"i invite YOU in": HIS LEGS to STAND

I stand on Christ alone as my foundation. Without Him, all other ground is sinking sand. Quicksand. Thus, I need His legs to stand!I state that, confidently and experientially, to say this:  God has been preparing “tables” before me in the presence of my enemies and I am excited for what is to come with such influences. The reality is that none of these opportunities have been afforded to me because of my college degree or athletic pedigree.  These past building blocks aren’t the main reasons for my present platforms. I mean they are stepping stones to be leveraged with every influential step I take, but they are not the foundation that make the steps of influence casted against a break. Nope! The steps of influence can only be concrete when the conviction lives up to the vision.Alright, enough word-play and time to put play to the Word. You see, you can learn influence, but it is greatly enriched when you are living influence. When I was in prison, my peers trusted me because I openly trusted in Jesus. Having nowhere to hide in a place like prison, especially when you live in a dormitory-like setting, thus your example is on display all day and in so many hands-on ways. And when I say hands-on, I literally mean you have to worry about what you would do in the situation where somebody put their hands on you. IT’s a hard environment with even harder mentalities and without assurance of faith there is no insurance of grace. I had to humble myself down on more than one occasion in order to go under the limbo stick that certain altercations and situations had set against me. And every single time that I went lower than my peer-- by allowing Jesus to be my Defender (not myself)--God would lift me higher as His grace would be my buffer. “Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time” (I Peter 5:6).I take NO credit for being able to successfully navigate the quicksand of prison nor the sinking sand of my present living.  But I do give credit to the One who has quickened the ground beneath me in spite of my faults and has used the circumstantial sand around me to make asphalt. Solid ground from an unstable background.He, Jesus Christ, is the sole reason why I am “eating” nice. He has prepared many “tables” before me, that I may stand on them to cast vision and shoulder influence. In truth, He has given me His legs to stand. That’s #iCONVICTION! Knowing every voice God gives you will come with His provision!Humbly, “i invite YOU in” to my life, as God continually confounds the critics by making much of Himself through me. Yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me.