El Shaddai (Amy Grant cover) | Real answers to prayer through the ages
About this video
El Shaddai: age to age, He is still the same.
Every event in this video is real. Each one is matched to a promise in the song, and each is a story of God answering His people when they prayed together in faith. Read the stories of faith behind them below.
WHAT YOU'RE SEEING
0:40 Genesis 22 · Trèbes, France, 2018: Arnaud Beltrame, a Catholic police officer, took a hostage's place and gave his life for hers.
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2018/29-march/news/world/heroic-police-officer-who-died-in-french-terror-attack-was-to-wed-in-church
0:46 Exodus 14 · Dunkirk, 1940: King George VI called a National Day of Prayer. The sea lay calm and 338,000 soldiers came home.
https://www.churchsociety.org/resource/topical-tuesday-the-dunkirk-national-day-of-prayer/
0:54 Genesis 16 · Chibok, Nigeria, 2014: 276 schoolgirls kidnapped. Churches prayed for them by name, and most have come home.
https://www.brethren.org/news/2017/most-released-chibok-girls-prayed-for-by-churches/
1:01 Exodus 14 · Copiapó, Chile, 2010: 33 miners trapped for 69 days held prayer twice a day underground. All 33 came up alive. "There are actually 34 of us, because God has never left us down here."
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2010/october/chilean-miner-god-has-never-left-us.html
1:48 Isaiah 9:6, Micah 5:2 · Qumran, 1947: A shepherd found the Great Isaiah Scroll, a thousand years older than any copy known before, and the same words we read today.
https://www.logos.com/grow/what-the-dead-sea-scrolls-reveal-about-the-bibles-reliability/
1:55 Zechariah 9:9 · Leipzig, 1989: Monday prayers for peace at St Nicholas Church grew into candlelit marches. The Berlin Wall fell a month after 9 October without a shot fired.
https://weeklyword.eu/en/a-story-worth-repeating-2/
2:01 Luke 24 · Wales, 1904: After years of prayer, revival swept Wales and about 100,000 people came to faith.
https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/ch153-welsh-revival
2:07 2 Corinthians 12:9 · Charleston, USA, 2015: Nine people were killed at a Bible study. Their families told the killer, "We forgive you."
https://www.ncregister.com/news/families-to-charleston-killer-we-forgive-you
SCRIPTURE ON SCREEN (NKJV)
Psalm 19:1 · Genesis 15:5 · Psalm 18:1 · Psalm 127:1 · Isaiah 40:3 · Malachi 3:6 · Isaiah 40:8 · Hebrews 13:8
THE HEBREW IN THE SONG
El Shaddai: God Almighty · El Elyon na Adonai: God Most High, O Lord · Erkamka na Adonai: I will love You, O Lord (Psalm 18:1)
PHOTO CREDITS (Wikimedia Commons)
Dunkirk 1940: unknown photographer (public domain) · Chile rescue: Gobierno de Chile (CC BY 2.0) · Leipzig 1989: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1989-1023-022, Friedrich Gahlbeck (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE) · Arnaud Beltrame: Mission Numérique GN (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Chibok vigil: CEE-HOPE Nigeria (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Welsh Revival 1904: National Library of Wales (public domain) · Qumran caves: SuperJew (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Charleston: Nomader (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Milky Way: ESO (CC BY 4.0).
"El Shaddai" written by Michael Card and John Thompson. Performed by Charlie Reed.