Do You Want to Be Well? - Chris Durso

Journey Church, how we feeling? [MUSIC] Anybody love Jesus in this place? [MUSIC] Come on, if you're just so grateful for everything that is that he's done for you, how he saved you, turned your life around. Let's just give him a loud standing ovation in this place. Thank you, God. [MUSIC] Hey, since we're celebrating, how many of you believe that you have two of the greatest pastors in the world? Come on, can we make some noise for Pastor JJ and Pastor Liz? Two of my friends, I love him so much. I love this church, it's always an honor to be here, excited to be here. You could go on ahead and grab your seat. Like Pastor JJ said, I'm no stranger, but if we've not met before, my name is Chris, and I have the beautiful opportunity of coming from all the way from New York City, where I was born and raised. And now I pastor a church, yeah, thank you. I pastor a church called Good Company Church, and we're about to turn one. So you all are celebrating 10 years, and we're about to be celebrating our first birthday, which, to be honest with you, is so encouraging for me to be here. Because I'm just looking at everything and thinking, God, what you've done in Orlando, can you do it in New York? The way that you've blessed a journey, would you bless good company? And then some, yes, sir, just believing that our best days are in front of us in the name of Jesus. How many of you are originally from New York? Now, that's not a question that I would normally ask, unless I was in Orlando. Orlando is AKA mini New York, and we're not upset at you for leaving us.

The weather is better, but we're just so happy. I want you to be as New York as possible today, okay? You're gonna make me feel more comfortable as I preach to you. And for me, it's a little bit of an honor. We have a whole crew, a whole slew of students here from Southeastern University. Can we thank God for them hanging out with us? My son, Dylan, is a part of SCU, he's a second year student. He brought a bunch of his friends. It's just an honor for me to be here. I'll be honest with you, I told JJ, I said, any time you want me to preach, I'm gonna say yes, because I get to see you all, and then I get to see my son. So I'm excited about that, honored, honored to be here. Hey, if you have your Bibles, if you have your Bibles, open up with me to the Book of John, chapter five, the Book of John, chapter five. Now, before we dive into this very familiar portion of Scripture, I wanna preface the moment by saying, I believe in miracles. Anybody else believe in miracles? I believe in the supernatural. In fact, let me just say right here, I think it's sad that there are people that believe in a supernatural God and expect a supernatural God to behave like them. Our God's still does supernatural things, and in who he is, he's miraculous. He's ever present, he's always was and always will be. And as I was praying for today, I was praying that this supernatural God would reveal himself to you, but not only would he reveal himself to you, but that you would be in awe of his beauty. And I say that because I believe that we're living in a day and age and Christianity, where Christians are divided on what they're paying attention to. See, I believe there's one group of believers that are distracted by their misery. And they're missing out on Jesus because all they're looking at is their misery. They're coming to church and they're worshiping and they're reading their Bible,

but they're not able to see Jesus because they're too focused on their pain. Then I think there's this other group of believers. There's other group of believers that they love Jesus, but they're more impressed by miracles. So they find themselves chasing angels and they find themselves chasing signs and wonders as if Jesus isn't enough for them. Can I tell you where I stand on the topic? I believe that the greatest thing each and every one of us could ever do is just chase after Jesus. And here's a promise. If you chase after Jesus, you're going to run into some miracles. If you chase after Jesus, you're going to run into the supernatural. If you chase after Jesus, he's going to fixate your attention on what is most important. That's why I love this portion of Scripture so much. If you ever spent any time around church, you might have heard it preached before. It says in John chapter 5 verse 1, some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now, there is in Jerusalem near the sheep gate, a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda, and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here, a great number of disabled people used to lie. The blind, the lame, the paralyzed. That's a long time to be stuck in the same situation, 38 years. It says in verse six, "When Jesus saw him lying there "and learned that he had been in this condition "for a long time, he asked him, "do you want to get well?" I believe that the Holy Spirit is asking us all the same questions today. Do you want to get well? In fact, just to be very clear with you, we're going to spend the rest of our time

orbiting around this question, because really what we're trying to get at is how bad you actually want it. It goes on to say in verse seven, "Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool "when the water is stirred. "While I'm trying to get in, "someone else goes down ahead of me." Then Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your mat and walk. "At once the man was cured, "he picked up his mat and he walked. "The day on which this took place was a Sabbath. "I want to take the next few moments "and I want to preach to you from this thought. "You're missing what's right in front of you. "If you're taking notes, write that down. "If you decided you weren't going to take notes, "write it down anyway. "You're missing what's right in front of you. "Let's pray one more time. "Holy Spirit, speak, open up our eyes "to see what it is that you have for us "and keep us, protect us, "and remove our focus on any distractions. "In Jesus's name, allow us to leave this place healed "in the precious and match this name of Jesus. "If you agree, can you shout amen? "Come on, journey, shout amen.

"Amen, amen." I love this story. I have read this story over and over. If I'm being honest, John is one of my favorite books in the entire Bible out of the four gospels. John is my favorite. And every time I read the story, I find myself encouraged. Except the other day as I was reading it, I found myself bothered. I found myself bothered because John introduces us to a man that has been disabled, unable to walk in the same condition for 38 years. 38 years. And when you read the story, the problem seems obvious. The problem is that the man cannot walk. That's the diagnosis. He's paralyzed. He is unable to use his legs. As a result, he's lying there in the same spot day after day. And that's why he can't get into the pool just a few feet away from him. So every time the water moves, somebody gets in front of him. And as a result, he's not able to get there simply because his legs don't work. As I was reading this the other day, I thought to myself, I get that his legs don't work. But what about his eyes? See, it's obvious that he could see the pool.

It's obvious that he could see the water being stirred. It's obvious that he could see people getting in front of him, getting their miracle. He's been in the same spot for 38 years, praying the prayer that God would heal them. And because he's there, he's watching other people get in front of him. So it's obvious, it's obvious that he's able to see, but yet simultaneously he is missing who is right in front of him. What I mean is Jesus is standing there. The waymaker, the miracle worker is standing there in front of him. The one who is able to heal him is right in front of him. And it seems like he's not able to recognize him. The future that he has been praying for and hoping for is standing there in the flesh, and he does not recognize it. He's looking at Jesus, but it seems to be that he's looking beyond Jesus, which speaks to this idea. Just because you can see doesn't mean you could see. There is a great difference between sight and perception. There is a great difference between sight and perception. Sight tells you what you're looking at. Perception tells you what you believe what you're looking at means. And those are two very different things. For example, two people can look at the same exact thing and see something completely different.

Let's say someone offers you help. One person accepts it as support. Another person sees it as control. It's the same help, different perception. Let's say someone offers correction. One person sees it as love. The other person sees it as rejection. Same conversation, different perception, why? Because we don't see life only through our eyes. We see life through our... In other words, life will offer you a lens. Let's make it plain. Abandonment will offer you a lens. Being broken-hearted will offer you a lens. Hate will give you a lens. Victory will give you a lens. Success will give you a lens. Racism will give you a lens. Wealth will give you a lens. Poverty will give you a lens. Failure will give you a lens. Health will give you a lens. Sickness will give you a lens. And the thing about a lens is that the longer you wear it, eventually you forget that you put it on in the first place. And you will go from, "This is how I see it to, this is how it is." And now what you thought was an opinion has now become the thing that has shaped your reality. And the reason why this is important. Because depending on how you see,

it will make great impact on how you walk. The man cannot see who is standing in front of him. So then could it be that his legs were not the only thing paralyzed? Now, before we continue talking about this man, let's identify the fact that 38 years is a long time for anyone to be in the same exact situation. 38 years is a long time to be in the same place. 38 years is a long time to be dealing with the same problem over and over watching everyone else moving, watching everyone else get blessed, watching everyone else get ahead of you, watching everyone else get your healing. 38 years living within disappointment. That is a long time to be in the same place over and over. And before we talk about this man as if we wouldn't have been the same as this man, it would be important to note that we are this man. We are the man that have found ourselves in the same situation over and over and over day after day dealing with grief, dealing with sorrow, dealing with frustration, dealing with turmoil, dealing with dealing with the reality of what it is that we've experienced. And if you live in anything long enough, it will become the thing that shapes you. This is what I would identify as a paralyzed perception. A paralyzed perception is what you -- a paralyzed perception is when what you've seen for so long limits your ability to see what's possible now. That you're not able to see what's in front of you. You're not able to see blessing. That's in front of you because your experiences are shaping the way that you are internalizing the blessings that are in front of you. When you have a paralyzed perception, you can't receive a blessing as a blessing. In fact, you'll turn a blessing into a burden. When you have a paralyzed perception, you're not able to receive the good people that are in your life. You're not able to be in new relationships and receive the new relationship as a blessing because until you heal your perception and until you heal your soul and until you renew your mind,

you're going to walk into a new season with old legs. You're going to walk into a new season with an old mindset and you know what happens? You'll get the same results at this time as you did the last time even though everything has changed, but in reality nothing has changed. The new relationship ends up just like the old relationship. The new job ends up just like the old job. The new opportunity ends up just like the old opportunity because until you shift the way that you see, I promise you, you will walk into blessing and you will turn it into something else. And this is why it is important today what would be the point of receiving a physical miracle if we don't simultaneously receive an emotional one and a spiritual one and a mental one. We love reading the stories and we love the scriptures where it talks about miracles, where blind eyes open up and deaf ears opened up and men and women who were paralyzed are able to walk. We love these stories. These stories are powerful. However, what makes these stories powerful is not that a man received a miracle. It's that a man received a miracle and the miracle pointed to Jesus. If you want to know if you're the kind of person that could receive a miracle and use a miracle appropriately, then make sure that when you receive your legs, you use those legs to run and tell people about Jesus. Jesus. See what I love about this story is that Jesus says Want speaks to desire. Want speaks to intent. You want to get well, why do you want to get well? What are you gonna do with it after you get it? You wanna get well? What are you gonna do with it? Because what we don't need is for someone to get a miracle and then misappropriate the miracle so that they could go back in front of the people that deserted them and disrespected them so that they could say, "Look at me now." That's not what we do with miracles.

We receive miracles so that our lives can operate as arrows to Jesus. We receive miracles so that we can say, "Come me to man that knew everything about me. "Let me tell you about my Jesus. "I didn't just get my legs fixed "so that I could run faster than you. "I got my legs fixed so that I could lead you to Jesus. "I received miracles so I could point you "to a grade of miracle. "His name is Jesus. "Maybe I'm the only one, but is there anybody in the room "that would say you've been impacted "by the miraculous work of Jesus? "Come on, if that's you and you've got a story, "take about 30 seconds, lift up your hands, "open up your mouths and give Jesus your best shout. "Go." (congregation cheering) He's a miracle worker. He says, "I wanna give you a new life. "I wanna give you a future and I wanna give you all of this, "so that your life can point people to me." And the reason why I'm pointing this out is so that if we're gonna have this conversation, we have to make sure that we're having the appropriate conversation. And what I mean is that it's obvious is that Jesus is talking to this man, he's having one conversation,

and in the man's response to Jesus, the man is having a completely different conversation. It's like they're operating at two frequencies. Jesus says, "Do you want to get well?" The man says, "Everyone else keeps getting in front of me." You're missing what's right in front of you because you're focused on who wasn't there. If you are dealing with abandonment, if you are dealing with a loss, if you are currently mourning a relationship, a friendship, a marriage, hear me clearly. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry for what you walk through. I'm so sorry for what you've dealt with in your life. I mean that genuinely. I hate that it happened to you, whether you caused it or whether you did not cause it. I'm so sorry that you are walking through what you're walking through. I also know that when you are brokenhearted, being brokenhearted can consume you to the point that it's all you could talk about. So when given the opportunity to heal, you want to spend that opportunity talking about the past. There's nothing wrong talking about the past, but the conversation that Jesus is trying to have with you is one about the future. He's saying, "Do you want to get well?" And you're saying, "But they left me." "I'm sorry that they left you, but that's not what he asked you."

He's saying, "Do you want a new future? "Do you want to step up and do you want to walk in the healing?" And if you find yourself so overwhelmed, if you find yourself so overwhelmed by heartbreak and disappointment that it starts operating as a loop in your mind, I promise you it's going to keep you stuck. You think you're moving in motion, but in reality it's like running on a treadmill. You're putting a lot of effort, but you're going nowhere. It's like today's the day that I want you to get up and I want you to move forward. I find it, I find it so interesting that the man's response is one of loneliness. No one helps me. Jesus is in front of him. Jesus, our Jesus, our greatest help. The only one that we would ever need is standing in front of him, but here's the thing about loneliness. It can consume you so much that it causes you to miss out the presence that you're in. How is it that the man is describing absence in the presence of Jesus? No one's there for me. Nobody's helping me. Nobody wants to be with me. Everyone rejects me and you have Jesus in front of you and here's the thing. We have made so much of the people that have walked away that we are currently missing the people that have stayed. We have made so much of the people that aren't there,

so who it was that left you? Maybe, just maybe, you had to realize that they didn't have as much authority in your life as you thought. See the reason why Jesus could offer you healing, but you not focus on the healing, is because you thought that your healing was going to come through that person. So with that said, is it possible that you allow that person to become your idol? That Jesus is offering you relationship, and you don't even want the relationship, because you're talking about the one who abandoned you. You're talking about the one who left you. You're talking about the one that wasn't there, but Jesus is saying, "My son, my daughter, I'm here, and do you want to get well?" I've learned in life that there are people that have been victimized. And because they've been victimized, it has literally paralyzed them. And when you try to talk to them about moving forward, they only want to talk to you about what's behind them. What I mean by that is God wants to talk to you about healing. You want to talk to Him how you got sick. He's saying, "I have a future for you." You're saying, "God, I want to tell you about my past." He's saying, "I have something better that's next." You want to remind Him and let Him know all the people that disrespected you. And here's the thing, being victimized is one thing. Being the eternal victim is another.

And the issue with being an eternal victim means that you have no use for eternal Savior. Jesus wants to deliver you, and He wants to move you forward. He's saying, "Son, daughter, what happened to you? Happened to you? It should not have happened to you. How it played out? It was wrong. It was unnecessary. It was not right. And you did not need them to get to where it is that I'm calling you to. The bad days are behind you. But guess what? You have the one that holds all your days in His hands. I have goodness for you. I have promise for you. I have better for you. I have blessing for you. I have joy for you. See, the issue is, is that you've attached all your joy to that person. When in reality, no person could do for you what it is that Jesus could do for you. He says, "Come to Me, all you who are weary, all you who are broken, and I'll show you life. I'll show you blessings. I'll show you goodness." Speaking of goodness, how good is God? When the man doesn't even ask Jesus for a miracle and he still gets it. Let that mess with your theology. There are a whole lot of people that think that unless I pray hard enough, unless I tithe large enough, unless I worship loud enough, I got to make sure I do it Daniel fast for 21 days, or 45 days,

or 365 days, or 1,000 days. And if I do that maybe, maybe just then, I'll receive my miracle. And with all due respect, to all the things that you want to do great for God, do them, not from a place of trying to convince him, but do him in response to your love for him. Because here's the thing about God. He blesses who he wants to bless whenever he wants to bless him, whether you ask for it or not. The man is laying there. He does not ask to be healed. And he doesn't accept it when Jesus offers it. And he still gets it. If you found yourself in the same position over and over, and you prayed for your miracle, maybe it's not because you didn't pray hard enough. Maybe because God's timing isn't the same as yours. And I'm believing you're going to get your miracle, and I'm believing you're going to get what it is, what it is that's better than wherever it is that you are right now. But can I encourage you to keep on seeking Jesus, to keep on praising Jesus, and praise him from the position that he's good, not so that you could try to get his attention. Do you want to get well? Well, every time I try to go over in the pool, the people get in front of me. You're missing. What's in front of you? Because you're too focused on what's behind you.

I didn't ask you what happened. I was trying to tell you about what I'm trying to do. Do you want it or not? Thank you. The best. If you ever found yourself waiting and praying for a miracle, you might have found yourself frustrated with other people that got their miracle before you. You ever been there? You know what I've learned? I've learned that comparison is crippling. I've learned that you could have blessing in front of you, but you'll miss it completely because you are comparing where you're at and where somebody else is at. And then you get frustrated with God because He's not done for you what it is that He's done for somebody else. And you both prayed the same prayer, but in your book, you're better than that person. You're like, "God, why did she get married? I was way better than her. Why did He get the house? I was a way better steward of my finances than Him. And we start comparing. And when we start to compare, we end up missing the blessing that's in front of us because even in moments where you're waiting for a miracle, I promise you, you're still blessed. And you have more blessing than you realize." Just a few weeks ago, I landed in Orlando with my sons. I was dropping them off for the semester, and when we landed, we pulled up to the gate, and they rang the bell, allowing us to know that we could all get up and grab our baggage from the overhead. Shortly after that, a voice came over the PA system to let us know that although we could remain standing, we're not going to be able to deplane for a few minutes. It was we're just standing there waiting.

There's this mother and son to the right of me. The son had to be about five years old, and he was turning all the way up. This kid was having a whole party in his seat. He wasn't even seated in his seat. He was standing on top of his seat. He was dancing. He was smacking the guy in front of him. He was smacking the woman behind him, all while, all while his mother is to the left of him, completely oblivious. She was simply just scrolling on her phone. Not only can we see her scrolling, but we could hear what she was watching because even though she had the biggest headphones on that you've ever seen, the headphones weren't connected to the Bluetooth like she thought. So she's there, and she's watching the video, and she's watching a video of a little boy probably the same age of her child who's next to her dancing to a song, a song that used to be famous in the early 2000s, a song called "Superman" by an artist called Soldier Boy. Have you heard this song? You. You know what I'm talking about? So she's watching and laughing hysterically at this little boy on her phone dancing. But because the music's not connected, we could all hear the music. So her son, who stood the right of her, starts doing the same dance. She's laughing, and she's having the best time, and this kid is hitting everyone, dancing, having the time of his life, and we're all watching her trying to figure out when she's going to realize what her child was doing, and really all he was doing was crying out for attention. And really all his mom was doing was focused on another boy that she'll never meet. And then she's scrolled to the next video, and she's scrolled to one of those videos that gets me every time as a parent. You want any parents in the room?

You know those videos on social media that make you cry? You know what I'm talking about? The videos that talk about how time passes so quickly, and how your children get old so quickly. You know what I'm talking about? You read kind of like one day, you're changing their diaper, and then the next day they're changing yours, you know what I'm talking about? This woman is scrolling, and now she's crying. She's crying, where her child is to the right of her. Watching a video of how time passes by, and we have to use every opportunity to be present with our children. And her son is still... When you find yourself in a place of comparison, it will cripple you to the blessings that are in front of you. And here's what I want to say to you, what God has for you is so beautiful. What he has for you is so great. He wants to bless you, he wants to use you, and here's the best part. He wants to heal you. He wants to heal you on his terms. [MUSIC] Some of you, you are missing what's right in front of you because you've already decided what you're healing should look like. You're missing what's right in front of you because you've already decided what you're healing should look like. Here's what I mean. Can you guys put up verses three through five for me? John five, three through five. Look at, look at verse three, it says,

here a great number of disabled people used to lie. The blind, the lame, the paralyzed. You see that? First, the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. Look at verse four. Put up verse four. You know why verse four is not there? Because verse four is not there. There's no verse four in your Bible. Verse four was omitted from your Bible. It was redacted from your Bible. Here's why. Here's what verse four said. Verse four said, from time to time, an angel would come down and stir the waters. And whoever got in the waters first would be healed. Which now gives us context why this man was so anxious to get into the pool. And in his mind, he's thinking, I have to get into the pool so that I could, so that I could get my miracle. Now, here's the interesting thing about verse four. If you were to do your own research on verse four, it's so interesting. There are two groups of people that exist in this world because of verse four. There is one group of people that say, verse four is so important and needs to be included in our Bible. And they have committed their lives to fight for the fact

that verse four needs to be back into the Bible. And they have pledged until the day they die or until the day comes first, that verse four is included back in, they're gonna spend the rest of their life making sure that people know that an angel came down and stirred the waters. And then there's another group of people. Know what the other group of people are saying? The other group of people are saying, no! Verse four is bad. We weren't there. How do we know if an angel came down? It's misleading. I don't want verse four and now you have two groups of people. Follow me. You have two groups of people that have committed their lives to either make sure verse four is included or make sure that verse four is not included. And can I just share with you my theological disposition above verse four? Who cares? Who cares if an angel came down or stirred the waters or not? Jesus is present. And if Jesus is present, why would I fixate my attention on an angel? Why would I fixate my attention on how this thing played out? I mean, think about it. Jesus is standing in front of the man

and the man is complaining about a pool. But friends, why would you care about a pool when the living water is standing in front of you? Jesus is in front of you and he's saying, do you want to get well? Do you want to get up? Do you want to move? Do you want to get to? Where it is that I'm trying to get you? Remain standing, remain standing, come on. You're not standing standing stand to your feet, stand to your feet here. Here's the thing though, here's the kicker, here's the kicker. Many of us are like this man because Jesus is saying, do you want to get well? And we're saying, I want to get in the pool. And Jesus is saying, I might have used pools to heal people, but I don't have a pool for you. And when you want what you want, you've already decided in your mind what your healing should look like. So here's what I mean. So many of you want your justice. You want your apology. You want him or her to come back into your life and say I was wrong. And maybe they do. Maybe they do. Maybe you got the business again.

Maybe you do. Maybe they apologize for gossiping about you and lying about you. Maybe they don't, but that's not the question. The question is, do you want to get healed? And if you want to get healed, you have to allow yourself to let go of the formulas that you've put in place. In other words, forget about the pools. Forget about the routes that you've decided on. Forget about all the ways that you think this thing is supposed to play out and simply accept that Jesus is inviting you into something beautiful and it may not look like the route that you thought you were supposed to take. Do you want to get well? Do you want to be healed? (gentle music) [MUSIC PLAYING] For the one carrying pain today, I'm so sorry. They're anxious, frustrated, feel like life has done you wrong, people that you trusted, whether it was an organization or a university, a financial institute, a Christian institute. I'm so sorry. But for a second, instead of holding on so tightly to our stories and how we got here, maybe just maybe we. We put our story to the side for a moment so that we could experience a new one.

Jesus is saying, you've allowed your story to engulf you so much so that it's become your identity. Today, I'm inviting you into something new. What you thought was your whole story was just a part of the story. I got a new story for you. I got new blessings for you. I got new relationships for you. I got new business ventures for you. I got new days for you. But if you want it, if you want it, I need you to trust me. Do you want to get well? If you would say, I want to get well, I want to get well. I don't want to live in this loop. I don't want to live in this pain. I don't want to live in this mindset. I want to get well. If that's you, just lift up your hand. I'm going to lift up mine. Yeah, there you go. Look at that. Look at that. You know what's amazing about all the hands lifted up? It represents the fact that we're not alone. Look, each and every one of us, each and every one of us have been in that place where we felt stuck and we felt broken and we felt aggravated and we felt like life has done us wrong. And here's the thing.

It takes one to know. We've been there. We've been there and here's the good thing. He's going to give us new legs and he's going to give us a new perception and we're going to be able to step into a future and we're going to run into everything it is that God has for us. Come on, do you believe that over your life? Lift up your hands. Lift up your hands. Holy Spirit, I ask that you would fall in this place. I ask that you would fall in my brothers and my sisters. I am asking you, O God, that you would renew our minds. I pray that you would heal our spirits. I pray, O Father, God, that you would allow the scales to fall from our eyes, that you would allow the filters in our ears, O God, to be healed right now. Jesus, we love you. Jesus, we honor you. I am praying, O God, I'm praying for healing to take place. And God, thank you, O God, for allowing us to grieve. Thank you for allowing us to mourn. For your word says there's a time to grieve. There's a time to mourn. But I hear your voice saying right now that those days are over, there's joy in front of us. There's a laughter. Come on, you're about to start dancing again. You're about to start seeing new things flourish again. Your home is going to be a happy place again.

Come on, lift up your hands all over this room. And if you receive that, give Jesus a shout of praise in this place. Now, before we go, I want to give one more opportunity, one more opportunity, to the people that are in this room. Can I ask you to close your eyes and buy your heads? If you're in this room and you've never given your life to Jesus, if you want to give your life to Jesus for the first time, or if you want to recommit your life to Jesus because you're unsure where you stand with him. Maybe you had a relationship, but you walked away. That's OK. I want you to include yourself in this moment. I'm going to count to three. And if that's you, when I say three, you shoot up your hand. One, Jesus loves you, and he died for you. Two, tomorrow's not promised any man or any woman. But the Bible says today is the day of salvation. If you want to give your life to Jesus, lift up your hand now. Three, lift it up, lift it up. Keep it up so I can count it. Keep it up so I can count it. Yup, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34. 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60. Come on, put your hands together. Hey, all 60 of you, I want you to keep those hands

lifted up, and I want you to repeat this prayer with me. 61, I see you. I want everyone in the room to repeat this prayer. Whether I counted your hand or you think that I didn't see your hand, Let's repeat it together. Say Jesus, come on, loud and proud, Jesus. You are King. You are Lord. Forgive me of all my sins and all my wrongdoing. I love you. I give my life to you in Jesus' name. Come on, in Jesus' name. Come on, can you shout amen? - Hey, we're JJ and Liz Vasquez. We wanted to say thank you so much for watching and engaging in today's content. - Maybe today you made the decision to follow Jesus. We wanna celebrate the incredible decision that you made. All you have to do is text Journey to 555-498. We would love to walk this journey out alongside you. - Hey, and don't let the journey stop here. We love for you to do one of three things. Subscribe, share, or support. If this ministry has blessed you at all, subscribe so you don't miss out on any new videos. Share with a friend, you never know what the people are closest to you are going through, or you can choose to partner with us through generosity, which helps bring these videos to people just like you.

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