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Nick Vujicic: Champions for the Brokenhearted | Praise

November 18, 2025 | 56:1

Nick Vujicic: Champions for the Brokenhearted | Praise
In the book "Champions of the Broken Hearted," author Nick Vujicic delves into raw and impactful stories of individuals overcoming trauma, abuse, and societal challenges. From personal testimonies of survivors to powerful insights on faith and healing, this book confronts difficult topics and offers a beacon of hope. Through engaging narratives and practical guidance, readers are encouraged to foster compassion, address cultural stigma, and forge a path towards restoration and redemption. "Champions of the Broken Hearted" challenges readers to confront the darkness, embrace empathy, and become instruments of transformation in a broken world.
#Author #Disability #Overcoming #BrokenHeart #Bible #Children #Kids #Family #Technology #Wisdom #Culture #Discipleship #Church #SpiritualWarfare #Enemy #SheilaWalsh #NickVujicic

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Praise | Nick Vujicic: Champions for the Brokenhearted | Praise | November 18, 2025
  • Coming up tonight on praise.
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  • ♪ (music playing)
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  • - it wasn't anyone really close to me who actually sat
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  • Me down and said, i know god's going to use you to travel
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  • Around the world and preach the gospel and share your
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  • Story.
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  • But it was the janitor at my high school at age 17 that god
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  • Used to prophesy over me that very saying to say, nick,
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  • God's going to use you to be his hands and feet all around
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  • The world to share your story.
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  • So when we don█t get a miracle
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  • We can be one in the hands of god
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  • ♪ (music playing)
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  • Tonight on praise from dallas, australian
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  • American evangelist and world-renowned motivational
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  • Speaker, nick vujicic.
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  • Now your host, sheila walsh.
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  • - welcome, welcome, welcome.
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  • I'm so glad you're joining us tonight and i think you will
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  • Be too.
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  • This is going to be great.
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  • I am so grateful, nick, that you are back with us again.
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  • - sheila, thanks for having me here.
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  • I love you.
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  • - there's something about you that i just feel like you are
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  • Boots on the ground all the time.
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  • Like you have this urgent sense of, i've been given this
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  • One life, i've been given this purpose and i'm going to
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  • Fulfill my destiny what's your life been like the last few
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  • Weeks?
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  • - it's been a rough year for me overall in 2025 big
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  • Transition year really felt after now two decades of our
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  • Ministry 20 years.
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  • - 20th anniversary.
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  • - it's a big one for us and i've traveled now three
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  • Million miles around the globe and now with four children
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  • Underneath the age of 13.
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  • I feel the lord wanting us to do some interesting things
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  • That doesn't cause daddy to travel as much.
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  • But when we do travel, it's very effective.
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  • And so we're thankful to, i feel like, start a new decade
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  • As wanting to be a shepherding voice for the next generation.
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  • We don't know exactly what that looks like.
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  • I'm not planting a church.
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  • But what does that look like?
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  • So transparently, sheila, we are praying about that.
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  • - that's awesome.
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  • - we're excited to commission the church to be the hands and
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  • Feet, go back to the basics and encourage this next
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  • Generation as much as we can with truth, love and
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  • Encouragement.
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  • - i love that, but let's go back to, let's unpack going
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  • Back to the basics.
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  • Because i can imagine a lot of guys at home thinking, well,
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  • You know what, that's really not who i am.
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  • You know, we go to church on sunday, and the pastor gives a
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  • Great message.
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  • But as for disciplining in my own home, i wouldn't even know
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  • Where to start.
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  • What would you say to that?
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  • - i think what i would say is be careful of such a mindset.
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  • You know, we are living in the most biblically illiterate
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  • Generation of our country.
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  • We are the generation that knows the least.
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  • And being a disciple, it's not like a training or a position
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  • Or an identity or any of that.
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  • So you becoming his child.
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  • So let's though change it to a loving relationship.
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  • So me and my wife, i see her when i wake up, i see her when
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  • I go to sleep, and i tell her every day how much i love her
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  • And i told her on the way here that i love her.
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  • She's beautiful.
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  • But if that was it good morning honey good night honey
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  • It's kind of like our relationship with god we bless
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  • We ask god to bless the food bless our day and then sunday
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  • We spend some time in the word it's not a daily relationship
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  • With god and i feel like a lot of people actually don't
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  • Understand what a daily relationship is.
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  • It only takes about 10 minutes to read a chapter of the bible
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  • And many of us haven't actually read the book of
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  • John, let alone the whole bible.
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  • And we really need to go do that with our kids.
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  • I mean, if you think that your disciplinary actions and
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  • Helping them navigate their world, are you kidding me?
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  • What wisdom are you going to give your kids right now when,
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  • Oh, you need to get off technology, you've got to be
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  • Careful with this, got to be careful with that?
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  • Are you kidding me?
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  • You cannot protect your kids.
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  • You need them to understand that god needs to give them
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  • Wisdom.
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  • More than your wisdom.
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  • You're not going to be there when the devil attacks.
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  • So how do you help children?
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  • - my husband has prayed for that since our son was a
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  • Little boy, every single day he prays for wisdom and
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  • Understanding for our son.
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  • Which i just think is that, i mean, it sounds so basic, but
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  • It's so important.
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  • - because you're not the protector.
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  • You want to protect them.
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  • You can't avoid that.
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  • So that's what my parents did for me.
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  • We can't protect nick.
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  • We can't coddle him.
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  • He's going to have to go out there.
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  • But today, i feel sorry for this alpha generation.
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  • They're being attacked, distracted, addicted to
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  • Technology, seven hours a day, six months straight, that
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  • Remaps your brain.
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  • It's not just disciplinary things for mental health, it's
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  • Spiritual war.
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  • There's only one way you're going to survive this next 10
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  • Years.
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  • You, your family, and your kids, it's putting on your
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  • Armor and being in the word daily.
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  • And with that, the holy spirit shows you what that means.
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  • And that love is rooted in that relationship, then your
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  • Fruit gets shown.
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  • - there's something so basic and so incredible to me about
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  • That.
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  • About, it's almost like i feel like we've forgotten what it
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  • Looks like to be a committed follower of jesus christ and
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  • That to be a daily thing.
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  • I'm gonna pray, in fact, i'm gonna ask our audience to pray
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  • Too, that god would gift you with the vision for the moment
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  • And then the tools to accomplish.
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  • I'm gonna ask you guys to all join me in that because god's
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  • Got his hand on this guy, on this australian guy, god's got
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  • His hand on him, and i'm just praying that god will do
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  • Unusual things.
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  • When did you know that god had his hand on your life?
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  • - before i answer that question, just for anyone who
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  • Maybe you're like, well, nick, i'd love to get in the word
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  • Daily, but where do i start?
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  • You actually go to nickvministries.org for free if
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  • You sign up for it.
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  • I've done 365 daily devotionals.
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  • It ain't ai.
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  • It's all from the holy spirit.
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  • And there's 12 videos of every series of topics.
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  • And you'll get that on your phone or email every day to
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  • Grow in your relationship with god and dependency on him.
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  • - great.
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  • - when did i know?
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  • I love this question, because out of all the people in my
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  • Life, sheila, who loved me, told me that i'm beautiful,
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  • God's got a plan for me.
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  • It wasn't anyone really close to me who actually sat me down
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  • And said, i know god's going to use you to travel around
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  • The world and preach the gospel and share your story.
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  • I had people back at age 13, say, one day you're going to
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  • Meet presidents.
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  • And that was my uncle sam.
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  • I saw reggie dabs, who lives here in dfw area, came to my
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  • School in australia.
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  • I'm like, that's cool.
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  • But it was the janitor at my high school at age 17 that god
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  • Used to prophesy over me that very saying to say, nick,
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  • God's going to use you to be his hands and feet all around
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  • The world to share your story.
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  • And to that i answered, i don't have a story.
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  • I don't know what you're talking about.
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  • - but there's great irony on that too.
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  • You were born without arms and legs.
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  • And that prophecy has proved to be profoundly from god.
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  • It has been profoundly from god.
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  • I mean, 20 years of our ministry, we're smaller than
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  • An average size church budget.
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  • For three quarters of a million dollars, we've reached
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  • Literally, just in the last two years, 145 million people
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  • With the gospel of jesus christ.
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  • For three quarters of a million a year, on average
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  • Last 20 years, we've actually reached 10% of the whole
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  • Globe for jesus christ and preached in the gospel, and
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  • Not sugar -coded either.
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  • We're so thankful that it was that moment.
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  • I was grade 11, we'd call that here in america junior year in
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  • High school i was vice president spoke to the crowd
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  • Janitor saw me next day said hey you're gonna speak i said
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  • You're crazy he said let me organize your first speech
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  • That you can share your story.
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  • Wow.
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  • - he did, and it was beautiful just shared just from my heart
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  • It's really simple ready here's a second basic thing
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  • Have you shared your story?
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  • Like, who were you before you met jesus, how you met jesus,
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  • And what it means now that you live with jesus, i think we
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  • Forget that we are the church.
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  • It's not just inviting people to church in a building, it's
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  • You being the church, having your neighbors over breaking
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  • Bread, get to know their story.
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  • Whether they go to church or not, sheila, they we need to
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  • Hear that jesus loves them.
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  • And they're your neighbor for a reason.
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  • And so some of us are commissioned as, you know,
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  • Apostles, pastors, preachers, you know, evangelists, but
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  • We're all part of the great commission.
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  • And i feel like in america there is this hunger to, okay,
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  • Wait, how do i share my story?
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  • How do i preach the gospel?
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  • It's not just what's true and what's false.
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  • To win someone from islam, isn't trying to tell them how
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  • Different we are.
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  • It's about bridging the bridge of love, allowing the holy
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  • Spirit to minister through you, planting seeds, and
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  • Letting the holy spirit convict.
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  • It's amazing.
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  • - that is absolutely something you and i can do starting
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  • Today.
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  • You know, i think so often we put things off on, because i
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  • Feel as if the time of big names within christianity is
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  • Over, [indiscernible].
  • 00:10:20.242 --> 00:10:20.910
  • - and events.
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  • - yeah.
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  • A lot of events.
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  • It's about just understanding that the holy spirit lives in
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  • Me and praying every day for eyes to see what i would miss
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  • Without him, ears to hear behind the anger in somebody's
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  • Voice to the pain.
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  • So i want to talk about this new book.
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  • - yes.
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  • - this is a little different for you.
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  • Tell us about this new book.
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  • - you know what?
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  • I haven't written a book for 10 years.
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  • And me and my team, we felt over the last decade that it's
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  • Not just about evangelism and then trying to disciple, but
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  • It's also seeing broken hearts healed.
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  • When you look at the bible, it's about setting captives
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  • Free and healing the brokenhearted.
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  • And it really spoke to us, as i've traveled now, 87
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  • Countries and i've met a half a million people and i know a
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  • Lot of stories i've written out 106 different ways in how
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  • The human being can suffer and every answer is pointing back
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  • To jesus christ and we've seen 1.8 million give their life to
  • 00:11:15.965 --> 00:11:20.569
  • Jesus at our events face to face 1.8 million that's a lot
  • 00:11:20.569 --> 00:11:25.708
  • Of jewels in our crown sheila that's a lot of jewels.
  • 00:11:25.708 --> 00:11:28.577
  • - that's a big party in heaven.
  • 00:11:28.577 --> 00:11:31.013
  • - we're very thankful for that for the last 20 years.
  • 00:11:31.013 --> 00:11:32.948
  • But what about healing of the hearts?
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  • I believe that there are things that need to be said in
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  • The church that are some things that we all can agree
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  • On.
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  • So what do we talk about?
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  • Well, let's talk about first and foremost abuse, sexual
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  • Abuse in the church.
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  • One out of three girls by age 17 have been sexually abused
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  • In america.
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  • One out of five boys by age 17 have been sexually abused.
  • 00:12:00.943 --> 00:12:03.546
  • And yes, it's the same in the church.
  • 00:12:03.546 --> 00:12:08.884
  • - that is horrific.
  • 00:12:08.884 --> 00:12:10.119
  • - we can talk about human trafficking, but we don't talk
  • 00:12:10.119 --> 00:12:12.354
  • About sexual abuse, and we also don't talk about the fact
  • 00:12:12.354 --> 00:12:14.757
  • That one in five people who go to church every sunday are
  • 00:12:14.757 --> 00:12:17.726
  • Actually addicted to -.
  • 00:12:17.726 --> 00:12:19.295
  • Wow, that's a problem.
  • 00:12:19.295 --> 00:12:21.163
  • - big problem.
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  • No one's talking about it.
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  • Why aren't we, if those things are happening under our roof
  • 00:12:23.766 --> 00:12:25.768
  • All the time?
  • 00:12:25.768 --> 00:12:29.238
  • Why don't we talk about it?
  • 00:12:29.238 --> 00:12:30.005
  • - it's a really good question.
  • 00:12:30.005 --> 00:12:31.273
  • So in 2023, i'll transparently share it this way with the
  • 00:12:31.273 --> 00:12:33.142
  • Correct words out of my mouth to protect the person i'm
  • 00:12:33.142 --> 00:12:36.579
  • Talking about.
  • 00:12:36.579 --> 00:12:37.947
  • I had a very frustrating zoom call with someone who was
  • 00:12:37.947 --> 00:12:42.351
  • Responsible for a lot of churches under his leadership.
  • 00:12:42.351 --> 00:12:45.688
  • I had witnesses on the call.
  • 00:12:45.688 --> 00:12:46.989
  • And i said, you have a lot of churches under your
  • 00:12:46.989 --> 00:12:49.658
  • Leadership.
  • 00:12:49.658 --> 00:12:50.793
  • You talk about human trafficking.
  • 00:12:50.793 --> 00:12:53.229
  • What about starting a bible study about - addiction?
  • 00:12:53.229 --> 00:12:57.766
  • - wow, that's brilliant.
  • 00:12:57.766 --> 00:13:00.102
  • - he said no.
  • 00:13:00.102 --> 00:13:02.738
  • Did he have a reason for saying no?
  • 00:13:02.738 --> 00:13:04.673
  • No, but we know why.
  • 00:13:04.673 --> 00:13:05.808
  • It's because he would have had to do it first.
  • 00:13:05.808 --> 00:13:08.878
  • - oh, yikes.
  • 00:13:08.878 --> 00:13:10.246
  • - so it would start with the leadership.
  • 00:13:10.246 --> 00:13:13.515
  • And i think we're afraid.
  • 00:13:13.515 --> 00:13:14.850
  • You know, if we really want to know where we're really at,
  • 00:13:14.850 --> 00:13:18.888
  • God's given me wisdom as i've traveled now so many times,
  • 00:13:18.888 --> 00:13:22.925
  • Especially in front of young people.
  • 00:13:22.925 --> 00:13:25.160
  • If the youth pastor really wants to know what are they
  • 00:13:25.160 --> 00:13:28.664
  • Dealing with as far as sin, have them anonymously write
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  • Down a piece of paper.
  • 00:13:32.501 --> 00:13:33.636
  • What's amazing is a couple pastors have done this
  • 00:13:33.636 --> 00:13:37.539
  • Recently, and i'll give you the result in a second of what
  • 00:13:37.539 --> 00:13:44.113
  • They think is their biggest burden.
  • 00:13:44.113 --> 00:13:46.615
  • In america, teenagers, before i do that, i actually have
  • 00:13:46.615 --> 00:13:49.818
  • Done 300 anonymous surveys at 300 schools, and i get them to
  • 00:13:49.818 --> 00:13:54.390
  • Bow their head, close their eyes, put their hand up in the
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  • Air, and i ask them four highly sensitive questions,
  • 00:13:56.825 --> 00:13:59.528
  • And if their answer is a yes, they simply put their hands in
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  • A fist.
  • 00:14:02.331 --> 00:14:03.599
  • And that's, in a way, i get their answer without anyone
  • 00:14:03.599 --> 00:14:06.602
  • Seeing anybody's, anyone's response.
  • 00:14:06.602 --> 00:14:09.104
  • My first question is, put your hands in their fist if you've
  • 00:14:09.104 --> 00:14:11.573
  • Actually thought of committing suicide.
  • 00:14:11.573 --> 00:14:14.009
  • And post-covid, it's more like these days, 15 to 20 % have
  • 00:14:14.009 --> 00:14:20.749
  • Thought of committing suicide.
  • 00:14:20.749 --> 00:14:22.918
  • Then i say, open your hand.
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  • Put your hand in fist if you've actually attempted
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  • Suicide.
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  • 6 to 12 % of all teenagers have actually attempted
  • 00:14:27.222 --> 00:14:32.161
  • Suicide.
  • 00:14:32.161 --> 00:14:33.329
  • - it's heartbreaking.
  • 00:14:33.329 --> 00:14:34.596
  • - i don't know if you know this, but the second greatest
  • 00:14:34.596 --> 00:14:36.598
  • Cause of death for america today between ages 12 and 24
  • 00:14:36.598 --> 00:14:41.370
  • Is suicide.
  • 00:14:41.370 --> 00:14:43.405
  • Third question, put your hand in a fist if you've actually
  • 00:14:43.405 --> 00:14:45.808
  • Attempted suicide because of bullying at school.
  • 00:14:45.808 --> 00:14:49.411
  • - bullying, ugh.
  • 00:14:49.411 --> 00:14:50.813
  • - we have bullying everywhere we go, even in the youth
  • 00:14:50.813 --> 00:14:54.750
  • Groups.
  • 00:14:54.750 --> 00:14:55.584
  • At church, we have bullying.
  • 00:14:55.584 --> 00:14:57.987
  • It's really sad.
  • 00:14:57.987 --> 00:14:59.421
  • 40% of the reason why teenagers attempt suicide is
  • 00:14:59.421 --> 00:15:02.524
  • Because of bullying.
  • 00:15:02.524 --> 00:15:03.559
  • - wow.
  • 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:04.827
  • - and then fourth question, put your hand in the fist if
  • 00:15:04.827 --> 00:15:06.795
  • You've actually tried to commit suicide because of a
  • 00:15:06.795 --> 00:15:09.565
  • Brokenness at home, 40%.
  • 00:15:09.565 --> 00:15:12.201
  • So 80% of teen suicide attempts.
  • 00:15:12.201 --> 00:15:17.306
  • Okay, we're talking about 6 to 8 percent of the nation,
  • 00:15:17.306 --> 00:15:21.010
  • Teenagers are convinced that they have no hope in their
  • 00:15:21.010 --> 00:15:23.579
  • Life, that they're alone, and they feel like giving up
  • 00:15:23.579 --> 00:15:27.383
  • Because of bullying or a broken situation at home.
  • 00:15:27.383 --> 00:15:30.419
  • Where's the church there?
  • 00:15:30.419 --> 00:15:32.521
  • So we've actually, out of the 106 different ways, the way
  • 00:15:32.521 --> 00:15:35.791
  • That the human being can suffer, we talk about 12
  • 00:15:35.791 --> 00:15:39.962
  • Topics and and the survey that actually the greatest burden
  • 00:15:39.962 --> 00:15:44.066
  • That teenagers are telling us sheila is they're tired of
  • 00:15:44.066 --> 00:15:48.170
  • Trying to be perfect.
  • 00:15:48.170 --> 00:15:49.605
  • - oh amen.
  • 00:15:49.605 --> 00:15:50.672
  • - when you add in that cyberbullying and that
  • 00:15:50.672 --> 00:15:53.575
  • Pressure to perform it's really sad so where do you
  • 00:15:53.575 --> 00:15:57.579
  • Meet the people where they're at well you don't meet the
  • 00:15:57.579 --> 00:15:59.815
  • People where they're at until you find out where they're at
  • 00:15:59.815 --> 00:16:02.918
  • And you won't know if as ptsd of an abortion until you
  • 00:16:02.918 --> 00:16:05.020
  • Actually start talking about it from the pulpit.
  • 00:16:05.020 --> 00:16:10.392
  • Ptsd and you're a veteran or your husband or wife's a
  • 00:16:10.392 --> 00:16:12.728
  • Veteran.
  • 00:16:12.728 --> 00:16:14.296
  • So we've actually written a book called champions for the
  • 00:16:14.296 --> 00:16:17.332
  • Broken hearted.
  • 00:16:17.332 --> 00:16:19.034
  • We're so thankful for hope for the heart ministries that
  • 00:16:19.034 --> 00:16:22.905
  • Actually have already 106 different devotionals for all
  • 00:16:22.905 --> 00:16:26.608
  • These problems, but also given the chance.
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  • Number one, to bring the awareness of the brokenhearted
  • 00:16:29.678 --> 00:16:33.515
  • America we have.
  • 00:16:33.515 --> 00:16:35.350
  • To be there, to reach out, foster kids, widow, veteran,
  • 00:16:35.350 --> 00:16:40.489
  • Poor, bullied, disabled, so many other foster care
  • 00:16:40.489 --> 00:16:45.828
  • Adoption.
  • 00:16:45.828 --> 00:16:47.129
  • Where are we as the church, if we were the church, we would
  • 00:16:47.129 --> 00:16:49.264
  • Not have a half a million kids waiting for a home, if we were
  • 00:16:49.264 --> 00:16:52.267
  • The church there wouldn't be 32,000 homeless veterans in
  • 00:16:52.267 --> 00:16:56.138
  • Dallas.
  • 00:16:56.138 --> 00:16:57.206
  • If we were the church, i just, where are we?
  • 00:16:57.206 --> 00:17:00.509
  • - you know what's really interesting?
  • 00:17:00.509 --> 00:17:02.578
  • - that's where it's at.
  • 00:17:02.578 --> 00:17:03.979
  • - when you talk about the power of our story, because i
  • 00:17:03.979 --> 00:17:08.217
  • Remember, you know, i spent a month in a psych hospital
  • 00:17:08.217 --> 00:17:11.120
  • Diagnosed with severe clinical depression.
  • 00:17:11.120 --> 00:17:12.988
  • - i didn't know that.
  • 00:17:12.988 --> 00:17:14.323
  • - yeah, and it was one of the greatest things that god ever
  • 00:17:14.323 --> 00:17:16.692
  • Did.
  • 00:17:16.692 --> 00:17:17.793
  • It was like he took me to prison to set me free.
  • 00:17:17.793 --> 00:17:19.128
  • Because i spent so much in my life trying to be the perfect
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  • Christian.
  • 00:17:21.463 --> 00:17:22.764
  • Because my dad died by suicide and seemed to hate me in the
  • 00:17:22.764 --> 00:17:25.467
  • End.
  • 00:17:25.467 --> 00:17:26.468
  • So i thought, that's obviously possible.
  • 00:17:26.468 --> 00:17:28.036
  • So i tried to be perfect, and i end up in this place.
  • 00:17:28.036 --> 00:17:30.506
  • But the interesting thing is then i'm asked to speak at
  • 00:17:30.506 --> 00:17:33.375
  • This women's conference, and i'm like, i can't speak a- i
  • 00:17:33.375 --> 00:17:36.678
  • Don't like women's conferences, and b- what am i
  • 00:17:36.678 --> 00:17:39.348
  • Going to talk about?
  • 00:17:39.348 --> 00:17:40.349
  • And they were like, just tell the truth.
  • 00:17:40.349 --> 00:17:42.217
  • And i remember it was an arena with 15,000 women, and i told
  • 00:17:42.217 --> 00:17:47.222
  • Them, you know, six months ago, i was released from a
  • 00:17:47.222 --> 00:17:49.491
  • Psychiatric hospital, and here's a lesson scott taught
  • 00:17:49.491 --> 00:17:51.894
  • Me.
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  • Here's, this is north, this is where i'm heading.
  • 00:17:53.028 --> 00:17:55.964
  • And i thought, i mean, almost couldn't look at the people
  • 00:17:55.964 --> 00:17:59.301
  • Because i thought they'd all be going, where did they dig
  • 00:17:59.301 --> 00:18:01.003
  • Her up?
  • 00:18:01.003 --> 00:18:02.237
  • And i probably stood in line for four hours that night,
  • 00:18:02.237 --> 00:18:05.474
  • Listening to women tell her story, one after another,
  • 00:18:05.474 --> 00:18:08.744
  • After another.
  • 00:18:08.744 --> 00:18:09.811
  • I've never heard anybody tell my story.
  • 00:18:09.811 --> 00:18:11.880
  • And it's this illusion, this lie from the enemy and the
  • 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:15.484
  • Shame that you're the only one, but if we realize the
  • 00:18:15.484 --> 00:18:19.254
  • Power when god redeems our story.
  • 00:18:19.254 --> 00:18:22.124
  • - amen and amen, and when we don't get a miracle, we can be
  • 00:18:22.124 --> 00:18:25.294
  • One in the hands of god.
  • 00:18:25.294 --> 00:18:26.595
  • So as god can use you for someone who's gone through
  • 00:18:26.595 --> 00:18:29.198
  • Something that you've gone through, me being used by god
  • 00:18:29.198 --> 00:18:31.366
  • To help another limbless young man or young woman.
  • 00:18:31.366 --> 00:18:36.171
  • We all have a story and god never wastes pain.
  • 00:18:36.171 --> 00:18:41.643
  • He never wastes pain.
  • 00:18:41.643 --> 00:18:42.911
  • And so for as long as you're breathing, your story ain't
  • 00:18:42.911 --> 00:18:46.782
  • Done yet.
  • 00:18:46.782 --> 00:18:47.449
  • Your history is his story.
  • 00:18:47.449 --> 00:18:49.751
  • And what i love about this book is it's going to help
  • 00:18:49.751 --> 00:18:52.955
  • People to understand, oh, i'm not the only one.
  • 00:18:52.955 --> 00:18:54.456
  • Yeah.
  • 00:18:54.456 --> 00:18:55.490
  • I'm not the only one who's been through it.
  • 00:18:55.490 --> 00:18:59.828
  • And so it's one thing to get your soul saved, your mind
  • 00:18:59.828 --> 00:19:03.232
  • Renewed in the word, knowledge, understanding, and
  • 00:19:03.232 --> 00:19:06.635
  • Wisdom.
  • 00:19:06.635 --> 00:19:07.736
  • But it's another thing to actually have counseling
  • 00:19:07.736 --> 00:19:09.738
  • One-on-one.
  • 00:19:09.738 --> 00:19:10.639
  • I've been through counseling myself.
  • 00:19:10.639 --> 00:19:12.808
  • - me too.
  • 00:19:12.808 --> 00:19:14.042
  • - and i tell you, it's one of the greatest gifts that i
  • 00:19:14.042 --> 00:19:16.211
  • Could ever have is just sitting down with a trusted
  • 00:19:16.211 --> 00:19:19.815
  • Christian to let them know about what happened to me, how
  • 00:19:19.815 --> 00:19:23.652
  • It made me feel, and everything that i could ever
  • 00:19:23.652 --> 00:19:26.054
  • Share about it.
  • 00:19:26.054 --> 00:19:27.456
  • And for some reason, just having that friendship and
  • 00:19:27.456 --> 00:19:31.093
  • Being able to talk about it, it changed my life.
  • 00:19:31.093 --> 00:19:35.497
  • I mean, it was six hours of counseling about one topic.
  • 00:19:35.497 --> 00:19:39.401
  • - wow.
  • 00:19:39.401 --> 00:19:40.602
  • - and it was deep, and i didn't even know that i needed
  • 00:19:40.602 --> 00:19:43.438
  • Healing in my heart.
  • 00:19:43.438 --> 00:19:44.740
  • That was in 2021.
  • 00:19:44.740 --> 00:19:46.475
  • - wow.
  • 00:19:46.475 --> 00:19:47.743
  • - and so i think we all need to ask god, god, where is it
  • 00:19:47.743 --> 00:19:51.480
  • In my heart that i need counseling, healing,
  • 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:55.817
  • Encouragement, but also sharing your story where, hey,
  • 00:19:55.817 --> 00:19:59.788
  • I've been bullied or i've been suicidal.
  • 00:19:59.788 --> 00:20:03.558
  • This book's going to also equip people to encourage
  • 00:20:03.558 --> 00:20:08.163
  • People in your church, in your community, in your school, to
  • 00:20:08.163 --> 00:20:13.101
  • Be on the lookout and make sure that you can actually
  • 00:20:13.101 --> 00:20:15.937
  • Reach out and be the hands and feet of god in that as well.
  • 00:20:15.937 --> 00:20:19.908
  • - was watching some of your little videos on instagram
  • 00:20:19.908 --> 00:20:23.145
  • This morning before i came into studio.
  • 00:20:23.145 --> 00:20:25.814
  • And you had one that i thought was so interesting.
  • 00:20:25.814 --> 00:20:27.683
  • You were talking about if you're being bullied that you
  • 00:20:27.683 --> 00:20:31.586
  • Want god to get you out of it and to stop it.
  • 00:20:31.586 --> 00:20:33.689
  • And you talk about almost flipping the table on it and
  • 00:20:33.689 --> 00:20:36.425
  • Deciding to be there for somebody else who's being
  • 00:20:36.425 --> 00:20:38.627
  • Bullied.
  • 00:20:38.627 --> 00:20:39.294
  • That's powerful.
  • 00:20:39.294 --> 00:20:40.228
  • - it is powerful.
  • 00:20:40.228 --> 00:20:41.530
  • Look, you're either part of the problem or you're part of
  • 00:20:41.530 --> 00:20:43.298
  • The solution, period.
  • 00:20:43.298 --> 00:20:45.534
  • So if you hear gossip and you spread gossip, you're the
  • 00:20:45.534 --> 00:20:50.172
  • Problem.
  • 00:20:50.172 --> 00:20:51.440
  • If you stop gossip, if you stand up for the victim, what
  • 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:54.409
  • Would jesus do?
  • 00:20:54.409 --> 00:20:55.911
  • He would go and befriend those who have no friends.
  • 00:20:55.911 --> 00:20:58.213
  • He would stand up for those who are persecuted and
  • 00:20:58.213 --> 00:21:01.450
  • Minority in some way shape or form or a spotlight or just
  • 00:21:01.450 --> 00:21:04.319
  • Taunts and all that kind of thing.
  • 00:21:04.319 --> 00:21:06.288
  • Peer pressure, man, that's bullying.
  • 00:21:06.288 --> 00:21:08.690
  • You know, you're in a cheerleading squad and your
  • 00:21:08.690 --> 00:21:11.860
  • Football club, you know, nfl.
  • 00:21:11.860 --> 00:21:14.529
  • You know what the conversation is, how many have you had?
  • 00:21:14.529 --> 00:21:18.467
  • What are they talking about?
  • 00:21:18.467 --> 00:21:20.035
  • How many virgins have you broke?
  • 00:21:20.035 --> 00:21:21.937
  • I mean, seriously, this is the conversations of young men in
  • 00:21:21.937 --> 00:21:28.210
  • Schools, christian and non-christian.
  • 00:21:28.210 --> 00:21:31.646
  • I'm sorry, but this is the reality.
  • 00:21:31.646 --> 00:21:34.716
  • So we need to wake up to bring in righteousness in gen alpha,
  • 00:21:34.716 --> 00:21:40.956
  • In gen z.
  • 00:21:40.956 --> 00:21:42.157
  • Tell them to keep their pants on.
  • 00:21:42.157 --> 00:21:44.526
  • Let's go back to the basics.
  • 00:21:44.526 --> 00:21:46.294
  • Let's put on the armor of god.
  • 00:21:46.294 --> 00:21:48.930
  • And let's make sure that faith leaders are kept at
  • 00:21:48.930 --> 00:21:52.601
  • Accountability of uprightness.
  • 00:21:52.601 --> 00:21:54.269
  • I have my own accountability standards around me i have a
  • 00:21:54.269 --> 00:21:57.606
  • Board member next to me, i take off the kimono i tell him
  • 00:21:57.606 --> 00:22:02.511
  • Everything we know how important it is that when
  • 00:22:02.511 --> 00:22:06.381
  • You're a pastor woe to you if one goes to - because of your
  • 00:22:06.381 --> 00:22:12.053
  • Fall, or one is led astray and and so i want to go back to
  • 00:22:12.053 --> 00:22:18.593
  • The purity of the beauty of the gospel.
  • 00:22:18.593 --> 00:22:21.029
  • Not to add, not to subtract.
  • 00:22:21.029 --> 00:22:23.432
  • Including telling people, just come to the lord and
  • 00:22:23.432 --> 00:22:27.436
  • Everything's okay.
  • 00:22:27.436 --> 00:22:28.537
  • Just give to the church and everything's okay.
  • 00:22:28.537 --> 00:22:32.207
  • Give more money.
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  • God will make you a millionaire.
  • 00:22:33.341 --> 00:22:34.976
  • We've got to go back to the simple gospel.
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  • - okay.
  • 00:22:40.081 --> 00:22:41.149
  • So right now, people flick through channels.
  • 00:22:41.149 --> 00:22:43.218
  • You know, it's men's spiritual gifts.
  • 00:22:43.218 --> 00:22:45.153
  • They go flick through channels.
  • 00:22:45.153 --> 00:22:46.488
  • Somebody's watching.
  • 00:22:46.488 --> 00:22:49.724
  • And they're arrested by you and they think okay i don't
  • 00:22:49.724 --> 00:22:53.462
  • Know this jesus.
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  • So i want you just to talk to them.
  • 00:22:54.996 --> 00:22:56.565
  • - yeah, i want you to know that the smile and the peace
  • 00:22:56.565 --> 00:23:01.169
  • In my soul that you see is real.
  • 00:23:01.169 --> 00:23:06.241
  • That's what you're looking for, what you're looking for
  • 00:23:06.241 --> 00:23:09.811
  • Has nothing to do with what the world says is good,
  • 00:23:09.811 --> 00:23:13.748
  • Pleasurable, or ok, or success, money, drug, -,
  • 00:23:13.748 --> 00:23:18.320
  • Alcohol, -, fame, and fortune.
  • 00:23:18.320 --> 00:23:20.689
  • If you put your happiness in temporary things, your
  • 00:23:20.689 --> 00:23:23.758
  • Happiness will be temporary.
  • 00:23:23.758 --> 00:23:25.126
  • And what you're looking for is rest for your soul.
  • 00:23:25.126 --> 00:23:29.297
  • God made you.
  • 00:23:29.297 --> 00:23:30.966
  • There's a greater plan for your life, a purpose.
  • 00:23:30.966 --> 00:23:34.469
  • And he sent a limbless man to let you know that if he has a
  • 00:23:34.469 --> 00:23:38.206
  • Plan for a man without arms and legs to be his hands and
  • 00:23:38.206 --> 00:23:40.976
  • Feet, god does have a plan for you.
  • 00:23:40.976 --> 00:23:44.513
  • And there is not one heart that is too broken that cannot
  • 00:23:44.513 --> 00:23:47.482
  • Be healed, not one addiction that he cannot heal.
  • 00:23:47.482 --> 00:23:51.119
  • Whether you have to go to rehab or not, it doesn't
  • 00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:53.588
  • Matter.
  • 00:23:53.588 --> 00:23:54.890
  • What i want you to know is you can't fix you, but god can.
  • 00:23:54.890 --> 00:23:59.394
  • And what you're looking for is him.
  • 00:23:59.394 --> 00:24:02.264
  • And he's right there, wherever you are right now, waiting for
  • 00:24:02.264 --> 00:24:05.967
  • You to say, god, i'm sorry.
  • 00:24:05.967 --> 00:24:09.771
  • Forgive me on my sin.
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  • I'm a sinner.
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  • And i need you.
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  • Come into my life.
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  • I believe, jesus, you are the son of the living god.
  • 00:24:17.579 --> 00:24:21.850
  • You died for me.
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  • You were fully god, fully man, and you died for my sins.
  • 00:24:24.920 --> 00:24:30.592
  • I believe you resurrected.
  • 00:24:30.592 --> 00:24:33.662
  • You died for me, you rose again, so i ask you, be my
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  • Savior.
  • 00:24:39.067 --> 00:24:40.302
  • Forgive me, heal me, and fill me with your holy spirit.
  • 00:24:40.302 --> 00:24:45.240
  • I want your plan, not mine, your strength, not mine.
  • 00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:50.545
  • So, lord, lead me and guide me, teach me how to pray, show
  • 00:24:50.545 --> 00:24:55.617
  • Me how to live, and when i fall, pick me up and carry me.
  • 00:24:55.617 --> 00:25:02.557
  • Thank you, god, for your love, and thank you, lord, you'll
  • 00:25:02.557 --> 00:25:06.861
  • Never leave me.
  • 00:25:06.861 --> 00:25:08.330
  • In jesus' name, i pray, amen.
  • 00:25:08.330 --> 00:25:12.400
  • - amen, amen.
  • 00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:14.035
  • I think there's something, 2025, just for barry and i and
  • 00:25:14.035 --> 00:25:19.174
  • Our family, it was a hard year.
  • 00:25:19.174 --> 00:25:20.642
  • There was just so much going on.
  • 00:25:20.642 --> 00:25:22.744
  • But i feel this flicker of light, of hope, of god doing
  • 00:25:22.744 --> 00:25:28.350
  • Something, but it's getting rid of all the stuff we
  • 00:25:28.350 --> 00:25:30.418
  • Thought was important and getting back to what really
  • 00:25:30.418 --> 00:25:33.989
  • Matters.
  • 00:25:33.989 --> 00:25:34.689
  • I agree.
  • 00:25:34.689 --> 00:25:36.024
  • Do you see, i mean, do you see more hopelessness than you've
  • 00:25:36.024 --> 00:25:39.828
  • Experienced before when you travel and speak?
  • 00:25:39.828 --> 00:25:41.963
  • - in some ways, there's always good revealed in the worst
  • 00:25:41.963 --> 00:25:46.501
  • Part of events.
  • 00:25:46.501 --> 00:25:50.438
  • But from my perspective, i just feel like the volume's
  • 00:25:50.438 --> 00:25:56.544
  • Being turned up.
  • 00:25:56.544 --> 00:25:58.980
  • And so you see the good and that multiplied and the evil,
  • 00:25:58.980 --> 00:26:04.219
  • It's multiplying.
  • 00:26:04.219 --> 00:26:06.855
  • I don't think it's just all of a sudden everyone found a
  • 00:26:06.855 --> 00:26:10.959
  • Voice.
  • 00:26:10.959 --> 00:26:12.460
  • It's more of, i think we are seeing desperation.
  • 00:26:12.460 --> 00:26:21.002
  • And i think it's two sides.
  • 00:26:21.603 --> 00:26:24.639
  • It's desperation for hope or it's desperation for validity
  • 00:26:24.639 --> 00:26:30.211
  • Of themselves.
  • 00:26:30.211 --> 00:26:31.346
  • And we both feel attacked from one another as well.
  • 00:26:31.346 --> 00:26:37.085
  • I've never seen america the bird, the bird, the right, the
  • 00:26:37.085 --> 00:26:41.456
  • Left, so sick.
  • 00:26:41.456 --> 00:26:43.324
  • And i feel like for us to really be a second chronicle
  • 00:26:43.324 --> 00:26:48.930
  • 7:14, we are going to need to do an audit of sin and not
  • 00:26:48.930 --> 00:26:55.270
  • Just repent, but what do we walk towards?
  • 00:26:55.270 --> 00:26:58.640
  • And i actually, i've been reading through the bible
  • 00:26:58.640 --> 00:27:03.278
  • Again, talking about the basics.
  • 00:27:03.278 --> 00:27:07.148
  • There's so many references throughout the bible that
  • 00:27:07.148 --> 00:27:14.189
  • Really stem from, for instance, matthew 5:16, and
  • 00:27:14.189 --> 00:27:18.560
  • Let your good works be known that they may all glorify your
  • 00:27:18.560 --> 00:27:21.196
  • Father.
  • 00:27:21.196 --> 00:27:22.530
  • One example is, ok, we should be telling the woman who lives
  • 00:27:22.530 --> 00:27:28.903
  • In inner city dallas who did get raped and now is pregnant,
  • 00:27:28.903 --> 00:27:36.544
  • We should tell her, don't kill the child, but also in the
  • 00:27:36.544 --> 00:27:43.451
  • Same breath how is it that we can help you and also how is
  • 00:27:43.451 --> 00:27:47.989
  • It that we can help the whole inner city block where we give
  • 00:27:47.989 --> 00:27:54.929
  • Financial literacy opportunities help where they
  • 00:27:54.929 --> 00:27:57.031
  • Become an inner city block that is free indeed of murders
  • 00:27:57.031 --> 00:28:04.239
  • Every three weeks so it's not just a stance it goes hand in
  • 00:28:04.239 --> 00:28:10.912
  • Hand, mouth and hand.
  • 00:28:10.912 --> 00:28:15.483
  • And i really believe that this is the generation, alpha and
  • 00:28:15.483 --> 00:28:20.755
  • Gen z, i believe.
  • 00:28:20.755 --> 00:28:21.890
  • They can't do it on their own.
  • 00:28:21.890 --> 00:28:23.158
  • It's all the holy spirit, but what am i trying to say?
  • 00:28:23.158 --> 00:28:25.860
  • I think it's multi-generational.
  • 00:28:25.860 --> 00:28:27.562
  • I think it's the older generation, my generation, gen
  • 00:28:27.562 --> 00:28:29.631
  • Z and alpha, learning, unifying, but alpha, faith
  • 00:28:29.631 --> 00:28:39.307
  • Like a child.
  • 00:28:39.307 --> 00:28:40.775
  • Gen z, compassion like never before.
  • 00:28:40.775 --> 00:28:43.077
  • - yeah.
  • 00:28:43.077 --> 00:28:46.314
  • - the wisdom of the older.
  • 00:28:46.314 --> 00:28:49.517
  • And witnessing what we've witnessed in 20 years, whoa!
  • 00:28:49.517 --> 00:28:51.553
  • So i think god is unifying the remnant to say, let's also
  • 00:28:51.553 --> 00:28:56.057
  • Unify generationally and be very intentional about being
  • 00:28:56.057 --> 00:29:02.831
  • Christians that go back to the simple gospel and let your
  • 00:29:02.831 --> 00:29:06.901
  • Good works be known.
  • 00:29:06.901 --> 00:29:09.671
  • Not that that's why we get saved, but i think we've lost
  • 00:29:09.671 --> 00:29:13.675
  • Goodwill in the church.
  • 00:29:13.675 --> 00:29:15.176
  • A lot of it's gone.
  • 00:29:15.176 --> 00:29:16.644
  • - how does this new book, which is coming out this
  • 00:29:17.679 --> 00:29:20.014
  • Month, how does this fit into this vision of yours?
  • 00:29:20.014 --> 00:29:23.585
  • You've got this ridiculous vision.
  • 00:29:23.585 --> 00:29:26.521
  • - you know, it's so cool.
  • 00:29:26.521 --> 00:29:27.789
  • I'm only away from my family in 2026, 24 days of the year,
  • 00:29:27.789 --> 00:29:34.329
  • Which is quite an accomplishment.
  • 00:29:34.329 --> 00:29:36.531
  • We're thankful for that.
  • 00:29:36.531 --> 00:29:38.099
  • But when we leave, we do multiple countries in a row.
  • 00:29:38.099 --> 00:29:42.604
  • I just went to central america.
  • 00:29:42.604 --> 00:29:44.205
  • I was with the prime minister of belize, the president of el
  • 00:29:44.205 --> 00:29:47.575
  • Salvador, nayib bukele.
  • 00:29:47.575 --> 00:29:51.813
  • And i had a 45-minute meeting with him behind closed doors,
  • 00:29:51.813 --> 00:29:54.682
  • And he's having me go back and preach the gospel to every
  • 00:29:54.682 --> 00:29:58.920
  • Single school student in the country and every single
  • 00:29:58.920 --> 00:30:01.089
  • Prison inmate.
  • 00:30:01.089 --> 00:30:02.323
  • - wow.
  • 00:30:02.323 --> 00:30:03.591
  • - we already reached 25% of the country with the gospel,
  • 00:30:03.591 --> 00:30:06.995
  • And we have open doors in countries that are open to the
  • 00:30:06.995 --> 00:30:09.530
  • Gospel who do acknowledge the lord.
  • 00:30:09.530 --> 00:30:13.668
  • And so when i leave, i do 5 countries in 7 days and come
  • 00:30:13.668 --> 00:30:16.905
  • Back.
  • 00:30:16.905 --> 00:30:18.039
  • - but your vision is to reach a billion people.
  • 00:30:18.039 --> 00:30:19.607
  • - but it's a billion.
  • 00:30:19.607 --> 00:30:20.942
  • And so we have 39 countries in five years that we're hitting.
  • 00:30:20.942 --> 00:30:25.280
  • And on average, it's two weeks a year, where we go and do a
  • 00:30:25.280 --> 00:30:28.650
  • String of that.
  • 00:30:28.650 --> 00:30:30.084
  • But what about the equipping?
  • 00:30:30.084 --> 00:30:33.021
  • What about the report card from heaven?
  • 00:30:33.021 --> 00:30:34.789
  • So if i was a pastor, i would just imagine, ok, how many
  • 00:30:34.789 --> 00:30:41.162
  • Homeless were in the radius of 40 miles?
  • 00:30:41.162 --> 00:30:44.766
  • How many did you counsel who were abused, who were
  • 00:30:44.766 --> 00:30:47.502
  • Afflicted?
  • 00:30:47.502 --> 00:30:48.836
  • How many widows did you help?
  • 00:30:48.836 --> 00:30:51.005
  • How many disabled families did you bring into church and try
  • 00:30:51.005 --> 00:30:55.310
  • To find out how you can include them as well?
  • 00:30:55.310 --> 00:30:58.446
  • How many veterans have you helped?
  • 00:30:58.446 --> 00:31:00.682
  • How many poor people have you helped?
  • 00:31:00.682 --> 00:31:02.850
  • This is basically a preface of the heavenly report card of
  • 00:31:02.850 --> 00:31:07.088
  • Being the church.
  • 00:31:07.088 --> 00:31:08.389
  • It's not about how many seats there are, but if we were true
  • 00:31:08.389 --> 00:31:11.893
  • Disciples, then this would be the fruit.
  • 00:31:11.893 --> 00:31:13.895
  • And so this is like moving of the needle of a kpi, kingdom
  • 00:31:13.895 --> 00:31:18.466
  • Performance index, where not only is a report card, but
  • 00:31:18.466 --> 00:31:23.671
  • There are people watching right now who go to church
  • 00:31:23.671 --> 00:31:27.675
  • Every week and you know god's called you to a foster child
  • 00:31:27.675 --> 00:31:30.912
  • Or someone who's disabled or wanting to even start a
  • 00:31:30.912 --> 00:31:34.949
  • Non-profit or do missions of something.
  • 00:31:34.949 --> 00:31:37.652
  • This actually inspires you to be engaged in your god-given
  • 00:31:37.652 --> 00:31:41.990
  • Purpose within your community, whether your church does a
  • 00:31:41.990 --> 00:31:45.126
  • Program or not.
  • 00:31:45.126 --> 00:31:46.227
  • It's equipping and commissioning the saints for
  • 00:31:46.227 --> 00:31:51.232
  • God's plan.
  • 00:31:51.232 --> 00:31:52.100
  • - that's so great.
  • 00:31:52.100 --> 00:31:53.167
  • I saw that in...
  • 00:31:53.167 --> 00:31:54.335
  • My mom was widowed at 34, never remarried and she told
  • 00:31:54.335 --> 00:31:57.939
  • Me as i was a teenager her prayers were twofold that
  • 00:31:57.939 --> 00:32:00.875
  • She'd see all three of us loving jesus and that we'd all
  • 00:32:00.875 --> 00:32:04.412
  • Be in our settled in our calling and our purpose and
  • 00:32:04.412 --> 00:32:07.615
  • When that happened my brother was the last one i flew back
  • 00:32:07.615 --> 00:32:10.985
  • Home to scotland and i said to her okay i am here to dream
  • 00:32:10.985 --> 00:32:14.188
  • With you for the rest of your life and she said what do you
  • 00:32:14.188 --> 00:32:16.657
  • Mean?
  • 00:32:16.657 --> 00:32:17.892
  • I said well you told me those two things god's answered
  • 00:32:17.892 --> 00:32:19.293
  • Those you've still pulse.
  • 00:32:19.293 --> 00:32:21.062
  • There's not a white chalk mark around your body, so i'm
  • 00:32:21.062 --> 00:32:23.664
  • Thinking, we're not done.
  • 00:32:23.664 --> 00:32:25.033
  • And i said, what have you always wanted to do?
  • 00:32:25.033 --> 00:32:27.969
  • And she said, well, i used to want to teach, but i wouldn't
  • 00:32:27.969 --> 00:32:30.605
  • Know how.
  • 00:32:30.605 --> 00:32:31.439
  • And i said, okay, here's the deal.
  • 00:32:31.439 --> 00:32:32.607
  • So i made flyers and invited all the neighbors in her
  • 00:32:32.607 --> 00:32:34.609
  • Neighborhood to come on a night.
  • 00:32:34.609 --> 00:32:36.310
  • And i said, we're going to have just a bible study.
  • 00:32:36.310 --> 00:32:38.946
  • And she said, well, you lead it.
  • 00:32:38.946 --> 00:32:40.314
  • And i'm like, no, that was not what god put in my heart.
  • 00:32:40.314 --> 00:32:42.483
  • We'll get a really simple bible study.
  • 00:32:42.483 --> 00:32:44.085
  • And she said, what if they ask questions and i don't know the
  • 00:32:44.085 --> 00:32:47.021
  • Answer i said tell them i don't know the answer come
  • 00:32:47.021 --> 00:32:49.724
  • Back next week and i might and honestly nick i can't tell you
  • 00:32:49.724 --> 00:32:53.127
  • I mean my mom was a widow lived in housing provided by the
  • 00:32:53.127 --> 00:32:56.097
  • Government and i watched that living room become holy ground
  • 00:32:56.097 --> 00:33:00.368
  • As eight of her neighbors came in and she began to do what
  • 00:33:00.368 --> 00:33:04.005
  • She had a dream in her heart but thought i don't think i
  • 00:33:04.005 --> 00:33:06.340
  • Can do it but when you say to me one of the courage requires
  • 00:33:06.340 --> 00:33:10.711
  • One thing, yes.
  • 00:33:10.711 --> 00:33:11.479
  • It requires just saying yes.
  • 00:33:11.479 --> 00:33:12.246
  • - amen.
  • 00:33:12.246 --> 00:33:12.914
  • - it was beautiful.
  • 00:33:12.914 --> 00:33:13.614
  • Amen.
  • 00:33:13.614 --> 00:33:14.282
  • But think of the impact.
  • 00:33:14.282 --> 00:33:16.384
  • I mean, i'm thinking of all our viewers.
  • 00:33:16.384 --> 00:33:20.021
  • We have an incredible family of viewers.
  • 00:33:20.021 --> 00:33:23.257
  • And they've helped us do so much.
  • 00:33:23.257 --> 00:33:25.426
  • But wouldn't it be incredible if this became the turning
  • 00:33:25.426 --> 00:33:28.429
  • Point of the year when we all started to think, here am i,
  • 00:33:28.429 --> 00:33:32.433
  • Lord.
  • 00:33:32.433 --> 00:33:33.101
  • - amen.
  • 00:33:33.101 --> 00:33:33.768
  • Isaiah, send me.
  • 00:33:33.768 --> 00:33:34.969
  • - amen.
  • 00:33:34.969 --> 00:33:36.304
  • You know, and in your personal walk in commissioning, you ask
  • 00:33:36.304 --> 00:33:38.506
  • God three questions.
  • 00:33:38.506 --> 00:33:40.208
  • God, what am i doing that you want me to stop doing?
  • 00:33:40.208 --> 00:33:42.877
  • What am i not doing, you want me to start doing?
  • 00:33:42.877 --> 00:33:44.645
  • And what am i doing well that you want me to keep on doing?
  • 00:33:44.645 --> 00:33:48.883
  • Do not be worried about speaking, because i through
  • 00:33:49.917 --> 00:33:52.186
  • You, matthew 10:19.
  • 00:33:52.186 --> 00:33:54.455
  • Man, i mean, i was nervous, my palms were sweating, my knees
  • 00:33:54.455 --> 00:33:57.692
  • Were shaking when i started talking about jesus.
  • 00:33:57.692 --> 00:33:59.694
  • I didn't know a lot.
  • 00:33:59.694 --> 00:34:00.862
  • And you just take that step, that one step at a time.
  • 00:34:00.862 --> 00:34:05.500
  • And, you know, if you're a pastor, don't look down upon
  • 00:34:05.500 --> 00:34:09.137
  • Your, you know, the people who are 60s and up.
  • 00:34:09.137 --> 00:34:12.173
  • They could be one of your greatest, strongest prayer war
  • 00:34:12.173 --> 00:34:15.243
  • Intercessors, bible study leaders, mentors.
  • 00:34:15.243 --> 00:34:17.678
  • I mean...
  • 00:34:17.678 --> 00:34:20.081
  • - absolutely.
  • 00:34:20.081 --> 00:34:21.415
  • - i don't care how old you are, what qualification you
  • 00:34:21.415 --> 00:34:25.453
  • Have, exactly what you said.
  • 00:34:25.453 --> 00:34:26.988
  • Give your yes.
  • 00:34:26.988 --> 00:34:27.822
  • So ask god.
  • 00:34:27.822 --> 00:34:29.657
  • God, what are we not leveraging yet in our church?
  • 00:34:29.657 --> 00:34:32.894
  • - the book's called champions of the broken hearted.
  • 00:34:32.894 --> 00:34:35.496
  • And honestly, it's a book that i believe every family, every
  • 00:34:35.496 --> 00:34:39.333
  • Christian believer should have in your home because there's
  • 00:34:39.333 --> 00:34:42.703
  • So many issues out there and you're probably thinking,
  • 00:34:42.703 --> 00:34:44.472
  • Well, i know that, but what do i, what do i do?
  • 00:34:44.472 --> 00:34:46.607
  • Where do i start?
  • 00:34:46.607 --> 00:34:47.808
  • You start here.
  • 00:34:47.808 --> 00:34:49.110
  • You know, once you've given yourself to daily studying the
  • 00:34:49.110 --> 00:34:52.647
  • Word of god, which is life and breath.
  • 00:34:52.647 --> 00:34:55.616
  • I would be lost.
  • 00:34:55.616 --> 00:34:56.918
  • You know, i often say jesus saved my soul, but the word of
  • 00:34:56.918 --> 00:34:58.920
  • God saved my mind.
  • 00:34:58.920 --> 00:35:00.688
  • God's word is so powerful.
  • 00:35:00.688 --> 00:35:02.890
  • But this book will help.
  • 00:35:02.890 --> 00:35:04.725
  • - we're going to start conversations in the home as
  • 00:35:04.725 --> 00:35:07.361
  • Well.
  • 00:35:07.361 --> 00:35:08.696
  • - yes, absolutely, because the conversations should start in
  • 00:35:08.696 --> 00:35:11.365
  • The home.
  • 00:35:11.365 --> 00:35:12.033
  • That's right.
  • 00:35:12.033 --> 00:35:13.301
  • One of the most meaningful conversations we had with our
  • 00:35:13.301 --> 00:35:15.002
  • Son was when he went off to college, he was sharing a
  • 00:35:15.002 --> 00:35:17.438
  • House with four boys.
  • 00:35:17.438 --> 00:35:18.739
  • And i loved these boys, and i was out with my jar of oil.
  • 00:35:18.739 --> 00:35:22.476
  • I mean, i anointed every door, lord, stopped certain people
  • 00:35:22.476 --> 00:35:25.379
  • Getting in.
  • 00:35:25.379 --> 00:35:26.414
  • But one of the boys confessed to the rest.
  • 00:35:26.414 --> 00:35:29.350
  • I struggled with pornography.
  • 00:35:29.350 --> 00:35:31.886
  • So they took the bedroom door off, and they printed out
  • 00:35:31.886 --> 00:35:35.590
  • Scriptures, and they plastered his wall and a ceiling with
  • 00:35:35.590 --> 00:35:38.459
  • Scriptures.
  • 00:35:38.459 --> 00:35:39.660
  • And i thought, how great, because we think, well, that
  • 00:35:39.660 --> 00:35:41.729
  • Sin is more shameful so we don't talk about.
  • 00:35:41.729 --> 00:35:43.664
  • It's all sin.
  • 00:35:43.664 --> 00:35:44.832
  • It's why jesus died, and we can help each other.
  • 00:35:44.832 --> 00:35:47.468
  • We can.
  • 00:35:47.468 --> 00:35:48.369
  • - it's why we're here, we're family.
  • 00:35:48.369 --> 00:35:49.870
  • I think it's not about just be the church.
  • 00:35:49.870 --> 00:35:52.573
  • I think it's more like be family.
  • 00:35:52.573 --> 00:35:56.010
  • It's it's just what it is.
  • 00:35:56.010 --> 00:35:57.678
  • That's more inviting, isn't it?
  • 00:35:57.678 --> 00:35:58.946
  • It's more inviting than the church.
  • 00:35:58.946 --> 00:36:00.381
  • What does that look like?
  • 00:36:00.381 --> 00:36:01.215
  • Yeah.
  • 00:36:01.215 --> 00:36:02.783
  • A lot of people don't have good family.
  • 00:36:02.783 --> 00:36:04.585
  • We know what a good family could look like, should look
  • 00:36:04.585 --> 00:36:07.488
  • Like, and i'm sorry if you've never had a good family, but
  • 00:36:07.488 --> 00:36:09.757
  • If you're my brother and you're suffering, it's that
  • 00:36:09.757 --> 00:36:12.827
  • Compassion.
  • 00:36:12.827 --> 00:36:14.161
  • I will be moved by compassion to sit down and listen to you
  • 00:36:14.161 --> 00:36:17.298
  • And shut my mouth and just listen to you.
  • 00:36:17.298 --> 00:36:20.701
  • I will love you so much that i'm concerned for you, that i
  • 00:36:20.701 --> 00:36:24.205
  • Will be someone to text you once a week.
  • 00:36:24.205 --> 00:36:26.474
  • How are you going with that addiction?
  • 00:36:26.474 --> 00:36:28.509
  • What are you doing?
  • 00:36:28.509 --> 00:36:29.710
  • What can you change in your environment, is there any
  • 00:36:29.710 --> 00:36:32.747
  • Scripture i can help you with, or let's unpack this, let's do
  • 00:36:32.747 --> 00:36:36.317
  • That.
  • 00:36:36.317 --> 00:36:37.551
  • Whatever that is, as human beings, unfortunately, we're
  • 00:36:37.551 --> 00:36:40.788
  • Flesh.
  • 00:36:40.788 --> 00:36:42.023
  • I'm not just talking about sin.
  • 00:36:42.023 --> 00:36:44.859
  • I'm talking about just selfishness.
  • 00:36:44.859 --> 00:36:46.894
  • If we were more selfless, then we'd be more like jesus.
  • 00:36:46.894 --> 00:36:51.198
  • And that's the struggle that we all go through.
  • 00:36:51.198 --> 00:36:54.902
  • No one's going to be perfect.
  • 00:36:54.902 --> 00:36:57.371
  • No one's going to be a saint.
  • 00:36:57.371 --> 00:37:00.241
  • But what are you doing today?
  • 00:37:00.241 --> 00:37:01.942
  • Yeah.
  • 00:37:01.942 --> 00:37:03.244
  • What has god convicted you to say today, stop doing today,
  • 00:37:03.244 --> 00:37:04.979
  • Start doing today?
  • 00:37:04.979 --> 00:37:06.213
  • - are there any particular stories in champions of the
  • 00:37:06.213 --> 00:37:09.083
  • Broken hearted that are just the closest to your heart?
  • 00:37:09.083 --> 00:37:12.153
  • - yeah, look, jenna quinn, so we talk about human
  • 00:37:12.153 --> 00:37:17.725
  • Trafficking, we talk about sexual abuse, we talk about
  • 00:37:17.725 --> 00:37:22.630
  • Some topics that parents don't even know how to table in a
  • 00:37:22.630 --> 00:37:25.066
  • Home, let alone a pastor.
  • 00:37:25.066 --> 00:37:26.334
  • But jenna quinn was sexually abused, and she felt so much
  • 00:37:26.334 --> 00:37:31.906
  • Shame, condemnation, guilt.
  • 00:37:31.906 --> 00:37:34.809
  • She felt like it was her fault at times, just the mind games
  • 00:37:34.809 --> 00:37:41.849
  • And didn't say anything to anybody for a very long time.
  • 00:37:41.849 --> 00:37:46.587
  • And finally, when she felt liberated from that, god
  • 00:37:46.587 --> 00:37:52.026
  • Called her to help all young people in america to be
  • 00:37:52.026 --> 00:37:55.796
  • Courageous to say something.
  • 00:37:55.796 --> 00:38:01.569
  • You know, we've never met anybody who's been sexually
  • 00:38:01.569 --> 00:38:05.106
  • Abused who regretted saying something, right.
  • 00:38:05.106 --> 00:38:10.311
  • No matter what happened.
  • 00:38:10.311 --> 00:38:14.048
  • We should have said something sooner.
  • 00:38:14.048 --> 00:38:19.520
  • No one's saying, oh, i should have waited before i told
  • 00:38:19.520 --> 00:38:22.323
  • Anybody.
  • 00:38:22.323 --> 00:38:23.557
  • So when you understand that truth, so there's a jenna
  • 00:38:23.557 --> 00:38:26.861
  • Quinn law now.
  • 00:38:26.861 --> 00:38:28.062
  • And i think 22 states where sexual abuse awareness is
  • 00:38:28.062 --> 00:38:34.301
  • Taught in schools.
  • 00:38:34.301 --> 00:38:35.669
  • That's amazing.
  • 00:38:35.669 --> 00:38:37.405
  • And so praise god for jenna and her story.
  • 00:38:37.405 --> 00:38:41.776
  • It's deep, it's hard, it's raw, great book to read with
  • 00:38:41.776 --> 00:38:48.282
  • Your teenagers as well.
  • 00:38:48.282 --> 00:38:49.817
  • Because you'll be surprised how many people are going
  • 00:38:49.817 --> 00:38:52.820
  • Through different things that are right in front of you.
  • 00:38:52.820 --> 00:38:56.090
  • Yeah.
  • 00:38:56.090 --> 00:38:58.759
  • Especially your kids.
  • 00:38:58.759 --> 00:38:59.960
  • I and i hid from my own parents my suicide attempt.
  • 00:38:59.960 --> 00:39:02.329
  • - and you were just 10 years old.
  • 00:39:02.329 --> 00:39:06.167
  • - i was 10.
  • 00:39:06.167 --> 00:39:07.034
  • I was 10.
  • 00:39:07.034 --> 00:39:08.235
  • There are 8, 9, 10 year olds today committing suicide.
  • 00:39:08.235 --> 00:39:10.671
  • We don't know if they are or not until it's too late.
  • 00:39:10.671 --> 00:39:15.075
  • And so it's really the time to just awaken in that.
  • 00:39:15.075 --> 00:39:25.119
  • - i'm thinking of parents parents and grandparents
  • 00:39:25.119 --> 00:39:27.021
  • Watching this.
  • 00:39:27.021 --> 00:39:28.756
  • Where do you start the conversation?
  • 00:39:28.756 --> 00:39:31.926
  • - the advice i normally give anybody, it's normally in the
  • 00:39:31.926 --> 00:39:38.332
  • Context of if it's something not as heavy as sexual abuse,
  • 00:39:38.332 --> 00:39:44.271
  • If it's not as heavy as human trafficking, you kind of talk
  • 00:39:44.271 --> 00:39:49.944
  • About the topic from, hey, what are you noticing at your
  • 00:39:49.944 --> 00:39:53.080
  • School?
  • 00:39:53.080 --> 00:39:53.781
  • - that's good.
  • 00:39:53.781 --> 00:39:54.849
  • - have you seen anyone being punched, abused?
  • 00:39:54.849 --> 00:39:57.284
  • Remember that viral stuff where people just from behind
  • 00:39:57.284 --> 00:40:00.020
  • Get punched, like that was viral?
  • 00:40:00.020 --> 00:40:01.856
  • - horrible.
  • 00:40:01.856 --> 00:40:03.157
  • - and then there's other viral things going on that people
  • 00:40:03.157 --> 00:40:05.493
  • Were daring people to do things that actually killed
  • 00:40:05.493 --> 00:40:07.595
  • Them online.
  • 00:40:07.595 --> 00:40:08.362
  • So many things are gone viral.
  • 00:40:08.362 --> 00:40:08.996
  • What is it now?
  • 00:40:08.996 --> 00:40:10.197
  • Because it's not like it's done, like what is it now?
  • 00:40:10.197 --> 00:40:13.133
  • What does it look like what do you think what do you think
  • 00:40:13.133 --> 00:40:18.672
  • Bullying is, where's the line, and discussing with them a
  • 00:40:18.672 --> 00:40:23.344
  • Topic but not putting the microscope on them but talking
  • 00:40:23.344 --> 00:40:26.580
  • With them about the topic about someone else and then
  • 00:40:26.580 --> 00:40:29.617
  • Eventually you can then bring it back has anyone ever
  • 00:40:29.617 --> 00:40:33.521
  • Done anything like that to you?
  • 00:40:33.521 --> 00:40:35.155
  • Do you know someone close right and then and then that's
  • 00:40:35.155 --> 00:40:38.425
  • The- but when it's heavy it's more of a knowledge and
  • 00:40:38.425 --> 00:40:42.530
  • Awareness.
  • 00:40:42.530 --> 00:40:43.697
  • We have so much knowledge and awareness on levels of
  • 00:40:43.697 --> 00:40:48.135
  • Statistics now.
  • 00:40:48.135 --> 00:40:49.737
  • Ai and the internet and everyone reporting everything.
  • 00:40:49.737 --> 00:40:55.342
  • I think it's encouraging to us as adults first.
  • 00:40:55.342 --> 00:41:00.881
  • Don't be binge watching news all the time and all the stuff
  • 00:41:00.881 --> 00:41:05.152
  • And social media.
  • 00:41:05.152 --> 00:41:06.253
  • It'll hijack you.
  • 00:41:06.253 --> 00:41:09.056
  • Be careful with how much you do that.
  • 00:41:09.056 --> 00:41:11.325
  • And then that's the example you can show your kids, and
  • 00:41:11.325 --> 00:41:16.263
  • Then hey let's play a board game, let's talk, let's read
  • 00:41:16.263 --> 00:41:20.434
  • Psalm 23, let's read psalm 91, let's read proverbs 3.
  • 00:41:20.434 --> 00:41:24.238
  • And so talking and getting that in rhythm.
  • 00:41:24.238 --> 00:41:30.711
  • You'll never regret doing that, but it's the beginning
  • 00:41:30.711 --> 00:41:33.581
  • Of conversing with family again.
  • 00:41:33.581 --> 00:41:35.082
  • And when it is heavy there's a lot of facts that can be
  • 00:41:35.082 --> 00:41:40.754
  • Double-checked and i'll tell you right now you know when
  • 00:41:40.754 --> 00:41:43.824
  • You used to say something you your kids like oh no, i know
  • 00:41:43.824 --> 00:41:47.261
  • Better than you, you actually have the proof of data there's
  • 00:41:47.261 --> 00:41:52.466
  • Human trafficking happening in schools in america they're
  • 00:41:52.466 --> 00:41:56.971
  • Coercing people in schools.
  • 00:41:56.971 --> 00:42:00.874
  • And a child in your kid's school won't ever call it
  • 00:42:00.874 --> 00:42:04.678
  • Human trafficking.
  • 00:42:04.678 --> 00:42:06.113
  • It's just something that they do, that they get paid for,
  • 00:42:06.113 --> 00:42:08.882
  • That they were part of this club.
  • 00:42:08.882 --> 00:42:11.719
  • They are human trafficking in your kids' school, 1 in 15, 1
  • 00:42:11.719 --> 00:42:17.157
  • In 20.
  • 00:42:17.157 --> 00:42:17.825
  • And this is no joke.
  • 00:42:17.825 --> 00:42:19.893
  • No joke.
  • 00:42:19.893 --> 00:42:21.528
  • You don't even know even where that begins.
  • 00:42:21.528 --> 00:42:25.032
  • So bring awareness, go to jaco booyen's ministry.
  • 00:42:25.032 --> 00:42:27.701
  • Here's a chapter.
  • 00:42:27.701 --> 00:42:29.236
  • Human trafficking, you want to learn.
  • 00:42:29.236 --> 00:42:30.771
  • We have a whole chapter.
  • 00:42:30.771 --> 00:42:31.705
  • Go to jaco booyen's ministry.
  • 00:42:31.705 --> 00:42:33.941
  • It's unbelievable.
  • 00:42:33.941 --> 00:42:35.175
  • The stats show it.
  • 00:42:35.175 --> 00:42:38.812
  • And get ready to be shocked.
  • 00:42:39.413 --> 00:42:42.416
  • I think it's going to be a shock.
  • 00:42:42.416 --> 00:42:44.551
  • So we were shocked.
  • 00:42:44.551 --> 00:42:45.919
  • And we were like, okay, now that we know, watch men on the
  • 00:42:45.919 --> 00:42:48.856
  • Wall, we're blowing the trumpet.
  • 00:42:48.856 --> 00:42:51.392
  • And so that's the book as well, like the really heavy
  • 00:42:51.392 --> 00:42:55.129
  • Stuff needs to be known.
  • 00:42:55.129 --> 00:42:58.766
  • - yeah i think there's such a kind of almost a voluntary
  • 00:42:58.766 --> 00:43:01.602
  • Ignorance on some of the areas because i remember our son
  • 00:43:01.602 --> 00:43:04.805
  • When he was in high school he went to a private christian
  • 00:43:04.805 --> 00:43:07.307
  • School you know we all love jesus, everything's great but
  • 00:43:07.307 --> 00:43:10.711
  • That's what the president in the school did.
  • 00:43:10.711 --> 00:43:12.246
  • He said, i'm going to do an anonymous survey with all the
  • 00:43:12.246 --> 00:43:15.082
  • Kids and ask them.
  • 00:43:15.082 --> 00:43:17.184
  • And i remember the night he called all the parents into
  • 00:43:17.184 --> 00:43:20.354
  • The school and i was horrified at the numbers.
  • 00:43:20.354 --> 00:43:23.490
  • But it was like this divine wake-up call.
  • 00:43:23.490 --> 00:43:26.360
  • You know, it was like, because sometimes we hear that is just
  • 00:43:26.360 --> 00:43:28.696
  • Terrible news.
  • 00:43:28.696 --> 00:43:29.730
  • But i heard it as, okay, here's a phenomenal
  • 00:43:29.730 --> 00:43:31.765
  • Opportunity because there's a reason these things are
  • 00:43:31.765 --> 00:43:34.702
  • Happening.
  • 00:43:34.702 --> 00:43:35.703
  • And jesus is the answer to all of it.
  • 00:43:35.703 --> 00:43:41.275
  • - which is exciting.
  • 00:43:41.275 --> 00:43:42.443
  • - yeah, it's very exciting.
  • 00:43:42.443 --> 00:43:43.777
  • - have you been excited?
  • 00:43:43.777 --> 00:43:45.512
  • - i know we talked about this before, maybe last year when
  • 00:43:45.512 --> 00:43:47.815
  • You were here, but i wanted you just to talk again just
  • 00:43:47.815 --> 00:43:49.983
  • For a minute about that incredible thing that happened
  • 00:43:49.983 --> 00:43:52.619
  • In uruguay because you just had it on your instagram.
  • 00:43:52.619 --> 00:43:56.824
  • And it's just, it's so encouraging for our partners
  • 00:43:56.824 --> 00:43:59.860
  • Because this program goes of the world, to hear what god's
  • 00:43:59.860 --> 00:44:02.629
  • Doing in other countries.
  • 00:44:02.629 --> 00:44:04.064
  • - that's the most common reaction when we just had a
  • 00:44:04.064 --> 00:44:10.804
  • Vision night in front of some donors that we've never met
  • 00:44:10.804 --> 00:44:15.142
  • Before.
  • 00:44:15.142 --> 00:44:16.443
  • So potential supporters, we share the highlight of how god
  • 00:44:16.443 --> 00:44:20.681
  • Is moving in other countries, how presidents, mayors,
  • 00:44:20.681 --> 00:44:25.285
  • Governors are like, no, for as long as i'm in this position,
  • 00:44:25.285 --> 00:44:30.224
  • We're going to be a jurisdiction that is
  • 00:44:30.224 --> 00:44:32.926
  • Absolutely judeo-christian aligned.
  • 00:44:32.926 --> 00:44:36.463
  • And we will never do this, this, and this over my dead
  • 00:44:36.463 --> 00:44:39.867
  • Body.
  • 00:44:39.867 --> 00:44:41.769
  • And this is now not just what's right and what's wrong,
  • 00:44:41.769 --> 00:44:46.740
  • But it's the heart.
  • 00:44:46.740 --> 00:44:48.542
  • What's amazing is this, the most incredible meeting.
  • 00:44:48.542 --> 00:44:51.512
  • I've had 37 presidential meetings, one-on-one.
  • 00:44:51.512 --> 00:44:57.117
  • And this last one with bukele, if you actually saw...
  • 00:44:57.117 --> 00:45:01.155
  • - who's bukele?
  • 00:45:01.155 --> 00:45:02.222
  • - sorry, he's from el salvador, the president.
  • 00:45:02.222 --> 00:45:05.959
  • And i know uruguay was amazing and paraguay, and we've done,
  • 00:45:05.959 --> 00:45:10.097
  • I think it was 12 or 13 nations in the last two years.
  • 00:45:10.097 --> 00:45:13.967
  • And we're going to africa next year.
  • 00:45:13.967 --> 00:45:15.903
  • We're going to europe the year after.
  • 00:45:15.903 --> 00:45:17.971
  • Southeast asia and australia the year after that.
  • 00:45:17.971 --> 00:45:21.275
  • Wow.
  • 00:45:21.275 --> 00:45:22.576
  • So that's how we're going to reach a billion people by the
  • 00:45:22.576 --> 00:45:24.378
  • Mercy of god.
  • 00:45:24.378 --> 00:45:25.779
  • We're going to be in mexico on the 4th of april.
  • 00:45:25.779 --> 00:45:28.415
  • There should be about a half a million people.
  • 00:45:28.415 --> 00:45:30.918
  • In the name of the event, we're 50% of the country
  • 00:45:30.918 --> 00:45:34.555
  • Watching, mexico repents.
  • 00:45:34.555 --> 00:45:37.191
  • - oh, wow.
  • 00:45:37.191 --> 00:45:37.891
  • - preaching the gospel.
  • 00:45:37.891 --> 00:45:39.159
  • So it's been incredible to see nations kind of come to a
  • 00:45:39.159 --> 00:45:41.628
  • Posture of we need the gospel.
  • 00:45:41.628 --> 00:45:43.964
  • But it was never defined this way.
  • 00:45:43.964 --> 00:45:46.934
  • And the president of el salvador, he said, because he
  • 00:45:46.934 --> 00:45:50.637
  • Was asked by so many people, like dead bodies would be
  • 00:45:50.637 --> 00:45:53.040
  • Everywhere all over the streets pre-2019.
  • 00:45:53.040 --> 00:45:55.676
  • You can't walk outside anywhere, anytime.
  • 00:45:55.676 --> 00:45:59.479
  • You die.
  • 00:45:59.479 --> 00:46:01.648
  • They themselves say it was communism.
  • 00:46:02.449 --> 00:46:05.886
  • So now seeing the last six years, it's incredible.
  • 00:46:05.886 --> 00:46:09.890
  • He said this.
  • 00:46:09.890 --> 00:46:12.292
  • People asked him, how did you put 70,000 cartels,
  • 00:46:12.292 --> 00:46:15.596
  • Bloodthirsty, violent people behind bars without one person
  • 00:46:15.596 --> 00:46:19.433
  • Being killed?
  • 00:46:19.433 --> 00:46:20.934
  • He said, miracle of god.
  • 00:46:20.934 --> 00:46:22.669
  • - he said miracle of god.
  • 00:46:22.669 --> 00:46:24.404
  • - wow.
  • 00:46:24.404 --> 00:46:25.239
  • - he gives all the glory to god.
  • 00:46:25.239 --> 00:46:26.440
  • But then this is the most important thing, ready?
  • 00:46:26.440 --> 00:46:27.774
  • For this interview, you're going to get this.
  • 00:46:27.774 --> 00:46:29.243
  • It's beautiful.
  • 00:46:29.243 --> 00:46:30.377
  • He said, but we still need a culture change.
  • 00:46:30.377 --> 00:46:37.284
  • He said, the music kids listen to, the manners, the lack of
  • 00:46:38.452 --> 00:46:43.757
  • Them, the respect, the -, the stuff that they watch, all of
  • 00:46:43.757 --> 00:46:50.530
  • That, he says, we still need a cultural change.
  • 00:46:50.530 --> 00:46:52.866
  • What we know as christians, the country doesn't change
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  • Until they're rooted in jesus christ.
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  • You could do tactful things for a president.
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  • You could be very smart and tactful in god's calling in
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  • Your life to help people understand what truth is.
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  • But it's going to come from within and root for you, for
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  • Them to see the sincere peace, rest, joy, and strength that
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  • The lord can give them.
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  • But it's the change.
  • 00:47:22.029 --> 00:47:25.599
  • So what culture things are actually in your church that
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  • Need a change?
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  • Well we go down deeper and go what have we not discipling
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  • Then.
  • 00:47:34.708 --> 00:47:36.376
  • - so what is your prayer for this book, nick?
  • 00:47:36.376 --> 00:47:39.913
  • - i hope people actually read it and then weep for 7 days.
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  • And ask god to forgive us of our sins, for the negligence.
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  • I think we've been neglect to the orphans, widows, the
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  • Prison, and just not knowing, just ignorance.
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  • But it's going to take courage, sheila.
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  • After you weep and you ask god to forgive us, then ask god
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  • For courage, because, man, when you start talking about
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  • Sexual abuse or abortion or something like that in your
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  • Church, don't be discouraged if your church doesn't do
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  • Different.
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  • You go be the church.
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  • You don't need to formalize something in a for world
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  • Building and then ask the lord, god, am i too busy for
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  • You right now?
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  • Busyb, [indiscernible] under satan's yoke when you're too
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  • Busy for your relationship with the lord and his plans
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  • It's going to be an incredible riveting book that is both
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  • Showing, exposing, that would move us, to then equip us.
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  • - i think sometimes there's not so much a lack of care but
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  • A lack of knowing what to do.
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  • - yes.
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  • - because my pastor in my church asked me at one point
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  • If i would speak a little bit about my battle with mental
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  • Illness.
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  • And i was like, yeah, absolutely.
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  • And i think he was shocked by the response afterwards.
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  • And so they immediately started a program in our
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  • Church for people who are struggling with mental
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  • Illness.
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  • Because there was still such a stigma attached to that, but
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  • It's so interesting when kay and rick warren lost their son
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  • Matthew to suicide, he was a darling boy.
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  • He struggled for years.
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  • They did everything they could for him.
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  • But after he went to be with jesus, they've turned this
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  • Phenomenal grief into this ministry of reaching out and
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  • Just telling the truth and inviting people to tell the
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  • Truth.
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  • And so i was asked to come and speak at their first
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  • Conference of the church and mental health.
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  • And i was so glad i was first, because after me, it was like
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  • The surgeon general and the head of the american
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  • Association of psychiatrists.
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  • But i was able to say that night, i'm profoundly
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  • Grateful.
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  • And this is going to sound weird, so just hang with me.
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  • I'm profoundly grateful for the gift of mental illness,
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  • Because it means i can look into the eyes of somebody else
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  • Who's struggling and suffering and saying, me too.
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  • You are not alone.
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  • If we could learn to share our stories with one another and
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  • The redemption that christ brings into our stories, that
  • 00:50:21.942 --> 00:50:25.345
  • In itself would be radical.
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  • - absolutely, so two things.
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  • Whatever the enemy tried to use for bad, god can turn into
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  • Good.
  • 00:50:33.120 --> 00:50:33.787
  • - yes.
  • 00:50:33.787 --> 00:50:35.021
  • - and i remember seeing online a church service, there's
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  • Thousands of people in there.
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  • The pastor said, put your hand up.
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  • If you know that you've seen a miracle in your life the last
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  • 12 months, 90% of the hands went up.
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  • And i'm like, how cool would it be if we just shared each
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  • Other's stories?
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  • Like if you see a blind person seeing, you know that that's
  • 00:50:56.409 --> 00:51:00.780
  • Gonna be more faith.
  • 00:51:00.780 --> 00:51:01.915
  • Well, i mean, how many miracles do you want more?
  • 00:51:01.915 --> 00:51:05.285
  • The 6,000 stories in the last 12 months just talk yeah talk.
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  • Yes share your story share the miracles so we pray for
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  • Miracles track those prayer journals, you'll be surprised
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  • If you actually pray about 30, 40, 50 things a day and for
  • 00:51:20.534 --> 00:51:25.205
  • Other people you might actually see prayers answered
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  • Every third week.
  • 00:51:29.242 --> 00:51:31.444
  • - we've got just under three minutes left.
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  • So i want you to pray for us, to pray for our audience that
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  • We would catch this vision and go back to the basics of what
  • 00:51:37.918 --> 00:51:43.590
  • It means to love jesus.
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  • - dear lord, we thank you so much that you love us.
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  • We thank you that you know the despair, loneliness,
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  • Isolation, anxiety, fear, depression, addiction,
  • 00:51:52.365 --> 00:51:56.169
  • Affliction, lies of condemnation, shame, guilt.
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  • Lord, we thank you that we can give you all of those
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  • Disabilities and we can walk by faith and not by sight and
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  • Come before your throne of grace.
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  • You are the healer, you are the redeemer.
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  • And we thank you for miracles in jesus' name.
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  • Holy spirit, give us eyes that are not cloudy and minds that
  • 00:52:16.523 --> 00:52:20.360
  • Are not heavy.
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  • Give us hearts full of peace again and joy.
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  • As we read the bible, speak to us, edify us, strengthen us,
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  • Encourage us, and help us to know that you're not done with
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  • Us yet.
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  • Lord, for as long as we're breathing, we have an
  • 00:52:34.708 --> 00:52:39.946
  • Incredible ability to grow more in love with you, but
  • 00:52:39.946 --> 00:52:43.450
  • Also reach someone else who doesn't know you.
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  • Lord, help us to know what that means.
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  • Give us the courage, give us the faith.
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  • We ask that the united states of america would repent of our
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  • Sin.
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  • Yes, jesus.
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  • We would unify and plead for your mercy upon this land.
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  • We ask our churches would be family and be compassionate
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  • And active in reaching the loss and the brokenhearted
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  • Like never before.
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  • In jesus' name we pray.
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  • Amen.
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  • - amen.
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  • Let me read you something.
  • 00:53:16.182 --> 00:53:17.417
  • This is one of my absolute favorite psalms in the
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  • Universe.
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  • But for those of you who feel like, you know, i don't think
  • 00:53:21.988 --> 00:53:24.357
  • God understands everything that's going on, i want you to
  • 00:53:24.357 --> 00:53:27.761
  • Know that jesus understands and he loves you.
  • 00:53:27.761 --> 00:53:30.597
  • And you're probably sitting there thinking, well, you
  • 00:53:30.597 --> 00:53:32.365
  • Don't know me.
  • 00:53:32.365 --> 00:53:33.099
  • No, i don't, but i know him.
  • 00:53:33.099 --> 00:53:34.734
  • And i know he loves you.
  • 00:53:34.734 --> 00:53:36.469
  • And today would be a good day to just come home.
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  • You know, today would be a good day.
  • 00:53:39.806 --> 00:53:41.441
  • Why not?
  • 00:53:41.441 --> 00:53:42.642
  • You know, if you've spent the last, however long, just
  • 00:53:42.642 --> 00:53:44.277
  • Thinking, you know what, i think i'm done.
  • 00:53:44.277 --> 00:53:46.079
  • No, you're not done.
  • 00:53:46.079 --> 00:53:47.280
  • Because it says in psalm 34, the lord is close to the
  • 00:53:47.280 --> 00:53:50.417
  • Broken-hearted and he saves those who are crushed in
  • 00:53:50.417 --> 00:53:53.853
  • Spirit.
  • 00:53:53.853 --> 00:53:54.988
  • One of the greatest things that any of us can do is
  • 00:53:54.988 --> 00:53:57.390
  • Simply tell god the whole truth.
  • 00:53:57.390 --> 00:53:59.893
  • Have you ever told them the whole truth?
  • 00:53:59.893 --> 00:54:02.329
  • And maybe you expect rejection.
  • 00:54:02.329 --> 00:54:03.830
  • That's not what you're going to get.
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  • You're going to get a welcome home.
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  • I love you.
  • 00:54:07.534 --> 00:54:09.135
  • Nick, it's always an absolute joy, i could talk to you for
  • 00:54:09.135 --> 00:54:12.272
  • Hours.
  • 00:54:12.272 --> 00:54:12.939
  • Thank you so much.
  • 00:54:12.939 --> 00:54:14.174
  • And we will continue to pray for your ministry that god
  • 00:54:14.174 --> 00:54:16.910
  • Will do things that only god could do.
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  • Amen.
  • 00:54:19.045 --> 00:54:19.713
  • - love you very much.
  • 00:54:19.713 --> 00:54:20.580
  • - love you too, nick.
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  • We'll see you next time.
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  • ♪ (music playing)
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