From Dream to Reality - Nicola McDermott - Australian High Jump Record - Olympic Silver

When God called Abraham to be the father of many nations, he and his wife were barren old men and disqualified by the world's standards. However, God gave him the miracle of a son named Isaac and when Isaac grew up, God asked Abraham to To sacrifice Isaac on an altar the only way he could have seen his fullness as a father was about to be taken away from him and yet in obedience he followed the voice of God because he preferred to be in God's will than to do it in his own way of persecuting a

dream

and god honored him and saved isaac and then he fulfilled his ultimate

dream

of being the father of many nations and sometimes god calls you to leave your dreams to achieve them when he was eight years old.

I was introduced to the top. Jumping was the first time in my life that I felt free and calm and having a purpose for why I was so tall and I got off the

high

jump

bags and asked the age manager of my athletics club what the

record

is Australian and they told me one. I'm 98 and I said she was going to be the first Australian woman to

jump

over two meters and that one day she would go to the Olympics, maybe that's why I'm so tall, fast forward to 2017. I'm 20 years old. I was training in Europe with an Olympic coach in the best facilities in the world, and yet I was so dissatisfied that I had pursued the dream my way and left God out of it.

I was believing the lie that I was equally valuable. as my

high

est jump when I recognized that it was a decision between god and sport I made the decision to choose god because I realized that no high jumper, no personal best, no performance would fill my heart, but the love of God is what fire brings. and passion in life and when I made that decision I left my sport at the altar just like Isaac and God said Nicola I want you to return to the world of sport but this time do it my way and I had so much joy and peace in that moment I didn't really know why where to start, so I started serving him.

I told everyone about Jesus on the running track at the online gym, even when they didn't ask me, I gave it to them because I couldn't. I did not hold back my purpose and passion for life and God continued to honor me because my personal best year after year increased and increased and increased rapidly until this year and at the Olympic trials in Sydney I went to the stadium and had such a purpose and passion to jump there was an unshakeable peace, an unshakeable hope and with joy I jumped two meters for the first time in Australian history, but even better than that, all the newspapers and television channels were there that day because it was the Olympic trials and they not only broadcast my I jumped to the nation, they shared my testimony and God was honored in all the newspapers and on all the televisions and at the peak of my career with the world number one ranking I heard the gods whisper again say: go to Europe before the games Olympics and that.

It was the opposite of what everyone was telling me to do, the risk of traveling during the pandemic could potentially jeopardize my Olympics, but I felt it was better to be at his will and potentially underperform at the Olympics than to do a few.

olympic

games without him and succeed, etc. I boarded the plane and came to Switzerland and spent the month here preparing before Japan and when I entered the Olympics I had such determination and love in my heart to let him know that it was free and fun because it was his way, not my way and as I jumped in the stadium of stadiums at the Olympic games it was like I was a child again, like I was eight years old and I was just jumping into my father's arms, I was free and I jumped the highest I had ever jumped. jumped in my life and she surpassed it she surpassed it wow I jumped two meters 0-2 and broke the national

record

again and got the

silver

medal, the first

silver

medal in Australian women's high jump history since the 1990s. 1960, so "I will be back for a long time, I never dreamed of making an Olympic podium before, that eight-year dream did not include it because I knew that with my own strength I could not achieve it, but Jesus does all things. new and when I was there I was able to experience my dream in purity as God had always intended my value was not based on how high I jumped I was doing it in freedom and in perfect love in the end the high jump was always given to me to make his love known, it was always his will, he was there when I first tried, he was there before my mother had given birth to me, he was with me and he had this plan for my life and sometimes it requires surrendering your dreams and your hopes and your plans. , but when you do, you experience his power in you, whatever the cost, whatever he calls you, whatever you are, where people chase you, reject you, make fun of you, no barrier can stop you when the will of God is in you. you and you know you are living a life for him you overcome every barrier when you give your life because you take his is not what you have to bring to the table jesus created miracles by feeding thousands of people with a few loaves and fishes and sometimes I just have than to give everything to him but in his hands he feeds millions of people with a testimony that allows them to dream again sometimes you give everything to Jesus and he is all you have but in him you have everything I have ever needed I want to encourage you in Matthew chapter 6 33 says seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and everything else will be added live that in your life and see how your dreams not only impact your family, community and nation, but also impact people's eternity.