There is None Like Him

These past few weeks have been super busy and awesome! God has been revealing himself to me a lot lately and I feel so blessed. To begin to receive God's heart for the Nations is an intensely powerful thing. I have been really meeting with God during worship the past few weeks. It has been so amazing! Its not about me or what I do. Those two statements are so selfish and do not involve God at all. Its about God and being used by him. If God said "Nick I am done using you" I would have to be okay with that. He saved me! What more needs to be done than that? Nothing! God has radically changed my life and given me passion and joy and zeal and truth! I want others to know God the way that I have been able to. I want to see people walk in the fullness of what God has for them. I am tired of Satan lying to people who are children of God. Its time to stand up for what we believe in and seek God like we never have before! Its time to pray more than normal, Fast more often than not, Worship more than Sunday mornings, Read the word and meditate on it! We need to seek God like other peoples lives depend on it. One of the Leaders of our Base passed away last week. His name was Kevin Darrough. He died of Cancer but battled it for 8 strong years! He was supposed to die 3 months earlier but by the Grace of God he fought until the past week. This guy was amazing! Even though I did not know him that well I feel like I did. He may not of won thousands of people to Christ but what he did do was impact peoples lives forever. Any person that Kevin Darrough impacted, they are lasting fruit of his life. He was a man who never held back anything! He was sold out for Christ. He brought joy to a room just by being there. He was hilarious! He gave prophetic words to people all the time. I was told that sometimes during worship he would just bust out in song before God, and he could not sing! Sometimes he would just begin dancing before the Lord but he didn't know how to dance. He loved God so much and never cared what other people thought of him. And so Kevin's life with God has spoken to me the past few weeks. The torch has been passed. Its now our chance to live our lives sold out for Christ. I want to be live Kevin Darrough and never hold back. I want to see peoples lives radically changed and have them be everlasting fruit! Kevin has inspired me to live my life in a way that always seeks God and never holds back. I want to give it my all during worship every day we have it. I want to pray for others as I would want them to pray for me. I want to live out what I learn in my quiet times and in lectures! I want to see us as Christians seek God more and love him more and be like him more. We all have areas of our lives that need improved. Lets go to God and not hold back, Lets seek his will and his plans! When is the last time you asked God his plans for your life? Try it and see what happens, see what he says?
God is at work in all our lives! whether we are at home, college, working, overseas. He has radical plans for each one of our lives. We need to trust God with our lives. We need to lay down our own desires and pick up his. If God created you and knows everything about you then why is it so hard for us to trust him fully. Because of satan and his lies and our flesh! The last thing satan wants is for us to walk in the fullness of Gods plans for our lives. Knowing God and growing closer with him gives us Faith that moves mountains, Joy that surpasses all understanding. Love that captivates the hardest heart. The statement "There is none like him" is completely true and I love it because it sets God apart from all the rest. You know? No one else on this earth compares to him at all. I love thinking about that and as I continue to serve here in YWAM Honolulu please also realize that also. That there truly is none like Him.

- Blessings!

Nick Triola

Back in Action

The picture above is CJ and I posing by his back windshield that got shattered today at the beach, Below is a pro surfer at Pipeline.

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the picture above is the sunset at the nearest beach, below is the mountains, this is the view from the porch right by my bedroom.

Back in Action out here at YWAM Honolulu. The students are now all here and have began their first 2 weeks of DTS. So far so good I am still learning names. I have been doing very well. God has been challenging me with Leadership lately. I am in charge of work duties in the Yard with students from Monday through Friday. So that is exciting! We all work together raking, mowing, weed eating, trimming trees, washing cars also. Its weird to not have Brandon here because last quarter him and I really hung out a lot. We did everything together. So now that he is on outreach God is really challenging me to walk in my own shoes and live out his calling on my own. Which is fun and hard and good for me all at the same time. I am so excited for this next quarter with DTS. After meeting with the Director of the school, I was asked to be involved with one of the teams for the next 3 months. So along with Base staff I am now currently a DTS Support Staff. Meaning I am a part of a team until they go on outreach. It is so exciting and also very challenging. God is really stretching me a lot and I love it. It sounds weird to love a challenge that seems impossible but for me its really good because it causes me to lean on God. I cannot staff without God. I cannot live without God. So having more responsibilities here is causing me to go to God and really rely on him for help. Its great I love it. Another thing that I forgot to mention was that I am also helping run evangelism for this school. Its so much fun and at first I thought I would be so bad at it but so far I love and God challenges me every time we go out Tuesday Night. Last week I talked with an Atheist and actually really enjoyed our conversation. He got angry and wanted me to leave but I told hey I had a lot of fun talking with you! All that apologetics studying I have been doing is reallly paying off. It is allowing me to see things clearly and also point out falsehoods in the lives of people who deny God. Not in a judging way but in a way that I can understand their reasoning but at the same time have a rebuttle with Truth. Its really awesome! So at this current stage of my life God is really challenging me as a leader. I am in charge of a lot of stuff on the Base and also have a small role in the DTS school this next 3 months. I am super excited to see how God continues to reveal himself to me and how he continues to use me!


Please pray for me in this way:
- Time Management
- My daily devotions to God would stay priority
- Patience with God and his plans for my life
- More wisdom and discerment as a leader
- Boldness when sharing the Gospel During evangelism!
- Constant revelation in my life with God