Benny Prasad - Liberty University - 2013

today's special music is a good friend of ours from India is from from Bangalore but he's not there very much he is the world's most traveled musician and that's not an opinion he's actually I received a world record he's been to every single country in the world he pray he plays for the poorest of the poor the richest of the rich he's open for everything from the World Cup to the Olympics he gets through here about once a year on this very important and special day his name is Benny Prasad he will be this we just added he agreed to do this 630 tonight if you come to the meeting early at Thomas Road he's going to do a mini concert right before the meeting welcome all the way from India one of the world's best known musicians Billy Prasad [Applause] [Music] Thank You Johnny good morning everybody come on you can do that better good morning everybody that was a quick lesson on good morning well I want to thank Jesus for giving me this gift of life and every time I come here I'm just so thrilled to see so many young people on your way to missions if you have not decided today's your deadline for that actually and and you know it's it's it's so wonderful to live I just celebrated my 30th 38th birthday and at the age of 16 the doctors had given me six months to live I was born with a smile and from the age of two till the age of 16 I was on wrong medication on high doses of cortisone steroids and as a result of that 60% of my lungs got damaged and my immune system broke down and I developed rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 12 by accident I was hit by javelin and my spinal cord was damaged and everything went wrong in my life well that's what the human said and my father being an aerospace scientist he expected me to become like him and I became the scum of the family I was thrown out of school in my 10th grade saying that you are not worth studying you are useless you are good for nothing these were the words that were spoken over my life for 16 years where medically they told me you will not live any longer in education as well as society and family they looked at me and they said many you are a shame and a curse to the family and having no hope no talent no life nothing left in me I contemplated to commit suicide at the age of 16 even if you if you're really sitting down and wondering many can God use me in missions I want to tell you that there are so many Bennie's like me out there who needs the gospel and you are one among them who can really go and share that gospel and at the lowest point of my life when I wanted to kill myself I heard the voice of Jesus Christ saying many even though you are called useless I still need you I said Jesus why do you need me when the whole world says I'm useless he said he could transform my life and make me a new person and I said okay I have nothing to offer all that I have is my broken life and six months to live he says that's enough for me to start a new work in you and that's what he has done I gave my life to Jesus Christ and I've already I've already aches I've already surpassed the expiry date that the doctors had put on my life actually and and I'm just so thrilled to live this and in 2004 I asked Jesus what is your call for my life the Bible says God's pays a higher than man's maze and his thoughts are higher than our thoughts and I want to tell you a Christian life is the most exciting life to live and a life that the surrender in Christ is just so adventurous my life is more than James Bond movie because it's a reality James Bond is only a movie mine is a reality and in 2002 with $25 a month being a wife a missionary I asked Jesus what do you want to do with my life because my dream was to go to one country he said Benny I want you to travel to every country by 2010 I said Jesus this is impossible till today there has never been one example in the history of mankind whether it is Michael Jackson or Mariah Carey or whoever it is they have never been to every country in the world how can I being a broken person being able to achieve this he says many what is impossible for you is possible for me and what it takes my dear friends today is to surrender your brokenness and your life into the hands of Jesus and he will shape it after his will and so I said Jesus as long as you are my provider I will be your traveler we had a good deal I said I will live a life of faith and you provide for me so today this is my one Passport this passport is my travel record to every country in the world and on 22nd of November 2010 I arrived in my last country Pakistan and I broke six world records and one among them was I became the fastest man in the history to travel to every country in the shortest time 245 nations including Antarctica in six years six months and 22 days if Jesus can use my life to make history for his glory I'm sorry I don't have time to wait for your clapping I'm not trying to be rude but if Jesus could do that in my life today he has a plan for your life and he took me to amazing nations one among them was North Korea last year I was invited by the government of North Korea to come and perform for the 100th birthday anniversary of their founder Kim you'll soon eight hundred and thirty-four performers were chosen from all over the world and I was the only Indian chosen from my country and it was a great opportunity to play but more so an opportunity to share the gospel yes if you share the gospel you don't need to be a prophet to understand that you'll be killed but I understood in the Word of God that if anyone tries to save their life will lose it if anyone loses their life for the sake of Christ will find it so I mean for my parents there's a big possibility that I might be killed in North Korea so if you don't hear from me on the 17th of April that's a mutual understanding that either I'm killed or in prison and I will see you in heaven because for me to live is Christ and to die is gain so I went to North Korea so excited to live and to die for Jesus to spies followed me every single day of my life every single minute in fact when you have two ungodly spies following you all the time what do you do you share the gospel because they're always with you they will never leave you they might forsake you but they will never leave you and since they are always with you what a great opportunity to talk about Jesus you don't need to go to North Korea to talk about Jesus Jesus is putting a nation in your heart be obedient to him say yes to him and I got into trouble sure next day then my interpreter went and informed to the official that Benny is doing this because I used her to translate my testimony to the spies now I'm in big trouble and sure I'll be killed but the right perspective is what a great opportunity to stand in front of the official and I shared my testimony knowing that I might be killed but the official ask me a question how could you be so sure you heard the voice of Jesus at 16 it could have been your own imagination I told him sir my own imagination told me to kill myself it is the voice of Jesus that gave me life and life in abundance and he heard my testimony and I want to tell you my friends be courageous even to the point of death to share the love of Jesus Christ don't ever fear your life because Jesus is in charge I was not killed in North Korea because it was not my time to die he knows my time actually and in the end twelve musicians were chosen out of 834 performers and I was one among the twelve to be awarded by the government of North Korea and I played his shout to the Lord a song which I'm going to play my Jesus might save your Lord there is none like you in a nation like that on their national TV if God could use a Christian and Indian to perform on this guitar a guitar which God helped me to design in 2004 for the Olympic Games in Greece if God could pick a broken worthless child like me written off by society to design the world's first guitar with drums inside there is nothing impossible for Jesus to do in your life if he could pick up give me a passport like this 14 books to go and share the good news to the nations there is nothing impossible I am just so excited and I'm going to play this song my Jesus my Savior Lord there is none like you and again with authorities' when I play this instrument even the medical doctors say this has to be God and God alone and just to conclude with when I broke the world record I had a hat which said thank you Jesus and CNN was the first news channel to interview me and they said so that is a religious statement please take off your hat because we are a secular Channel and I'll tell you you want to share the gospel share it creatively nobody can stop you and so I asked Jesus for an idea because the whole world is going to interview me for achieving this feat and I want to make sure that Jesus is known I am not ashamed of the gospel he gave me life when doctors gave me 6 months to live he gave me protection he gave me this beautiful future how can I keep Jesus secret no it is sin for me to keep Jesus just to myself so he gave me this beautiful idea of designing this new hat and my hat says thank you Jesus I am an Indian this is not a religious statement it is a patriotic statement and hence nobody can stop me you know nobody can stop me from wearing this thing and and if even even News Channel's they would come up to me and say what is this on your head I said well I'm proud to be an Indian the cameraman says do a close-up on his hat also at the United Nations they told me you cannot share about Jesus I said fine but I wore my hat which talked about Jesus all the time my friends if you really want to talk about Jesus nobody can stop you so don't use excuses go forward he died on the cross to rescue you from sin and give you eternal life I cannot keep Jesus secret to myself so my Jesus my Savior law that is not like you [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

Channel: Benny Prasad

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Length: 11min 29sec (689 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 29 2013