Aegis

Gotta Love Them B.L.I.M.P.S.

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Date: 01/09/2021

AO: Aegis, Georgetown, DE.

QIC: Fireplex

Warm up

SSH – 30 IC

Cherry Pickers – 20 IC

Bolt 45’s IC (4 Count) – 15 squats to halfway down.  15 squats halfway to full down.  15 full squats.

Windmills – 20 IC

Toy Soldier Set – 50 LBC’s, 25 E2K’s (each side), 15 Big Boys

Mosey .47 miles to the School. 

The Thang

PAX completed the Hindenburg BLIMPS routine from the exicon. We modified the sprint portion to a straight line between FOUR light poles that were approx. .02 miles apart. Perform exercise at pole #1, sprint to pole#2 & perform exercise, sprint to pole#3 & perform exercise & lastly to pole #4 & perform exercise. Plank it up until all PAX are in. That completes Round #1. Reverse directions and perform the second exercise working back to the pole where it all started. Rinse and repeat until all 6 Rounds are complete. Round # 1 – 10 Burpees, Round #2 – 20 Lunges (10 each leg). Round #3 – 30 Imperial Walkers. Round #4 – 40 Merkins. Round #5 – 50 Plank Jacks. Round #6 – 60 Squats.

F3 message –The 3rd F was shared after completing round #4.

Mosey .47 miles back to the Aegis.  

Count-O-Rama, Name-O-Rama, and the Circle of Trust.  Please keep all our HIM in your thoughts and prayers. Welcome to FNG F3 Klick.

F3 Message 01/09/21 – Gleaned From Ron Hutchcraft Ministries

WHEN THE RAIN JUST WON’T STOP – #8870

January 8, 2021

Every once in a while the sun just decides to take a vacation for a few days. Not too long ago, we had one of those stretches of weather when we didn’t see the old boy for the better part of a week. It was just like one rainy day after another. Everyone around here and everything around here was soaked. I was running into our headquarters one morning on a day like that, as one of my co-workers was, and we were both trying to avoid getting drenched in the process. I made some comment about the relentless rain, but he was looking at a little bigger picture than I was. Remembering last summer’s withering drought, he said, “This is going to be good for us later on.”

I’m Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about “When the Rain Just Won’t Stop.”

You might be going through one of those seasons in your life when the “rain” never seems to stop. It’s been stress, bad news, struggle, disappointment, grief, confusion. We all take our turn facing those seasons when we keep waking up to another rainy day.

Our word for today from the Word of God has been, for 2,000 years, a bright light for dark days. The well-worn words of Romans 8:28 have helped millions of believers see a bigger picture when it seemed as if it would never stop raining. As familiar as you might be with these words, they may literally have your name on them for this particular season of your life. So, listen to them with your heart; “We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.”

One great saint described Romans 8:28 as “a soft pillow for a long night.” I hope you will let it be that for you. Because it gives you God’s ironclad assurance that there is meaning in what you’re going through; there is a holy purpose for God either sending or allowing those things in your life. His purpose for our dark times is seldom explained, but it’s always there. It doesn’t say everything is good. No, it says everything is being worked together for good. For your good, if you’re one of those “who love Him.”

So you can say, no matter how many days it’s been raining, “This is going to be good for us later on.” God simply wouldn’t let this happen if it wasn’t going to be good for you later on. Romans 8:29 tells us that the ultimate good God is going to bring out of this is to make you more like His Son. I believe God shapes and allows the circumstances to come into your life that will best develop some quality of Jesus in us. There’s nothing greater God could do for you than to plant in you the way Jesus loves people, the way Jesus treats people, the way Jesus is patient with people, the way Jesus understands what a hurting person is going through, and this kind of bondedness is what Jesus had with His Father.

And that may take a lot of rainy days for God to make you the man or woman He created you to be and redeemed you to be. He’s toughening you, or maybe He’s tenderizing you, purging you of old ways of doing things, squeezing you into new and better priorities, sensitizing you to people that maybe you’ve hurt or neglected, moving you to burn some old bridges or to treat some old wounds. What gets you through the rainy days is the calm assurance that “God is working all this together for my good to make a better me.”

Are you going to enjoy one rainy day after another? Not necessarily. But it sure helps to see them in the big picture perspective. God is using these days to prepare you for better days ahead. So if you got up this morning and found that it was raining again, lean hard on Romans 8:28 and say, with all the confidence of a blood-bought child of God, “This is going to be very good for us later on.”

Respectfully Submitted,

Fireplex

BOMBS for the new year

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QIC- Chattahoochee

14 HIM beat the fartsack and made it out for the first Saturday workout for 2021. All though there was some chatter among the packs and maybe a couple jokingly threats of bodily harm to the Q we all made it through to look forward to many more beatdowns in the upcoming year

Warm-o-Rama- 30 SSH, 25 Windmills, 20 Imperial Walkers, 20 Cherry pickers, 20 Smurfjacks, 20 MNC all IC.

The Thang- Mosey to the old NAPA for a short pain station stop 10 Jimmeny Crickets,and a Toy Soldier set 40 LBCs, 20 E2KS each side, 15 big boys. Back to a Mosey to the school for some BOMBS partner up PAX #1 runs from end sidewalk to center sidewalk of front schoolyard and back while PAX #2 performs excercises then switches out until team reaches said number of excercises combined as a team

50 burbees, 100 overhead hand claps, 150 Merkins, 200 bigboys, 250 squats. All PAX held plank until 6 was in.

BOMBS were followed by a short 3rd F then a nice friendly mosey back to the AO. Once we reached the AO and fireplex demonstrated his dancing abilities thanks to music from the gentleman on the Harley. we finished up with a round of HOWLING MONKEYS all PAX held monkey humper position while all PAX 1 at a time performed 10 monkey humpers

3rd F Proverbs 27:17

Iron sharpens Iron so one person sharpens another at f3 first state the Q is physically sharpening all PAX that post in return all those PAX are sharpening the Q’s leadership abilities. At the end of the beatdown we all come together in a COT were we all come together and sharpen each other physically, mentally and emotionally

Kickball

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QIC: Semi

Kickball

Warm-a-Rama
20 seal jacks i/c
21 crab flipper i/c
20 plank jacks i/c
20 harry rockets i/c
10 monkey jumpers i/c for site Q RIH
20 ssh i/c
20 Imperial walkers i/c
20 Windmill i/c
20 seal wave i/c

THE THANG

Mosey to ballfields

PAX divides into teams

Batter kicks pitch and bear crawls to first base, side shuffle to second base, nur to third base, and side shuffle home
Batter completes trip around bases even if out
Batting team does 3 burpees per out.
Teams switch every 4 outs.

3rd F

Thanked other HIM for commitment and comrodery. Probe other HIM on hiatus to get back to coming out. Pray about Gtown adding another day or starting a site in Millsboro.

Mosey back to circle

NUMBER-RAMA
NAME-A-RAMA
COT

8 HIM showed today: Semi, Doubtfire, Chattahoochee, Quarto, Ruxpin, Yukon, Bolt, Woodstock

25° this morning

A special thank you to Wilson for being a good sport!

Frisbee Golf

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12/12/2020

QIC: Semi

Warm-a-Rama

All i/c
20 Seal jacks
20 Plank jacks
Mosey around circle
20 Mountain man pooper
20 Cherry picker
side shuffle around circle, switching halfway
20 SSH
20 Seal waves
Nur around circle
20 Imperial walkers
20 mountain climbers

The Thang

Mosey up Bradford street to park past church on left.
Each pair will play Frisbee golf through park and down Edward street to other field by other church doing an exercise as many times it takes to get to the hole.
Hole #1
Burpees
Hole #2
Lbcs – 40 extra at end of hole
Hole #3
Lunge between shots
Hole #4
Squats x 5
Hole #5 – throwing with non-dominit arm
E2ks (per knee) x 5
Hole #6
Sshs x 5
Hole #7
Merkins x 5

3RD F

Wavewalker song lyrics (abbreviated)

How’s it so simple? Faith like a child
I give you an inch and you take me a mile
I feel the wind rush and the thunder roll
And two feet on the water, only one way to go, yeah

I don’t gotta be afraid no more
‘Cause I know You’ll walk me through the storm
I’m more than just a talker

I’m a wavewalker
I’m dancing on water
When the devil tried to shake me, I just pray harder
Even in my darkest hour
Got Holy Ghost power
When I keep my eyes upon You, Jesus
I’m a wavewalker (wavewalker)

I walk over my fears, over my doubt
The supernatural, it feels so natural now

I don’t gotta be afraid no more
‘Cause I know You’ll walk me through the storm
I’m more than just a talker
I’m a wavewalker

This song made me think of Peter walking on the water to Jesus. How we need to keep our eyes on Him at all times.

Number-Rama
Name-a-Rama
COT

Named Semi’s 2.0 swarts

16 HIM showed today: Pusher, Semi, Fireplex, Chattahoochee, Doubtfire, Leatherman, Lunchable, Gblock, Swabbie, Waler, Quarto, Ruxpin, Woodstock, Biddie, Polar, (FNG) Swarts

But I Found None!

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Did a warm up on the circle and headed to the soccer field at St. Michael. Teamed up to do 100 dry docks, 200 squats, and 300 LBCs. One PAX did the exercises while the other ran across the field and back. Then we went to the parking lot at Georgetown Presbyterian. PAX planked up and took turns running to the other side and doing 10 burpees.

The PAX special requested that I put my message up for you all.

Message Title: But I Found None!

Ezekial 22:29-31

“The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the immigrant without justice. And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none. Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath.”


The Context: This was a message of judgement from the Lord to the Jewish people in Jerusalem. Murder, extortion and incest had become a prevalent and accepted part of their culture. God would judge them for the prevailing evil in their society.


The Wall: The wall here is not referring to the physical wall around Jerusalem. The physical wall would protect them against foreign forces but not against God’s judgment. The wall that need repaired and defended in this verse is a spiritual and moral wall protecting their society and culture from the judgment of God. Without a man to fix and defend it, the Jewish people were defenseless against God’s wrath. 


The Search: God was looking for a man, not a woman or child. This is because God needed a strong leader to repair the wall. In this case, He was looking for a man to stand up and say NO to the prevailing evil in the culture of Jerusalem. The Apostle Paul may have had Ezekiel 22 in mind when he wrote “Be watchful. Stand firm in the faith. Act like men. Be strong.”


One Man: Notice that God did not need an army or a committee. He only needed a single man strong enough to stand up to the evil in the culture and spare the city from God’s wrath. The great and shocking tragedy is that God couldn’t find a single man strong enough to do that. EVEN WHEN YOU STAND ALONE, GOD CAN USE YOU! It only takes one man with the strength to say NO!!! to the popular evil in whatever culture he happens to find himself in. Will you be that man?


The Contrast: Notice the difference between how God through the prophet Ezekial describes a strong and courageous man compared to how our popular culture does. The popular singer Harry Styles recently posed in Vogue magazine wearing various feminine dresses. Newspaper headlines around the western world were quick to give their approval. Harry Styles was declared to be revolutionary and courageous. God sees a strong and courageous man as one willing to oppose the popular injustice in the culture, even when it means standing alone. Our newspapers see a strong and courageous man as one willing to wear a dress. We all live in a culture. All of our cultures have various evils of some kind that are popular and accepted. What kind of man will we choose to be?

Parking lot Cones…& a few merkins

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Warmup – IC 

Windmills – 15

Moroccan NC- 15

SSH- 15 

Cherry Picker – 15 

Mountain climbers- 15

Imperial walker – 15 

2 flag patriot run to large parking lot by church. 

For……. 10 cones revisited. 

Inch worm to cone 1 

11 Merkin 

Nur back 

Burpee  broad jump to cone 2 

12 merkins

Nur back 

Lt dan to cone 3 

13 merkins 

Nur back

High knees to cone 4

14 merkins 

Nur back 

Mosey to cone 5

15 merkins 

Nur back

Side shuffle to cone 6

16 merkins

Nur back 

Side shuffle to cone 7 

17 merkins 

Nur back 

Karaoke to cone 8 

18 merkins

Nur back 

Karaoke to cone 9 

19 merkins 

Nur back 

Lunge to cone 10 

20 merkins 

Nur back 

3rd F message- 

Before leaving the lot , get a round of 10 cone Abs ! At each cone pax would do lbc’s – 5x the number of cone they were at …

Mosey to 10 cone

50 lbc 

Mosey back 

Mosey to 9 cone 

45 lbc 

Mosey back  

8,7,6….. 

At cone 5 switched to The American Hammer / Lunge combo 

Finishing of at cone 1 with 5 American Hammers 

3rd F continued 

Mosey back to AO 

Count-a-Rama

Name – a- Rama 
WELCOME FNG – “ Pusher “

COT 

10/10/2020

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Warm-a-Rama

10 seal jacks i/c

10 plank jacks i/c

20 harry rockets i/c

20 cherry pickers i/c

Side shuffle around circle, switch halfway

10 ssh i/c

10 Imperial walkers i/c

20 Windmill i/c

20 seal wave i/c

The Thang

Mosey to Ruxpin’s distillery

10 hanging knee lifts

10 derkins

20 hanging knee lifts

20 erkins

10 hanging knee lifts

10 erkins

20 hanging knee lifts

20 derkins

Mosey to parking lot across from Domino’s

Lt. Dan across, nur back

Karaoke across, karaoke back

Nur across, Dan Lt. back

Side shuffle across, side shuffle back

3rd F

The next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning till evening. When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning till evening?” And Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God; when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I make them know the statutes of God and his laws.” Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good. You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to do it alone. Now obey my voice; I will give you advice, and God be with you! You shall represent the people before God and bring their cases to God, and you shall warn them about the statutes and the laws, and make them know the way in which they must walk and what they must do. Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. And let them judge the people at all times. Every great matter they shall bring to you, but any small matter they shall decide themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you. If you do this, God will direct you, you will be able to endure, and all this people also will go to their place in peace.”

Exodus 18:13‭-‬23 ESV

https://bible.com/bible/59/exo.18.13-23.ESV

We need to listen to wise counsel. Look for other HIM to pull up into leadership roles. We as men want to do everything on our own. We can’t. We need to ask for help or delegate so we can prosper.

Mosey to armory

10 ranger merkins, mosey up steps and back

10 diamond merkins, mosey up steps and back

20 wide arm merkins, mosey up steps and back

20 merkins, mosey up steps and back

Mosey back to AO

20 gas pumpers

20 split squats, per leg

20 derkins

Mosey around circle

Toy soldier set

50 lbc

30 e2k

20 big boys

20 squats

20 erkins

Side shuffle around circle switching halfway

10 burpees

Round of Mary; American hammers, flutter kicks, 4 count Freddie, mountain climbers, scissor kicks

Number Rama

Name Rama

COT

9 HIM showed today: Semi, Quarto, Swabby, Waler, Chappie, Toy Soldier, Cowbell, Doubtfire, Fireplex

A little leg, chest, and abs

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Warm-a-Rama

20 seal jacks i/c

21 crab flipper i/c

20 plank jacks i/c

20 harry rockets i/c

Mosey across street. Side shuffle to firehouse, switch halfway

20 ssh i/c

20 Imperial walkers i/c

20 Windmill i/c

20 seal wave i/c

The Thang

Mosey to  Richard Allen School

10 swerkins

Lunge the width of court

10 swerkins

Backwards lunge width of court

10 swerkins

Lt. Dan width of court

3rd F

Go After God’s Heart • Devotional

https://bible.com/reading-plans/2272/day/6?segment=0

10 swerkins

Dan Lt. Width of court

10 swerkins

Lunge width of court

10 swerkins

Backwards lunge width of court

Litter pick up. That’s a good Q jack(Ruxpin).

Mosey back to circle

15 derkins

10 bench squats

15 urkins

Toy soldier set

50 lbc

25 e2k

10 big boys

15 derkins

10 per leg split squats

15 urkins

Toy soldier set

25 lbc

15 e2k

10 big boys

Short round of Mary

10 V ups i/c

20 American hammers i/c

10 outlaws each direction oyo

Number Rama

Name Rama

COT

15 HIM showed today: Semi, Doubtfire, Fireplex, Toy Soldier, Biddie, Polar, Bolt, Yukon, Extra Credit, Twoninner, Quarto, Ruxpin, Swabbie, Vanilla, Gblock

POAS AROUND Gtown

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9/19- 

QIC- SUMMIT

Disclaimer- 

F3 Nation, Inc. (“F3″) is a peer-led, zero-cost non-profit workout group. F3 makes no representations with regard to the skill level of workout leaders, the safety of the exercises performed during workouts or the hazardousness of the premises upon which workouts are conducted. The men who lead F3 workouts are not paid to do so and no representations of any kind are made by F3 about their skill level. The premises upon which F3 workouts are conducted are not owned or maintained by F3. F3 makes no representations of any kind regarding their safety. Although F3 workouts vary widely in intensity, all F3 workouts tend to be rigorous and are undertaken upon uneven ground during periods of limited visibility. Therefore, there are certain dangers inherent in participating in an F3 workout. Participants must be 18 or older and are assumed to have made their own reasonable decision as to whether they should so participate. Participants under 18 must be accompanied by a father or male legal guardian. F3 disclaims any and all responsibility for any individual’s decision to participate in an F3 workout. By participating in an F3 workout, an individual assumes the risks inherent in doing so. This Disclaimer and Notice is made by F3 on its own behalf and on the behalf and for the benefit of any person leading an F3 workout and/or otherwise acting for the benefit of F3.

Warmup –  

19 of each IC 

SSH

CHERRY PICKERS 

IMPERIAL WALKER 

WINDMILL 

MOROCCAN  NIGHT CLUB 

SHOULDER TAPS 

Mosey to old Napa – 

F3 is a national network of free, peer-led workouts for men. Our mission is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Toy soldier set 40-20- 10

Hold plank til 6 is in 

Circle up – One PAX does 25 merkins 

While all other PAX do squats. As soon as merkins are done , next pax jumps in and does 25 merkins while everyone else continues squats.  Go until everyone has done 25 merkins. 

Mosey to random spot on a Georgetown street.  

F3– 

We welcome men of all fitness levels to our workouts and have no requirement for membership other than that you show up at the appointed time and place and follow what the workout leader (the “Q” in F3 lingo) does.

The F3 Credo is: Leave no man behind, but leave no man where you find him.

PAX line up for round of 11’s- 

One end-  burpees starting with 10 

Side shuffle to designated spot.

For 1 big boy.  Shuffle back. 

continue until done 10 big boy and 1 burpee. 

Stop after 6 burpees  and 5 big boy. 

Circle up and 

Break into groups of 3 – This time pax take turn doing  25 merkins while others are doing lunges

Mosey to Church lot.  

F3– Our workouts …

  • •Are free of charge
  • •Are open to all men
  • •Are held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold
  • •Are led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary
  • •End with a Circle of Trust

Finish 11s of burpees and big boys. 

From 5 burpees / 6 big boys.  

Circle up and 

In groups of 3 – Another round of 25 merkins while remaining pax do squats. 

Mosey back to circle. 

An F3 Core Principle is to end each Workout with a Circle Of Trust, what we call the COT. Like most things F3, the COT was not part of the original design. It evolved to fill a need. Men told us that they didn’t feel right just jumping in their cars after the Workout without some type of minor ceremonial send off. So we conjured up the COT, which is where we recognize each man individually and say a brief prayer.

Within the COT, we often find ourselves asking the Creator for help at being better husbands, fathers, friends, mentors and workers. We don’t know the source of this particular petition, it just came about and seemed to spread across F3Nation. It is a recognition that as men, we yearn to be better at the things we were created to be, and have learned the hard way that we cannot do it alone. We need help. We need truth that is hard-earned and hard-learned. We need Wisdom.

But which of us is wise? How do we know what we are hearing is Wisdom and not the song of a fool? How are we to discern the voice of the shepherd from that of the wolf?

Because the Q is a Leader who takes responsibility for the Outcome, he is also a man who seeks help answering these questions. In turn, because he is part of a Community, he is obligated to help other men find them as well. The source of the Q’s Wisdom, the QSource, is best discovered through the mutual iron-sharpening that occurs when people unite and search for answers together, the old-fashioned way.

Toy soldier set 40-20-10

Hold plank until 6 is in

Circle up in groups of 3 and Repeat the 25 merkins / lunges 

Name-a-Rama

COT 

Plan B

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Warm o rama

20 ssh

20 windmills

20 crab flippers

20 grady corn

The Thang

We started this morning off with a Patirot Run to church. PAX lined up behind 2 shovel flags and we took off in a friendly manner to the back field at the church. We posted flag in the middle of the church field and completed bear crawl ring of fire

Bear Crawl Ring of Fire

Combines exercises we have all come to love/hate. Circle up around shovel flag. Begin by bear crawling around in circle until Q says stop. Upon stopping, first Pax completes 10 merkins while other Pax plank, then next pax in line completes 10 merkins while other pax plank. Keep going around until all pax have completed the 10 merkins. The suck factor greatly increases the more pax you have (longer planks). PAX circled up and we bear crawled in a cirlcle until Q shouted HALT. We then planked it up while each HIM (19 of us uggg) completed the merkins. in between sets we recovered to our 6 to complete an ab exercise.

1st round _10 merkins, DR W AB exercise-
Dr. W is a sufferable 8-count ab exercise that combines Dolly, Rosalita, and the W; often within the 6MOM. Always a #CrowdPleaser. 1 is legs apart like a Low Dolly, 2 is legs together, 3 is raise the legs to Rosalita position (45-60 degrees-ish), 4 is spread ‘em, 5 is The W (hands together and stretching forward between your legs), 6 is the return to your back (legs still up), 7 is legs together, 8 is legs down. 5-8 Dr. W’s is a good start to get the pax coordinated with the counting. 10 is a magic # that most build up to 15 is just dumb and torture #FetalPositionMaker Qtip – We always emphasize that the W is on the 5 count. Kinda breaks down the motions and gives a 2nd starting point.

2nd round 10 diamond merkins, 10 IC Seated Flutter Kicks with hands raised in Hallelujahs. Move immediately to hands behind you. 10 IC slightly reclined flutterkicks. Move immediately 10 IC normal flutter kicks.

3rd round 10 werkins, Toy soldier set, 60 LBC, 30 E2K each leg, and 15 BBSU

F3 message was inserted here, it will be at the end of the backblast

4th round hand release merkins, 2 BBSU 10 overhead press, 4 BBSU 20 OHP, 6 BBSU 30 OHP, 8 BBSU 40 OHP, 10 BBSU 50 OHP.

FInal Round- 10 ranger merkins. We recovered to our feet once we finished the Bear crawl ring of fire, and lined back up to head back to the AO.

once we got back to AO the real final round was 15 burpees to wrap things up.

Number o rama- 19 HIM beat the fartsack and faced the Gloom.

Name o rama- we welcomed 2 FNGs to the group and named them Waterboy, and Cowbell

Circle of trust- we ended like we always do in strength we circled up and offered prayers to JESUS.

Third F message

A  few weeks ago it was RovingRuckfest and it was at broadkill Beach.  Just so happens Chappie was on vacation so naturally I was alone for this trip.  I kept thinking,  im going to go home and go back to sleep,  but I didn’t.  I decided to pray ruck.  I hit the beach with 20 lbs in my ruck and a 40 lb sandbag, and I’m praying, and rucking. It was fabulous. The moon lit the sky and the tide had recently passed for the night leaving the beach entirely deserted.. There wasn’t a single foot indentation on the whole beach. I reminisced as if in a daydream about a poem. I’m sure we have all heard the poem, footprints in the sand”. I chuckled to myself as I turned around to my surprise, there was but 1 set of footprints in the sand. I said “Lord I see 1 set of footprints here and this Ruck is getting heavy. His reply to me was, how do you think I feel, these footprints you see behind you are my footprints. You see we tend to carry on our shoulders, to much weight. We cary stress, worries, failures, disappointments, and it weighs us down and restrains us from doing what God has truly called us to do. When we carry these things, just like the Ruck it slows us down, it holds us back, it weighs on us heavily and God already paid the price.  I reluctantly carried on,  with a new appreciation about my day.  We are not alone,  Life may seem hard at times but with faith in Jesus we will endure the race that has been set before us.  And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,  that whoever believes in Him should not perish but  have eternal life.  For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.  For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.  And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.  For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.  But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

John 3:14-21 NKJV

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