Faith Over Fear and Disobedience

One of my dearest friends is in a battle for his life. As he lays on his hospital bed with tubes in him and a machine breathing for him, his Faith never wavered before this moment. I went to see him and had a chance to talk to him and he trusted God in this moment in his life. This is the darkest moment of his life and Christ is working to shine light in this darkness and here I am everyday choosing to live in disobedience and not in the Glory of who Jesus is. I know Jesus and I know He is real and what He can do and yet I choose selfishly many times, Me.

It cannot be moments like this that only bring us back to Christ, once we accept Him our life needs to change and become His. I want it but never want it enough and turn to worldly things to deal with my struggles and lies that attack me. My desire to serve God is there but is weighed down by my choices. The bondage that keeps me pulled down instead of Free in Christ. The lives that come across our paths are there for us to share who Jesus is in us and what He does for us. We have jobs and we have responsibilities and I know this is true for most of us. However, our number 1 priority and what should be MY NUMBER 1 is to share the love of Jesus. I can do better!!

I ask for all of you who take the time to read this to please pray for my dear friend David Spell and that God will heal him on this side of Heaven that he may resume being the awesome father and husband that he is. I pray as we all have people we care about going through difficult times that we would pray for them and offer our hearts, hands and souls to them. I lost my Godmother last week, Aunty Marie, and her life is being celebrated tomorrow. She was involved in my life a lot when I was growing up and well into my 20’s. I haven’t seen her in quite a few years, but I know she suffered with lupus and that was a battle she had for many years. I want the Jesus and the Holy Spirit that is in me to continue to speak to me and that I would choose to start to listen. I want to do God’s work and I want to do it for the people I love and for people that He places in my path.

My Faith must be what I hold onto, to trust He will heal, He will comfort and He will guide me to His glory! I love Jesus, I truly do, but if you were to look at my relationship with him, you would say we are maybe friends! I do not give him my all and make excuses. It is time to stop being childish and DO HIS WILL that God has set upon me to do! Do not wait, but continue to treat people well and give them the extra kindness they need. We live in a world filled and powered by negativity, but Jesus is that Positive Charge that no darkness or negativity can stop. There might be bumps and bruises and growing pangs, but it is in Trusting HIM in all times that we truly grow in Love and Relationship with Him. I choose faith, Jesus knows how difficult it is for us to have faith, that He only requires Faith the size of a mustard seed. Within that size of Faith we can move mountains because He moves them for us.

Choose your Faith over Fear and Disobedience my Friends.. I love you all and please pray for my friend David and for all of my family of my Godmother Marie who will be saying their farewell’s on this side of Heaven tomorrow.

One Love, One King, All Christ

Waiting for change

I have come to realize there is no waiting for change. You have to put effort into what you want to change. That effort can be a new routine or passion but it can also be faith. We need to have faith that what change needs to happen God will make happen.

If you have a desire on your heart and you haven’t seen it to come true, you are just on God’s timing and nothing else. It is not that you have done something, it is that you have not done something, which is trust in your faith that God will see it through. If you truly believe that God loves you and that is Him in the Trinity you need to stop doubting that you are not worth it or that somehow you are missing the mark differently than the rest of His children.

The truth is God The Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are 100% on your side and want what’s best for you and better yet they have created the best! You just have to have faith and patience to receive it when they see fit. I am living this right now and praying that I may meet someone to become my wife as I have learned since putting myself first, God has designed me to share the love I have for Him with a woman and that I will be able to have a family of my own. I pray that you are not waiting on change but putting your heart, effort and desire into your faith for whatever is pressing on your heart!

One Love, One King, All Christ!

The Little Things matter

This is something that the Holy Spirit put on my heart the other day during a wrestling practice. I noticed that even though the kids were working hard, there was one drill where I saw and heard a few of them missing the little details of the drill. When asked why, all of those that were questioned answered selfishly. They weren’t doing that part of the drill, which was verbalizing “I Am A Champion”, because of _________. You can fill in the blank, there was every excuse to make the drill just a little bit easier instead of focusing on the little thing. As I was talking to them about the importance of the little things in life God encouraged me to look at my own life.

It was when I started paying attention to completing the little daily tasks that I noticed big changes. Instead of saying I am going to get up and do a quiet time and write and pray to start my day, I just got up and spoke to God. Then I read maybe one or two verses and let those sit with me while I drank my coffee. I was spending quality time with my GOD and not check listing it like a chore list. I want to know in detail how God loves me and how Jesus has molded me in His image. I want to see the little changes He has made because of the little things I am now paying attention to. Those wrestlers may not understand exactly why or how that little thing makes a difference, but they will.

We learn from repetition and the more we say or do something the more it becomes a part of us. I am a huge believer in the power of words and have learned, even in my joking around, I need to be careful of what my tongue says. However, when we repeat something over and over, eventually our entire brain and all of our consciousness begin to believe it which then allows our souls to validate it. The more I say God loves me, even if my feelings don’t feel it, my soul will believe it. I have coached for over 20 years in the sports of wrestling and football and I have implemented the chant of “I Am A Champion” almost since the beginning. There are coaches today that I coached that use it with their teams. I have seen that chant, when taken seriously and to the heart make champions out of young men. There is something that is inside of us that when we believe the words we tell our self we follow. When you stay positive and do not allow the lies and whispers of despair from the evil one and your flesh get in the way you can accomplish a lot.

There is a quote by Charles Spurgeon that says it best ” The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that we will do everything.” This has been me in the past without a doubt, but over the last 9 months God has made an impact on me. Since focusing on doing a little instead of talking a lot I have lost over 60 pounds, I read daily, exercise daily and spend a lot less time worrying about the lies that have kept me bound and led me to be disobedient to my FATHER GOD. I would like to encourage you to take time to focus on the little things with God the same way you would when you want to know more about a person you meet and like. This is our creator, who desires love and communication, He is not a thing that we pray to but a friend, counselor, King and redeemer who wants to love on us, protect us and really get to know us. God is like the person we have told the same story to a thousand times, but they act like it was the first time they’ve heard the story every time because they know how excited you are to tell it. He knows everything and our every word, but still LOVES to hear it when we say it.

My hope is to Fall in Love with my first Love, Jesus and let my actions be guided by the Holy Spirit so I may live being led by the Spirit and not by the flesh!!! Selah!

One Love, One King, All Christ