hey everyone I wanted to do a little bit different video than what I normally do
as my channel has grown it is incredible the messages I've received from
different ones of you that your heart is just growing in your relationship with
God and it's so amazing to see what God is doing and how you're getting inspired
to start going after your dreams to start growing in your faith but I think
the thing that really touches my heart the most is when I get emails and I get
different messages on my Facebook or Instagram of those of you that are
wanting to begin your faith journey and so I just want to talk to you you know
you might have found this video just through a youtube search and maybe you
found it because a friend shared it with you but I'll just tell you that in our
world that we live in today there's a lot of things going on and honestly
we're facing some pretty big problems and I think the one thing that people
have is a fear of not sure what tomorrow holds and I'll tell you this that I
don't pretend to have the answer to everything but I will tell you this that
Jesus is the answer to everything and from the greatest thing that we can do
or accomplish is knowing Jesus and so I want to talk to you today about the
greatest question that you could ever have is this is do you know Jesus Christ
as your Lord and Savior you know after it's all said and done and when
everything's over that is the one question that will matter the most and
so I want to ask you today is do you have a relationship with Jesus Christ
Romans 3:23 tells us that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of
God you know I think about that because my life before I was saved I remember
feeling like I was probably the only person that made really big mistakes I
looked around at everybody else and it seemed like they had it all together and
when I looked at my own life it felt like I was falling short and I'll just
tell you that if you're watching this I'll tell you that you need a Savior we
all need a Savior there's nobody who's perfect
nobody who has it all together and so I love that Romans 3:23 that says that all
have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God you know I want you to
watch this all the way to the end and I want an opportunity to pray with you if
you don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior I want to pray a simple
prayer with you but I'm gonna lay down some groundwork real quick before we do
that the first thing I want to let you know is this is that God loves you he
loves you without restraint and he's never quit on you he's never walked away
from you I don't know what your relationships have been like in your
life friend I don't know who's quit on you I don't know how many times people's
love has had limits but I'll tell you this that God's love comes without
limits it comes without bounds it comes without restraint and he loves you like
crazy there's never been a time where he stopped loving you one of my favorite
scriptures is found in Jeremiah 31 verse 4 in the message and it says this I have
never quit loving you and I never will I love that so much because God's letting
us know that even when we weren't aware that he loved us he loved us still and I
want to encourage you friend that God loves you without restraint in Ephesians
2 verse 5 it says even when we were dead slain by our own stroke or shortcomings
and trespasses he has made us alive together in fellowship and in union with
Christ he gave us the very life of Christ Himself the same new life with
which he quickened him for it is by grace his favor and mercy which you did
not deserve that you are saved you know I love this so much because it's letting
us know that it's all about God's love for us it has nothing to do with our
love for him friend let me just tell you that if you're here and you're watching
or you're listening to this and you're thinking goodness I've made so many
mistakes how can God love somebody like me I'll tell you that your sins do not
disqualify you and back they qualify you why would you need a Savior unless you'd
make some mistakes and so I just want to encourage you in that that God loves you
the second thing I want to encourage you in is this is that Jesus
paid it all not just some not partially not maybe if you do everything right but
no Jesus has completely paid at all Ephesians 2:8 and 9 said it is by free
grace God's unmerited favor that you are saved delivered from judgment and made
partakers of Christ's salvation through your faith and this salvation is not of
yourselves over your own doing it came not through your own striving but it is
the free gift of God not because of works not the fulfillment of the lost
demands less any man should boast it is not the result of what anyone can
possibly do so no one can pride himself in it or take glory for himself you know
I want you to think about this let's pretend that you walk into a hotel and
you walk in and you go to give your card at the front counter and they let you
know that everything's been paid for that the rooms been paid for all your
incidentals have been paid for you don't have to worry about it you can stay as
long as you want it but you don't have to pay a thing now let me just ask you
this could you still give them your credit card and pay for a separate room
and the answer is yes but with the other room that's already paid for be sitting
there vacant and the answer is yes see I think so many times in our
Christian life we think that we have to pay for what's already been paid for
we're so adamant that we've got to read our Bible we've got to go to church we
got do all these things and the truth is should we do those things yes should we
forgive people should we volunteer it or in our communities yes we should do all
kinds of great things right but we don't do it to pay for what's already been
paid for see Jesus has forever paid everything
that you need to have he is already taking care of it
now because of that we want to do things but we don't have to do them I want to
let you know that Jesus has completely forever paid the debt that you couldn't
pay you could work for the rest of your life not enough good works not enough
hours to volunteer in your church could ever pay for the sins
you've committed but Jesus and one act of love on the cross forever settled the
penalty that was set against you and that is good news the third thing I want
to let you know is that we are all and processed every single one of us if
you're watching here today I want to tell you that we are all on a journey
that no one is perfect nobody's got it all together in fact we are all in
different levels of our process but we're in process nonetheless in first
Peter 1:23 it says that you have been regenerated born again not from a mortal
origin seed or sperm but from one that is immortal and everliving the lasting
Word of God I love that so much so I want you to picture it like this when a
woman first gets pregnant does she look pregnant
no she doesn't look pregnant at all I remember when a friend of mine told me
recently that she was pregnant and I saw her and she was 21 weeks pregnant and
she didn't even look pregnant like she had no baby about no nothing and I
thought I was like you're joking right you're not really pregnant she's like no
I'm seriously I'm pregnant I couldn't believe her and sure enough she had a
baby so I had to believe her but here's the thing is just because I couldn't see
it didn't mean that she wasn't pregnant and I love that in amplified here in 1st
Peter 1:23 it calls us being born again is that we have received the sperm of
God in other words the seed of God it's growing on the inside of us so here's
the thing is that when you prayer this prayer today you'll go home and you'll
look in the mirror you might flip down your phone and look at yourself in the
selfie camera and you're gonna look no different but the Bible says on the
inside you're pregnant with the Word of God you're pregnant with eternity
there's something growing on the inside of you and so I want to challenge a
friend that just says a woman you can't tell that she's pregnant in the
beginning and as she grows as she nurtures that she begins to grow bigger
and bigger with that baby you're gonna grow bigger and bigger in Christ you're
gonna begin to grow in your faith like never before and just like if you want a
plant to grow what do you do you water it so it's so important to to water it
but you're pregnant less and so just because you can't see
change doesn't mean that change isn't happening so with all that said I want
to pray with you no matter where you're at I'd love to just take a moment and
pray this prayer salvation if you pray it I'd love to find out if you could
send us an email I'd love to know that you prayed it and just so I could
celebrate with you but let's just take a moment and pray this prayer together
repeat after me Lord Jesus I give you my sins take my
sins and by your grace I take your righteousness come into my heart let me
never be the same in Jesus name and everybody say Amen hey
if you prayed that prayer I believe that you are born again and I believe this
that God loves you that he's got you in process and he's already paid at all I'm
so proud of you for watching this video and I'm so proud of you as you begin
your faith journey take a moment and write it down somewhere so that way you
can always look back at this moment is the moment that changed everything so
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watching let's do something awesome for God
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