God showed me His sovereignty through horrible situations from a very early age. My father passed when I was 16 and by 19 my first born child passed away. I could have easily fallen into the enemy’s trap of blaming God and becoming bitter. But God has given me an unimaginable amount of wisdom in knowing that He takes these tragedies and weaves them into glory for his names sake. I have witnessed his authority and mercy time and time again. We can’t be so earthly focused that we miss Gods love and movement in our worst moments. Trust Him! Put your faith in HIM. He will not let you down.
Monica your testimony is so incredibly powerful! Not just the fact of everything you went through but the way that you articulated and give glory to the Lord. Wow wow what an instrument to help build the kingdom. Keep sharing 👏❤️💯
I am a Tsunami survior myself. Lord helped me and my 2 friends. We were partying on the beach and the sea had recided and we went far into the seabed. However we became thirsty and decided to head back to land to get a drink. While we were at the shop, the Tsunami struck. 40 plus people lost their lives. We were saved by the lord.
Wow...What an amazing story. I was on a beach in Busselton in Western Australia when it occurred and I saw the water go out about only one metre but lateron I understood why. To hear first-hand from a survivor is truly humbling. She truly had God with her the whole time.
It is refreshing to have a lay Christian in the interview, I enjoy the big conversations on theology and apologetics and I always learn important ideas from the scholars and experts. When you have a lay Christian in the interview, they don't throw out big theological terms, it is simply about living the Christian life and putting those big ideas into practice, it is real. This wasn't an easy interview, Sean did a wonderful job letting the guest take her time and then asking important questions for the audience. Thank you Sean!!
“I can never let fear in at any point because it is just going to make a bad situation worse.” That is so profound!!! Thank you so much for sharing this testimony!!!
What a delightful sister in Christ Monica is! I LOVE the way she describes everything so vividly. I bet her book will be amazing to read. I praise God for so miraculously saving her physically and spiritually. May Jesus be glorified as she bravely retells her harrowing experience.
Brought back raw memories of the Tsunami that affected my country India too. Thank God you saved and blessed this young sister with a wonderful 2nd life.
This is one of the most eye opening and informative videos I’ve ever heard. So many lessons in it , I’m SURE it’s for the glory of God. My mom died of cancer and my dad in a car accident. My life has been difficult and a struggle. I often think that death would be easier than this. This helps me tremendously. “ A lot of my story has already been told in the Bible “ , wonderful insight.
What a beautiful soul and gift she is! Her facial expressions truly were artistic when she thought back and was right in the moment … like the way she would look up remembering being under water… what an amazing story she gets to share with the world bringing glory to the Lord! Amen! She would absolutely be an amazing actress with her Mona Lisa beauty and holding us riveted as she expresses herself so thoughtfully and brilliantly authentically--BUT I raising her babies is more important! Thank you Jesus for your precious child!!
Can't thank you enough for this glorious testimony, got to be one of the most AMAZING I have ever heard! I am rejoicing with our sister for her new life birthed out of near-death, just as baptism is! This testimony did something life-changing for me and my fears in these harrowing days, God bless you from on high❤
This is the best show I've seen in a long time! Monica, thank you for your courage and standing for Jesus and sharing the literal personal details and thoughts of how He saved you! Sometimes I get nervous to share my testimony, but your story encourages me and I KNOW I was supposed to see this! Thank you SO much! I praise God for you and what He's done to save you so that you'd be able to give us more amazing PROOF of His actuality! He rescued me also, but completely different story. I never knew him either until He made Himself known to me also - similarly to how He revealed Who He really is to you. Beautiful! Amazing! One day, my Sister in Christ, you and I will be in Eternity and we will hang out and I'll share my story with you then. Hugs.... ✝️🧡
Amazing story. Amazing interview. Both interviewee and interviewer. Pastor Sean, you always do such an amazing job of interviewing, and you always have amazing guest. And I can’t say this one is any better than any other. But I can say that this one was so pure. And I too, felt the emotion and sensed that she was reliving every moment of what happened 20 years ago. Several times my eyes teared up. God bless her. God bless her brother. And God bless you..
"When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee..." Isaiah 43:2 came to mind when you (Monica) were describing how you came through without a scratch! (Around 55:00 minute mark).
It's a good way of describing hearing God's voice. I've heard Him speak to me before, and it is not necessarily audible but unmistakably different than my own thoughts.
Monica, is incredibly articulate. I get the feeling English is a second language yet her explanation is so vivid she knows how to take us on the journey with her. What a story. What a human being. WOW
@@monicarconnelly - Hi. I never thought I’d hear from you. You are very welcome. You’re an amazing communicator and great at English. And an incredible human being. God bless you
So beautiful, Monica🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 You are definitely GLORIFYING GOD by sharing your story🙏🏽I truly LOVED to hear her say, HOW CAN ANYONE GO THROUGH ANY DIFFICULTY OR TRAGEDY WITHOUT GOD?!! This interview was Spirit filled and very inspiring 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️❤️God Bless you
I'd like to know who took care of Monica after her parents were gone. What an amazingly strong young girl you were! But losing your parents on top of the trauma of the disaster boggles my mind.
Truly a miraculous testimony! God is so good. ♥️ I recall watching The Impossible when it was released in theaters. I always wondered if the few who had survived that awful event found Christ. So her story answered that question and made it personal! Thanks for sharing Monica! ❤
That's 1 of my favorite movies 🫂 the writer, director & actors conveyed the victims traumatic events & emotions so vividly -I felt I was there also 👍 ALL Glory to GOD 🤩
I was living in Chiang Mai, Thailand at this time. I remember sitting on my bed and feeling the earthquake that started this event. I had felt many earthquakes while living there that I didn't think anything about it. It was heartbreaking when I found out what actually happened. We would vacation on Phi Phi Island, one of the hard hit areas. We had met many people that lived there and nearby. It was unbelievable to realize that most of those people died that day.
I was 'officially' killed in that Tsunami in Thailand, even though I'm very much alive. One time I was going on holidays, and at the airport they scanned my passport and the machine started beeping. The official gave me a stern look, and said, 'sir, you have to come with me'. I was interviewed, and I found out that my passport had been cancelled, because according to their records I had been killed in that Tsunami (despite the fact I've never been toThailand, as proven by my passport record). After some investigation it was found that someone had made a clerical error and got a number wrong when cancelling the passport of someone who had died there.
Sometimes God does not operate in a box of our world view. I think of Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus and how the Christians around him reacted to his story. What an amazing story this gal tells and how He personally came to her. Her story is her story and she obviously is a Christian. Thank you for sharing your story just as it happened. Such a blessing to us.
What a beautiful story and what a remarkable young woman. May the Lord continue to use your story for His glory! And may your family and your new little one be blessed. Sean, I never say it, but I love your show and I appreciate so much your topics and your temperament. May God continue to bless you and grow your platform for His glory.
Thank you Monica for sharing your story & pointing people in the direction of Jesus and admittedly we are all continuing to grow in our faith. So appreciate u! Sean thank u for your fantastic questions & your listening skills. I just love your You Tube ministry 🇨🇦 ❤
I do not know Jesus yet. I asked him, though yesterday, to please help me raise my children to know and love Him (their father was raised Hindu), to give them the inate moral compass He has given me (though admittedly I often have not followed it in the past at times, evidence by marrying my husband perhaps, searching for signs perhaps where there were none). Perhaps this interview with this lovely lady, is an actual sign He was listening. She grew up with Him in her heart it seems.
Yes don't stop searching for God the Fathers Son who paid the price for our Sin...it is a noble desire for your children to know The Lord and I am sure your help is on the way...take care
Hi Snow! I didn’t grow up knowing Jesus either. If you would like, you can accept him into your heart right now, Do you want to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior? John 3:16 says, For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, and has made that was for us back to God. Our sin separated us from God, but Jesus sacrificed His life to bring us back to God. He loves you so much.
I know God wants to help you raise your kids and I can only imagine how hard single parenting + your divorce are. I pray God gives you all the wisdom, strength, and support you need! As for not knowing Jesus yet and this being a sign, I hope to encourage you with these words God spoke in the Bible, “You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13 ESV Keep seeking because He will reveal Himself to you beautifully step by step. God wants you to know Him and is patient with us. I can attest to experiencing this in my own life. God bless you 🙏
Jesus is the Truth, the Light, the Way. He is the Messiah who died on the cross for our sins. Just ask Him to forgive your sins and except Him as your Saviour. Thank Him that you are a child of God now! God will lead the way, show you what to do further. He will protect you, for now you have eternal life in heaven, where Jesus and the Father will welcome you! Jesus is going to rapture His bride away, in the clouds very soon. Read in the Bible, starting from the Gospel of John. Lots of love❤
Wow, having a YT channel like Sean's must be very tough. Sean looks thrashed, stressed - perhaps depressed. Prayers for Sean. Kudos to him for going through with this interview.
What a remarkable young woman. To be reborn in Christ at the same occasion that take away her birth parents is quite something. And her amazingly mature demeanour all throughout this so fundamentally life changing experience at as early as thirteen... Kudos to you, young lady! ❤
All week I keep reflecting on this story. God is so good and faithful. He gives us strength, He shows us the way, and helps us do it, He shows us our choice to choose life or not. He does all this in a supernatural way for each of us if we are willing to look closely. Trust the Lord, do not delay.
Monica, you're beautiful and courageous , 🙌 What an inspiring testimony 😮, you listened to the Spirit of God, and he brought you out! 🧎♀️➡️Hallelujah 🙌 what a mighty God He is!💯 Thank you, LORD JESUS 🙌
I got misty-eyed several times listening to Monica’s story. It’s amazing how the Lord supernaturally protected her from not even a scratch. I would love to interview her for our podcast. Amazingly enough, in 2004, my family was supposed to have a reunion in Phuket, which is South Thailand 🇹🇭. At the last minute, they changed their mind.
@w4rsh1p a. People die all the time, including a huge variety of other tragedies B. I have heard of others that were saved from the tsunami in amazing ways, they just didn't mention God, but God uses different ways at different times C. God fails at nothing D. Did those others choose God and ask for His help? => E. God doesn't choose to stop all disaster and tragic death obviously, He doesn't necessarily respond to everyone's requests for all things. He has His reasons. And who are you to know them? "For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM?" 1 Corinthians 2:16 F. It's amazing that that's the comment you people feel is appropriate, decent, and respectful to leave on a video of such a miraculous and joyous account of a young life saved in certain death. G. God uses lots of tragedies and sorrows, for the good of those who love Him (Romans 8:28). Those of us who know Him and have grown tremendously through our tremendous sufferings would know. H. "For God so loved the world *that* He gave His only begotten Son *that whosoever* believes in Him WOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE." John 3:16
I’m so glad you told the true story with God in it. What an amazing salvation testimony! I pray that God will use your story to glorify His name, and to bring many to Himself.
Amazing Grace. Thank you! For sharing how merciful, faithful and loving Jesus is. This testimony,is absolutely the gospel of Jesus. May you continue to share your testimony. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ and bring him glory through it.
What a beautiful sister in Christ and amazing, textured, poetic, visceral recounting of her incredible story and coming to Christ our majestic King, our Lord, our Creator. Praise God ~ I pray her brother comes unto our Lord; the Way, the Truth, the Life as well. So very touching, the presense of the Holy Spirit in this beautiful share! Glory to God our eternal Father forevermore! God bless beloved of the Lord ~ 🌄🪻🌻🪷🌲💜🌲🪷🌻🪻🌅
For those surrounded with heavy burdens please read Romans 8:31-39 and Luke 11:29-30. Let God quiet your mind with this truth in all the chaos you are not a failure- Romans 8:37 "No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us."
When we are weak He is strong! We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. What an amazing testimonial, the best ever! We must listen for God and trust Him and do not give way to fear, fear and faith are the opposite of each other.
Monica, if you're still reading these comments I want to tell you that your feeling that people would think you're crazy is legit and totally relatable. My daughter's heart stopped while I was in labor, she was hemorrhaging from the lungs when they delivered her 6 minutes later via emergency C-section. She lost all of her own blood while they pumped new blood in to keep her alive. I "saw" wings covering my daughter and I as they rushed us in to surgery and remembered Psalm 91. The Lord came and sat by my bed the next morning. I "saw" Him not with my eyes (if that makes sense). I felt His love and His approval - like the love a parent has for their precious newborn where before I'd only seen Him as stern and disapproving. I didn't share that with anyone for a long time because I felt that they wouldn't understand and would interpret it, analyze it and ruin something beautiful. We stand on the Word of God, the Scripture and filter things like this through the truth therein but we can't dictate to the Spirit how He will work. Thank you for trusting the Lord with your story. (edited to add - MY DAUGHTER LIVED~! That was just the beginning of her story. God is faithful)
Monica is such a sweet, wonderful young woman and I'm so happy to hear that she is a mother who will raise her family in the love and admonition of the Lord Jesus Christ! Thank you for airing her powerful story about our God's faithfulness to bring beauty from even the devastation this tsunami brought. Thank you Monica for your witness to the power and Love of God! ❤❤❤
Monica, I loved hearing your story -so encouraging ❤. It reminded me of the song Save Me by 100 Portraits (from the Enter The Worship Circle album). It’s from Psalm 69 ❤ I can’t wait to get your book!
And I would add wondering how she feels about her parents not being spared, but knowing they weren’t believers so they aren’t with Christ. 😢 That would feel like torture to me. But I know that they may have had their own encounter with Him in their last moments. Hope so. Just would like to hear her thoughts on it. Maybe it is in the book.
@lisamichelle2596 I've read that we best remember that God is more merciful than we are, more gracious, more loving, and knows the exact encounter his people need to truly, freely say yes to him. We can let him hold our future, the future of our family, our enormous questions, and fix our eyes on him every day.
@hopefulforhumanity5625 the guidance of the Word of God is sufficient and better, because it's the truth. Catholocism contradicts His Word in many ways and leads people astray
@@Lilalalalalallllla One big reason I love being Catholic is because I trust the 2,000 year old Church's interpretation of Scripture. Someone has to interpret Holy Scripture. It does not make sense that everyone gets to decide for himself what it means. That's how division occurs.
@@hopefulforhumanity5625 Catholics create division from the rest of Christians by their unbiblical teachings. "But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie-just as it has taught you, abide in him." 1 John 2:27 Dividing over seriously false teaching as found in Catholocism is a GOOD thing. Dividing over petty things is the problem.
Thank you for sharing this miraculous story in such great detail, and you are absolutely right, it is for God’s glory! Through you we have leaned that Jesus is God, He is real, He is personal, and He saves! May He use your story to help others find the same joy and peace you have, ands the true love that will be worth it all in the end!!!
I didn't hear Monica Speak about the tragic LOSS of her Parents. She talked about witnessing the reunion of a father & daughter; but NOT about what she experienced or felt about realizing that her Mother and Father were GONE; DROWNED ....?! I don't understand HOW she could NOT talk about LOSING her own Mother & Father in this TRAGIC Manner ...??!!
@Diligent-dp7gi I feel the point of her experience with the father and daughter that moved her so deeply was God conveying to her, He had called her home to be with Him now, her true eternal Father. And He was rejoicing over her rebirth in and her coming home finally to Him. I'm sure she talks about her life story more in her book. "A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling."♡ Psalm 68:5
It's something I didn't even begin to process until I was in Portugal. I should have mentioned that. I didn't talk much about those years in this interview. But I did mention they were very difficult and it got so dark, I even wanted to die. While I was in Thailand though, I was so overjoyed for being alive, I could feel God so present, that it left no space for feeling anything else. I know it can seem weird.
@monicarconnelly thank you so much for sharing your incredible testimony. I'm a reborn Christian living in Thailand now. I so relate to your story. My 16 month old baby died of SUDC 14 years ago. The morning I found him in his cot I had a supernatural God experience too and knew that day He was totally real. I completely surrendered my life to Jesus that day and I have experienced many more miracles since then. God Bless you and your family and I will pray for your brother to find Christ xxx
@lkam3893 wow... I'm so glad God met you in that moment. Only He could. Thank you for your prayers. They are truly appreciated. It is my brother who is not saved, not my husband.
@@monicarconnellyAmen! Jesus is just incredible! Our Miracle Maker who gives Peace that surpasses all understanding. Praying for your brother, oops sorry corrected that 🙏 ❤️
I remember being in Iraq watching the news reports. I'll never forget how I failed the Lord. My atheist friend asked me "where is your God in this?" I just said "I don't know"
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God showed me His sovereignty through horrible situations from a very early age. My father passed when I was 16 and by 19 my first born child passed away. I could have easily fallen into the enemy’s trap of blaming God and becoming bitter. But God has given me an unimaginable amount of wisdom in knowing that He takes these tragedies and weaves them into glory for his names sake. I have witnessed his authority and mercy time and time again. We can’t be so earthly focused that we miss Gods love and movement in our worst moments. Trust Him! Put your faith in HIM. He will not let you down.
Amen.❤
Monica your testimony is so incredibly powerful! Not just the fact of everything you went through but the way that you articulated and give glory to the Lord. Wow wow what an instrument to help build the kingdom. Keep sharing 👏❤️💯
I am a Tsunami survior myself. Lord helped me and my 2 friends. We were partying on the beach and the sea had recided and we went far into the seabed. However we became thirsty and decided to head back to land to get a drink. While we were at the shop, the Tsunami struck. 40 plus people lost their lives. We were saved by the lord.
AMEN AND AMEN ❤❤❤❤❤❤
What a blessing
Why didn’t the lord save the others ? 🤔
Why didn’t God/Christ etc save everyone? There is no personal savior people…the magic sky daddy doesn’t exist 🤷🏻♀️🥹
Hallelujah
Wow...What an amazing story. I was on a beach in Busselton in Western Australia when it occurred and I saw the water go out about only one metre but lateron I understood why. To hear first-hand from a survivor is truly humbling. She truly had God with her the whole time.
It is refreshing to have a lay Christian in the interview, I enjoy the big conversations on theology and apologetics and I always learn important ideas from the scholars and experts. When you have a lay Christian in the interview, they don't throw out big theological terms, it is simply about living the Christian life and putting those big ideas into practice, it is real. This wasn't an easy interview, Sean did a wonderful job letting the guest take her time and then asking important questions for the audience. Thank you Sean!!
“I can never let fear in at any point because it is just going to make a bad situation worse.” That is so profound!!! Thank you so much for sharing this testimony!!!
That struck me hard to. This young woman is articulate. I feel like I can be there with her in this testimony.
What an amazing young woman and an amazing story. I am so glad that the Lord spared her and gave her life and a testimony for an unbelieving world.
Monica - thank you for sharing ! What a wonderful testimony of God's love. You are so very brave. I'm so glad God was there with you.
This testimony was amazing! Thank you so much for sharing it. God bless you and your family🙏
What a delightful sister in Christ Monica is! I LOVE the way she describes everything so vividly. I bet her book will be amazing to read. I praise God for so miraculously saving her physically and spiritually. May Jesus be glorified as she bravely retells her harrowing experience.
Brought back raw memories of the Tsunami that affected my country India too. Thank God you saved and blessed this young sister with a wonderful 2nd life.
This is one of the most eye opening and informative videos I’ve ever heard. So many lessons in it , I’m SURE it’s for the glory of God. My mom died of cancer and my dad in a car accident. My life has been difficult and a struggle. I often think that death would be easier than this. This helps me tremendously. “ A lot of my story has already been told in the Bible “ , wonderful insight.
Thanks for sharing, Julie. So sorry about your mom.
What a beautiful soul and gift she is! Her facial expressions truly were artistic when she thought back and was right in the moment … like the way she would look up remembering being under water… what an amazing story she gets to share with the world bringing glory to the Lord! Amen! She would absolutely be an amazing actress with her Mona Lisa beauty and holding us riveted as she expresses herself so thoughtfully and brilliantly authentically--BUT I raising her babies is more important! Thank you Jesus for your precious child!!
Can't thank you enough for this glorious testimony, got to be one of the most AMAZING I have ever heard! I am rejoicing with our sister for her new life birthed out of near-death, just as baptism is! This testimony did something life-changing for me and my fears in these harrowing days, God bless you from on high❤
Thank you, Sister! May God Bless you too! ❤🙏
This is the best show I've seen in a long time! Monica, thank you for your courage and standing for Jesus and sharing the literal personal details and thoughts of how He saved you! Sometimes I get nervous to share my testimony, but your story encourages me and I KNOW I was supposed to see this! Thank you SO much! I praise God for you and what He's done to save you so that you'd be able to give us more amazing PROOF of His actuality! He rescued me also, but completely different story. I never knew him either until He made Himself known to me also - similarly to how He revealed Who He really is to you. Beautiful! Amazing! One day, my Sister in Christ, you and I will be in Eternity and we will hang out and I'll share my story with you then. Hugs.... ✝️🧡
Can't wait! ❤❤❤🎉
What a beautiful lady with a wonderful testimony! May God bring a harvest of souls and encourage many with her story!
Amazing story. Amazing interview. Both interviewee and interviewer. Pastor Sean, you always do such an amazing job of interviewing, and you always have amazing guest. And I can’t say this one is any better than any other. But I can say that this one was so pure. And I too, felt the emotion and sensed that she was reliving every moment of what happened 20 years ago. Several times my eyes teared up. God bless her. God bless her brother. And God bless you..
"When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee..."
Isaiah 43:2 came to mind when you (Monica) were describing how you came through without a scratch! (Around 55:00 minute mark).
Thank you so much Monica! Such a precious person you are and the story so incredible! Jesus is the ANSWER!
Thank you for the word about being verbal, not just talking in my mind when I pray. I needed to hear that.
It's a good way of describing hearing God's voice. I've heard Him speak to me before, and it is not necessarily audible but unmistakably different than my own thoughts.
Monica, is incredibly articulate. I get the feeling English is a second language yet her explanation is so vivid she knows how to take us on the journey with her. What a story. What a human being. WOW
So glad you think so! It is my second language! The HS helps me. 🙏
@@monicarconnelly - Hi. I never thought I’d hear from you. You are very welcome. You’re an amazing communicator and great at English. And an incredible human being. God bless you
@AbiNomac I am a sinner just like everybody else, but thank you. You are very kind. God bless you too.
So beautiful, Monica🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 You are definitely GLORIFYING GOD by sharing your story🙏🏽I truly LOVED to hear her say, HOW CAN ANYONE GO THROUGH ANY DIFFICULTY OR TRAGEDY WITHOUT GOD?!! This interview was Spirit filled and very inspiring 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️❤️God Bless you
Amen ❤❤❤
I'd like to know who took care of Monica after her parents were gone. What an amazingly strong young girl you were! But losing your parents on top of the trauma of the disaster boggles my mind.
Truly a miraculous testimony! God is so good. ♥️ I recall watching The Impossible when it was released in theaters. I always wondered if the few who had survived that awful event found Christ. So her story answered that question and made it personal! Thanks for sharing Monica! ❤
That's 1 of my favorite movies 🫂 the writer, director & actors conveyed the victims traumatic events & emotions so vividly -I felt I was there also 👍 ALL Glory to GOD 🤩
I was living in Chiang Mai, Thailand at this time. I remember sitting on my bed and feeling the earthquake that started this event. I had felt many earthquakes while living there that I didn't think anything about it. It was heartbreaking when I found out what actually happened. We would vacation on Phi Phi Island, one of the hard hit areas. We had met many people that lived there and nearby. It was unbelievable to realize that most of those people died that day.
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I was 'officially' killed in that Tsunami in Thailand, even though I'm very much alive. One time I was going on holidays, and at the airport they scanned my passport and the machine started beeping. The official gave me a stern look, and said, 'sir, you have to come with me'. I was interviewed, and I found out that my passport had been cancelled, because according to their records I had been killed in that Tsunami (despite the fact I've never been toThailand, as proven by my passport record). After some investigation it was found that someone had made a clerical error and got a number wrong when cancelling the passport of someone who had died there.
Oh wow, what a strange thing to happen.
I remember that day, i was a little older than Monica and my grandpa read out the news of the tsunami to our family.
Sometimes God does not operate in a box of our world view. I think of Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus and how the Christians around him reacted to his story. What an amazing story this gal tells and how He personally came to her. Her story is her story and she obviously is a Christian. Thank you for sharing your story just as it happened. Such a blessing to us.
Her testimony is so vivid and real. Im grateful for the spiritual strength I recieved listening on how to endure well through adversity
Sean, I love all these amazing testimonies! They have been a great source of encouragement to me. Thank you brother.
The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That is so beautiful! Thank you for sharing this interview.
What a beautiful story and what a remarkable young woman. May the Lord continue to use your story for His glory! And may your family and your new little one be blessed. Sean, I never say it, but I love your show and I appreciate so much your topics and your temperament. May God continue to bless you and grow your platform for His glory.
Thank you Monica for sharing your story & pointing people in the direction of Jesus and admittedly we are all continuing to grow in our faith. So appreciate u! Sean thank u for your fantastic questions & your listening skills. I just love your You Tube ministry 🇨🇦 ❤
Glad to meet a survivor.. Beautiful Lady!Great testimony.
She speaks truth.
This is an incredible story. Thank you so much for your vulnerability, Monica. Such a tough experience to share. ❤️🩹👏👏👏
I do not know Jesus yet. I asked him, though yesterday, to please help me raise my children to know and love Him (their father was raised Hindu), to give them the inate moral compass He has given me (though admittedly I often have not followed it in the past at times, evidence by marrying my husband perhaps, searching for signs perhaps where there were none). Perhaps this interview with this lovely lady, is an actual sign He was listening. She grew up with Him in her heart it seems.
Yes don't stop searching for God the Fathers Son who paid the price for our Sin...it is a noble desire for your children to know The Lord and I am sure your help is on the way...take care
God has His way of fixing things that we can't when we just trust and surrender to Him.
Hi Snow! I didn’t grow up knowing Jesus either. If you would like, you can accept him into your heart right now, Do you want to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior? John 3:16 says, For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, and has made that was for us back to God. Our sin separated us from God, but Jesus sacrificed His life to bring us back to God. He loves you so much.
I know God wants to help you raise your kids and I can only imagine how hard single parenting + your divorce are. I pray God gives you all the wisdom, strength, and support you need!
As for not knowing Jesus yet and this being a sign, I hope to encourage you with these words God spoke in the Bible, “You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13 ESV
Keep seeking because He will reveal Himself to you beautifully step by step. God wants you to know Him and is patient with us. I can attest to experiencing this in my own life.
God bless you 🙏
Jesus is the Truth, the Light, the Way. He is the Messiah who died on the cross for our sins. Just ask Him to forgive your sins and except Him as your Saviour. Thank Him that you are a child of God now! God will lead the way, show you what to do further. He will protect you, for now you have eternal life in heaven, where Jesus and the Father will welcome you! Jesus is going to rapture His bride away, in the clouds very soon. Read in the Bible, starting from the Gospel of John. Lots of love❤
Thank you Sean for having her on! What a powerful testimony! I’m gonna have to check out her book!
This is one of the most powerful and moving recountings that I have ever heard, and definitely the most beautiful.
Wow, having a YT channel like Sean's must be very tough. Sean looks thrashed, stressed - perhaps depressed. Prayers for Sean. Kudos to him for going through with this interview.
This is amazing especially at that young age. You are really Blessed and thank you for your testimony.
I love the comment "Choose Life when we suffer".
What a remarkable young woman. To be reborn in Christ at the same occasion that take away her birth parents is quite something. And her amazingly mature demeanour all throughout this so fundamentally life changing experience at as early as thirteen... Kudos to you, young lady! ❤
Monica you are definitely sold out to the Saviour. and family...keep up the good work
Wow, amazing story! Thanks for sharing, Monica
All week I keep reflecting on this story. God is so good and faithful. He gives us strength, He shows us the way, and helps us do it, He shows us our choice to choose life or not. He does all this in a supernatural way for each of us if we are willing to look closely. Trust the Lord, do not delay.
Monica, you're beautiful and courageous , 🙌 What an inspiring testimony 😮, you listened to the Spirit of God, and he brought you out! 🧎♀️➡️Hallelujah 🙌 what a mighty God He is!💯 Thank you, LORD JESUS 🙌
I got misty-eyed several times listening to Monica’s story. It’s amazing how the Lord supernaturally protected her from not even a scratch. I would love to interview her for our podcast. Amazingly enough, in 2004, my family was supposed to have a reunion in Phuket, which is South Thailand 🇹🇭. At the last minute, they changed their mind.
It's amazing that the Lord supernaturally failed to protect the 230,000 people that did die.
@w4rsh1p a. People die all the time, including a huge variety of other tragedies
B. I have heard of others that were saved from the tsunami in amazing ways, they just didn't mention God, but God uses different ways at different times
C. God fails at nothing
D. Did those others choose God and ask for His help? =>
E. God doesn't choose to stop all disaster and tragic death obviously, He doesn't necessarily respond to everyone's requests for all things. He has His reasons. And who are you to know them?
"For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM?"
1 Corinthians 2:16
F. It's amazing that that's the comment you people feel is appropriate, decent, and respectful to leave on a video of such a miraculous and joyous account of a young life saved in certain death.
G. God uses lots of tragedies and sorrows, for the good of those who love Him (Romans 8:28). Those of us who know Him and have grown tremendously through our tremendous sufferings would know.
H. "For God so loved the world *that* He gave His only begotten Son *that whosoever* believes in Him WOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE." John 3:16
@@w4rsh1pyou guys are really honestly just jerks
@@w4rsh1p dumb comment. doesn't solve anything.
@@w4rsh1p They are in heaven with a better life than ours now.
I’m so glad you told the true story with God in it. What an amazing salvation testimony! I pray that God will use your story to glorify His name, and to bring many to Himself.
Amazing Grace. Thank you! For sharing how merciful, faithful and loving Jesus is. This testimony,is absolutely the gospel of Jesus. May you continue to share your testimony. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ and bring him glory through it.
Heart felt testimony. It was a blessing to me.
GOD IS GOOD AND GOD BLESS U ALL
What a beautiful sister in Christ and amazing, textured, poetic, visceral recounting of her incredible story and coming to Christ our majestic King, our Lord, our Creator.
Praise God ~
I pray her brother comes unto our Lord; the Way, the Truth, the Life as well.
So very touching, the presense of the Holy Spirit in this beautiful share!
Glory to God our eternal Father forevermore!
God bless beloved
of the Lord ~
🌄🪻🌻🪷🌲💜🌲🪷🌻🪻🌅
Thank you for including my brother in your prayer! ❤❤❤
For those surrounded with heavy burdens please read Romans 8:31-39 and Luke 11:29-30.
Let God quiet your mind with this truth in all the chaos you are not a failure-
Romans 8:37
"No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us."
Danke. Leute, ruft um Hilfe, wählt die richtige Adresse, und die heisst JESUS. Bist Du auch sehr bedrückt, gib nicht auf.
When we are weak He is strong! We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. What an amazing testimonial, the best ever! We must listen for God and trust Him and do not give way to fear, fear and faith are the opposite of each other.
Just tuning in, God bless!
She's really articulate. Thank you for sharing your story. God bless you
And thoughtful and genuine. You can see how she looks up into the corner as pulls these memories out to share. It is and witness and incredible story.
😂@@brendawalten9718
Wow. Just wow!
I felt God was with me when I was taking care of my father who had cancer.
She is extremely articulate.
God speaks to us in thought form 🙏
I saw this film! Wow!! What an awesome testimony!❤❤❤
What an amazing story. Thank you for sharing it. ❤
God is everything ….you were blessed thanks to Christ Jesus….what a story…very touching…Stay blessed in Jesus name…Amen
Monica, if you're still reading these comments I want to tell you that your feeling that people would think you're crazy is legit and totally relatable. My daughter's heart stopped while I was in labor, she was hemorrhaging from the lungs when they delivered her 6 minutes later via emergency C-section. She lost all of her own blood while they pumped new blood in to keep her alive. I "saw" wings covering my daughter and I as they rushed us in to surgery and remembered Psalm 91. The Lord came and sat by my bed the next morning. I "saw" Him not with my eyes (if that makes sense). I felt His love and His approval - like the love a parent has for their precious newborn where before I'd only seen Him as stern and disapproving. I didn't share that with anyone for a long time because I felt that they wouldn't understand and would interpret it, analyze it and ruin something beautiful. We stand on the Word of God, the Scripture and filter things like this through the truth therein but we can't dictate to the Spirit how He will work. Thank you for trusting the Lord with your story. (edited to add - MY DAUGHTER LIVED~! That was just the beginning of her story. God is faithful)
You are super Mom!
Amazing testimony. India and Sri-lanka had large death tolls too.
Thankyou Monica 🌿
All glory, honour and praise to God and God alone.
Beautiful story. Thank you for sharing.
Good video.
I've had more than one tsunami dream in the past 2 years. Am anticipating more coming.
I pray no one takes away from her what she knows.
This lady glows
Thank you for sharing your story!
Monica is such a sweet, wonderful young woman and I'm so happy to hear that she is a mother who will raise her family in the love and admonition of the Lord Jesus Christ! Thank you for airing her powerful story about our God's faithfulness to bring beauty from even the devastation this tsunami brought. Thank you Monica for your witness to the power and Love of God! ❤❤❤
Interesting story, thanks for sharing
Thank you for sharing your story.
Monica, I loved hearing your story -so encouraging ❤. It reminded me of the song Save Me by 100 Portraits (from the Enter The Worship Circle album). It’s from Psalm 69 ❤ I can’t wait to get your book!
AMEN AND AMEN ❤️ 🙏 🙌 👏 ♥️ ☺️ ❤️ 🙏
Thank you & God bless you both ❤
There are some questions you didn’t ask that I am very curious about:
1. With her parents, where and how did she go?
2. Who did she live with?
@AaronHOrtiz her book "Surviving a Tsunami at 13: a Memoir" is free to read right now I gladly noticed with amazon kindle unlimited subscription!
And I would add wondering how she feels about her parents not being spared, but knowing they weren’t believers so they aren’t with Christ. 😢 That would feel like torture to me.
But I know that they may have had their own encounter with Him in their last moments. Hope so. Just would like to hear her thoughts on it. Maybe it is in the book.
@lisamichelle2596 yeah! And did they cover if she IN FACT KNEW her parents were killed.
@crystalhopper6395 they found the bodies of her parents it said in her memoir i think about 3 months later
@lisamichelle2596 I've read that we best remember that God is more merciful than we are, more gracious, more loving, and knows the exact encounter his people need to truly, freely say yes to him. We can let him hold our future, the future of our family, our enormous questions, and fix our eyes on him every day.
God bless you and your family greatly .
May people come to know Jesus Christ through Monica‘s testimony. Glory be to God!
You are so beautiful inside and out💜🙏💜
Praise the Lord Glory Hallelujah thank you Jesus 🙏
God bless you Monica!!
Sean I hope you’re doing ok and not in pain. Praying for you in the name of Jesus.
Thanks, I’m 💯!
Bless you Monica.
I'm a Catholic. I love Jesus. I love the guidance that my Church gives me.
@hopefulforhumanity5625 the guidance of the Word of God is sufficient and better, because it's the truth. Catholocism contradicts His Word in many ways and leads people astray
@@Lilalalalalallllla One big reason I love being Catholic is because I trust the 2,000 year old Church's interpretation of Scripture. Someone has to interpret Holy Scripture. It does not make sense that everyone gets to decide for himself what it means. That's how division occurs.
@@hopefulforhumanity5625 Catholics create division from the rest of Christians by their unbiblical teachings. "But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie-just as it has taught you, abide in him." 1 John 2:27
Dividing over seriously false teaching as found in Catholocism is a GOOD thing. Dividing over petty things is the problem.
@@Lilalalalalallllla Actually, the other Christian churches created the division when they broke away from the Catholic Church.
Sean I really wish you’d actually ask your guests questions while interviewing them
Amazing testimony! ❤
You never read her book before the interview !! Have you read it yet?
Thank you for sharing this miraculous story in such great detail, and you are absolutely right, it is for God’s glory! Through you we have leaned that Jesus is God, He is real, He is personal, and He saves! May He use your story to help others find the same joy and peace you have, ands the true love that will be worth it all in the end!!!
I didn't hear Monica Speak about the tragic LOSS of her Parents. She talked about witnessing the reunion of a father & daughter; but NOT about what she experienced or felt about realizing that her Mother and Father were GONE; DROWNED ....?! I don't understand HOW she could NOT talk about LOSING her own Mother & Father in this TRAGIC Manner ...??!!
@Diligent-dp7gi I feel the point of her experience with the father and daughter that moved her so deeply was God conveying to her, He had called her home to be with Him now, her true eternal Father. And He was rejoicing over her rebirth in and her coming home finally to Him. I'm sure she talks about her life story more in her book. "A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling."♡ Psalm 68:5
It's something I didn't even begin to process until I was in Portugal. I should have mentioned that. I didn't talk much about those years in this interview. But I did mention they were very difficult and it got so dark, I even wanted to die. While I was in Thailand though, I was so overjoyed for being alive, I could feel God so present, that it left no space for feeling anything else. I know it can seem weird.
@monicarconnelly thank you so much for sharing your incredible testimony. I'm a reborn Christian living in Thailand now. I so relate to your story. My 16 month old baby died of SUDC 14 years ago. The morning I found him in his cot I had a supernatural God experience too and knew that day He was totally real. I completely surrendered my life to Jesus that day and I have experienced many more miracles since then. God Bless you and your family and I will pray for your brother to find Christ xxx
@lkam3893 wow... I'm so glad God met you in that moment. Only He could. Thank you for your prayers. They are truly appreciated. It is my brother who is not saved, not my husband.
@@monicarconnellyAmen! Jesus is just incredible! Our Miracle Maker who gives Peace that surpasses all understanding. Praying for your brother, oops sorry corrected that 🙏 ❤️
For some reason I could feel she’s an Indian the way she narrates a story it look like that ! Wonderful story
She's Portuguese.
What a beautiful and riveting testimony- God bless her!
I admire her faith and the source of contentment coming from God , her love of Jesus Christ and her family .
I remember being in Iraq watching the news reports. I'll never forget how I failed the Lord. My atheist friend asked me "where is your God in this?" I just said "I don't know"
there are videos on here of tsunamis some of them might of been the one she was in.
Oh yes! Jesus is real for sure! Thank you for sharing your story
What happened to her parents?
I love your interviews. Why the illuminated bat in the background?
Good Question perhaps it's something he had with him from youth...I'm not justifying Batman😂
The bat is extremely distracting. He's trying to be relatable to young people.