Nick Vujicic asked the same question as Little James

it moved moved moved me and I got goosebumps as I'm telling you this I've been looking forward to talking to you for a long time uh you have blessed my family and me for years uh we've seen you on television your story is extraordinary and I've seen videos of you as a child and all that is so inspiring thank you when did you realize that you didn't have arms and legs like everyone else because obviously when you're young you you don't know the difference you don't know what you're missing necessarily when did you first realize okay I'm I'm I don't have what everyone else has and I'm bothered by that my mom was a courageous mom she took me to the education system and actually set me to be the pioneering lead handicap special needs child to go into the mainstream school system it was being surrounded by all these kids where they were bullying me to remind me and looking at me and that's when I knew I knew that I was different but I didn't think it was such a big deal until they told me hey this this actually ain't normal yeah how in the world do you find joy in a situation like that surrounded every day I mean you can't get away from it obviously not only are you dealing with it for yourself but you're seeing I mean everyone around you has the ability just as simple as grabbing a bottle of water things like that like you're reminded constantly of your uh whatever you call them handicapped I mean what is the term you use I say disability disability whatever yeah um yeah look uh for me it was a process we all need to go through those grieving processes um going through the emotional ups and downs um the questions I think really became really prevalent in my mind more and more and more because like you said you just can't get away from the fact that you have no limbs right what's really crippling are the fears that come in the fear of rejection the fear of not being good enough the fear that I'll always be different that I'll always be bullied the fear that no one's going to accept me for me the fear that I'll I'll be alone I don't have any worth and here I am every Sunday going to church and hearing that God loves us we know the Bible says God can change anything he can give me arms and likes he started everything he's the creator of everything we've seen and and no we can't see everything it's amazing it's and he can just click his fingers say the word breathe whatever bang arms and legs it would change everything for me but the question was where is the logic if he's a loving God and I have faith of an avocado seed then where's my arms and legs and that silence then opens up the gap of these little voices coming in your head and saying you'll never get married God doesn't love you he's not real you'll never be happy just end your life and that led me to an attempted suicide at age 10. wow despite my loving home I mean my parents they believed in me we love you we love you we love you God's got a plan for you don't worry it's all going to be okay and uh the only reason why um I was able to stay here was by the grace of God that while I'm trying to drown myself in six inches of water in my bathtub at age 10. the third time I rolled over I was stopped by one visual in my mind it was seeing my mom and my dad crying at my grave wishing they could have done something more and I realized at the time yes I do have a life of suffering ahead no I have no answers but the last thing I want to do is now give my parents a life that not only did they have a child who was born without limbs but a the limbless child committed suicide and so I decided to stay by the grace of God bit by bit that Journey the two steps that got me out of that depression um was age 13 where I just had a A Life Lesson slapped me in the face on a soccer field and I hurt my foot so bad I couldn't walk for three weeks and I'm staring at the ceiling I'm like okay thank you God for my foot I will not complain again about what I don't have right thank you for my little foot interesting it's like a reminder through the injury I actually have something you I do interesting you don't know what you got till it's right God and I realized wow I can do a lot with this little foot Dallas after two cups of coffee I can now tie 53 words a minute on a normal computer and no one knew that I would be able to golf swim and fish and do what I do but more than doing and even being John chapter 9. changed my life and it was when Jesus was going through a village and he was being followed by these people and he comes across a blind man and the story says that the blind man is hearing all these conversations going on them going back and forth Jesus has to speak directly to the blind man the blind man does not speak directly to Jesus and imagine people are asking why was he born that way Jesus said it was done so that the works of God would be revealed through him he spits in the dirt approaches the blind man now imagine I'm a blind man and a hero and this stranger gives you a facial puts mud on your face no questions asked though by the blind man yeah then he sees for me Dallas that changed my life wasn't because of another miracle I was going to say because it's yeah it doesn't it didn't make you think oh I'm going to be healed now too no yeah what I prayed for arms and legs he didn't give me arms and legs the miracle itself didn't change me but when I read the faith of the blind man be still and know that I am God he could have quickly said who are you what do you want what's the plan tell me your plan then I'll trust you no if he gave us the blueprint of the whole plan then where's the room for faith and that's when I realized more than arms and legs my disability is my broken lost soul Dallas when I go out there and I'm now complete in my spirit in my mind and my soul and as good looking as you are and beautiful height if Dallas Jenkins and Nick Voyage are walking side by side out in a public area and we're both smiling they're going to notice my smile more than you why because they notice a man without arms and legs who should be sad who should be depressed who should be whatever but is not what's the secret what is it that changes oh wow it's positivity well no it's not positivity if I'm positive it's only as not a coping mechanism the world will say be positive as a coping mechanism the saints of God the children of God are positive because we are children of the king of kings and Lord of lords and I'm ambassador of the king of kings and law of Lords standing in front of the gates of hell and redirecting traffic and saying God yes use me change my circumstance and if you don't change my circumstance use my circumstance for what for the sake of the glory which is what so that one more would know that if God can use a man without arms and legs to be his hands and feet then God can use any willing heart and if he can heal my broken heart and if he can heal other people Dallas I tell teenagers I believe it's worse being in a broken home than having no arms no legs but if you were raised in a home that you were abused then your father was an alcoholic and you witnessed verbal abuse against your mother and then she divorced your dad and then you guys started up a a a a a single mother uh and and a couple siblings life and you in your own mind say I know what it means to have a single mother and how hard she had to work and not many people help my single mother or it's I'm with my dad and my dad was a single dad and the church only looked at the single mothers and didn't really do much for my single dad but put him through Divorce Care whatever that is you now realize that when you don't get a miracle you can still be one for another single father for another single mother that when you get up on your own two feet you now know what not to do in your own home as a parent and you also know how much single mothers and single fathers suffer you're going to be a miracle for someone else we need to not take ourselves so seriously and our struggle so seriously and and I've heard that said before don't tell God how big your problems are tell your problems how big God is now I want to now get a little uncomfortable for the Christians if I mean I'm sick and tired of the people who say that God always heals well that's what I was gonna you know like I'm just the Prosperity Gospel I'm sorry but that's not true God doesn't always heal he always saves our soul he'll always heal our broken heart he'll renew our mind but Christians die in car accidents Christians die of cancer Christians remain crippled why because I love what you guys cover here in this episode where remember one day you will be healed that's number one Dallas the joy of the Lord in saying no to my request to be healed goes like this I was speaking at a church and I saw in the crowd a little boy with no arms and no legs just like me little left foot and I got him up on stage and I'm looking at him and he's looking up at me 19 month old Daniel Martinez I couldn't give him a high five so I put my little foot in his little foot and he smiled and in a blink of an eye I saw my whole life come past me like a flash all the bullying all the suicide attempts me now being married to the most incredible beautiful woman Kane four kids but when I was his age and older than him obviously I never thought I'd be happy and I realized he's going to go through all that fear he might even try to attempt suicide but now I can be his Uncle Nick I say you know what if God had a plan for me God has a plan for you yes arms and legs are great and yes I have a pair of shoes in my closet just in case God gives me arms and legs and yes I can't wait to see Jesus Christ face to face but I can't wait to hug little Daniel who now knows Jesus in heaven who will also have arms and legs and he's gonna hug me and I'm gonna hug him with my new arms and we're gonna cry that'll be the longest hug ever ever amen and he's gonna say I thank God he's not going to say thank you I thank God that he used you to help me to believe that this place called Heaven is real all about one more person seeing Jesus yeah that's awesome that's awesome um yeah we when when we first revealed uh the first two episodes in theaters and I started seeing YouTube videos from people who were upset because they were saying wait a minute Jesus is the same yesterday today and forever he healed everyone who asked when he was here on Earth which is which is entirely possible we don't see an example in the gospels of Jesus turning down a healing but we don't we don't know for sure that he always that he never did but let's just say let's just accept that that's true and they'll say Matthew quotes Isaiah talking about that he was bruised for our iniquities our sins but also that by his stripes we are healed and they say that means that we are we have access to this perfect body meaning we shouldn't get sick I interpret that passage of scripture as referring to the Future Kingdom and the few you know the the the atonement uh when Jesus died he he heals off as our of our sins yes but this is what he's promising what's to come because if if you can interpret that Isaiah in the way that they're interpreting it Not only would we never sin again Not only would we be healed of everything and we wouldn't die and clearly that doesn't make sense right I'm curious how you respond to that yeah the idea of no no if you're a Christian and you believe and you have faith you shouldn't get sick I've seen 13 Miracles with my own eyes blind people seeing deaf people hearing lame people walking crooked backs come straight legs becoming even with my own eyes so the same axis indeed we have yet the people who do say that we should always be healed actually they're putting God in a box so there are people in the world who say Give Me A Sign and then I'll believe we know what Jesus says to them that's different but for the Christians who put God in a box to say yes oh you think that that's good fruit you think that that is amazing that Nick would have arms and legs wow you have no idea that because I said no to this ready that Nick vuice today is a mandatory grade 10 study in a nation called India who has a religion where I should be an outcast if you're disabled you are the lowest rung of the caste system I can't even get into the education system of America because I'm a Christian get your head around that for a second it's insane we don't know what we don't know so don't you dare tell God that you've got a greater plan than him and don't you tell me that the best plan you could ever imagine is for God to heal me just because he gives you a physical Miracle doesn't mean that you're going to be closest to him the Miracle of Miracles is abiding in him and him abiding in you so many of the things you're saying I feel like we incorporated in in the scene with little James it's amazing where he says first of all you touched on this a while ago when he was saying you know it's it's easy to say the song of David I'm fearfully wonderfully made but it doesn't make this easier we tried to capture the fact that just because you say all these nice things and platitudes even if you're a Believer it doesn't necessarily make your day-to-day life any easier but also he says Jesus says do you want to be healed he says well yes of course and Jesus is there that'd be a great story and he says yeah you do miracles just think of the story if you're doing mirror because that's the thing about the disciples he went out two by two and they were doing miracles they were they were healing others and he says imagine the fact that you're doing that in spite of the fact that you have this handicap imagine the story then and what you're able to communicate to people and that you find joy in spite of your circumstances and that you believe in me in spite of your circumstances yes and the story that you'll have to tell um and I feel like that's what you're talking about exactly so I'm curious like you got a chance to see the scene did we do okay did it resonate with you man I tell you and you remind me of apostle Paul saying I have a thorn in my side I ask God to remove it three times and God said no my grace is sufficient for you um I watched this today before this interview and thank you for allowing me to have a sneak peek it moved moved moved me and I got goosebumps as I'm telling you this I mean it moved me and I think this is going to speak to everybody because there is there are people who are convinced that the disability of anxiety will never go away because that's the thing it's not just physical handicaps like everyone has something that causes them to go please take this away something but you know I think you've done an incredible job really there will be people who will nitpick blah blah blah there is nothing for me that I would ever nitpick here except taking the message that is so emanated in such a beautiful humanly filtered emotional dialogue a dialogue that touched me today I would probably have had a very similar conversation with Jesus if I was him he asked not just the question but he asked it the way I would have he reacted the way I would have for real and you telling me as well that John Erickson Tada she couldn't see the screen because of all of her tears I tell you this will touch the heart do you know that there are one in ten who have some kind of disability hey we're talking 800 million people in the world you think about all the people who know those people this is the this is the question of questions do you know Dallas I had a cousin once shout at me I will never believe in your God because he made you this way and I tell you that guy is getting closer and closer to give his life to Jesus Christ because he has seen the goodness of God God is in the business of changing people's lives and because we're human what we see feel and touch at the Forefront of our mind and never have we actually trained this generation of Believers to know that the people who grab our attention the most can be used the most to emanate the power and miraculous joy that goes beyond your circumstances to say wow that ain't just positive that's God that's awesome I love you brother I'm so appreciative of you there are going to be so many people who see this and need to see this yes because we just don't want to show a scene like this which I'm which I'm proud of but I also want to go deeper we want people to understand that this the people of first century Galilee had the same questions and challenges that we do yes so thank you Dallas for meeting me a couple months ago thank you for having me on the Chosen show here to talk about this we're a huge fan of it we love you we're praying for you we know how hot it gets to continue to stand in front of the gates of hell and redirect traffic and be anointed and appointed for something unique for such a time as this so God bless you God bless the ministry and thank you for having me here all right can I give you a hug please all right appreciate love you man love you thank you take care

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Published: Wed Dec 21 2022