 Hello everybody my name is John Smith and I am the boy that fell through the ice on January 19th of 2015. I was dead for over an hour and my mom came in and prayed and instantly I had a pulse. 16 days later from the time that I fell through the ice I walked out of the hospital completely healed. There is a movie called Breakthrough maybe you've seen it. There are also two books Breakthrough and Breakthrough to your miracle that the team and I have wrote regarding this amazing experience. I'm here today to just tell you a little bit more about me personally. I have traveled across the world. I have traveled across the country. I have spoken on news tours, movie tours, book tours. I've been all over the place but the real miracle behind this story is salvation. I was born on May 23rd 2000. I was born in Mexico City Guatemala. I do not know who my birth parents are. I was adopted at five months old by Brian and Joyce Smith and they brought me to St. Charles, Missouri. I was born, I say I was born and raised there but I was raised there in the same home with two loving parents. I had a private school education all throughout high school. I loved sports. My dad worked hard to provide all those training sessions everything. Lack of a better term I was a very spoiled kid but there was a lot going on within me that I was struggling with. Like I said I was adopted and that was very hard on me. I grew up in a predominantly white area and I remember one time when I was in kindergarten one of the kids asked why I was quote-unquote burnt or why I wasn't the same color as my parents and that really brought a lot of emotions up because I was wondering why am I different, why don't I look like my dad, why don't I look like my mom, my siblings and it was very hard for me and so the spirit of abandonment really just came over my life and I was just so frustrated on what was going on. When I reached about fifth grade I had fallen away from the Lord now keep in mind I was born and raised in the church. When the church doors were open I was there, I participated in the kid's zone and the royal rangers and all of the things the church camps led worship for the for the kid zone. When the church doors were open I was in the front row and I loved it but by the time I was in fifth grade I completely fallen away from all of this. I really felt that I had a calling young in my life to pursue ministry and by the time that I had reached this age I was done with the Lord, I was done with everything he had for me and I ran away. This led to an addiction of pornography, of me getting into things I shouldn't, substances at a very early age and it led to a road of destruction and falling away from the Lord. So when the accident happened a lot of people get this idea of me that I was this perfect kid, that I was this churchgoer and when the accident happened I came back to life they thought well you're John Smith, you're the second coming, you're the next Lazarus, you must be chasing after God, you must have this title, you must have this XYZ so on and so forth and that just wasn't the truth. The reality of it is if I would have passed away that day I would have gone to hell because I wasn't saved. I wasn't following what God had for me. I should be in hell today but God had a different plan for my life. When I came out of the accident a lot of people assumed that my heart would have changed immediately, that was just not the case. I was still running from the Lord, I wanted nothing to do with the story of breakthrough or the story of the impossible. I did the news videos, I did the interviews, I did everything that they asked me to do but I did it with a bad attitude and it was very obvious that I didn't want to be there, that I didn't want to take place in it XYZ and so I remember it was about freshman year when we started discussing the book in the movie and I was still running away from the Lord, my heart was still not all in it and so when I did that it just kind of led me down this path of destruction. I was still doing the same things, abusing the same idols, worshiping the same idols, not living for Christ at all and I remember that I really loved the game of basketball and I truly believe that that was one of my big idols, it was something that I wanted to do for me and I didn't want to do for the kingdom and so when I did that I remember that I got hurt three times and when I got hurt three times it wasn't I believe that God was hurting me on purpose, I believe that God was getting my attention and every time that I got hurt I heard God's voice just say to me, John why are you running? Why are you running? And that really stuck with me and I ignored it, I kept ignoring it until finally I remember that because of the accident I had three major brain assaults and they said if I get one more concussion then I have to quit playing high school sports and I remember that I was playing that last game and I had another concussion and it ended my career, my dreams were all gone and I remember that when that all happened I just didn't know what to do with my life. I had a headache because I had a concussion, I remember being in my room and I remember just getting on my knees and being God, whatever you have for me I'll do and I'll do the best of my ability and ever since then has been an amazing journey of just seeing what God has done to the story of breakthrough and people think that I that I had an easy path going down this road and that just wasn't the truth. I still had to deal with the spirit of abandonment just really questioning God like you saved me then why can't this just be easy and I really believe that that just ties into what God is doing for all of us. You know he sacrificed his own son so that we could have a chance to chase after him and it's not an easy road it's not. I'm only 22 and I've done a lot of cool things but I still have the same struggles and the same battles every day the enemy just wants to tear my family to tear me down all of it and it's one of the biggest struggles and battles that I've ever fought but in the end I know God is going to still be on the throne and God is in complete control. I'm not a perfect man like I told you in the beginning I'm just a kid from St. Louis and that's what I wouldn't be known as what God has done in my life is truly a miracle but it's not who defines me what defines me is what God has done for me. So like I did that night all those years ago in my bedroom by myself I remember there was like this blue tent in the room it was really weird it was like a blue like a very light shade of blue and I didn't have it I didn't have anything in the room it was pitch black because my head was hurting and my room filled with this blue color and I remember just getting on my knees on the left side of my bed and I remember just raising my hands in the air and just saying God whatever you have for me I'll do and I'll do it to the best of my abilities and like I told you it was the best decision I ever made in my life and it's a simple prayer of saying God I'll do it I'll chase after you if you have me stay in this stage of life I'll stay there if you have me run forward and take a leap of faith I'll go but that is the best decision that I ever made and I encourage you to make that decision I encourage you to take that step of faith because what God has for you is so much better than we can ever imagine. I just became a father my son is um five months old and looking at his life and getting to see him I can only imagine the sacrifice that my mom went through and I'm human I can only imagine what God went through second pricing his only son and so if he's willing to do that I'm willing to sacrifice my life for whatever he has for me so if you wouldn't mind saying this with with me Dear Lord I thank you for today and I thank you for this opportunity at life I thank you for guiding me and loving me and Lord I give my life to you and like Pastor Jason always says Lord you drive and I'll ride my life is yours I give it to you today and I pledge my life to you it's in your name I pray amen