Nehemiah Toles

“[In] the hotel room that night and I felt like the Lord had spoke[n] to me, like, 'Is that enough? Was that what you were looking for? Like, is this ever, is it going to be enough?'”

Nehemiah Toles · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-24

Toles recounted feeling the Lord speak to him in his hotel room the night he received college offers.

“From 13 years old to 16 years old… I felt like I struggled to connect with people, struggled to just articulate my thoughts. And so… I went back to church, [and] before I even started worshiping or anything like that, I felt the presence of God just hit me. All my anxiety, all my depression left, and I had tried everything else and nothing else was working,”

Nehemiah Toles · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-24

Toles described returning to church as a teenager and feeling his anxiety and depression leave him.

“I'm in the dugout. And [my coach] he's like… before [you] touched home plate, three Division-I coaches had just confirmed,”

Nehemiah Toles · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-24

Toles recalled being in the dugout when his coach told him three Division-I coaches had confirmed offers during a championship game.

“It's the scariest thing to be gifted at something that God did not call you to… Baseball was my passion, it wasn't my purpose,”

Nehemiah Toles · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-24

Toles explained why he walked away from baseball despite having Division-I offers and MLB scouts watching him.

“Everything that the world had offered me didn't satisfy me… I remember feeling so deceived and feeling so frustrated, because doing the things that people had told me to do [that] they said they would make me happy and would fulfill me… didn't,”

Nehemiah Toles · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-24

Toles reflected on his frustration that the things people told him would fulfill him did not actually satisfy him.

“When I stand before God… and he looks at me, he's gonna say well done, good and faithful servant. How did hitting home runs, how would that have served Him?”

Nehemiah Toles · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-24

Toles questioned how hitting home runs would have served God when standing before Him.

“I felt like God was calling me into full-time ministry and so… [During that] exact event, I went back to the green room and I called half of the Division-I coaches and told them I'm not going to come to their college, I'm going full-time into ministry,”

Nehemiah Toles · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-24

Toles described calling Division-I coaches to decline their offers after feeling called into full-time ministry at a community event.

“He made it so evident to me, He [said], obedience to me will always be insanity to the world,”

Nehemiah Toles · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-24

Toles said God made it evident to him that obedience to Him will always appear as insanity to the world.