How Will YOU Get Back Up?

I have spent a lifetime helping others. Its part of me. Its what I do. Along the way I lost site of my real path and veered and every time I did I found myself learning a new lesson.

My passion to help people developed into something even greater when I started research ways to help myself out of debt, out of fear, out of feelings of not being good enough. This whole new world opened up to me. If you could see my bookcase right now you would have proof! I probably have every self help book ever written, every self help CD and tapes (yes I did say tapes, that just shows you how long my journey has been so far!).

After reading and listening and putting certain things in place that made sense to me I felt my life start expanding and getting better. Funny thing is I still felt empty. I have helped so many people, have overcome my own transgressions, have overcome my own past but still felt empty. I then began searching for something to fill that void. After all…all the good books tell you that once you get rid of some of the trash in your head you have to fill it back up otherwise you create a vacuum.

This need to be fulfilled sucked the life out of me. I started making some of the worse decisions I could have ever made in my own life. My life spiraled out of control and BAMN out of no where I found myself back in the muck I had worked so hard to get out of.

Someone very special to me asked me a question at that point. He said to me, “Are you a Christian?”. I was a bit offended at first because of course I was a Christian. Then he asked, “What does that mean to you.” I was stumped. I knew it meant that I believed in God and that Jesus died for my sins, but that was it. Then, my patterns kicked into gear. Not the patterns that got me in trouble in the past, but the patterns of researching. I pulled out my Holy Bible, then another and then another. (Not sure why I had to find all the Holy Bibles in the house, but I did).

I started reading. Then I found online sites that would send me daily Scripture and other ways to look at life. I found the book “Crazy Love”, by Francis Chan. It talked about being a lukewarm Christian. I got really scared. I was living the life of a lukewarm Christian. Yes, I believe in Christ. Yes, I know he has always been with me. Yes, I know that all God wants is for us to love Him and walk in the light of Jesus. But, I was going everywhere else to seek fulfillment.

I didnt know how to pray. I didnt know how to ask God for help for me. I would always say my bedtime prayer that I learned as a child. “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, but if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. God bless mommy, God bless daddy, God bless my sisters and brothers and God please bring peace to this world.” But what does it all mean when I didnt even know how to ask God to help me.

I am not really sure if I read something or if someone said something to me, but something happened. I started, sometimes out loud and sometimes in my head, just having conversations. I just started telling God my heart. At the end of the conversatio
I would then say my prayer and thank God for all he has done for me and for being there by my side no matter what. I would say in Jesus name I pray. Amen.
Now I know for many of you you’re probably saying….”um..Duh”. But for many of you, you are still luke warm.

So here is my Success Coaching advice for today:
Do all you can to better yourself. (We are all sinners). Take time every single day to have a conversation with God. Let him know how you are feeling and ask for help. Yes, you can pray for others, but God is already taking care of them. Wake up with God and go to bed with God. And, whatever you do, do in the name of Jesus Christ. Really get to know him. He is the love, He is the light.

Since taking my own advice, my void has been filled. There are days when I need to pray extra long or get a bit frustrated, but when I finally lay my head dow
I know that there are reasons for all we go through. Your past does not define you, and its not about how you were knocked down, but how you decide to get back up. Let Jesus take your hand my friends.

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