WHAT CHANGED YOUR LIFE?

Hi Family :

Happy Monday, 

Over the next few weeks I will be adding some awesome stories from people that have changed their lives around! 

Amazing transformations that had me tearing up and journeys that may even change the way YOU view life in general!

Today's Story is from Jason Davis: 

I learned that in order to successfully navigate around an obstacle you need a map. Your plan is your map. In rough waters, turbulent storms and dense fog it will allow you to stay on course and reach your destination. At 16 years old I was diagnosed with a rare form of Cancer.  I immediately gave up and decided that I was going to die anyway so I started to smoke more, drink more and eventually fell into a deep depression.  When I reached 18 I became addicted to crack, cocaine and started to go on binges that almost killed me! Until one day a woman that use to sit on the corner on my block pulled me to the side and asked me, “What I was doing on the streets?”  She said she watched me grow up and saw big things for me! I looked back at her and replied, “I am going to die, I have Cancer”.  “She then said, then why aren’t you dead yet? I see you everyday chasing something that will eventually kill you anyway”.  I said, “that’s what I want.” And she said, “…is it really what you want or are you afraid?”

At that moment, it seemed like the world stood still! I remember starting a mental journey of all the things that I wanted in my life before I found out that I had Cancer.  As crazy as it may sound I started planning out how I wanted to reach my goals that I buried 2 years ago, I successfully identified and found solutions at that very moment to most of the questions and as to why I couldn’t  answer this one. WHY ME GOD? By identifying who was in control, the almighty God! I was able to avoid scrambling for solutions for everything in my life that I had no answers to.  I surrendered!  I started to pull things out of my mental archive that my grandmother use to say…

Lord, make me to know my end, And what is the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am.  Indeed, you have made my days as handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah Psalm 39: 4

It was inevitable and I realized that my final days should not be subtle or dim.  It should be logical and healthy.

I came up with a plan that logically connected to my goals and recalled how I was raised. First, I wanted to stop doing drugs, so I created a plan that provided a logical path from my current issues to my future goals. I simply stop using and replaced it with exercising for an hour every day, eating healthier foods and thinking positive. My plan simply included the methods that I wanted to use to avoid temptation and I stuck to my routine. A vague map won’t be a good guide when you get into trouble. Similarly, a vague plan is a disaster waiting to happen, and I know firsthand!

Share your words of encouragement and support for Jason:)

If you have a testimony and/or story that you would like to share email me @prospectivegospel@gmail.com 

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Love,

Tina