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My name is Nick Vujicic and I give God the Glory for how He has

used my testimony to touch thousands of hearts around the world! I was born

without limbs and doctors have no medical explanation for this birth “defect”.

As you can imagine, I was faced with many challenges and obstacles.

 

" Consider

it pure joy, my Brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds. "

.....To count our hurt, pain and struggle as

nothing but pure joy? As my parents were Christians, and my Dad even a Pastor

of our church, they knew that verse very well. However, on the morning of the

4th of December 1982 in Melbourne

(Australia),

the last two words on the minds of my parents was " Praise God! " .

Their firstborn son had been born without limbs! There were no warnings or time

to prepare themselves for it. The doctors we shocked and had no answers at all!

There is still no medical reason why this had happened and Nick now has a

Brother and Sister who were born just like any other baby.

The whole church mourned over my birth and my parents were

absolutely devastated. Everyone asked, " if God is a God of Love, then why

would God let something this bad happen to not just anyone, but dedicated

Christians? " My Dad thought I wouldn't survive for very long, but tests

proved that I was a healthy baby boy just with a few limbs missing.

 

 

 

Understandably, my parents had strong concern and evident

fears of what kind of life I'd be able to lead. God provided them strength,

wisdom and courage through those early years and soon after that I was old

enough to go to school.

The law in Australia

didn't allow me to be integrated into a main-stream school because of my

physical disability. God did miracles and gave my Mom the strength to fight for

the law to be changed. I was one of the first disabled students to be

integrated into a main-stream school.

I liked going to school, and just try to live life like everyone

else, but it was in my early years of school where I encountered uncomfortable

times of feeling rejected, weird and bullied because of my physical difference.

It was very hard for me to get used to, but with the support of my parents, I

started to develop attitudes and values which helped me overcome these

challenging times. I knew that I was different but on the inside I was just

like everyone else. There were many times when I felt so low that I wouldn't go

to school just so I didn't have to face all the negative attention. I was

encouraged by my parents to ignore them and to try start making friends by just

talking with some kids. Soon the students realized that I was just like them,

and starting there God kept on blessing me with new friends.

There were times when I felt depressed and angry because I couldn't

change the way I was, or blame anyone for that matter. I went to Sunday School

and learnt that God loves us all and that He cares for you. I understood that

love to a point as a child, but I didn't understand that if God loved me why

did He make me like this? Is it because I did something wrong? I thought I must

have because out of all the kids at school, I'm the only weird one. I felt like

I was a burden to those around me and the sooner I go, the better it'd be for

everyone. I wanted to end my pain and end my life at a young age, but I am

thankful once again, for my parents and family who were always there to comfort

me and give me strength.

Due to my emotional struggles I had experienced with bullying, self

esteem and loneliness, God has implanted a passion of sharing my story and

experiences to help others cope with whatever challenge they have in their life

and let God turn it into a blessing. To encourage and inspire others to live to

their fullest potential and not let anything get in the way of accomplishing

their hopes and dreams.

One of the first lessons that I have learnt was not to take things

for granted.

 

 

 

 

" And we know that in all things God works

for the best for those who love Him. "

That verse spoke to my heart and convicted me to the point where

that I know that there is no such thing as luck, chance or coincidence that

these " bad " things happen in our life.

I had complete peace knowing that God won't let anything happen to

us in our life unless He has a good purpose for it all. I completely gave my

life to Christ at the age of fifteen after reading John 9. Jesus said that the

reason the man was born blind was " so that the works of God may be

revealed through Him. " I truly believed that God would heal me so I could

be a great testimony of His Awesome Power. Later on I was given the wisdom to

understand that if we pray for something, if it's God's will, it'll happen in

His time. If it's not God's will for it to happen, then I know that He has

something better.

I now see that Glory revealed as He is using me just the way

I am and in ways others can't be used.

I am now twenty-one years old and have completed a Bachelor of

Commerce majoring in Financial Planning and Accounting. I am also a

motivational speaker and love to go out and share my story and testimony

wherever opportunities become available. I have developed talks to relate to

and encourage students through topics that challenge today's teenagers. I am

also a speaker in the corporate sector.

 

 

 

 

I have a passion for reaching out to youth and keep myself

available for whatever God wants me to do, and wherever He leads, I follow.

 

I have many dreams and goals that I have set to achieve in my life.

I want to become the best witness I can be of God's Love and Hope, to become an

international inspirational speaker and be used as a vessel in both Christian

and non-Christian venues. I want to become financially independent by the age

of 25, through real estate investments, to modify a car for me to drive and to

be interviewed and share my story on the " Oprah Winfrey Show " !

Writing several best-selling books has been one of my dreams and I hope to

finish writing my first by the end of the year. It will be called " No

Arms, No Legs, No Worries! "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I believe that if you have the desire and passion to do something,

and if it's God's will, you will achieve it in good time. As humans, we

continually put limits on ourselves for no reason at all! What's worse is

putting limits on God who can do all things. We put God in a " box " .

The awesome thing about the Power of God, is that if we want to do something

for God, instead of focusing on our capability, concentrate on our availability

for we know that it is God through us and we can't do anything without Him.

Once we make ourselves available for God's work, guess whose capabilities we

rely on? God's!