"Fire of Hope" Guest Preacher: Nick Vujicic (Powerful Word)

[Music] [Music] [Applause] where [Music] and Jesus who had no took the place and did the time for [Applause] our he's going to use the circumstance if God can give you a miracle he's going to cause you to be a [Applause] miracle [Music] good morning hello you may be seated thank you so much for your heartfelt welcome Pastor John Jenkins Trina your whole family you guys are incredible and not just incredible in many senses of many people saying that but there are not a lot of churches who are investing like you're investing in the Next Generation and I commend you and it's all glory to God to have Dynamic Disciples of Jesus from such a young age may God bless each and every one of you we love [Applause] you I've now been able to preach the gospel in 79 countries it'll be 81 by next week I'll be uh in Estonia and Latvia and uh on multiple Russians speaking language television channels worldwide um will be preaching the gospel and be with the government of Latvia um soon um it'll be the um 11th government I'm with um I've had the privilege of meeting world leaders I was just with eight presidents in one room six presidents in one room with uh some other parliament of other countries about two months ago in Central Europe and obviously me going to Israel and being a Christian as we stand with Israel we need the Holy Spirit to intervene in our world so pray for our world and pray for our country as Veterans Day has just passed yesterday can we have every person that represented America in its defense for fight for freedom and sacrificing all that you did for our country would you please stand up veterans God bless you you haven't started my counting down clock so don't now blame me for being over time cuz I have no wristwatch all right um Pastor Jenkins and I go way back in 2009 and when I met brother John Jenkins is now pastor of FBC sorry fbcg for 34 years congratulations s and to the Church of 106 years God bless you and um every time I see John my spirit leaps and uh it's such a uh an incredible honor to call you brother in Christ someone who really believed in me I mean back in ' 09 um how many what that is that 13 years ago 14 years ago I was 37 years old no wait sorry 27 years old I was 27 when I met you and as a young preacher um it's it's difficult to have people who see what you see ahead you saw what was ahead and I thank you because you believed in US you've always been generous in your words in your time anytime I've ever texted Pastor John Jenkins he always text back you've been there for me and uh I don't know if any of you were here in 09 and 2011 oh yeah awesome but please raise your hand if you've never heard me speak face to face raise your hand you never heard me speak face to face it should be most of you wonderful nice to meet you all God bless you and thank you for coming and put your hand up if this is your first time to this church you're visiting this church can we welcome our guests thank you for coming you're welcome here you know I love the tagline of dynamic discipleship I I just love that because if you're a follower of Jesus Christ and you have a dynamic relationship in your active relationship you're either active or inactive you're either active in military or you're not do you understand you're either in battle or you're not there are some Christians that I met along the way and I say how you doing they're like oh everything's great I'm like really they're either lying or they're not standing where they should be standing cuz I tell you when you are a disciple of Jesus Christ and you have a dynamic relationship with him we are active in service for the king of kings and Lord of lords and I tell you when you stand in front of the gates of how and redirect traffic it gets hot a little bit and I have a dynamic relationship with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and as he's taken me around the world I mean people you don't understand people look at me and say wow I can't can't imagine my life without limbs I'm like that ain't nothing that ain't nothing everyone say that ain't nothing cuz when you're vocal and you're confident in God and you have 16 million social media [Music] fans and you unapologetically unapologetically sometimes even get Politically Incorrect to be righteously correct for the name of Jesus and standing up for people all around the world in freedom and liberty and and honoring people with special needs I love that word disabled d i s a b l e d you know what God says go and sin no more the the the word is go actively go go forward go onward go upward and when you put a go in front of the word disabled and you walk by faith and not by sight that before you even see him you love him and you trust him and you hold him to his promises and he is faithful and we are thankful for everything has given us when you have faith f AI t h full Assurance in the heart that despite what you see despite what you feel despite what you know what's going on in the world greater is he who is in me than anyone in the world and when you go and you put a go in front of the word disabled do you know what that spells God is abled to do what to do exceedingly abundantly more than you can ever ask imagine or attain when I was born without limbs my parents didn't know that I was going to be born this way and so when I was born I said surprise my doctor said we're so sorry he's not going to be a person of any quality of life they called me literally they said we're sorry you he he is's going to be a vegetable he's not going to walk and thank God for doctors but thank God doctors are sometimes wrong you know Jeremiah 29:1 it says for I know the plans that I have for you declares the Lord plans to prosper you and not to harm you plans to give you hope in the future verse 12 then you will call upon me come and pray to me and I will listen to you next verse you will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart verse 14 I will be found by you says the Lord there are many times where circumstances are bigger than our strength we have a plan our plan fails and then we put our hope and dependency on other people oh if I can just have another relationship here's the problem with the next relationship you're in it money drug sex alcohol pornography Fame and Fortune if you put your happiness in temporary things your happiness will be temporary and yes in the flesh we want circumstances to change and there is nothing wrong with praying for circumstances to change in fact he encourages us to present our requests but even so of his grace and his mercy and his faithfulness he sometimes doesn't change everything but when you don't get a miracle you can still be one and when I was a kid growing up and all the kids would look at me and say what happened I say cigarettes it's a very effective anti smoking campaign it was great saved a couple lives people come up to me and saywell what do you want to be when you grow up I'm like I don't know and I felt like there was no hope or plan for me I felt like Jeremiah 29:11 was not for me cuz I prayed for arms and legs I prayed for a circumstance it' be so cool if God gave me arms and legs I've got two pair of shoes two pairs of shoes just in case he says yes I've seen blind people seeing deaf people hearing lame people walking cricked backs come straight I've even had a a a doctor in California tell me that my God is real you want to know why because in 2002 I was 19 years old that was the year that I became an ordained minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as an evangelist and I bought the URL www.7 billions souls. org we now own www.8 billion souls. org and we really mean what we say when we say we will be reaching as many people of the world is possible one in 10 people have heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ so far through our ministry and and next year we'll be doing 13 countries in only a span of 26 days 300 million people next year will hear the gospel 300 million 11 governments all on television all throughout Latin America and we want you to know that that you know as a Ministry I I was just like you I mean people say well Nick's special I'm not special we all have a disability you can just see [Music] mine and if God can use a man without arms and legs to be his hands and feet then tell me what can not God do through you and I didn't know that God would ever give me a family I thought I'm never going to get married even if I got married I can't even hold my wife's hand I don't need to hold my wife's hand I just need to hold her heart and I don't need arms and legs to do that and I have a dynamic relationship with my wife because I intentionally actively pursue her and we prioritize this thing called weekly dates and then you know we do once a month we ask each other three questions and I say hey babe she's like yes honey I said every month honey what am I doing that you want me to stop doing guess what my next question is what am I not doing you want me to start doing and the third question is what am I doing well that you want me to keep on doing and then I hear the answers and then guess what happens she says hey babe I say yes honey and she ask me the three same questions when you are in active pursuit of a dynamic relationship with Jesus every day we should be asking God what am I not doing that you want me to start doing what am I doing you want me to stop doing and what do you want me to keep on doing that you want me to what am I doing that you want me to keep on doing I want to read from um scripture in a moment but you know I never thought that God would take me around the world I want to show you some quick photos real quick this is uh prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel we were together we had a 90-minute meeting behind closed doors and uh we're praying for Israel please pray for Israel they really need our prayers this is the next uh world leader of photos this is uh from the Hungarian government Victor Orban and president Catalin of Hungary um coming up on screen and uh oh next one are my hands in the way of the signal it's coming we were just together in one room uh in Hungary with with many people and uh this is the third time I've met with the Hungarian government and so there are three governments that I advise them for their youth programs an anti-suicide prevention programs and anti-bullying programs and and preaching the gospels so the Hungarian government get this the Hungarian government pays for the stadiums and TV time to preach the gospel in their nation and Victor Orban says if I'm a Christian for as long as I'm prime minister we gonna do what the Bible tells us to do and we ain't going to do what the Bible says not to do now no one's righteous can I hear an amen but it's an active pursuit of being a nation under God and may God bring America back on its knees in Repentance can you hear an amen because when we pray for Revival it ain't about lost souls coming to Jesus you can't revive something that was never alive and then dead when you pray for Revival it is for the church and Keith Green one of his last songs was titled asleep in the light and I feel like we are almost delusional in believing that God not that he can't do it but scripturally I have reason to believe that God in America wants to not use evil people to do righteous things but to do righteous things through his righteous people and ordaining them in righteous positions within our country on our school boards and many other places in business in education to righteously be the city of the Hill that we once were as a nation we need the Holy Spirit can you he amen and I tell you we can believe and I tell you God is a god of Miracles that californ doctor in 2002 sorry in 2002 my Brisbane doctor in in Australia before I moved to California I had a pinching of my nerve I forgot to tell you the miracle had a pinching of my nerve down my back I couldn't feel my left arm and so I got an MRI scan did you get that or you're awake and um he came out pretty sad with the results he said I'm so sorry I got some bad news he said what's I I I said what's wrong he said you were born with a really rare disease and I saides I know I was born with a really rare disease he said no another one and I said fantastic uh I said what is it he said your spine has holes here here and here three of them and your spinal cord is turning into fluid and uh they said there's nothing they can do you can't slow it down there's no supplements there's no surgery just eventually when you have no back by age 35 we can give you an opportunity to put metal rods in your back which then would make you bedridden at that point and that was not good news right and so I nothing to do you know even if we checked up on it so 10 years later I was now living in America I've been in America for 21 years I'm a US citizen I'm very happy to be America American and this is the greatest country in the world my parents fled communism regime of Yugoslavia at 6 years old my mom was a refugee homeless my dad 15 years old Refugee homeless uh went to Australia and they always said Son get as many passports as you can because you have no idea when the country turns on you and I tell you I came here for freedom and liberty and capitalism and I tell you America is still the greatest country in the world let me tell you been around the world for me in my life obviously we prayed for miracles we prayed for this miracle you know what happened 10 years later I got a checkup and I went to a Californian doctor and he said I didn't want to give you the results I said why not he said cuz it don't make sense I said come again he said I had to cross check with multiple Physicians even in Europe because something happened in your back that's absolutely impossible and he brought out 2002 MRI three holes 2012 two holes he said that hole closed up I'm like like woo he said he said that's impossible I'm like mhm N9 months later I get a checkup I didn't have two holes I had one hole nine months later no holes in my bag no holes and my doctor said your God is real I'm like yes I know thank you doctor God does Miracles and I prayed for arms and legs and I'm still praying for arms lungs how cool would it be can you imagine that the roof now opens up and the glory of the Lord and you hear the angel sing and we'd all just be like praising the Lord all day long you rais the roof I'll lower the floor it'd be cool but you know what's even better the one day the one day that I was in California and I was speaking in front of a crowd and I saw a little boy being held up by his grandpa 19-month-old little baby boy he had no arms and he had no legs and he also had a left foot and I look at him and I'm like whoa I want to wrestle him later on and I got the grandpa to put him up on stage and he's so cute and I'm looking down at him and he's looking up at me and I can't give him a high five so I give him a low two God gave me two toes peace and I put my little foot in his foot and he smiled and everyone cried and his mother came up crying weeping saying thank you I was just praying to God that God would send me a sign to let me know that he hasn't forgotten me oh my son she said you are our Miracle what do you think I said oh you're welcome what an of any degree could I ever imagine something like that let alone take any prideful egotistical fleshly sense of taking any credit because my history is his story he is writing out my story and I get to watch I get to be his hands and feet and I don't know about you arms and legs look pretty cool they'll probably give you arthritis [Music] too I ain't waiting for arms and legs to stand in front of the gates of hell and redirect traffic I ain't waiting for arms and legs because the joy of the Lord is my strength not arms and legs not a circumstantial change and there was only one who said he was Lord there was only one who was fully God and fully man his name is Jesus he was holy he did Miracles he told people that he was going to die on the cross that he was going to be raised up on the third day do you know where Jesus was when his body was in the Tomb Jesus went to hell and he had a good speech and he said give me the keys and he took the keys of hell so that the keys of Hell will not the Gates of Hell will never Prevail those who believe in Jesus actually overcome the two biggest disabilities sin and death and the fact that he rose again so will I I tell you that having no limbs isn't that bad compared to what try a grenade at your house with a pin and the FBI and bomb squ trying to figure out who put a grenade at my front door and a spying drone over my house for two days and a bank kicking me out because they said to me in 2019 before cancer culture we reviewed who you are get out of our bank so what happens when Christians are cancelled from a bank Christians then start a bank that won't kick anyone out because of a belief system I'm telling you right now having no arms and no legs sure look at my foot though ups and downs ups and downs ups and downs but please take courage do you want to know why remember this when God doesn't change a circumstance now that's if you're being emotionally abused abused verbally abused sexually abused 30% of the girls have been sexually abused in America 20% of the boys have been sexually abused by age 17 in America you need to tell someone talk to someone at this church we want to help you heal that is not what God has for you but when God doesn't change a circumstance he's going to use the circumstance and I'm sorry for any problems that you've ever gone through I'll tell you right now pain is pain Brokenness is Brokenness but there is hope in the name of the Lord what hope I uh was in India speaking in front of 650 teenagers who were sold by their own mother as a slave human traffic and you know what was amazing then not only could we rescue some girls that night but I went to an incredible rehabilitation center of rescued human traffic people and they get a job they find Jesus first they get their heart healed they get their mind renewed can I hear an amen God can heal anything amen and when they earn some cash do you know what they do with that cash they save up $700 to then go back to the brothel where they were once slaves and says I'm taking that girl I'm paying her debt and adopts her as her little sister you know I've written out 106 different ways in how the human being can suffer and do you know what the answer is to every single one of them Jesus says come to me all who are weary and heavy Laden and I will give you rest some of you are waiting to graduate out of college and then get married and then have kids before you really commit your life to Jesus or commit your joy unto him beyond the circumstance can I just tell you if you ain't happy single with Jesus you ain't going to be happy married either so what are you waiting for I was waiting for arms and legs I'm not waiting for arms and legs why because the truth has Set Me Free I'm free I'm [Applause] rich take out my tongue take off my ears burn my skin to a point of not even recognizing me you you can't touch my soul you can't touch my hope in the Lord those who wait upon the Lord will renew their strength they shall Mount up wings like eagles they shall run and not grow weary they shall walk and not faint Romans 8:28 all things how many things Church all things come together for the good for those who love him who've been called according to his purposes if you have been called and you said yes you cannot lose our treasure is not here on Earth love that song where it says one glad morning when this life is over I'll Fly Away amen just a few more weary days ahead and then I'm going to fly away that's my hope but do you know what we do until then we let someone else know we let one more person know that Jesus loves them as well and today he's knocking at your door and if you go to sleep tonight and you put your head on that pillow my friend if you do not wake up here tomorrow for tomorrow is not promised if you don't know where your soul lies I know that my soul has been committed my spirit my being my life unto God I have committed in a commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ that I confessed that I was a sinner I knew that my strength and my plans would fail me I knew that I would never be perfect I know that I'm going to be under construction until I go to heaven I know that he's with me though and even when I fall and even when I fail he will pick me up and give me strength and his grace is sufficient and his mercies are abundant and in new every morning and I did that at age 15 and I've never been the same since and if you haven't committed your spirit your being your soul and you've not committed your life unto him today he stands at the door and [Music] knocks can you hear it you can't break your addiction to pornography you can hide your emotional affair from your spouse but not him and not yourself it is time to be a true disciple for some of us we don't know where we go so my friends come and taste and see that the Lord is good he is good and he loves you just the way you are some of you young people you feel like you have to change yourself to be cool you don't need a boyfriend to feel loved you're Ro [Applause] royalty some of you guys you think you have to act tough and say the f word and you think you're okay to to sleep around with your girlfriend it's not okay you want to marry a woman of God be a man of God you want a man of God be a woman of God you want a man of God who's going to put God first in your marriage then let's see how he puts God first before marriage we hunger and thirst for righteousness not things of this world do we fail yeah do we fall yeah but thank God he never gives gives up on us so right now if I can ask everyone to stand please and then kind of Shuffle up against your folding chair just back up against your chair to allow people to walk by you cuz right now I want to give you an opportunity to respond to the gospel I didn't even get to the scriptures and that's fantastic because the Holy Spirit did it it doesn't matter he does it all the [Applause] time I love it how Apostle Paul says for I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me you know the context of that is knowing that all you need is him whether you are hungry or not whether you're rich or not safe or not God is your protector God is your provider he is all that you need so today when you hear his voice do not Harden your hearts and I've done this 3500 times in front of 10 million people and 1.2 million people have given their life to Jesus Christ and when only one person comes forward all of Heaven rejoices and I think we've had five in the first service and I really believe here that there's going to be more than five maybe a lot more but right now if you know that you need to give your life to the Lord Jesus Christ we're going to wait for you in a moment I'm going to call you forward to say a pray with me it's not going to get weird I'm not going to lay hands on you or anything and maybe you're like I want to come up the front but I don't want to go [Music] alone here's a trick ready you just turn to the person next to you and say [Music] hey I really want to go up there but I don't want to go alone will you come with me I'm sure they'll come with you I'm sure they will will come with you and all of you at the very back you're thinking n no no I'm too far away even if you are the last of the last row every single person counts so from the youngest to the oldest if you know you need to give your life to Jesus Christ I want you to say God help me and he will and he'll give you the strength to put one foot in front of the other and get out of that aisle and come on down and we are going to start a prayer that will change your life forever give your life to Jesus confess that you're a sinner he is the Healer he is the Redeemer and he will change your life forever right now from the front to the very back come on down and if you see someone coming down come on down right now clap them on down clap them on down come on you know you need to give your life to Jesus come on down come on Church come on Church worship Him shout shout a praise there's more people coming he'll take your depression he'll take your adic he'll take your loneliness he'll take your suffering he'll take your silence he'll take your condemnation for there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus he loves you he loves you come down Church come on teenagers come on down teenagers come on down whole families come on down listen I know I know listen I know that we all have questions we all have questions but you need to respond you're like wait a second but Nick I I don't want to give my life to Jesus today and then fail tomorrow new news flash can everyone say news flash news there is not one perfect human being and what you listen what you doing here look at look at this table what you doing here the devil's telling you you're ugly the devil's telling you you're not good enough the devil's telling you there is no hope and you've being brought to even points of wanting to give up it's just a lie everyone say it's a lie so what do we do with the LIE we fight the lie with the the truth and we say devil get behind me get beneath me I crush your head in jesus' name I am saved by the blood of the lamb and every day when you fall he'll pick you up I'm sorry if you know of a Christian who should have done better but don't let other Christians be your excuse as to why you didn't get saved today this is right now the last and final call and I really believe at this point we have about 45 PE no we have oh there's volunteers here we have about 25 people up the front I really believe that there's another 25 coming right now so right now in Jesus name this is the last and final call move right now respond and say Yes Lord give Jesus your yes right now right now last call come on down young kids mothers fathers I see you come on clap them on down I'm seeing them coming down they come and look one two three 4 come on Church five six more people that's six more people S 8 nine come on there's more they're coming they're coming they're coming they're coming they're coming I see you they're coming 10 11 12 13 14 from the very back move move right now come on down last call 20 21 22 20 93 come and say yes to Jesus come on 2425 there're still coming Church they're still coming 26 27 come on let's give God a shout of praise 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 thank you Jesus let's close our eyes oh there's more people coming here we go [Applause] let's all bow our heads and hearts before the Lord oh God you are a gracious God the King of Kings the Lord of lords the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob there is None Like You Your Majesty we come before you and we thank you for your Holy Spirit we pray right now fill this room we pray for every physical miracle that is requested upon our heart every Cancer and sickness and disease be gone in Jesus name we pray for every ounce of pain in our bodies we thank you God for a full healing in jesus' name father we pray against every Power and principality of Darkness that be against us in our country in our homes and we pray in jesus' name that the enemy would flee father we thank you that above a physical Miracle the greatest Miracle of all is being redeemed being saved so father we thank you for everyone up the front may you bless them in Jesus name bless their families father we thank you for their yes we thank you that it's only by your grace and your mercy that they were here today that they responded to your kindness we thank you that you are kind and you are just and so father we thank you that you sent your son Jesus to die on the cross for us to pay the price of sin we thank you Jesus that you died for us that you Rose again that we do not have to fear anymore hallelujah hallelujah if you're at the front please repeat this prayer after me say dear God I come to you today and I thank you for loving me thank you God for sending your son Jesus Christ to die for [Music] me Jesus thank you for dying for me forgive me of all of my sins I confess I'm a sinner and I'll never be perfect but today I believe you died for me and my sins so forgive me and give me Faith to believe that in this very moment I'm forgiven and I thank you for that fill me with your Holy Spirit with your peace with your power and Give Me Faith to believe that you'll never leave me thank you God give me strength one day at a time in Jesus name I pray and all God's people [Applause] said [Applause] [Music] Hallelujah Jesus is Lord and he loves you there is nothing that you can ever do that will change his love there'll be times of ups and downs but he is the god of the valley as he is the god of the mountain and you will go through ups and downs ups and downs ups and downs but now he is with you forever more Pastor John Jenkins praise the Lord everybody from this side go that way they're going to take you to a room and minister to you and those on this side turn that way and go that way let's give the Lord praise for these Souls excellent amen praise the Lord glory to God Amen don't stop just clap give God the glory thank God for these many Souls that came forth today and let's thank the Lord for my friend my buddy Nick thank the Lord for this man this is a great guy praise God you can be seated wonderful it was outstanding Nick oh praise the Lord you know uh the first time we had him was in 2009 and then we had him again in 2011 and it's taken me all these years to get this guy back here again you know why cuz he travels the world and when I finally reached his team they say you know he doesn't come to individual churches anymore he only does Regions uh you know corporate Gatherings where it's multiple churches involved and I'm so grateful that when I went to see him in gburg he said I'm coming to your church thank you I answer to prayer we didn't get to see the picture of your wife put the picture of his wife up there put put his wife up there greatest photos look at her there she is right there she is amazing how did I forget that I want you to be able to go back home cuz I know she watching and I know she going to say you didn't show my picture okay well then also my kids the next we going to do the kids too yeah the next four children I forgot I just went straight in [Applause] there oops and you're getting ready to adopt another child yes God God God willing so these are our four biological children and the Lord has convicted us to to be a part of the answer to a half a million children in America um that are looking for a home but uh 110,000 children are waiting to be adopted and we feel ACC calling to play a part in that somehow so excellent I'm so proud of you yeah thank you and we have arms and legs and have even not even considered adopting a child so I salute you and your wife y'all y'all are the yeah this is your wife I know this my wife I salute her if I had hands the first thing I would do is just salute her because my wife we'll salute her for you okay she's let's thank the Lord for Nick one more time thank you church thank you Pastor John let's take a moment y'all know what we like to do is we like to sew into the work that this man is doing so let me ask you to give a gift there's several ways you can do it first of all uh they're going to put a QR code code or and a uh uh there's a QR code on the bottom or you can give the First Baptist Church on the top uh or you can text and give 5237 that's a little small I know the people weing the back can't see that 512 37 number to text to um to text Circle to that that's too small you'all got to do something about that but anyway let's take a moment and sew into the ministry of this brother amen father thank you for the opportunity to give and to put some wind beneath the wings of what brother Nick is doing we pray you bless every faithful obedient person who gives based on what you've shared and told them to give multiply these gifts in Jesus name amen am

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Published: Thu Nov 16 2023