Mobility | Joni Eareckson Tada Shares Her Thoughts About Mobility
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- čas přidán 4. 05. 2024
- "...Blessed is the one who is kind to the needy.” Proverbs 14:21
Before Joni became paralyzed, she hesitated to interact with people who used wheelchairs. She felt awkward and unsure about how to act and what to say around someone who was "confined" in that way.
After a diving accident left her with quadriplegia, Joni had to spend months in bed. So by the time she could sit upright in a wheelchair and leave her bedroom, she felt an immense sense of freedom. No longer did a wheelchair seem confining to Joni. On the contrary, Joni's first wheelchair restored some of the independence and mobility she had lost when she became disabled. For decades, Joni's wheelchairs have made it possible for her to go where God calls her and carry out his purposes.
Knowing how a wheelchair can bring freedom, dignity, and opportunity into a person's life, Joni had the vision to launch our Joni and Friends Wheels for the World™ program. Now, decades later, Wheels for the World has hand-delivered wheelchairs and Bibles to more than 225,000 people worldwide.
Following Joni's example, and the call of Jesus in Luke 14 to bring people with disabilities into God's house, Joni and Friends seeks to bring much-needed mobility equipment and Gospel hope to many more people and families living with disability across the globe.
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Oh! Our dear sister!! What you have endured and are still enduring with such grace. A TRUE HERO OF THE FAITH & a face for the “faceless”👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼✝️💟
Thank you Joni! Your testimony continues to increase my faith in the Love of our Lord. I am a 76 year old polio survivor. I have read and am re reading your books. You and your ministry are in my daily prayers.
Thank you Joni for all you do! Blessings to you! 😙❤💕
Joni, you and Joni & Friends have done so much for so many!!! I as an RN in my last job, worked with mentally & physically impaired people. Some had never even been up in a W/C or ever walked. Some were on tube feedings. We worked hard to get them into W/C & to walk if at all possible. My staff-behind my back--would try to feed the tube feeders. Some we found were able to eat--just no one had tried!!! So many success stories!! I found much satisfaction there. Regrettably, I had severe Lupus & was disabled at age 37. I am 63 now & not doing well. God has never left a need unmet in all these years!!!
Praise God
Praise God for your ministry
Thank you, Joni, for this great story! God bless you and keep you! You are a great inspiration! Love you & God bless you.
When my sister received her electric wheelchair, it was as if she could discover new worlds. Thank you Joni for your message. And, I miss you Kay.
The Lord has worked in and through your life to change hundreds of thousands of lives, possibly millions. Joni, thank you for trusting and obeying, loving and living for Jesus. Your “yes, Lord” has meant encouragement, life, mobility, hope, truth, ministry, new strength and hope, renewed faith and so much more for men, women and children all over the world. People most often overlooked and forgotten by the popular and powerful. Thank you Joni.
Just like that song says, “Thank you for giving to the Lord, I am a life that was changed.”
In heaven, I hope we can run or play soccer or dance or ride horses together !
Thank you so much for being God's wheels of Love in remote places💯👍❤️🙏😉
Good morning! Words of encouragement!!!! Jesus is coming in the clouds and taking the true believers out of here. He’s about to come!!!!! The talk of peace is happening right now in Israel!!!!! My daughter who is severely disabled will be changed and transformed into her new body when Jesus calls up the true believers. I’m seriously on pins and needles waiting and watching for Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior to come in the clouds and take us home!!!!!!
you are a beautiful and inspiring spokeswoman. thank you!
Thank you Joni and Friends for the great work you're doing for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
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3:28 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor. (Proverbs 14:31)
3:50 God cares about the real needs of people who for the most part are overlooked or neglected or ignored.
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Bless you and your ministry. ❤🙏
I understand about using a wheelchair.
I agree with you.
God bless us .
Morning, Joni thank you and your faithful loving husband Ken.
Y'all,and many many of the LORD JESUS Christ servant's share every day about our Creator's faithfulness to see us all through so much tribulations in our lives. Hallelujah this little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. Shine for his glory.
Thank you for shinning you're great Bright light for JESUS.
I Love you, blessings to you.
Amen!
How inspiring ❤🙏
I love you Joni! I saw the episode you mentioned and it was such a blessing to witness her freedom and joy.
Wow! How special!
Thankyou. So much.
Thank you so much for sharing this perspective. I also think about what to say…or if my presence could be of any help or comfort, but I hear gratitude, appreciation, and humility in your stories. We don’t usually associate wheelchairs with dignity, but I am slowly understanding this perspective through Joni and Friends. All the more reason we should invest in this great gospel initiative to make our Father’s House full and bring new life and dignity to our brothers and sisters.
God bless you. 🙏❤
I love to hear your encouraging words Joni.
I know it is not easy to be in a wheel chair for more than 50 years.
Joni share why you are able to feel pain?
☝️🙏🙏🙏 God bless you!
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Amen 🙏
Thank you Joni, for sharing this story. I was blessed by a living sister in Christ, with a wheel chair. I don’t have to use it all the time, but the days I need it, it’s available to me, to give me the chance to be with my children, or to go to church. I deal with a couple neurological conditions, that have made it so that I lose the ability to use my legs and my arms. My small church family saw my needs and met those needs. I’m so blessed and I look at what you do, and it’s a wonderful example of courage and Christs love. I’m looking at how I can be used in my church when my body doesn’t cooperate. Your example gives me hope that things can be done, and the Lord is using you to show me His Hope. Thank you!!
Joni, your prospective about wheel chairs is certainly eye opening. They are blessings for those that are immobile. I will certainly keep in mind to give this year that gift and bless others. Thank you for being that shining light for the disabled. I love both you and Ken and am praying for you. ❤❤ ❤❤❤
Joni, I'm so thankful for your ministry and for your ♿️ for those around the world! Thankful for a wheelchair is something we all need to remember. God bless you!!
Thank you for perspective Joni ❤️🌹🤗😘
Mahalo Joni for being honest, sharing your journey from before and after being disabled. I appreciate you, Ken and JAF for helping and encouraging many peopo, myself included. 💒 Imua 👩🏼🦽
Joni, I love you❤ you continue to inspire me...Lord bless you and keep you 🙏
Hi Joni. I am from Malaysia. I read your book 'Joni' when I was a teenager . That was in the 70's. Found it inspirational and held your story close to my heart. But lost contact with you over the years. Just recently I discovered your videos. I am a grand mother now and just like in my teenage years your sharings continue to be motivating n inspiring as I navigate the challenges in my life. Tq Joni! May God bless your ministry n continue using you as His powerful instrument.
Joni, thank you for ‘keeping at it’ for not giving up, slowing down or losing focus…your energy and willingness to follow Christ inspires me…”Heavenly Father, I ask for renewed strength and energy for Joni…Open doors for her ministry…bless her and encourage her…Provide all of the resources and manpower to get the job done…Wake us up! Show us how we can spread your love near and wide through big and small actions like how Joni’s ministry takes wheel chairs and the gospel around the world…there are so many ways…this week as I bake for others may they open their hearts to you…the harvest is great Lord! We know nothing is too hard for You…help us to be fearless like the early church…sold out for you…thank you that you go before us. We give you all the praise and glory. In Jesus Name I pray Amen.” Eph. 3:20 💕
Oh my ! I’m so so happy I came upon your channel !!! I’ve forever admired you and you are just as beautiful as ever🤗🤗❤️
Slava Domnului Isus!
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Amen 🙏 🤍
Joni.Dont stop asking God for your miracle.You are healed in Jesus name.i had had enough of a drug trip that didn't end and God healed me.I wanted to take my life and God heard my cry to Him and answered me and completely healed me.Keep asking Jesus to do a miracle for you.
I spint 2 months in a wheelchair after a motorcycle crashing believe you
I have a friend, Kathy who has a wheel chair but its old. Her husband has to push her. Can you guys help her? We live in Missouri.
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I have lots of respect for people who are in wheel chairs every day :) And there is a couple of guys at live at my apartment complex. And I call one of them wheels. And he works at target I have given him the nickname wheels. And he has never told me his real name. And he has never ever corrected me for calling him wheels so until he decides to correct me I will always call him wheels. And he is a very very very independent guy. And one day he asked me a few questions about my situation. And I told him a little bit about my learning disability issue. And the fact that I will never ever be able to drive a car. and he has given me 3 different nicknames 1. Ms bike girl #2 ms wheels #3ms independent And I always laugh a bit about them because their very true about me :) And they always will be :)And I thank God every day for the fact that Jesus has never ever abandoned me :) And Jesus has always been my everything. And that will never ever change:)@Joni and Friends
What's your thoughts about depression??
Joni has not been a stranger to depression over the 56 years since her diving accident. If you'd like to learn more about what has helped Joni, we invite you to email our Response Team at response@joniandfriends.org. Joni also shares how she continues to stave off depression and fight for her joy in this message, joniandfriends.org/daily-devotional/how-to-fight-depression/.
I don’t like my huge permobile electric chair in public. Awkward. Like yours. How do I get one? What kind is it?
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