what if a single Bible verse can unlock the path to superhuman abilities sounds impossible right well that's exactly what happened to me here's how the Bible led me to gain superhuman Iceman abilities with Wim Hoff as a kid I loved any video game that allowed me to play with superpowers Mario gave me the ability to fly and shoot fire out of my hands Sonic gave me super speed and Zelda let me turn back time maybe you did this too but I also loved watching anything that had ordinary people getting extraordinary abilities for example there used to be this incredible TV show called Heroes I don't know if you ever saw it but it's where Ordinary People would get these extraordinary abilities some people could heal very quickly some people could fly some people could move things with their mind some could copy other people's abilities it was incredible but my biggest childhood influence was definitely Dragon Ball Z I'd be lying if I told you I never tried going Super Saiyan in my backyard believing that with just enough yelling and tensing my muscles I'd unlock a hidden power and start flying around shooting balls of energy out of my hands obviously it never worked but that feeling of wanting to do something special was always with me fast forward to college I got really into the party scene with my friends they loved having party Justin around and for the first time I felt special but I also felt very very empty I stopped making decisions for myself and just did what my friends wanted me to do because honestly I liked making everyone happy I just HED that one day it would make me happy too so that summer I went to a Christian summer camp as a counselor I was supposed to be teaching people about God but I only really knew what my friends told me so one night my friend was leading a devotional for fifth graders and asked them did you know it's okay to question what you believe now this question rocked me here's some quick context I grew up around Christians and basically copy and pasted their beliefs in my life I just trusted that if they said it was the right thing to do they were right you know like when your parents told you to do something simply because they said so I knew that if I ever challenged my dad when he said that depending on how old I was at the time I either got spanked or grounded so imagine how I felt whenever I thought about questioning God so when I heard Jared say to these kids it's okay to question what you believe I felt like it gave me permission I wondered if there was something that I was missing was this why I felt so empty could my life actually be better maybe but how so that night I decided I'd read the Bible for myself and just test it if God's way is supposed to be better than just listening to people let me test it myself fast forward a couple of weeks Jared shows me this one verse in the Bible that changed my life it's in John 14:12 and Jesus says very truly I tell you whoever believes in me will do the works that I've been doing and they will do even greater things than these because I am going to the father greater things so wait hold up maybe I was reading it wrong originally but the way that I read it was Jesus the guy who walked on water and healed blind people was saying we can do the same works and even greater now here's the thing what just locked into my mind from reading this is that I felt like God just told me we can unlock superhuman abilities like Jesus when we believe in him now I felt like this was the greatest life hack ever so in this new season of testing what the Bible says I prayed something like this okay God I believe in Jesus Now give me an opportunity to follow you and show me how to do the greater things whatever that is and well I didn't have to wait long a few weeks after Jarrett randomly sent me a video of a guy named Wim Hoff a man who could control his body temperature to stay warm in freezing temperatures and had multiple Guinness World Records to prove it this video goes on to make us believe that whim is the only one who can do this but something weird happened I got this overwhelming feeling that this was the example of the greater superhuman ability that God wanted me to dig into so after tons of Googling and YouTube videos I learned that there were Tibetan Monks who could do similar to what whim can do through an exercise called Tumo and I saw that there was actually a Tibetan monk teaching the exercise in California so I saved up my money as a dishwasher and booked a flight the training was intense involving hours of explanation and exercises in very very cold rooms but by the end of it it worked but there was this one catch and this technique required me to be still sitting on the ground I wanted to do the things that whim could do I didn't see whim running and then stopping and sitting on the ground I he was constantly moving so I was frustrated I returned home and just kept searching I told God if he wanted me to keep doing this to show me how so after watching more Wim Hoff videos actually found his email address I reached out shared my story The Journey of the Tibet monks and my desire to learn from him now what's crazy is that a few minutes after I sent the email he responded he was encouraging me and saying that anyone could learn his methods and he'd be happy to train me this began my journey with wiof over the next year I would travel to Poland Amsterdam Spain Finland training with him learning to master the cold each step of the way was filled with crazy dangerous challenges that led me to sometimes face frostbite hypothermia and near-death EXP experiences why did I do it then honestly whenever I was afraid and in those situations I would just ask God to save me and show me what I needed to do next to get me through it because at this season remember I'm testing the Bible so I want to do everything with God so one of the scariest moments that I was in was when I was hanging on the side of a mountain thousands of feet in the air we were climbing at to train in the snow at the top of the mountain I had no safety hooks no training just following Wim Hof in a foreign country I was terrified I began doubting myself and God and thinking maybe I had been wrong all along so I just straight up I told God look you got me here I don't know what I'm doing and if you are real if you really are real I need you to get me through this so that we can show others that what you say in the Bible is real please just just get me through this now I didn't get an audible response I didn't hear something but I did feel in that moment peace and a reminder to keep breathing and moving forward so that's what I did I prayed every step of the way for the rest of that mountain climb and obviously I didn't die so finally after over a year of training with whim he was ready to test me to prove to the world that training your body to stay warm and extremely freezing cold temperatures was possible for anyone so for the final chapter of our time together we went to the Arctic Circle it was the place where I first saw him running in that video that Jared sent me it was when I originally got that overwhelming feeling that this would be the opportunity to see God do a greater greater thing through me so as I ran 5 kmet Barefoot through the snow and only shorts I felt so much peace and joy sure I met Wim Hoff and gained a superhuman ability to stay warm in frigid freezing cold temperatures but through testing the Bible verse of John 14:12 I realized that God was the only one who could help me achieve the impossible every step of the way in every area of my life very truly I tell you whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing and they will do even greater things than these because I am going to the father now I have one question for you what greater thing has God been calling you to do let me know I want to hear it simply hit subscribe and leave us a comment or review we'd love to be 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