“Unstoppable Faith" - Bobby Schuller featuring Nick Vujicic

thank you for joining us today and if you're ever in this area come down and worship with us here at Shepherds Grove all right would you say this with me hold your hands out like this is a sign of receiving I'm not what I do I'm not what I have I'm not what people say about me I am the beloved of God it's Who I am no one can take it from me I don't have to worry I don't have to hurry I can trust my friend Jesus and share his love with the world thanks you can be seated have a great video next about our guest Nick voyage know that we are not alone and we need each other we need to uplift this message of hope around the wall to know that we are one the body of Christ is one and together we can hold each other we can uplift each other we can support each other we can encourage each other good morning thank you for your welcome and I want to say first of all it's an honor a privilege to be back god bless you in your church and I just want you all to know I don't know who you are and I don't know what you're expecting to hear and maybe you're going through something right now in your life or your loved one and I just pray that this message is very very encouraging to you as Hannah had read the psalm Psalm 23 I think it's about the fifth line where it says he restores my soul can you say that with me he restores my soul you know when you find about the truth of the knowledge of Jesus Christ as we were talking earlier all you want to do is share that with the world and I'm privileged to tell you and and humble to tell you that God really has an amazing plan for you even sometimes when all you see are broken pieces I want you to know that God can do beautiful things with your broken pieces if you give your broken pieces to God and I stand before you limbless but I'm not disabled because I have walked by faith and not by sight and when you go by faith you put agio in front of the word disabled and it spells God is able to do what to do exceedingly abundantly more than you can ever ask imagine or attain can you say the word attain do you know what that means that means God wants to give you so much more than you can have a hold with one hand to hand ten hands when you have a hand that's holding on to something and the five fingers are closed how much can you receive when your fingers are closed nothing all you have is what's in your hand and it's amazing as we live in a society that gets busier and busier and faster and faster and you look from this season to the next season of your life hoping that things might be a little bit different let me just tell you about the sadness of our human state in a humorous way are you ready I was in front of an eight-year-old crowd one day and I asked the kids I said I can I ask you a question they said aha and I said have you ever been stressed and they're like oh yeah I'm like what could be possibly stressing out eight-year-olds they told me homework and their siblings that's what stresses them out I said I'm very very sorry and it's truce like you know when you got bigger siblings and you know they pull on your hair it's stressful right right we know and then 13-year olds all know your stress but everything's changing around you you're changing your world is changing your friends are changing on you they invite you to the party then they uninvite you to the party you're trying to figure out where you fit in this place and all this stuff in this world is so big and my parents and understand me and then freaking me up and give me my privacy and they still come into my room even though I put a Do Not Disturb sign on my door I am so stressed out right now I need a boyfriend that's distress of a thirteen-year-old then you have 17 year-olds they got to get out of high school cousin they're going to get into college if I can just get into the right College then everything's gonna be okay are they wrong or what they get into college and what do they need now money oh lord give me a job please if I could just get a job and everything's gonna be okay they finally get their job and after two days they look at their boss they look at God you say really God you gave me here I hate him he stresses me out then all the single people all all the single people oh the choir like that way got some married people up there right right Oh Lord if I can just find the one then everything is gonna be okay no go talk to some married people cuz if you ain't happy single you ain't gonna be happy married can you hear an amen all the married people there there I have two questions for you this morning who are you and what do you want I wanted arms and legs because I never would have imagined that I would ever be happy I have a purpose filled life without limbs you see you can have arms and legs but I tell teenagers all the time I believe it's worse being in a broken home than having no arms and legs you can have arms and legs but you don't know what you're living for they say that you haven't found something to live for until you found something to die for is there such a thing is there such a thing as an absolute hope you know many people have different philosophies about hope and life I was 12 years old at an airport and this woman she sees me she says hello I said hello she said were you born this way and said yes she said have you ever wondered why and I said yes she said well I know why and I'm thinking wait a second she's a total stranger she didn't even know my name and now she is gonna tell me why I was born this way I mean for real my doctors my parents they don't know what I was born this way lady gaga sure don't know why I was born this way and now this stranger knows and so what happens is I listen to her and she says have you ever heard of reincarnation and I said no she said well this is what exactly happened this is what happened she said in your previous life and on my aunt first flag-like previous life I didn't even have the fingerprints to this life how did she find me she said in your previous life you were a very very very bad boy and I said thanks she said but don't worry now that you're a good boy you come back in your next life like a butterfly and I'm thinking I don't think I wanna be a butterfly and I'm not I'm looking to tell her how many butterflies I've killed in my wheelchair I ain't gonna be a butterfly people have different philosophies you know those people all you need is positivity just be positive you know my conclusion is they haven't gone through something real enough yet because when you are told by your doctors you got Stage four pancreatic cancer how can you be positive unless you know that you're a child of God you're an ambassador the king of kings and Lord of lords God's angels are around you in the spirit of God that raised Jesus Christ from the dead lives in you why wouldn't we be positive yes it's hard for my dad I have cancer yes we've cried many many tears but every time I leave his side I say dad I'm coming home and if I don't see you here I'll see you up there who knows I could die in a plane crash a car crash before my dad actually dies of cancer who knows my dad could be healed actually I have a pair of shoes in my closet just in case God gives me arms and legs why because we walk by faith and not by sight but the peace of God that surpasses all understanding can guide your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus through every single season of your life it's not about going from a valley to a mountain it's about deciding to walk with Jesus Christ that is the deciding factor that changes everything I don't need arms and legs can I show you my beautiful family up on screen this is Connie a she's half Japanese half Mexican seekin and that's Kyoshi in the red he's three and a half years old way taller than me already and then dejan he's so cute he's about 14 months now and we I look at that photo and if I had fingers I'd be pinching myself because dreams come true beautiful miracles can come from your broken pieces and when you don't get a miracle you can still be a miracle for somebody else like the 30 odd people that I've met around the world in 63 countries who have no limbs can you imagine those conversations can you imagine the parents of the children with no limbs having conversations with my parents it's very game-changing to the point where here in Southern California saw a limbless boy I asked you what you want here's what I want you see I met a little boy called Daniel here in California and now he swims he goes to school and I told his mom said when he goes to school and he gets bullied I'm gonna come there in my wheelchair I'm gonna run them all over I heard a Christian clap to that you shouldn't be clapping to that but six years ago I went to his school and now he's not getting teased and bullied and I want you to know this is what I want one day when I'm in heaven because now little Daniel and his family knows that God has a plan for him to one day I'm gonna be in heaven with my own two new arms my own new legs and I'm gonna be in heaven chillin and I'll hear my name hey Dad I'm gonna look be Daniel Martinez running to me with his new legs hugging me with his new arms and saying thank you brother for helping me believe that this place called heaven was real money drugs sex alcohol pornography fame and fortune if you put your happiness in temporary things your happiness will be temporary even if you put your happiness just in doing good you got to put your happiness in Jesus know him intimately as your friend my Heavenly Father he knows me I know him he has given me everything I need and there is no redemption like the redemption and the power of Jesus Christ he's the only one who said I am God he's the only one who said I am holy he's the only one who could ever die for anyone else's sin because he had no sin you see if me and Bobby are driving out different cars and I'll be very interesting if I would ever be driving a car next to you I probably have a drag race with you'll be tempted to do that anyway so but let's say that me and Bobby we're driving in LA streets we both get a ticket and we find out hey Bobby hey Ned I gotta take all so did I now I can't pay for his ticket and he can't pay for mine we have to pay for our own tickets if we already have $500 in the bank and our tickets 500 bucks I can't pay Bobby's ticket he can't pay mine now if Bobby didn't get a ticket cuz he's a passerine he's a very good young man better than me right and he doesn't get a ticket I get a ticket but he has 500 bucks and I didn't have 500 bucks listen if Bobby pays my ticket and he doesn't have a ticket when he pays the prize for my ticket I'm done I'm free the police aren't coming after me you see we all have sinned all of us have sinned and that's the ticket and I can't die for your sin and you can't die for mine but Jesus who had no sin died in the cross for the world God sent his son he beat the devil face to face he conquered the two biggest disabilities that you will ever face in your life sin and death forget about arms and legs if he could have arms and legs be so cool that if the roof now opens up in the glory of the Lord shut around us and we heard the angels sing and bang it'd be awesome and I've seen miracles I've seen lame people walking Krueger backs come straight skin diseases fall off buddies within 24 hours we prayed for a 17 year old who was left in a hospital bed in Australia to die in the hospital we pray next morning he's doing cartwheels down the hallways of the hospital with the doctors chores on the floor I've seen miracles often I don't see them rarely I see them but greater than a physical miracle is the miracle of being saved is the miracle of knowing him why because he lives jesus is alive he's not dead and he has a real hope for you and me if you trust him trust your life into his hands and he will not fail I don't know what the redemptive stories you've ever heard in your life but when I'm in front of 650 slaves in India in 2008 who been kidnapped at age 10 bought for $700 as a slave sometimes actually sold by their own parents what are you going to tell him reincarnation better luck next time be positive there is one religion that I'll never talk about because actually that one religion says will you just become your own God and whatever you believe it that's what happens it's so silly you can't tell a slave that try there are three other major religions that I could not talk to them about because there were a woman first and second there a slave there are three major actual big worldwide religions that actually already condemned them to no redemption no hope because they were slave so what am I going to tell him being atheist how does that help you see I can't be an atheist I can't I've seen way too much when you see a demon you can't be an atheist anymore and if you don't believe that anything's happening on this earth that science cannot explain go to a rural developing country where they have no hospitals and all they have or witch doctors they see supernatural things every single week there is more to this life than meets the eye what is your hope these girls who were once slave went to a Jesus camp rehabilitation found a job saved up money didn't save up for a car or for a house they went back to the brothels the very house that they were once slaves in and actually went up to their former masters and say you don't remember me but you were once my master and I've come here to tell you that I love you and I forgive you with the love of Jesus Christ I'm praying for you and I've come here to wash your feet and after they're done here's seven hundred dollars I'm taking another slave they go through the rehab they get a job they together save up money they go back and free another one and another one and another one I've seen three cycles of this with my own eyes and I want you to know that hope it's real when your hope is in Jesus Christ later that night we saw a woman on the floor very frail very old she hadn't walked for four and a half years we prayed for her that night she walked why do I tell you this story because that woman who had not walked for four and a half years and after we prayed for her I didn't even lay hands on her she walked for the very first time after four and a half years of being on the floor carried everywhere my friend Devraj from Teen Challenge Mumbai who's single-handedly by the grace of God rescued 350 slaves he's an Indian man and he looked pale and it's hard for an Indian man to look pale did you get that he said Nick I can't believe it I said what he said that old woman wasn't just any old woman the one who walked he said yes I said who was she that old woman who walked tonight miraculously was the very woman who claimed that block of land ten acres in the city led red-light district she's the one who started human trafficking in this city forty five years ago she was an evil woman responsible for forty thousand girls Plus and God still touched her healed her two weeks later she gave a life to Jesus three years later human trafficking became illegal in India in 2011 and guess what happened Devraj got permission to bulldoze the entire city block and build a church right in the heart of Mumbai I'm gonna now invite Alisa Hicks to the stage she is someone who has not seen the light of day nor the color of a rose and she though sees Jesus and it's because he lives that ELISA who can't see has hope and the limbless conductor conducts an orchestra with his shoulders because Jesus lives is why I have hope if you haven't found hope yet he is knocking at your door let him in ladies and gentlemen ELISA Hicks because he lives what Oh heeey to one day I'll cross nice Thank You Alyssa Hicks and Nick voyage of course we appreciate you both so much and thank you for making this truly a special Sunday for all of us here and now rise for the benediction the Lord bless you and keep you the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you the Lord lift his countenance upon you and give you his peace in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit amen I was born in Baghdad Iraq in 1991 my life and many others changed dramatically open the Gulf water started and we all had to be soldiers or what I saw and the experience there was a horrible and in you mean I'm the only one of my barracks who survived I was angry with God and disappointed because he allowed this to happen though I tried to move on anger and sadness stood by me as a shadow then one day I saw our of power a young man said God loves you no matter what you are I still question things but now I leave it to God because he is the one who answers and I have to trust you but for now he says to me you are my beloved son I gave you life and I will lead each day this has changed my life forever I am now more positive and happy with my life I want to thank you for your message and for giving me a different perspective and purpose in my life I know now that God is here and he lost me thank you sincerely come on Rob thank you so much and we're so thrilled about your new positive attitude and your your understanding of God's love for you I mean that's that is why we get up in the morning is for people like you and I one of the reasons we're sharing these stories with the whole world is because we have to raise money to continue to reach these types of people we ask for money we're not asking for us we're asking for people like Rob we're asking for those people in the world that are going through just a rough time that are looking for hope they don't know where to look and then on the TV were there recently we we prayed about it and we took a huge leap to go on a nationwide network and the price tag was 16,000 dollars a month and we just said let's do it let's step out of the faith let's go so we did we made this move and we're asking people to get behind it and if the millions of people that watch if everybody please just a small part in this it'll be a piece of cake we can totally do it and we're asking you to help us because that's sixteen thousand dollars is gonna reach hundreds of thousands of people millions every year if you get behind us and make our dream reality we believe in you it's not for us it's for people that are hurting people that need hope and you're doing it I'm so thankful for you we received thousands of letters each week filled with testimonies of what God is doing in the lives of our of power viewers it's a blessing for us and now we want to share it with you so for every donation of $20 or more we're going to send you this new beloved hour of power calendar every page is filled with a short but beautiful quote from these testimonies let each month be a reminder of God's faithfulness and how your support is changing lives call write or go online now you

Channel: Hour of Power with Bobby Schuller

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Length: 28min 35sec (1715 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 06 2016