Doing the One Thing to Make Reality Count Today

By Brian K Amos

The book is about a small town boy who became a professional track athlete who along the way came face to face with temptations and the pressures to be successful. The book is written to former professional athletes and everyone who has had a dream that they didn't completely accomplish for whatever reason. I want to emphasize in this book that your life isn't over and in fact you are right where God wants you. Through my accomplishments and disappointments I realize that God was working behind the scenes all the time even when I wasn't aware of it. Many are the plans of a man but it is the Lord that directs his steps. If you are experiencing depression or angst about your life or your position in life right now, this book is for you. God is not finished with you yet!!

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Aug 13, 2015
• ISBN: 9781490885742

Brian K Amos

Brian Amos currently resides in Rochester, Texas. He is a husband and father of four. He has been married for twenty-one years to Terri Amos. He wrote this book because he knows the pressure and temptations of life as a professional athlete and the trauma of not living up to your own and others expectations of you. He traveled around the world representing the United States, Home Depot, and Reebok as his sponsors. He went to college at Odessa Junior College and Abilene Christian University. He holds a Master’s of Theology Degree from Christian Life School of Theology. He is the former Pastor of New Macedonia Baptist Church and currently is on staff with Faith Deliverance Community Church in Abilene, Tx.

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ISBN: 978-1-4908-8575-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4908-8574-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015910013

WestBow Press rev. date: 8/12/2015

Contents

Chapter 1 Let Go of the Past

Chapter 2 Going Forward

Chapter 3 Are We There Yet?

Chapter 4 If You Seek Me, You’ll Find Me

Chapter 5 So You Want to Be a Disciple

Chapter 6 Transition

Chapter 7 Time to Go to the Next Level

Chapter 8 Open Door

Chapter 9 The Greatest Adventure of My Life

Chapter 10 My BFF

Chapter 11 Suicide

Chapter 12 How to Be Born Again

Chapter 1

Let Go of the Past

One of the hardest things to do is let go of the past. I have seen it in my own life—the what-if scenarios: what if I had married her or taken that class or gone to that school or played that sport. The list is limitless; you can beat yourself up with those scenarios. And hindsight is twenty-twenty. I guess one of the hardest things to do is to forgive yourself for not making the right decisions. To the man who knows what is right to do and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin. I thank God for a savior, Jesus, because sometimes I have a hard time forgiving myself; in him, there is forgiveness.

The steps of a righteous man are ordered by the Lord. If you believe that, you must believe that God has your steps under His control. Man! It’s good to know, especially when I look over my past life and the choices I made in obedience and disobedience; God can work it all into His plan. If you