Nick Vujicic>> Look, I feel the Holy Spirit right now moving in me to speak directly to
you, who feel like, "No, Nick and Stephanie, you do not understand.
I did not just lie. I did not just do that, or that sin--easier for you to talk about it
because you do not know how it feels to be feeling like I am a sinner in the category
of sin as a murderer."
I want you to know that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is that He died for every single one
of us, that we would be redeemed and healed.
No, you cannot just pray this away.
It starts, though, with a prayer of repentance.
And the conviction of that sin is a gift.
It feels icky, and heavy, and big, and a vacuum.
When you look at that guilt, or shame or regret, maybe your girlfriend, or somebody that you
were sexually intimate with, chose an abortion against your will. Maybe you were the one
to tell her to go get an abortion. Whatever that is, whether you are a woman that has
had an abortion, I want you to know right now that there is this clear Gospel
message of hope, that there is hope for you.
And my disability, my friends, is not having a life that is limbless.
That is not what was holding me back.
What was holding me back was understanding that I either accept that I am a sinner and
be forgiven in that, and be renewed in my mind, and say, "God, I do not want my plan.
I do not want my strength.
I have done terrible things in the past.
It is my shame and my guilt of the past and my sin
that has not only brought me a death sentence of a temporary life here, but I want to be
free of the shackles and the crippling of this shame, and guilt, and this self condemnation."
There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, and He loves you. Right now,
I want you to know that when we sin once, we are a sinner. If we lie once, we are a liar.
And whether I have lied once or killed, listen--10,000 babies.
It is sin that is equal to all. "No, NIck, that cannot be true."
Now, I will tell you real quick, a story.
And then I want to help dovetail this for you with what Stephanie just said, okay.
I have seen somebody who I did not know what she actually did
in the past. She was roughly 80 years old. I met her in India. We went through the red
light district in Mumbai, seeing the red light district of prostitutes and slaves, putting
children in caves and cages underneath, to actually break them in as sex slaves.
I want you to know that we prayed for someone who did not walk, and later found out, not only
did she walk right in front of us, but we then found out that she was the one--
listen very carefully--who actually had on her hands, the victims of 40,000 sex slaves since 1960s
in Mumbai, India. I want you to know that. I want you to understand this. We saw God's
love, and that is way beyond what we can ever imagine.
He ready showed us that love by giving His own Son to take on all of our sins, all of
the sins of the world on His shoulders, on the cross, paid for it.
When he died physically, when he was dead,
He did not just stop there. He went down to hell, had a speech to hell, took the keys of hell,
and that is why He has the authority. How? Because He has the keys of hell in His hands.
And that is the victory that we can have.
It is not about the past.
It is about saying, "Here I am God, broken, a sinner. I need you. I cannot sometimes even forget
what I have done, but God redeem me, heal me, help me to pray. Teach me the Word and the
promises that You have in the Bible that are for me. Cleanse me of righteousness, renew
my mind. Help me to come across people that do know You, who do love You, who will not judge
me for the past of my life.
I want what You want for me."
God does not want you "stuck in the yuck." He wants you renewed, and what Stephanie just
said is really important. Listen to me very, very carefully--
that when we have gone through something, or when we are circumstantially going through
something, if God allowed it to happen, He did not cause that pain to happen.
But He allowed that to happen so that what the enemy tried to use for bad, if we actually
commit our life to Jesus Christ,
if we repent of our sin, and commit our life and every breath until death of our life,
for the glory of Jesus Christ, tell me what He cannot use that is evil and bad in our life
for good.
If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet to stand in front
of the gates of hell and redirect traffic and to actually help other parents of children
who have a limbless child. And my parents who had a limbless child can help other parents
as well, then is it not true that when you do not get a miracle, you can still be one?
Is it not true that if we cannot change the past, that then God can actually change still
the future and your heart about the future?
Could it be that God allowed you--listen very carefully--to actually go through such a hellish
experience here on earth,
that you were raped, and you chose abortion, and you regret that decision today?
And you are silently suffering. I want you to know God hears your tears.
Tears are a language God understands.
Maybe you are the person who told your special someone to have the abortion. Maybe you did not
want the abortion, and you regret not actually putting your foot down and saying, "No, whatever
it takes, we are going to have this baby together! Do not kill our child! That child is mine, too."
Whatever that circumstance is,
let me ask you, my friend, right now,
if you went through what you have been through, so that you can help someone else heal,
you can help one other person find.... Wow! You mean that heaven is still for me, that forgiveness
is still for me, a wretched sinner I am?
I have blood on my hands.
Know, if you can actually come to the knowledge and faith in Jesus Christ that starts with
the prayer and hearing the Word of God, as you are now hearing right now, there is hope
for you, my friend.
And there is hope to the nth degree beyond our comprehension, where I truly believe as
Stephanie believes right now, that this is not something that is the defining end of
your story.
Our story, my history is His story.
And if you are watching this, and listening to me right now, your story is not done yet.
And as broken as you feel, deep down, right now,
God is not done with you, and He loves you,
even if you shouted Him, cuss at Him, hate Him and even blame Him.
And because of His silence, maybe you are blaming yourself. I just want you to know that when
we do make a decision, whatever guilt we feel, do not die under that guilt. Come to
the freedom of Jesus Christ to the point where you can share that your history is His story to
someone else that will come into your path.
And you can say, "I know what you are going through.
I know that t-intersection of a life altering decision for yourself and for that other human
being's life."
And God can use you to share how He rescue you from even making the worst decision or
not making that decision and showing them, "I, too, was thinking of aborting.
It was for my career.
It was for my husband.
It was for this. It was for that. Whatever the excuses were, but we went through with the pregnancy
and we would not have changed a thing.
Look at our baby."
I just want you to know, "Yes, you are going to see your baby in heaven, and every aborted
child according to Scripture is in heaven waiting for us, according to Scriptures and
interpretation.
But it is the purpose in every single child, and whether our children have no limbs, whether our
children live 20 minutes, whether our children have Down's Syndrome or are defined by the world's
viability-category definition.
When the world says your child is not good enough, go back to Who actually knew their
name before the earth began.
Go back to the Person Who actually designed that baby's purpose that was there, choosing free
will to not just exist here on Earth, but to actually fulfill the Great Commission and
add to being beacons of light in an ever darkened world that we are right now living in on Earth until
we go home.
I want you to hear me.
And I only have a couple more questions. I want, first of all, before we really talk about
much more, I feel, Stephanie, for you to speak to that camera.
And as God leads, speak to whomever God puts on your heart, to share, how ever the Holy
Spirit moves you to share to our viewers today.
Stephanie>> Sure. I think what comes to mind right now is that God is the God of love,
and He wills your good, and "to will your good" means eternity with Him in Heaven.
To get there means to acknowledge that we have broken that relationship,
and we need to repent of the sins that broke that relationship,
and thank God for restoring it through Christ.
And what comes to mind are the words of Christ.
He said, "This is my body given for you."
He died so that we may live.
And when we have been a recipient of something good, does it not just naturally make us want
to share it with others and bless others?
You know, I remember reading an article--it was seems so silly--but it was just a news
story about how someone went to get coffee,
and when they went to pay, they were told that the person ahead of them in line had paid for them.
They thought, "Oh, my gosh!" They felt so good about that, instead of just receiving it,
They paid it forward, and then they paid for the next person behind them.
When that person was told, "Oh, you do not have to pay for your coffee. It was paid for you by
the last customer," they then paid for the next customer. This went on (no joke!) for 1,000 customers.
Because when good things happen to us, we want to bless others.
So whatever sin you are burdened with right now, something good has happened to you.
And that is that Jesus lived and died and rose and communicated both verbally, as well
as through all of that.
"This is my body given for you."
He laid down His life for you.
And so, not only receive that, but pay it forward.
Communicate to others, "This is my body given for you."
Abortion is the opposite of that.
Abortion says, "This is your body given for me."
But we are meant to reject that,
and say in a perfect act of love, as perfect as it can be in this imperfect world, and with
our imperfect nature, but with this desire for a perfect love to say, "No, this is my body
given for you."
So for that woman listening, who has not had an abortion yet, or who might have but is
pregnant again,
instead of running to another abortion or running to abortion, say, "No! This is my body
given for you."
The Lord has blessed me with salvation.
I will bless my child with continued life.
I will say this is my body given for you, and I will carry through with his pregnancy,
and I will bless this child in that act of self-sacrifice.
But it is not just for that woman.
It is for the man who has a girlfriend or a wife who is pregnant, but he did not want either
of them to be pregnant.
And then he says, "This is my body given for you.
I will bless you, I will take care of you.
I will provide for you. I will protect you."
And if all of us started living that way, because we have received, "This as my body given
for you,"
and then we pay it forward and we bless others with a life of love.
And so if you are hurting from a sin, I just want to reiterate what Nick has said, that
God is merciful.
He gave His body for you.
Receive that,
and then make your life a living sacrifice.
Nick>> Amen.
Wow, Stephanie, thank you. If you know that today, this moment, right now, is the moment
that you say, "Yes, Lord, be my Savior."
Please pray this prayer with me.
Say, "Dear God, I come to you today,
and I thank you for loving me.
Thank you that you have a plan for me.
God, I confess I am a sinner.
And today, I believe that Jesus your Son, died for me.
I am so sorry for all that I have done wrong.
Please forgive me.
Come into my life.
And fill me with your Holy Spirit.
God, change me.
Heal me and
redeem me. Teach me how to pray.
Show me how to live and give me strength as I hold on to your promises.
Help me, Lord, as I walk with You, and talk with You, to trust You, one day at a time.
Show me, God, your ways, and plan for my life.
And when I fail, pick me up and carry me.
Give me faith every day to believe that You with me.
And You will pull me through.
Thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross and giving me the power of resurrection, power over sin
and death. Thank You, God, for new life, a new life with You.
In Jesus name, I pray. Amen.
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