My Son - Fight like a Warrior!

After a sleepless night, I woke this morning like many of mornings,with you on my heart, Sean Blair!

I have a great CHRISTIAN MENTOR who made me do some thinking this morning as we spoke about different men in my life today. Here's my thoughts for you today:
The virtue of strength is determined by how it’s used. If it’s used to love and to protect, it’s GOOD! Unfortunately, it can also be used to inflict harm, and that’s not consistent with what we see of God’s character in the Bible. He calls us to FIGHT for what’s right. And a warrior is only as worthy as his cause.

A man without a cause from God is often just an angry man who doesn’t know where to direct his pent-up energy and aggression. A man without a cause seeks excuses for his behavior. A man without a cause is arrogant and can't see himself clearly. It's the MAN with a cause who becomes a WARRIOR with a cause from God who directs that warlike energy for a cause greater than himself.

SEAN, God created you with the heart of a warrior. It's been said that Until there’s something you’re willing to die for, you can’t truly live. You were created to fight for righteousness.

Until you tap into that divine cause, you’ll be bored, destructive, and frustrated. Find something more. I thank God I get to live my divine cause. I honestly believe in my heart that my calling is to give myself, my heart and my love to mentoring others to believe in GOD and to believe in themselves.

You and I talked about this - the most important war: the end of the world as we know it and how it will affect the unbelievers. The war between heaven and hell. The kingdom of God versus the kingdom of darkness. Draw your sword and get on the front lines.
Fight like a man of God. It starts with family Sean, and it bleeds into everything you will do and everything you will be! I have heard from my girls often that their fathers were hardly role models, let alone Men of GOD. Many men in my life have used the same excuse, but that's the thing. it's just that AN EXCUSE for poor behavior. Instead of Fighting to be a different man, a different father, grandfather etc., they excuse their bad behavior, become arrogant or play the "woe" is me card! THEY are destined to repeat the sins of their fathers, instead of changing that history by becoming the best Dad, best husband, best grandfather and great role model for the next generation of young people.

What you really want is not to be some guy who looks strong on the outside, but a man who can stand strong because he spends time on his knees every day before God.” Don't miss this point -

A man isn’t the arrogant selfish guy who wins tough-guy fights, and blames everyone else for his poor behavior, but the man who knows his weaknesses and fights in God’s strength. He won’t be perfect. But God will be perfecting him.

Every guy wants to be strong. Maybe you’d like to make the cover of Men’s Health or something, a cocky little half-smile on your face, flexing your massive biceps as you slightly lift your tight V-neck shirt to reveal your ripped abs underneath.

That’s what many men think they want. But guys who invest their lives only in physical strength don’t advance God’s kingdom in the world — at least not that way. Men who are strong, men who are world-changers, men who are truly warriors are men who can admit their limitations. Their not victims, they love their families above anything else!

I want to redefine the way you think about what it means to be a warrior. It’s not about cockiness and attitude; it’s not about six-pack abs and picking fights; it’s not about succeeding in life and winning everyone’s admiration or envy. Being a true warrior is about knowing the source of true strength. It’s about knowing your weaknesses and turning to God to empower you to be the man He made you to be.

You’re already in a fight. Your spiritual enemy wants to take you out. He’s a master at making strong men weak. Sometimes he does that by making us comfortable, secure, and safe. Sometimes he lies to us, tempts us, makes us selfish and miserable to others. Sometimes he lures us into thinking there's something better for us, when in reality we already have the best. Is that really how you want to live? Though Satan makes strong men weak, God is in the business of making weak men strong.

And God has a unique way of awakening the dormant warrior within to fight one battle that prepares us to fight and win an even bigger one. Not only does God want you to fight, he wants to give you a cause greater than yourself, because it's not about you! It's about God and loving others! Then, once you love something enough that you’re willing to die for it, you’ll be set free to live. Fight for a cause greater than yourself. It’s in you.

You know it’s there. You can feel it. You have the heart of a warrior. FIGHT SEAN - be the example!

 I love you with all that I am!

By Addict's Mom - June Amaral

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Another Battle

Sometimes I’m trapped in a room by myself and can’t figure a way out, I hear knocking on the walls and light seducing whispers in the dark.

As I stand in thought scared of the dark searching for answers the knock gets louder and the walls start closing. The whisper becomes a solid voice “come this way”.

As my world gets smaller with one more bitching line from my surroundings, the insecurities I said good bye to just moments ago come flushing back into the room. The frustration and anger steadily linger heavily in the air like a dense fog, so dark its as if the lights are out.

Your voice is a yell “I TOLD YOU OVER HERE!” The knock is a bang, my throat begins to close as if being suffocated or choked by my life around me. The Mansion I worked so hard to be build starts to crumble around. I kneel down in my safe room where no one gets in. I built it to withstand the strongest most intense of all situations. I lay down in tears trapped as the walls get closer, the banging louder and screams intently in my face.

I think who let you out, why are you here? You were chained you were shackled, you were buried. “Over here, over here, over here,” over and over and over I hear the voice, “I love you , let me hold you, pain is nothing with me,” you slip and rather than that beautiful voice in full seduction, I hear the underlying snarl that lurks deep in your throat. I curl into the fetal position battered and bruised from fighting you the day before. The battle was intense knocked down again and again by your giant arms and gnarly claws. I feel like I cant go one more second, I try to get to my feet and I fall, Im exhausted.

Your outside force batters me with negativity, accusations, and assumptions. Your best friend has taken my patience, my love, my hard work, and continues to take apart my mansion from the outside walls, while you and I live in constant battle. It was your best friend who let you out by weakening the structure I have built.

 I should’ve listened but I didn’t. I built my mansion on soft foundation! I thought dirt would be fine, forgetting that rain turns to mud everything begins to subside. It rains here more often than not and the ground stays muddy.

I cry out, I hear " over here,"  I cry out, I hear " over here," I look at the clock and its only 9am, it feels like I ve been stuck since forever again.

I hear the fight as the walls begin to press against my body, my sword and my shield sitting right beside me. I pick it up and it reads “Because you are my help I sing in the shadow of your wings. I cling to you and your right hand upholds me.”(Psalm 63:7-8)

The fog dissipates, the room grows larger, the sun shines in! I hear your hands and feet kicking and screaming as your dragged through the hall and down the stairs. I run after you and with my strong hand shackle and chain you to the floor. Not once, twice, or three times but four, I stare deep in yours eyes and take a swipe with my sword “Those who want to kill me will be destroyed; they will go down to the depths of the earth. They will be given over to the sword and become food for jackals.” (Psalm 63:9-10)

Today the battle is over for only as long as you sleep. Today I rebuild my mansion on a rock, “The lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold." (Psalm 18:2)  Tomorrow we shall battle again demon, but TODAY!, TODAY I REMAIN VICTORIOUS!!!

By: Sean A. Blair

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