Todd White | Becoming Love

aloha that's what we say in hawaii kona hawaii where i live at the university of the nations there and the word aloha it's really shared breath but it can mean goodbye or hello but it has a deeper meaning and that's one of love god is love but so are people and there's a person that is full of jesus love and you know he's like the voice crying in the wilderness in some places because it's low on love but he comes in and brings the love of jesus because it's inside him i'm talking about one that is known by millions and that's tod white but the important thing is he's known in heaven and i think he's also known in hell and we think of the word of god when the the demons spoke paul i know jesus i know but who are you well they don't ask this because of what god is doing through this man of god's life it's a thrill to be with you every time and i i love you brother and you know that tell us though jesus said you shall be witnesses unto me i know you as a witness unto jesus and tell me just so you'll inspire those looking in like you inspire me how you witness yeah i'm i i just i don't believe it's i don't believe it's something that you that you're you're supposed to do witnessing jesus said you're supposed to be a witness and so i you know i was really really lost and then i got really really found you know i was blind really blind and now i really see and so i got saved i got born again and i got saved from a life of sin from a life of tragedy from a life of rebellion from a life of self-seeking and envy and everything evil was in there and then when i got saved i got saved out of that kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of the son of his love and into the wonderful light of god born again to me god chose me he picked me he said i can have any that i want i want that one and like for me personally like he wants everybody that way but if we would take it personal the cross isn't the revelation of my sin something underneath of that sin was in great importance to the father of great value for him to pay such a high price for me so when that hit my heart and i realized as bad as i was and as twisted as i was and as mean as i was and as angry as i was as selfish as i was god saw all that and still said i want that one so jesus crucified on the cross when we see him hanging on that tree i see my value before the father jesus was marby on any man that says that he was marred beyond any and when you look at the tree and you look at christ you see somebody that was unrecognizable because to the father his creation had become unrecognizable so jesus had to become unrecognizable so that we could be recognizable again and now that i'm recognizable by the father and i have a relationship with him and the same holy spirit that that flowed through jesus in the miracles and all the things that happened through jesus's life he says i can do nothing of myself what i do i do because the father does it in john 5 19 and what the father does the son doesn't like manner so if the missing ingredient in a christian's life is relationship with the one that jesus had constant communion with the holy spirit god the father god the son agency and communion with god the spirit god the holy spirit if i don't establish that intimacy in that relationship with holy spirit then i can never walk out and give jesus the reward that he suffered for and so as i was growing in jesus and growing in christ i realized that wait a minute i need to tell everybody about the goodness of god and how much he loves us and how much he loves me and when i find out in the secret place and in the prayer place of what god thinks about me all of a sudden i develop the first commandment the first the first commandment develops in me love god with all my heart my soul my strength and my mind and then i start to love my neighbor because i love myself and if i see who god created me to be and he created me in his image in the image of love he created me so now i can love what god created me to be he created me to be love and so it's not about learning how to love it's actually becoming love and becoming who god said so for me it's a constant reaching out and constantly touching people regardless if if i'm on a platform if i'm preaching that's that's great and i can encourage people and help to inspire people and and that's amazing but i've lived before an audience of one every day so if i'm in a plane there's 300 or 400 or 200 or 100 people on there that don't know jesus and if they do i need to make sure that they do and and when they know god i need to know how much do you know him like how much you know how much he loves you oh yeah you know you tell somebody like simply you're at a grocery store and you say hey i just want to tell you that jesus loves you oh i knew that or i had to hear the good news what and they're expecting some amazing news and then when you say well jesus loves you and they say well i already knew that they don't know because the response to knowing that god loves you isn't i already knew that okay what really is good but he is so amazing and so i just i just have the privilege of being able to touch people every day everywhere i go touch housekeepers in the hotel touch the front desk clerks of hotels touch the people that drive like the guy delivered he i got off the bus and i'm the last one to get to the car rental place i get my bags off and i tip the guy because i want to bless him because god so loved the world he gave so if i'm going to tell him about jesus i want to bless him so i do and he's like wow that's really nice thank you and i said man god loves you and he says amen and i looked at him i said you have some problems with your back and with your knee and he said yeah i do i said man i said god just spoke to me about it and i believe since he spoke he'd like to heal you he goes well that would be great i said what can i pray for you he said sure so we prayed for him and god healed his back in his name and he's so excited and it was just all it was was a guy that is driving the shuttle bus to the to the you know the rental cars and i get up there and i tell the kid at the desk about how much god loves him and how amazing he is he is oh great i said you don't believe that do you he goes yeah i get now you've been hurt i said so you believe that god is this and god is that but you don't believe he's love because if he's love he wouldn't have done those things well well and then i start to get into what he believes about god so i can straighten out his perspective of who our father is god is love god is amazing he's good our father all good gifts come from the father of lights that means bad things don't come from him so if the thief comes to steal kill and destroy but jesus came to give us life and life more abundantly then i have to know that god is not going to give me bad things he gave me jesus christ who enables me to know who the father is and no matter where we go no matter who we talk to we can bring jesus into the conversation whether it's a flight attendant or a doctor's office i remember going into a dentist office because you know you get checkups and this time i had to get some work done and so i i'm in there and i'm telling the the doctor the oral surgeon all about jesus and they're giving me novocaine and all that my my lips are slurring i'm jesus loves you know and just because and so i walk out after my they did it and i i had gauze in my mouth you know and i walk out and and uh the ladies at the end she's taking my bill and i said do you know jesus loves you so much and she's like yeah okay um i need to get some i'm like i'll give you the information but this most important information you could ever hear so i'm sharing jesus with her and i said you have some stuff going on with your back right now and i get a word of knowledge for her she goes yeah i do i say it's but it's in the middle on the right side right in the middle of the bottom of your rib cage she goes yeah this is so crazy i said can i just pray for you and she's looking at me like i'm a crazy guy and i don't know like why she's looking at me like that because it's more than me just sharing jesus so i pray for her back gets healed and i get to go in for reoccurring visits because i have to go get checkups and all that and see the same one again so that day we prayed for her and and uh when i say we because the holy spirit's always with me pray for her her back gets healed and then i walk out to the car and i share jesus with her and i know i'm gonna approach her and see her again i'm a seed sower i don't have to go after the jugular vein to get them to pray my prayer as soon as especially if i'm going back to that place again i'm just sowing as many seeds as i can so that god has something to work with and so some so some water god brings the increase so i go out to my car i look in the mirror and i'm crying i'm thanking god and i look and behold i have a big ring of blood around my mouth and gauze that's why she was looking at me like i was crazy suddenly i go oh my gosh lord you're so good and i'm like it was a mess right so but no matter what situation i mean i remember going having an operation i had to get because i i had torn my knee and i was like and i didn't get to see breakthrough with my knee and even though i know it's god's will from i need to be healed i had to go through surgery to get this thing done and it was a bummer you know and i talk about healing all the time now i'm going to be on a stage with a mobilizer on with a crutch talking about healing still because what i'm going through doesn't affect the truth of what's in the word and so i remember coming out i'm just out of anesthesia you know how that feels to be groggy and and the girl she goes honey she goes can you hear me i said yeah and immediately i get a word of knowledge about this lady in front of it that's holding my hand and i'm coming too and i go you got a migraine headache she goes oh you're delirious i said do you have a headache she goes well i always have a headache i said will you hold my hand and so she held my hand and i grabbed her hand and just prayed for jesus to take away her migraine headache and she goes uh and she's trying to pull away but i've got mercy because i'm out you know under the influence of whatever this groggy it you know and i said what about your head how does it feel she goes it's gone she goes i have to leave and she left she ran away from me so i got to talk to the next one about jesus and the next one about jesus it's it's amazing and everywhere we go we can be a witness whether it's at a restaurant at a shopping store i mean it's as easy as just paying for someone's meal go to starbucks get your coffee but get the person in front of you say hey listen i just want to get this for you why because god loves you oh really yeah he really does and you think well that's not going to make an impact because they they're disgusted they're not disgusted with jesus they're just they're disgusted with how we've represented them they're not mad at god and so i don't know no matter where you go plant seed pay for someone's groceries just pay for someone's meal bless your waitress love people tell them about jesus don't rip them off when you leave like make sure that you become a conduit for god's goodness and mercy to flow through so every day is a testimony because every day you're in front of people and so everybody needs jesus man so i want to make sure that i want to make sure that i am my witness i want to make sure that my life is a witness i mean god gave me this he gave me this little life you know he spared my life he didn't spare my life so i could live for me so i just want to share jesus everywhere i go i'm not just an evangelist i'm a son i'm a believer and i i'm not going to hold god back from people ever for 34 years of my life no one shared the gospel with me no one shared the good news and i was in america walking the streets and and at jobs and in the same schools in the u.s and not one person man because everybody's more afraid about what that person might do to them or afraid they might say no yet when the disciples get saved they counted a privilege to get whipped bruised broken and beaten and they said guys look at my back we suffered for the king this is awesome where is that man you know we surrender to jesus but how much do we surrender do we surrender just for church services do we surrender just to to say we surrendered what does surrender look like it means give up means give your whole life to this and don't like it don't hold back jesus didn't hold back for you the least you could do is give him back the life that doesn't belong to you anyway it belongs to him and all god's asking you to do is give up what doesn't belong to you it belongs to him that's it he's asking you for everything that you are he doesn't just want part of you he wants to crush hell through us every day thank you todd thank you for literally waking up the dead the dead in christ i call them and as they're arising we're finding a hunger it's deeply seated there but there's a veneer of i'm tired of institutionalization of jesus they want the real jesus and thank you for having the real jesus in you and letting him work through you this is a movement that is happening worldwide and i thank you for leading out like you are in this your generation god bless you i do love you brother thank you thank you and thanks for letting me help with wyoming because this is like this means so much to me because what you're doing and how many people you've sent out and being able to come and just impart the grace that god's placed on my life when i come there and just being able to speak to all the dts students you know to pour into them for hours on why we're alive it's just such a privilege and i love wyoming and i'm just thank you i appreciate it i'm so thankful thank you for what you do with these dear y-whammers i love them dearly they're all over the world and and they need you and jesus in you amen and you let it out amen thank you amen thank you god bless you and god bless you for listening you

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Keywords: todd white, love, ywam, youth with a mission, loren cunningham, YWAM Gathering 2016, ywam kansas

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Length: 14min 48sec (888 seconds)

Published: Tue May 16 2017