Checking In

It's been a while since I've been out here.  I've been really busy but it has been fun and I have been enjoying the ride.  God is truly awesome; to see Him blessing you and blessing others right before your very own eyes is just amazing.  Yet sometimes I wonder should we really be amazed by God.  Hear me out...If we truly believed that God will do what He said He would do then why are we so surprised by what He does for His people?

Well, that's not really what today's blog is about, but I thought I would put that question out there.  Today I want to propose that we each take ourselves on a journey for the remainder of the year 30 days at a time.  Sometimes we plan goals for ourselves and they seem so HUGE and insurmountable; that we give up before we even get started.  Therefore, I am suggesting that we, you and I, make a decision today to make lifestyle changes but to look at them in 30-day blocks (increments).  Also, don't set a definitive end-goal at the end of the 30 days.  Praise God at the end of the 30 days; rejoice and be glad.  If you accomplish that lifestyle change at the end of the 30 days then move on to the next one; if not, then keep going with the current task at hand.  Don't put it down until you have accomplished the task!!

Here's the next part of the challenge:  make these lifestyle changes spiritual in nature.  I know there are numerous things in the natural realm that we want to work on but consider this, "When we clean ourselves up on the inside, the outside can only benefit."  So my first 30 day challenge, remember, the purpose of this entire blog for me is about being transparent, so my first 30 day challenge is to fast from cursing.  Yep, I said it, I curse; and sometimes I get on a roll with it that those who know me by the Spirit would not even recognize me.  I realize now that I need to hate it, cursing, just like every other sin.  Not only that, as a Minister of the Gospel, my language definitely needs to change.  In fact, my brother James has told me in the third chapter of his book, "That blessings and cursings should not come out of the same mouth."

As much as I desire to lose weight and get my body back that is hiding on the inside underneath all these extra layers, I desire more to be clean and fit for the Master's use.  I hope my transparency helps you in some way to examine yourselves.  Remember, as we draw closer to God He will draw closer to us.  And think about it, to be close enough to the Father to feel His hand upon you, for Him to breathe on you, to feel His heartbeat, nothing, nothing will be withheld from you.  Truly, the best is yet to come if we only believe.  I believe!!