When I started Golf and Gospel, a lot of people were excited for me. They loved the idea — starting with just a phone, then adding a consistent cameraman, and then a co-host with a similar mission. It brought back that team environment I had in the NFL, that locker-room feeling.
But things change. People who were once interested don’t seem intrigued anymore. Maybe it’s the expectation that everything built should be an overnight success, and since this wasn’t, they moved on. The team that gave me that locker-room feeling again — suddenly they quit. The videographer starts making excuses, withholding film. Club partnerships end. People who said they wanted to help go cold in the group chat and the emails. Friends who watched the beginning stop watching.
When you read all that back, you start to ask: is this over? Is God telling me to end this? Every sign seems to point that way. So what do you do?
I’ve said in a few videos that I pray, “Lord, if Golf & Gospel isn’t what You want from me, rip the desire from my heart.” But the more I delight in Him, the more the desire heightens (Psalm 37:4).
That brings me to Abraham and Sarah. God promised Abraham he would be the father of many nations. From the outside, it didn’t look like that promise would ever be fulfilled — Abraham was about 100, Sarah about 90. By every natural measure, it shouldn’t have been possible. But despite what the circumstances looked like, despite every sign pointing to “it’s over,” God kept His promise in His timing.
Paul actually reflects on this same moment in Romans 4:18-21, and he doesn’t soften it at all — he says Abraham considered his own body as good as dead, and Sarah’s womb dead too, and still didn’t waver in unbelief. That’s not a small detail. Paul is naming the exact thing I’ve been circling: the evidence in front of Abraham wasn’t ambiguous. It wasn’t “this looks hard.” It was “this looks over.” And that’s precisely the condition under which the promise held.
What’s even more telling is that Abraham got impatient and tried to make it happen himself. I can only imagine the mindset: I don’t know what to do. Nothing is happening.
That’s exactly where I found myself one night in 2 Chronicles 20:12, when Jehoshaphat says, “We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on You.” That verse carries so much weight, because so often when God puts something on our heart, we don’t know what to do next — but the answer isn’t to figure it all out. It’s to keep our eyes on Him and let Him direct
our steps.
What does this mean for you?
If you’re in a season where you believe God placed something on your heart, but you’re not seeing any fruit yet — I want to challenge you the same way I’ve had to challenge myself:
Pray about it. Delight in the Lord. Fix your eyes on Him, not the silence around you. And keep sowing.
The absence of visible fruit isn’t proof the seed was wrong. Sometimes it just means it hasn’t been a hundred years yet.
Needed this bread today. Thank you for staying committed to the call. Keep showing up 👊