The Truth is Outside of all Fixed Patterns

2 Kings 5:14-15

14 So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy.

15 Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

-Bruce Lee

Today has been something amazing. There have been a lot of transformations and realizations. Strengths and abilities have been uncovered, and I have been able to freely express myself to the people I care most about. 

For the last month I have been taken out to the wilderness for hours on end. My sundays have been spent with me getting to know myself and who I am in God. More importantly I have been discovering who I really am. Incredible healing in both a mental and physical nature along with my heart and soul being restored. Trial by fire, trial by pressure, refinement by the almighty makers hand. 

I have short term goals to reach now, but I know God will need me to be flexible. He has supplied me with all I need. He will supply me with everything I need in the future and my worries should never be anything passed what I have to do for him. 

Physically, I am working towards my shredded physique everyday. I have seen how the mental attitude develops the physical attributes of a champion. I have also realized that I do not have to be mainstream. I can be natural, handsome, and be all that God wants me to be. Sure there are struggles still here, but man I am alive and I am making it happen step by step!

Mentally, I am in the best place I have been in all my life. My nervous system is slowly being restored, and while there are so many things still yet to be cleared up neurologically I can really say that God has really shown me the best way to be. He has shown me that true power is in the mind, and I should guard it from impurity. 

Spiritually, I feel I have grown into a warrior. I tried to jump so many stages from being a cowboy into a lover imitating a fighter and wanting to be a king. Yet, I lacked that warrior spirit. It is what makes men able to fight what they believe in, seek out goals, and conquer themselves as they follow God's lead. They say the best leaders first have to be good followers, and I am really taking that to heart. As I have gone through the word and books such as "Wild at Heart" and "Fathered by God." I realize how important it is for a man in every part of his being to be healed, focused on the prize, and God will supply the rest. 

In reality I have seen the restorative love that God has for everyone of us. It amazes me that someone would love me so much and be so patient with me through such a long time. I am thankful that though I was the prodigal he welcomed me back, gave me a ring, and said my Son I love you.

In closing it has been an epic 6 months (with many more victories to come). I have an amazing support system! Family, friends, colleagues, along with brothers and sisters in Christ. Sometimes we may not understand where God is leading us, but know that his plans for you are good. His thoughts are not our thoughts and his ways are not our ways. Just be WILLING! 

Stay Blessed, Well, and Favored my Friends,

Luis

Willingness to Thrive

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. -Aristotle

Over the past few weeks I have had much introduced and much removed from my life. I have learned the true value of self, friendship, and the value of prayer. I have gone out to the trails and just had God time, and frankly it has been an amazing experience. 

Over the past few months I have been reading "Fathered by God" and "Wild at Heart" with my guys group at church. I never realized so much of my life in the past was shaped by the way I had been brought up. Don't get me wrong my parents are amazing people, and the reason I am still alive to this date. Without their prayers I would not be even 1/1,000,000th of the man I am today. However, there are patterns that needed to be broken in me. Places that I had to heal in my heart, and really just be remolded. I learned in my readings of that and the word that a man is meant to go through phases. If one of those phases is missed the other one will lack and so on. Pretty much all this has allowed me to go back and heal, forgive, and repair the past issues with my heart. Realizing that God wants me to be complete and totally focused on his goals not my own earthly visions of what should happen.

Realizing today that I have a lot of natural talents, and because I was afraid of being scrutinized while also being unwilling to make mistakes. The majority of that process has been healed. I'm far from perfect for he is the only perfect one, but I am on my way. 

My goals and dreams are coming closer and closer every time. I have faced my giants, but there will always be more... I have fought my battles, but this is an on going war... yet the battle I am most aware of now is the battle of self. 

I am thankful for God sending me people to pray for me and just be there for me to help in my walk, and amazingly my past physical ailments are starting to become less present. 

The only thing I know is that my will to be in his will is the only thing that matters. My heart complete and my willingness will help me thrive. Thrive in service, action, humility, love, and most of all my calling. 

Are you in a place that you want to change? Change is possible. He grabbed the ones people saw as unfit and made them kings and warriors. He wants to do the same for you. You just have to be willing to thrive and not just survive. Leave everything behind and let him take the wheel. 

I have realized this not only spiritually, but physically. He grabbed me from a physically overweight out of shape individual to a motivated and aspiring trainer/therapist. 

If you don't think not taking care of yourself physically causes illness talk to me. I can explain to you what atrophy of all the muscles on a side does, along with loss of ligamentous stability, and loss of neurological capacity and coordination can do. It's time to stop slacking. Be willing to give it all up because God wants you to thrive. 

I'll be back soon. Studies call. 

Much Love my Friends.