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Where's Your Focus?

4/21/2020

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​As I'm writing this post, we are in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.  Our city, as are most cities is in shut down mode.  he times now are very uncertain.  Businesses  have closed down and individuals have lost their jobs.  

There are statistics online everday, reporting new coronavirus cases and new deaths due to the virus.  You can go on social media and read about all kinds of conspiracy theories.  All the media is focusing on is disease and death.  

​​I've written about focus and how it is a faith seed.  Focus is very powerful.  I've also written about lower level focus.  Lower level focus is a very powerful root of fear.  

If  you have higher level focus, it leads you into faith.  Lower level focus will lead you into fear and intimidation.  

There is a good story in scripture illustrating this very powerful truth.  In the gospel of Mark 4:35-39,  Jesus and the disciples got into a boat to cross to the other side of a lake.  Soon after getting in the boat and sailing to the other side, a fierce storm arose.  High waves were breaking in the boat.  The boat had water coming in it. 

Jesus was in the back of the boat sleeping.  The story says the disciples woke Jesus and shouting, "Master, don't you care that we're going to drown?"  The story goes on to say that Jesus woke up.  When He did, He rebuked the wind and said to the waves, "Silence!  Be still!  Suddenly the wind stopped and there was a great calm.  


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Sorry I'm Late, But I Forgot My Why

1/9/2020

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I knew I had been away for awhile.  It wasn't until I took a look at my blog posts that I realized exactly how long I'd been away.  Here it is 2020 and I have been gone since June of 2018!  June of 2018????  Yes, exactly!  That's 559 days!!!  559 days?? Yes, 559 days.  

The last post I wrote (June 6,2018) was titled; "I Have Faith, Why Am I Stuck?"  That sounds like a very credible post, doesn't it?  "...Why Am I Stuck?".  Then I'm 559 days to my next post. Credible?  Really??  Not so much, it seems. It looks like I should be the very definitition of stuck.  Heck, I could probably write a book on being stuck.  

The best question to ask then, is why was I stuck?  Why did it take me so long to get into the groove and write again?  The reason is...I simply lost my "why".  Some may then ask, "you lost your why?"  What in the heck does that mean?  

Simply, I lost track of my reason for moving forward.  I lost my motivator.  You see, what happened was that I was doing that thing, then I was doing that thing.  Then I'd jump over to another task.  Then I jumped over and started building a course on "Hearing God's Voice".  I'm still working on that by the way.  Then I jumped over and worked on that book.  Then I thought of another book.  

I was doing all these things.  But, I they were just things I was doing.  They were tasks I felt I needed to do.  But, why was I doing them?  I kept on doing them and thought of why I was.  But, I didn't have a definite "why" that was driving me..pushing me.  

"Well, you're doing those things for the Lord, aren't you?", I'd ask myself.  I wasn't even sure if I was.  People had told me those were good things.  But, I kept wondering, "has God actually called me to those things?"  

Then I went back over my whole life story from childhood until now.  I rediscovered those things and situations that made me feel alive and also those things and situations that drained me.  God had given me signposts all along that had been leading me to what I was to be doing now.  

God had been given me signposts all along, but somehow, I'd missed some of them.  The biggest signpost had to do with my own life.  My life career wise, over the last 4 or 5 years has been a transition.  If it wasn't for my stubborness, it would have been a shorter period of time. 

When I was laid off from my position in the corporate world, I went through a struggle, both professionally and with my identity.  I'd discovered others were going through the same thing.  Most Christians, probably at least in the 80% range, have no clue what God has called them to.  This is much the same struggle I had had.  

So, my "why" was to help others to manage their transitions, discover their gifts and callings and manage their mindsets and live in their identity in order to go into what I call eight spheres of influence and fulfill the destiny God has for them in their spheres.  A deeper explanation of this is for a deeper time and place.  But that is my "why".  That is what I'm about.  It'll take over fear and get into to faith. 

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You Can't Work Up Faith

9/5/2017

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So many of us try to work so hard.  We work so hard in trying to believe The Bible, what Jesus said and what Paul wrote.  So many have worked so hard and given up to the extent they've created their own belief system, based on their own perceptions. 

We're like the father who had the demon possessed son.  He told Jesus that if He could do anything to please help his son.  Jesus then responded "If you can?  All things are possible to him who believes".  The father then responded, "I believe, but help me in my unbelief."

That's where many of us are in this walk of faith we're taking.  Intellectually, we believe what the Bible and what Jesus said.  But, in our hearts, down where it really  matters, we struggle with unbelief.  Some of us struggle mightily with unbelief.  

Why do you struggle so much?  Why do I struggle so much?  We want so much to believe, yet we find it so hard to believe at the same time.  You look around and see the way things are in the world or perhaps even your own life, and those things you see, really cause you to struggle. 

But there's great news.  Faith doesn't have to be that kind of a struggle.  Keep in mind, I didn't say faith would come easy or that we'll have the kind of faith we need all the time in every single situation.  But, faith doesn't have to be the struggle you and I often think it is. 


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Why God?

1/19/2017

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Often our Christian journey is full of ups and downs.  I'm sure you've had times where you were going through trials and asked God why you were going through that. 

​I remember when I was laid off from my corporate job.  My reviews were good.  I was told, I was doing a good job.  Yet, I received a call from my manager stating that my job was eliminated and she told me about the severance package I would receive. 

That was shocker and  really caused me to scratch my head.  I never saw it coming.  On the other hand, who ever does see that kind of thing coming.  It's not like they announce it before it happens.  

I began to ask myself why.  I thought back over the course of my time with the company and wondered why it  happened.  They told me it wasn't because of my  performance, but that due to cuts, my job was eliminated.  

I then began to ask God why?  Why did He take my job from me?  Why did He allow this to happen? Wasn't He supposed to be our provider?  Wasn't He supposed to be taking care of me?  I asked God "why" plenty of times. 

Can you identify with that?  Have you ever asked God "why" when you've been through a challenge?  If you're like me, you have.  I'm sure we all have.  

But, to ask God "why" something happens to us is a question a victim would ask and it causes to feel even more like a victim.  You are not a victim.  

God doesn't see you as a victim nor does He see me as one.  He sees us as His children, royal heirs.  God refuses to speak to the spirit of fear.  

The right question to ask God is:
  1. What does this mean?
  2. What should I do?

These questions free us for our purpose rather than keep us in bondage to our past. 

So, don't ask God "why"?  Ask Him "what"?

​Blessings



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God Reveals Himself

6/2/2015

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In my last post,  I shared how believing "God is", is the first step of faith.  But, if you're like me, you've struggled at times with Him being there.  Perhaps, you've prayed with little or no results for a time.  Or maybe, you've been praying for an important answer to your prayer or you needed supernatural guidance, only to be met with silence.

I've been there, and have experienced those things.  So, don't feel you're alone in experiencing the silence or that you're a lesser human being or citizen of the Kingdom of God.  At different times, we've all experienced that silence,  that leads us to ask "God, where are you?".

This wasn't the only time or the last time I've experienced God's silence, but several years ago I was struggling with it.  Everyone had gone to bed and I was alone in the living room.  I sat on the floor to pray and see if God would speak to me through His written word. 

I prayed a simple prayer that night.  I simply prayed, "Lord, please reveal yourself to me".  I was expecting for God to reveal Himself to me little by little, over time.  I wasn't expecting what happened next.

Shortly after I prayed that prayer, I felt a sensation like a wave flowing over me.  As this wave flowed over me, I sensed and felt immense joy.  I was close to laughing as this joy flowed over me. 

That wave left me.  Then I sensed another stronger wave flowing over me.  As this wave came, I began praying lost souls.  This wasn't some general, nebulous prayer I was praying.  Specific names of specific people were coming to my mind, one after the other.  I automatically began praying for them to receive salvation through Christ.  Name after name came into my mind. 

Not only names, but for some people I saw faces as I was praying for them.  One name after the other.      
After a time, this wave began to leave me.  Shortly, I sensed another wave coming upon me.  This wave was stronger than the first two.  When this wave came over me, I felt something I had never felt before in my life.  I had known the loss of both of my parents.  I also had known the loss of three grandparents.  But, what I felt with this third wave, was something I've never experienced.

When this wave came over me, I was feeling a deeply heartfelt, gut wrenching grief.  This was grief I was feeling welling up from deep within me.  I ended with my face to the floor quietly crying.  I had never felt any grief like this grief.  It was deep, from within the depths of my soul.  As I was experiencing this, the scripture came to my mind from Ephesians 4:30.  "And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God. 

This wave began to leave.  Another wave came over me.  Each wave was stronger than the one before it.  With this next wave, I felt like a little child on the lap of my Daddy.  I actually sat there on the floor, wrapping my arms around me as if my Daddy were hugging me and I was hugging him.  I was experiencing God as my Father, my Daddy.

That wave left me and an even stronger wave came over me.  When this wave came, I fell flat, with my face to the floor.  I knew, without a doubt, that I was in the room with royalty.  I was experiencing God as King.  This wave was so strong, I had to ask God to please stop.  I couldn't withstand another wave.  Each successive wave was stronger.

This last wave left me.  Then I looked around the room. The waves were gone.  Everything in the room looked the same and familiar.  But, I was still sensing God's presence in that room.  He had revealed Himself to me, like I asked.

The first step of faith, is to believe that God is.  Without truly believing God is, that He is truly there, you and I can't take any more steps toward faith.  And it's impossible to please God without faith.

If you are struggling with this, it's okay.  As I did, simply ask God to reveal Himself to you.  He may not do it as dramatically with you.  He may do it more dramatically.  He may do it right away.  Or me may do it over the course of time.  But, God will reveal Himself to you.

Then you can take that first step from fear, knowing God is, and begin to step into faith.
 


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He Is...The First Step of Faith

5/28/2015

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I need to make a confession to you.  I've shared how I've experienced fears in my life.  Most of us have.  You've experienced some degree of fear in your life.  It may not be constant fear, but you've experienced it.  I'm not sure about you, but in those times when I've experienced fear, I've felt God was very distant.  Or do I dare say what I'm about to say?  There were times where I even doubted God's very existence.  If you were honest, there've been times when you've asked, "God are you really there?".  During those times when I wondered about Him being there, my hope was low.  And of course, without hope, faith suffers for hope is the foundation of faith (Hebrews 11:1).  

On page 17 of her book, "Sometimes He Whispers, Sometimes He Roars", Marilynn Chadwick relates how she had been meditating on Hebrews 11:6 most of the day.  As she was meditating while drifting off to sleep, she sensed God telling her, not in a whisper, but in a roar, "Most folks don't think I'm real."

My wife was reading Marilynn's book and she related that story to me.  It struck a chord with me, yet seemed so hard to believe.  "Most folks don't think I'm real", God said?  I thought, c'mon of course most folks, at least Christians, think God is real.  But, do they?  Really? 

My observations have seen that so many who say they are followers of Christ, have no problem believing in Jesus by faith.  Yet, when it comes to living in the day to day, they fall back and try to please God by works. 

But, in Hebrews 11:6, is a very powerful statement.  "And without faith it's impossible to please God. For He who comes to God must believe that He is.  

Let me ask you.  Do you really, I mean really, in the depths of your heart and soul, believe God is there?  Really?  Do you believe to such an extent that your life isn't lived by professing a belief in Jesus but living as a practical atheist?  I hope and trust you do.  But, if after searching within yourself, you find that you're not sure that God is really there and is a living being, ask Him to reveal Himself to you.  In my next post, I'm going to reveal how God did just that for me. 

You can't please God while walking in fear, but He is there.  That is your first step in your walk toward faith.  Believe that God is.

There are many who believe in a nebulous idea of an impersonal universe that rewards.  That makes no sense whatsoever.  An impersonal universe doesn't have the ability to reward. But a real, living and loving God does.

In  your heart of hearts and deep in your soul believe in a God who is personal, real and loving.  That is your first step from fear to faith.   

  

 



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