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David Ford (birth year unknown–present). Born in the United States, David Ford is a Christian evangelist and the founder of Globe For Christ International, a ministry dedicated to revival in churches and evangelism worldwide. Converted to Christ at age seven, he began preaching at 16, following a clear call to ministry on May 28, 1978. Early in his career, he pastored for two years, but his focus shifted to itinerant evangelism, leading crusades, conventions, and meetings across the U.S. and globally. Known for extended revival services—some lasting months, like a four-month outpouring after a planned four-day event—his ministry has seen thousands come to faith, with reports of over 4,000 conversions annually in some stretches. Ford’s preaching, centered on “Christ and Him crucified,” emphasizes repentance, worship, and the Holy Spirit’s power, often accompanied by prayer and song. He hosts the radio program America Back to God and shares sermons online, advocating 2 Chronicles 7:14 as a blueprint for spiritual awakening. Endorsed by figures like E.A. Johnston for his humility and passion, Ford leads with a team of prayer warriors, seeking God’s manifest presence. Little is known about his personal life, including family or education, as his focus remains on ministry. He said, “When revival is the experience, evangelism is the expression.”
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This sermon emphasizes the importance of evangelism and the transformative power of Jesus Christ. It highlights the need for people to come alive in Jesus, emphasizing that Jesus is the only way to true life and forgiveness. The story of a woman saved from suicide by a young boy's message about Jesus is shared, illustrating the impact of sharing the gospel. The sermon calls for a decision to be made for or against Jesus, inviting individuals to experience the cleansing and transforming power of Jesus in their lives.
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Thousands of people, I believe, literally across this world who have been praying for this week. They've been praying for Buckeye, Arizona. They've been praying for a mighty moving of the Spirit of God in Buckeye, Arizona. One dear brother back in Tennessee, he likes to pray for Buckeye. He likes the way it sounds, Buckeye. It is Buckeye. But he seeks the face of God because of that. You say, why an evangelistic crusade? How is that different than church? The main focus of a crusade is to declare the good news of Jesus Christ. It's a proclamation of who Jesus is and all that he's doing. Is it a temporary answer to a passing need or the final answer to an age-long and universal need? I love Isaiah 8 20. It says to the law and to the testimony, if they speak not according to this word right here, it's because there's no light in them. When translation says that they speak not according to this word, it's because they have no dawning day. Everything's a midnight to them. Everything is darkness to them. There seems to be no way out in their life. An evangelistic crusade is because their people are enslaved and need deliverance. The guilty need pardon. The cursed need blessing. The hungry need food. The ignorant and blind need light. The lost need guidance and the dead need life. A crusade like this is not about teaching men how to be good people. It's not a call for someone who's bad to become good. It's a call for those who are dead to come alive in Jesus Christ. What we need because we're dead in trespasses and sins is Jesus himself. But there's a lady over in England on Twin Church Yard near King's Cross Station in England. Lady Anne Grenstan, she said this, she did not believe in life after death. On her deathbed she said this, I shall live again as surely as the trees shall grow from my body. She was buried under a marble slab surrounded by an iron rail. Today a four trunk tree grows out of her grave totally destroying the slab and railing. It's one of the largest trees in England. Surprised to her when she wakes up after her death when she died and where she went instantly. I was grieved the other night and I'm going to go to John 10 9 shortly. When I read the 200 teens that committed suicide in South Dakota between December of 2014 and March of this year. 200 teens have committed suicide. You see they're lost. They're looking for an answer and that's why Jesus came. The son of man has come to seek out and to save that which was lost. And tonight Jesus is as it were going up and down these stands in this arena. He's speaking to your heart. He knows your name and he's saying to you tonight I love you. I died on the cross for you. I shed my blood for you. I know your darkness. I know your misery. I know your pain. I know your agony and that's why I came and I died on that cross and cried out on the cross. It is finished painful. There's nothing you and I could ever do to earn God's forgiveness. Jesus paid it all through the blood of the lamb on the cross of Calvary. Amen. Well I ask tonight John 10 9. How many have your Bibles? Anyone have a Bible tonight? You probably can't see up there in the arena stands can you? Anyone have a Bible tonight anywhere or it's on your iPhone or iPad? Amen. A Bible somewhere. Amen. Amen. Go to John 10 9 if you have it. If you don't you can listen. Beginning in verse 1. Truly truly I say unto you he that enters not by the door into the sheepfold but climbs up some other way the same as a thief and a robber. He that enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens and the sheep hear his voice and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out and when he puts forth his own sheep he goes before them and the sheep follow him for they know his voice and the stranger will they not follow but will flee from him for they know not the voice of strangers. This parable which is an earthly story with a heavenly meaning spoke Jesus unto them but they didn't understand what things they were which he was speaking unto them. Then Jesus said unto them again truly truly I say unto you I am the door of the sheep I am the door of the sheep all that ever came before me are thieves and robbers but the sheep did not hear them I am the door by me if any man enter in he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture the thief comes not but to steal to kill and to destroy but Jesus said I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly if doors could talk if doors could talk I asked you tonight a lot of doors in your past in my past oh there was a door that used to be there when your mama had that door cracked open and it was a baby and she had that little sound the voice recorder thing or a little transmitter fm transmitter in the next to your baby crib and when you would whimper and everything your mama would come through that door to check on you to see how you were doing many of you there was that door the first time you bought a house you walked into that door and thought oh and she said to you honey this is it and you said I agree I love this house there's that door there's a door when you went into the dorm room in college if you're able to go to college somewhere along the way and you walk into that dorm room when your first thought was this is it for the next four years this is it there's all kinds of doors people go through there's bar doors that people go through trying to find some answer again trying to find some life again going through that door that's a bar and maybe drinking their answer they think or finding some hot chick there maybe is their answer somewhere there's that kind of a door there's a door possibly in someone's life here tonight that you went through when you were a young man or a young woman and you were hot in the passions of desiring sex and you close that door of that car in the back seat and now you regret that you ever went through that door or that door in a house somewhere that you went through and you spent that night with that girl and woke up the next morning full of guilt and misery and pain and now you regret that you went through that door there's all kinds of doors that you and I could go through in all of our lives but Jesus said I am the door all these other doors you try they leave a person empty philosophy says think your way out science says invent your way out legislators say legislate your way out politicians say spend your way out mayor meck says pray your way out amen amen government sometimes says socialize your way out the liquor crowd says drink your way out the tobacco crowd says smoke your way out you say drug your way out psychiatry says talk your way out money says buy your way out fascism says bluff your way out communism says strike your way out demonstrators say shout your way out rioters say fight and wreck your way out does that make sense today on the news amen industry says work your way out religion says liturgize and creed your way out satan says there is no way out but jesus says i am the way out you see friends you don't get there by being disciplined you don't get there by going through the hallways of this and well if i could just be a little bit better and i mean if i could just run a few more miles every day or if i could do what i used to do and i tell people now that i'm a balanced person the bubbles in the middle amen but i'm working on that amen but we think disciplines it and some become addicted to the fitness center they live there they can't live without it and what's so easy to happen it's wonderful to go to a fitness center it's wonderful to work on the physique and the outward body amen but the real important need is the inner man of you and i because after a while all that riding that cycle all that pumping that iron all them doing them curls and preacher curls and all the kind of curls they are they leave you empty on the inside and you realize i went through the door of discipline but i'm still empty i'm still lonely i'm still dark on the inside and some think discipline is the way to do it others think well maybe prayer is my way out maybe if i pray so many hours a day maybe if i just talk to god every day i know people all over the world and most americans pray every day somewhere along the way i'm not saying who they're praying to but they pray but if i went over to mayor meck's house and i wanted to borrow some money from him he don't know me he'd be a little bit hesitant he said well brother david let's sit down and talk and let me just know you a little bit but if one of their kids one of them girls came up to them and his wife and said mom and daddy can you help me with this a little bit they're like sure baby doll what can i do for you amen because they have a relationship with her you see just because you pray doesn't mean you've yet you didn't know god it doesn't mean that jesus really lives on the inside of your life yet just because you pray i asked a lady years ago in south africa when i was preaching down there at some meetings she belonged to a religion that lived in millions of gods i said ma'am i said she was a grandmother i said what led you from where you were to faith in jesus christ she said to me this jail she said all the christians i know god answered their prayers and god never answered my prayers over in seoul korea the largest church in the world they get together and they go to that prayer mountain and they pray over 700 000 members of one church and they cry out to god and they meet people on the streets and they say sir i believe in the god that answers prayer how can i pray for you and they tell them how they can pray for him and i'll get back with you an answer to prayer and they go to prayer mountain they take a jug of water they go to that prayer mountain and they'll fast and pray and they'll seek god in prayer because they know the living god blessed is a nation whose god is the lord blessed is the father whose god is the lord blessed is the marriage whose god is the lord blessed is the family whose god is the lord blessed is the community whose god is the lord blessed is the city whose god is the lord blessed is the nation whose god is the lord and we as christians need to get back to spending time in prayer pray when you feel like it pray when you don't feel like it and pray until you do feel like it amen but pray The prayer without the Spirit of God, though, was empty and vain, and then some think they could become a Christian by reading their Bibles a lot, and they began reading the Word of God. But what all this shows in reality is they're searching for an answer. You see, friends, when you were born, you were born, and there was a point that came in your life when all of a sudden you realized you were on a quest to find out, what am I here for? What's the meaning of life? When you begin having friends and loved ones in your life that begin dying and passing away and you can't come up with the answers, you really begin asking questions, God, what am I here for? Why am I here? What's your purpose for me? And one of the problems we have in America today is we have taken the counsels of the Word of God, and we have set them aside as a nation in many places. We've taken the compass of the Word of God that shows what true north is, and we've set it aside. That's why the nation is teetering and tottering like a drunken man in an alley, not knowing the way. Why? Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. God's Word reveals Jesus. John says, you search the Scriptures, friend, and you think you have eternal life because you see there were people in that day that felt like, if I'm really searching the Word of God and I learn the Word, then I'm truly a Christian. There are thousands of people in churches today doing the exact same thing, and they think they're born again of the Spirit, but they're not. They're idolizing the Word of God, and they're missing Jesus. Jesus said, you search the Scriptures, friend, and you think you have eternal life, but they are they which testify of me, but you will not come to me, Jesus said, that you might have life. Friend, you can come to Jesus tonight. You can get beyond just reading the Bible as a textbook, and you can meet the author of the Word of God tonight in this place. You can pass from death unto life, from darkness to light. Well, they think that Bible reading or beating oneself up or withdrawal or just being good, but the Bible says not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us. He delivered us by the washing of regeneration and by the renewing of the Holy Spirit. You want that renewed life tonight? Well, what did Jesus say? He said, I am the door. First of all, that's positive. In the literal, it means I am, I myself am, Jesus declaring who he was, the Son of the living God. He said, you've tried all these other doors. You tried the door of religiosity. You tried the door of sex. You tried the door of alcohol. You tried the door of power. You tried the door of pleasure. You tried the door of popularity. You tried the door. And every single one of them, once you open that handle and you climb as far as you could and you open that door and you walk through, and all of a sudden you felt your conscience saying to you, is this all that there really is? Is this really everything to life? And you end up feeling like you're on a precipice of life and there's a great canyon in your next step. And maybe you're so discouraged, you're so depressed, you feel like if I take one more step in life, I'm going to fall off and I have no help. There's no one to help me. Like a blind man walking down across the fields in Ireland and coming up close to the precipice of the cliff, dropping down into the ocean. And you can see him coming all of a sudden. He drops his stick over the edge and he doesn't know where he is and he begins to reach down and grab it and there's nothing there. Many in this arena tonight, you're tired of reaching down and finding nothing there. I've been there, have you? Many of us have been there. Jesus said, I am the door. I am the door. It's positive, it's plain, it's the door. This word is used in scripture as a house door, an outer door of a courtyard, a single room closet, a prison door. It's also used in scripture as the door to heaven. And I tell you what, I have a friend of mine in the state of Georgia. He's the head of all the, I think the next guy over him is the governor in the state of Georgia. He's been to Arizona, he's worked with Sheriff Joe in the past. He said they wanted to hire him out here in Arizona. That man knows Jesus. Rick is the one that when someone has to go to be executed for the crimes that they have done. He said, I'm the one that walks with them toward the execution chamber. He said, and I'm giving them Jesus all the way to that chamber. He said, listen, son, you're going to die. You're going to be dead in a few minutes. And what you do with Jesus will determine where you're going to spend eternity. This is no playing game. You are going to die and it's going to be over. How many read the other day in the newspaper, the lady who passed away, she wrote her own obituary. And she said this one little sentence I've thought of quite often in recent days. She said this, and my brother said something a while ago along this line, my sister did. He said, she said this, I was born, I blinked and it was over. The Bible says our life is but a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Friends, it's so short and the memory of your name and mine is so minimal. If I asked the question tonight, how many of you could tell me the full names of both of your grandparents on both sides of your parents, most people couldn't give all four names. Isn't it amazing how quickly a person is forgotten in this world? But did you know tonight that Jesus knows your name? Jesus knows where you are. He says, I am the door. I am the door. It's very plain. By me, it's an imperative, or through me, if any man in Iran, if it's optional. You see, you can hear the gospel of Jesus Christ and turn right away and walk away from it. There's people here tonight, the greatest reason of people rejecting Jesus is pride. I don't have to give my life to God. I'm a pretty good person, had a man tell me that just the other day. I'm a pretty good person. What I wanted to say, and I didn't have time and things kind of went the other way, is that, well, we make up our own dictionary of our definition of words. We define good in a way that God didn't define good. God defines a whole different thing than we do. I wanted to ask you if you'd ever told a lie, or ever stolen anything, or ever been deceitful. Didn't get to that, but my heart aches for that young man. He'll see someday that the convicting power of the Holy Spirit of God, that there is a door he can walk through, and his name is Jesus. It's impartial, he said, if any man, any man, you say, David, I've done too much. I've sinned too much for God to forgive me. I look back at my past and the things that happened in the World War II, the things I did in high school. Gary Diggs, sitting here on the front row, had a messed up life. Jesus took him out of that minery pit and saved him, got rid of the drugs in his life, transformed his life, and put him in a prison ministry back in Georgia. He does that among pastoring a church in Georgia, amen? Because God transformed Gary Diggs' life. You go to his church in Georgia, and I've been there many times, they hardly get to the preaching because the altars fill up every Sunday during the worship time. They just start coming to Jesus in that church. It's amazing to watch God move in that place. But Gary Diggs, no, it's not about him, it's about Jesus. And all of us that know Jesus know it's not about us, it's about Jesus. Any man, it's practical, if any man will enter in, to move into a new dimension of living where you've never been before, a new dimension where you've never been before in all of your life. If I was here in this arena tonight, and I didn't know Jesus as my Lord and Savior, I couldn't leave this place without running to Jesus tonight to make sure I knew him tonight. Because he is the door. Well, it's practical, enter in, it's saving, he shall be saved. Me Lord? You want to make me whole on the inside and transform and change my life? Me Lord? Someone went to Hudson Taylor, that great missionary to China, and asked him, Hudson Taylor, why did God use you to reach China? He said, I believe when God looked around to find someone to reach China, he didn't look for someone strong enough and big enough and great enough to use, he looked for someone little enough to use. He knew he was nothing. And just like all of us here tonight that have come to know Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we all have to come as a little child. Jesus said that. You must come with a childlike faith, believing. Maybe your father, your earthly father is already in heaven, my dad's already gone. Like many of you who your parents already gone, you have many days, you just wish you could pick up the phone and call dad one more time. You could call mother one more time. I praise God, my mom is still alive and she's a prayer warrior. I mean, you're glad for praying moms, amen. You have it. He's the way. It's accessible, should go in and out. It's provisional and find pasture. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, that word there and find, it means to find after a search. Every one of us here, many of us have gone through times in our lives and we were on a search for something to change us. We knew the way we were living wasn't working in our lives. We knew there was more to life than this. Friend, can I give you good news tonight? You don't have to go to India to find the answer. The answer is in Jesus. I've been blessed recently by the thought of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. I've known all my life and I was saved at seven years old and that little church in Oxnard, California, when Jesus came into my life and everything changed in my life at seven years old. And I've known about the resurrection of Jesus historically and in a measure of practically, but recently God has really made it clear to me that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is so imperially important. It's because he's alive today to do in you and I what he promises he'll do. Jesus is risen from the dead and that Jesus, who is a living Christ, can forgive you. No dead man in a tomb can forgive you. Jesus is alive now to forgive you and I and there's 16 sermons in the book of Acts and in all 16 sermons, they preach the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And why is that so good? Because that Jesus in his resurrection power has the power to cancel your past. Everything you've done, all your sins and shortcomings. Jesus at the cross, he stepped and he said, forgiven, forgiven. I've counseled it all in your life. Man came to a church building one night and he went inside before the services began and asked the evangelist and he would meet with him when the service is over. He said, I'll be happy to meet with you. The man left. The men in the church came up to him and said, sir, what did that man want? He said he wanted to talk with me when the service was over. They said, don't go with him. He's a dangerous man. We know who he is. He said, no. I told him I'm going to go. I'm going to go. The service ended. That man met him at the back of the auditorium. They walked out the door down the street, down another alley. The man turned around on the door in the back of that alley and pulled a key out and unlocked that door. And he walked through that door and they both walked through and he turned around and closed the door and put the key in his pocket. The man turned around and pulled a revolver out. He said, sir, he said, I'm not going to hurt you with this gun. He said, but did you mean what you said last night in your sermon? He said, well, what did I say? You said the blood of Jesus, God's son cleanses from all sin and stain. Did you mean that? He said, yes, sir, it does. It does. He said, but sir, he said, I've killed two people with this gun and my bartender has killed a man with this gun. Can God forgive a man for sitting like that? He says, sir, the blood of Jesus Christ, God's son cleanses from every sin and stain. He said, sir, I've got a gambling tables on one side and the liquor joint over here on the other side of this wall. He said, I try to get all their money in the liquor and when I can't get there, I take him over here to these hidden tables. He said, every table in there is rigged. He said, men have left this establishment to go out to commit suicide. Women have come in begging me not to sell beer and liquor to their husbands, holding their babies in their arms. I just ran them off and I wouldn't listen to him. He said, can God forgive a man for sin like that? He said, sir, the blood of Jesus Christ, God's son will cleanse a man from every sin and stain. He said, one more thing and I'll let you go. He said, across cater corner from this business, there's a house on the other corner over there. I own that house. I live there. He said, I went back east about 15 years ago, but a beautiful woman fell in love with each other, told her I was a businessman from Chicago and I brought her back here. He said, I come home at night drunk as a skunk and I beat on my wife. He said, two weeks ago I came home drunk, Skip. He said, I came home drunk and I got in a fight with my wife and my daughter Maggie tried to get in the way to stop us and I slapped her out of the way and Maggie fell down on the floor furnace in the hallway and she burned her arm from her shoulder down to her wrist. She'll be scarred for life for that. He said, can the blood of Christ forgive me for that? Can God forgive me for that? He said, sir, listen to me. You have a grim story to tell. But the blood of Jesus Christ, God's son cleanses from all sin and stain. He said, thank you. He opened the door and let the man go. The next morning, a little after seven, go with me with that man. He's leaving his place of business. His shirt tailors all out. His clothes are all disheveled. But go back to me to his bar. He had broken every liquor bottle in the place. He left the cards laying in the fireplace. He destroyed the whole place. Rum was going everywhere. He had turned over every gambling table in his establishment and it turned the table over. It was all a wreck. He walked over to his house. He walked through the door. He went upstairs. His wife was making breakfast. She said, Maggie, darling, go upstairs until there's there's until daddy, their breakfast is ready. And she ran upstairs and in a hurry and she's daddy, daddy, breakfast is ready. Breakfast is ready. And he was sitting there in the easy chair right there through the doorway at the end of the bed. And he said, Maggie, darling. And she'd never heard him calling darling before her darling before she left. She's daddy. She ran back downstairs. Mama, mama, mama, mama. Daddy called me, darling. Daddy called me, darling. She said, Maggie, go back up there and tell him that breakfast is ready. And she went back up and when she arrived at the door again. He said, Maggie, darling. He said, I'm not going to hurt you. Just come. Come over here to daddy. I got to tell you something. She walked over and he said his little daughter on his left knee and it's one of his knees. His wife came to the door hit by the impact of the room. He looked up at her and he said, sweetheart, I'm not going to hurt you to come over. She walked over and he put his wife on his other knee and he put his arms around his mother and his daughter. And he said, you needn't fear anymore. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's son, has cleansed me and Jesus has saved me. That preacher said it was always a joy to go into their home after that. What door will you go through tonight? The broad way that leads to destruction or the narrow way that leads to eternal life? I close with a story, a true story. Many years ago, Gerald, if you'll come and begin playing quietly. Up in the New England States, a little boy came in to see his father on a Sunday afternoon and he said, daddy, I'm ready to go. And he said, go where son? He said, I'm ready to go out and hand out some gospel tracts. He said, son, it's cold outside. It's rainy. It's miserable. Let's go next week. He said, daddy, aren't people going to hell? He said, yes, son. He said, well, daddy, can I go, please? He said, yes, son, you go and hurry and you come back when you're done. Don't be out too long. And that little boy walked out there and he began handing tracts out door to door. He had his gloves on and his coat on and his stocking cap, his galoshes and everything. And he had one tract left, you guys. He looked around to see where could he give that tract. At the end of the street, there was a house there, a two-story house. He said, I'll leave it there. And he walked up to that house and he knocked on that door and he waited and nobody came. He knocked again and waited and nobody came. He turned to leave but felt impressed. He said, sister, I can't leave. I got to stay. He turned back to that door and he stood there and he knocked on that door. And he kept knocking. Finally, the door opened. And a sweet elderly woman looked down on him and she said, yes, young man. He said, ma'am, I came here today to tell you that Jesus really does love you. Here's a gospel tract to tell you about the love of Jesus. He gave her that little tract. She said, well, thank you, son. She closed the door and he left. The following Sunday morning in church, as was the usual custom, the pastor before ending the service, I could just see Brother Artie, the pastor here, doing the same thing. He said, is there anyone who has an announcement to make before we leave this morning? And way back in the back, a withered elderly hand went up into the air, this dear sweet lady. He said, yes, ma'am, please go ahead and speak to us. She stood up and she said, I don't know anybody here in your church. She said, but three months ago, my husband passed away. And she said, I've been so lonely. She said, no one has come to see me. No one has written me a letter. Nobody has called. She said, last Sunday afternoon, with tears streaming down my face, a true story. She said, I went up into the attic. I had a rope. I climbed up on a chair. And I tied one of that rope around my neck and the other over the rafter in my attic. And she said, right before I stepped off of that chair to end my life like those 200 teenagers in South Dakota. She said, right before I stepped off that chair, I heard downstairs a little knock on my front door. She said, I thought it must be a mistake. No one loves me. No one cares about me. Nobody wants to talk to me. She said, finally, it got quiet. And I said to myself, good, I'll wait. And when they leave, I'll step off of this chair. She said, all of a sudden, though, the knock started again. She said, I thought, well, who in the world could it be? She said, I pulled that rope off of my neck and I got down off of that chair best I could. And I made my way downstairs to that door. And she said, I opened up that door. And there was the most beautiful face of a little boy I'd ever seen in all of my life looking up at me. And she said, I said, yes, son. And she said, he pulled himself up to his full height. And he said, ma'am, I just came here today to tell you that Jesus really does love you. And here's a gospel track to tell you about Jesus. Friends, she said, I read that track. I sat down next to the door and I read that track of how that Jesus went to the cross in my place. That Jesus cried out, Father, Father, why have you forsaken me? That Jesus understood my loneliness and my emptiness. And he cried out, forgive them. They know not what they do. And when Jesus cried that out, friends, he cried it out for you and I in this arena tonight. He had you on his mind 2,000 years ago. She said, I prayed. I gave my heart and life to Jesus. And Jesus came in and my life has been totally transformed. And now I'm full of hope now. The church broke out in pantomime with applause. The pastor left the platform, walked down and put his arms around his son and hugged him and thanked him for obeying God. Could it be tonight that right now the spirit of God is knocking on your heart's door? And Jesus is saying, I love you. He's saying, quit carrying all that weight. I took it on the cross of Calvary for you. I was at a hospital visiting a man in this bed over here with a deacon years ago. And I felt moved to talk to the lady over here in this bed while he talked over here. I said, ma'am, is your husband still alive? She said, oh, no, she said, he's gone. He's dead. He's passed away already. I said, did he go to heaven? She said, I hope so. I said, ma'am, are you going to heaven? She said, I hope so. I said, ma'am, did you know you could know right now that you're going to heaven when you die? She's like, I can. I said, yes. And she prayed right there in her bed. God, thank you for loving me, Jesus. I'm tired of my sin, Jesus. I put my faith in you. Come into my life. Be my Lord, my God, my Savior. And she began going like this, Gerald. I said, what is it? She said, it's gone. I said, what's gone? She said, the burden. It's gone. It's gone. I'm going to ask you tonight. Every one of us in this arena is going to make a decision, either for or against Jesus. Imagine that little boy knocking at your door and saying, I just came to tell you that Jesus loves you. Every head bowed and every eye closed in this arena tonight. Friend, if you were to die tonight, where would you spend eternity? Where would you go? The Bible says it's appointed unto man once to die, but after this the judgment. The Bible says that whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be forgiven, saved, delivered. Is it your harsh desire tonight to become whole in Christ? Only Jesus can make you whole on the inside. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes unto the Father but by me. Father, I just lift up this moment to you right now in Jesus' name. I'm going to ask all of you tonight like that man in that business who experienced the cleansing blood of Jesus and many others under the sound of my voice, Jesus is calling your name tonight. Jesus loves you tonight. Jesus will forgive and transform and come into your life and make everything brand new. Maybe you go to church all the time. You're religious, but you know, friend, in the depth of your heart, something is missing. You pray the prayer, but something is missing. That something is someone whose name is Jesus. I'm going to ask us all to stand together just now as you stand. As this pray team begins to sing, everyone that Jesus called, he called to come publicly to confess him. I'm going to ask you, even Christians, you want to come back to God tonight. As soon as they begin singing, just step out from where you are and come and stand on that row right there in the front. Just come down and stand right there in that row. As soon as they start singing. I am without one plea, but that I'd love one day.
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David Ford (birth year unknown–present). Born in the United States, David Ford is a Christian evangelist and the founder of Globe For Christ International, a ministry dedicated to revival in churches and evangelism worldwide. Converted to Christ at age seven, he began preaching at 16, following a clear call to ministry on May 28, 1978. Early in his career, he pastored for two years, but his focus shifted to itinerant evangelism, leading crusades, conventions, and meetings across the U.S. and globally. Known for extended revival services—some lasting months, like a four-month outpouring after a planned four-day event—his ministry has seen thousands come to faith, with reports of over 4,000 conversions annually in some stretches. Ford’s preaching, centered on “Christ and Him crucified,” emphasizes repentance, worship, and the Holy Spirit’s power, often accompanied by prayer and song. He hosts the radio program America Back to God and shares sermons online, advocating 2 Chronicles 7:14 as a blueprint for spiritual awakening. Endorsed by figures like E.A. Johnston for his humility and passion, Ford leads with a team of prayer warriors, seeking God’s manifest presence. Little is known about his personal life, including family or education, as his focus remains on ministry. He said, “When revival is the experience, evangelism is the expression.”