Life Without Limbs - Australian Nick Vujicic
Published by Office 2 April 4th, 2008 in Australia, Christian Church Issues, Miraculous Testimonies, United States of AmericaBy Dan Wooding, ASSIST Ministries Wed. March 12th, 2008,
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (ANS) — When I first met Australian Nick Vujicic, I couldn’t believe that he could smile so much, having faced such incredible setbacks in his life.
You see, Nick, who is originally from Melbourne, Australia, was born without arms or legs, yet he is a living witness to the power of Christ in his life.
Now based in Southern California, Nick agreed to tell me his story. “There was no medical reason why this happened,” he began. “I was born in a Christian home and now I’m twenty-five years old and I travel around the world and share with people how God has not forgotten them in their pain, but he has purposes in their circumstance and that His grace is sufficient and that He’s going give them strength to get through whatever He’s has brought them to.
“I started my ministry – Life Without Limbs — when I was nineteen years old and I felt the Lord leading me to live out here in the United States and basically I go around to a lot of churches to do city wide outreaches and share with people how there are times in their life where they may not understand and you don’t see God in their life but I tell them despite that, that He is faithful.”
I asked Nick if he ever got angry with God for his disability.
“I definitely was angry with God when I was eight years old and I didn’t really want anything to do with God,” he said. “I felt like He owed me an explanation of why He did this to me. Between the ages of eight and twelve I really didn’t see much hope to my life and over the journey of my childhood, I was often thinking of how to commit suicide.
“But at the age of fifteen, I read in John chapter nine, where a man was
born blind. Jesus was asked why this man was born blind and He said it was done so that the ‘works of God may be revealed through him’ and, as I read this, a wave of faith and peace came over me. I realized that no one knew why that man was born blind and no one knew why I was born this way, but Jesus did and Jesus does know why He did this to me – so that the ‘works of God maybe revealed…’
“Now I just share what it says in Jeremiah, chapter twenty-nine, verse eleven, that He has a hope, a plan and a future for all our lives He’s with us all the way.”
I then asked Nick what he would like to say to people with a disability.
“I believe we all have disabilities, whether it’s a physical disability or fear or guilt,” he said. “Fear or guilt will hold you back more than the loss of arms and legs. I would like to say to everybody out there that you should just know that God loves you. I don’t know your pain and God is the only one that can tell you the two things that your soul longs to hear: number one that you are loved and number two, everything’s going to be ok.”
Then Nick revealed that he is now spending much of his efforts in reaching out the Muslim nations of the world.
“The Lord has used my life without arms and legs to go into Muslim nations such as Indonesia and speak the Gospel there and see many come to the Lord,” he said. “Around the world many Muslim nations are inviting me and governments are inviting me to go there to talk. This year we’re doing nineteen countries including Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda, to spread the Gospel.”
is nick married? if yes when did he get married?
hi nick bro.
Am very happy to hear your testimony, praise be to god.
why don`t you come to chennai(india) to preach gospel and your testimony…
we(chennai) people are much eager to see you(r) testimony.
god bless you….ever
hi there nick, when i saw you with no limbs you boosted me more than you could ever realize, i was born with a tremor in both hands and one leg, noone knew why i was born that way, only that it maybe due to a traumatic birth.
when i was a teenager i developed the tremor more in the leg and at one point wished my leg would just drop off so i didn’t have to put up with the tremor there. I could cope with it in my hands but a leg as well.
I grew up in a catholic family dad wasn’t though but he helped me write with my better right hand, my left hand was not so good and i never used it much until technology came in my adult years.
I too asked god why did you give me this tremor and why am i alone with it, and i contemplated suicide when i was 17 but mum had no decent pills in the bathroom cabinet. i don’t like blood so i gave up on the idea, but i still struggled and couldn’t pass my favourite subject at school accounting. the 3 hour exam was to fast for my slow writing.
I do have one good right leg though and the rest of my body is shakey free, so i thanked god for that.
i found the odd jobs at 18 and at aged 24 a wonderful man walked into my life who didn’t care that i was shakey and we married the following year and have now been married 17yrs and god has taken care of me because my dream if i couldn’t be an accountant was to grow kiwifruit, and that is what we have been doing for 16yrs we have two children and they don’t have a tremor, which i found out can be passed on.
I was diagnosed 3yrs ago with dystonia and essential tremor and to me god answered my prayer of what is it i have, it took alot of years but it happened.
you inspire me because of your life without limbs and you came on telly in my living room when i was doubting myself .
I am a very positive person and get out there and enjoy tennis and bush walking, not a good swimmer but i can swim.
I lead guiding, so i can talk to kids but i never talked about my disorder when i was young because we thought that was best, not to focus on it, but it is a part of me and this is what god gave me to be strong and still live a great life, i don’t know how to tell kids that without sounding corney. you have a great way of talking.
I can’t stand in front of alot of people because i get very shakey just thinking about it.
keep up your great work you are so amazing.
karen beaver(nz)
p.s i hope you get time to read this
just few months before i aware about you through my friend.today only i read your sharing such a wonderful healing to you “PRAISE THE LORD” pray for INDIA this is my kind obligation
Thank you so much for your testimony, God bless you muchly
Ange Seiuli
New Zealand
Dear Brother Nick,
Praise God for all that He is doing in your life. You are a great inspiration to go on in life no what our circumstances are. God bless you……
I am touched by by faith brother Nick. My husband recently graduated as a pastor, sometime next year we are planning to open a church, I will love to have you at our opening. You are a blessing to the world who do not know and come to know Jesus, our Savior.
God bless you. With love of Christ, doreen
Dear Nick ,
Wonderful is God!! wonderful you’re bfr thy hand for he created you like that for his mighty Glory and believe so indeed.
As a vessel can’t ask the person who mended it why I’m i like this neither shall we ask God why! We each of us unique to each other
but in his image, understanding that is an amaizing impact to my relationship with the holy God.
Courage , you’re living for the mighty Glory of God , you a special one before him. You testimony is salvation witness to many of
which is the major purpose of your life.
Every Body was created the way he or she is unique for a special purpose. P’se do not wish to be like so and so.
Blessed you’re and be blessed more for God have an owesome plan upon you.
Ngenzi Jf
ngenzijoseph@yahoo.fr
( 25008506852)
from Rwanda-East Africa.
Dear nick!
Praised be the lord!!I’ve had your existance from a freind,i don’t know how much your testimony have been helpful to him but is has been of great impact in my life.You said that you asked once to GOD that why you were born so and you thought even putting an end to your life.As you come to read later from the holy bible that every man is create to show the greatness of GOD.Brother your life and testimony will help many people from the 4 corners of the world to know despite their that God has loved all humany being and he has never made any difference from color,physical appearence,etc…
You are the living model of faith and trust in God.
Hi Nick, nice to “meet” you.
We played your DVD at our church.( We are Tokyo Chinese Christian Church.)
We are deeply moved by your testimony and feel so shame that we are somehow disablities in our spirits.
In Tokyo, many people killed themselves because of great stress,
we feel powerless to stop it.
There is only 1% Christian in Japan,
If you can also come to Tokyo…
I’d really like to have a hug with you.
Eager to see that moment come!