Life gets busy

Hello I know it has been a while, but it seems as if life has pushed the fast forward button on me.  I am just realizing how fast this life passes us by.  I do not want to miss out on the opportunities that God places before me.  I am hoping to share these moments with someone that God places in my life and with my friends and family.  I want to make every moment count.  I have always allowed my coaching to interrupt my life.  It has caused me to miss out on a lot of good moments.  Now, I love coaching and have many great memories and will continue to coach, but I do not want to miss out on the relationships God has created in my life.  I know he is constantly calling us and staying with us,  its nice when he decides to let us lay in green pastures, but right now, he is walking with me through the valley of the shadow of death.  This is a good thing, the fact that there is a shadow means there is light and that light is Jesus.  I am making it a point in my life to slow down some and see what God has made, not just the beauty of this earth but the relationships in my life.  I pray and hope that each of you gets to enjoy every moment with your loved ones, friends and family.  Be blessed and know Jesus is Lord over All.

One Love, One King, All Christ!

Nothing New Under the Miami Sun

I have been studying and praying about the journey we take in our Christian life, especially here in Miami.  There are so many opportunities to grab a hold of here in Miami, both good and bad.  A lot of the times we choose the “bad” thing because it feels good.  Well, Satan (accuser) knows if he can help grant us what we feel is instant relief or satisfaction then typically as humans we take it.  I believe though if we started to realize that the instant relief we think we are getting is just allowing the chains of spiritual bondage to tighten up we would re-direct our hearts to Jesus.  Now, we try everything to fill the void that only God can fill.  No matter what you try to fill that void up with in Miami, its all meaningless, if Christ is not at the center of it.  When King Solomon wrote there is nothing new under the sun, I wonder if he had any idea of the impact that would have thousands of years later allowing us to realize chasing after these things that “fulfill” us will leave us empty.  We at some point, and unfortunately that point is typically rock bottom, need to accept the fact that Jesus is the only piece that can fill that void we have.  I look into my own life and see where I choose to sin and it breaks my heart to know that these are my choices I am making and not the Devil. Now, Once I have given into temptation, the flood gates of attacks are on, but if I could only focus on Christ and truly understand the depth of Jesus’ sacrifice then I would keep my eye on the cross cause even in sin, Jesus says I love you and I paid for that, let me dust you off and lets keep moving on.  You see everything in Christianity comes back to the cross and to what Jesus did for us.  It makes complete sense to me now why the Devil would push and pursue for John 3:16 to become so commercialized, It is the scripture that encompasses all of what God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit chose to sacrifice in order for US to spend eternity with him.  This truth is the reason why I will hold firm to understanding that there is Nothing New Under The Miami Sun! Amen.

From Hate to Love

I am humbled by the power of Jesus and I saw it today in the healing he has brought to my relationship with my father.  This was something that was very wounded and painful growing up and even into my late 20’s.  I mean we definitely did better when I was older, but when I was young I was so Afraid of him.  I didn’t like a lot of the things he used to say and do.  This came to a moment in our relationship where we faced off.  I explained to him all the hurt I felt and how that helped in molding my sin life.  Well, it was an amazing day when we had a chance to sit down and chat about his life, at a park on a bench.  When I heard his story I realized the devil had just been passing down these lies in our family from generation to generation.  We reconciled that day, but that was not the only miracle.  It was about a month later I was scheduled to meet with my Pastor friend who was mentoring me and to my surprise my dad was there.  My pastor had called and asked him how important was my relationship to him and he showed up.  He was the first father/parent in over 18 years that ever actually showed up.  We had a chance to talk and work everything out.  It was just me and him, it was an amazing feeling to realize that my dad did love me. From that moment on our relationship has grown in immeasurable ways.  Then with the passing of my mom it almost seemed as God had prepared us to draw closer to each other because of the impact she had on both of our lives.  We now discuss everything and anything for hours upon hours, we go out to eat, go to church and I can honestly say without any hesitation, I LOVE MY DAD!!!  It is amazing to see Jesus mold someone and even more when he does like he says in 2 Corinthians 5:17 ” you are a new creation, in with the new and the Old is GONE!!”  I saw that transformation in my Dad’s life and I am thankful for a God who can take hate, a very strong word, and mold it into LOVE, a more Powerful word.  Now another word I learned a few weeks ago is the foundation of this wisdom in my life and that word is also the most important word in the human language: relationship. Every situation that occurs in our lives relates to some type of relationship, without it Love could not travel on the tracks that relationship creates.  Therefore, if you fix the relationship problem, you can fix Any problem. Thank you God for fixing and blessing my relationship with My Dad! Amen