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Psalm 23:1-6

"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For you are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever." 

The best thing to happen to me while I lived in Los Angeles was the church home I found and instantly became a member of. Faithful Central Bible Church in Inglewood, pastored by John Paul C. Foster changed my entire perspective on how I view life. I'll get to that later. For now, I like to sit in a certain seat when I attend church. I religiously would sit in a seat by myself every week. Eventually a nice lady by the name of Ms Victoria turned around to speak and introduce herself to me. I'm not the best with names, I'm great with faces. But this time I was intentional about remembering Ms. Victoria. One of the ladies she introduced me to, I shared with her that I think tomorrow is going to be my last day at work and I will be out a job, she assured me I would be okay...A few weeks later she turns around to me and says are you doing okay? I responded with, "no I'm not, I don't want to leave my church, I don't want to leave LA" Her response "I just feel it in my spirit you're suppose to be here. Let me get you connected with some men in the church, also I want to bless you, what's your cash app?" Me being myself I'm like no it's okay please don't you don't have to. "Don't block your blessings Micah" is what she told me. The men she connected me with led me to joining a men's group that was steered towards leadership. It was exactly what I wanted.
As I took the time to figure out my life moving forward I went back home to Indy. While at home I joined a men's group that would meet every Thursday night. It was a small group of us, four to be exact, that was being led by brother Deryl. I met online every week at 10pm my time. Each week my faith not only grew, but my understanding of the word went to new heights. It was the one thing I looked forward to each week. While growing each week as a leader in Christ, one week I got a call from Deryl and he asked me if I had ever seen the movie The Forge. I responded with "Of course I have, I watch all of the Kendrick brother movies, and to be exact that movie came out last year Aug 23, 2024". Well at the time I didn't understand why He was asking me that but it all came full circle. Pastor JP had been preaching a series about following the commandment from Jesus to go and make disciples. I ended up being a facilitator for a men's discipleship group online thousands of miles away. Takes to new age technology, I was able to be in the presence of men leading and guiding each of us to walk towards Christ. One of the men in the group asked for my spiritual wisdom with different topics because he enjoyed how I broke the word down to relate to daily living providing my real life situations as examples. I was just being my authentic self but I knew that God was using me as a vessel to work through me. 
During this same time period, I got a call from the sports performance director of the Chicago Sky. She just happens to be my former boss in Portland and is now my big sister, but that's neither here or there. She asked if I would be interested in helping her finish out the rest of the season working along side her. Without hesitation I told her yes and one week later I was in back in Chicago but this time working in the WNBA. In my mind I was like why didn't I just accept this opportunity when it was presented to me back in March if I was going to end up here anyway. Well, God is so timely, so ordained in the ordering of our steps, that I would sure find out the reason why. 

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