Coming up, Robert Morris helps you navigate the journey
from Dream to Destiny
and prepare for the extraordinary future
God has planned.
>> But many of us live with the dream
instead of in the destiny.
And the reason is
because we don't pass those tests.
Now here's the great thing about God.
He's so good that when you fail a test,
he'll just let you take it again.
[Laughing]
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JAMES: Well, you need to know
I'm excited about everything
you enable us to do
for his glory,
especially for the people
who are hurt and overlooked.
But please hear me.
We've got one
of our best friends
on this planet
and one of the most
popular people on this planet,
one of the most appreciated
and repected, and rightly so,
and that's our pastor,
Robert Morris.
Now listen to me.
We can sit here --
he's going to be on all week.
We could sit here
and we could rejoice
in the glory of God
in our lives,
ministries and families.
But he impressed me
to encourage you to hear this.
He wants to invite all of us
into the shadow
and shelter of his presence,
power, and oversight.
And you have no idea
what sheep,
who live in that watch care
of that shepherd
will experience.
When I was praying
he said, James, I would sure
like for them to know
and experience
what I long
for them to experience
and express.
So that's the reason
we're here all this week.
Now I'm going
to be giving away a book,
now listen
to what I'm telling you.
I'm going to be asking
everybody to read this book
this year.
Betty, you know,
you've read it.
My assistant, who reads
all the famous people's books,
reads through it
in a week or just over.
Here, 12 years
of prayer and effort
on two people's parts,
mine and Jay Richards.
This is what carried
the founders
and led them
to the birth of the nation.
These are the principles
that have to be in place
that cannot be hidden
or cast aside.
Any relationship
starting with marriage,
family, business, athletics,
nations, or entertainment,
none can stand firm,
reliable, and secure
without all these principles
in place.
And if we read this
as a people
we will have a direction,
a nation-correcting course,
and totally transformed,
I believe,
in less than 24 months.
The greatest awakening
in the history.
That's the power
of the principles.
We're going
to be giving it away.
But Robert is here
to talk about a book
that I heard him preach
all these truths,
Dream to Destiny.
This isn't
just like your dream
of some kind of
fantasy destiny.
This is his dream for you
and the destiny
he has designed
and desires for you.
You're going to love this.
Robert is here and I want
to tell you something,
you're going to be blessed.
Robert,
you and I have been together,
you told me
before we walked out here,
42 years.
I want to find out
when we actually started.
When did we first meet?
ROBERT: We first met
when you came
to Longview, Texas.
Which was shocking to me
because you were preaching
in Los Angeles
and Tulsa and Atlanta,
and here you came
to our little city.
JAMES: Big stadiums
and I came to Longview.
Yeah.
ROBERT: I felt like
it was because
your friends were there.
You knew Billy Foote;
he was the best man
at your wedding.
But you came
and preached at our church
on Sunday morning
before the crusade.
I stayed back
to try to meet you.
I waited outside
the pastor's office.
JAMES: How old were you?
ROBERT: I was eight years old.
And you came out,
the biggest man
I'd ever seen in my life.
Darkest hair.
JAMES: You can't tell
watching on television,
I'm 6'3".
Okay? Go ahead.
ROBERT: I just knew --
there was something there
that God had put in my heart.
I remember telling you,
"When I grow up
I want to be like you,
and I want to preach
to a lot of people."
I wanted to help
a lot of people; not just
be in front of people,
but help them.
And you said, "Well,
I'm going to pray for you."
And you prayed for me,
and then you got the Bible
that you had preached from
that morning
and wrote a note to me.
And what you wrote was,
"I have nothing to prove.
I have someone to please."
And I've never forgotten that
to this day.
And you gave me that Bible
when I was eight years old.
JAMES: May it always be true.
Then you met me as a teenager
and Betty.
How old were you?
ROBERT: I was 18 years old.
Debbie and I got
to come to your home.
JAMES: Now then,
you started working with me.
How old were you?
ROBERT: I was 20 then.
JAMES: So that's
how many years back?
ROBERT: Well,
then they'll know my age
if I say that.
42 -- 42 years ago.
JAMES: Well, you and I
have walked together
because you went with me
to all those big crusades.
I couldn't do
all the high schools.
You know there were times
when I'd be invited
into high schools
and I'd just talk to kids
about living with respect
for authority,
with respect for truth,
and respect for one another,
and their morality,
and drugs and alcohol,
all the things,
sexuality out of control.
But you started going
to the schools for me
because I couldn't keep up
with all of them
with all the --
I'm speaking at
every Kiwanis club,
at all the different
various lodges,
the women's clubs.
I'm going
to leadership meetings.
So you went to the schools
and you would turn
all the kids out.
It was amazing.
So we've been ministering
together for a long time.
And then you started Gateway
just over 20 years ago.
ROBERT: In 2000.
JAMES: A lot of our viewers
were your first members.
I know because I was
sitting out there with them
thanking God.
So you've been
on quite a journey.
Now, Dream to Destiny,
God has one for everybody.
Later this week,
people are going to meet
your son
who is the pastor
but going to be the one
who will ultimately
step into your place.
That doesn't mean
you're going to quit preaching
because that is the last thing
you want to do.
But you're going to hear him.
You're going to meet James.
But anyway, the deal is
that God put this
on your heart
and publishers know
this just had to be published.
I want us to talk about it.
What is it you want the reader
and the viewer today
to hear from God
that you're trying
to communicate
through the book?
ROBERT: Well, I was going
to speak to our young adults
at the church
and we set an age group
of 18-29 for our young adults.
So I was thinking to myself,
18 to 29 --
18 to 29.
What do they need to hear?
And immediately,
when I thought
of those two ages I thought,
well, Joseph was 17
when God gave him a dream.
He didn't have to wait
until he was 50
to be used by God.
Our students, our teenagers
can be used by God.
So he was 17
when he got the dream,
and he was 30 when he became
second-in-charge
in the nation of Egypt.
So he stepped
into his destiny.
And I just thought
Dream to Destiny.
So what I'm trying
to say to everyone is
God has a dream for your life.
God does.
These dreams were from God.
And God has a destiny.
But then I started thinking
about how God took him
through some tests in his life
to prepare him
for the destiny;
not to cause him to fail,
but to prepare him.
I just felt like,
you know how I am
with alliteration.
So he went through
the pride test,
where he bragged about it.
He went through the pit test,
and it wasn't even --
in some ways,
it was his fault,
and in some ways,
it wasn't his fault.
Thrown in by his family.
He went through
the palace test
where he was tested
with stewardship.
He was tested
in the purity test,
which he passed that test.
But then he got thrown
into prison;
so there's the prison test.
So he goes through all these
and then even after
he steps into his destiny,
we still go through tests.
We're not finished learning
at that time.
You and I are still learning
at our age.
He went through
a prosperity test
where for seven years
he prospered,
but what was he going to do
with it?
JAMES: That's huge!
That's a huge test!
The love of money
is the root of all evil.
Not money, not having money,
but money having you
or you just being
in love with it
is the source and root
of all forms of evil.
Understand? Money is not evil.
If it has you
it becomes evil.
The love of it is evil
because it opens the door
to evil.
Excuse me.
I didn't mean to preach.
ROBERT: No, no, no!
That was good.
So that's exactly
what happened.
Because think about it,
you said he saved two nations,
and of course,
there were other nations
that came and brought grain.
But if he hadn't saved it,
if he hadn't been
a good steward
during those seven years
he couldn't have done anything
during the seven years
of famine.
Here's another big test
he went through,
the pardon test.
In other words,
when his brothers came back
would he pardon them?
Would he forgive them fully?
Because he even makes
one of the greatest statements
of the Bible.
He said, "God sent me here
to preserve your lives
and the lives of others."
And of course,
we have this statement,
"You meant it for evil
but God meant it for good."
I can tell you even
from personal experience.
I felt like I had someone
that did me wrong
and I couldn't get over it.
I'd wake up
in the middle of the night
and think about it.
What you would do,
what I would do
is I would rehearse my speech
to explain to this person
why he was wrong.
And it's like
I was rehearsing.
And it was like
I was keeping God up.
It was like he wanted
to get some sleep too.
So all of a sudden it was
like the Lord just said,
"Would you shut up?
Would you just stop?
Just forgive him.
Forgive him."
I said,
"But Lord, he was wrong!"
And he said,
"Of course, he was wrong,
that's why you forgive him.
You don't forgive people
who are right."
It's like
the biggest revelation.
You know if you bake me
a chocolate cake
I'm not going to say
I forgive you for baking me
a chocolate cake.
It is when --
so the other person is wrong.
We have to know that
but that's why
we forgive them.
But we were wrong
and God forgave us.
JAMES: In too many ways
that almost -- everyone.
BETTY: Talking about
God's destiny for us,
isn't that
what we're talking about?
How important,
and I know in my own heart
what it is but for people
that are listening,
how important is the journey
towards that destiny?
Because I feel like
the journey God's had us on,
it's been overall blessed.
I've been privileged.
But there's been
a lot of heartache
on the journey too.
But so many important things
God wants to teach us
on this journey
toward his destiny
for our lives.
ROBERT: That's the whole point
of the book, Betty.
Is that all of us have a dream
and it is probably
implanted by God.
We might mess it up
a little bit
but God put it there.
And we have a destiny
he wants us to fulfill.
But many of us live
with the dream
instead of in the destiny.
And the reason is
because we don't
pass those tests.
Now here's the great thing
about God.
He's so good
that when you fail a test
he'll just let you
take it again.
[Laughing]
And he'll let you take it
over and over and over,
the pardon test,
or whatever it is
until you pass it.
JAMES: You know,
this is something
and I kind of knew this,
and might have implied it,
but it hit me full force.
Oftentimes,
the subheading
is more important
than the title.
The subheading not only will
perhaps give you an indicator
of what's in the book
but it will actually give you
a clear picture
of what can come out
of reading this book
and letting this book
be absorbed into your life
and your mind.
Listen to this:
"A proven guide to navigating
life's biggest tests
and unlocking
your God-given purpose."
If you will allow
his purpose for you
to be revealed to you,
and then fulfilled
through you,
it is the highest level
of fruitfulness in life
and fullness in life.
It's losing your life
in his purpose to find it.
Which his purpose
is God's will through you,
kingdom purpose fulfilled.
Isn't that
a powerful statement?
And am I right?
If people get the truths
you've shared openly,
clearly, and simply,
that anybody can get,
if they become applied truth
they are going to experience
a miracle of God.
ROBERT: And as you said,
I shared them
but I didn't make them up.
The reason they're proven
is they are from the Bible.
They are from
scripture and it is proven
that Joseph
fulfilled God's destiny
in his life
because of overcoming
these tests.
JAMES: Robert, we will spend
the rest of our lives
trying to get people
to reach the destiny,
the design, and the desire
he has for them.
And he alone
knows what's best.
I think you believe
because we heard it
when you preached it,
this is expanded and clear.
I think you believe
it can change their lives.
ROBERT: I believe it
with all my heart.
Because every person
has a purpose --
every person!
And you and Betty
have been used to help
and to feed and to reach
millions of people
but there are a lot of people
you guys will never meet.
You'll never meet them.
Your kids will never play
on the same soccer team
as someone else's kids.
You'll never be there.
And when they go
through a difficulty,
maybe in their marriage
or something,
they're going to turn
to someone who is watching
the two of you
and they're going to say,
"I need help.
And I see a difference
in your life."
So every person watching
has a purpose from God.
JAMES: And everybody
can reveal his purpose
to others.
You are here to be a light
in a dark world,
and not allow that light
to be hidden
or covered by anything.
It is on a lampstand.
And the salt does not lose
its effect of adding,
not only flavor to life
but adding life to life,
preserving life
and everything precious.
That's why we're here.
Robert, I want everybody
that's watching
to get the book.
We will send it to everybody
that helps us
put God's arms around
trafficked children,
and girls that are being
sexually abused.
We'll be sending the book
Fight the Good Fight
for any gift.
And we have other gifts
for you.
But here's what
we're asking you to do.
And our viewers, you,
you love the fact
that we at LIFE,
and Betty and I have gone
all over the world,
our team has been
to 70 nations
to be involved.
Betty and I traveled, well,
I traveled for 35-40 years,
too much away from my family.
Then we traveled
to the ends of the earth.
We went into the third world
to help the overlooked,
the desperate, the dying,
the starving, the thirsty,
and then we found
the trafficked.
And you,
when we showed them to you,
we didn't think
you'd want to see them again.
You made us show them
to the world
so you could put
God's arms around them.
So we want you
to help us continue
to set the trafficked,
sexually trafficked free.
Some of our donors cared
so deeply.
Like I said, you made us,
you insisted
that we keep helping them
all over the world.
And we have.
Some of our donors
have given a matching gift
of $320,000.
That's a lot of
"want to help."
So would you watch this?
And then would you help us
rescue one of these girls
or boys?
The average cost is $128;
it will rescue one.
Since it will be doubled,
you'll rescue two.
$1280, rescue ten, now 20.
We're asking you
to do what you can.
I want you to watch this
and then you ask God,
"What do you want me to do?"
He'll not only lead you,
he'll enable you to do it.
Watch.
From the bright lights to the brothels
on any given night all around the world
there are millions of young girls
who thought they were going to work in a legitimate job
only to find themselves
in a situation just like Kim's
where their lives were turned upside down
by sex traffickers.
That's where LIFE Outreach's partners step in
to rescue girls who have been forced into prostitution
by human traffickers.
CLAYTON: Wherever we're able to arrest a trafficker,
it's a huge win
because not only does it mean
that that place is shut down
but that might mean that tens
or maybe even hundreds of girls won't be trafficked
because of them.
SWAT raids are just one of the means our mission partners use
to rescue girls.
Others will reach out one-on-one
and befriend girls who feel trapped
in the world of sex trafficking.
Once girls are taken into our mission partner's safe houses,
their lives are forever changed.
JAMES: Betty, a moment ago,
when we saw those girls
in the beds,
crawling out
from under the beds,
as so many watch our
grandchildren grow up,
not long ago
they were that age,
now we have all
the great-grandkids coming up,
doesn't it break your heart
to see those precious girls
being used
as an instrument of evil
and self-gratification?
BETTY: It really does.
And the trusting soul
of a precious little one,
someone offers you help
or food, something to drink,
these little children,
they're going to accept it.
And then they take them
under false pretenses,
they feed them.
And in their food,
they have drugged them.
And when they wake up
they're being raped and abused
and just all kinds
of horrible things
happening to them.
I just can't even imagine.
It breaks my heart.
I know as you're watching,
it must you too.
Because you have children,
maybe, you have grandchildren,
you have those
that you love so much.
Let's please reach out
and help these little ones.
They don't have a chance
if someone doesn't care
about them.
And God tells us
we're to care about
the little children
and love them because he does.
So help us, won't you?
JAMES: It's breaking my heart
to think that men
can be so twisted
that they would want to use
one of those little girls.
And 747s go,
more of them from the U.S.
than any nation,
to the sex capitals
of the world.
And here's the sad thing.
Many of them are stirred
to that extreme
sexual appetite
by exposure to pornography.
And now then,
many of them are exposed
to that pornography
by the greatest free nation
in the world
and the greatest producer
of pornography in the world,
the United States.
We're causing the men
to have appetites
out of control putting them
where they will use
those precious little girls.
And then where the people
would sell them
and tell them that they're
going to give them a job.
And they've never had a job
and they've never had money,
and they've never
had opportunity.
And then
they not only use them --
like that little girl woke up
and she is being raped.
And then
they get them on drugs.
And they will hold them there.
If they can hold them
for 20-30 years they will
until they've just
worn them out
and destroyed them.
And we're setting them free.
And you are building
the greatest rescue houses
on the planet.
And you're changing lives.
And many of the little girls
we started helping years ago
are now leaders
in their communities.
They're teachers,
they're professors,
and there are one
or two of them
that are mayors.
And I heard one of them
was a governor -- that came
through sex trafficking!
That God's love
through you rescued.
I am asking you right now
to go get your bank card
and use it like a check.
You should always
use them that way.
But use it like a check.
Dial the number
or go online.
Do it please! Go get it!
And would you rescue a girl?
Would you make a $128 gift
that will be doubled now,
where you won't rescue one
but two?
And I always ask everybody
to expand their vision.
Is there any way
you could rescue ten
with a $1280 gift?
And know right now
you'll be rescuing 20.
Please, God!
Please, whatever you can do,
we have gifts to send you that
will be a blessing to you.
I'm going to send you a book,
Fight the Good Fight;
twelve years in the effort
with Jay Richards together.
You will be blessed.
Would you please right now
get that card?
If you write a check, make it
to LIFE but call and tell us
you're putting it in the mail.
We've got to know
you're going to help.
Thank you so much!
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JOHN: If a child goes across this border illegally
in the hands of a human trafficker,
the chances of finding them becomes nearly impossible.
We have mission partners at this border crossing
that are trained to intervene.
They're trained to recognize and know what to look for
when it comes to potential children being victimized.
I have confidence in you, our mission partners,
that we can work together to make sure
that a mom and dad never have to wake up with the fear
and the tragedy and the pain
of knowing their child is gone.
We desperately need to tell our mission partners,
listen, there is more oil coming for your lamp.
There are more resources coming.
You can hire more staff. You can stay longer.
You don't have to be afraid of running out
because LIFE Outreach and the partners of LIFE
are promising you
that we're going to be there to help for the long haul.
JAMES: Thank you so much.
You may have totally saved
somebody's life and future.
Remember, for any gift
we're sending
Fight the Good Fight.
Read it. Apply it.
Do it immediately.
If you simply help us
rescue them we'll also
send you Robert's book.
Be sure to tell
all your friends
to get one online
or get it in the bookstores.
Robert is going to be back
and he's got another book
he wants to talk about.
And later in the week,
you're going to meet
the pastor that follows him.
Don't miss it.
Robert, thank you
for being here.
ROBERT: Well,
thanks for having me.
I was just thinking,
about how you've supported us
all these years.
And you know this,
but we've supported you too,
every year since the
founding of Gateway Church.
I will say something that
I know you'll hear it right.
We don't support you just
because you're our friend.
We support you
because of what you're doing.
We support you because
I've been on the field,
Debbie and I went too,
several times,
and we saw that LIFE Outreach
is one of the most effective
ministries we've ever seen,
missions ministries.
We love you.
JAMES: Thank you.
I know you mean that.
We love you.
Thank you for helping us
love others with his love.
God bless you.
Don't miss tomorrow.
♪
ROBERT: There's a test,
it has 613 questions.
If you miss one --
if you just miss one
you fail.
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