Gratitude:UnFiltered w/ House of Hilkiah Foundation in Nigeria
By: Joshua T Berglan
Tags: Nigeria, Live Mana Worldwide, Multimedia Storytelling

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Joshua T Berglan

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What’s up everybody. This is gratitude unfiltered, and you guys are in for a treat today. We are being simulcast and Nigeria. I am really, really excited today. And to be honest with you, I am freaking nervous. I am so nervous because to be honest, I don’t think I’ve ever done anything like this, not the simulcasts, because let’s face it. We’ve done almost 400 episodes of either morning gratitude or gratitude, unfiltered word of God. Church presents gratitude, unfiltered the testimony series. The fact is I’m not nervous about being on camera. I’m nervous about the opportunity that I have today that we have.

Joshua T Berglan

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And so this is, this is how it’s going to go down. You’re going to hear parts of my testimony and also everybody in Nigeria right now, you want to connect your camera? It’s saying the device is not connected. So go ahead and do that. I can see you behind the scenes here, but you know, any opportunity to share your testimony, share your heart, but then also be able to get direct feedback from the audience you’re speaking to is a lot of fun. Obviously with COVID, we’ve have some restrictions on being able to meet and gather in the same location, but today is, is going to be special because I’m hoping, and I pray that the people that we’re speaking to the kids and the age group, I think is from 13 to 22, I pray that that, that they’re inspired to come up and share a little bit of their heart and their circumstances.

Joshua T Berglan

00:02:50

You know, it’s really, really easy. I think for us when we are, when we’re going through our own crap, no matter where we’re at and of there’s people watching all over the world right now, and I’m so blessed that you’re here, but it’s, we w w where we grow up our environment, you know, it shapes us. And of course in America, we don’t really understand what it’s like in Africa, unless if we’ve lived there or been there or grew up there, we deal with different things. And so I guess what I’m nervous about is the fact that, you know, I want the message to resonate.

Joshua T Berglan

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And sometimes there’s a little bit of insecurity with that, because frankly, we don’t know. I don’t know, but I’m excited to talk to them. So what that said, I don’t know if they’re on the screen, the guests will need to connect their micro cam to add to the stream. So let me make sure she’s doing this. Got to love this. We were working earlier when we tested it. Okay. Yes. I need you to, and I need you to connect your camera like before this is fun.

Joshua T Berglan

00:04:15

I don’t want to start talking until that they’re on. So a little bit again, what we’re going to go into. I’m going to share my testimony and then we’re going to, I love live. I’m going to share my testimony. And then also I want to get feedback from the kids. I want to know what it’s like for them there, because I want to understand. And I think that one of the things that we are dealing with, even in our own, and then in the United States here, there’s a lot of people that feel like their voice has been suppressed, or there there’s people that feel like they’ve been held back because people that feel like they’re not being heard.

Joshua T Berglan

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And, and, and because of that, there’s resentment, there’s anger. And there’s people that, and until we start to have compassion for what other people are going through, I don’t think we’re ever going to be able to forgive. And, and forgiving is part of the healing process. But if we don’t understand where someone’s coming from, how are we ever going to have compassion? And so what that really comes down to is listening. So I’m praying with everything in me that we have the opportunity to hear. And the technical difficulties won’t be last too much longer, because I wasn’t prepared to just sit here and talk in circles.

Joshua T Berglan

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Hey, John Richter, good to see you. And of course, it’s always, it’s an interactive broadcast. So you guys feel free to ask questions and do all that just like normal. And again, I cannot connect them at all to bring them on the screen, without them connecting their camera. We are connecting. Okay. Sounds good. So here’s what I’m going to do. Heavenly father, thank you so much for the opportunity to be able to speak today, to share my testimony, to share what you’ve done in my life. There’s so many people out there, Lord, that that just feel like there’s no hope. They feel like because of the situation that they were born into, they feel like because they’ve maybe have a criminal record or because they were abused because they have a mental illness because they don’t have any money.

Joshua T Berglan

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They’re poor, they’re homeless, they’re sick. They’re a drug addict. They feel like there’s no hope. And father, I pray that you give me the words to say the truth, my testimony, the full truth, allow it to flow out of me and just to speak to your goodness and the fact that no matter what it is that I’ve done, no matter what it is that the audience has done, that it’s never too late. It’s never too late to turn their life around and to, and to live the life of purpose that you have all created a sport Lord, speak through me. And again, just, I pray that the audience has an open heart and open mind to hearing your truth and to hear your redemption, your redemption power, your, your ability to restore your ability, your ability to, to, to transform your, your ability to pull us out of the grave and give us new life to live the life that you’ve called us to live.

Joshua T Berglan

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Father God, I surrender this broadcast to you. And I just pray that again, that you give me the words that I need to say to resonate and have the biggest impact in jesus’ name. Amen. All right,

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Ladies and gentlemen, weigh in Nigeria, are you guys doing, can you hear me? Oh my gosh. Now I have chills. I’m sweating

Joshua T Berglan

00:08:13

Now that I’m so nervous So much for being here. And I, and I, this means a lot to me to have the opportunity. I’ve, I’ve had the opportunity to speak to adults and every time I’ve spoken and I’ve never had the opportunity to speak to the people that I really want to talk to. And the reason why I want to talk to you is because I don’t know what your situation’s like. I don’t know what your circumstances are, but I do remember what it was like to be a kid. And I remember what it was like to be a kid and feel like there was no hope and To feel like I didn’t belong.

Joshua T Berglan

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And I didn’t. And I was confused about the things that were happening to me. And I didn’t like it didn’t make sense to me. And I thought, well, why, why in the world would God create me to, to, for my life to be this way? Have you guys ever felt that way? Like what? Like, why am I here? Have you ever felt that way before? Well, I, I want to tell you right now, before I get started in this, that God has a plan for each and every one of you and God created you for a very special reason. And you have an extraordinary purpose.

Joshua T Berglan

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You guys believe that you have an extraordinary purpose, so cool. I’m going to cry my eyes out. Okay. So I don’t even know how to start with this. So when I was about your age, I was seven years old. I grew up in a home. I, my, my parents were very successful. I grew up in a life that most people, I think wish that they could have had. I had privilege. We, I lived in a nice home. I had food to eat. I had clean water. I had a mom that loved me.

Joshua T Berglan

00:10:21

I had a father that tried to love me the best he could and you know, and I, and everything on the surface of our life was picture perfect. And I’m sure you guys have seen on TV, or you’ve seen pictures of, of like, you know, happy families and what a happy family is supposed to look like. Well, we were that family on the surface, the pictures that were shown, everything was happy, but inside there was turmoil inside, there was pain. The pain that was hidden because I w when I was, when I was seven years old, my sisters who were the closest thing in the world to me left, and they disappeared in my seven year old mind, my sisters vanished.

Joshua T Berglan

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And I thought that they left because of me. I thought I did something to make my sisters not love me. And they left. And then shortly after that, the physical abuse started to happen in my life. It was physically abused and then sexually molested by men and women have any of you there. And whether you want to say it or not, you don’t have to, but if you’ve ever, have you ever been hurt by someone you love? No. Okay. That’s good. So, no one’s been hurt. That was crickets.

Joshua T Berglan

00:11:50

Okay. Well, I was hurt by somebody. I loved, I didn’t understand why my father abused me. I didn’t understand why I was molested and, and had had inappropriate things done to me as a child. I had no idea, but what was the hardest part about it was that I was told that anything, if I tell anyone that hurt, if I tell anyone that someone is being inappropriate with me and being sexually inappropriate with me, that bad things were going to happen to me. And so I was scared.

Joshua T Berglan

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I was terrified that if I ever said anything, all of these bad things were going to happen. So I didn’t say a word and all of this sadness and being scared. I kept inside and I didn’t tell anybody. And over the years, as I got older, all of the rage that I felt inside of me, I kept silent and it would come out. And so I started acting out in violence and I started beating up my little brother and, and, and, and beating him up and then starting fights in school and playing sports. It started, you know, just being a bully. And, but I had sports as this outlet that helped me get rid of all of my rage.

Joshua T Berglan

00:13:15

But when sports ended all of the rage and anger that I had had nowhere to go. And so I started abusing drugs and abusing drugs and abusing sex. And a lot of you I’m sure are not, you know, you’re not at that age where you’re doing these things yet. I mean, Lord, I hope not. But the fact is that it does happen, especially when, as a child, that you’re, you’re introduced to a world of, of sex. But when I started using drugs, cocaine, methamphetamine, drinking alcohol at a young age, it became an escape.

Joshua T Berglan

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And I started abusing it to the point that I had been married over three times and wrecked three marriages. I lost my kids, the ability to see my kids. I lost that because of my behavior, because I was an abuser. I went all of that anger from being abused, because I didn’t send me anything because they didn’t tell anybody to get help. I became the person that was hurting me. And so I started hurting other people. I was a horrible father to the point that I have two children that when they were two years old, I had to give them up for adoption because I cared more about having sex and doing drugs with other people.

Joshua T Berglan

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I became bankrupt and lost all of my money and ended up homeless. And I think this is something that may sound familiar to you, but because of my choices of having sex and, and with, I mean, seven sex with everybody, everything doing drugs and having sex irresponsibly, not waiting for somebody that I love not waiting for somebody I cared about. It was with anybody. And because of that, I got HIV. How many of you there know somebody with HIV? Anybody? Do you know somebody in your country with HIV, someone close to you?

Joshua T Berglan

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Yes. Interesting. Okay. Well, my choice gave me HIV and it’s something that I have I get to live with for the rest of my life. I’ve been in jail sick because of the choices I made anger, rage fighting, fighting with my, my girlfriends. And, and, and, and I mean, like I said, became an abuser. I went from being the abused child to becoming the abuser, to becoming a drug addict, to becoming, to becoming a sex addict, to the point that that’s all I cared about.

Joshua T Berglan

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And I lost my soul. I lost hope. I lost the ability to believe that I could do anything that was better than this. And I wanted to die. Every choice that I made was the decision that I’m going to die today, by the choices I make, whether it was subconscious or not. The fact is everything I was doing was to try to like end my life. But in a way that seemed less pathetic. I overdosed on drugs multiple times because I was in so much pain. And here’s the point of this.

Joshua T Berglan

00:17:01

And I’m not going to just keep going over and over and all of the circles over this. But I want to make this part very, very clear. I had many opportunities to turn my life around God. The entire time was with me saying, you don’t need to make that choice. You don’t need to make that choice. You, you, there’s a better life ahead of you. And like, he would show me pictures in my brain of a different life. And I didn’t understand what that was, but it was God talking to me saying, I have plans for you, Joshua. I have planned for you. I have plans for you that are better than this life, this life of pain and misery that you’re living.

Joshua T Berglan

00:17:44

I have a better life for you. If you just choose me, if you choose to trust me, if you choose to believe in me, if you choose to surrender your life to me, I have something better, But I kept running away. I kept running In a way from what God had asked me to do, to call me to do. And it was this better life, but I didn’t believe it. I didn’t trust him. And so I just stayed in my room Misery, my sixth time in jail. I mean, isolation in the psych ward and Los Angeles County. I don’t know if you know where Los Angeles is, but it’s a really big city where a lot of people go to try to make their dreams come true.

Joshua T Berglan

00:18:29

I was, I didn’t go there to make my dreams come through. I went there to run from my life. I was so ashamed of the life that I’ve lived. I was so ashamed that I ran and fled to another city. And then, Then there is where I lost everything. I lost. I lost all of the money that I had. I lost my home and became homeless, ended up in jail for the sixth time. And finally, in that six time, I’m looking at spending five years In prison. And The thing about spending five years in prison for someone like me, I had it easy.

Joshua T Berglan

00:19:09

Yes, I was abused. Yes, I was molested. Yes, I, I had, I didn’t feel that I was good enough. I didn’t feel that I was important. I didn’t feel that I mattered. I felt weird. I felt like I didn’t belong. I felt all those things. But at the same time, I knew like, wow, I grew up with every opportunity in the world to succeed and I failed Miserably. And so I got really pissed off and I started screaming at God, why won’t you change me? Why won’t you fix me? Like everybody else? Because I saw people all around me that they were changing their life and they could get sober and they could live the life that they were supposed to live.

Joshua T Berglan

00:19:56

And here it was me again, ending up in jail, wasting my life and wasting every gift that God gave me. And here’s the thing God gave. Every one of you gifts. Every single one of you, every one of you that are there sitting in that chair, you are special. And you were extraordinary. I hope to God that you know how special you Are. And sometimes It’s really hard to know how special you are when the circumstances around you look so bleak, they look like there was no hope. When everything around you is crime. When everything around you is corruption and hurt and pain, and you don’t know where your next meal is going to come from.

Joshua T Berglan

00:20:42

It’s really hard to believe that God has a plan for your life, but I, you, he does. He created you for something special, but I didn’t believe that until I’m in a jail cell going, what have I done with my life? And As I’m screaming at God, why won’t you fix me The first time? Talk to me. And he said, you have to forgive your father. How the hell am I supposed to do that? After what he did to be what he did to my mom, what he did to my sisters, how am I supposed to forgive him?

Joshua T Berglan

00:21:25

The next words I heard from God were it happened to him In the realization that, Oh my gosh. So obviously my father, didn’t just wake up one day to go, you know, I want to beat the crap out of my kids. I want to choke him and slam him against the wall. I want to tell him that he’s not my son and he’s not good enough. All those reasons why I hated the father. I hated him. I hated my dad so much that I showed up one hour late to his funeral, high on cocaine.

Joshua T Berglan

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Because the night before I’d been having sex and doing drugs until 6:00 AM and the funeral started at eight. I hated him that much. But I realized in that moment that not, I hated him for all the wrong reasons. I hated him because I had become jealous Like him, but worse. I, I realized in that moment that as much as I hated my father and I needed to forgive him, I needed forgiveness too. And so I met moment. I started begging my earthly father who was dead instead started begging for his forgiveness.

Joshua T Berglan

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And because I made a mockery of his funeral, I disrespected his name, all of the hate that I had for him, the line did me from what was true. Okay. And after forgiving my father, I could feel this, this, this, this rage that had been built up inside of me, like this armor of elders that was built around me, I could feel it start to break away. And in that moment, I also see again, I would get these pictures in my mind and God showing me that there was a better life for me, all of the same visions I had as a child, that your age, The same, The same age that you are, that I could see God showing me that there was things that were missing.

Joshua T Berglan

00:23:44

I began believe it for The first time. And I said, father, My life Is no longer my own. I surrender to you. I surrender it all to you. My will. My, my life is no longer mine take my life. It’s yours. And in that moment, God transformed my life forever. And here’s the thing I thought I was going to be in jail for the next five years. But by the grace of God, five days later, I get out of jail and I’m on the streets and going now what I was terrified because when you go for how many of you that are watching right now have see things in your mind.

Joshua T Berglan

00:24:34

Like you see a pictures of a better life. Do any of you see a better life in your mind? You dream, do you have dreams? Okay. Okay. The same for me, but I’ve started to begin to realize that those dreams were God showing me what was possible for my life. It wasn’t the mock me. It wasn’t a tease me. It was to show me that all things are possible. All things are possible in the dreams and visions that we get our God showing us.

Joshua T Berglan

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This is the life that I have planned for you. And I believed him. And then I stepped forward to do it. And I didn’t know what I was doing. And I didn’t know how, but I just started acting in faith. And I started praying. My life was never the same, but I’m not going to sit here and tell you that following Jesus is the easiest thing I’ve ever done. It’s not, it’s hard. And I’m not even trying to preach to you right now. What I’m trying to say to you with all sincerity is that God has a better life to you in the life for you.

Joshua T Berglan

00:25:59

And that relationship with Jesus is, is that relationship that shows you to get to the life that you were created to live. So I realized something because I lived a life of crime because I was a criminal too. I didn’t, I wasn’t just an abuser and a drug addict and an alcoholic and a sex addict. I wasn’t just all of that. But I realized something. The more that I’ve been around adults and worked with adults that had also a criminal past, like me, every single one of them when they were younger were told that if they say anything, they, if they talk about being abused, if we talk about the, the, the, the secrets for keeping, if they share, they’re going to get hurt.

Joshua T Berglan

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Every single person that I’ve known as an adult that has a criminal record, we’re told as children, that they’re going to have something bad happen to them. If they say something, they were also told as children, that they will never amount to anything, they will never be successful. They will never have hope. They will never have a better life. They were all told that. So they were never given the opportunity. The opportunity was to see what success is and what success was, and even how to get there, because no one was going to teach them. And because they didn’t have good jobs, they had no way of paying somebody.

Joshua T Berglan

00:27:36

A lot of money, teach them how to do it. Okay. When I gave my life to the Lord, when I gave her life to Jesus, my commitment was that my life was no longer my own. And I was going to serve God and serve his people with everything I had in me. Yeah. The way God is by helping people with opportunities. I remember what it was like to not have a voice. And I learned something in my journey in getting well, because again, following Jesus is not easy, but I learned something that made it easier.

Joshua T Berglan

00:28:21

And that was truth. When they say the truth will set, you free. Have you ever heard that state saying before the truth will set you free? Sorry. The truth will set. You free means that when you take the secrets that you’re keeping the pain that you’re keeping inside from being hurt, or you’re hurting yourself, or you’re hurting someone else. When you share that secret, you’re giving it to God. And you’re saying, God, please take this. It’s yours. And God will heal it.

Joshua T Berglan

00:29:02

God will do good with your secrets. But when you Keep it inside, it, it becomes toxic and it hurts you. And it, and it hurts other people. And it causes you to, to act out and to do things that are, that are not good for you or good for the people that love you. So when you share your truth, your truth sets the universe on fire in it, and it creates opportunity. It creates a purpose for your pain. So the ministry that we have is a ministry that gives you a platform to squeak, to share your truth, whatever you’re going through, whatever pain that you have, or, or maybe you’re inspired to say something, maybe you met a motivational speaker or someone that you’ve watched on the internet.

Joshua T Berglan

00:30:03

And you’re really in, you’re inspired by them. And you want to be like, learn something from them. And you want to share that. Do any of you there that are watching right now, dream of being on TV or having a radio show, anybody. Okay. How many of you believe that you have an opportunity? Like you can do that, but you really can’t have a TV show. You really can be on the radio. How many believe that you can be that <inaudible>,

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Joshua T Berglan

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That okay to teach? Because I know how powerful truth is. I know how powerful your stories are. There’s people right now, guys and girls that are all guys or girls too. I, it’s hard to see with the camera America that need to hear your story. There’s people in America that need to know about you and what you go through. They need to know the fight, the fight for water. They need to know about crime.

Joshua T Berglan

00:31:31

They need to know about your pain because when you share it and you let the world hear there’s people in England and Asia, there’s people in Australia, they need to know your stories matter because your stories can change the world. Africa as a whole has been victimized by corruption, not just with your own government, but even our government and America has corrupted. Your countries in the world needs to hear about that because your truth, your stories can help heal the world.

Joshua T Berglan

00:32:17

I hope you. I hope if anything you take from this, you understand that one, God has a purpose for your life in two stories and your message matters. It matters to the world. You guys have an opportunity to help heal the world. So

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Do anyone of you have anything you want to say? Do you want to come up and share? Do you want to talk anything at all?

House of Hilkiah Foundation

00:33:28

A lot of challenges, people all over the world. I want to give, I want to give hope to all about the world. I want to create scope. I want to create peace in Africa. It’s possible all over the world. I want to give these kids the chance to compete at best, because they have the talent to become what they want to be. I need my community here.

House of Hilkiah Foundation

00:34:07

I’m here to help them also train them as a coach. And also I advise them also as a father, taking them around <inaudible> <inaudible> high.

House of Hilkiah Foundation

00:34:56

There is a great opportunity. I am Deborah <inaudible> and also I am opportune to speak to you. He said, great opportunity. I really appreciate your airports. Actually, my dream, my dreams with the children. Yeah. I look at everything that the challenges we are having in Nigeria, Nigeria, but also in Africa, but because of lack of opportunity, as we were just trying to see how we can raise some of the children there with those truths, I support the young mind.

House of Hilkiah Foundation

00:35:58

You. Now, recently we are together in a team and our sister who have connected us to you. Give me a great opportunity. I would want to add Phyllis. She is a good walk out to us. She’s walking for us. And she’s trying to see that she improved our lives. Happened. Many children. As you see at my back here, there are many of them, some of them are, most of them are on the 17th. Yeah. From 16. And most of them are orphans and they’re not capable to even go to the school, but we believe God will help them to somebody.

House of Hilkiah Foundation

00:36:47

We don’t know where that person would come from. We live in that faith. That one day, God, we do some too. This is a deacon. Now web picking manager from different States. Whenever we find a child on the street, we ask them some question to know how they come from, how it comes about that. This is time for schooling. Why they’re here on the streets. They will not stop explaining to us how life is to them. Then we pick them from there without any of that. But we believe in God, we eat. We compete with them. And this is how we now started with them to the glory of God.

House of Hilkiah Foundation

00:37:31

Now we have a number of children up to, they are up to 80. Now getting up to 80 children are with us. Now, walking with a sister here is easy. In fact, speaking with you have given everybody, thank you very much for your word. And we pray that she will replenish anywhere. You place your hands. You have the children. May God bless you, sir. Thank you.

Joshua T Berglan

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Is there anybody else who would like to talk? I can’t say again. Anybody. Anybody? Hi. Good morning. Good morning. Good afternoon.

House of Hilkiah Foundation

00:38:55

<inaudible> by the grace of God, this community. I just want to, because my son is so see the livestock, these children is that we have great talent. We have to honestly be connected to you.

Joshua T Berglan

00:39:50

It’s <inaudible> that’s just what I have to say. I had to preach the gospel. I had your stories, our stories.

Joshua T Berglan

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Come on, internet. Don’t freeze. Come on, internet.

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Wow. One, two.

Joshua T Berglan

00:41:05

I Oh, no, they froze. Yeah. I gotta be honest with you. Like when I was talking, I didn’t know. Let me see. I’m gonna take them off the screen really quick and see if they come back. I gotta tell ya. I I’ve never really talked to children before, so I didn’t know if I was supposed to censor myself or, or what? Hopefully they come back. Oh, wait, come on. Yeah, I think they’re back now. I didn’t know if I was supposed to censor myself. I didn’t know if I was supposed to like be quiet.

Joshua T Berglan

00:41:47

I didn’t know. I didn’t know if it was resonating or not. They’re back now. Hello. Welcome back guys. Beautiful. Does anyone else want to share? Oh no. Hopefully it won’t freeze, but it froze again.

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Anyone else want to share?

Joshua T Berglan

00:42:16

Look at all of you. Beautiful faces. Oh my gosh.

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Joshua T Berglan

00:42:45

Come back. So I’m praying for Elon Musk’s global internet to start working because here’s the thing. And this is part of the vision for what we’re doing with the media company here. Their back is the global internet matters to be able to make this come to fruition, to be able to bring these voices to the world, it’s going to require the global internet. And the global internet is like in process. It’s like on its way. And that’s how this is going to all come to life.

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Cause he changed my life. When he met me, I don’t know my status. I said, yes. He gives me hope. But right now, as I’m speaking with you right now on these trees, but now I invite them to come to the team.

House of Hilkiah Foundation

00:44:51

Oh, I see. I see you said lesson to me. She does. She teach us to listen to us.

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Joshua T Berglan

00:46:09

I cannot thank you. Very, very cool. And they froze again. So back to the global internet, like this gets to happen because this is something I think we take for granted. Like we get mad when our wifi speeds are slow and the bandwidth doesn’t work. Like this is the thing that was frustrating. But this global internet is going to open so many doors in so many possibilities. And they’re back now, global internet matters because every one of these, every one of these kids that you guys are seeing right now and the adults too, like I promise you, where’s the world’s greatest motivational speakers in this audience.

Joshua T Berglan

00:47:04

The world’s greatest preachers are sitting in this audience like a host or musicians. They’re here. They’re sitting right in front of you. And the reason why voices for the voiceless matters is to be able to equip, to be able to, to, to be able to teach them and show them all the different things that we take for granted to be, to teach them So that they can have the life of their dreams because these kids are worthy of the life dream about. And it says in the Bible as clear as day, and I’m talking to people all over the world. Now I don’t care if you’re in Asia, you’re in Australia, you’re anywhere in the United States.

Joshua T Berglan

00:47:48

I don’t care what your circumstances are. I don’t care what you’ve been through. God has an extraordinary plan for your life and you all get to win. And all of you that have been beaten down and all of you that have been hurt. All of you that have been that have been cast aside and shunned. Guess what your time is now, your time is coming. I’m telling you right now, <inaudible> time is coming. The people that have been corrupt and have succeeded, they are all going down in the pits of hell. And must’ve they repent is the time for the people.

Joshua T Berglan

00:48:31

You, you guys, everyone watching of you that have been held down, but you’ve done things right? And you haven’t given up hope and you have faith and you believe, and you know, your time is now. I am so grateful for the opportunity to speak to you guys. This is everything to me. So thank you. Does anyone else have anything you want to say? Hello?

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00:49:09

What does that what’s that book? I want a <inaudible>

Joshua T Berglan

00:49:46

<inaudible> I wish the internet wasn’t breaking up. Only caught like three words. Oh man. You guys are amazing. I’m definitely going to get you guys microphones. That is like, that is a must froze again. Looking at these beautiful faces though. Oh, this is so amazing.

Joshua T Berglan

00:50:28

I think we froze again. Okay. They froze. Ah, have mercy. I don’t want to did the tech issues are just insane and Oh wait, maybe they’re back your time. I’m not ready to give to them yet. Are you guys? They’re all beautiful faces. I hope they get me fast. Internet

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Joshua T Berglan

00:51:20

Is that it? Everybody? Well, listen. God bless you.

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<inaudible> <inaudible> hi.

Joshua T Berglan

00:52:02

He froze. No, no. I bet this sort of work better on a cell phone. Oh, you froze. Stay with me. I wonder if they know they froze. I really want this to work. It goes smoothly. But the internet devil has a nother idea. Every one of these kids have such an extraordinary purpose. Every single one of you. And if you hear them say, I’m going to try it again. You can hear them say that blacked out. They have hope.

Joshua T Berglan

00:52:42

And they believe like their situation, which I don’t know how many of you were able to, to hear some of the things that they spoke about. But like, we think that our struggles are bad. We think like what we’ve gone through and I know it’s all relative, but God has a purpose for them. What do you think he has for you too? There he is. All right there. Back. What’s up my man. Hi

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<inaudible> thank you, please is helping me right?

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00:54:34

You. Oh my gosh. You guys are amazing. Listen, I don’t know if you can hear me cause the internet is going crazy, but I am praying that I’m able to come there and work with you guys.

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00:55:17

I want to teach you everything that I know, because I want to, if I can do anything to help make your dreams come to life. I want to do it because the world and the world needs to know what it’s like there. But more importantly, again, some of you are going to be world famous musicians. Some of you are going to be, you’re going to be ministers that travel the world hearing when you succeed, when each and every one of you become successes and you become what God created you to be, you are going to help heal the world.

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00:56:03

And I am to know you guys, God bless you. And I will be talking to you very, very soon. See you soon. Holy crap,

Joshua T Berglan

00:56:25

God bless them.

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00:56:30

This is what it’s all about. Like again,

Joshua T Berglan

00:56:36

TD, Jake said one time, focus on what you do have and not what you don’t think about this.

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00:56:44

Most

Joshua T Berglan

00:56:45

Of you that are watching right now have good internet. Most of you watching right now have easy, accessible, clean water. Most of you watching right now have the ability to get educated from lots of different means. And sometimes there’s probably too much information on the internet. But the fact is that we are accessible to education. We have homeless shelters all over the place. We have resources wherever we’re at. Keep in mind. There are people, there are people out there that don’t have easy access to anything that we take for granted, focus on the things that you do have and not what you don’t because there’s someone out there that would kill for the things that you’re taking for granted.

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But

Joshua T Berglan

00:57:35

I know for a fact that God has a purpose for their life, your life, my life, and it’s simply surrender. It’s simply trusting him and believing him. And the thing is the more of us that wake up and accept the assignment that God has given to us. The one that God has put on our life that you got to understand, your purpose is not about you. It’s about other people. It’s how you serve. You share your testimony and people hear it. And that obviously helps them feel like they’re not alone.

Joshua T Berglan

00:58:15

But when you step into your purpose, what you’re doing is you are being a part of the body of Christ. You are helping others heal, but you also very well may be helping other people with opportunity because some of you were meant to be sent out to other countries. I believe with everything in me, as much as I believe in rebuilding the community that I’m in, because it’s like a third world country right now. But well, maybe not that drastic, but it look it’s, it. There’s a lot of craziness going on here. But the fact is that some of us were meant to be sent out.

Joshua T Berglan

00:58:56

Some of you were missionary. Some of you are meant to take all of the skills that you’re teaching in your business courses. You were meant to go teach in another country to people who may not have access to that kind of information that needed.

House of Hilkiah Foundation

00:59:13

I believe

Joshua T Berglan

00:59:13

That media is the most powerful medium in the world. The reason why God put it on our heart to create a organization and a non-profit media organization was for people like who we just spoke to. It was to create the opportunities for them to give them and teach the skills that are necessary, that are needed to be able to get their message out to the world and how to monetize it. The reason why we have a broadcast network for TV, radio podcast, social media, and print. The reason we have that is to equip people that are in the audience watching right now in other countries that don’t have access to that kind of information.

Joshua T Berglan

01:00:01

Or the fact is that it’s just not easy to get to. And not everybody has the know-how or the money to get the training. That’s what the live model worldwide foundation is. Our ministry voices for the voiceless is to teach and work with the youth, to give them the platform, to speak their truth, to set themselves free, to let people know because listen, if you don’t know their stories and you don’t know their struggle, you’re not gonna think about it. You’re not going to know that there’s other people that need your help.

Joshua T Berglan

01:00:41

There’s so many people around the world that need our support, but you’ll never ever hear about it on the news. My heart for Africa started as a child and I’ve never been to Africa yet. The reason why Africa matters to me is because for some reason, I was always drawn to what was happening there and not what I saw on the news. What was really happening in Africa. And it’s a travesty and they’ve been neglected by the world because the people that are in power are corrupt and they’ve raped and pillaged the AF Africa and all the countries like the Wars that go on the fact that there’s not access to clean water, Africa’s the motherland.

Joshua T Berglan

01:01:34

And they’ve been betrayed by the world and their stories matter. They need to get out that truth needs to get out because there’s kids that are suffering all that there’s kids suffering all over the world, but there’s kids that are suffering there and they don’t have the same kind of resources we have. But I believe with everything in me that God’s purpose for them is just as great. Is anyone in America, anyone in Asia, anyone in Australia, anyone in the UK, they are just as important. And frankly, they may be.

Joshua T Berglan

01:02:15

I mean, I don’t know more important is the right word, but you know what I want to see with everything in me, these kids and the people that are not on this screen rise. I want to see them have a better life. I don’t want to hear about kids sleeping on the streets. And I know we have that in America too, but this has been going on for too long. And you know what, when you don’t have hope, you’ve got your, here are your options. When you don’t have hope, kill yourself, start being a criminal and committing crimes because you don’t know where your food’s going to come from. So you have to Rob and steal.

Joshua T Berglan

01:02:57

That’s not a life for anybody. And I would pretty much guess that there’s not a single kid that grows up wanting to do that, but we have to provide opportunity. And that is what we want to do. That’s what we are doing with the live model, worldwide foundation and voices for the voiceless is a platform and a ministry to equip and train all of the musicians, all of the former future preachers and motivational speakers and the authors. I’m sure there’s kids right there that want to watch, or that want to write books. They want to travel the world and speak.

Joshua T Berglan

01:03:37

Heck, I’m curious, how many of them have ever dreamed of having a vacation? Cause you know what? We all want a vacation. I think they kind of deserve one. So I’m going to put the, their website. I’d love for you guys to actually, I’m going to put their Facebook page where you can make a donation to the organization and to put that here in the chat. And I would love for you guys to support them. They’re the real deal and their leadership has a heart, but we are, we are determined to help support them and other organizations just like them around the world, because I believe in them.

Joshua T Berglan

01:04:24

I mean the kindness and the love that radiates from them is just unbelievable. So anyway, I’m grateful that you’re all here. I appreciate if you guys would share this video wherever you’re watching from also keep them in your prayers because you know what? God has a plan for them. And God has a plan for you to thank you for watching and God bless. God bless you guys. See ya.