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THE GOSPEL BY 2028.] [THANK YOU FOR SENDING US.] [TO BE THE HANDS & FEET] [LIFE WITHOUT LIMBS] Hello, to where ever you are right now. I want to say, "I love you." My name is Nick Vujicic, and I am so glad to
have this time to share a little bit of encouragement in these times where we ask the biggest spiritual
questions and wondering, “Who are we?" "Why are we here?” Being born without arms and legs has definitely
forced me to consider the bigger questions of life. And maybe you've seen me on YouTube. Maybe
you've seen our ministry at Life Without Limbs. And I just want the world to know that hope
is real. I never go to people and say that I understand
their pain, or that I understand what you're feeling right now. Maybe right now your crisis has to do with
your family, relationships, maybe your job. And as a society facing uncertainty sometimes,
we kind of get stopped in our tracks that when we are going in a routine of life, putting
our confidence in what we normally accept as normal--that we have a job, that we go
to school, that we have people in our life. What happens when we put confidence in things
or people and they're taken away? Where do we get our strength from, and where
do we find our hope? Well, being born without arms and legs in
Australia, in 1982, I first think of my parents, having confidence that their firstborn son
was going to be healthy. And yes, I was healthy, but I just had no
arms and legs. And I said, "Surprise!" And when I asked them, “Mum and Dad, why
was I born this way?” They said, "Well, we don't know.” I'm like, “Well, what about the doctors?” They said, “They don't know." "Only God knows.” So they said, “Well, ask God.” So I said, “God,” at six years old, “why
did this happen?" "Where are you?" "Why me?” And He didn't answer me. And there were times in life where I just
knew I had no arms and legs, and I didn't think it was such a big deal. But as I went to school and seeing everyone
with arms and legs, those questions kept on coming back again and again. And I'm looking at my brother. I'm looking at my sister. They have arms and legs. I can't do what everyone else can do. And I started going into—I'm going to call
it a depression—but really a prison. And I feel like there are many times in life
where people look at me and say, “Wow, Nick, you're so positive! Nick, you're a Christian. You don't deal with anxiety or worry and you've
been able to forgive everyone, right?” I want you to know that even though we become
a Christian and believe in God, it doesn't mean that we don't worry. We still have ups and downs.
When we believe in a God who's faithful. It doesn't mean that we still don't question sometimes.. Questioning why things have happened
is one thing, but holding onto the hope that God is God, that He does let bad things happen. The Bible says that the rain falls on the
righteous and the unrighteous, and so, no matter who we are, when we believe in God,
when we believe in heaven, when we believe that He has a plan, hope, and a future, the
one thing that we must face here on earth is physical death, but if our soul is restored
and our spirit is filled with His strength and His peace and the knowledge of His love,
then that's when faith overrides all fear. And maybe your prison looks like a fear or
depression like mine. You don't know how it feels to have no arms,
and no legs, and I don't know how it is to be in a broken home or to be abused or to
have a spouse die. We all go through loss. We all go through pain, and it's not about
comparing how your suffering looks on the outside compared to mine. It's about the disabilities of the heart and
mind and coming back to the truth that sets us free. The truth of what? THE truth, that God is real, that He loves
us, that He does have a plan, and that He's going to give us a strength when we don't
have it. But when we don't know the truth, fear cripples
us more than having no arms and legs. And for me, when I was eight years old,
I felt depressed and isolated and alone. At age eight I was on the kitchen counter. I'll never forget it. I'm watching my mum cook and prepare the meal,
and I looked down and I thought, "You know what?" "What does my life really look like?" "I'm never going to get a job." "I'm never going to have a purpose." "What am I going to do if I don't get married?" "I can't even help myself." "Am I just going to be a burden
to everyone around me?" "What if I don't get married?" "Even if I got married,
I can't even hold my wife's hand." "Even if I had kids, I can't even hold my kids
when they're crying." And it felt like I was the only one going
through this and no one understands. And so at age eight, I had thought of committing
suicide, and I actually attempted suicide at age 10, and I looked at that bath tub,
and I'm thinking, “You know what?" "I'm going to just tell my mum and dad that
I'm going to soak here for a little bit.” But little did they know that when they closed the door, I told my dad, "I just wanted some time," that this was going to be my attempt
to giving up. And I just want you to know that I'm so thankful
that I'm still here. I'm breathing, I'm upright. Yes, I'm married. Yes, I have four kids. I don't need to hold my wife's hand. I need to hold her heart. My children today—I look at them,
and I'm like, “Wow! Thank you God for life.” I want to tell you right now. Sometimes we don't know what beautiful things
can come from our broken pieces, and I don't know what your broken pieces are, but God
knows your broken pieces, and He's right there with you now, and He's made sure that a limbless
man helps you to understand that a life without limbs is nothing compared to a life without hope,
a life without real purpose, a life without God, a life without faith. I could never imagine my life. I wouldn't be here, and it's only by God's
grace and mercy that I realized I need to take one day at a time to trust in God, to
trust that what the Bible says is true, that even though all I see is pain, and all I feel is
a prison of fear, depression, anxiety, worry—that despite all that—that
with faith, I know that I'm not alone, and I want you to know that in my life, I needed
my greatest miracle, not arms and legs. Do I pray for arms and legs? I do. Do I have a pair of shoes in my closet in
case He says yes to me. Yes, I do! But the greatest healing that Nick
could ever have has already happened. He has restored my soul. Why do I look positive? It's not because I've got it all together,
and you know, I've worked everything out. No, it's because I have
fully trusted in the Lord. I love Proverbs 3:5-6, where it says,
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not upon your own understanding. Acknowledge Him in all your ways,
and He will direct your paths." When you know that your strength is not enough,
and your plans fail, and YOU fail, maybe people fail you. Maybe a job that you once had security
in is not there anymore. When our health is failing, when our investment
plans are failing, when a relationship fails, God never fails. And I don't know what you're going through
right now, but I gave my life to Jesus Christ at age 15 because I knew that with or without
arms and legs, I needed truth—the truth of my value, that I'm not determined in being
valuable if I have a job or not, if I have family around me who loved me, I know that
I am loved by my God in heaven, God Almighty, who's made me wonderfully and fearfully. And when I realized at age 15 that, more
than arms and legs, I needed my soul to be healed and restored, that 90 years with arms
and legs, compared to eternity and a peace that enables me to sleep in peace, to know
that God's peace and love makes me more than a conqueror. Why? Because I can't fight my own battles. It's God who fights my battles for me. It's when I ask God to change a circumstance,
and the circumstance doesn't change. That's when I say, “God, help me to trust
in you. Change my heart." —that it's not about the circumstance. It's about the prison of fear that I’ve
got to break through. And I’ve got to tell you, recently I was
in a prison, and it was amazing to be with the inmates who found Jesus, and I love seeing
people of all walks of life, understanding that no matter what our circumstances that
God can give us freedom. And we've been encouraged here at the ministry
at Life Without Limbs of letters from inmates who say that when they have found Jesus, they
go back to the cells, but they don't see the bars! It's understanding that it's the prison that
we find ourselves in on a heart level and in our mind to know that Jesus and the truth
of His love truly sets us free. Many of you maybe are not in a physical prison,
but you're in a prison in your heart and mind, and Jesus wants to set you free, just like
he did for me at age 15. My biggest question of "Why would a loving
God allow me to go through suffering?” Well, we know that suffering came, not from God,
but from the enemy after the fall of man. The serpent in the Garden of Eden tempted
Adam and Eve with a contrary statement compared to what God said, and when we know that God
allowed the serpent in the Garden of Eden, He proved to you and me that He did give
Adam and Eve free choice. If all they heard was God's voice, then I
could intellectually win an argument that
God never gave Adam any free choice. And that's why He allowed the serpent
in the Garden of Eden. Unfortunately, with the fall of man with Adam
and Eve falling into sin, they also faced a physical death. But as you read on in the Bible, you also
see that they taught the ways of the Lord
to their children. Knowing that our spirit and our
soul is in the hands of the God, and when we're in the hands of committing
our soul and spirit into the hands of the Lord, when we face a physical death,
we don't die. Why? Because Jesus took the sins of the world on
a cross. Jesus was the man who said, “I am God in
the flesh. I am holy.” He did miracles and raised other people from
the dead before He even went to the cross for us. Why did Jesus die for us? Because we knew that the fall of man—sin,
the wages of sin is death, and I had no hope to ever go to a place called heaven to never
be received there. Because why? If I lied once, I'm a liar. If I'm a thief and I stole once, I am a sinner. If I only have one sin, heaven is perfect,
and the only way to go into heaven is to be perfect. I don't know about you, but I'm struggling
with the Ten Commandments, let alone other understandings of, you know,
philosophies and laws. Here it is. Ready? You can compare yourself to me,
and I can compare myself to you. But when we compare our righteousness to God,
we're nothing, and the only way to be blameless in front of God and be able to go to heaven
is if we're forgiven of all of our sins. Now at 15 I said, "God, if you have a plan
for my life, I know that my biggest disability is death and sin, so please come into my life. Forgive me of my sin." The wages of sin was death, paid by Jesus on
the cross, and He having no sin, He didn't have to die, but He took the sin
of the world on His shoulders, died for you and me. And if I believe that Jesus died for
my sins, then I don't have to die for mine, and the Holy Spirit that raised Jesus Christ
from the dead now lives in me! Why? Because I asked him to. Just like I'm talking to you. I talk to God every day. I go directly to God in prayer, reading my
Bible and asking the Holy Spirit to comfort me, to give me that faith,
to give me His grace every day, to know that I cannot go from day to day
in my own strength,
but God and His grace is sufficient. I pray for arms and legs, but if He doesn't
give me arms and legs, if He doesn't do any other thing for me, I live for Him. I love Him. I trust Him because I really
don't fear death anymore. When I have struggles or if I ever get cancer,
I will pray for cancer to be gone. And I don't know if God's going to heal me
of being limbless physically or free of cancer. But one day this body will decay, but that doesn't
hold me back cause my hope goes beyond death. My hope is in Jesus, my friend,
my Lord and my Savior. And as I asked Jesus to come into my heart,
I asked the Holy Spirit to fill me with His presence and His power and His peace. If you look me in the eye, you know that
I have peace and strength, and you know it's not from Nick, and it's not because I put confidence
in the circumstance to change or anybody or a job. I put my hope and trust in God. There are times where we won't understand,
but don't lean upon our own understanding. Acknowledge him. What does that mean? To thank him. We're alive. We're breathing. Heaven is real, and He will give us the strength
we don't have. Maybe you know God
as a religion or a philosophical thought. Maybe it's more of a
cultural identity for you. For me, Jesus is my Friend, and He wants you
to know him as your Friend, your King, and your everything. My friend, today, where do you stand with God? If this is your last day here on earth and
you go to sleep, and you don't wake up here, where do you wake up? Many people say, "Well, science explains everything." "God's not real." I'm sorry, but I have traveled the world,
and I've seen the spiritual realm. I've seen how God has done miracles right
in front of me--blind people seeing; deaf people hearing; lame people walking;
crooked backs come straight. He's even done a miracle in my own back, but
I've also seen the power of the enemy: witchcraft, voodoo, black magic, demonic powers. That's real. Science can't explain that realm. And when we know that science can't explain
everything, there must be a spiritual realm. And a power and the greater purpose of life:
our existence. And I want to ask you, "What do you believe?" If you're a person who's saying,
"Well, I'm still trying to figure it out, and I'm going to take a little bit of this religion,
and a little bit of that religion, a little bit of that." How sure are you, of your, if you will, "buffet,"
a-la-carte faith approach? Well, I don't want to be a Christian because
I know Christians. Well, I want you to know that is no excuse. First of all, I'm sorry if a Christian or
a church has ever failed you, but Jesus is the One that we follow,
that we study the words of, and His life. We read the Bible. Men may fail you, but God never does. Open up your Bible and search for God. I love it. In Jeremiah 29:12 it says, "Then you will
call upon me. Come and pray to me, and I will listen to
you. You will seek me and find me. When you search for me with all your heart,
I will be found by you, declares the Lord." You're going to find God. Have you found hope yet? Or are you just trying to change this and
change that and wait? Maybe you use even a substance to have an
escape of what you're really feeling. To break out of your prison of fear, of depression,
of anxiety, of sin, of guilt, of condemnation. Come to Jesus. When you come to Jesus, it doesn't mean that
all these things just disappear, but He promises now that He's going to do life with you, and
He's going to open up those prison bars so that you're not captive anymore
to your emotions or your fear or any attack. He's going to be with you. I want you to know that He loves you, and
I want to invite you into a prayer with me. What prayer? To say, "Yes God, I want to know you. If you have a plan for me. I want to know your plan. My strength is not enough. My plans have failed and I really want to
ask you to help me to know how to pray and read my Bible." I'm not saying don't go to church. I'm asking you right now, "Do you know Him on a daily relationship?" Because going to church won't save you. Giving money to the church won't save you,
or telling people that you're a Christian. Some of us young people think that we're Christian
because we go to a church, but then we tease and gossip at school. We really need to get real in our focus with
God, and I want to do that in a prayer where you also ask God to forgive you of your sin,
to come into your heart, to fill you with his Holy Spirit and that He would take over. Don't let circumstances or emotions
drive you. Let God sit in the driving seat of your life. Let him lead you!
GPS
God's Positioning System He's going to be with you,
and He'll never let you go. He'll never leave you. When a baby starts walking, when the baby
falls over, when the toddler falls over, the parent's not angry, but says,
"Okay, but get back up." That's the Heavenly Father's love for us,
and right now I want to open up with a prayer. Can I first pray for you before we do the
prayer together? Let's do that. “Lord God, we thank you for the people who
are watching right now, wherever they're at. Holy Spirit, touch our hearts right now. Lord, you know the peace that we need and
the strength that we need that we don't have. Lord, help us in this time where a heart is
in a posture of humility, to know that we're not enough to know that no government, no
amount of money, no, not one thing, no person on earth can really give us
the hope that we need. Lord, who greater to tell us then than You
what our purpose is, how beautiful we are, and knowing that this earth will fade away,
that this temporary life is just a blink of an eye in comparison to eternity. Lord, we pray for the sick. We pray for the suffering. We pray, God, that You would indeed do miracles
on a physical level. Father, we thank You that You would provide
for us and our families, and we thank You, Lord, that you love us and your love
never changes. Lord, teach us and show us Your way to live day by day. In Jesus' name. Amen.” Right now. I want to lead you in a prayer
between you and God. Let's bow our heads. If you want to ask God into your life and
start an active, personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, it starts off with
a prayer, and it starts with you knowing that we are sinners. Confessing that we are sinners, telling God
that we don't want to sin anymore. We want to live the life He has for us. If that's you right now, and you want Jesus
into your heart, you want to invite Him. You want to ask Him. Let's pray right now. Say,
"Dear God, I come to you today,
and I thank You for Your love. Thank you, God, that you have a plan for me. I need you. I confess that I am a sinner. Forgive me of everything I've done wrong. I don't want to sin anymore. I give you my heart, my burdens, my cares,
and I ask you, Lord, to come into my life. From this day on. Please be my Savior. Be my friend. Teach me how to pray and to talk to you. Show me how to live. Help me, God, to have faith in the promises
in the Bible. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Fill me right now with Your peace, Your comfort,
and strength. Thank you, Lord, that you're always going
to be with me when I fall. When I fail, pick me up and give me faith
to know that You're still there. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen." I want you to know that that prayer was real,
and that God has heard your prayer. I want you to know that, that was the day—what
you've just said, at age 15 where my life changed forever. It
doesn't mean that Nick doesn't worry sometimes and struggles still come, but I know that
God is faithful, and He'll never change, and I believe that for you, my friend. If you have a local church that you go to
that spiritually edifies you and reads from the Bible, and studies the Bible, great. Go back to that home church when you can,
but we'd like to connect with you right here. It's not just about saying a prayer and that's
it. It's the beginning of a brand-new life in
the faith in Jesus Christ. So please connect with us right here, and
we'd love to hear from you to let you know that you don't have to walk this walk alone. God bless you. Keep on going. Never give up on God, because God will never
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