"Heart of a lion"

I wanted to talk a little bit about my experience of winning the heart of a lion at the fittest games in hopes to encourage you. On my way to Austin that Friday afternoon I checked the workouts we would be doing. I saw a few things I was confident in and a few things that gave me a nervous stomach. One of those few things was a 225lb thruster at the end of a workout. I began to think to myself that my max thruster is 235lbs, much less it was at the end of a hard workout filled with heavy thrusters and muscle ups. I took on the nerves with confidence that no matter what I was going to give it all I had. I prayed and asked God to just do his thing and that no matter what I would give him glory for it. In my walk with God I come to find out more and more that when I give my worries over to him wither it be a workout in a competition or with life's experiences period he always meets me. Wither it may be in a failure or success. He is always there. His word says so. Before the workout I just told God to bring it. The workout began and I worked my way through the wod with the 225lb thruster in the back of my head. When 205 felt somewhat heavy I had a little self doubt kick in. Then here it came; the first attempt. I failed. The second attempt, failed. The third attempt, failed again. I took a big step back in somewhat defeat, but begin to tell myself I know I can do this. I wasn't going to let the doubt get the best of me. I prayed again, come on Lord. Help me. That simple. I approached the bar one more time knowing it was going to be my last attempt. I took the bar into my squat and gave it all I had and the bar started moving up, and I locked it out over my head. Ive never felt so much power in an accomplishment because I knew in my heart why it happened. God had come through. So, what to take from this small victory? That no matter how many times we fail He is there with us, and the faith we have in God and not our self makes things happen. We just have to walk in boldness and trust him. That's what we can do all things through Christ means. A lion represents boldness, courage, and tenacity. HE is the supplier of these things. Go get you some.

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