God will use the foolish things
to confound the wise
God can use a man without arms and legs to be his hands and feet
To prove that it's not about Nick
It's not about his ability
it's not about him and his strength and how how he
Speaks all around the world and uses his hands greatly as gestures and body language while he gets excited preaching
It's not about me. It's about Jesus
I didn't write my story
Jesus wrote my story. He knew me before the earth began
And I don't know about you but yeah, it's good to have a job
It's good to have relationship and get married and have kids it's good to have that stuff
But until you find Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior there will be always something missing
You can't rely on you because you will fail you every single time
just about
I needed him not just because of this but for my heart for my mind. By the grace of God
He kept me here on earth
The bullying at my school convinced me that I was a mistake
That I'll never eventuate to anything
Man
What a lie when you realize it's just the devil. I say just the devil because the devil is nothing compared to Jesus
I was
Listening to the encouragement my parents were saying but then listening to the lies at the same time the lies
Saying you're not good enough Nick. Just give up. No, I am wonderfully and fearfully made according to Psalm 139
Oh Nick she just give up. No, I can't do all things through Christ who strengthens me
At age 10, I didn't believe the truth because I wasn't running the race.
I wasn't in the right race
The race where it's not just getting things in your life and doing things and having things
What happens after you get married you think you're the happiest person alive. You need to talk to some married people first
Amen
All right, so then after you get married and I love my wife trust me, but if you're not happy single in Jesus
Then you're not gonna be happy
married
Amen
It's not about me it's not about my ability it's not anything about that it's all about
Jesus it's not about what you have or what you don't have what you wish you had or what you wish you didn't have
It's all about
Jesus that no matter where you are in your life right now if you ask God to forgive you of your sin
And you repent of your sin. God will come into your life forgive you of your sin. You'll receive his life his blessings
his life
eternal and his life
life's plan for your life
Not my plan. I don't want my plan
Sometimes we just need to get over ourselves and actually realize that sometimes God actually has a better plan.
I suggest a plan to God and he doesn't say anything sometimes
But we gonna understand that God's ways are higher than
ours and thoughts are higher than ours and I showed that video for for the summary of my testimony
And I want you to know in your life. I don't know what you're going through
But God does if I have Jesus I have everything I need
Now does that mean I I don't have a pair of shoes in my closet just in case he says yes to me
No, I do have a pair. Okay
Just in case. Okay. I want to be ready
But what we need healing first is in the inside and to hear the voice of God
Hearing the voice of God
When you hear a phone ring you pick it up
When you're sometimes dialing in heaven, and it feels like he's not picking up don't hang up on God. He's listening.
I hung up on God because I didn't understand his plan
God said through my parents Nick God's got plan for your life Jeremiah chapter 29 verse 11
I have a hope plan and future. I'm like, no way. There's no race like that
There's no heaven. There's no God
Look at all the pain in the world
If God loved the world then why is he letting so much pain happen later on you realize in the Bible
God doesn't give us pain. But whatever the enemy tried to use for bad. God turned into good
I can't do anything with my broken pieces
but there's nothing that God cannot do I've seen pain
I've seen miracles
God allows things that we don't understand but I want you to know if you hold on to him
He'll hold on to you if you trust in the Lord with all your heart
Even when you cannot walk he'lll carry you. When you don't get a miracle
You can still be a miracle.
I don't need what the world can give me I want what Jesus wants to give me
What do you think I rather want one more person to live forever or have a little bit more money
What do you take with you?
Nothing
Nothing. Not your garden not your car not your nothing
Just you your soul
And the encouragement you've planted all around you
Hopefully souls to come with you.
I can only imagine
Now don't handcuff me because of my doctrine but I just like this illustration
Imagine God sees me and he says well done my good and faithful servant
Welcome home. And then he sort of looks over my shoulder and says
Who'd you bring?
Amen
I want to run that race the race that matters the race that counts
And I'd rather be paralyzed in the arms of Jesus in that race
Then be the first prize winner
and runner in any other race