Nick Vujicic at Telford State Prison

all right all right all right can you guys hear me thank you so much for having us and we just want to first and foremost I want to tell you as part of life without limbs I get the privilege of formally introducing Nick to you I know you've already heard him just for a moment but we are so thankful that we are here I want to make sure that that we thank the people in this place especially you for allowing us to come in and having Nick share his message of hope I want to thank your warden mr. Townsend can we give him a round of applause your other the other associate warden mr. Fazio can you give him a round of applause and then also your senior warden Joseph Wilson thank you so much you know so many people went into putting this on but I want to save these two for the end because I believe they're the heartbeat of this Chapel of Hope I've been told it's been called the chapel of Hope and that are your chaplains Gibbs and Garr thank you guys so much so I just get to ride around with this rock star and get to introduce him and he always tells me short and sweet so this is about it for me but I do want to say from my heart to yours I've been following the Lord Jesus Christ for 17 years I'm an alcoholic who is saved by the grace of God and what you're going to hear today is something that will change your life if you open your hearts if you thought you knew God before you're going to know him better and all I got to say is man look at what God did you brought us here and we're together and I'm so thankful for that so that's all I got but I want to introduce you formally to the man who I love as a brother in Christ he's spoken all over the world and there's no place you'd rather be right now than right here with you please give it up for mr. Nick voyage hi well good morning everyone it's wonderful to be here you're sorry I hugged my brother in Christ J I hug everyone I'm a hugging machine my arms fell off you understand I love hugs and I'll be hugging you guys later whoever wants a hug no problem but I just want to tell you I love you guys so much and God gave me a little foot and I've got two toes so I can do the peace sign peace how you doing I I too want to personally thank this unit thank you very much for having us here thank you for for allowing us to come and just sharing my story I'm 33 years old and I'm just so thankful in my life that I'm still here I want you to know that there were times in life where I didn't want to live and I'm not here just to share with you a sad story I want to tell you that we all have ups and downs you see my foot ups and downs ups and downs ups and downs and I'm not here today to tell you that I understand your pain and I know that we're recording this for other facilities as well and I want you to know that if you're watching this recording that God loves you and he has a plan and sometimes when I heard those words I'm thinking well what kind of plan is this if God is the God of love and then what what good could come out of this you know kids came up to me at school I went to actually Australia was born and raised in Australia and they come up to me and they're like what happened and I go up to them and I say cigarettes and bring them out a little bit I I love freaking people that man I love freaking adults out as well I've been on a lot of airplanes I've traveled around the world 120 times I've done 3 million miles I've been on two and a half thousand airplanes and I don't have any thumbs to twiddle with and so when you're up in the air for so long you know you can't feel your legs sometimes I I come up with some crazy ideas like get my friends to put me in the overhead compartment and freak people out as they come in one of my friends actually is a commercial airline pilot and one day he looked at me one day and he said Nick you know we should pull off a prank I said what's that he said we should dress you up as the pilot and greet the passengers as they get on the plane and so no joke it was DFW Airport going to LAX six o'clock in the morning everyone's half asleep no one speaking anybody and then you know so you know tired and they're walking down the jetway and I got my hat on and I got my jacket on and stuff seriously like a pilot and then they see me standing at the door and they're like I mean they woke up right there and then I'm like good morning my name is captain Nick voice welcome aboard and they're like no way I said uh I'm captain Nick voyage I'm gonna be flying the plane you're so lucky to be on our flight cuz we're trying some new technology they started freaking out man the adults like did you know about this no I didn't know about this all the children like oh this is so cool right everyone's freaking out everyone's on the plane and my friend he says okay come onboard so I walk on the plane just like this right and you look down the aisle and all the heads are like and I got the microphone and I said good morning ladies and gentlemen thank you so much for boarding so fast and they're like oh my gosh some people came to Jesus right there and then it was good can I tell you one more funny story I was one day in the front seat of a car and of course I'm not driving but we're at the front seat and we're at the traffic lights and this car comes up next to us and this girl from the other car she's looking at me so I'm looking at her she's looking at me I'm looking at her and all she sees is my head from the side she has no idea shouldn't see the full picture right so I get the seatbelt in my mouth and loosen it so then I can freely move now she's looking at me like why you eating your seatbelt and I'm thinking oh this is gonna be so good full knowing fully knowing well right now that she's looking at me a hundred percent no distraction she's looking at me all she sees is my head I just did this and she thought my head to the 360 degree spin and she's like so good so good so I was born this way and no doctor knows why I was born this way my parents don't know why I was born this way Lady Gaga don't know why I was born this way and in my life you know seeing everyone with arms legs my brother and sister have arms and legs you know I never imagined that I'd be happy I wanted arms and legs so bad and I went to school and people were looking at me people were pointing their finger at me and laughing I was the only one in 1989 in Australia who actually went to a normal mainstream school in a wheelchair and it was difficult man I mean everyone looked at me and I'm not trying to compare suffering I want you to know right now that when you compare each other suffering there's no hope there but we got to understand that brokenness is brokenness but hope is hope you know some people say well all years just to be positive well it's easy for you to say that's what I'm thinking you know people who have arms and legs well it's easy for you people can come in here and say well just be positive well it's easy for you because you get to go home and I can't go home and I just want you to know though that there is something I have come here to prepare a message for you to let you know that there is hope beyond what you see and I want you to know that I've been around the world and I've spoken on three thousand stages not being in highest maximum-security prisons all around the world and in fact there was one man that I met that I'll never forget in Colombia and I know it's getting a little warm can you turn on that big fan at the back at the very top please are you guys getting warm are you guys okay you guys all right I just want to make sure you guys are good if you could switch on that big fan cuz in about 45 minutes might be a little bit warmer and I get warmed up as well my hands fly everywhere all right but I do want to say this that as I've traveled around the world I've been in a number of high maximum-security prisons and in fact when I went to this prison there was a section of the prison I could not go to there were some people who just were they said too dangerous for me to me now look I'm not nervous to meet anyone you know I'm on my palms don't get sweaty my palms are get sweaty my knees don't shake at all and you know when when in life we have things in life that that come and and we try to figure out what well Who am I and what am i doing and what's my purpose is there any purpose at all to my life in the end when I went to this maximum-security prison they said Nick we've done the speech but you didn't meet a couple people and I'm like well I want to meet him they said are you sure they said all right so I went there and I was in my manual wheelchairs almost pushed me I didn't have this cool little thing here and I went up to the bars and this guy and a couple guys next to him we're looking at me while I was just sharing a couple things you know what happened some guy reached through the bars and grabbed my shirt and pulled me forward and I got a little scared and everyone's like hey whoa they were freaking out a little bit and he started crying you know what he said he said Nick go around the world and tell my brothers go around the world and tell my brothers who were behind prison bars for life that there is hope he said do you see these wardens do you see these gods do you see the staff here at the prison Nick they get to go home they get to have a home-cooked meal they get to see their kids but Nick I look at them in their eyes and they don't believe in heaven I look at them in their eyes and those people who don't believe in Jesus they're not free yet he looked at me and he said I'm more free than them and it freaked me out I was like wow this man knows that there is something greater something greater than the disabilities around you or the limitations around you and I stand before you without arms and legs telling you right now that I am absolutely not disabled and I want you to know that just because you're behind prison bars it doesn't mean that your course you're in prison I know there's physical bars I know there's physical limitations but you know what this guy said he said Nick now I realized I've met Jesus behind these prison bars and now when I take my last breath here I'm going home and not only am i waiting to go home but I'm now a pasta this is my mission field baby he said this is my mission field and every person who comes behind these bars who's become a lifer I get to tell him it's not the end he said Nick I've seen miracles behind prison bars I've seen happiness like I've never seen happiness in my life what is freedom what is hope guys I wanted you today to know this that I thought I needed arms and legs I tell you a sad story right now my dad actually has cancer he has Stage four pancreatic cancer his doctors told him that he has about four weeks to live this was on the 1st of September just last year in two weeks my dad got his house in order and he bought the plots of land that he is going to be buried in it's hard it was hard for him did we cry yes do we still sometimes cry sure have we prayed for healing absolutely why because God does miracles for real I have a pair of shoes in my closet just in case God gives me arms and legs and I want you to know that everything I'm telling you is true I look at my dad today and he's still alive he's not who he used to be physically but you look him in his eyes and you see that the windows of the soul are his eyes he is solid as a rock you know what he doesn't know exactly what's going on in his body and the doctors don't know why he's still here but he knows that we can pray for a miracle and if God heals him while we're gonna thank God if God doesn't choose to heal him of cancer we're gonna thank God because finally he goes home you see he knows that he's a citizen of heaven passing through and in fact if you look in your Bibles every miracle that Jesus personally laid his hands on and healed the blind and the lepers guess what they all got buried in the end to know why does that happen because we're not meant to stay here on earth forever we are indeed citizens of heaven passing through we were created to be eternal beings and I want you to know today that God loves you and I didn't believe that for many years you know when God says in Jeremiah chapter 29 verse 11 for I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord plans to prosper you and not to harm you plans to give you a hope and a future you know what I said as a young kid when I heard that I said um God you say you have a plan can I suggest a plan B it would be cool to run you see my table up here this to me is like a timeline and let's say that when I was 8 years old that was my destiny the Word of God is not just another book it is the only book that God says that I've read upon and when you read that book he speaks to you and your soul needs restoring I felt I needed arms and legs no your soul needs peace and rest the only reason why I can smile is because when a storm has come and the storm hasn't passed God's given me wings to fly above the storm God says in the Bible that I will give you strength God says in his word I will never leave you I will never forsake you God says in the world that if you ask him for the forgiveness of your sins you will be forgiven and even better he will forget your sin have you ever asked God for the forgiveness of your sins and then you sort of feel it sort of coming back and dangling in front of you do you remember when you did this that ain't God and he says he gives you a brand new start he says all things come together for the good for those who love him he says I can't do all things through Christ who strengthens me he says those who wait upon the Lord will renew their strength they shall mount up on wings like eagles but when I was eight I had no idea that was for me I had no idea that I get married you see when I was eight I heard about the truth but I didn't believe it existed to believe in something that you can't see sounds a little crazy but it's called faith when I had no faith I started walking in the other direction you know when you have the voices in your head and the stuff going on I want you to know it's not just you there is a supernatural realm let me tell you there are some people who tell me well Nick I'm an atheist because science can explain everything no it can't let me tell you for real I have MRI scans of my spine I had a disease in my spine called a syrinx when I was 19 my doctor told me we're sorry we have some sad news not only were you born without arms and legs but you were born with the disease where your spine turns into nothing we're going to have to put metal in your back not only do you have no limbs you're going to be paralyzed for the rest of your life in bed from age 45 talk about a day that I wish never came they said do you want to keep on coming back and checking it up I said no he said you got holes here here and here and we can't do anything about it 10 years later I had some back problems and I started feeling my nerves in my back being pinched we got MRI scans guess what one of the three holes completely closed two years later watch this two years later this second hole closed and just the November that just went by we confirm with Western doctor's report we don't know how this happened but Nik voyage has no more holes in his file miracles happen man I've seen 13 blind people seeing deaf people hearing lame people walking crooked backs come straight skin diseases falling off bodies within 24 hours I tell you I've seen the miracles I've seen the good supernatural and I've seen the bad supernatural I've seen too much to believe that there is no God you want to know why because when a ten-foot tall demon that's ten foot tall these pillars here those pads that's about ten foot tall from the stage when a ten foot tall demon walks through your hotel room wall in San Francisco you ain't gonna be a theist anymore and when you have negativity around your once you know that there is a spiritual war between good and bad God and Satan and they war for your soul just like Adam and Eve were in the garden of eden you know Adam and Eve with no belly button people say well if God is God then why did he let Satan come into the garden I'll tell you why cuz God would be an unfair God if he gave us free choice but then no choices what choice did they have God spoke to them and if they didn't hear anything else but God what's the point of free choice are you with me that's why he let the serpent in God says something the serpents of something else and they believe to the serpent and choose to disobey God because God is holy they had to separate from God in sin and ever since there's been a war and the war one day will end when when every single person on the planet is about Jesus and has the same opportunity as Adam and Eve you hear what God says you hear what others say and you choose that day the clouds will roll back and there will be Jesus coming down through the clouds and taking us home and that war you can't fight the lies unless you know the truth and the truth will set you free you hear the lies Oh Nick you're not good enough at school at age 8 I'm looking at all the girlfriends and boyfriends and they're holding hands and I'm thinking man I'm never gonna get a girlfriend I'm gonna be alone for the rest of my life I ain't gonna get a job I'm just a burden to my parents I don't have anything to live for even if I got married I can't even hold my wife's hand guys I realize now I don't need to hold my wife's hand I just need to hold her heart and I want you to know that beautiful things can come from your broken pieces when you give your broken pieces a chance and some of you have thought of suicide some of you are in the darkest of darkest valleys and I was there once too I was eight-years-old depressed nine years old even darker at ten years old I came to the edge now don't worry I'm not going to fall off if I fall off I'll break my arm or something but I came to the edge and I thought to myself there is no hope now what's the truth was there hope yes did the Bible move no is God still God yes did God have a plan for Nick yes was it a good plan yes but if I choose not to believe it exists and I'm not going to look for it if I'm not going to look for it I'm not going to find it if I don't find it I'm not going to live in it does that make sense at age 10 I actually tried to commit suicide by trying to drown myself in my bathtub and the only reason I decided to stay was because I didn't want to leave my loved ones with that pain so I decided to give my broken pieces of chains man am I glad that I'm still here I'm so glad because I never have what I have today you know what I have I don't need arms and legs I have joy I have the truth and I am free when those voices say oh I'm ugly no I am fearfully and wonderfully made oh I'm condemned forever no you're not well Nick no one's ever going to forgive me back at home and and I've just failed and I can't even forgive myself well let me tell you that God forgives you if you ask him for the forgiveness of your sins and it's only when you find out how much Jesus has forgiven you that then you can forgive yourself and finally let it go because the price has been paid I want to ask you today who are you and what's your hope if this was your last 30 seconds would you be saved I tell you I support I speak to millions of people around the world and I tell them about life I've been in front of some eight-year-olds and they're so cute man these kids and I'm like hey guys can I ask you a question and they're like ah I said have you ever been stressed and they're like oh yeah I'm like well what's stressing you out he says Oh homework is so stressful and my big brother I just wish I was taller because my big brother beats on me every day and if I could just be taller then everything's gonna be okay I'm like oh okay thanks for sharing and then I'm in front of thirteen year olds and now they're stressed oh my buddies change-o everyone around me is changing they invite me to the party and then they uninvite me to the party my parents are freaking out freaking me out they don't understand me they don't give me respect I need my privacy and I need a boyfriend right now right they're so stressed and then seventeen year olds now they're really stressed why well if they can just get out of high school and get into college then everything's gonna be what okay they get into college and is everything okay no now they get into college and now they're gonna do something and now they need money oh if I can just get a job then everything's gonna be okay they finally get their job and after two days they look at their boss and then look to God and they say God what did I do to deserve him he's stressing me out I hate him then all the single people oh if I can just get married then everything's gonna be okay right go talk to some married people right that's what you tell but I'll tell you right now I don't know what you're going through but I know what you need I don't know what you want I could guess but I know what you need you are someone who needs the truth and first of all that there is hope your value as a human being has not changed hasn't changed you can beat yourself up all you want but God still loves you just the way you are he loved me just the way to you why how do I know that because the Bible says that no sin can separate you from the love of God let me tell you a crazy story I was one day in India and I went to the red-light district human trafficking hub of Mumbai ten acres of houses do you see the size of this stage it's pretty small if you double the size of the stage the platform down below that's the size of a house that I went into they have six girls in each house sex slaves how did they get the girls you know what they did they convinced their parents to sell him at age 10 for 700 bucks one of my most humbling speaking engagements that I've ever had was in front of 650 teenagers who were sold by their parents some of them kidnapped how can you buy a human being what do you tell those girls what's their whole they might want to be in a maximum-security prison instead instead of getting raped multiple times a day I'm sorry again we can't compare suffering right because there's no hope that doesn't help you to know someone else is suffering more but when there is real hope you see transformation let me tell you what transformation I saw in the brothels can I tell you this story it's incredible I got up there and I told these girls some truth I didn't tell him hey just be positive you can't tell those girls that you know some people believe in reincarnation right some woman came up to me when I was 12 years old and she said hey have you ever wondered why you were born this way and I'm like uh-huh she said have you ever thought of reincarnation I'm like what's that she said well you're simply being punished for your previous life I'm like well that's a lot of Hope right there I didn't even have the fingerprints to this life how did she figure that out I don't understand she said but don't worry because now that you're a good boy you're gonna come back like a butterfly I'm thinking this woman don't know how many butterflies I squashed in my wheelchair I don't want to be a butterfly and I tell you I can't tell these girls to be Islam or Hindu you want to know why because those religions reject them as a slave I can't tell them to be Buddhist because Buddhism is all about this karma be good and good will happen can't tell them that become your own God can't tell them that being atheist is that what you're going to tell him just being atheist how does that help but I told these girls about Jesus for God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life you have an enemy and it is not yourself his name is Satan and it was his powers and principalities of darkness that made you do what you did to be here if he could he'd take me out I've had three death threats because too many people are becoming Christians in countries where it's illegal to become a Christian and we take responsibility for our actions here you are but don't let the devil win he'll do anything he can to convince you this is it that you're nothing that there's no hope don't believe the lie there is redemption in the power of the blood of Jesus Christ he has died to you he loves you and there is a worse present in this prison it's hell and you want to know how I can forgive somebody who rapes my daughter who kills my son who kills my wife because hell is so bad I didn't even want my worst enemy to go there and let me tell you these girls in India when I preach the gospel Jesus touched their life it's the power of the love of Jesus Christ it's the kindness of God that leads you to repentance repentance is you don't want to live in sin anymore you can still be living in a lot of lustful sin in your mind behind bars you can still live in sin amongst each other gossiping about each other hating each other do you know hate is a sin don't live in sin live God's Way and heal refresh you and change you and transform you be free of sin the greatest way to deal with temptation is not to live in sin anymore and I told these girls about not living in sin some of these girls they were free actually to leave watch this they were free to leave the brothels because they were bought for 700 bucks they earned their pimps 700 bucks in three years with profit and then after three years they can leave guess what they don't leave but some of them that night left they went through a Jesus rehabilitation camp for 18 months they found a job and they didn't save up for a car or for a house they got a bike and they just had one meal a day saving money for what not for stuff but to go back to the brothels to go back to the very house that they will want slaves and you know what they bring with them 700 bucks you know what they bring with them a bucket with water and a towel and they go up to their former slaves and then look them in the eye and they say do you remember me I've come here to tell you I forgive you and Jesus loves you and how you'll live in your life God has such a better way for you to live and I'm praying for your soul and you see this bucket I've come here please let me wash your feet and for 20 minutes that master is weeping and weeping and weeping and then they give him seven hundred bucks and they say I'm taking a slave home they take him to a Jesus rehabilitation camp they get a job they together save up money and go back and save another girl now if that ain't a miracle I don't know what is what do you want let me finish the story in India we then went to a brothel house and I saw an old woman on the floor she was old man she looked like a hundred and twenty years old she is skin and bone wrinkles on wrinkles she had a hunched back like this she's sitting on the floor she's looking up at me like this she can't even close her mouth she's that weak looking up at me and through a translator I spoke to her about Jesus on the wall from left to right top to bottom of the back wall of the house are all the Hindu gods they have about 330 million gods and I started telling them about telling her about Jesus and all of a sudden this woman walks in and she's really angry that were there I'm there with the cameras and stuff my crew and we come in the house she's on she's on the floor this woman walks in she's looking at us she says what you doing here who are you she's got two arms crossed like this I said I'm Nick and I'm here to talk about Jesus now before I tell you what she says I want you to know that as I've been in 60 countries when you go to developing country and you see these people who don't have a doctor who don't have a hospital you know what they do about once every two weeks they do a ceremony for black magic where science can't explain it that's why when a white man like me comes into a developing countries as hey I'm talking to you about my god that you can't see you know they say show me so this woman she says I don't want to hear about Jesus show me I said what do you mean she said this woman on the floor this old woman on the floor is my sister she said you see that door she ain't walking out that door she hadn't walked for four and a half years we carry her everywhere look at her legs and I looked at her legs skin and bone legs that hadn't worked for four and a half years she said if your God is real make her walk now I prayed for her and the first time she could not walk at all she couldn't put any weight on her feet trying to just get up in a vertical position to try to stand her face was like ah like this we set her back in the chair she's trying to catch her breath and I said no God that ain't a miracle we're gonna pray one more time we stopped massaging her legs and no joke no exaggeration 20 seconds later her face goes from this to this oh I'm like what happened she said I don't know but I'm ready I said what she said yeah I want to try walking and I said no no no no no we need to pray a lot more isn't that funny the Evangelist prays for the paralyzed woman and the paralyzed woman says I'm ready and he says no do you know what that means Nick Voyage only had a tiny tiny tiny little in a little bit of faith but he put that tiny little bit of faith in the Living God you could put oceans of faith in your intellect oceans of faith in your attitude oceans of faith in a dead God but you put a little bit of faith in the Most High God the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob amen I said do you need help to get up and walk she said no she got up by herself it was incredible like not even struggling to get up she got up she was stomping on the ground like this she can't believe she says the pains gone the pains gone she stops walking like this we're all like whoa she got so excited she stops jumping up and down I'm like honey don't break the legs I God just healed and her sister the one who was angry she went to the wall of gods and said thank you thank you thinking I said no no no no no no no I said haven't you been praying to them for a while she said yes I said this was not your God Jesus Jesus did this Jesus your gods and any person you've been following they didn't resurrect Jesus did and he's alive do you know why I share this story with you I told you the verse nothing ever separates you from the love of God the friend who took me there was an Indian man and it's hard for an Indian man to look pale but he looked really pale and he looked at me and he said unbelievable I said I know cool huh he said no Nik you don't understand I said what do you mean he said Nik that old woman who walked she ain't just any old woman so what do you mean he said she was evil I said what what did she do he said 45 years ago that woman claimed that 10 acre block of land in Mumbai and started building the brothel houses and is the founder of human trafficking in this city she recruited the pimps and the Madam's and the kidnappers they are the ones who came up with the crafty way to convince parents to sell their kids for $700 she is responsible for at least 30,000 slaves and God still healed her and here's the best part when she asked Jesus into her heart not only did God forgive her of her sins he completely erased his memory of them completely and three years later human trafficking in Mumbai was shut down on that 10 acre block so what a y1 who am i healthy or sick limbs or no limbs rich or poor in jail or out of jail I want to be free and complete not finished complete you ain't finished God ain't finished with you yet you're here for a reason my last story I was in front of a church in California and I saw a man hold up a little boy in the crowd 19 month old Daniel Martinez I couldn't believe my eyes he had no arms and no legs and a little foot just like me and I'm like wow I want to wrestle him later on and I got the father to bring him up on stage and he's sitting right here looking up at me and I'm looking down at him and I can't give him a high five so I put my little foot on his foot and gave him a low two when he smiled everyone cry and I saw my mom hug his mom and cry and my dad hug his dad and cry and it was incredible I told his mom that when Daniel goes to school when he gets teased and bullied I'm coming to that school in my wheelchair and I'm gonna run them all over no no that's not the Christian thing to do haha I didn't run anyone over deliberately but six years ago I went to that school and now he's not getting bullied he's not only accepted he's respected and I tell you you want to know what I want one day I'm in heaven and my I'm on my own two legs have my own two arms and one day I'm gonna hear my name hey net and I'm gonna look Daniel Martinez is going to be running to me with his new legs hugging me with his new arms and he will cry on my shoulder and he will say thank you for helping me believe that this place called heaven was real what do you think I want arms and legs or that one moment I can't wait to see Jesus he died on the cross for your sins you were found guilty for a crime and here you are in prison if the government allowed it and if I wanted to let's say that I love you so much that I'm swapping with you could you imagine someone up here on stage saying you are free today because someone took your place government wouldn't allow it but have you had sin in your life apart from the one that got you here when you sin you sin against God and you don't need to go too far to see sin just get two three year old boys and given one toy and you'll see sin they'll break more Commandments than you know in 30 seconds al sin moved God because sin brings death for God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life we were supposed to die and go to hell because of sin but God sent His Son Jesus who had no sin and he comes to us on a cross and if you believe that Jesus died for your sin then you will not die for yours and in your last breath as you take it you will be up there because you will be resurrected because you believed in his power do you believe in Jesus if you do believe in Jesus then walk with Him learn from him be refreshed by him because you can't do this on your own if you do not have Jesus as your Lord and Savior if this was your last five seconds of breath and you don't know where you're going when you're not here and you want to know that you know that you know that you have the peace of God if you have a relationship with Jesus great but if you do not have a relationship with Jesus Christ I'm going to give you an opportunity to stand where you're at and to come and kneel at the front and we're going to say a prayer and that prayer begins your faith journey with God so right now if you know that you have relationship with God don't come up the front but if you know that you need to say God I am a sinner come into my life I want to believe in you teach me what you want me to do I have no idea what you have for me I don't know what you're gonna do with my broken pieces but take away my regret take away my shame take away my guilt take away my sin that I may be a light and a pinch of salt here for as long as I live to help someone else know that you love them too if you know you need to make your life right with Jesus don't wait another second stand to your feet and come on down the front and kneel and let's say your prayer together right now if you know you need to make your life probably God stand and come on down the front if you're watching this video stand right now and come down the front keep coming right here keep coming you know you need to make your life right with Jesus I don't think this is it I'm there there's seven up the front I'm waiting for another seven I believe at least for another seven if you know that you need to make your life right with Jesus stand and come forward now come on down come on down you know you need to make your life right listen listen be real with yourself you could say this prayer from your chair yeah sure but if you can't stand up for your faith in a moment like this in a setting like this if you can't set up for your faith here how do you expect to stand up for your faith out there it is time stand and come right now there we go this is the last and final call that's two more keep coming that's three more keep coming it's not too late that's four more keep coming let's bow our heads in prayer dear God we come before you and we thank you so much for your love we thank you Lord that every sickness and disease would be healed in the name of Jesus we pray Lord God for our families back at home Lord we know that you love our families just as much we love them Lord God we pray for our children Lord God we pray for the people that we miss we pray Lord God that angels would surround them and that your salvation would come to them Lord God we pray that their souls will be right with you Lord Jesus we uplift our brothers here we uplift those Lord God who are watching right now on the video and we pray in the name of Jesus that your Holy Spirit would fill this place right now and depression would be gone and addictions would be gone a dependency on pornography would be gone a dependency of affirmation and and an acceptance of people around us would be gone Lord that we are just humbled right now as children in front of you saying yes God we love you and you accept us is the way we are thank you Lord that you help us to know that we're still your children and you still love us help us to forgive us Lord Jesus help us to forgive ourselves of the things that we've done wrong take away the nightmares take away the fear take away the depression take away the anxiety in the name of Jesus take away the hopelessness right now by your power of the Holy Spirit Lord God we thank you that this is not the end you ain't finished yet and Lord we thank you that our brothers would be complete here right now the people who are up the front bless them in the name of Jesus bless the wardens bless everyone here may your Holy Spirit come and give us a hunger for your word and prayer in our prisons may there be more revival and freedom in the bars and outside the bars Lord Jesus we thank you that nothing is impossible for you to do and we thank you Lord that by faith we can walk and not by sight and you are a good god and you never fail us thank you God for these beautiful beautiful souls of the front change the way that they see it in themselves the way that they see their faces that there were new creation if you're up the front please repeat after me say dear God I come to you today and I thank you for loving me thank you Jesus for dying on the cross for my sins I am so sorry for my sins I repent I do not want to live in sin I want to know you I want to live for you I need your strength not mine your plan not mine forgive me change me comfort me and heal me transform me by your Holy Spirit speak to me teach me to pray give me faith to know you with me every single day in Jesus name I pray amen let's give God a shout of glory amen before you go back to your seats as you're going back to your seat that's cool you can welcome to go back to you see I'll give you a hug soon come on let's give God a shout of praise one more time amen there will be times of storms there will be times of silence but God is still God become a follower of him if you just came up the front listen very carefully you said that prayer in your heart listen very carefully if you need a Bible we'll get you a Bible but starting in the book of John and before you open up the Word of God pray a simple prayer say God I don't know how to pray but I want you to help me today tell me something and you'll see the life of Jesus in the book of John just read that book three times over before you go anywhere else this ain't a normal textbook you're open in the middle and you begin there and when you read the book of John you fall more in love with Jesus everyday to everyone that's watching on the camera I want to tell you why I love you so much and we love you and welcome to the family of God whether you're liking not you see my my body I'm your half-brother so I am here on behalf of your brother in Christ in Colombia who said to go tell my brothers that they can still be free we have come here on behalf of the Ministry of life without limbs I want to thank the ministry and friends and staff of life without limbs for making this possible can we thank them thank you Gary thank you for allowing us to dream big with you a hundred and ninety facilities already signed up to watch this and I just want to tell I want to I want I want to do something maybe you've never done before but complete strangers are watching me up here and they can hear you and I want you with a big shout I want you to repeat something off to me tell your brothers never give up on God I want you to say with strong conviction because I don't want them to just hear this story I want you with conviction to tell your brothers never give up on God ready 1 2 3 amen guys I love you so much god bless you thank you so much praise God thank you Jesus thank you Jesus

Channel: Todd Scoggins

Views: 3,074,276

Rating: 4.8648586 out of 5

Keywords: nickvujicic, lifewithoutlimbs, prisonministry, christianity, nick vujicic inspirational, nick vujicic evangelical, nick vujicic prison ministry, faith, hope, inspirational hope, redemption, freedom, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Lord, Nick Vujicic, anti-bullying, Stand Strong, Be Strong

Id: tZ0nmxq9qnU

Length: 62min 13sec (3733 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 15 2016

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