Trent Shelton
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 28 Jul
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And I had to learn how to seek God for myself and build that relationship. So my relationship with God doesn't look like on paper, maybe what it looks like for everybody else. And I just told you before I got here, I went to the ocean and I find God there. I believe nature is God's natural medicine for the soul.
So I'm in the woods, I'm doing all these things and that's where I find God and that's strengthened my relationship. But it's my journey of me being seven years old with asthma, pretty much flatlining in the ICU at seven years old. And me realizing that there's a purpose for my life. Me losing my NFL career and thinking that what else is there to my life? And now I'm living in my purpose.
Me almost, oh man, losing my daughter. Holding her in my hands and almost losing her. So these experiences, that's where my relationship is built. And so I tell people all the time, you can hear things, you can read books, but it's the experience that strengthens the belief. And so for me, God is real because of what I've seen in my life and how he's worked in my life.
immerse yourself in relationship, just like in anything else. I think sometimes we think this relationship with God is like,
You know, it's opposed to, I'm just going to say it, Jamie, like we live in a world right now where people are telling you how to live and what to do, and it looks like this, and if it doesn't look like this, and I think in our faith as Christians, it's so hard because I know for myself, and I'll just say this, like when I first started in this industry, I got judged a lot.
If you listen to my first spoken words, one of my first words was, I fear the body of Christ because I'm more judged by churches. They expect me to be perfect. Mm-hmm. but that's a cross that I can't carry. This soul still battles sin. Does it make me less Christian if I told you sometimes I struggle to believe when I say amen? And that was real. And so I said, man, like, I'm not good enough.
And I think for so many people out there, there's this checkbox of being the perfect Christian. And I know we're supposed to do certain things, but until you really build that relationship and realize God is a God of grace, God is a God of forgiveness, and you really allow God to work into your life, then you're never gonna feel that presence.
So I would ask somebody like, are you seeking him daily? Are you building community with other believers daily? Because if you're not, just like in any relationship, like if you don't call your girlfriend or boyfriend or talk to them, eventually there's gonna be some disconnect. And so God doesn't move from us, we move from him.
And so I would tell everybody that wants to build a better relationship, don't let your circumstances, don't let your situations, don't let failed relationships. I've seen it. People become angry at God. I did. God, you let me play since I was four years old of sports, and now it's over? Like, what's up? And this is how I talk to God. Like, what's up, man? And I realized, like...
Number one, he doesn't owe us any explanation because he's done so much for our life. When my mother died, why God? But I remember my mother telling me, you can question God, but understand that God doesn't owe you anything because he's already gave you everything. And so that's helped me in my life. So I would tell that person to build, to seek, to have conversation, and it might look different.
There's no perfect prayer. Sometimes the prayer is, hey, God, I'm struggling today, I need you. God knows the wants, desires of your heart. You have to step out the boat and seek Him. But He requires us to step out the boat and most of us don't do that. We want God to do everything for us. So what does stepping out the boat look like? Because that shows God that we trust him.
And that shows faith. And once you do that, he will literally pave the road that you're going on. And that's how I got to this place. Because people always ask me, Jamie, like, how did you get here? What are the steps? And I can give you a cool five-step process of like, stay committed, stay this, stay that. But the truth is, I got here because I trusted a plan that wasn't mine.
I got here because... I was able to go down this journey, even though I didn't know where I was going, I still trusted. That's how I got here. God had something bigger for me than I have for myself.
So, and I know I'm kind of going on a tangent here, but we have, and I love vision boards and I love the visions and I always tell people have the vision, but understand God holds a bigger vision than any vision board can hold for you. And I've realized that with my life. So I couldn't have planned to be sitting across from you here. I couldn't have.
But God had a deeper plan, a deeper meaning for my life, even though I didn't understand it at the time. So I would tell the person to trust, seek, and have patience that God got you.
For sure.
I believe you are a magnet. And I believe the more you work on yourself, you strengthen your magnet. I don't believe in chasing. Chasing dreams, like I say that too, but I don't believe in chasing. I believe in attracting. Not necessarily the law of attraction, but I believe that the more you work on yourself, the more you believe right? Believe it.
The more you believe in yourself, the more you feel like you're worthy, you strengthen this magnet where the right things are magnetized to you. They find you the right friends, the right connections. I mean, if you look on your life, Jamie, I can look at mine and be like, again, how did this relate? How did we, it's because you strengthen your magnet.
And so I work on that and that's allowed me to protect my peace because I'm not going to seek. It doesn't mean I don't go, you know, try to build relationships and things like that, but I'm not in desperation, I'm okay. That when it comes, it comes, but I'm going to make sure when it comes, I'm prepared and I'm ready. And I'll strengthen that magnet every single day.
And I can tell you that has opened up more doors in my life because there's things that I cannot explain how it happened. I can't. It's just that the magnet I believe God has given me It's allowed the right things to come to me. Because when you're chasing and seeking and you're going to find, a lot of times you're going to find what your loneliness wants.
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