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11/10/2024

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IS A GENERATION ARISING THAT DOES NOT KNOW THE LORD?

"A Generation Arose": Episode 2 of "The Awakening" Internet Television Show.

"A Generation Arose": Episode 2 of "The Awakening"Are we in danger of a generation arising that does not know the Lord?

07/23/2024

Part 1 of 3. "SEASONS."

They both have doctoral degrees. They would like to be called by their first names, David and Beverly, and not their titles because although they respect people being called by their professional appellations, titles can sometimes - divide us. They are very, very comfortable just being themselves. They are just regular people. They are both two broken people. They each have a story. It is their story that has made them who they are. They have both been on a journey of healing. Their capacity to help others has been related to their own journey of healing for themselves.

She, Beverly, is the second child of four children. She was raised in the inner city. Her father was a gambler. Her mother was very co-dependent and tried to please him and to do what would make him happy. She was molested at the age of three by one of her mother's brothers. Her mother was from a family of nine children who were all drug addicts. That set her up for a lot of pain. Moreover, at the age of thirteen a nineteen-year-old man told her she was the best thing since sliced bread. No one had ever paid attention to her before. He told her that there was a chance in a million that she would get pregnant the first time and she was that chance in a million because she got pregnant. Subsequently, at the age of fourteen she had a baby boy. She was kicked out of school. She was home and started receiving junior guide religious lessons from someone who came to her door from a church and then began to receive Bible studies through correspondence.

She was determined to go to church when she had the baby and when she had her son she went to church. She immersed herself in church activities, but did not have a lot of connections with the young people. The older women took her under their wings, then she got a nursing degree. She loved school because that is how she defined herself. She was planning to be a doting grandmother once her son got older and had his own child and follow her son around and get her master's degree and her PHD because education defined her. At this time clinical depression really hit her because she had not addressed her own pain of abuse and having her baby at 14. Resultingly, she was full of pain. She was studying the Scriptures and the sanctuary and immersed herself in it. God was merciful! Her depression lifted!

She had determined not to get married, but met David. He was what she wanted, but not in the right package, but after two dates God impressed her that he was the man that He wanted for her and her life took a hard left turn! She got her master's degree, got married to David AND also got a doctoral degree! She now has a private counseling practice in Berrien Springs, Michigan and she jointly counsels and does seminars in person and remotely with her husband David - BOTH BEING USED BY GOD TO HELP HEAL AND SET OTHERS FREE WHO ARE WOUNDED, HURTING AND BOUND - JUST AS THEY BOTH ONCE WERE!

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07/21/2024

Part 3 of 3. "SEASONS."

A part of their story is their professional journey also. David has been working in addiction recovery since 1972 for over 50 YEARS - long before he met Beverly. He has been the director of a detox center and the director of an inpatient residential treatment program for addiction recovery. Moreover, he worked in aftercare and at an outpatient facility for drug addictions. He has trained and taught people all over the world how to do a twelve-step program. He has also taught in medical schools and schools of social work. Beverly has worked as a psychiatric nurse and has also counseled private clients. God taught them how to integrate what they had learned professionally with what is in the Bible.

As a married couple they formed their own private ministry/clinic counseling people from all around the world based on these principles. They wrote a book together entitled "Cleansing the Sanctuary of the Heart - Tools for Emotional Healing" about their journey of healing and the lives of the people that they worked with. They next worked at Weimar Institute and jointly started a program called "NewStart Destiny" to help the patients who were coming for treatment for physical problems, but also had mental health and addiction problems. After that they both taught at Oakwood University - David taught social work and Beverly nursing and she also continued to counsel and to do women's retreats.

They presently have an individual and joint ministry at Andrews University - family life, mental health, pre-marital and post-marital counseling. At Andrews University Beverly is able to counsel full-time. David was recruited there into seminary to work with pastors who are often asked to counsel, but often not equipped to do so and who also want to learn how to do community development. Moreover, he helped to institute a dual degree program for MDiv and MSW to marry the two degrees together. As a part of their journey while counseling others it still took Beverly 15 YEARS before she actually believed that David truly loved someone like her when he said he loved her, BUT ONE DAY IT FINALLY WENT FROM HER HEAD TO HER HEART!

They have now been married at the time of this interview in 2021 for 35 YEARS. They are both still a work in progress. NEITHER ONE OF THEM HAVE ARRIVED! THEIR JOURNEY AND LIFE STORY CONTINUES!

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07/12/2024

Part 2 of 3. "SEASONS." He, David, was raised in the country and is the second child of fifteen children. There were a lot of wonderful, wonderful things about his family, but also a lot of brokenness. His father was an alcoholic who was very controlling and demeaning. His mother was victimized by his father and her lifestyle. He studied to be a priest for seven years, but left school because he wanted to be married. As an adult child of an alcoholic, he got married to someone who had a history of addictions. As a number two adult child of an alcoholic he was like his mother and married someone like his father.

His first wife had an addiction and she was controlling and demeaning just like his dad and he was a victim just like his mother. His wife did not speak to him very well and he was a victim just like his mother as his wife's addiction flared up during their marriage. He started going to a twelve - step program - AA meetings to try to support his wife's recovery and realized that he needed to go for himself. He continued going for himself and that began his own journey of recovery and he has been going for many, many years. He came to realize that he first needed help himself. He is still in the process of healing even though he is teaching other people about the process and to him that is exciting!

He has not arrived yet, but he presses towards the mark of the high calling of God! There is the "was," the "is" and the "what will be" part of the journey. He is in the "is" part of it and looking forward to the "what will be!"

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06/14/2024

He said he was "blessed with bad health." He said that both of his grandparents on his mother's and father's side of his family died of heart attacks and strokes in their mid-fifties so he inherited bad health problems. Moreover, he said that as a kid and a teenager he suffered from several medical conditions which continued and increased in college - digestive issues, a massive amount of allergies, skin problems, heart palpitations and a heart murmur. He said he was raised as a Christian and went to seminary for two years and then dropped out and did not want anything to do with Christianity. He began to study all of the major philosophies and religions of the world.

All of the medical conditions that he had from childhood came to a head by the time he was in his mid-20's and while he was working for corporate America and as he had begun to move up that corporate management chain at IBM. He knew his families' history and was scared and he began to study all of the major health systems of the world. In his 30's his back went out and he went to a chiropractor. It was here that he began to learn for the first time about the proper diet AND the importance of food combinations. By changing his diet and his food combinations along with observing the other laws of health he made a major step in improving his digestive efficiency and his health.

He began to make a major transition in his life dietarily and professionally moved away from IBM - corporate America - and back to God. Within two years he got three health related doctoral degrees and a PHD. He said he knew he was not in charge, but he realized who was in charge and he committed his education, transition and everything to Him - God - and he was baptized at the age of 48. He became a health practitioner and gave lectures. He is now the president and CEO of the most comprehensive and the most complete and the ONLY online Christian institute in the world that is Bible-based, accredited and offers health programs on all levels from certificates to the PHD level! At the time of this interview in 2021 he was in his late 70's and running and winning marathons and had the bone density of a man in his fifties!

Featuring Dr.Jim Sharps President of the IIOM, International Institute of Original Medicine

05/10/2024

She's been on a journey. She has had a life-long struggle with depression. When she was 13 she was hospitalized - for the first time - due to depression. She used anti-depressants for the next 20 years of her life. In time she learned to surrender to God and what He says is true about her and other things in her life and this world. She states it is essential to integrate Scripture in a very real way with your experience and what science states. This is how she has connected the dots and how it has worked for her. That is how she arrived at where she is today.

Today, she is very committed to helping people who are struggling with addictions and depression. She is the mental health counselor in charge of the depression and addiction department at the Operation 6:12 addiction ministry. She wrote a manual entitled, "Finding the Gift in Depression and Addictions," based on her personal experience and her professional experience. She has a Master's degree in counseling. She is married to a man who loves and adores her very much (my observation) and they have one child.

She says depression is like a mine. It is so dark. There is such a lack of hope and such a lack of power. It is such a dark place to be and it feels like it is going to be permanent. It does not seem like there is any hope or that there is any way that it is going to improve. Moreover, she states what she has found and in retrospect she says not from a perspective of being healed from depression, but from an analogy that she has learned.

She has found the true reality is that even in the winter if there is a blizzard and it is the worst possible storm if you go up in an airplane above the level of the clouds the weather is always beautiful and there is always sun shining up there. In our souls we have sunshine and sometimes we struggle to access it because we're in a storm and it is dark, cold and its rainy, snowy and it is cloudy. It feels like it is always going to be winter. But when we remember the truth - the truth is objectively that the sun is shining. It's just the weather and the weather always changes.

And so If we can hold on to the hope that the sun is shining somewhere and it can be accessed. It may not be easy. Sometimes it takes time for the weather to change - BUT IT ALWAYS DOES. She said if we could learn to have some gratitude - she would not wish what she went through on anyone, but it has led her to where she is being used by God to help so many other people. So to try to have gratitude although at times the journey may be uncomfortable and painful - because God does not waste our pain!

Life truly is a journey she says and we are not going to enjoy every aspect of the journey. It is like taking a massive road trip that covers the entire span of your life. Sometimes you are going to travel through deserts you may not like it - it might be hot and dry. Other times you are going to be going through storms and you'll be in landscapes that feel uncomfortable, that might feel threatening, scary, just really not what you would have wanted at that point.

But the fact is that we are guided and when we come to that place of surrendering to our guide and knowing that God is in control of this - that the battle has already been won - that the healing has already been accomplished. We are just kind of - just catching up. Just having that kind of background knowledge. It may not seem real when you are traveling through various places that you really struggle with. Having that kind of background thought of - you know - it is OK not because of what I am experiencing, but WHO I am experiencing it with.

Coming to that place of trust and surrender, to her personally, has been - ESSENTIAL. It is not this one time place of surrender where now it is done forever, but for her it happens hundreds of times a day - sometimes. It is going from that place of control and fear and resistance to the landscape and resistance to what is happening in reality. To saying, well, how is God going to work this out for my good - kind of a place of curiosity - rather than resistance. She chooses to believe that God is going to figure this all out and it is going to become something beautiful - right now she can't see it. And being OK with that even when you are not because it is OK to not be OK at times as well.

Episode 6: Finding the Gift in Depression and Addictions- Changing Your Perspective - Part 1

05/05/2024

The devil told him the lie that he tells so many people today. He told him that he had gone too far and that there was no way that God would want him!

BUT someone else told him the truth the devil does not want told! It does not matter what you have done. It does not matter how far you have gone. It does not matter what your reputation is -

GOD STILL LOVES YOU AND GOD'S GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU!

HE FINALLY SURRENDERED AND RETURNED TO GOD!

IN TIME he started a ministry called the "Revelation of Love" which is based on the love, grace and mercy that God showed him when he walked away from God until he finally surrendered to the Holy Spirit and returned to the God of his childhood.

TODAY, Evangelist David Machado is married with a child of his own and he and his wife lead out in the "Revelation of Love" ministry - seeking to be used by God to show and tell as many others as possible about the amazing and miraculous love of God!

"A Generation Arose": Episode 2 of "The Awakening"Are we in danger of a generation arising that does not know the Lord?

04/30/2024

It is said the Lord had to get him. He was born into a happy Christian home, but his god was not Jesus Christ. His dream was to become a professional basketball player and he even slept with a basketball every night. He wanted fame and he wanted fortune. At the age of six his parents got divorced and his world fell apart and his life became a living nightmare. He, his mother and siblings started moving around sleeping on the floors and couches of relatives who had been raised as Christians, but had rebelled against God and some were using drugs, angry and violent. God delivered him and his mother and siblings from being attacked by his violent drug using uncle several times. God saved him from being kidnapped by a stranger.

These experiences left him afraid of his family and the world and he was very unhappy and did not want to live in this miserable existence. His father noticed how miserable he was and gave him a Bible which he would not read until 10 years later. His cousins forced him to watch p**n at the age of 13 and he became addicted and would remain so until many years later. Despite his father sending him to a Christian high school, after excelling in playing basketball and feeling let down and empty because in time people no longer acknowledged his skillful playing ability, he started going to clubs, hanging out with the wrong crowd and gangs. He was about to be arrested for a felony and was facing jail time, BUT GOD INTERVENED.

Despite this he still did not learn, continued hanging out with the wrong crowd and was empty- UNTIL . . . .

"A Generation Arose" : Episode 2 of "The Awakening." Are we in danger of a generation arising that does not know the Lord?

Episode 2: A Generation Arose

"A Generation Arose": Episode 2 of "The Awakening"Are we in danger of a generation arising that does not know the Lord?

02/18/2024

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