Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), CMA Bike Crew
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR000056A
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00:10 Welcome to Celebrating Life In Recovery!
00:12 If Jesus came today, do you think you would be 00:15 hanging with bikers? 00:16 I think you would any it makes my heart just full of joy. 00:20 He would hang out with us, He would love us. 00:21 Come in and meet everybody at the Café. 00:23 You will be blessed. 00:51 Welcome back! 00:52 You know what the set looks a little bit different than 00:53 it usually does, and I think we are going to laugh 00:59 out loud on this program. 01:01 I love it when God comes into the lives of the very least 01:06 likely that He would even be there. 01:08 Someone says I was smoking some weed, sitting in a bar 01:14 and drinking some beer and God showed up. 01:16 I like love Him for that, I love Him for that. 01:19 I want to start before I introduce you to everybody on 01:21 the set, before I tell you why it is different, 01:23 why we are doing a program like this, 01:25 I want to introduce you to a friend of mine Denielle. 01:27 Danielle, thank you for being on the program. 01:29 And I want to tell a story about what happened with you and me. 01:34 Okay - okay! 01:36 Okay, one time, and somebody has heard this story before 01:39 on this program, but not with you on it. 01:41 One time I brought somebody in from California and 01:45 they drove thirty-six hours to get here. 01:47 They came with a bunch of foster kids and you know 01:52 he didn't want to come. 01:53 He's seventeen years old and he said Cheri I don't want to 01:55 come because I like still smoking weed and 01:58 I'm not doing that good. 01:59 I said please come, and he's like okay I'll come, 02:03 but I don't know because I'm not doing that good. 02:07 He said if I come I'm going to stay in the very back of 02:09 the church and I don't even want anyone to talk to me. 02:12 So when he came I was busy because the concert 02:16 was happening, right? 02:17 And he walked in and you saw him, what did you think? 02:20 - I knew in my heart that he didn't know Jesus, 02:25 so I started drawing. 02:28 You even asked your mom, do you think he knows Jesus? 02:31 She said I think so, and your like, oh I don't think so. 02:35 - I knew in my heart that he didn't. 02:39 What did he say? Because he tell me he was going to 02:41 sit in the very back of the church. 02:43 - Well he sat right there, right where I can see him. 02:47 - Right behind you? 02:48 - Yes, and it was like mom, I think I, I think I... 02:58 - I want to draw him a picture. 03:01 Yeah - he said it was so funny because he sat behind 03:05 you and said that she turned around and looked at me and 03:09 he said my heart started beating and I don't know why, 03:13 it started beating hard. 03:14 I started to sweat in my palms started to get sweaty. 03:17 And she just kept looking at me and drawing and every once 03:21 in while I would try not to pay attention to her and 03:23 I would look at the concert. 03:24 Then all the sudden I would realize that she is looking 03:27 at me again and I don't know why but I didn't want her 03:29 to look at me and she kept looking at me and drawing. 03:33 Pretty soon he said you dropped the paper on the ground 03:37 and what did you do with it? 03:38 I slid it under him - all the way to his foot - Yep! 03:42 Then you looked up at him. 03:44 - And I looked up and then I looked at the paper. 03:48 And he's like oh no she wants me to pick up the paper. 03:51 - I didn't want him to look at me because I was kind of shy 03:57 and I didn't want to start talking to him like right then. 04:02 Then your hand was right by the foot. 04:03 Paper was right on his foot, 04:06 and she's like you have to pick it up. 04:10 And he's like in his heart, do you know what he was saying? 04:12 He said, I was almost screaming inside. 04:14 I don't want to pick it up. 04:15 I'm not going to pick it up, what is she doing? 04:17 What is she doing? 04:18 He finally picks it up, and what was the picture? 04:20 - It was of him and it said, that God loves you no matter 04:25 what, and I just kept sliding it until it reached his foot 04:29 and I couldn't go no more. 04:30 - when he finally picked it up and saw a picture 04:33 of him sitting there, and that is what you drew, 04:36 and when he read God loves you no matter what, 04:39 he said everything changed for him. 04:42 He said you know what I thought immediately? 04:44 Is that God loves me no matter what. 04:46 He said in his heart, he saw himself as saved and not lost. 04:52 He wanted to quit smoking weed, quit smoking cigarettes. 04:57 He wanted to change his whole life. 04:59 He said that after you drew that picture of him, 05:01 he didn't even want to go back to his home in California 05:04 because he was afraid that maybe his friends would 05:06 influence him in a bad way, and his parents were drug addicts. 05:09 So do you know what he did? 05:11 He called an Aunt and Uncle in Texas and said, can I come 05:14 stay with you, because he knew that they were Christians. 05:17 He left 3ABN, he left here and went to Texas so that 05:22 he would be safe. 05:23 - God doesn't care if you smoke or anything, God loves you 05:31 so much that He doesn't care what you do. 05:35 He wants you to come to Him and He will work on the 05:38 smoking later, He will work on all that stuff later, right? 05:41 He said you know what you are safer coming to Me. 05:43 You know what is amazing to me, Denielle? 05:46 Is that I think you have such a heart for God that you 05:49 know that, it's amazing I want to say thank you for, 05:52 we are going to put a picture up of Bo so that they can see him. 05:55 His name is Bo, he is seventeen and is now turning 05:59 eighteen and he loves God and he loves you. 06:02 - I can't wait to see him again. 06:05 You'll be drawing us some more pictures, give me five. 06:08 Well I'm going to introduce you to the rest of the folks 06:12 on the program and Dave I want you to come up first. 06:17 I have got to just say that when Denielle came and drew 06:20 that picture for Bo and put on there that God loves you 06:24 no matter what, when that changed his life 06:27 he really made me start 06:28 to think that even there are times that somebody will walk 06:33 in and everybody knows they're a mess. 06:35 Everybody knows they're trashed, their smoking weed, 06:38 their smoking cigarettes, they don't know how to talk 06:42 yet, walked yet, they definitely are twisted in their 06:45 thinking, they have rage issues, 06:47 they may say and do the wrong thing. 06:48 Sometimes the only one in the church that sees them as a 06:52 child of God lost and trying to find their way in the 06:56 building, it's the kids. 06:58 They will say, you know mom I don't think 07:02 that guy knows Jesus. 07:03 And in it is hard for them not to even just point, 07:06 and I want to say God bless the kids. 07:08 I want to say too, is that if we all became like little 07:11 kids, Denielle if we all had your heart, I think that 07:14 we would bless anybody that walked in the door. 07:17 Dave I just wanted to say, it cracks me up, 07:20 today we had a cancellation on this particular hour 07:24 and we didn't know what to do. 07:25 Yesterday I'm thinking we have a cancellation and I thought, 07:29 I love your Ministry so I called. 07:32 I said let's call Dave and see if he can get somebody 07:36 that is, I know there is some biker clubs here that are 07:39 riding for Jesus that really have changed their lives. 07:42 Let's see if we can get something together and I want 07:45 you to say what happened from the time I called you, 07:47 because you know I'm looking around and this place 07:50 is packed with bikers. 07:51 - Well we are just friends that ride together. 07:54 Some of the riders are from our own church, 07:57 some are from America Motorcycle Association. 08:01 We do a lot of the same rides together. 08:03 They do rides we don't do, but it's all about 08:06 the same thing though. 08:07 - They are, some of them are just baby Christians. 08:09 - Oh, really aren't we all but, yes, yes! 08:14 - so when you talk about some, they do rides you don't do, 08:16 what does that mean because some people don't even know 08:19 there is Christian biker groups that have come 08:23 into the relationship with God and actually go out 08:26 and do things. 08:27 - My, many associations all over the United States. 08:31 Even the American Motorcycle Association, that is close 08:35 here, is just a chapter of a large Association. 08:39 There are so many things that bikers get involved in all 08:43 over the United States for good causes of all kinds. 08:47 - and there is some, you can tell on some patches, you 08:51 can see on their jackets that they will be riding for Christ. 08:54 These are definitely Christian clubs and you may look at 08:57 them and say, Christian are you kidding me? 09:00 You talk to them and the only thing you can say is 09:02 absolutely their heart is one for God. 09:05 There is all stages I guess, 09:07 as there is all stages of Christians. 09:08 Some of us would be a sissy in a bike group compared to 09:15 some that take it very seriously. 09:17 They ride in a way and witness in a way that a lot of 09:23 bike associations don't go that far, so it is according 09:27 to personalities and calls that God has put on your life. 09:31 They are just like a Paul, they go into places that may be 09:35 a lot of us will never see, so there is all kinds of 09:39 associations and clubs as there is all kinds of calls. 09:43 - you know I want to say to say to folks that are 09:46 listening, if you want to pray for a group this is a 09:50 good group to pray for because some places we can't go 09:53 as a normal Christian, just walking in and we can't go, 09:57 but somebody that has been 09:58 there can walk right back and rescue somebody right from 10:01 the Gates of... you know! 10:04 You know they just walk right in and say I've been right where 10:09 you've been - yeah the greatest understatement ever 10:13 made was the one that, God You can't use me. 10:15 Like He told me one time you can't lead someone someplace 10:19 you haven't been, so there goes that verse, 10:21 for all things work together for good. 10:23 - everything - yes, so everyone has a testimony. 10:26 Why would God put the two together, you are over comers 10:30 by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony. 10:33 What power your testimony must have - Amen! 10:35 - Everyone has one - you know sometimes, even reading 10:39 different stories in the Bible of David it when he went 10:42 out and murdered somebody, had this adulterous affair 10:45 and came back and say God, when he realized, 10:48 he said he was so sorry. 10:49 But also there was a guy in the New Testament, crazy, 10:52 filled with demons, cutting on himself, 10:54 beating people up and all that kind of stuff. 10:56 First time I heard that story I think I dated that guy, 10:59 you know what I mean? 11:00 When Christ cleaned him up, I thought it was really 11:03 interesting is that Christ cleaned him up and he is in 11:06 his right mind for the first time ever and He said, 11:08 go back and tell someone. 11:09 When God first stood me up to tell my testimony, 11:13 I said how much do You want me to tell? 11:16 You know what I mean because I'm thinking who wants to 11:18 tell that stuff, and then He reminded me that the 11:21 demoniac, half crazy, filled with a thousand demons went 11:24 back to town and said you know what, 11:27 I had a little problem with anger and 11:29 God just worked on me. 11:30 Then instead of saying I was filled with a thousand demons, 11:33 I was out of control, crazy that they wouldn't even 11:36 let me in town. 11:37 Some of the folks that are riding and doing the ministry 11:39 now, were that crazy - Sure! Sure! 11:42 - But that is what makes them useful. 11:45 Well just like some of the guys here that have 11:50 testimonies that I can't even identify, so what would I 11:53 have business going into a place where they can go? 11:56 Like the Lord said make your calling and election sure, 11:59 well if He is in your calling there is no place you 12:02 can't go, but He uses you in your calling, 12:05 those things in your past makes you very useful, 12:09 because of what is in your past. 12:11 It creates the character you are. 12:13 - As you watch God change the lives of some of the folks 12:16 you see in these hard-core clubs, 12:19 what does it do to your heart? 12:21 It always gives you hope, that is what changed my life 12:26 was realizing that, what you mentioned one, David. 12:30 If he could do what he did and God turned right around and 12:34 called him a man after God's own heart, I thought wow, 12:38 I have a chance - exactly Amen - so here we all are. 12:41 I'm going to start introducing you to a number of folks 12:45 here because you really did start the ball rolling and 12:49 those that responded I think God had in mind 12:53 from the very beginning. - that's right, that's right! 12:56 - So I want to introduce you to some folks, 12:57 I want to say Denielle, 12:58 I want you to stay and hang out with us if you want. 13:01 If you want to take off you have your bike, 13:04 do you want to stay or take off? 13:07 - I'll stay, I'm glad you'll stay. 13:09 I'm proud of you, and you know we are going to come 13:12 back and be talking to different folks that are around 13:15 here, on their bikes. 13:17 Different people that God has called for this program and 13:20 at the end of this program you are going to be proud of 13:24 them and definitely a proud of God because I so am. 13:27 Stay with us it's a blast, I can't even wait! |
Revised 2014-12-17