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The Birth of Orphan's Promise 0:02 We wanna honor God because He sees everything.0:10 You were born with a plan and a purpose. He's the god of all things possible. He's the god of all0:22 miracles.0:52 Welcome to Grace Grace with Naina Michelle. I'm Michelle Humphreys.0:55 And I am Naina Keegan. Welcome to the broadcast today. We have a very special guest. Michelle and I have known this powerful, beautiful woman of God for many years. Michelle, you wanna do Yes. The honors? We love1:07 her1:08 so much. She is an American television personality, singer, author, philanthropist, you name it. She has been the cohost of the 700 Club since 191:19 93, and 1 of my favorite things about her is she is the former Miss America. So welcome, Miss America, Terry Musen.1:29 Praise the lord.1:30 We are1:30 so happy1:31 you're here with us. We love you. We love you.1:34 We're glad to be with you. I we see each other at various events, but we haven't ever really done this together. So fun.1:41 It was We're so glad. We are just we love Orphan's Promise. You know, Michelle and I, we you know, I've been on many trips, so have my children with you, kind of all over the world. And, even my son got to be Gizmo1:53 in some of those. But do you wanna tell us a little bit about that? Because it's such an amazing story and how it even started. It's just so powerful. Well, you know, the Bible says despise not the2:05 day of small beginnings, and Orphan's Promise had a small beginning. Truly, it was just, on the heels of our adopting our 3 daughters from Ukraine coming back and realizing the statistics2:17 said that in this orphanage of 350 kids that they were in, that less than 1 percent would ever be adopted. And so we were there for a month getting just2:29 paperwork done and getting to know the girls. And so we were at the orphanage every day, and you wind up driving away saying, this is a happy moment for us and for our family. But what about the rest of these children? I2:40 mean, what happens to them? And at 16, they age out. So 15 or 16. So So young. Imagine being on2:49 the street at 15 or 16.2:52 No no no parents. No 1 helping them.2:55 No skills, no money, no training of any kind. They really have just kind of been babysat through their growing years in this institution. It's not a home. It's an institution. And so,3:07 I had I sought out I didn't just meet. I sought out a young girl from Regent who spoke Russian because when our kids came, they spoke Russian. We spoke English. And as she came and helped my kids3:18 learn English a little bit faster, we talked about the dilemma, and she too had a heart for kids with no family and had always had. And so we just started to kind of sit in the car with each other after I3:30 drive her home from my house and just say, god, what could we do? Because, I mean, we were 2 women with when I tell you nothing to go on, nothing to start with. And so we just3:42 started dreaming. You know? We started dreaming about, well, what if we could teach kids English? What if we had a center? We could teach them English. If we taught them computer skills, they'd be a leg up on the job3:53 market. Yeah. And then what if we taught what if we had something we call the school of life? That's all the practical things like how do you budget your money, how do you cook food, how do you do your laundry,4:05 and who is god, Who is god to me? And why should that matter? Because they had none of that in the place that they were. And so we went back and started well, actually, CBN let4:17 us start our very first center in Kyiv at their office there. And then we went right back down to a city called Berdansk, which is where my kids were from, and we opened a center there. And, it was the4:29 beginning of what became, oh goodness, oh, almost 300 projects in over 70 countries. And sometimes, honestly, I look back at it, and I think Yes. God, how did you4:41 do that? I mean, we had no skill in this. We had no money to begin with, and god just you know, if you just say yes to the next right thing, he just keeps4:53 opening the doors, and you just have to walk through them.4:56 And it is amazing. And your projects are done with such excellence. And the the the the children and and just seeing them all, especially learning so much about the Lord. And, you know, we know that that's5:08 everything. And and just just you're educating them out of poverty, but also they leave with knowing the Lord, and that changes everything. And I even remember that 1,5:20 boy Eric from Africa, and I know he has texted my son from time to time because they met there. And he's like he came to college in the United States, and he's married, and you've seen so much fruit5:32 from everything, Terry.5:33 No. That's not the norm. Most of our kids don't come to America. But you know the thing, we've learned so much. It was 20 years last year since we started Orphan's Promise. And Praise god. You know, 15:44 of the things we learned through all of that was there's it's not just a matter of learning things. It's not just a matter of growing and progressing. And it's more even than5:56 understanding that God loves you and has a plan for your life because they need healing. And that can only come from Jesus deep in your you know, all of these kids. I have adopted children who are not from6:08 Ukraine and who were adopted as infants, and they see it in them too. There are abandonment issues and self esteem issues, and a couple of our kids look different6:20 than we than we do. I have a son that's from Korea, and then I have a son that's an American adoption, but it's a biracial adoption. And for me, it's taken me many years to figure this out6:32 because for me, the dream of having these children was so big in my heart that when they came, they were just my kids. I mean, like, I don't care what they look like. I don't care about any of them. They're mine, and6:44 we belong to each other, and we're family. But in time, what I saw was that they come they come face to face with the fact, well, where did I start? Where did I come from? And if6:55 you can't lead them back to God, back to Jesus, the 1 who they came from and who's who birthed them with intent and with purpose, they are always walking around with a little bit7:07 of a hole inside of them trying to figure out who they are. In a way, it's true for all of us because their identity is something we find in Jesus. But, honestly, when you're when you've gone through adoption, I7:19 think, it has nothing to do with the adoptive parents. I used to think you could love any emptiness out of children, but you can't. They need healing. They need to know that they are belong to7:31 God, that there's intention and purpose for their lives, and that's that's an important and integral part of their healing.7:39 Amen. And I'm I did not mention in the introduction that you have 5 total adopted children and 2 biological children. And so you know a thing or 2 about adopted7:51 children. I'm listening to that. You have resources. You have some resources to help with that. I know that. You did those years ago, and you said8:02 it wasn't always easy. And yeah.8:06 But, you know, I I mean, I know both of you well enough to know you agree with me on this. Things that are worth doing are not usually easy. If they were easy, everybody do them. Amen. It's it's not that you8:18 try to to go 1 up on everybody, but if that's something God has called you to, then you just you're just stead fast in your commitment to see it through. I have some children in my8:30 family, who are I don't wanna say this. They're they're Christian in belief, but not necessarily walking with the Lord. And I've had8:42 1 of my struggles with the Lord has been releasing my children to him even as I have matured in my life, and they're now grown and adults, not making idols out of them, but8:53 knowing that the work that has to happen to draw them to him comes from the Holy Spirit. And 1 day God said to me, my job is to save them. Your job is to love them and pray for them. Praise God. And so anotherHealing Identity in Adoption and Parenting 9:05 life lesson.9:07 Terry, we're gonna come right back. We're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back. You're watching Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle. Stay right there.9:14 It's finally here, our second annual mega sale. This sale only comes around once a year, so take advantage of the best offers ever while you can. For example, save 50 percent on our Giza Dream9:26 bed sheets as low as 29 98. And for the first time ever on TV, MyPillow mattresses and MyPillow mattress toppers as low as 99 98.9:38 And you save 50 percent on our LuxPure 6 piece tall sets. Regular 69 98, now only 39 98. And our best selling standard MyPillows, regular9:49 49 98, on sale for 17 98. Wait on it. Mega sale, only 14 98. So go to my pillow dot com or call the number on your screen. Use this promo10:01 code to take advantage of our second annual mega sale. But wait, there's more. To make the mega sale even more special, when you order right now, your order's gonna ship absolutely10:13 free.10:14 Welcome back to Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle and our fabulous guest, Terry Mieson. And we're talking about kids and even just off camera, we're talking about how different all of our children are, no10:26 matter if they're adopted or they're not. And, you know, just how they you know, God I I believe once they're an adult, I I here's what I think, I is that, you know, we have as their mothers, as a parent, we10:37 can stand in the gap for our children. But once they become adults, I feel like, you know, then God we can pray and intercede for them, but God's gotta do the heavy lifting. We can plant those seeds, but10:49 it's about their own relationship with them with him at that point. And so that's what where, like, I think we have to, like, change it. Change what do you think about that? Like, you know11:01 I think I think 1 of the things that has to apply well, it probably should apply when they're young too, but I spent a lot of years begging God. Yes. Yes. Because I11:11 the life cycle. Yes. Yeah.11:13 Go here. I'm here. Again, god. I know. And now I try to pray declaratively, you know, this is what God says over my children. And I speak them to11:25 them. I do do things like, I have a son that was living at home with me for quite a while, and, and I was happy that he was living with me because I was probably the11:37 only witness to him in his life of the goodness of God. But when he wasn't there, I'd go what tape little scripture verses on the back of Mary's room.11:47 You know, a full11:48 blown Pentecostal. With oil. Yeah.11:53 Yeah. You do what you gotta do.11:55 The power of God is not in those things even though I think he honors them coming from the heart of us. But the power of god is in his word. And so I now make lists of12:07 the declarative promises of god to me as a mother and to my children who have been raised in the love and knowledge of him. And so, I expect I I've come to the place where I've said to12:19 god, even if I don't see it in this life, I just need to know that you're gonna get them over the finish line.12:27 Amen. Amen.12:28 Expect to see them.12:30 And that's so good. I just, you know, I I listen over and over to this 1 teaching, and it's about blessing your children into all that they were called to be and how12:42 we can never, like, go against what god's word says for our children. You know how we'll get discouraged when we hear some bad news or whatever? Yeah. So we we even then, we12:53 have to stay with what god says. And remember, sometimes I picture that saying you know, I I think of all the times my children have heard the word of God, and I just speak to13:05 the word of God that they heard, and I say grow. Rise up. Come up in in these children and become all that you were called to be by God. And and I just think, you13:17 know, I know you you have so many miracles in your life that have taken place. I watch you I've been watching you all these years in the 700 Club.13:29 I'm a a fan favorite.13:31 Inspiration. You are.13:32 And so I know you've had so many miracles in your family. Tell us 1 of the greatest miracles you've ever seen in all of these years on the 700 Club. It's a place for miracles. It really13:44 is.13:45 And the club you may have?13:47 And even in your life, tell us what what comes to mind.13:50 First of all, 1 of the the greatest miracles on the club will be doctor Tom Renfro's story. This was a pastor, and a teacher who, was diagnosed with cancer,14:02 and he I don't know what made him do this. Well, the Lord, I'm sure now. But he was he was, videoing his progression as he became worse and worse and worse and talking on camera to his,14:15 to his congregation asking them to pray for him. And I mean, by the end, when I tell you this man looked like something from an Auschwitz concentration camp with lumps of of cancer all14:25 over him.14:26 Yes. And they said, well, you know what? We're gonna the doctor said, so he doesn't die on Christmas. We're gonna give him 1 more shot of chemo. After years of treatment, we're gonna give him 1 more shot of14:38 chemo so that he can make it through the holidays for his family. They gave him the shot of chemo, and you could visibly watch the tumors in his arm shrink. He came back to health. He's14:50 living and healthy and well today and praying for healing for other people. That is the greatest healing story I think I've seen. And in my own life, honestly,15:03 this last year has been a remarkable year. 1 of my children and I know he wouldn't mind my telling you this because because he's telling people about it. But I have a son who, I15:14 love dearly as I do all my children. And, you know, when your kids get to be older, 1 of the things you don't know is kind of what's going on in all of their lives anymore. They're adults. They're in their own homes.15:25 He's married, has children. And I I he had some health issues over the last year that were concerning, not like cancer or anything like that. Really, he didn't know what it was. He just felt like something was wrong.15:37 But to make a long story short, he had, a healing. He's he's adopted. He had a healing, but he also had a release from some demonic oppression. It happened in my15:49 living room. I was absolutely shocked. I mean, he got some wise and deep counseling for going to the root cause of all of those things in his life. He is radical aboutMiracles of Healing and Deliverance 16:01 Jesus. He's radical, God of faith. Reading the word, he's journaling, and he's lead this all happened in this past year, and he's leading a men's group already. Just young young guys his age who are just getting16:13 together for coffee 1 day a week and talking about the Lord because they're all seeking. It's exponential. Isn't it16:20 what the enemy means for harm? It's amazing. God will turn it around and use it for abundant good all for his own glory. It's just it's so amazing. But you've never stopped praying for them either. And you think about,16:31 you know, when God says he holds our prayers in a bowl in heaven, I always think mine needs to be the size of an ocean. You know, like, you're just like, what's that bowl look like? But he broke mine out16:42 of the way to be sure it's up to us.16:44 You know, because it's like, you know, but they won't return void. And when we know, you know, he he who do we think we're talking to when we pray? You know, the God who created the entire universe. And speaking about16:56 prayer, you know, you CBN 700 Club, we're gonna take a quick break, but when we come back, we wanna hear about this revival and the prayers for America that's coming, that you're gonna be doing. So17:08 so so we are gonna come right back. We're here with Terry Mucin on Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle. Stay right there.17:14 Have you ever wondered if someone was monitoring you like nefarious tech companies, corrupt federal agencies, or hostile foreign countries? News flash. 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You know, I I'm doing a bible study with 1 of my daughters on Revelation right now, and, you know, we've I feel like we're the church in Ephesus. Like, we18:29 Yes. Warm. We've walked away from our first love. It's not that we don't love God, but he's he's not in the position he needs to be in in our lives. And he that's held true in the past18:41 in our country. We're doing a, a special event here, I guess you'd call it. Maybe not an event, but an ongoing teaching about prayer and praying together for revival starting on Memorial Day and working up to July18:53 fourth as we celebrate our country's 200 and fiftieth birthday. But in the 17 hundreds, George Whitfield was just the initiator of this huge great awakening. I19:04 love what we call them because it's kinda like that. Like, you just need to, you know, wake up, like, smell the coffee. Like like, God needs to show us our deficit. And we need to be willing19:16 to change, to be changed. Yeah. And so as I'm as I'm reading all these things and writing these things, I'm my heart is just broken for our country.19:28 Yes. It really is. I'm just saying, god, if you don't show up Yes. We are done for. Yeah. Because we've let we've let the Trojan horse into the camp. Yeah. Amen.19:40 And and just like the word of god spreads, so does the enemy spread when he's given entree. Yeah. And it's And we have done that.19:48 Yeah. Because the Bible says that, you know, he's coming to judge the church first, and and we're the ones who have been complacent. And, you know, and he's what does he say? You know, if my people will call by my name,20:00 will seek him, repent, and turn from our wicked ways, he will come and heal us heal our land. It's my people. He's not asking his enemies. He and and so it's so20:12 it's so grievous. Here's 1 of20:15 the things about that, Naina, is we have memorized that second chronicle. Yes. Yes. And we it rolls off our tongues. We say it. But I found a scripture in Matthew the other day. It's actually Jesus20:27 repeating, something that was in Isaiah in the Old Testament, but it was these people, come to me with their mouths, and they worship20:39 me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Wow.20:44 And and it even says, that that they have become whitewashed tombs. So the tombs looked great. You know, they were they were whitewashed, but underneath, the20:56 church was dead. The Pharisees were dead. And that's the thing, the church has got to wake up. And you're right. It becomes trite when we keep saying over and over, if my people who are called by myCall to Revival and Prayer for America 21:08 name will humble themselves and pray. It just becomes like it's not actually the word of God, and it is. And that is actually true. If we if we humble ourselves before the Lord, he21:19 will heal our land. It's a promise.21:22 In fact, you know, 1 of the things God's spoken to me as I've been praying over these scriptures and things is that you don't begin corporate revival until you have individual revival.21:34 Hallelujah. We have to examine our hearts. Yes. We have to say, God, what is it in my life that needs changing? What is it in me as your child? Show me my heart. Show21:46 me the things that Yes. Where I've I've lost my my my energy for you. My need to be with you every day. My need to feed on your word every day. It needs to not21:58 be helter skelter here and there. It needs to be our manna. Amen. Our manna. And when the when the Israelites were in the desert, they got manna 1 day at a time, and they had to come out and22:09 collect it again every day. We need to be hungry for that. Yes. Hungry for that. I I'm looking at these college and university campuses22:18 Oh, you're welcome.22:19 And I'm thinking, god, how like you to take 1 generation and have them rebuke us. Amen. Get your act together. Yes. Loving Jesus with passion. I came to22:30 Jesus during the Jesus movement. So when I see that, I'm like, you go. You go.22:35 Because he's the same God. Right? He's the same God, and we just do it again. Do it again. And and and, you know, create me a clean and contrite heart. Every day, it's like pull out anything22:47 that is not of you and surrender it all because that's it. It's it's all about him. Apart from him, we can do nothing, you know, and we just need to trust him. And it's so crazy right now. We can hardly22:59 even believe, like, some of the sentences you're saying concerning what's happening in our nation and in the world. And yet it's like, how can this even be? Yeah.23:08 I mean But, you know, here's the thing that I found out is when George Whitfield started the Great Awakening in the 17 hundreds with his preaching, the country was divided. They were splayed. Everything was a23:20 mess in the country. And when I read that, I thought, okay. Okay. The thing about our time though, you guys, is that there are signs that are23:31 pretty significant to me. I don't know what this means in time, but that Jesus is Jesus is coming back. It's near. And it might not be tomorrow. It might not be next week, but let's not be found23:43 asleep, for heaven's sakes. Let's have the oil on our lamps. As I've read this, I've thought about the 10 virgins because I was always you know, I'd read that and I'd think how could how could 523:55 of them who had lamps, were expecting the bridegroom, be shut out of the banquet and told I you don't know me. It's the heart. It is the heart. It's not religious repetition of things24:07 Exactly. Not doing good. Do he this is what he says. I I never knew you. Yes. They never knew me. Terrifying. It is terrifying.24:17 But how can how can anyone how can you have a relationship with anyone if it isn't a back and forth, if it isn't spending time? You know, and that's the thing. You know, he's just asking for that. Spend time with me.24:29 Know me. You know, even the devil knows Jesus is real, and and he knows that this is all going to happen. So so but do we know him? Amen. Amen.24:39 Well, Terry, would you mind praying for our viewers? I can't believe it's already almost time, for the program24:47 to be over. We could talk to you all day.24:49 Sweet place. Well, let's pray together. Oh, god. Thank you for your mercy. Thank you that there's more mercy in you than there is sin in us.25:01 Yes. And god today, we just bow before you, and we come before you as your children. Yes. We want to we wanna be with you. We want to enjoy your the pleasure of your company. We wanna be25:13 aware of your presence with us 24 7 3 65. You are faithful and steadfast. God, you've planted us each and every 1 of us in this moment in history and in time, the25:25 strategic place. And you're calling us to things that you created for us to do before we were ever born. God, take the blinders off our eyes. I pray that you'd give us eyes to see25:37 and ears to hear and hearts to obey and say yes to whatever is you're asking of us, but first and foremost, to get our act together with you, Jesus. You are worthy. You are the lamb that was25:48 slain. You are it. You're you're you're the you're eternity. You're joy. You're love. You're the you're healing. You're everything we need. And God, so often we26:00 get distracted by shiny objects that don't matter or just the busyness of our schedules, and we expect you to understand. And, god, I'm tired of that in my life, and I'm praying for all of us26:12 that you'd make us sick of ourselves in this life we're at. That you'd renew onto us the joy of our salvation, the joy of being yours, of being with you, of living in you,26:24 and having you live in us. That was Jesus' last prayer. Yes. That we would all live in each other and that we would have eternity together. God, prepare our hearts for the season that we're in. And, God, we pray for26:36 our country. We just wanna stand together today, and we lift our eyes to heaven. When we don't know what to do, our eyes are on you, God. Would you move in might and empower and do what we26:48 don't know how to do? God, would you just invade? Would you invade the halls of government? Would you invade the halls of commerce? Would you invade the halls of the church?27:00 God, help us to pray in all that you've purposed for us, God, in this hour with diligence, and may those who come behind us find us faithful in a legacy of faith in Jesus'27:12 mighty name. Amen. Wow. Powerful. That was powerful.27:16 So how can we find you? You're on CBN. You're on the fan you you can download the CBN family app.27:23 How else? That's an easy way to do it because you can watch it when you want, family. Otherwise, we're on free form. You know, I hear on the East Coast, it's from 9 to 10 30 in the morning because we have the interactive27:35 show after, 700 club. But really, honestly, c b n dot com is the the CBN family is the place to find the show whenever you want it. And you can pick and choose your time and your27:46 subject matter and all of that. But, thank you.27:49 I'm a super fan. We love you, Terry. We're so grateful.27:53 God bless you. And thank you to our viewers and our partners. We're so grateful. We just want you to just know you can find us all over social media. We're happy to answer all of your prayer requests and toClosing Prayer and Send-Off 28:05 pray with you. We wanna hear your praise reports. We wanna hear what God's up to. Thank you for watching. We love you. God bless you.28:12 For the first time ever, we're bringing you MyPillow mattresses and mattress toppers for as low as 99 98. Remember, sleep's all about temperature and pressure point. 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