What's your AHA?

• Awakening
• Honesty
• Action

I wish I could take credit for what I am about to write, but I can not; it originated from a Kentucky preacher named Kyle Idleman.  To summarize, Idleman's idea is that we all have the ability to experience supernatural change with God's help and the above steps: Awakening, Honesty, and Action.  I recently experienced this change myself using this methodology, let me explain.

Side Note:  Idleman's book, AHA, compares the entire AHA process to the parable of the prodigal son, I won't do that here, because if you're interested in learning more about this and reading it; I don't want to ruin it for you. 

This process is for those of us who realize that self-help just does not exist.  I have gone down this road for most of my life, with dozens of self-help books on how to lose weight, throwing out the emotional garbage, raising well-behaved children, mastering self-control, I could go on and on and on....turns out the only book I needed was collecting dust, the Bible.  So you can not even start to begin unless you accept the FACT that you are powerless against your weakness, you can not fix it without God's help.  That leads me to AHA...

Awakening-This is the moment you realize your messing up and serious change needs to occur. This is called the alarm factor.  It is up to you how many times you hit snooze and ignore it before you actually wake up and respond to the alarm.  Just like some of those fancier alarm clocks it gets louder and louder every time it sounds.   I'll use my example, self-control.  My lack of self control was harmless, manageable when it was just me.  I chose to ignore the alarms in my life, I started a family, the alarms got louder.  I still justified my actions, I got this, or so I thought.  Then my children began to grow up.   I realized the choices I was making were becoming their choices. They were modeling ME; they were paying attention and then BOOM, the catastrophe hit!  My alarm woke me up. 

Honesty-This is where you uncover all the denial, justifications, and the lies and have a literal come to Jesus meeting.  This HAS to be a true evaluation, a BRUTAL honesty.  Without this, it will not work. It is a painful process and it takes some time, for me it will be the rest of my life, I am okay with that.  I am a complicated creature.   

Action-This is where you decide to truly change your life, to allow God to work in your life.  How do you do that, well I can not speak for you.  I can only tell you what I do, I pray ALOT.  I am doing the AHA 40 day transformation study.  I read the Bible.  I rely a lot on my husband.  I take action, movement, I work towards the goal.  Some days it is slow, some days not at all, some days I take two steps backwards, there are even times when I am completely lost, but I always trace my steps back to God. 

Bible study I am doing right now.

What's your AHA?  Do you have any alarms going off in your life? I have multiple and way too many to annotate here tonight, but you know what; that is between me and God.  However, I do feel a certain tug at my heart to share these ideas with those that will listen in the hopes I can, I don't know, impact someone else?...

How has this changed me?  Well this past year has been devastating for my family, mostly at my hands, but we survived. I am working on one thing at a time.  Right now it is getting my family healthy, and this blog is my accountability and my vehicle for God. 

I leave you with a link to Kyle Idleman's website.

Check out Kyle Idleman

I learned this verse 15 years ago and it planted the seed that grew in my heart to find God and be a believer, let me share it with you.  Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. 

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