You literally have many instances of what pulled
you away from God, and yet he still restored
your eyesight. Yeah, that's what I said. What
the heck is this all about? I think he's trying
to let you know that he does want a relationship
with you and that he doesn't blame you for the
thought processes that you're on, that he doesn't
look at you and he's not looking at you with
condemnation. He really, really wants a relationship
with you. Hey there, welcome to the God's Goodness
podcast. We are your host, Josh and Shelly Hankins,
and we're here to share real stories of God's
power, stories of hope, healing, and miracles
that will strengthen your faith. No matter what
you're walking through, we want to remind you
that God is good and he's still moving today.
Let's dive in. Hey friends, welcome back to the
God's Goodness podcast where we spotlight modern
-day miracles and the incredible ways God shows
up, big and small. We're your hosts, Shelly and
Josh Hankins, and today's episode is especially
close to our hearts because today's guest isn't
just any guest. He's Josh's dad, Danny Hankins,
and the story he shares is one that continues
to leave even doctors speechless. For years,
we prayed for Danny's healing. He's faced lifelong
health struggles from a heart defect to birth
complications from his time in Vietnam. We lifted
up so many specific prayers over the years, but
the miracle that came, it wasn't one we ever
thought to ask for. In this episode, you'll hear
Danny's firsthand account of that morning, the
moment he realized he could suddenly see. the
dream he had soon after, and how this miracle
became something undeniable, unexplainable, something
only God could do. It's a story of restoration,
of unexpected answers, and of a God who sees
the whole picture, even when we don't. So settle
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needs hope today. Let's make God the star of
the story, like he always is. So we're going
to have josh open this episode with prayer and
then we'll get into it heavenly father We invite
you into this space right now We thank you for
this opportunity to speak with my father and
we ask that That nothing is laid bare that we
are able to have a conversation that brings you
glory in jesus mighty name amen So before we
jump into danny's story, we want to take you
back to a time when our prayers for him were
Constant and very specific we were praying for
things like So my dad has a lot of health issues
and Not when he was younger, obviously was very
healthy and strong and just you know your typical
father But as he got older due to complications
from Vietnam Agent Orange things like that. He
developed Parkinson's he had bad knees hit crushed
discs in his back from loading bombs He had angina
attacks a few times when I was a kid only to
find out later through catheterization or getting
a heart cath done that he had infant size arteries
in his heart. And so he gets high blood pressure,
not because of cholesterol or junk, you know,
filling up his arteries, but because they're
literally just infant size and they're not pushing
enough blood. They're not big enough to accommodate
an adult. He's got sleep apnea. I mean, we prayed
for him on specifically so many different things.
And we really just wanted him to have a miracle
with this because he wasn't having the quality
of life that we thought he should have, right?
From our standpoint. At no point did I even consider
praying for his eyesight. At no point. Because
he's always had glasses my entire life. I never
saw him as anything other. I never thought that
was a problem for him, right? Because he was
my dad. He's always been my dad with glasses.
He's never been my dad without glasses. That's
who he is. Right? And so... I'm looking at all
these things that I think are impacting his life.
I never once did I consider his eyesight because
that's just who he is. I've only ever known him
with poor vision. I've only ever known that if
he took his glasses off, I could put up fingers
in front of his face and he would not know how
many I was putting up. Then we finally decided
to switch things up, and we decided to just pray.
God, do something in His life. Show up in a way
that can't be denied. It just has to be explained
that only God did it. And God did it. We didn't
know when it was going to happen, but it sure
showed up. So Danny, take us back to that moment,
that morning when you woke up and you were like
Spider -Man, so to speak. Well, it was September
16th, 2016. It was a Saturday. Well, you could
know I've been blind all my life. In 1965, I
set the Little League record in San Diego for
being hit by pitched balls. Everybody thought
I was courageous, but actually I couldn't see
the darn thing until it hit me. And so I got
walked more than anybody else in the county.
So I was blind. And then a smart teacher realized
that the reason I sat up front was so I could
figure out what was on the blackboard. And she
had, the nurse had me tested, and they found
out, hey, you're 2 ,400 in each eye. That's pretty
bad. And so on September 16, 2016, I woke up.
And before I got out of bed, anybody that wears
glasses will tell you I put my glasses on to
see what time it was, and I couldn't sleep. It
was too blurry, and I thought they were dirty.
So I got dressed. I got up, and the TV was already
on. Laurie let me sleep in. And I sat down on
the couch and I started cleaning my glasses with
the supplies there and watching TV. And then
it dawned on me. I'm watching TV. I could see
the screen and it was like, what the heck? So
I put my glasses on and now I can't see. So it
was really strange. So I kind of went outside
and you know, I could see the trees around my
house. You know, I could see the dog in the yard
down the block. It was the most amazing thing
without my glasses. I Took a shower that day
and for the first time I saw my toes in the shower
It was just the most amazing thing even with
your glasses Wasn't your eyesight a bit limited
like you still had a hard time making things
out far away Yeah, the glasses didn't work very
well nor could I read I had bifocals huge bifocals
so and astigmatism It was just real. I couldn't
see anything at any distance And all of a sudden
I'm reading now really tiny print Without glasses
without bifocals at my age, you know, I'm 71
At my age, that's very unusual that you know
people my age can read because your lens hardens
up with age, you know, I Guess you'd say the
great designer decided to make us our parts go
bad. So we'll be glad to leave Maybe I'm learning
more and more that as your age The idea of passing
on and going to your maker doesn't seem that
bad, you know, yeah It'd be nice if everything
worked again, you know Or period ever worked
right right like in the case of your arteries
in the heart Yeah, well that was weird because
I started having terrible chest pains in my 30s.
And they didn't know what it was. They did the
treadmill test and it was like, well, we don't
see anything. And then this doctor named Tulio
Estrada, a Colombian heart doctor, had a catheterization
and he went in there and said, oh my, the heart
vessels on the, the blood vessels on the back
of your heart did not grow. You know, they're
still infant sized. And that's why when you get
all upset and your muscles, your veins tighten
up, start getting heart problems. He said it's
probably because my mom smoked when she had me.
So if you're out there and you're having a baby,
don't smoke. Sound advice. And don't drink alcohol
either. I don't know if anybody needs to hear
this, but that's bad too. You know, you should
take care of your baby like you're directly feeding
it. Yeah, your body is your temple. That's right.
It is at least for nine months You know you owe
that baby that But yeah now I see clearly, you
know, I always wanted to be a pilot. I got my
pilot's license when I was 18 and You know, I
couldn't see so the Air Force wouldn't let me
fly Now they wouldn't let me have a window seat
It's true I was a gunner on an 80 130 I didn't
get to see outside. All I did was keep the gun
loaded. I had no idea what we were doing. Or
even if it was daylight yet. That's the beauty
of the military. They just say do it and you
do it. You don't have to know everything. Well,
in your job, you would go out to sea for three
months. You wouldn't even come up to the surface.
That's true, yeah. You got to be a little black
hole in the ocean. It was nice. It was cozy,
comfy. Not to me, that sounds awful. I wasn't
expecting this. A four -day headache had me desperate.
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back to more of God's goodness. So back to the
eyesight thing. Didn't you go to the doctor and
say, hey, what's going on here? I have been to
Johns Hopkins. I've been to Inova. I've been
to several doctors. Nobody has a clue what happened
to me. And if you looked in the literature, it's
very, very rare. I've only found one instance.
And they've speculated, well, maybe your blood
sugar. Well, my blood sugar is controlled by
insulin. You know, it doesn't change that much.
I have a pretty good grip on it. So I don't understand
what happened. You know, it's some kind of miracle.
It's almost like there was some guy with a magic
wand that just said, ooh, tink. And then I had
a dream a week later. And in this dream, the
guy in the voice said, would you trade? a wonderful
gift for money for a lot of money and I said
in my dream no and I woke up and I got fired
from my six -figure job for no reason yeah but
you could still see I could still see it Laurie
said no more deals for you in your sleep you
know it's it to me it's it's so profound because
how important was it like you said that you know
you were Looking out of your office window. You
told me and that you could see birds that you
didn't even know were out there Oh my gosh, it's
so wonderful Every morning I go out and sit on
the porch with the dog out in the yard running
around You know where I live out in the country.
Mm -hmm, and I see so much that I didn't even
know existed before From that house, you know,
I have wild turkeys running across the field
and deer and foxes And you know raccoons. I see
all these critters running around that I did
not know existed bald eagles right over my house
Even with my old glasses. I would have never
spotted it that it was a bald eagle You know,
it's too high up. I wouldn't have been able to
make out the the color differences between the
head and the body Mm -hmm But you know, you don't
realize what a blessing having 20 20 vision is
do you grow up without it? and You know, at first
when I got it, it was like, oh, thanks. I can
see now, now that I can't have a pilot career.
But who knows? Maybe if I'd have been a pilot,
maybe the plane would have crashed. I sure cleaned
up enough crashes in my life. I'm sure. Oh, yeah.
That used to be my job. Yeah, we had discussions
before about things that you had to do in the
Air Force and service with downed airplanes and
such and I know that you had issues in the past
with God because of said encounters with crashed
airplanes Well, look it up April 5th 1975 Operation
babylift C5A crashed shortly after takeoff with
300 babies on board and the pilots even though
they had no control of the tail, managed to get
it down in a rice paddy, where they and half
of the babies lived. And I got tasked with some
of the other guys are cleaning that mess up.
And I've had nightmares almost every night for
50 years because of that. I mean, I told the
captain in the Air Force psychiatrist what I
did. I broke him. I haven't told anybody since
when all but drawn because. It's the most horrible
thing you can imagine. You can't imagine How
are you with they haven't made a movie that's
that bad? They just can't get it. How old are
you in that year? I was 20. I turned 21 a few
weeks later. You weren't even old enough to drink.
Oh No, and you were and you were and you were
picking up infants out of rice paddies half burnt
fully burnt They were still in the plane And
the live ones, most of the live ones were okay.
There were some burned ones that I don't know
what happened to them. I know most of them didn't
make it. Because we had to wade through water
up to my chest and spots to get them up on the
bank where the trucks could haul them out. And
then we started picking up the babies and I found
a nurse that didn't make it. My best friend didn't
make it. In fact, I gotta go to the wall in D
.C. again. I'm gonna... touch his name one more
time. Now you mentioned a nurse. You told me
of an encounter with someone that knew her. Could
you tell me that story again? Laurie's worked
with a lady named Eva at the water company where
she's hired from and Eva's mother was a nurse
on that flight and I know that's who I found.
I couldn't tell because of the burns, you know,
she wasn't recognizable but it was a Caucasian
nurse that died. Think she was the only American
nurse that did she was with the babies when they
crashed Which you know they had oh Five six minutes
before they hit the ground To get their prayers
out of the way and get ready So she was with
the babies When they died and that was pretty
yeah, I thought she deserved a medal mm -hmm
Did Eva get any kind of closure out of knowing?
the two situations, you know, she didn't say
she did and I didn't describe how I found her
mom You know because it's not something you want
to hear. No, no, not not any time afterwards
But I did tell her I thought she was a hero mm
-hmm because I mean instead of screaming or crying
or going in a corner or Trying to find someplace
where maybe if the crash wouldn't kill her she
stayed right there in the belly of that beast
with those babies they were all in these little
boxes these little bassinets that they had them
strapped down in and most of them stayed in the
boxes which was pretty good it hit pretty even
it broke into four big pieces you know it wasn't
bad at all really it was upright the fire was
out it was out by the time i got there So it
was pretty nice It says those things go Yeah,
well, yeah, I've been in worst crash cleanups
Where it wasn't as nice, you know would take
us days to find the crew Because they were pretty
well scattered out and we'd end up burying them
together because we couldn't differentiate and
you know, it's sad But I guess closure for the
families that we find their human remains You
know, there's no doubt that You know little johnny's
didn't make it. What was your relationship? With
god at the time like building up that way. I
had no use I had no use for a god that would
kill babies like that I mean snuff them out,
you know right there snap you're gone. That's
one thing but to burn them Where they were alive
and feeling pain. I don't know really upset me
Did you grow up in a church? Yeah, my family
were dunkers Was that Baptist? Yeah. But there's
this big baptismal font up on the stage behind
the preacher. But other than going to big people
church, they dropped me and my sisters off at
Sunday school, a little white building next to
the church. And I would take each one of them
to their Sunday school class. And then mine was
the last one. Only I would go right out the back
doors, and I'd put a nickel in the Coke machine
on the back porch. And I'd go take it down to
the creek. I had a little fishing pole with a
rod with a line on it and a hook. And I'd try
to find a worm and I'd fish. And when the big
people bell went off, the big people church was
over, I'd race back, go through the back north,
put my bottle in the caddy and round up my sister.
So I've actually never been to Sunday school.
Although my parents went to their graves thinking
that I was a devious little boy. who went every
Sunday. I did not. So you had a concept of what,
you know, adults considered who God was. Oh,
yeah. So you knew enough to know that he was
able to save, and he didn't, and so you were
angry with him. Oh, yeah. I grew up believing
God was an invisible old man with a beard that
could read your mind and would do anything you
needed, you know? Mm -hmm. I had positive vibes
until I grew up and then the idea of it was like
I don't think so Mm -hmm. If I was God first
of all fish would taste better Okay How hard
was it to reconcile getting your eyesight back
then? No explanation, right? Why would God fix
my eyes when I'm 63? Mm -hmm You know, especially
for how you felt about him. Yeah, why do me any
favors? You know, no, I mean I get it. I understand
that that's a very strange concept. Well, one
of the preachers that that because I used to
sing in a choir just to get out of detail work
on Saturdays. And I talked to a preacher about
that. And he said, well, you can't know the plan.
There's no way that nobody is going to tell the
little pieces in the plan with their part is.
So, just shut up. Deal with it. That's his way
of saying, I don't really understand it either.
Yeah, God's ways are higher than ours. I don't
know, okay? The Christian God is beyond me. I
can't figure him out. Well, he's got you pretty
well figured out because we didn't know what
to pray for you. And it seems that he gave you
the one thing that you desperately like love,
like the one thing that you love, the one thing
that you enjoy the most. Well... Now I've got
all this these things throughout my body and
yet none of them have killed me Not done with
your story yet. Yeah, how many times how many
times you've had cancerous stuff on, you know
Half a dozen my entire internal organs are full
of cysts Including I got one of my pancreas now.
I just had it looked at it still hasn't changed
But if it ever grows then I'm done But I've already
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to that, you have diabetes. I have Parkinson's.
Let's see, what's the other big one? I got tinnitus.
You know, too many jets and guns. Right. I didn't
actually, you know, people think I'm ignoring
them. I'm not ignoring you. I can't hear you.
over the roar in my ears all the time. You know,
the screech. It sounds like cicadas most of the
time. Well, that's unfortunate. Yeah, it's been
like that for 50 years. I don't even notice it.
Well, I was going to mention that diabetes, sometimes
they say you can lose your eyesight with diabetes,
but it can come back if you treat your diabetes
or manage your diabetes. Did you think at first
or at some point that maybe your diabetes was
the reason you got your vision back? That's what
everybody thinks. But the case literature says
I did it the exact opposite of how it happens.
Right. I mean, wouldn't diabetes have to be the
thing that hurt your eyes for it to be able to
fix it? Exactly. Exactly that. And then when
you correct it and get your sugar under control,
your A1C, it gets better. But I was born this
way. Now, I have memories when I was four or
five in Key West of being able to see the ships
out at sea. So my eyes weren't as bad But they
were I had to be a bad a little bit, you know
every every few years I got new glasses that
were even stronger so I started out probably
pretty weak, but I have memories of being able
to see as a toddler and Things didn't look as
blurry as they did when I got older So but I
always couldn't see I never could and my sugar
was always good Which is good. I'm very glad
to hear that. Yeah, I did not have diabetes then.
The Agent Orange caused it. Oh, I believe that.
I believe Agent Orange caused a lot of health
issues for you, including the Parkinson's and
the cancers and not the cysts throughout your
body. This nurse lady told me that there was
a thing called metabolic syndrome that men my
age get. And what happens is as you go through
middle age, you get heavier and heavier. And
if you're not careful, you develop diabetes.
Well, my group, the cadre I'm in, we got diabetes
while we were still young, thin, and in shape.
And the medicine and the insulin that they give
us caused us to gain weight. And then fortunately
for me, the Parkinson's came in, I lost 40 pounds,
and I haven't gained it back. That's what I was
thinking, how fortunate. Yeah, oh yeah, it's
so fortunate. Where do you stand in your belief
in God now? Like I'm not saying are you a church
going, raising your hands up in the air with
your, you know, singing gospel songs, but you
know, you went from being mad at him to trying
to understand that he actually loves you. All
I understand is this. To tell me that human beings
grew from one cell to animals that developed
in an ocean and crawled out on land is about
as likely as me finding randomly in a sandbank
a complete transistor radio that built itself
for no reason. That's ridiculous, okay? Do I
think there's the kind of God that's like a ruler
over earth? No. And I don't think that whatever
God is, we have the ability to understand Him.
That's true. Because we are not on that level.
We are not equals. So to go around and say, oh,
I know God, I know God's word. No, you don't.
You know, just a little tiny bit of what got
leaked to you. You don't know anything. I mean,
how could God make Chinese people and English
people at the same time? What was the thought
process? Why not make people all speak the same
language? Well, he tried that. That's in the
Bible. They got a little bit too proud and too
big for their britches and thought they were
better than God. And so he scattered them. Yeah.
That's one explanation. I think that's people
anthropomizing the story. I mean, I don't know
what the truth is. And I think that for us to
imagine that somebody who can create all this
is understandable to us is ridiculous. It's like
ants trying to understand humans. You know? Sure.
All they know from us is a bigfoot that comes
and squashes them from time to time. And a giant
that leaves food out. That supplies them with
their needs. But that's all they know about humans.
They don't understand us at all. We are way more
complex than giant feet and food. You know? I
think that's how we are with God. To say, you've
got a grip on God? No, you don't. There's no
way that you could. You know whatever God wants
you to know. And that's all you get. You know,
I'm actually really proud of you from where you
started to where you are now. I know that you're
not fully, you know, a Bible thumping believer
of Jesus. Not a Christian. But where you started
from, you know, when I became a Christian, I
was afraid to tell you because I didn't want
you to call me a Christian Nazi like you would
call other people. Well, you know, a lot of Christians
are not Christians in their beliefs, at least
in their behavior. We are fully aware. Yeah.
And I also am very aware and cognizant of the
fact that most people judge God based off of
those Christians. That's right. Well, why not?
He's aware of it too. And those people are going
to get judged accordingly. I mean, like the Catholics.
How the hell can you be a Catholic priest and
molest a little boy? Oh, it's deeper than that,
right? So Catholics, they believe in purgatory.
And so you have this place where you go and because
you're not good enough, like you can, you know,
you got to serve another 200 years in purgatory
before you can make it to heaven, right? So you're
saying that Jesus paid it in full, but not to
Catholics. He only put a down payment on and
you got to pay the rest yourself. No, no. Purgatory
was invented by 14th century nobles. as a way
to get money for the church, because you could
buy your way out of purgatory. They said, yeah,
you're going to go to purgatory. It didn't happen,
but it ain't how. You get a chance to improve
yourself. But if you want to spend less time
in there, give the church 400 guilders and we'll
cut that time to zero. You go straight to God.
And that's what they were doing that purgatory
is a bunch of crap. Yeah, we're aware. Yeah Now
that they've done it for five six hundred years
they can't get out of it They can't say oh we
were just kidding. No that no work. I was reminded
of the this Gospel winning script and one of
the things that it talks about is how you can
get to heaven and it's you know for all have
sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
And for the wages of sin is death, but the gift
of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our
Lord." And the Bible also reads, for whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be
saved. And you're a whosoever, right? So, of
course, we all are. And so, you know, you can
walk someone through this quick prayer and then
they can accept Jesus into their heart. and because
you know the question is do you know beyond the
shadow of a doubt that if you were to die today
that you would go to heaven and one of those
ways to get into heaven is to accept jesus into
your heart so i i don't know i was just reminded
of that uh i don't know you know what the thing
that gives me solace is that no matter what heinous
thing is done to you on earth you are supposed
to forgive the person that did it to you Yes,
forgiveness. That's right. So I figure no matter
what heinous things I've done, God will forgive
me for it later. So I don't actually believe
in hell. I mean, you're going to have to acknowledge,
I guess, that I screwed up. I did bad things.
I'm sorry. But other than that, I don't think
you get tortured or any of that. I truly don't
know how truly evil people, you know, like that
John Wayne Gacy guy, I don't know how they rate.
I'm thinking they're demons. You know, they're
on the other side. That's the other thing. You
know, we got you on your podcast. I just ran
into a bunch of Satanists online the other day.
Satanists, real people believing in Satan. I
said, wait a minute. You truly believe that there's
an evil prince of darkness and you're on his
side. Yeah. Well, that means you acknowledge
an all -powerful God, too, right? The one that
made Satan. How can you be against him? It's
so crazy. I understand not believing. You know,
I do. Do you believe in God? That's one thing.
But to believe in Satan and choose his side.
Instead of God, I just boggles my mind. When
you get the hell that Satan's gonna say, oh,
hey, one of the good guys here. You get over
there in that mansion I prepared for you. That's
not how this works. Satanism doesn't present
as anti -God. It presents as pro -self. Satanism
presents that you make your own choices, you're
God of your own life, that you create your own
story and your own afterlife. And it's appealing
to people because nobody can tell me what to
do. And as far as hell goes, nowhere in the Bible
does it say there's demons in hell torturing
you. That's made up. Nowhere in the entire Bible
does it say that. Jesus mentions Kihanna twice,
the lake of fire, but most of the times that
you see hell, it's literally translated from
the word sheol, which literally means the grave.
That everyone goes to the grave. Everyone goes
to hell, which is the grave. And we believe that
hell is just eternal separation from God. If
you didn't want him in this life, why would he
make you suffer with him for eternity? I'm actually,
again, I'm very proud of the progress that you've
made from calling out Christian Nazis to at least
not calling me one. Don't call them out. At least
not calling me one. Yeah, no, I appreciate that.
Of course not. That's not the same thing. You
know, I lost a job in Newcastle once because
the the manager had to cut somebody, lay people
off. And he decided since I didn't go to his
church, I could be the one that got laid off
instead of the new kid he hired from his church.
So we literally had a guy been there just a few
weeks and they laid me off because I wasn't in
his church. When I was a junior in high school,
I think it was, we were renting a house from
a pastor in Joplin, Missouri. And he evicted
us. a week and a half before christmas and i
thought well that's not very christian is it
no and this is a pastor that drove a big brown
Cadillac i was his paper boy he dressed really
nice smoked a cigar and he evicted us a lot a
week and a half before christmas it was the most
weird thing i ever saw you know we're trying
to scramble for christmas presents you know for
my sisters and We don't have any money for a
first and last to get a new place We had to borrow
from everybody to get a house So we have somewhere
to live or we'd have been on the streets in the
middle of winter lot of negative interactions
with I Mean there's there's I mean you literally
have many instances of what pulled you away from
God and Yet, he still restored your eyesight
Yeah, that's what I said. What the heck is this
all about? I think I think he's trying to let
you know that he does want a relationship with
you in that he doesn't blame you for the thought
processes that you're on that he doesn't look
at you and he's not looking at you with with
condemnation like he really really wants a relationship
with you which is done through Jesus because
God is incomprehensible as you aforementioned
But Jesus was born on earth so that He could
comprehend us and we could comprehend Him. That's
a good explanation. I like that. You're welcome.
Yeah. Yeah, that's why God's in three parts.
He's got His all -powerful standing outside of
time and space, existing in the past, present
and future, and He's got Jesus that we can actually
have a face -to -face with and have a human side
that we can understand. Well, then I want another
Jesus sent right now. Well, He's coming, but
that's going to be at the end. You can still
have relationship with Him. which is the point
and again I'm really proud that you've gone as
far as you have despite the adversity that God
doesn't blame you that he wants a relationship
with you he's not looking at a way to point fingers
he's not looking at you he's literally he understands
why you're mad at him he understands all of that
like he like we don't get him but he gets us
and I'm so glad that you shared your story with
us well I'm glad you're glad son I know that
it's easy for us, you and me, people like us,
to share things that make us vulnerable sometimes.
But I know that some of your past, like having
the nightmares and the things like that, weren't
easy for you to share at first. And thank you
for sharing them with us and our listeners. Your
broadcast does well. Thank you. We'll have some
more things to lift up in prayer and keep the
listeners posted. Well, even Buddhists think
what you're doing is a good thing Are you saying
that because you're coming from the standpoint
of a Buddhist? Well, yeah, but no When you try
to approach people's articles of faith You're
trying to appeal to their betters part of their
and that's just a good thing to do To remind
people of that. There's more than just themselves
in this life. Mm -hmm And that's really a good
thing to do in any faith is to remind them that
this isn't it. You know, I think that's what
leads to evil is people think, well, there's
no God, there's no heaven. When I die, it's over.
Everything just blacks out and I'll never be
again. No one will care about me in a hundred
years, you know, or 10. And so they can excuse
any behavior they want because it doesn't matter.
You know, there's no afterlife and I think that's
the essence of evil in the world is People who
have no faith in anything beyond themselves.
Mm -hmm The same people that follow laws because
there's consequences That's it. The only reason
they don't do more is because The society will
get them and punish them So what you all are
doing by reminding people of faith that there's
something beyond this Whatever your condition
is right now in life, it gets better. You know,
it gets better. Promise that's the promise of
the rainbow. That things get better. You are
so odd to me because sometimes you just profound
to get it and then other times it sounds like
you don't. Maybe I get it and you don't. That
really be one on me, but sure. Yeah, well, it's
a good thing, but you see it. You see it around
you. How could that person do that to that child?
Because there are no consequences in their mind.
You know? That's how people are evil. That's
the essence of evil. Now, my friends are telling
me there are demons among us and that you can
see it in their eyes. You know, they turn black.
And they just looked evil and I think hey, I
don't know but maybe I don't know I haven't I
don't know the rules It's not like I came with
the book of truth that I could defend on or understand.
I mean, but there is one Yeah, but the KJV It's
so hard to read you can use the new King James.
It's a little easier when I was young very young
like grade school, I was reading the Bible and
I started out the very first sentence in Genesis.
I'm like, okay, what's a begat? Oh, right. Yeah.
Yeah. No, it gets there's there's lots of things
in there that I'm like, you're back and forth
with the dictionary often because we don't speak
old English. I know, I know. Thank you so much
for coming on and sharing your story and the
miracle that God showed up. And we just can't
wait to see what else He does because you're
still here. And so that means He's not done with
you yet. So you're just like, you're this, I
wouldn't say a blank slate, but you're just like
this clay and then He can just do so much with.
Remold you. Yeah. and he can just make you new.
Thank you so much, Danny, for coming on and we'll
keep the listeners up to date on any new miracles
that come about. You know, my dad wonders why
he was healed. He wonders why a God that he has
hated, a God that he has pointed fingers at,
a God that he believes exists or something sort
of. He knows that evolution is a nutty idea.
There has to be a creator. And he has struggled
with... why God would just arbitrarily pick his
name out of the hat and say, I'm going to heal
your eyes today. And he doesn't understand the
power of intercessory prayer. He doesn't understand
it. It wasn't just because God loves me and my
wife that he decided to heal my dad. It's because
my wife and I prayed for him. And we prayed for
him for all these different things. And not once
did we pray for his eyesight, but God knew. He
says, I am going to answer your prayer because
I know what's most important to you. that's why
my dad's eyes were healed not because of anything
he did but because my God is a great big God
and he wants a relationship with my dad he wants
to reconcile the relationship that was broken
by other believers that misrepresented him this
my dad the story of my dad this is a man who
has been broken by the church by people in the
church this is a man who didn't understand the
importance or the value of Jesus and has seen
the followers of Jesus. He's seen, you know,
pastors doing wrong, people in the name of Jesus
doing wrong. And as Christians, we understand,
even the Bible says so, that people will make
God look bad, that people's actions that others
are judging God based off of what we do as Christians.
And my dad has lived a whole life of judging
God based off of Christians, that this is a God
he wanted no part of because of the actions of
believers. And I think it's important for us
to guard our faith, guard how we respond. to
non -believers because when we attack and we
threaten with hell and we threaten with, you
know, you were living in a world of sin, like,
well, they are because they don't accept Jesus.
It's their world. That there's no pull for them
to come to know Christ. That they, like my father,
he's angry at God, angry at him for what he has
seen God do through God's children. and that
he had a hard time. He's still have a hard time
reconciling that God loves him so much that he
would restore his eyesight. He's having a hard
time that God doesn't blame him for the years
of my dad hating him. And this is just a story
along that way of how he was hurt and the things
that he has done and just how much God loves
him. Thanks for tuning in to today's episode.
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