Ok my people, I am back. I am here to state another tesimony about the amazing grace of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. If you dont like what I am sayin, dont read it, but if you do, I hope the Lord can speak His truth, through me.
So I am presently in Boise, Idaho visiting my cousins Liz and Tim and their family. They have such an awesome story!! man oh man....They moved to Boise in July of last year from Portland, Or because the Lord told them too. So they packed up their 3 kids and came over after some intense prayer to make sure that Jesus was speaking. They came over with two other families and another girl by the name of Becca (she is awesome and she is the worship leader). Today was the first time I was able to attend their church service and it rocked. Becca rocked the worship and Pastor Jason came through with a serious word from the Lord about how we are supposed to know when God is speaking to the desires of our hearts. Spoke to me fo sho. I had a pretty intimate time with the Lord during worship today and He was speaking to me about how amazing He was and how He has crazy awesome plans to use me! pretty cool stuff to hear.
But today, I really wanted to tell you about a worship experience that I had with the Lord outside of church. Last weekend, I drove down to Las Vegas for a professional kicking qualifier. That means if I kick good enough, I would be able to perform at a kicking combine in march in front of over half of the NFL. Well, I was concerned with the kicking, but it was pretty apparent that the Lord was concerned with something else, growth in Him!
My father told me that the great Raymond Berry (Johnny Unite`s go to wide receiver) would go out before every game and go through the entire game in his head. This man was on point. So I decided to do this before the qualifier. I went a couple hours early and went through every kick in my head that i was going to perform that day. I went out there thinking mental preparation and God was thinking spiritual. As I was visualizing, a Chris Tomlin song came on called "Indescribable". Not sure if you have heard of it but let me just tell you, amazing I tell ya. After about a third of the song, I was yelling that song out to God and worshipping Him in the middle of that football field. It was a very special moment for me! The reason why this was so special is because I normally go out on the football field to do one thing, get better at kicking a football. And it was truly liberating to me to be out in the middle of that field worshipping my king. I felt what Troy Polomalu feels all the time out there, that true peace of the Lord.
I came back, later that morning, and on my walk up the lord spoke to me saying "Danny, I want you to pray for all of these other kickers. I want you to pray that they have a peak performance and that my will be done in their lives". I was pretty taken aback by this statement because normally, I am looking at these guys as if they are my competition and this truly transformed the way I looked at them. God really showed me that I am free to cheer these guys on because no matter how good or how bad they do, that has absolutely nothing to do with what I do and the plans that Lord has for my life. It really set me free to do my best. This leads us to the scripture
Galatians 6:4-5 "Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won’t need to compare yourself to anyone else. For we are each responsible for our own conduct."
God clearly says in this scripture that we need to be focusing on what we do, not what others do. I think that we get so concerned about what others are doing, that we forget to focus on the simple tasks that the Lord has given us now. Remember my friends, we do have forever to look forward to but the now is the only thing that we can seize! I hope that you gain strength from the lord today and that He will speak to you in everyday things as you worship Him in everyday things.
God came to us in the flesh so we could learn to understand that relationships are the number one priority here on earth and our relationship with Jesus will directly impact every single other relationship that we have!
So please pray for my cousins ministry, its called River`s Edge Church. God is working on using them in a huge way! Gods timing is perfect and we gotta trust in that.
You take care and be blessed. Love you
This is such an amazing testimony Danny. I know I already heard it, but it's still awesome. Recently God has been challenging me to have Him involved in my art. He's changing my desire from wanting to create something that puts people in awe, to something that makes people in awe of God. That's my prayer for you; that when people look at you and your talent, that they'd be in awe of God.
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