"God's recipe for completion" is the topic this Sunday. The Lord will bring things to completion, but there are also some things we need to do in order to grow in faith & love. One key in the message is: "Your attitude determines your altitude"
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TODAY'S MESSAGE


SERMON: SEEING A NEW DAY IS THE LORD’S DOING

There are people who slept last night with plans for today… but never woke up.
There are those who started the year with you… but are no longer here.
Yet here you are—breathing, standing, seeing a brand new day.
This is not luck.
This is not chance.
This is the hand of God.
Psalm 118:24 (KJV)
"This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it."
Every new day is a divine announcement:
“God is not finished with you yet.”

Key Scripture Foundation
Lamentations 3:22–23
"It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness."
Psalm 3:5
"I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me."
POINT 1: A NEW DAY IS PROOF OF GOD’S MERCY

You are not alive because you are perfect.
You are alive because God is merciful.
If God were to judge strictly, many of us wouldn’t see today.
Every sunrise is God saying:
“I am giving you another chance.”
Mercy preserved you.
Mercy woke you up.
Mercy gave you breath.
POINT 2: A NEW DAY IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CHANGE
Yesterday may have been full of:
Mistakes
Regrets
Failures
But God does not recycle yesterday—He creates newness.
2 Corinthians 5:17
"If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature..."
A new day means:
You can start again
You can pray again
You can rise again
Don’t waste a new day carrying old burdens.
POINT 3: A NEW DAY IS A CALL TO PURPOSE

God didn’t wake you up just to eat, scroll, and sleep again.
He woke you up because:
There is a life to touch
There is a mission to fulfill
There is a purpose to walk in
Ephesians 2:10
"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works..."
Every day is an assignment.
Every breath is a responsibility.
POINT 4: A NEW DAY IS A REASON FOR GRATITUDE

Some people wake up complaining.
Others wake up worshipping.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
1 Thessalonians 5:18
"In everything give thanks..."
When you recognize that the day is God’s doing,
your heart will respond with thanksgiving.
CASE STUDY: JOB – FROM LOSS TO A NEW DAY

Job lost:
His children
His wealth
His health
Yet, he still lived to see another day.
Job 1:21
"The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord."
God restored him—not because life was easy,
but because God had the final say.
Your new day may not look perfect,
but it proves God is still working on your story.

CALL TO ACTION

Don’t just see a new day—use it.
Today:
1. Acknowledge God first – Start your day with prayer
2. Let go of yesterday – Refuse guilt and regret
3. Take one bold step toward your purpose
4. Bless someone – Make your day count in someone’s life
A wasted day is a dishonor to God’s gift.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q1: Why does God keep giving me new days even when I fail?
A: Because of His mercy and His desire for your repentance and growth (2 Peter 3:9).
Q2: What should I do differently in a new day?
A: Seek God early, act intentionally, and live purposefully (Matthew 6:33).
Q3: How can I recognize God in my daily life?
A: Through gratitude, prayer, and awareness of His hand in small things.
Q4: What if my new day feels difficult?
A: God’s presence is not based on how you feel—He is still with you (Isaiah 41:10).

PRAYER POINTS

1. Father, thank You for the gift of a new day in Jesus’ name.
2. Lord, let Your mercy speak over my life today.
3. Every power assigned to waste my day, be destroyed in Jesus’ name.
4. Father, guide my steps into purpose and destiny today.
5. Lord, I receive strength to overcome every challenge of today.
6. Every opportunity prepared for me today, I will not miss it.
7. Father, let my life bring glory to You this day.
Closing Charge
If you woke up today…
God is not done with you.
If you have breath…
There is still purpose.
So don’t just exist today
Live it, own it, and give it back to God.
Because seeing a new day… is the Lord’s doing.

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TODAY'S MESSAGE


SERMON TITLE:

“THE ENEMIES WHO ARE LOOKING FOR MY DOWNFALL WILL SEE MY UPRISING”

There is a truth many people don’t like to hear: not everyone clapping for you wants you to rise.
Some are watching… waiting… expecting you to fail.

They have concluded your story before God has even finished writing it.
But hear this clearly:
The same eyes that watched your struggle will witness your rising.
The same voices that mocked you will testify of your lifting.
Because when God decides to lift a man, no enemy can stop it!
KEY BIBLE VERSES (WELL EXPLAINED)
1. Psalm 23:5
"You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies..."
God doesn’t hide your blessing—He displays it publicly. Your lifting will not be secret.
2. Genesis 50:20
"You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good..."
What your enemies planned to destroy you will become the platform of your promotion.
3. Micah 7:8
"Rejoice not over me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise..."
Falling is not the end. Rising is your prophecy.
4. Romans 8:31
"If God is for us, who can be against us?"
Opposition is real—but it is powerless when God is backing you.
4 POWERFUL POINTS
1. YOUR DOWNFALL IS THEIR EXPECTATION—BUT NOT GOD’S PLAN
People may predict your failure based on your past, your mistakes, or your current struggles.
But God is not consulting your enemies about your future.
Insight: Heaven has already written a different ending for your life.
2. GOD USES YOUR BATTLES AS THE FOUNDATION FOR YOUR RISING
Every attack, every rejection, every delay is not wasted.
God is building strength, character, and testimony in you.
What looks like a setback is actually a setup.
3. YOUR UPRISING WILL BE PUBLIC AND UNDENIABLE
God doesn’t just bless you—He makes your lifting visible.
Those who doubted you will not need explanation… they will see it.
Your testimony will speak louder than your explanation.
4. YOUR RESPONSE DETERMINES YOUR RISE
Enemies may attack—but your attitude decides your altitude.

If you respond with bitterness, you delay your lifting.
If you respond with faith, you accelerate it.
Stay focused. Stay faithful. Stay aligned with God.

BIBLICAL CASE STUDY: JOSEPH (GENESIS 37–50)

Joseph was:
Hated by his brothers
Sold into slavery
Falsely accused
Thrown into prison
His enemies thought his life was finished.
But what they didn’t know was this:
God was orchestrating a divine uprising.
In the end:
Joseph became a ruler
His enemies bowed before him
His pain became his platform
Lesson: Your pit is not your end—it is your preparation.

PRACTICAL ACTION STEPS

1. Guard Your Heart
Do not allow bitterness to grow. Forgive quickly.
2. Stay Consistent with God
Prayer, Word, and obedience must not stop because of pressure.
3. Refuse to Give Up
Your enemies win when you quit—don’t give them that victory.
4. Speak Faith Daily
Declare: “My rising is inevitable!”
5. Focus on Growth, Not Revenge
God will handle your enemies—focus on becoming better.

DEEP SPIRITUAL INSIGHTS

Every attack reveals your potential.
Your enemies are often a sign that you are close to breakthrough.
God allows opposition to prove His power in your life.
Rising is not about luck—it is about divine alignment.
QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION

1. Am I allowing my enemies’ actions to control my emotions?
2. What is God trying to build in me through this season?
3. Have I truly forgiven those who want my downfall?
4. Am I preparing myself for the level God is taking me to?

POWERFUL PRAYER POINTS

1. O Lord, turn every plan of my enemies into my promotion in Jesus’ name!
2. Father, give me strength to rise above every opposition!
3. Every pit prepared for me, become my stepping stone!
4. Lord, announce my lifting in the presence of those who doubted me!
5. I declare: my rising shall shock my enemies!

STRONG CLOSING CALL TO ACTION
Hear this and carry it in your spirit:
You are not going down—you are going up.

No conspiracy can cancel what God has ordained.
So stand up. Pray harder. Believe stronger. Walk boldly.
Because very soon…
Those who waited for your downfall will stand in awe of your uprising.
Say it with faith:
“MY RISING IS UNSTOPPABLE!”

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The rejection letter was brutal but simple.
Gladys Aylward wasn't smart enough to learn Chinese. The China Inland Mission had decided. At twenty-eight, this working-class girl from North London should stick to scrubbing floors and forget about saving souls in faraway places.
Most people would have crumpled that letter and moved on.
Gladys kept scrubbing floors. But now every penny went into a coffee tin hidden under her bed. Four years of saving. Four years of dreaming. Until she finally had enough for a one-way train ticket on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
She packed a suitcase, a small stove, and enough stubbornness to power a locomotive.
The journey to China nearly killed her. Russian police arrested her at the border. She got caught between two armies shooting at each other. She spent nights shivering in train stations, not speaking the language, trusting strangers to point her toward the next connection.
But she made it to Yangcheng, a dusty mountain village where nobody expected a tiny English woman to show up alone.
There she met Jeannie Lawson, an elderly missionary who needed help running the Inn of Eight Happinesses. It wasn't much of an inn. More like a glorified rest stop where mule drivers could get hot food and hear Bible stories before heading back into the mountains.
Gladys had found her calling.
She learned Chinese faster than any expert thought possible. She told stories to weathered travelers who'd never heard about Jesus. She made friends with people who'd never trusted a foreigner before.
The local government official noticed her too. He gave her an impossible job that had gotten other people beaten or killed: enforcing the new law against binding little girls' feet.
For centuries, Chinese families had wrapped their daughters' feet so tightly the bones broke and reformed into tiny, crippled shapes. It was tradition. It was culture. And now it was illegal.
Previous foot inspectors had been attacked. Some had been run out of town.
Gladys walked into villages with nothing but patience and kindness. She examined feet. She explained the new law. She listened to worried mothers and angry grandmothers. And somehow, village by village, she succeeded where others had failed.
By 1936, she'd given up her British citizenship entirely. China wasn't just her mission field anymore. It was home.
Then the bombs started falling.
Japan invaded in 1937, and Shanxi province became a war zone. Fighter planes turned villages into rubble. The Inn of Eight Happinesses was destroyed. And children started showing up at Gladys's door.
The first was a little girl she bought from a beggar woman for nine pennies. She named her Ninepence. Then came more. And more.
Each child had lost everything. Parents killed in bombing raids. Homes burned to the ground. Older siblings scattered to the wind.
Gladys took them all in.
Soon she was caring for nearly a hundred children with no supplies, no help, and Japanese soldiers getting closer every day.
She'd already sent one group of children to safety. But she stayed behind with the rest, believing Christians never retreat from danger.
That's when she learned the Japanese had put a price on her head. She'd been passing information to Chinese forces. The enemy wanted her captured or dead.
The night she found out, bullets started flying through her windows. She barely escaped the city with her shoulder bleeding from a gunshot graze.
Now she faced an impossible choice.
The nearest safe orphanage was in Sian, 240 miles away across mountain ranges and the Yellow River. No vehicles. No trains. No supplies.
Just her feet and nearly a hundred children, some barely old enough to walk.
In April 1940, they set out anyway.
Each child carried a bowl, chopsticks, a towel, and a thin blanket. That was everything they owned in the world.
For twenty-seven days, they walked. Over steep mountain passes where the altitude made them dizzy. Through valleys where bandits might be hiding behind any rock.
The older children carried the younger ones piggyback. Gladys always had at least one child in her arms and two more clinging to her clothes.
When the little ones cried from exhaustion, she sang hymns. When they begged to stop, she told them stories. When they ran out of food, she knocked on doors and begged strangers for scraps.
Most people helped. Soldiers shared their rations. A Buddhist monk let them sleep one night in an abandoned temple.
On the twelfth day, they reached the Yellow River.
It was nearly a mile wide. Fast-moving. Deep enough to swallow a grown man in seconds.
The town was deserted. No boats. No ferry. No way across.
Behind them, Japanese soldiers were getting closer.
For three days, they huddled on the riverbank. Starving. Exposed. Watching the water that might as well have been an ocean.
Gladys started to despair.
Then a little girl asked her something that changed everything: "Don't you believe God can part the waters like He did for Moses?"
Gladys fell to her knees and prayed harder than she'd ever prayed in her life.
Within hours, a Chinese officer appeared with boats. He ordered them across even though the river had been officially closed to all crossings.
They still had another mountain range ahead of them. More days of walking. More nights sleeping on bare ground.
By the time they stumbled into Sian in late April, Gladys could barely stand. She delivered every single surviving child to the orphanage doors.
Then she collapsed.
Doctors found typhoid fever, pneumonia, and severe internal bleeding from that bullet wound she'd been ignoring for weeks. She was delirious for days. Nobody even knew who she was.
For a month, she fought for her life.
And just like every other impossible thing she'd ever faced, she refused to give up.
Gladys survived. She kept working with orphans for the rest of her life, first in China, then in Taiwan after the Communists took over.
When Hollywood made a movie about her story in 1958, she was embarrassed by the attention. She never wanted fame. She never sought glory.
Near the end of her life, she said something that still gives me chills: "I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done for China. I don't know who it was. Probably a man. Well-educated. But maybe he died. Maybe he wasn't willing. And God looked down and saw Gladys Aylward, and said, 'Well, she's willing.'"
She died in 1970 at sixty-seven. A former housemaid. Too short, too poor, too uneducated for the experts.
But she carried a hundred children to safety on nothing but faith and tired feet.
Sometimes the people the world overlooks are exactly the ones who change it.

STANDARD LESSON RESOURCES
DEVOTIONS
SPRING 2026

March 5

Ups and Downs

If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make by bed in the depths, you are there. (Psalm 139:8)

Scripture: Psalm 139:1-12
Song: "Praise to the Holiest in the Height"

In April of 1970, the astronauts on board the Apollo 13 spacecraft reached an altitude of 248,573 miles. In May 2019, Citor Vescovo reached a depth of over 7.5 miles when he descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean aboard a submersible craft. At the time of this writing, these are the highest heights and deepest depths ever reached by humans.

I imagine these records will be broken. As technology advances, humans will continue to be able to go higher into the heavens and deeper into the depths. But while we may be able to places where no humans have ever gone before, we will never reach a height nor a depth where God hasn't been, isn't currently, and won't always be present.

There are times in our lives when we may forget this truth. For one reason or another, we may not feel like God is close. It is in those moments that it is important to recall the words of the psalmist in Psalm 139, reminding us that no matter where we are or what is happening in the world around us, God's hands are guiding us and holding us fast (v.10).

Father, when I feel alone or abandoned, remind me that You are always near. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

RISE AS THE EAGLE

Stop Fighting Crows At Ground Level. Some of us are EXHAUSTED not because the warfare is heavy but BECAUSE WE KEEP TRYING TO FIGHT AT THE WRONG ALTITUDE.

There’s a reason the crow is the only bird bold enough to sit on an eagle’s back and peck at its neck.

The crow is loud. Persistent. Annoying. Fearless in low places. But watch the eagle.
THE EAGLE DOES NOT TURN AROUND MIDAIR TO ARGUE. IT DOES NOT WASTE ENERGY trying to shake the crow off. It DOES NOT DESCEND TO PROVE A POINT.

It rises and this is where it gets powerful. The higher the eagle ascends, the thinner the air becomes. THE CROW WAS BUILT FOR NOISE. It was NOT BUILT FOR ALTITUDE.

Eventually THE VERY ENVIRONMENT THAT EMPOWERS THE EAGLE SUFFOCATES THE CROW. The crow falls off. Not because it was attacked. But because it could not survive the elevation. NOW LEAN IN SPIRITUALLY.

Many believers are drained because they keep responding to every peck. Every comment. Every accusation. Every misunderstanding. Every critic. Every petty attack. But Scripture never told us to win every argument.

James 4:7–8 says SUBMIT TO GOD, RESIST THE DEVIL, AND HE WILL FLEE.

Notice The Order. - SUBMISSION PRECEDES RESISTANCE.

NEARNESS TO GOD CREATES AN ATMOSPHERE THE ENEMY CANNOT BREATHE IN.

Isaiah 40:31 says those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles.

Mount up. Not clap back. Not defend your ego. Not explain ourself to everyone. Mount up. The deeper we go in prayer, the less accessible we are to foolishness.

THE MORE TIME WE SPEND IN INTIMACY WITH GOD, THE MORE SPIRITUAL OXYGEN SHIFTS. LOW ALTITUDE WARFARE THRIVES IN DISTRACTION.

HIGH ALTITUDE INTIMACY PRODUCES DOMINION. The enemy is loud at ground level. But he cannot hang in the presence of God.

Psalm 16:11 says in His presence there is fullness of joy.

And JOY AT HIGH ALTITUDE IS LETHAL to low level spirits. Some of us are trying to silence crows with arguments. HEAVEN IS TELLING US TO SILENCE THEM WITH ASCENSION.

Fast. Pray. Consecrate. Worship. Obey.
Change altitude. Because when you truly go deeper with God, petty warfare loses breath.

And here’s the revelation most of us miss.
OUR GROWTH WILL SUFFOCATE THEIR NOISE. We don’t have to fight every crow. WE JUST HAVE TO RISE HIGHER than it can breathe. STOP ENGAGING. ELEVATE.

IT IS doubtful if there ever was a time when the note of Separation needed
to be sounded more than today. The world has become so churchy and the
Church so worldly that it is hard to distinguish the one from the other. The line of
demarcation has been so completely broken down that churches, where revivals
once flourished, whose spiritual life was at one time deep and strong, are today mere
social centres over which God has long ago written the word "Ichabod "-- "The
glory has departed."

People seem to have the idea that we must mingle with the world and become
like it in order to win souls and influence lives for God. Yet when a man falls into
a deep well no one ever dreams of jumping down alongside of him in order to get
him out. Instead he stays away up at the top and from there lets down a ladder or
rope and thus lifts him up.
Ah, no 1 The men who have won souls and influenced other lives for God have
been the men who have walked with God far above the masses, and thus from an
altitude of spirituality have drawn others up to their level. The only way to win
others is to be different ourselves and thus attract by something they lack, and by
prevailing with God prevail with men.
Had Abraham gone to live with Lot in Sodom his influence would have availed
but little. It was when he separated himself and stood afar off on the highlands of
faith with God that his intercessions secured Lot's deliverance. Let us be separate.
We must dwell apart with God.

Then I want to say that the world expects the Christian to be different. It has
its own standard of what a saint should be. And even when it succeeds in drawing
us down to its level it but mocks and laughs at our plight. No longer does it respect
us nor reverence our position. We are then no better than others.

A young woman who saw no harm in dancing decided to do some personal
work during the dance, and while gliding over the floor with her companion, she
suddenly turned and asked him if he was a Christian.
"A Christian! No! Why, are you?" he exclaimed in amazement.
"Yes," replied the young woman. "I'm a Christian." "Well, then, for God's sake,
why are you here?" was the unexpected response.
Ah yes, the world expects the Christian to be different. Otherwise how will anyone know which is which? If there is no line of demarcation how will people
know which side we are on? If we dress and act like the world how can anyone tell
whether we are Christians or not? There must be a difference.

Now, separation has always been God's standard. Abraham had to leave his
country, and his father's home, and in complete separation go he knew not whither.
Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer
affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
esteeming the reproach of God greater riches than the treasures in Egypt. So also
with the Israelites. They were a peculiar people, entirely separated from the nations
around about them, representing God. In Ezra 9 and io and Nehemiah 13, when
the line of separation had been broken down by mixed marriages there was no
leniency shown. Heathen wives must be put away and separation of the severest
character again instituted.

Yes, and separation is still the call of God. "Come out from among them, and
be ye separate, saith the Lord," and, "Be ye not unequally yoked together with
unbelievers" (2 Cor. 6: I4-18). The world must be forsaken and separation
maintained.

Let us remember our character. According to God's Word we are "pilgrims and
strangers," "sojourners," a heavenly people in a foreign country. This is not our
home.

I'm but a Pilgrim here,
A stranger from afar;
And to my distant home
With many a battle scar,
My Lord will bear me safe at last
When Pilgrim days on earth are Past.

Enmity and hatred is the attitude of the world toward the true child of God. "If
ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the
world, therefore the world hateth you" (John 15: iq). What about it? Does the world
hate you? If you are not of it, if you do not belong to it, and if you make it clear that
you are a pilgrim and a stranger, then you will very quickly discover that the world
hates you. You see it depends on the attitude you take toward it.

Now, the evidence of the separated life lies in the attitude of the heart, not the
actions, towards the world. "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the
world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him (i John 2: I5).

Hence, it is not necessary to actually take part in the things of the world. The real
question is: Do you want to? Is there a desire?

Does the world appeal and allure? If
so, then there is no heart separation after all.
Listen again: "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship
of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world
is the enemy of God"(Jas. 4 : 4).Pretty plain language!Talk about a "worldly
Christian"!God declares that the world's friend is His enemy. The one who loves the world does not love God. What then is my heart attitude? That is the important
question, Do I love the world or do I love God? Am I the world's friend or God's
friend? Would the word "adulterer" or "adulteress" be applicable to me? What is the
real attitude of my heart toward the world? Not my actions but my thoughts, my
likes and dislikes.

His mother wouldn't hold him. His classmates wouldn't accept him. The world said he had no future. He proved every single one of them wrong.
On December 4, 1982, in a hospital in Melbourne, Australia, a baby boy was born and the delivery room went quiet. No one had expected this. Three ultrasounds during the pregnancy had shown nothing unusual. But when Nicholas James Vujicic arrived, he had no arms and no legs.
The condition is called tetra-amelia syndrome. It is extraordinarily rare. There was no medical explanation. There was no warning. And there was nothing anyone could do.
His mother, a nurse, was so overwhelmed that she refused to see him or hold him. According to Nick's own account, she and his father left the hospital. His father was so shaken he became physically ill. For months, his parents struggled to accept what had happened to their firstborn child.
Eventually, they did. They chose to raise him not as a child with a disability, but as a child with a future. They fought to enroll him in mainstream school when the law in their state initially barred children with physical disabilities from attending. Nick became one of the first students with his condition to be integrated into a regular classroom.
But school was brutal.
Other children bullied him relentlessly. They stared. They mocked. They excluded him. By the time he was eight years old, Nick had begun to wonder whether his life had any purpose at all. By age ten, he tried to end it — attempting to drown himself in the bathtub in his family's home.
He stopped when he thought of his parents. He realized that his death would cause them more pain than his life ever had. Something in that moment shifted. Instead of giving up, he decided to keep going.
And then he started doing things no one believed were possible.
Nick was born with one partial foot — two fused toes on his left hip that doctors later separated in surgery. He calls it his "chicken drumstick." With that single foot, he taught himself to write, type forty-three words a minute on a computer, operate an electric wheelchair, comb his hair, brush his teeth, and answer the phone. He learned to swim. Then to surf. To skateboard. To play drums. To dive off a boat into the ocean. To skydive.
At seventeen, he stood up in front of his church group and spoke about his life. The room was stunned. He realized in that moment that his pain wasn't just his — it was a bridge to other people's pain. If he could look at an audience with no arms and no legs and say "I'm okay," people who had legs and arms and still felt broken might believe they could be okay too.
He never stopped speaking.
Nick graduated from Griffith University at twenty-one with a double major in accounting and financial planning. In 2005, he founded Life Without Limbs, an international nonprofit ministry. In 2007, he launched Attitude is Altitude, a secular motivational speaking company. He has addressed audiences in over sixty countries. He has met twenty-one heads of state. He has written multiple bestselling books, including Life Without Limits, which has been translated into more than thirty languages. He starred in a short film called The Butterfly Circus and won Best Actor at an independent film festival.
And then he found the thing he'd been most afraid he would never have.
In 2010, at a speaking event in Dallas, Nick locked eyes with a young nursing student named Kanae Miyahara. She was half Japanese, half Mexican, and she wasn't looking at what was missing. She was looking at what was there. They fell in love. He proposed in 2011 on a yacht, using his mouth to slide the ring onto her finger. They married on February 12, 2012.
Today, Nick and Kanae have four children — two sons, Kiyoshi and Dejan, and twin daughters, Ellie and Olivia. All four were born healthy.
The boy whose mother once couldn't hold him now holds his children every night.
Nick has spoken openly about the challenges of fatherhood without limbs — the frustration of hearing his baby cry and not being able to physically help. But he also speaks about what he can give them: presence, patience, faith, and an example of a life lived without excuses.
His mother, who once walked out of that delivery room, is now one of his biggest supporters. She has spoken publicly about her initial grief and her journey to understanding that her son was not a tragedy — he was a gift.
Nick Vujicic's life does not prove that everything happens for a reason. It proves something more important than that.
It proves that when you refuse to let the worst moment of your life become the last chapter of your story, what follows can be extraordinary.
No arms. No legs. No limits.
#NickVujicic #NoLimits

GUIDELINES FOR LIVING

February 5th, 2026

God Is Our Peace.

For Christ himself is our way of peace. He has made peace between us Jews and you Gentiles by making us all one family, breaking down the wall of contempt that used to separate us. Ephesians 2:14, Living Bible

In 1904, a massive, bronze statue of Christ with his arms outstretched to the harbor of Buenos Aires was erected. Known as the “Christ of the Andes,” standing at an altitude of 13,000 feet, it towers over the whole area. Christ’s left hand holds a cross. His right hand is extended in blessing. On the base of the great statue is a quotation from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, and it reads, “He is our peace who has made both one.”

Have you ever wondered what’s the story behind this magnificent work of art? Here it is. In 1899, Argentina and Chile were on the path leading to war. Though there had never been an armed confrontation between these two countries, it was certain that one was brewing. Armies had been massed on the border between the two. By Easter of 1900, it was only a matter of days or hours until the first shots were fired.

That’s when Monsignor Bonaventa in Buenos Aires preached a passionate Easter message calling for peace. And on the other side of the border, the echo was picked up; others called for peace too. Gradually pleas for sanity won out and King Edward VII of Britain was asked to arbitrate the dispute. Eventually a treaty was signed, and the cannons that had been pointed at each other were melted down, and the bronze was poured into the mold for the “Christ of the Andes.”

Forgive my thinking this, but I can’t help but suggest that the only possible lasting solution to the strife between Israel and her Arab neighbors is for the Prince of Peace, the one of whom Isaiah spoke of long ago, to reach out His strong hand to each and bring them to the conference table.

The same thing is true of troubled marriages, conflicts between people. In four decades of working with people, I have discovered that if two people will come together and ask God to arbitrate their conflict in prayer, He does what could never happen otherwise.

One of the beautiful expressions of God’s desire for peace is found in the words of one of Israel’s judges. His name was Gideon. Fearing that he would be killed at the hands of his enemies, God sent an angel with the good news, “You are not going to die.” There Gideon built an altar and called it Jehovah Shalom, which means “God is our peace.” Five times in the New Testament alone, this mighty God is called “The God of all peace.”

“Peace,” wrote A.B. Simpson, “is the most precious of all the gifts and graces of the Spirit; so precious indeed is peace that it was the one legacy left us by our departing Lord.” “Joy,” he said, “may be more exciting, but peace is more sustaining.” How true. No wonder Paul described God’s peace as “a peace which passes all understanding.”

A closing thought: The only legacy which Jesus left to the rag-tag band of men He chose to walk with Him was that of peace. In the Upper Room, only hours before He was seized in the Garden, He said, “My peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Don’t let your hearts be troubled and don’t let them be afraid” (John 14:27).

That can be your inheritance as well. “Grant to me above all things that can be desired,” prayed Thomas á Kempis, “to rest in Thee, and in Thee to have my heart at peace.” Yes, Lord, that’s the prayer of my heart as well. Life’s much too short to live with conflict and anger when God can bring peace.

Resource reading: Ephesians 2:11-22

GUIDELINES FOR LIVING

February 5th, 2026

God Is Our Peace.

For Christ himself is our way of peace. He has made peace between us Jews and you Gentiles by making us all one family, breaking down the wall of contempt that used to separate us. Ephesians 2:14, Living Bible

In 1904, a massive, bronze statue of Christ with his arms outstretched to the harbor of Buenos Aires was erected. Known as the “Christ of the Andes,” standing at an altitude of 13,000 feet, it towers over the whole area. Christ’s left hand holds a cross. His right hand is extended in blessing. On the base of the great statue is a quotation from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, and it reads, “He is our peace who has made both one.”

Have you ever wondered what’s the story behind this magnificent work of art? Here it is. In 1899, Argentina and Chile were on the path leading to war. Though there had never been an armed confrontation between these two countries, it was certain that one was brewing. Armies had been massed on the border between the two. By Easter of 1900, it was only a matter of days or hours until the first shots were fired.

That’s when Monsignor Bonaventa in Buenos Aires preached a passionate Easter message calling for peace. And on the other side of the border, the echo was picked up; others called for peace too. Gradually pleas for sanity won out and King Edward VII of Britain was asked to arbitrate the dispute. Eventually a treaty was signed, and the cannons that had been pointed at each other were melted down, and the bronze was poured into the mold for the “Christ of the Andes.”

Forgive my thinking this, but I can’t help but suggest that the only possible lasting solution to the strife between Israel and her Arab neighbors is for the Prince of Peace, the one of whom Isaiah spoke of long ago, to reach out His strong hand to each and bring them to the conference table.

The same thing is true of troubled marriages, conflicts between people. In four decades of working with people, I have discovered that if two people will come together and ask God to arbitrate their conflict in prayer, He does what could never happen otherwise.

One of the beautiful expressions of God’s desire for peace is found in the words of one of Israel’s judges. His name was Gideon. Fearing that he would be killed at the hands of his enemies, God sent an angel with the good news, “You are not going to die.” There Gideon built an altar and called it Jehovah Shalom, which means “God is our peace.” Five times in the New Testament alone, this mighty God is called “The God of all peace.”

“Peace,” wrote A.B. Simpson, “is the most precious of all the gifts and graces of the Spirit; so precious indeed is peace that it was the one legacy left us by our departing Lord.” “Joy,” he said, “may be more exciting, but peace is more sustaining.” How true. No wonder Paul described God’s peace as “a peace which passes all understanding.”

A closing thought: The only legacy which Jesus left to the rag-tag band of men He chose to walk with Him was that of peace. In the Upper Room, only hours before He was seized in the Garden, He said, “My peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Don’t let your hearts be troubled and don’t let them be afraid” (John 14:27).

That can be your inheritance as well. “Grant to me above all things that can be desired,” prayed Thomas á Kempis, “to rest in Thee, and in Thee to have my heart at peace.” Yes, Lord, that’s the prayer of my heart as well. Life’s much too short to live with conflict and anger when God can bring peace.

Resource reading: Ephesians 2:11-22