We're in the white green room of Susanna Jimenez here in Buenos Aries, Argentina. This
is basically the case of the photos of who she has interviewed, anyone from John Claude
Van Damme to, what's his name? I don't remember many of these people. I know their
faces and stuff. Minimum of 20 million viewers. I don't know exactly what to expect here
on this TV show; it's live, so anything could happen. So we're praying. I'm just
looking at what they're doing right now, they're doing something with a fishing pole
and, it's an interesting program. Full of flavor. Let's do it.
It's tricky! Oooooh. I mean, this is fun. It's more exciting than a flat one
Buenos noches, mi nombre es Nick Vujicic,
I'm from Australia. I now live in California. Many people, they are wondering, why do I
smile so much. Where do I get my joy? How did I find my purpose? You know, purpose is
so important to find in life, and it needs to be a real hope that we have for us to have
a real joy. >>Even though we were very very tired, being
on the television program that had so many people watching, it was an opportunity to
share, very clearly, what Nick wanted to share. Un abrazzo.
>>Un abrazzo Hola. Oh, mucho gusto. Gracias, gracias. Buenos
noches. Gracias, gracias. >>It's a pleasure to meet you.
Thank you, thank you so much for having me, such an honor.
>>Oh my god. Thank you. Susanna.
>>You are something. You are something. Gloria a dios.
>>We have to play golf. We have to play golf?
>>Vamos a jugar golf. >>Having Nick on stage, being able to play
golf with Susanna and sharing his story and movies and background, you knew that this
was going to make a difference. After that, being on that live TV program, everywhere
else we went in South America, people come up to us and say, we saw you on Susanna Jimenez.
That TV program opened up many many doors for people to listen more and to know more
about Nick and his story and his message.
As I've travelled many, many miles around the world, you get used to just not feeling comfortable. It's not your own bed, it's
not your own pillow, it's not the food that, you know, my wife cooks. And you know, you
just learn to adapt and be flexible in every single way. But there is one thing that really
is difficult to handle. It's a fever. So we're here, we just landed in Paraguay,
at 1 AM last night, I came down with a very strong high fever, shaking like crazy last
night from 1 AM to 3 AM. Got myself out of bed, had a warm shower to warm myself up,
and just stomach, everything just shut down. And feel very congested and the fever is still
there, and, I'm much better now than I was even just 2 1/2 hours ago, and they want to
check out my fever. As I landed in Paraguay, there were ambulance
crew there, wanting to take my fever, and I was sort of like, laughing if off, like,
I'm fine, yes, I'm taking painkillers and yes I'm feeling sore and my stomach's
in a mess, but I'm ready just to push through. I've done it before a couple times, I think,
out of 2000 speaking engagements, we've only cancelled five.
I wasn't about to cancel anything. I wasn't going to start focusing on that pain, I was
just going to trek along through, and we're going to pray and eat the right food, and
put repellent on, and just get through it. >>Knowing that Nick wasn't feeling well
as we want to be sensitive to his physical needs and knowing how much the schedule we
were going to have to change or adjust, I was amazed to see that when he got on stage
and was there, just the strength and energy that God gave him to be able to speak. He'd
get off and go sleep and rest. Very clearly was not in his own strength. He didn't have
his own strength at that time. It was amazing that every time we prayed in
Paraguay, but it was after the prayer and as I just get on stage I feel the fever disappear.
And as soon as I walk offstage after the presentation, the fever comes back. And I've experienced
that only a few times. You feel the grace of God knowing that your head is all over
the place and you're wondering can they see that you're not feeling well? You don't
want that to be a distraction.
We went to a very large church, and I was so inspired by the pastor who also was my interpreter. He and his wife just inspired
me so much. They really have a heart for missions and really serving their nation one soul at
a time. >>We believe we are in a revolution right
now. It's amazing, we don't call it a revival, we call it a spiritual revolution
because the bible tells us about weapons. The most amazing weapon that most of the people
don't use is love. With love and forgiveness, well, you can penetrate and make a big huge
hole in darkness. We were interviewing them about how they started
the church as a bible class in their own home, and how that church was birthed was a miracle,
but how big that church is and the influence that church has in that country is phenomenal.
If you don't have a relationship with God, and you want to start it tonight, if that's
you, stand right now. I want to say a prayer. To see such a huge harvest, there was just
too many. Maybe they didn't understand what I was asking them to do, and why they were
standing. Are you sure you understand? So the only reason
why you're standing up is because you do not have a relationship with God.
Sincerely, 70% of all the room stood up. A huge response. Absolutely huge response and
they were hungering for the hope I was talking about. And that hunger really moved me.
If you need to sit down, sit down. Wow. Gloria a Dios.
>>Yeah, I think it gave such an inspiration for the people, thinking that wow, maybe I
could do something too. And that's just that hope that Nick gives, that message that
Nick gives. So simple, but so clear and so well said that there is hope.
You know, every time I go into a Congress setting, I always have a flashback of my first
Congress address, which was 2008. By the grace of God, through the connections of that influential
church, we had an invite given by the congress of Paraguay. You know that we know that I've
said again so many times, when a nation honors God, God honors that nation.
There are many inspiring people in Paraguay. I urge you to take the time and try to find
those positive souls to inspire this nation and bring the moral up.
The Lord did lead me to ask them to pray with me, and it was a very moving time. We don't
go there to please people. I don't go there to divide people, either. I come to share
a message of hope. We come on a mission in love, in respect, and most of all honoring
the Lord in every opportunity we have, and making sure that the greatest thing that comes
out of how we say things and what we say is a foundation of love, hope and faith.
Something that my parents always did was encourage me, and help me to believe in things that
I can't see. That there is a purpose. It was like as if God was using my parents to
plant seeds. And so we need to encourage our children with truth and love, and something will grow.
>>With more or less 50 conference speakers
at this spiritual life conference in Buenos Aires, of the 50 the organizer told us only
2 of them claimed to be Christians. So Nick was representing the whole Christian faith
to these couple thousand people that were looking for more meaning in their life.
It's even more significant to understand that Argentina is a nation that really has
gone through a lot in the last even just 30 years. The nation has come to a realization
that we need to be awakened to the spiritual realm. That we can't do this on our own.
They understand that. They understand that governments itself cannot fix everything.
Money itself cannot fix everything. There are problems that are greater than all of
us put together, and so there was this need and hunger to really now seek for spiritual
things. I don't need arms and legs. I need purpose.
Real purpose. Eternal purpose. Not just to be good for the sake of being good.
So it's an inroad into the most influential people who realize they need a spiritual awakening,
and now they're going to hear my testimony about finally feel like my body's coming
to normal. So I feel like 4 times stronger than yesterday, so I'm ready to preach it.
So here we go. >>Knowing that the audience was not a friendly
audience necessarily, but they were friendly. Nick was able to open that door, and they
listened to God's message in a clear way, even though they didn't really understand
when they came in what Nick was going to be presenting, and that was a very exciting time,
just seeing there so clearly why Christianity is a good option for being the basis of life.