Pressures…
Bringing clarity to an overwhelmed mind in business and in life…
No matter the outside pressure or the pressure we place on ourselves we must remain authentic. Believing in ourselves, our business, our brand. It’s hard to be moved even by our own little worries when we stay authentic to His Plan He has for our lives. God has provided everything within us and around us to accomplish all the great visions we see. There will always be pressure but it’s not to move us into the wrong direction. The pressures help us to stop and think before moving, because we aren’t easily moved. Because we know where we are going.
Life is literally pressure from the moment we enter into this world. We are born on a planet that has this law called gravity. We are born with pressure already upon us, but we learn to stand up straight and start walking. I guess you can say the pressures of life are a blessing. For the majority of my life I have been running away from the pressures of life. I never mined working as I understood the value of built up work ethic over the years. But the pressures of life that I am referring to was becoming the person I actually wanted to be. But there was this little issue that was in the way. I knew that if I was going to become the person God desired me to be so He made me to be, there will be some sacrifice on my end. He never placed any pressure on me but I for sure placed a heavy load of pressure on myself. Heavy enough that I ran away from my own placed pressures.
For years I ran and ran away from all the self-placed pressures that I put upon myself. I valued my life up to a certain point but I would never succumb to my own pressures. I never dared to take on my pressures because I wanted to remain in this free bondage. I was in this very comfortable bondage of freedom only going as far as I dared to go. It was hard to think of letting go and facing my self-placed pressures. I knew that as I kept learning more and more about the man He created within me and for me to be it was going to be hard not to take that risk. As time went on and I began to learn more of me through studying His word and applying His word it was becoming harder staying quiet. I was beginning to feel The Pressure of facing my self-placed pressures. As time went on I could feel The Pressure overpowering my self-placed pressures as I wanted to learn more and learned more about who He made Us to be.
Just as I went out for the first time to surf waves over 5 ft I just had to find that comfortable sweet spot in the most uncomfortable of places…
The Pressure was just too much and I couldn’t stay quiet within myself anymore. Someone had to say something because what we were reading and attempting to apply to my life was not adding up. I was to walk by faith and fight the good fight of faith, but I was walking in and out of faith. At some point I was to face these self-placed pressures and no better time than now. I hit a point in life where I only had faith to walk by because everything was gone. Instead of facing my self-placed pressures of doubt, fear, not good enough, will never make It, have failed way too many times I never faced those pressures and stayed comfortable. As I was learning more of who to be according to His word I realized those self-placed pressures can be faced. The more I learned what God placed in Us, and for all of Us to enjoy I had to put The Pressure on.
It’s not easy but no one ever said it was going to be. And its Great!!!
I have realized that new levels of life require a new level of faith. The self-placed pressures that I have placed are still there and I realize that. I also realize the moment I acknowledge the self-placed pressures it can possibly get ugly within the inside. Not every level of life has me feeling like I am just losing everything, but I do recognize that it has the potential to get ugly. To be honest it has gotten ugly and it has the potential to get ugly again. As I work on new projects, build new and existing relationships, write the next blog, the next eBook, the next book, as I work on the things He has for me it I know it can be challenging. There are moments that I doubt myself…There are moments that I have fear…There are moments that I sometimes don’t know if I will make it…There are moments when I don’t know if I have it in me to keep going and fighting the good fight of faith…But The Pressure has become my greatest weapon against me.
Just as I went out for the first time to surf waves over 5 ft, I just have to find that comfortable sweet spot in the most uncomfortable of places…God might not place us in the most comfortable of places. But maybe that uncomfortable place is so The Pressure can build strength in time to overpower our self-placed pressures to help Us get to the next level…
“I can do all things through Christ which strengthen me.” (Philippians 4:13)