Les39's Journal

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.  Philippians 3:13- 14 (NIV)

What causes you to run and hide?  The Bible testifies of Mary Magadalene, perhaps you know the story.  After, Jesus had been crucified she arrived at the place where they laid him early in the morning, only to find that the stone which had been used to seal up Jesus' tomb had been rolled away and his body gone.  She runs to tell Peter and John the good news but they were hiding.  Yes, they were hiding.  Peter and John were still in hiding.  Knowing this makes you hate to say that you are a man but I'm glad to be a man.  I believe I'm a good man, a mighty, mighty good man.  I'm a strong man, but I want all the brothers out there to know that the brothers were hiding.  Everybody was hiding except the sisters.  Brother's please step up!  Come out of hiding!  Your family needs you!  Your child needs you!  The community needs you!  The world needs you!  Please come out of hiding and Step into possibility.  Step into responsibility!  Step into your God-given ability!

I must be honest.  I have to let you know that the closer you get to what God has promised you the tougher it will get.  The closer you get to making a million, the harder it gets.  The closer you get to being healed, the sicker you get.  The closer you get to the light, the darker it gets.  But, if you are going to get what God has promised you, you've got to Press On.  Please Press On!

Regardless of how it looks, press on!  Despite the betrayals press on!  I know the relationship went bad but press on!  I know that it gets harder with every step but please press on!  We NEED YOU - PLEASE PRESS ON!

Pray with me: Father, I ask for your help.  Sometimes the pressures of life are so great that I do not know where to turn.  I feel as though the weight of the world is on my shoulders.  I humbly ask for your assistance and guidance.  Your word tells us to cast our cares on you for you care for us.  I am to lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily besets me.  Therefore, I place the press of life on you that I might run on, that I might press on and achieve in all that you have for me.  I ask that your precious Holy Spirit fill me and guide me to all truth, that I may be a man not in hiding but fully participating as a light to the world.  Amen!