This message tonight,

This message tonight changed my life.

It is changing my life, but it definitely changed everything about me.

I was 20 years older than you when I got this message.

And I've been thinking in the last few days, what would it be like if I was

your age and I was hearing what I was hearing 20 years after you? Would I be able to get it?

Because I wasn't the most clued in guy when I was your age. I was figuring things out still.

I hadn't quite put my stake in the ground

a thousand percent for Jesus. And I wonder if this message came by me at your age, if I would

have been able to grab it. And that's why I prayed just now for the Holy Spirit to give a spirit

of clarity, a spirit of attention, a spirit of focus, but mostly a spirit of revelation.

Because we can preach, but unless there's revelation, there's just a message.

But if there's revelation, then there's transformation. And that's what happened to me.

And it all was happening about the same time passion was born.

It was interesting that Shelly and I were getting this all-consuming calling.

We had no idea it was going to land us here today. Come on.

I mean, it was 27 years ago.

We thought we were going to be around like four years.

We were praying for an awakening in a generation. We didn't have time. We didn we were going to be around like four years. We were praying for an awakening

in a generation. We didn't have time. We didn't have 27 years. University students were waking up

every day without a clue why they were on the planet. And out of the tens of millions of them

in the United States of America, most of them would admit that they

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