I recently got an email from a friend that said, “How are you doing this?\u00a0 How do you get to a place where you can do something like this?”\u00a0 I told him it was easy: first read Acts 1:8, then fast for 10 days, then pray for 1.5 hours, then go to church for a month without missing a service–Poof!\u00a0 You’re ready!<\/p>\n
Ok, fine, so I didn’t say that.\u00a0 What I did say was that I surrounded myself with people who challenged me to step into my destiny; people like Seth Barnes<\/font><\/a>, Andrew Shearman<\/a>, and World Racers<\/font><\/a>… and then I finally took to heart what God has been saying to me my entire life: “Go.”\u00a0 Go care for children in need.\u00a0 Go lead young adults into a life that serves God.\u00a0 Go make a difference.\u00a0 Go.<\/p>\n I have a really nice life.\u00a0 I have job security, a nice health plan, a nice house.\u00a0 If I stayed in the Air Force, I could retire in 10 years with a nice pension and probably teach Sunday School in a nice little town.\u00a0 But I don’t want ‘nice’ anymore.\u00a0 I want victory<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 I want passion<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 I want adventure<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 I want to make a difference<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n God’s called me long enough and loud enough.\u00a0 I need to go.<\/p>\n So, what does it take?\u00a0 Reckless abandon.\u00a0 Undignified worship.\u00a0 And a willingness to lay it all down.\u00a0 And just Go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I recently got an email from a friend that said, “How are you doing this?\u00a0 How do you get to a place where you can do something like this?”\u00a0 I told him it was easy: first read Acts 1:8, then fast for 10 days, then pray for 1.5 hours, then go to church for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}