The Only Way Is Faith: Answering the Call, Embracing the Battle, Fulfilling the Mission
On March 31, 2025, the verse of the day on YouVersion was Philippians 2:13 (ESV): “For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.” As I meditated on it, God impressed upon me to write this post—as an introduction to this blog and a declaration of what He has called me to do and the promises He’s spoken over my life.
God asking me to do this is both a conviction and an encouragement. He’s convicting me because He asked me to start the blog back in January. I began with one post but then stopped because I was waiting on a breakthrough to keep going. I thought the story needed the breakthrough to be told.
Back then, I didn’t know how to write about His goodness and promises while I was experiencing uncertainty and my faith was being challenged. I was fighting the battle to maintain my faith and trust God as my provider. A battle I’d lost a year earlier. I was fighting the battle of standing firm on His Word and applying everything He has taught and revealed to me. I was busy with the fight and winning it, but unable to process it while in the thick of it.
Now that what I wanted to avoid has happened, and through it, I can see the Kingdom victory, and I’ve shed the need for worldly success to validate God’s goodness, greatness, faithfulness and promises, writing this post is God encouraging me with the future victories He has for me.
Since developing a close relationship with God, I’ve been able to hear from Him while meditating on His Word. It’s not the only way He speaks. I’ve learned the difference between revelations, convictions, encouragement, guidance, direction, and the many other ways and reasons God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) communicates with me. I know Him and His Word; it’s an ongoing process I’m committed to, but what I’ve already been through with Him makes me bold and courageous in my faith and crazy in love with Jesus.
I know God knows the end from the beginning, and nothing can stand against His plan and will (Isaiah 46:10) and that His Word does not return to Him void (Isaiah 55:11), and every word of God proves true (Proverbs 30:5) so I have no reason to doubt what He’s spoken to me won’t come to pass.
General in God’s Army. Favored Warrior Called to Fight.
As I unfold my story further, I will get to the moment when I came to God, asking Him why I constantly found myself entangled in spiritual warfare. The constant battles in the process of renewing my mind and pulling down strongholds left me feeling run down and defeated.
He replied by asking me, “What do warriors do?”
I said, “They fight battles.”
He stated, “You’re a warrior. I’ve called you to fight battles.”
God confirmed my identity as a warrior and reminded me that I fight from a place of victory. I’m an overcomer and a conqueror. God speaking identity over me changed everything. I stepped into who I am as a warrior and embraced the battles from that point on.
I put on the armor of God (Ephesians 6:10-18), made sure never to take it off again, and sought out what I needed to know to become a mighty warrior, including gathering information about the enemy to go on the offensive and build up my defenses.
When I was 16 years old and told my dad I was joining the Marine Corps, he said I would come home as a general someday. At the time, I thought it was just him using his imagination and painting a bigger picture of what could be than what I could see. Unbeknownst to either of us, he prophesied over me. God gave him a peek into who I would become.
God gave me specific battles to engage with through personal storytelling and ways to go after the rulers, authorities, cosmic powers over this present darkness, and spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places (Ephesians 6:12).
Answering the Call to Fight
We are living in a world increasingly marked by division, loneliness, and stagnation. These aren’t just social issues—they are deep spiritual strongholds undermining individuals, families, and communities. Our cities are divided, families fractured, and individuals isolated and stuck in cycles of purposelessness. While society offers surface-level solutions, the root causes remain untouched. This is not just a social battle—it’s a spiritual war.
These forces aren’t random. They are strategic tools of the enemy designed to separate us from one another, from our purpose, and ultimately from God. “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy” (John 10:10), and he does so by dividing hearts, isolating souls, and freezing growth.
But we are not powerless. We have both the call and the means to fight back.
Battle Division
Division is a tactic of the enemy. It breeds suspicion, strife, fear, and pride—making us believe we’re alone, misunderstood, or better than others. But personal storytelling tears down those walls. As we share our stories, we find common ground where the enemy sowed separation. We build bridges where there were once barriers. Unity in Christ doesn’t mean sameness; it means harmony—each member of the Body working together for a higher purpose.
Battle Loneliness
Loneliness is a silent battlefield. It isolates and erodes identity. But God designed us for connection. Through personal storytelling, we push back the darkness of isolation. Vulnerability and active listening become weapons, and as we open up, we give others permission to do the same—and the enemy loses ground. We gain the ability to restore and establish deeper and more meaningful relationships, and communities are built on strong foundations that can’t be divided.
Battle Stagnation
Stagnation is a slow, subtle ambush. It lulls us into passivity, convincing us to settle, delay, or stop moving forward. But personal storytelling activates purpose. It awakens our desire to grow, take action, and live with intention. Every story we tell about overcoming fear or learning from failure reclaims territory. The more we author our lives with God’s truth, the less room the enemy has to keep us stuck.
His Anointing Over My Calling
I’m in the relationship business—the relationships people have with themselves, with others, and with God. It’s speaks to the most important Commandment “Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets” (Matthew 22:37-40 (NKJ)).
The anointing on my life and the proprietary framework God inspired for teaching people to become personal storytellers are how God will show up and meet with all those who seek our services. He’ll engage in the fight on each person’s behalf.
God fights our battles (Exodus 14:14,Deuteronomy 3:22, Romans 8:31, Ephesians 6:12) but we also have a part to play in the equation. What I share on this blog and site is the part we have to play and how to grow in our relationship, knowledge, faith, and trust in Him to do only what He can do.
It starts from the overview, where you learn how I came to know Jesus and how He led me to go deeper into my relationship with Him, to the fiery furnace where God led me to submit and surrender and began the refining process. This led to spiritual warfare, the healing process, the transformation of my heart, and taking more intentional steps to build my faith and trust in God after my Failed Trial of 2024.
Sprinkled along the way, I’m starting to share what I’ve learned in the Teaching Series. The Steps to Take covers the specific steps I’ve taken, mainly related to joining a local church and being active in the body of Christ. I’m also sharing Personal Stories and Testimonies along the way to provide a deeper understanding of events, experiences, and how God has been showing up. The Trial of 2025 is keeping you current on what’s ongoing.
Answering A Broader Vision
He’s also given me a greater mission: to transform hearts, change lives, and remake cities. This mission goes beyond personal storytelling—it’s about culture-shifting, discipleship, building community, influencing systems, and rebuilding foundations on Kingdom principles. Personal storytelling initiates the transformation, but the mission carries it forward—into healing, action, restoration, revival, and renaissance.
“I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.” Ezekiel 34:16
Transform Hearts
Another Scripture God spoke to me over First Time Storytelling and the mission He called me to is Ezekiel 36:26 “And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.”
This is where it begins—where God does His deepest work. I wouldn’t thought it possible had He not so significantly transformed and healed my heart. I know that if we let Him, there’s nothing He can’t heal, transform, renew, and restore.
- Turning hearts of stone into hearts of flesh (Ezekiel 36:26).
- Healing hearts that have been broken by trauma, rejection, bitterness, or pride.
- Soften hearts that have grown cold, skeptical, or hardened toward God and others.
- Compassion, empathy, and understanding for the cold, impenetrable, and unyielding hearts.
- Restoring love and forgiveness to hearts filled with strife and woundedness.
- Rekindling a heart for Jesus and His people.
- Reconciliation between individuals, families, and communities.
- Awakening generosity in hearts once consumed by greed.
- Infusing sacrificial love where selfishness once ruled.
God moves in and throug us. Transformed hearts are the starting point for restored lives and revived communities.
Change Lives
From the inside out, transformation begins to bear fruit.
- People encounter Jesus and begin to walk in relationship with Him.
- They begin to live the second greatest commandment: love your neighbor as yourself.
- They treat others as they want to be treated—with dignity, grace, and respect.
- The fruit of the Spirit becomes visible—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22–23).
- There’s more gratitude, joy, generosity, and satisfaction with life—not rooted in worldly success but in spiritual wholeness.
- Wounds are healed, trauma is redeemed, and broken identities are restored.
- Lives are no longer ruled by fear or shame, but by faith, hope, and love.
Changed lives ripple outward, impacting others, and creating new possibilities.
Remake Cities
The collective result of transformed hearts and changed lives is a city reimagined.
- Citizens, churches, and organizations unite around the common good.
- Collaboration replaces competition; compassion overcomes indifference.
- Systems of injustice and corruption are dismantled.
- Homelessness is eradicated. Every foster child finds a safe, loving home.
- Human, child, and sex trafficking are brought to an end.
- Crime, violence, addiction, and despair give way to safety, freedom, and hope.
- Revival sweeps across every street and sector—government, education, media, business, family, and the Church.
- The enemy’s grip is broken. God’s Kingdom comes on earth as it is in heaven.
Remaking cities isn’t just about revial—it’s about ushering a renaissance and building places where righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit dwell (Romans 14:17).
I Serve The God of the Impossible
One day Joseph was in jail; the next, he became the second most powerful man in Egypt. Joseph knew he was destined for greatness, and through all his trials, we never hear of him doubting, cursing, or turning his back on God. He remained faithful. He served and was favored in every circumstance he found himself in—whether as a slave in Potiphar’s house or a prisoner in Pharaoh’s dungeon—even though none of it looked like the promise. The Bible is full of people who endured trials, struggles, tribulations, and long seasons of waiting—and they finished well: David ran for his life before he wore the crown. Esther risked everything for her people. Paul wrote letters of power while locked in prison. Jesus Himself endured the cross for the joy set before Him. Contrast that with others who inherited position or power without the process—like Saul, who lacked the character to sustain his kingship. Without refinement, favor becomes a curse instead of a blessing.
I count it all a joy—everything I’ve been and am going through—because I see the multi-billion-dollar Kingdom organization made up of multiple businesses and ministries. My greater purpose is only achieved through building teams, creating partnerships, and raising up leaders who are equally committed to the mission. It’s launching movements of activation and multiplication. It’s in part why personal storytelling and personal testimonies are key components of His plan. One person touches the live of another person. It’s why Jesus gave the Great Commission
To see victory over division, loneliness, and stagnation, and to fulfill the call to transform hearts, change lives, and remake cities, there is so much that must be done. It requires the development of innovative programs, Christ-centered content, strategic systems, and technology that connects and empowers people around the world. It’s creating what’s required to present the Kingdom to society and infiltrate culture with His Word, ways, and presence.
It demands stewardship, wisdom, funding, infrastructure, and favor across industries. It calls for courage to confront broken systems, creativity to design new ones, and perseverance to keep going when nothing looks like the promise.
It will take a network of aligned believers, marketplace ministers, intercessors, creatives, builders, and reformers—each playing their part. It requires spiritual maturity, spiritual intelligence, and relentless faith. It means being led by the Holy Spirit every step of the way.
But none of this intimidates me—because I serve the God of the impossible.
The One who gives vision also provides provision. The One who calls also equips.
And the One who began a good work in me will bring it to completion.
Final Thought
I can’t fulfill what God has called me to do if my focus is on my circumstances instead of on Him and His promises. The vision is too big, the battles too intense, and the mission too important for me to rely on anything other than Him. The only way is His way. The only path forward is by faith.
Faith that moves mountains.
Faith that walks on water.
Faith that sees what isn’t yet visible and calls it into being.
Faith that holds on when nothing makes sense—because God is faithful.
It won’t be by might or by power, but by His Spirit.
And as long as I stay rooted in faith, led by His voice, and aligned with His will,
every promise will be fulfilled, every battle will be won, and the mission will be completed—all for His glory.
And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.” Luke 1:45