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Gotta Get There Together

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Have you ever been in a 3-legged race? I remember them well from growing up. One of your legs is tied to your partners leg and you run together trying to reach the finish line. The key word…TOGETHER. If you try to go separate directions…if one of you goes too fast or too slow…if you can’t find your rhythm and run TOGETHER…you’ll never make it.

Marriage is that same kind of partnership. The moment you say, “I do,” God works one of His greatest miracles…two become one. There is no longer a He and She…only a We. That “We” must work together, stay on the same page and in the same rhythm if they ever want to experience the fullness of God’s promise for their family.

God DOES have a promise for you family. And…if you put God at the center of your marriage…you WILL get there. BUT…you gotta get there together.



Written by on February 22, 2012 and categorized under Impact, Individuality

Where Are Your Mile Markers?

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Over the past few months, I have really begun to identify with Abraham. Here is a guy that God told to just get up and go and he got up and went.

  • no detailed vision
  • no defined finish line

He had to move in faith knowing that God would take Him from mile marker to mile marker. As he journeyed, ever time he stopped, he would build an altar and worship. He was marking his milestones. He may not have known where the journey would take him, but he knew how far he had come.

As we move with God, very often we may not know exactly what God has before us. But, we always know what now lies behind us and how far God has brought us. Take time to put up mile markers to remind you how far you’ve come and give you strength to go even further.



Written by on February 20, 2012 and categorized under Impact, Individuality

What’s Holding You Back?

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I remember from my youth ministry days an inflatable that I would sometimes rent for major events. It was called a bungee run. The concept was simple enough. Two people, standing side-by-side, strap themselves to a bungee cord attached to the back of a long aisle. On go, they both run as hard and fast as they can to see who can get the farthest before the bungee snaps them back on their derriere.

It’s a fun enough game; but, the problem is we often live our lives the very same way. We try to move forward but find ourselves latched on to our past. It creates an endless cycle of hard run…fall back…hard run…fall back…leaving us discouraged at our lack of progress and disappointed that we can’t just move on.

Listen, you cannot move forward until you’re willing to leave where you currently are. You have to cut your bungee cord to the past…good and bad. That doesn’t mean you forget where you came from. It simply means you choose not to spend the rest of your life there.

God wants to keep moving you forward…from glory to glory. But, you have to be willing to move with Him…to pack your bags, let go of your past, and walk forward. Don’t let a bungee cord keep you from where God wants to take you.



Written by on January 10, 2012 and categorized under Impact, Individuality

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