REVISED - Nick Vujicic | 20 Years of Miracles

And so today I want to introduce our special guest speaker. Nick Vujicic has been in this house many times. He's one of our favorites from around the world. He's traveled all around the world. He's traveled all around the country. He led a massive revival here about 2015, 2016. And he was a man born without any arms or any legs. And he has this powerful message of hope. And so I want to just give you a glimpse of the ministry of Nick, and then he will join us. So please take a look at the screen. ♪♪ ♪♪ John chapter 9, he talks about a man who was born blind. And no one knew why this man was born blind, but Jesus did. And Jesus said he was done so that the works of God may be revealed through him. ♪♪ So I don't see this now as a birth defect. I see this as a gift that God is using in my life to bring people from far and near to hear my story, to hear of the hope that we can have in Jesus Christ. And I know in my life that even if I only save one person from giving up, and only one person to come into the knowledge of Jesus, then my work here is done. Come on down. Receive Jesus. Now is the day of salvation. He came for the broken. Come and be complete in Jesus' name.

♪♪ When you don't get a miracle, you can still be one. ♪♪ Amen. It is such a privilege and an honor. Happy Sunday morning. It is a joy to be back at Calvary. I'm not sure if you were there. Who was there? Put your hand up at FAU back in 2015. Yeah, we saw 2,000 people give their life to Jesus Christ. Praise God. Everyone say, praise God. And put your hand up if you've never heard me speak face to face. Okay, put your hand down. Put your hand up if you have. Okay, cool. Awesome. Last time I was here was early 2020. And it's such a joy to share my testimony, sharing the truth of the faith that we can have in God, which really when you have that well of faith, from that springs up all that God has for you. And all that God has for you, it doesn't always equate to what you think you need when you think you need it and how it's given. And there are times in life where we have faith, but kind of wondering where is God when we, you know, ought to get something that we think we don't just want but need. And obviously I have no limbs.

And the biggest questions of life is why sometimes. I'm definitely not a person to tell you that I understand what you're going through. But welcome. Put your hand up if this is your first time to the church. Raise your hand. Any visitors? Can we welcome them? Welcome to Calvary. And welcome to everyone online in the campuses and also in the virtual reality community. Love you very much. I want to first and foremost to show you a photo of me as a baby, if I may. I was born in Melbourne, Australia, 1982. And there was no medical reason as to why this had happened. And actually the doctors told my parents, we're so sorry that we didn't pick it up in the ultrasound. We don't believe that your child will have a good life. He will have no quality of life whatsoever. He will never walk. And we're so sorry that we didn't give you an opportunity to abort the child. In which my parents said, well, we know that God would have a plan no matter what. Praise God. And, you know, last service, we saw 70 people give their life to Jesus Christ. And last night, probably about 100. So blessed to have seen all around the world, 87 countries. My parents never thought that their limbless boy would travel more than them and be on stage. And they say, I run so fast, I leave my legs behind. But we were just in Mexico in December and we actually saw 30,000 people give their life to Jesus.

And we're walking through the streets of Mexico. We're walking through doors of nations with presidents and national media. The next big one is a half a million people in Mexico City with 30 million people watching. There are countries that actually allow the preaching of the gospel to be on secular television. Not often, but when we can go in through that door, we bust open that door by the grace of God. I got a little foot and boom, kick it open. And cause up some trouble, no one's gonna handcuff me. They can't find my fingerprints. But Nick V Ministries, we're so blessed to have travelled last 20 years and actually been an advisor to three governments and spoken in front of 10 national governments and had one-on-ones with presidents, 37 of them. And there was one we'll never forget in Peru. They were debating whether they open up lawful abortions in their country, if the child's gonna be born with a disability. And I had a one-on-one with the Peruvian president. And after meeting me, he says, now I know that this was a divine appointment cause they're all waiting for my answer. And this is no luck, chance or coincidence that we get to meet. And he's a Catholic pro-life dude, is really a great guy. And he came out on press and saying,

hey, you know what? I was just with Nick Vujicic and I know that God has a plan for every single child. And for as long as I'm president, we know that we could do with a couple more Nick Vujicic in our country. And just an hour ago, I got to meet someone with one leg. The mother knew that the child and the father knew that the child's gonna be born with a deformed leg. And so 17 years ago, she looked up YouTube babies with disabilities and here I come up. And she said, we just can't believe that we get to meet you and our son meet you. And he's been so inspired and we're all crying at the back. And that was just last service. And then last service as well, got to meet a couple who's expecting a child with a different disability. And now they're considering that even with the disability, God still has a plan. Now, what I want you to know, it's that it's not about pro-life or abortion or a pro-choice it's about the Bible and the truth of God where God has a plan. And most of the times we have no clue what that looks like. And then with the thoughts and feelings there in, every human being has thoughts and feelings yet they're in,

then we decide in what we believe and what we don't believe. And I can tell you when my parents saw me, man, did they feel unqualified. When my parents saw me, they were like, God, what are you doing? You know, my dad was not just a Christian, he was a pastor. And when the church found out that the pastor's son was born with a disability, people had different theories. What did the pastor do? Okay, that was serious. Like, it's really interesting. You know, everyone has everyone's philosophical views. You know, I was 13 years of age and I was at an airport and this total stranger came up to me and said, were you born this way? I said, uh-huh. She said, do you know why? And you know, I normally tell kids it was cigarettes. And, um. And so, these days I should say, I was addicted to technology, that would be good. Get your head around that one, I don't know. But I'll tell you this, you know, she said, well, I know why you were born this way. This complete stranger, I'm like, you do? She said, yeah. She said, you ever heard of reincarnation?

I said, no. She said, well, in your previous life, you were a terrible, naughty boy. And I'm like, what? And she's like, yep, and now you're getting punished. I'm like, okay. And she's like, but don't. I'm like, don't worry. Like, what's the hope? Next time you come back, you come back like a butterfly. And I'm like, that sucks. Like, I don't wanna be a butterfly. You know how many butterflies I've killed in my wheelchair? Like, you have no idea. Like, that doesn't make sense. And then, so to me, there has to be more. There has to be purpose. There has to be meaning in life. And for those of us who believe that Christianity is, well, that's just part of my culture. That's my tradition. Yes, I can tell you first and foremost, if you're a Christian, just because your family's family are Christian, you're not gonna be Christian for long, okay? If you're a Christian because of other Christians, it's only a matter of time before they actually maybe disappoint you. But Christianity itself is based on a book called the Bible, and it's very interesting.

As I've traveled around the world, as you can imagine, meeting a lot of people, I know why I'm not of other religions, because I really wanted to find out the truth for myself. Is there really a God? And the more that science digs deeper into what we don't know, the more it comes back to, well, something can't come out of nothing. So there had to be then a creator and a design. And there are so many atheists, I love to have arm wrestles with them. And I share with them the experiences. It's like, okay, so what's your philosophy of life? They're like, well, just be good, do good, and good's gonna happen. I'm like, no, not really. Well, you just need to be positive, right? You know, when you're someone like me who can tell someone else here in this room, I believe it's worse being in a broken home than having no arms and legs. What do you tell a 13-year-old whose mommy and daddy decided to divorce, but they actually deep down never told anyone, they actually think that they're the reason why? Or what do you tell a mother who's lost a child, 18 years of age in a car crash? I'm a speaker and they put me on stage in front of 650 sex slaves

who were all sold by their own mothers at four years of age for $700. What do you tell them about hope? Well, that's why I don't believe in God, because all the pain. And if God is a loving God, then where is He? Same question that I had. And I just want you to know that I do love you, God loves you, and I love you no matter what. But if you're asking me, what do I think about this or that, I go back to the Bible and I stand on the Bible and lovingly I'll tell you what the Bible says. I'll also be the first to tell you, I don't understand everything of the Bible, but I'm here today to share with you my journey in what happened with me as I was growing up, asking God those questions. You see, my brother and sister were born with lambs and I got this little foot. I'm very thankful for my little foot. I play soccer and they had no idea what I could do with this little foot. After two cups of coffee, 43 words a minute, I can type. And I was wondering like, what could there be for me? And you know, sometimes when you're eight, nine, 10 years old, any eight, nine, 10 year old kids here, give me a whoop. Oh, oh, yeah, right. You're eight, nine, 10 and you're going to school and you can't help it, but compare yourself to other people.

And I'm like, man, I can't do this and I can't do that. And you know, you're like, man, the hardest part about eight, nine, 10 sometimes is also your siblings annoy you. Do your siblings sometimes annoy you? Yes, and then you're thinking like, oh man, homework is so hard. I just want to be older and taller so less people pick on me. And you're like, man, I just want to be 13. I want to be a teenager. And then any teenagers in the house, give me a whoop. Whoa, now you're freaking out, right? You're a teenager and nothing's any better. You know, you're like, oh my goodness, my parents are freaking me out. Like they need me to stop making decisions about my life. And you know, they annoy me. They don't understand me. I don't understand them. They're telling me that I'm beautiful and I put a do not disturb sign on my door and they ignore that. They go outside the house, go around and stick their head through the window and they're still annoying me. I need my independence. I thought I could trust my friends and then they backstab me. I want to be a senior in high school.

If that, if I can just get there, then everything's going to be okay. And you become a senior in high school and now you're really freaking out because you got this college thing. Like which college am I going to go to? What degree am I going to have? I don't know if in 15 years, this degree is going to matter. And all I've got is a quarter of a million dollar debt for a piece of paper that I don't need. Like that's stress, okay? Like, well, I just get to get a job. If I could just get a job, you finally get your job and you realize that your boss is the nephew of the devil. Then you finally resort to, well, if I can just get married, then everything's going to be great. No. Go talk to the married people, okay? And I tell you, me and my family, we live in the great state of Texas and we're on the North side of Dallas. And I want to share with you that I love my wife and I continue to pursue my wife. We just had Valentine's week, right? This is Valentine's weekend. And, you know, when I was a kid, I'm seeing everyone, you know, girlfriends, boyfriends holding hands. I'm like, I don't think I'm ever going to find true love. I don't think someone's going to marry me.

I don't think that actually this is going to be a good life. What if I'm actually going to be alone? Do you know what the scariest thing about mental health is? Is believing that isolating yourself is okay. You see, we were born to love and be loved, but I didn't know if that's what God had for me at all. And I prayed for arms and legs. I'm like, man, I'm not going to get a job. I'm going to be a burden to everyone around me. I'm never going to get married. Even if I got married, I can't even hold my wife's hand. How am I going to hold my kids when they're crying? Well, at age eight, I isolated myself, kept secretly a plan to kill myself. And at age 10, I tried to drown myself in my bathtub. And as I'm spinning over and trying to choke on the water and inhaling water, I was stopped by one thought. And it was the thought of my mom and my dad crying at my grave, wishing they could have done something more. And it was because of that love that it sustained me. But do you know how many people never have had a loving home? And I just want you to know, I'm sorry. I'm sorry if you've never actually been told, I love you. Some of you, 40, 50, 60 year old adults are still actually deep, deep down. You still have a pebble in your shoe from what your verbally abusive father did to your mother. And you got a little voice in your head

saying all sorts of things. I just want you to know, I love you. And we're not here by luck, chance or coincidence. And the pain of the world didn't come from God. The pain and the world that we're in is broken. And it came from sin in the world. When you look at the Bible, you see that Adam and Eve, wherever the Garden of Eden was, it didn't even have the summer humidity of Florida. It didn't have the mosquitoes of Florida. I hate mosquitoes. I can't kill mosquitoes. I can't scratch. I sometimes eat them before they eat me. Like I really, really hate mosquitoes. And so in the Garden of Eden, there was no pain. There was no uncomfortability. There was no sickness, disease or death or cancer or anything like that. But when they did fall into sin, the curse of sin came. That's where temporary lives came in. Are you with me? Okay, so I blamed God for my pain. I also blamed God that why doesn't He change my pain? Today, I have a pair of shoes in my closet in case God gives me arms and legs. And it would be really, really cool to have arms and legs and get on a bike and smash into a pole and break a leg. I would love to have arms and legs. But more than arms and legs, I mean, truly,

unfortunately, I'm sorry to tell you, but your arms and legs might give you arthritis later on anyway. But I'll also tell you that arms and legs don't make you happy. It's just like thinking, well, if this changed, if that changed, if I had money, there's nothing wrong with money. But money can't heal your heart. Money can't heal your mind. And addictions, whether it's alcohol, drugs, or pornography, greed, lust, and pride, consolidating in alcohol. Sin in our human nature, we're looking for something, and nothing satisfies than the peace of the Creator who created you for a greater purpose. And I want you to know that when the world says you're not good enough, get a second opinion. The Bible says that you're fearfully and wonderfully made. The Bible says He can't stop thinking about you. Those lies saying, oh, you're not good enough, you're a failure, you're never going to be happy. Nick, you're never going to get married. Check out this photo. This is my wife. Her name is Kanae. She's half Japanese, half Mexican. We call that Japsican. And we're in love, and we continue to grow in love. Every month we ask each other, I ask my wife, honey, yes, babe, what do you see me doing that you want me to stop doing? It's called communication.

Second question, what am I not doing that you want me to start doing? Third question, what am I doing well that you want me to keep on doing? Everyone's taking notes on these three questions. It's a good idea. You know what the cool thing is? Is when you're married and you get to do this, you then flip the question and then she says, hey, babe, I'm like, uh-huh. And she asks me, what do I want her to stop? What do I want her to start? What do I want her to keep on doing that I do enjoy or appreciate about her? We grow in love. It's not, okay, we're done, we're married. Because if you don't grow in love, you actually shrink in love. And if you stop pursuing your wife, you can get easily and easier distracted. You can have emotional affairs on the side, different things that you hide from her, but you can't hide it from you or God. And actually you're the one that's crippling yourself because you're not bringing whatever things are happening into the light. Can I tell you right now, Nick is not perfect at all, ask my wife, ask my kids. But the day that I gave my life to Jesus Christ, everything changed, how? These lies in my head, let's get a wide. These lies in my head saying, Nick, just give up. Nick, God doesn't love you. God won't ever make you happy. You don't have enough faith. You'll never ever find peace, never find love, just give up. To then coming to the truth, everyone say the truth. And the truth will set me. You see, I have no limbs, but I'm free. I'm free.

And you turn around and you realize, oh, the Bible does say, I am fearfully and wonderfully made. The Bible does say that when he doesn't actually change the circumstance, Romans 8 28, he will cause all things to come together for the good who were called according to his purposes. You know, now in hindsight, we can say, well, Nick was a speaker and he went around the world and he helped some people. But back then, I couldn't see it. We are not called to walk by sight, we're called to walk by faith. Can you imagine if at age eight, as I was begging God for a plan, what's the plan? What's the plan? What's the plan? Did you need any faith getting here today? You had a GPS and you followed the GPS. You didn't really need faith or did you? You did have faith that the car would start. You did have faith that no one would crash into you. You had faith just to sit in that chair. It's the assumption that you have based on your wisdom and your knowledge and your understanding. What's interesting is we don't know what God has for us. His thoughts and ways are higher than us. And he loves to even use the foolish things to confound the wise. It doesn't make sense that a limbless man can be happy. It doesn't make sense that God can use a man without arms and legs to be his hands and feet. It doesn't make sense that when you don't get a... miracle, you can still be one. It is supernatural. That it's beyond your circumstance, it's not Nick's knowledge, it's not Nick's understanding, it's not his plans, his plans failed.

His plans and strength failed and it was the day that I said, God, I want your plan, I need you. Can you imagine at age eight that if he sent an angel to my room and said, behold, I am an angel of the Lord, fear not, don't die of shock. I'm gonna let you know by age 43, not only will you get married and meet presidents and go preach the gospel to 950 million people on digital platforms by age 43 and write six books that gets translated in 39 languages and four governments change their law after you talk to them and presidents meet with you. You're also gonna get married, you can't hold her hand but you will hold her heart and then check this photo. You're gonna be a father of Kiyoshi, Deon, Olivia and Ali. Come on, this was five years ago. Kiyoshi is now 13, he's five foot six. He got his height from his mother. Deon who's 10, Olivia and Ali, twin girls at age eight. Daddy's the shortest one in the house, okay? Can you imagine that 10 year old boy trying to drown himself? Look at what I would have missed out on. You see, God does, He has a plan. But the incredible thing is if He actually gave me the plan, guess what, I don't have the need for faith. Isn't that interesting? Scotty, if you can play piano up here, I play piano but I'm not warmed up yet. If God actually gave me His plan,

I'm gonna follow the plan. I don't need faith. If I could tell the future, I don't need to pray much. Isn't it interesting when things are going okay, you pray less? But the whole point of faith is, do I believe that God actually has a plan? And I'm sorry if you've lost a loved one, I'm sorry if you've been abused, I'm sorry for whatever broken pieces you've had in your life. I'm not here to compare my suffering to yours, but I'm just gonna tell you, there is a healer, the healer, the Saviour. He saved my soul, He healed my heart. He renewed my mind. Nick, do you still go through depression? Yep. Do you always feel like you're on track with God and God speaks to you? Nope. Nick, have you ever gone through counselling? Oh yeah, about four years ago. When was your last depression? Let me think, last year? Nick, Christians still get depressed, yeah. But that's why we come to church, that's why we don't need to do life alone, that's why we have people pray for us, pray with us. And we just take one day at a time, one day at a time.

And I just want you to know that I don't know what you're going through, but God does. And He's the only one that really understands you on a level that your wife will never understand you or your children. And at age 15, I realised, God, if you have a plan for a blind man, like John 9 says, where you spat in the dirt and healed the blind man, they asked him, why was he born that way? God, if you've got a plan for a blind man, you've got a plan for me. And what's so cool about this, I didn't give my life to Jesus just because it was another miracle that I read in the Bible. I was inspired by the grace of God on the blind man's life in that moment, prior to the miracle. Because if I was the blind man and I don't see anything and I hear someone, seriously, spit in the dirt, and someone's coming to me. A warning, Jesus doesn't sit the blind man down and say, hey buddy, my name's JC, I'm the healer. I'm gonna give you a facial, but when we're done, you're gonna see. He didn't tell him the plan. Today, some of us just need to be still and know that He is God. I don't know what else you're waiting for.

You can be an atheist, I can't be an atheist. I've seen demons, I'm not an atheist. I've seen miracles, blind people seeing. I'm not Shinto or Buddhist, I'm not Islam. I know why, there's differences in scriptures. Jesus was the son of God. He was the one who said that He was God, fully man, fully God, who died for my sins. That if I believe He died for my sins then I don't have to die for mine, because He died for me. And the power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead lives in me. You see my foot for a second? You will always have ups and downs, ups and downs, ups and downs. But we are not here to just live and experience and be blessed. We're here to love Him, trust Him. You know, some of you focus on who's in this church and what they believe, what you don't believe, what you believe, blah, blah, blah, how is different and why you won't ever shake their hand or look them in the eye anymore. Can't believe they don't say this, can't believe they did this, can't believe they didn't do that. Just shut up. We're a family. I'm your half brother.

There is a whole world, there's a whole world who doesn't know Jesus Christ and without Jesus they're gonna die in eternal hell fire. Where are we? Are you not part of the Great Commission? Do you not have a testimony? Have you written out your testimony for your grandkids? Has God told you to write a book? Write the book. Has God told you to invite a neighbor over to your house to break bread? It's amazing. I don't know how to share my faith with people at the workplace. It's called having a coffee and you have a coffee and you say, hey, tell me your story. And they'll be like, oh, great. And they tell you this story. And when they're done, then you shouldn't judge, don't interrupt and don't tell them how you think you can read. Just shut up and listen. And when they're done without judging, guess what they're gonna do? What's your story? Well, they never came to church. We're in the Bible. Please come to church. But I don't see any verse in the Bible that says, come to church.

Tell everyone, come to church. No, go and testify. Who were you before you found Jesus? What happened when you did find Jesus? What does that mean for you today? And I'll tell you right now, God ain't gonna ask you what church you went to, how much money you gave or what kind of teaching was the... Who else did you let them... Did you tell them that I love them too? Amen? That's the perspective of eternity. We're here for a vapor, man. You see my fingers? I snapped, you didn't see it. That's how quick, that's how quick we're gonna be up there. And did I tell you about Daniel Martinez? I don't think so. I shared that in life. I was speaking at a church at 24 years old, saw a little boy with no arms, no legs. And I'm like, man, I wanna wrestle that kid later on. And I brought him up on stage. He's looking up at me, I'm looking down at him and I can't give him a high five. So I put my little foot on his foot and he smiled. And when he smiled, everyone cried and his mother uncontrollably was so emotional.

She couldn't talk. She said, we've been praying for a miracle. You're our miracle. And she says, thank you for being our miracle. What do you think I said? Oh, you're welcome. Thank you very much. That was my plan. Thank You, Jesus. And I don't know if God's gonna give him arms and legs. I'd be jealous a little bit for a second. Okay. But what I do know is in heaven, I can pray for his arms and legs. I can pray for your miracle. In the name of Jesus, right now, for your bodies, every sickness and disease, in Jesus' name, be healed. Be healed right now in this moment. All the pain, cancer, diabetes, be healed. We can pray for physical miracles, but the greatest miracle of all is being saved. And when I'm in heaven, I'm gonna have my arms and legs. Daniel's gonna have his arms and legs. We're gonna uncontrollably cry, giving glory to God and saying, thank you, God, for helping Daniel believe that this place called heaven was real. If you need counselling, this church would love to counsel you. There is nothing that you're gonna tell us that's gonna make us love you less. But you've gone through what you've been through, not just out of luck, chance or coincidence, but perhaps you can actually help someone else who was also fatherless, someone else who has a circumstance that you've gone through. There is a greater purpose, and you know, deep down, there is something missing. It's Jesus. And I wanna give you an opportunity to receive Him, to confess that you are a sinner, that you know you'll never be perfect, and He knows that. But it's the turning of around and saying, God, I don't wanna live my way. I wanna live your way. I don't wanna live in sin. I wanna live in a way that I know is most freeing, because it's based on truth. God, unshackle me from the disabilities and the crippling of shame and condemnation. Shut out the voices in my head that I cannot stop. Help me to drop those addictions that I can't stop. Help me, Lord, to focus in on you, to be who you want me to be and know you more. Help me to stop doing what you want me to stop doing. Help me to start doing what you want me to start doing, and help me to keep on doing what you want me to keep on doing. It's called a relationship. It's called communication.

It's love. And there is no greater love than Jesus, because Jesus was the one who gave it all. And some of you here today, some of you, especially young people, are playing church. You're playing church. You're with your girlfriend. You're with your boyfriend. You're saying the F-word, you know, because you think you're cool and go, you know, I'm not really gonna get serious with God until later. Really? What if later doesn't come? Later, in the next hour, I may not be here. I might die of a heart attack. I might have a plane crash. Well, that's just scaring me into doing something. No, here's the problem. Money, drugs, sex, alcohol, pornography, fame and fortune, if you put your happiness in temporary things, your happiness will be temporary. What you are actually looking for is what God has designed you to actually have. And it's eternity and His life now. And so some of you need to actually repent and come back to God, because if you die tonight, you don't know if you're saved. And some of you, some of you have just never asked God to come into your life. You go to church, maybe you're Catholic. You go to church twice a year. It's kind of your culture, your identity, but you don't, the priest hasn't read the Bible. You don't know much Scripture. No one's taught you how to pray in your own home. You don't know how to pray in the Bible. It's a daily relationship. Wherever you are, so is God. And He loves you. Or maybe you're like, no, Nick, I can't, I can't give my life to Jesus. You have no idea. I've done the worst thing. God cannot forgive me. No, maybe perhaps you can't forgive you, but I know my God can. How do I know that? Because the Bible says so. No, Nick, you don't understand. No, I don't understand. But I, what I do understand is there is no sin that God cannot forgive. And that's why I even pray for my enemies. Because what they're really looking for is Jesus. They just don't know about it. Do I pray for all of my enemies? Do I need to be friends with everyone? No, no. But I pray that their blindness is open for the restitution of their own souls, because hell is so bad. I don't even want my worst enemy to go there. So in a moment, I want to ask you, do you know Jesus? Do you have Jesus? Do you have eternity? And if not, I want to give you an opportunity to actually come forward and stand at the front. It ain't going to get weird. I'm not going to lay hands on you or anything. All right. And we're going to be doing and all the other campuses watching whatever room that you're in to come forward to the screens

and there's gonna be volunteers to receive you at the front. But I just want you to know, you know what? If you've ever asked God to rock up, here he is. And he's asking you, will you actually in a church building stand up for a faith decision? Because if you can't stand up for a faith decision in a church building on a Sunday, how do you expect to stand up for a faith decision out there on a Monday? Well, I don't wanna go alone. Good, turn to the person next to you and say, hi, I really wanna go up there, I don't wanna go on my own, okay? So in a moment, I'm gonna call you forward. But first, I want everyone to stand if you can at your chair, everyone stand. You have folding seats in this auditorium. What I'd like you to do is now shimmy back against the folded chair. So you actually make a little bit of a path so people don't have to jump over your legs. See, legs get in the way, I told you. But right now, across everywhere, I just want you to know, you're thinking, well, I need to fix myself up before I come to God. It's a lie from the pit of hell. He didn't come for the healed, he came for the broken. He came for the depressed, he came for the afflicted. He came for you and he came for me. I have ups and downs, but I'm complete, lacking nothing.

So right now, with no further delay, if right now you know that you need to make your life right with Jesus Christ and you're lacking something, it's Jesus. Come and be complete in the name of Jesus and make your salvation sure by saying, Jesus, come into my life, heal me. Make your way right now. And if you see someone coming forward, clap them on down, just clap them on down. Clap them on down, come down. Young people, come on down. From the front to the back, from the front to the back, come on down, we're gonna wait for every single person. God's waiting on you. Campuses, if you see someone standing, bring them on down, clap them on down. Husbands, wives, I'm waiting for whole families to come on down. How long will you wait before you realize you need him? Come on, come on down. Come on, church, let's give a big shout of glory. There's gonna be a lot more people coming up the front. There's no next service, so I'm gonna take my time here. You understand? I'm just gonna blame it on the fact that I have no wristwatch, but listen to me very clearly. Come on. There's about 50 people here, okay, with friends. I truly, truly believe we haven't even seen

half of the people up the front yet. I'm gonna wait, I'm gonna wait. Move, come on down, receive Jesus Christ right now. Come on down, turn to your dad, turn to your mom, turn to your spouse, turn to whoever's next to you, come on down with them. That's another one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Hallelujah. There's a lot of people still haven't moved yet. Ready? One second, we're gonna pause the applause. We're gonna pause the applause. With no further applause here in this room right now, I'm gonna give you literally 60 seconds to move. No applauding anymore. I'm waiting literally for another 60 people potentially. I'm gonna count them, no applause. Come on down, come on down, come on down, come on down. I'm gonna wait for you. Teenager, God's calling you, there's one. I'm gonna call, don't applause yet. I'll tell you when you can erupt like crazy. Anybody else, come on down. There's another one. That's two, wait a second. I'm gonna give you, ready? I'm gonna count down and now you guys can erupt the applause. I'm gonna wait for you. I'm gonna count down 30 seconds from now.

Start applauding right now. Last and final call, come with someone right now. 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25. In the campuses, keep on coming down. There's a lot more people moving here. Come on down, last and final call. I'm gonna give you 20 seconds left. That was another 20 people. They're moving. and I can see them. They're coming, they're coming, they're coming. Last and final call. 10. Move. 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Let's give God a shout of praise. Amen. There's 7, 8, 9, 10 people. 14 more people. Hallelujah. That's it, that's coming. That's another three. Run, run, run, run, run. Hallelujah. Yeah, you're not late. All of heaven stops, stops and rejoices when one gives their life to Jesus. Amen. I see up here about 110 people. Let's give God a shout of praise. Come on. Praise the Lord. Let's all bow our heads, close our eyes. Would you repeat this prayer after me? Say, Dear God, I come to you today and I thank you for loving me. I believe Jesus, you died for my sins. You rose again and you are Jesus Christ, the King of kings, the Lord of lords. Today, I ask you to be my savior, my king, my friend, my everything. Heal me, Lord. Comfort me and give me strength. Today, I confess I'm a sinner. Please forgive me of all of my sins. Give me the strength and faith to turn away from all evil. Today, I want your plan, your strength. Show me how to pray. Teach me how to live. Holy Spirit, save me, heal me and renew my mind. When I fall, when I fail, pick me up and give me strength to know you're always with me. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen. Praise God. We just want you all to know that we are so, so happy for you. This is the beginning. Everyone say the beginning. The beginning. In whichever room you're in, there's going to be people there to help you with the next steps. And everyone here is going to get a Bible. And you all, we're going to take you in a room just

for a couple of minutes. I'm going to go and be there and spend some time with you and further congratulate you with Pastor Doug as well. But welcome to the family of God. We love you. God has an awesome plan for you. I'm so excited that you came forward today. Yeah, so whatever room you're in, we're going to turn it over to our campus pastors who are going to give you a Bible and some instructions. And for those of you who are here, we're going to ask you to follow us this way to that open door. Just give us five minutes of time to help you process the most important decision you've ever made. And we'll spend a moment with Nick and myself just giving you those instructions. Church, let's give them a hand as they go this way, guys. We'll see you in a moment. Church, let's celebrate the goodness of God. And let's thank Nick for coming and sharing his testimony with us. Thank you so much, Nick. We love you. Give me a hug. Thank you, guys. God bless you. And if you want any of Nick's resources, we're going to put a QR code on the screen. We're going to ask you to scan it. His book's sold out. But books and resources, if you've been inspired to share that story, we'd love for you to scan that code and get those resources in hand. And now, church, let's close in a song of praise as we thank Jesus for his goodness and grace over our church. Let's worship together. Amen. God has done a mighty work here this morning, and we get to respond to him in praise. So I invite you to raise your voice and sing along with us. ♪ Oh Lord, oh Lord our God we praise Him ♪ ♪ Oh praise the name of the Lord our God ♪ ♪ Oh praise His name forevermore ♪ ♪ For endless days we will sing Your praise ♪ ♪ Oh Lord, oh Lord our God, oh Lord, oh Lord our God ♪ Amen, church, thank you so much for being here this morning. If you need any information about our church or your next steps with the Lord, we have the connection point outside of these doors to your right. I also wanna invite you for prayer night this Tuesday right here at 6.30.

So I hope you can come. Have a wonderful Sunday. We'll see you next weekend, bye-bye. Thanks for listening to today's message. You know, here at Calvary, we believe a relationship with Jesus changes everything. And if you've decided to follow Jesus, we'd love for you to text the word believe to 31352 so you can find out what it means to follow Christ. And to learn more about Calvary and all of our campuses, you're free to visit calvaryftl.org.