more left in the tank

Maybe the reason we look in the other lane in a race is not because we want to see where the other person is to know our status but to inform what we're capable of.

I dont think we know that.

I know that people who wake up everyday not knowing their a creation of the most high, fearfully and wonderfully made for His purpose and for a day like Today!

I pray we all wake up with that purpose.

Ephesians 3:20 TPT

[20] Never doubt God’s mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your wildest imagination! He will outdo them all, for his miraculous power constantly energizes you.

https://bible.com/bible/1849/eph.3.20.TPT

what's a brand mission?

ChatGPT said make a clear 2 - 3 sentence brand mission.

I know what the mission is.

John 3:16 Make disciples of all nations.

(And, subsequently what I need as well, John 3:17 Jesus did not come in to the world to condemn the world but to save the world)

But the mission for PRY THRGH.

It must be God in golf.

And finding your purpose through the struggle.

Count it all joy brothers when you seek trials of various kinds because you know the testing of your faith produces steadfastness and let steadfastness have its full effect that you may be perfect and complete lacking in nothing.  James 1:2-4

Called for a purpose

As much as I'd love to be a YouTube golfer creating a community with the love of the Lord.  I'm reminded tonight through my Life group (Aka Bible study), to be grateful.  I didn't realize but I am, and demonstrate it much through my work, very grateful to God for finding purpose.  And I sometimes and somewhat feel guilty for saying the work I do right now.  It's lawyer adjacent, it's working directly with AI, it's multi-cultural,  I get to talk a lot.  I love what I do and am thankful and grateful for that purpose.  Even, and especially, when I feel I am not enough.  He made me perfect in weakness.  And gave me purpose where I thought there was dry land.

Would PRY THRGH bring glory to God or glory to me?

'Glory to God in the highest

In the effort to roll out PRY THRGH, I struggle with the goal as well as the potential outcome...

Pros/for:

Bring glory to God

Have fun

Play golf

Try and create a more wholesome community of golf that's not based on alcohol consumption, swearing, and self pride

Cons/against:

Disconnected from any concrete purpose (career, church, need)

Bring glory to myself

Expose myself - I fall with the tide of reaction

Work

Goals for PRY THRGH

What are the goals of creating something like PRY THRGH?

Giving glory to God

Using a fun platform to introduce others to the Lord who 'wants to give us exceedingly, abundantly more than we can ask or imagine'

Connecting with the game of golf to provide an alternative to the drinking and secular view of golf

Finding a niche where God can be glorified and the culture of the game can be bettered

To further the Kingdom of God while having something my family can see and be connected to

Ephesians 3 - Wow!

Wow!

Ephesians 3 really unleashes the power of God in us!

Ephesians 3:20 TPT 'Never doubt God’s mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your wildest imagination! He will outdo them all, for his miraculous power constantly energizes you.'

Wow!  Our pastor just preached on this this past Sunday and it's such a powerful verse in any translation but the Passion really is inspiring here.

Backing up in the chapter is revelation on the path to get there, Ephesians 3:17 TPT

'Then, by constantly using your faith, the life of Christ will be released deep inside you, and the resting place of his love will become the very source and root of your life.'

God is good!

Praying Through during life's struggles

Praying Through was an idea adopted on the golf course.  On the golf course where good and bad and struggle and triumph are all good in an arena of play.  It's easy to Count it All Joy there.

On the course of life, to Count it All Joy is a much deeper process.  One that really takes a faith and a belief that ALL things work together for Him that love the Lord.

Through sin and pain, to Count it All Joy means to always be looking up, despite the situation, despite the human reaction, despite a life lived in weakness.

When we are weak, He is strong.  Thank God for that.  But we must acknowledge and act in His ways.

I recently found myself seeking for more and more answers in His Word, while trying in my very human nature to be more of a vessel for His Word.   I find as I try harder, I fail harder.  I pray that's the devil and I recognize and denounce him in my life.  And recognize growth in Praying Through and seeking Him.

It's easy on the golf course.  But it takes His strength on the daily course of life.  Jesus showed us humility, and did not come to this world to condem the world but to Save it.

As I strip away the things of this world, I find myself in a place of condemning, anything and everything.   I pray that I will pray through, seek Him, and find Joy and Count it All  Joy through His peace.

It's a choice to die to myself, it's a choice to seek Him.  I pray through the struggles and the many blessings, I chose Him, through the power of the Holy Spirit within me.

Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks....