number three, verse number 18, where the Spirit of the Lord, is there is liberty. So I knew that as I was praying. You know, the Holy Spirit teaches us how to pray.

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James Robison
Oh, yeah.

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Lorenzo Sowell
As as the Lord was praying through me, his will on earth as it is in heaven. When I got to that verse, I said, Lord, I know that’s what you wanted. Then I turned around to go and shake President Trump’s hand. He hugged me full hug. Can you imagine that?

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James Robison
I can.

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Lorenzo Sowell
All for God’s glory. All for his honor and all for his name to be praised.

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Lorenzo Sowell
Because only God can take a kid like me from the east side of Detroit, mentored by murderers. Can you imagine that? Student of the street. My dad is in prison for murder today. I was sitting on the corner of Kilbourn and Queen.

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Lorenzo Sowell
Shots rang out. They shot up a house I was in.

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James Robison
Goodness.

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Lorenzo Sowell
11 years old, playing Atari video games.

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Betty Robison
Wow.

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Lorenzo Sowell
And that’s where

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James Robison
And it was in the Detroit area?

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Lorenzo Sowell
It was right there on the corner of Kilburn and Queen. Detroit proper. That’s when heroin had just flooded the streets and crack cocaine had come.

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James Robison
Wow.

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Lorenzo Sowell
My uncle was breaking into my home stealing things. I got to see my uncle and I would wonder, why does he — he would take things. Well, he was addicted to the crack. And the house got shot up. You know, I’m 11 years old. And my mother, she packed us up and moved us to a city called Frazier. I was the only black kid in the community, but didn’t know it.

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James Robison
Was it near Detroit?

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Lorenzo Sowell
It was a suburb of Detroit. So it’s 13 mile and. But I became a street pharmacist.

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James Robison
You don’t mean a drug seller?

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Lorenzo Sowell
I became a drug dealer.

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James Robison
Street pharmacist.

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Lorenzo Sowell
That’s right, street pharmacist. You like that one, don’t you? Street pharmacist.

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Betty Robison
It kind of cleans it up a little bit, doesn’t it?

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Lorenzo Sowell
So I’m dealing drugs and dealing drugs. I’m dealing drugs. And it was April 18, 1999. I’ll never forget it. I’m down in Daytona Beach and I was on ecstasy, acid, blew out of my mind. Literally. I was cutting myself and I was approached by a security guard. He said, hey, you got to leave because if you hurt yourself or someone else, we’re liable.

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Lorenzo Sowell
You got to get out of here. He walks me out of the resort that I was paying for with drug money. He said, can I pray for you? Can you imagine that?

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Betty Robison
Wow.

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Lorenzo Sowell
About the power prayer. The the power of prayer. Now remember in the Old Testament the false prophets, they were cutting themselves as a form of idol worship, self-mutilation, you know, cutters. It’s a spirit. I was cutting myself, trying to destroy myself. He said, no, no, no, I want to pray with you. He grabbed my hands and he started praying for me. Can you imagine that?

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James Robison
Yes.

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James Robison
He just started praying for me. I never had anybody pray for me like that. And immediately I knew drug dealing was wrong. First time in my life. I thought it was a business. I made a lot of money, bad health insurance.

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Lorenzo Sowell
You know?

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Lorenzo Sowell
You can’t pull out of your 401k and have a great cash business, though. Right? So I go up to the only church that I knew of. Straight Gate Church. Enter ye into the straight gate, because broad is the way and wide is the gate that leads to destruction. And there be many that enter therein. But straight is the gate, and narrow is the way.

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Lorenzo Sowell
That leads to life. And there be few that find it. I go to Strait Gate Church, April 18, 1999. I have drugs in my pocket. I was selling something called ketamine. It was Special K. Kids will snort it. They were going to rave parties and I was selling. They had it in my pocket. You. But the way they worship you imagine the way people, they worship the Lord.

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Lorenzo Sowell
I’m sitting there with my driver, Mike just. He was my driver. I’m quiet. Bishop married. He preaches. He said, does anybody want to give their heart to Jesus Christ? I looked at Mike. I said, I’m going down court. I’m quiet. Can you imagine that? A bloody brow, a broken soul had everything on the outside. But what can a man give for his soul?

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Lorenzo Sowell
Bishop Merrick gave me the microphone. 3000 people be at places back. He gives me the mic. Like out of my belly. Out of my belly. Like a river water. I love Jesus, this comes out of my mouth. At that time, the elders would take you in the back of the church. I would explain the gospel to you I got baptized, I’m still a drug dealer.

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Lorenzo Sowell
I go home, I call on my friends. I said, I’m done. I’m not dealing drugs anymore. They said, yeah right. I said, I’m out of it. I go to the guy I was distributing for. I sit down with him, I give him all the drugs, give him all the money. I said, I’m not. He said, what’s wrong? I remember this guy had bodies under his belt.

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Lorenzo Sowell
He was a real murder. He. He says to me, what’s wrong? Are the cops on me? You are you sick? I said, no, I gave my heart. Jesus laugh. I get all I’m telling you. I’m thinking he’s poor me. Shoot me. He. I put my hand on the door, he said. So I turn around. He says I respect you.

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Lorenzo Sowell
What can you imagine? Then on Friday I was a dope dealer. On Monday I’m all dealer and church. I’m preaching the gospel of it, and the good Lord put that boldness in me. President Trump came to my church last year, but he called and he said he wanted to come by. Couldn’t believe I voted Republican my whole life.

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Lorenzo Sowell
I just couldn’t believe that a president would come to my church. Now the Bible says we ought to pray. First of all, for those that are in thought, so we could lead an honest and a peaceful life until our God in is because it’s God’s will that none shall perish, but that all come into the knowledge of the truth.

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Lorenzo Sowell
He comes in before he leaves. He says, Will you pray for me? Unscripted. Not a spoiler I pray for. And this is what I pray, Lord, protect him from things. Seeing in unseen things before he leaves, he shakes my head and he says at the inauguration, you’ll be there. Wow. Just stop.

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Betty Robison
I just what is happened?

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Lorenzo Sowell
So 30 tables later, what happens? He experiences the millimeter. Miracle is one millimeter thick. He moves.

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James Robison
That for.

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Lorenzo Sowell
One minute.

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James Robison
He’s dead.

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Lorenzo Sowell
He is dead. The good Lord, we believe the good Lord.

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James Robison
Protect your people. Is that well, I.

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Lorenzo Sowell
Totally so we preached at the RNC and we preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We lift it up. Jesus even said that all sinners need to be able to come to Christ. We preach the gospel. And then at the inauguration, we were able to pray Doctor King’s dream, all for God’s glory, all for his honor, and all for his name to be praised.

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Lorenzo Sowell
We give him the glory for it.

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James Robison
Okay, you are called, I promise to literally help move the whole church to look like Jesus. Amen. And the family to look and behave like the like the family of the father. Amen. The perfect father. You can do that. Thank you. Now, I’ve been preaching 64 years, and I’m here to tell you I know preachers. I’ve never seen anybody that I believe is any more anointed.

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James Robison
Wow. Are gifted. Yeah. And so what you’re going to need is great wisdom. And I want you are praying that for him. And, I’ll give you his address. But I want you to be very careful, because you may want to send support. But what I was trying to do was not send support until he tells you what it’s for.

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James Robison
Because, like we tell you, we’re going to feed, we’re going to drill wells, you know, we’re going to do outreaches. Whatever we tell you, we’ve done it and we’ve done it for 60 years faithfully. Okay. But I want you to keep up with this mail. You give me it. They wanted to send you something in the mail just to tell you they love you, or they aren’t going to help you.

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James Robison
Who would he who would have seen it? That it would. It would connect.

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Lorenzo Sowell
Thank you so much. And so our address is 13660 Stansbury Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, 48227. This area is the number one area in America where kids get taken out of the home because their parents have mental illness. Number one.

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James Robison
Mental illness.

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Lorenzo Sowell
Number one area in America for a to do some drugs.

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James Robison
Contribute to the.

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Lorenzo Sowell
Absolute the cross addiction drug we have right now as we speak. We have teenagers that call us that say, my mom and my dad left me on the streets. Now Detroit is cold yet. So we put these young people in a home that we’re renovating right now. We’re renovating them right now, and we want to be able to make sure that we can provide not just housing transportation, because they got to get to school.

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Lorenzo Sowell
These are teenagers.

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James Robison
You’ve already started doing it.

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Lorenzo Sowell
We just started we just got the hall. We’re renovating the.

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James Robison
Hall. Okay. We’re going to try to have a check, meet you out back because and that has nothing to do with where you are right now. But he just told me something. But you you saw the address. We’ll have it up. You can get it back personally. You can get it online. But I really boy, I want you to listen to what he says.

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James Robison
This is a chosen vessel and we’ve never met. He. He didn’t know me. You know, most people know me. I’ve been around about. Okay. And he didn’t need to know me because he knows him. But I am telling you, Mary, we knew that. We heard somebody in the minute. One minute you got through praying. I said he has to come to our studio.

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Betty Robison
Absolutely. And, you know, I listen to you. And I think really, the people that you describe that are so meeting, that’s all of us. Absolutely no matter what background we have. I know this man. I know where he came from. His situation was impossible, but for God. Amen. And his life through the impossible that you never think God could change.

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Betty Robison
Change my my little church girl. You know that had not nothing. I mean, my mom and dad had four kids. We thought we were rich, but we did. We weren’t. We were far from it. You know what? We had food on the table. We had clothes to wear. We had schools to go to. But when I met him, God changed my heart completely.

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Betty Robison
I saw somebody that really knew Jesus. And that’s what it’s all about. You, man.

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Lorenzo Sowell
Absolutely.

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Betty Robison
That’s what you’re trying to show people is with God, all things are possible.

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Lorenzo Sowell
Amen.

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Betty Robison
And every life on.

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James Robison
The product of a rape of a home nurse 40 years old could not have a job. I never had a job. And she got pregnant and took me to be a morning and the doctor would not abort me and she put an ad in the Bible and gave me away. And I ended up basically living on the street, so to speak.

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James Robison
No, no home that ever faced a street. For ten years. Anyway, God saved me. And boy, when you say music, you. Yeah, I mean, it was in orbit and it never started and stopped playing well with the rest of my life. And I feel like I just heard the Lord whisper this to me. And now the rest of your life is going to be lived out through your life.

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James Robison
Wow. I’m going to help you. But here’s the thing. Now we’re going to help more people than you could ever imagine, but we’re going to help people that you never, ever dreamed of. Even being noticed. Every single just like you that you didn’t think. I didn’t think it either. Okay. Did you know any better way I could spend my last in helping him?

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Betty Robison
Well, you know, we we we feel like we’re living in the best season of our life for 81. You know what? We feel like God’s not through with us. Every breath he gives us is an opportunity to do something for him. And we want to go out in our glory. And just praising him and doing our best to serve him.

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Betty Robison
And we see some people like you that really love the Lord and want to make a difference in the world with God. It just excites us. And deep down.

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James Robison
I’m 81, I’ve lived 80% of my life and I lived to be 100. So I’m living my last day. But let me tell you how the last days are supposed to be fulfilled. His will being done on his earth. Amen. The gospel of the Kingdom. Kingdom impact preached in every nation. That’s not just in word. That’s a demonstration that seems weird.

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James Robison
Yeah. That’s why you establish the will of the father. His will kingdom will be done on his earth. Did he come? Yes, sir. For a body, a church that looks like him and a family that does that, like sent a.

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Lorenzo Sowell
Lawyer to God? Well.

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James Robison
I don’t always mean it’s this.

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Betty Robison
I can’t do.

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James Robison
This. It’s okay. We’re going to stay close. Thank you. I’ve already told you what we’re going to start doing. How old are you praying for us right now? We are literally. We’re rescuing the the trafficked. And he knows lots of traffic people.

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Lorenzo Sowell
Well, right next to my church, we’ve got women being human trafficked today. Matter. The only place in Detroit is.

00:16:47:02 – 00:17:08:27
James Robison
Going to help you every way we can. And so we’re like, okay, but what I want us to do according to the father, and we will spend some time praying together. I want us to hear every word he wants us to hear to help get his family looking like him. The church looking like Jesus, and get the family healthy.

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James Robison
Amen. Okay. Anything else you want to say?

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Lorenzo Sowell
Well, I want to tell you, first of all that I’m very humble. You know, my wife, our church, we have, given everything. Really. Have we all took a salary from the church? We don’t. We stopped doing that since Covid because everything was decimated in Detroit like never before. We give everything. So for you to partner with us, it’s a harvest to harvest.

00:17:35:09 – 00:17:41:12
Lorenzo Sowell
And I’m very humbled and very grateful that the Lord has answered our prayers through partnering with him. Ministry.

00:17:41:13 – 00:17:49:06
James Robison
I made a man that, hey, we love you. Watch. Oh my God.

00:17:49:09 – 00:18:19:03
Betty Robison
He we’ve been here. I am in Southeast Asia spending another day with one of our incredible missionary partners on the ground. They will go to every length possible to reach these graves and to rescue them, and to give them a new life and been able to see that today. I’ve been able to hear that today, and I want you to hear it for yourself.

00:18:19:06 – 00:18:45:06
Betty Robison
I’m going to protect our identity and her name, but we’ll call her so God. When I was 13 years old, I started working at a bar to get some money and take care of my family. The customers would beat me, but I still had to serve them drinks. But then I was told I had to sleep with the customers and they would hit me and make me take drugs.

00:18:45:08 – 00:19:11:21
Betty Robison
It was like being in hell. One day I heard about this ministry and how they could teach me to do a new job. I wanted to try it, but I still felt like I didn’t belong anywhere but the bar. Slowly, God began to enter my heart. And now I know that God loves me. He’s always near me and he’s giving me great joy and hope for my future.

00:19:11:23 – 00:19:41:24
Betty Robison
I thank God for this ministry, my new friends, and my new job. And I pray every day for women like me who feel hopeless and worthless. I pray that they can join me here and learn how much God loves them. And I knew God. He is on the move in Southeast Asia. She’s just one girl. She’s one, and she represents so many other girls that need that same hope.

00:19:41:27 – 00:19:52:18
Betty Robison
Okay? If we don’t try to make a difference today.

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Betty Robison
I don’t know where they’ll be tomorrow.

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James Robison
You know how much somebody who loves puts it in the hands of love. Can get God’s arms around the broken? And, Betty, we’ve been doing a long, long time.

00:20:10:21 – 00:20:12:15
Betty Robison
We have things.

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James Robison
I want to do it a lot longer, but I can’t do any of it. All I can do is show you a sad situation, and we could weep. And will you say a prayer and walk away? How we can find a way to put our hands out with something that we’ll put in the hands of those who have hands on and we’ll put arms around and we’ll get involved to rescue these girls, and now even provide 50 more rooms in a beautiful building that we’re renovating.

00:20:46:23 – 00:21:13:16
James Robison
But we need 1.25 million to do it. Father, give you are the miracle. You are the one who makes miracles happen. But we’re the ones who provide the miracle with your love flowing through us. Move everyone watching in Jesus name, would you go and get your bank card and use it like a check? Get a check, make a gift.

00:21:13:18 – 00:21:52:14
James Robison
Life? Then I know by now you remember 128 is what it takes to rescue one child. 1218 would you please? Right now I just make to give God lead you to make. We have some beautiful gifts. Here is Doctor Jeremiah’s up beautiful emotional book. Sleep on this. My goodness. And you can actually put a place there. This is new technology that will play it to you beautifully by someone who is gifted to read these great devotionals and these cups very.

00:21:52:17 – 00:22:12:15
James Robison
They’re the prettiest cups I’ve ever seen. Have a beautiful scripture on each one of them. Ceramic and then the Lion of Judah with the cross. That’s my favorite one. We’ve ever done, and we’ve been doing them a 25, 30 years, maybe, maybe longer than that. And boy, to people, I come, you go like this one. Please. Like the gift.

00:22:12:15 – 00:22:27:18
James Robison
God put a yard. Remember you’re giving lights. You are providing the miracle that changes everything for people who never thought they’d have a chance. Thank you.

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Kirie James
James and Betty, just earlier today I watched several girls be rescued.

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Kirie James
I can’t imagine what would happen to them had these heroes not been standing right there where they are. They are fighting the very last line of defense for these children to prevent them from being taken into a life of slavery that happens right here, right here on this line. But that doesn’t happen without our support. So I’m asking you to once again go to your supporters who are so faithful back.

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Kirie James
I present to them another knee. Okay. And that is great. It’s so much easier to restore a life that hasn’t been broken, and to rebuild a life that’s been crushed. If we can stop it from happening here.

00:24:50:05 – 00:24:57:24
Kirie James
Just take the joy in those families lives thinking what a joy a child would have to not have to walk through a darkness.

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Kirie James
Please, James and Betty, let’s do what we can do. Let’s raise the funds that we need to keep these people standing guard.

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James Robison
Well, I think you can tell I get excited about Jesus and people that and I want to I do want to mention that we want to give them home to see these. There’s no more rent property where we’re trying to help these girls that we’re referring to in the southeast Asia. Well, we got a bill and it’s a decent bill just needs to be reshaped over $1 million.

00:25:28:27 – 00:25:47:07
James Robison
And then we want you to help us rescue those girls. $128 rescue one. You can do that. So please do whatever God need you to do. And then you’ll be praying for me and be praying for Lorenzo because I have an idea we’re going to be together. Now whether you see us together or no, He’s going to.

00:25:48:01 – 00:25:54:02
James Robison
And you’re going to see Him. I hope you see Him some through me. But you’re going to see Him through Lorenzo.

00:25:54:04 – 00:25:56:16
Lorenzo Sowell
Amen.

00:25:56:19 – 00:25:59:18
James Robison
And he’s going to inspire people like you.

00:26:01:03 – 00: 26:05:11
James Robison
To let others see Him through you. Very clearly.

00:26:05:13 – 00:26:05:22
James Robison
Sure love you.

00:26:05:23 – 00:26:10:09
Lorenzo Sowell
Love you too.

James Robison
Thanks for coming. Will you come back?

Lorenzo Sowell
Well yes, absolutely.

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James Robison
Thank you for watching.

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