say that to your friend earlier today?” and he now. You were all very happy that yesterday two is made perfect in weakness.” And that’s how
said, “yes”. I said, “Are you ready to give your hundred gave their lives to me, and I wanted to it works, it’s always in weakness. I wondered
life to Jesus?” and he said, “Yes”. In front of show you all, that I will stop a whole meeting, for years why when all the top rabbis in Jesus’
eight thousand young people we led him in the for one Sam.” time, when they wanted new disciples they’d
prayer of salvation, and I saw when he walked
go to the top universities, the Harvard and Yale
back his friend ran up to him, and they were And that’s the lesson I and the other people of their day, and they would pick the best of
hugging and weeping together. I found out the there will never ever forget. I was petrified, I the best and say, “Follow me.” All of the top
next day that his friends had been praying for thought I’d made a mistake, I did it in weakness, rabbis did that, except Rabbi Jesus, who went
him for months and had invited him to come. and yet the Lord knew what He was doing. to the Sea of Galilee and picked a bunch of very
Sam was struggling with depression, he was Afterword it was like, “Wow that wasn’t my ordinary people who were mostly failures and
taking drugs, he wasn’t a Christian, and that imagination, that really was you!” And I could said, “Follow me.” He taught them that it was in
day he had said that to his friend. tell so many other stories like that. So many. their weakness that He would meet them. I love
One of my key scriptures that I adore that is it that Jesus says in one of His letters that Paul’s
And my question was, “Lord, why couldn’t that one of my life verses, is from 2 Corinthians 11, writing is very difficult to understand. I love that
have waited until the end? Why did it have to “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power they got the answers wrong so often, that
happen now, why did it have to be so theatrical? they struggled with things. God used ordinary
Why did you have to put me through all of that people to change the world, people who were
agony?” And you know, the Lord answered me. yielded to Him, and that’s the only qualification
After Sam said ‘Amen’ eight thousand young you need, to be yielded to Him.
people spontaneously stood and clapped and
cheered for the Lord and Sam, and the Lord [WM] So here we are, cooped up, and basically
answered me, “That’s why I wanted you to do it under “house arrest” with the Covid-19 Virus
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