Episode 43

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16th Jun 2025

Stuck? Let’s Talk About Why You Feel Not Ready (But You Are!)

👋 About This Episode

What if you’re not stuck because you’re unprepared… but because you’re zoomed in too close?

In this episode of Online Business for Christian Creatives, Jim challenges the lie that you're not ready and reveals how overthinking, fear, and perfectionism cloud our view of what God is doing. You’ll learn how to trust God's bigger picture, take bold action in your business, and shift from anxiety to alignment—even when the path feels unclear.

This one’s for every Christian entrepreneur feeling pressure to figure it all out before moving forward.


🔥 Key Takeaways


  • Why perfectionism and overthinking keep Christian creatives paralyzed
  • How “tunnel vision” sabotages spiritual confidence and momentum
  • What Proverbs 3:5–6 really means for business decision-making
  • The importance of generational legacy in Kingdom entrepreneurship
  • 3 practical steps to move forward with bold obedience (even when it’s scary)
  • Why you don’t need clarity to act—you need trust


📖 Faith Anchors


  • Proverbs 3:5–6 – Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.
  • Psalm 119:105 – Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
  • Proverbs 19:21 – Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.


🧠 Multipassionate Application


If you’re a creative with too many ideas and not enough movement—this episode is your permission slip to take one faith-filled step forward. Don’t wait for perfect conditions. Walk with the God who guides the path.


✍️ Journal Prompt


Where in your business or creative work are you still waiting for clarity—when God’s already asking for trust?


💥 Wisdom Bomb


“You don’t need more clarity. You need more trust.”


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Transcript
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Welcome to Online Business for Christian Creatives, the show that helps you build a business that honors God, fuels your creativity and actually pays the bills.

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I'm your host, Jim Burgoon, leadership coach, Faith first, entrepreneur, and a guy who's made just about every mistake so you don't have to let's get into it.

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What if the reason you feel stuck isn't because you're not ready, not because you have this list of qualifications in order to pass and do in order to get your promise, as we hear often in Christianity, that God is preparing you.

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And there are oftentimes he is preparing you.

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But what if you are ready?

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What if the problem isn't about your readiness, but about your vision and your positioning?

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What if the problem is more about us being too close to not seeing God's big picture and and less about what we feel and less about what we think and being ready and more about how we look?

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And if you've ever battled with overthinking perfectionism, if you've ever battled with feeling behind, if you've ever battled with comparison of looking at everybody else's front, facing life and real, comparing it to your behind the scenes life and being like, I just don't measure up or I'm just an imposter, then this is the episode that you're going to want to listen to and possibly take notes because we're going to unpack this with courage on how to move forward.

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If you're anything like me, if you go to episode 42, the one right before this one, I unpacked this.

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But I actually call myself a recovering people pleaser or a recovering perfectionist because I've dealt with this as well.

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Today's episode.

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You're in the right place.

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Buckle up and and let's go in as we talk about the real reason you're stuck.

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Talked in the intro that it's not about you not being ready.

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Let's assume right now that you're ready.

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God has prepared you for this season.

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He's prepared you for the assignment.

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You are ready.

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But here's the problem.

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I'm giving you two things.

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Why you feel stuck, why I felt stuck, while sometimes I still feel stuck.

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And the first one is not because we lack talent or readiness.

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It's because we have tunnel vision.

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If you're somebody as a creative, as a creator and a creative, we tend to overanalyze.

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We hesitate, we try to ask for permission from others based on our circumstances.

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We're trying to look for all the details, deal in the perfectionism because we don't want to miss God.

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Have you ever been afraid of that?

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Having.

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Trying not to make the decision yet because you're waiting on God, and you feel like you're waiting forever.

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And you're living in this place of perfectionism that if you don't get all the details right, you're gonna miss God.

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And if you miss, go God.

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You've done messed up the whole plan.

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Let's remove some of that and realize that we get so inside of our heads that we honestly have tunnel vision.

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It's the horse that puts on the blinders, because the horse with the blinders can only go in that.

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In that single direction.

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Our problem is we go in that single direction, but we've overanalyzed everything, so we may be going in the wrong direction.

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And God has been, hey, come back over here.

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And we keep walking in this wrong direction.

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So I think the first thing is why you feel stuck, why you continually going around that mountain and is.

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You're overanalyzing, you're overthinking, and you're trying to live in that place of perfectionism, which causes number two.

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And number two is that we have created too many options for ourselves.

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A confused mind makes no decisions.

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Think about that.

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A confused mind makes no decisions.

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Now, we know that God is not the author of confusion.

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We know that.

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We know who the author of confusion is.

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But here's the thing.

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What if in your prayer time and your journaling time, and I do pray that you do those things, but what if in your prayer time, in your journaling time, as you're trying to figure out this whole.

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This whole thing with God, and you get up in your head, and you get up in your feelings, and you get up in your trauma, and usually like, I can't.

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I won't.

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I don't know.

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I don't want to move unless, God, I don't want to do this.

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And then you start finding yourself with the.

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All these options.

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You're like, if I do plan A, plan A doesn't work.

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I have plan B.

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But if plan B doesn't work, I have plan C.

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And then it's so forth and so on.

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And then you realize that when you first started the structure, plan A, plan B, plan C, right?

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Then you realize that they all ran together, and you just have six options, and you don't know which one to choose.

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It's like, what door do you go through?

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And only one of them will get you one step further.

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And here's the thing is we have Zoomed so far in that we're looking at all of our stuff instead of zooming out and looking at what God wants us to look at.

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And then taking those reins of control, that reigns of, I have to be perfect, I have to be these things and giving them to God and saying, God, lead me and guide me and direct me in the way you want me to go.

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Because you know what?

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You don't need the full blueprint.

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You don't need it.

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We want it.

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It helps the anxiety.

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But we, the Bible also tells us is cast all your anxiety on him.

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Right?

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We just need the next step.

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We need that light before our feet, right?

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That's that kind of thing.

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Lord, you're a lamp before our feet.

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Psalm 119, 105.

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It's like God's word leads us to the next step.

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So all we really need is that next step.

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And here's where I.

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Where we can go, my friend, is that we can say, God, show me in the next step.

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And then let me build the confidence and the trust in you that that next step is the only step I need to take.

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So lead me there.

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And now I'm going to tell you what's really cool about this, is that God is such a good leader and we're not the greatest of followers that we can say, God, show me the next step.

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And then here's the deal.

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If I miss the next step, I say, God, if I miss the step that's already illuminated and it's only like a foot away, but if I miss it, Lord, I submit under your leadership to lead me back to the step that I missed.

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We get back into these places.

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It's the Scriptures, Proverbs 3, 5, and 6.

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It says this.

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It says, trust in the Lord with all of your heart.

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Do not depend on your own understanding.

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Seek his will in all you do.

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Seek his will in all that you do.

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And he will show you which path to take.

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So when we break this down and understand it, we say God, and we recognize our frailty.

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We recognize how flawed of a human being we truly are, especially when we're comparing to God and we say, God, I'm going to trust you, Lord, in the places I don't trust you.

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Help me trust you.

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And then let me depend on you more than I depend on me.

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See how this turns into a prayer.

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Because if I begin to seek your will, oh God, if I read my word and I see what you want, then at the end of the day, you.

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You're going to guide me whether I Know it or not, you're guiding me.

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I don't need a word to tell me this is the way.

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Go in it.

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I need a lamp before my feet that says, I trust you enough to say that lamp belongs to you.

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And I'm going to follow it.

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Because here's the deal.

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These are all invitations to go deeper in relationship with God.

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And we want all these things fixed in our business.

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Here's why I think sometimes we get into the weeds is because we want our business to become our God.

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And we lose sight of the relationship God is trying to build with us so that we, him and I, you and I, him and you build the business with each other.

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And I think that's why a lot of times we get out in the weeds because we want to build a business and we say, God, we built this business for you.

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And that business becomes our God.

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And this is the challenge we face.

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Because if we lean not on our own understanding, we're going to be directed in the paths.

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And all the paths we're directed in don't always look like the way we originally thought it.

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That, and I think we've got to recognize that that's our thing.

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Thought processes sometimes, many times are wrong because they're based on what we fear, they're based on what we feel, they're based on our trauma.

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We tend to avoid situations that lead us into similar patterns.

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And the reality of it is sometimes God's going to lead you back into a pattern you've been running from your whole life to get you where you need in order to get you what you need.

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I think with that being said, we've got to ask the Lord to guide us and lead us in the path he is chosen to that next step.

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Not six steps, not 20 steps to the next step.

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That's where we got to get to.

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And this brings us into this other thing.

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If the first thing is the tunnel vision and we're just really too focused, too hyper focused.

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The second thing is God is a generational God.

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You read thread in the Bible where it says, I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

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And you see that all through the Old Testament, God is a generational guide.

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God, he thinks in legacies, he thinks in your kids and your grandkids and your great, great grandkids.

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Are they going to follow him because you followed him?

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He's not about just about your launches, he's about what you're launching, impacts generations.

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And I think this is where we get a little bit nervous because we get in the Weeds.

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We feel like we're building something small.

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And God is like, you know what often starts small in your generation?

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It's what we call mustard seed.

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Obedience.

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Remember, the must seed grows into one of the tallest trees.

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If you let it, have time, give it what it needs.

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And so your life, your business, your everything that God is doing through you are seeds for the next generation.

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We see this in the relationship between David and Solomon.

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Why is that?

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Because David wanted to build.

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He had taken over the kingdom for God.

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He'd been doing all these great things for God.

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Yeah, he failed with Bathsheba and that's another message for another day.

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But he's been doing all these things for God.

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He was a man after God's own heart and all those things.

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But here's the thing.

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He goes to God, he says, God, I want to build the temple.

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And God says, no, that's not for you.

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That's for Solomon.

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That's for your son.

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Because what starts in your generation, I'm going to finish in another generation.

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And this is the type of mentality we have to have in our business.

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Because if you can do it all in your generation, your business is too small.

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If you can do it all in your power, you're not serving God, you're serving your intellect and your cleverness.

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And because what we do should scare us, what we do should be bigger than us.

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Because God is a generational God.

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He is not a right now God.

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He's a right now God for your great, great, great grandkids as well.

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And they're gonna, and it's gonna look back and say, are they serving him and impacting this world for the Gospel?

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Because you served him and you gave your business to him in this time, Remember, this all has ripple effects because the reality check is we're not just creating content or creating or launching offers, which we are.

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And you should.

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And we're going to deal with that in a future episode about being a Christian content creator and a business person and how you shouldn't be afraid of selling and stuff.

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But that's another conversation.

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But we're launching offers and we're building business and we're creating content.

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But here's the deal.

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Every piece of content, every offer you launch is creating impact.

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Sure, you're going to make money of it.

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Sure, all of that's going to do well and you're going to be able to build that business and, and live the dream that God has put in your heart and resource, the kingdom.

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But every piece of thing that you put out there.

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Impact.

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And we've got to look at it that way because it's a piece of impact.

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It creates movements, it creates gospel expansion.

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And if you never see it, like, at all, you may see snippets of it, wow, this did this to this and this.

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And I was responsible for this.

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What if you never see the fullness of it?

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And most people who are generational and believe in generational stuff like this, they don't see the fullness of it because Abraham never saw the fullness of what Jacob saw.

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But here's the deal.

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You've got to start acting like you walk in it already.

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You got to start acting like your business is a generational business.

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That your impact and your wealth that you're building, which is ultimately God's because we're stewards, is a generational wealth.

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We're not building right now wealth, we're building for generations.

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Something to keep in your mind.

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Because if God's a generational God and we feel stuck, we need to tap into generational thought processes.

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God's not using your business to bless you.

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He's using it to bless others.

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We got that.

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It's blessing you.

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And through you, it's blessing others.

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Because remember, our prayer should be God, I'm a conduit God.

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Throw resources and power and everything else through me.

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And whatever goes through me, I can benefit from as well.

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So we got that part.

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You are potentially bringing the gospel to places that would never be.

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As a kingdom entrepreneur, as a Christian entrepreneur, Christian creator, there are people reading your content that may never step foot in a church.

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So if you're a content creator, you're absolutely bringing the gospel.

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So is your character speaking of God and couldn't go there if the gospel couldn't go in those places.

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But your content and you can.

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You're leveraging the business for the kingdom.

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And then whatever money we make, God's going to leverage that to build the kingdom as well.

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So we're really kingdom expansionist.

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I don't know about you, and I don't know where you are specifically, but what I do know is that sometimes we feel stuck and we're overthinking it and we're perfectionists.

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And I know that you want to be doing what God wants wants you to do and being in a place that God wants you to be in.

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So if we can get our heads on right, if we can dive into relationship, if we can sit, get back to the places of getting in the relationship, of journaling, Bible study, and I mean deep Bible Study.

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I don't just mean reading your Bible, I mean studying a Bible.

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Getting into these places where we're building an actual honest relationship with God, you're going to find that you're thinking and your heart begins to shift according to God's desires.

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You become generational and you start breaking free of cycles that have kept you stuck for so long.

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This is about moving forward.

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Let me give you some practical steps because we always want to be practical.

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Everything we do.

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I don't want it to be theoretical, I want it to be in some practical.

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Number one, the mindset shift, shift from the outcome or the results to the obedience.

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Now we got to stop asking what if it doesn't work?

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We got to stop asking.

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Question alone is a fear based question.

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What if it doesn't work?

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The other side of that, what if it does?

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But faith based question in obedience is who am I becoming by trusting God in this, in this situation, who am I becoming?

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What fruit is being developed?

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What character is being developed?

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Who am I becoming If I trust God in this moment, not will it work, but who am I becoming?

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Because I'm going to tell you, you'll build confidence when you shift to obedience.

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Because if you really get into the fact of who am I becoming, then you go will actually jump into what God's asking of you more often because you realize that this is part of the process of developing you to car what God has placed on you as a bonus.

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If you are currently struggling to hear God in this, in this time, go back to the last place you heard God.

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Like if you heard him a year ago and you're like, I haven't really been hearing God.

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What was the last thing he said to you?

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Because I'm going to tell you a lot of times, at least in my own experience, is that God will not speak a new word until you're obedient to the previous word.

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So we need to go back to say God, where did I miss it?

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What do I need to repent of?

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And help me remember what you said so I can accomplish that part of obedience so that we can move into the next stage.

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Then that brings us into number two, which is you don't have to wait for permission.

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I'm going to say that one more time, you don't have to wait for permission.

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And there's a part of us, and I think this part is where we face our trauma, we face our upbringings.

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That part of us dives into this place of we're always waiting for others to give us the Permission to be who we are.

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And you don't need that.

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God has already given you the permission to be who you are.

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God has already given you the permission to step out into faith with him, to step into who you are, your calling.

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Because you are a planet seed.

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God has put a seed in you, he's planted in you, and you're already qualified to do the thing he's called you to.

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I think there's this misconception where we think that God is going to just call us to something and let us go.

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Wow, those old fears of if I say yes to God, he's going to call me to be in a missionary and China.

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So what?

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Go to China if you need to, or go to wherever he calls you to be a missionary, if that's what your call is on your life.

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But if you're listening to this podcast, more likely than not you were called to be in the ministry of business and entrepreneurship.

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So go there and be a missionary to the entrepreneur space.

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But to do that, we've got to give ourselves permission.

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What does that look like?

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We give ourselves permission to fail.

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We give ourselves permission to feel.

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Because you're going to feel rejected.

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You're going to feel like you can't do this, you're going to feel like you want to quit, you're going to feel like you wasted your life.

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You're going to feel a lot of things because the entrepreneurial journey is a roller coaster.

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And because of that, we get stuck in these feelings.

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But give yourself the permission to feel, but also give yourself the permission to move on.

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Because God wants us to move on into the promise, not stay stuck in the feeling.

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So if we're moving forward with God, he's giving you the permission.

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You need to give yourself the permission.

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And don't worry about other people's permission for you, because here's the reality.

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Other people's opinion of you doesn't matter.

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And they're just giving you their opinion.

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A lot of them will give you permission based if they feel like you can do it.

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If God said you can do it, you don't need to them to tell you that you can do it.

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You can do it.

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Now let me give you the other side of that.

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We do need encouragement and it's okay to get encouragement from people, but it's not okay to listen to other people's words above the word of the Lord, because then we make them our God and we stay stuck because we're not following through on obedience of what God's called us to Based on what our feelings and our fear is and what people are telling us.

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We're like, well, I know I heard God, but maybe I didn't, so I'm gonna live over here.

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No, you just give yourself permission because God's already given you permission and he's called you to something deeper.

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Which brings us to the last thought.

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And this is we ask God, what do you want to do through me?

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And I've always said.

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I've always said that the quality of your outcome is tied to the quality of your question.

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You want better outcomes, ask better questions.

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Because these are the most amazing tools we can have.

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I mean, the proverbs even tells us the wells are deep and those that know how to draw from them, right?

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These are the questions that draw from the depth, the depths of the heart, man.

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The want better outcomes, ask better questions.

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Instead of being like, I just don't know God, whatever, show me what you want me to do, right?

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No, God, what do you want to do through me, and what do you want to do with me?

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I think there's this whole thing.

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It's not about controlling the outcomes.

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We've got to divorce ourselves some outcomes.

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It's about surrendering ourselves to the results.

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That's up to the Lord.

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We take bold action because it doesn't start with clarity.

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It starts with trust.

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And we're so obsessed with trying to be clear, and we basically ignore trusting.

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I rather trust God and let him be clear and tell me what I need to do instead of trying to be clear and not trust him.

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This brings up a truth.

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Here's the truth.

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We don't trust God.

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That's not something we say out loud.

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We kind of hide that away.

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We don't want to admit that, but we honestly don't trust him a lot.

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Every time our bank account hits zero and we get that nervous anxiousness now, I get fear.

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I've been there hundreds of times.

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But here's the deal.

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Do you trust God to be the provider, or do you trust your bank account to always be the provider?

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It.

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I'm not saying you need to give everything away.

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And I'm not saying I think we should build wealth, because the more wealth you have, the more kingdom impact you can have.

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But here's the deal.

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Where are you putting your trust?

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In the things that you can see that rust?

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Or God, who you can't see?

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Who's the invisible, who's inside of you that doesn't rust?

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So if we can move into a place of stop saying, oh, God, we just got to do the outcomes, got to get the results, because the results are the fruit.

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Nowhere in the Bible does it say your results of a big ministry, a big business, is a fruit.

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It says in Galatians, the fruit of the spirit is love, patience, kindness.

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And you can read the rest of that.

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But it's all of these things where we're building the fruit of the spirit, not just habits, not results.

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And let me read Proverbs:

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It says you can make any plans, right?

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This is that new living translation.

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You can make many plans, but the Lord's purpose will prevail.

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So it really comes down to it doesn't matter how many plans I have.

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God's purposes will come to pass.

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His word won't come back void.

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But here's the thing that we have to understand, and this is a prayer that I'll pray a lot of times.

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God, I trust you in this to where I can trust you.

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I trust you in this, but help me in the places that I'm struggling to trust you.

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Pray that prayer, I trust you, but I want to trust you more.

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Help me in the places I struggle to trust you in.

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It comes back to the guy, the centurion, Lord, I believe you can heal my person.

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The person, he was saying things, I have doubts.

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Help me with my unbelief that the imam scripture, the same thing applies.

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Lord, I have trust, but there's places I don't trust.

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And this is based on my experiences and my trauma and all this other stuff.

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I don't trust this.

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But Lord, help me in this trust.

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Help me develop trust in you in this.

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And I think you start asking those questions and you start making those declarations and you start getting into the places of relationship and you're like, God, what do you want to do through me?

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And I'm going to trust you.

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And if I don't trust you, help me trust you.

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You're going to find that you're building something beautiful, you're building something impactful, something great.

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And so it really comes back to, let's be intentional, let's be proactive instead of reactory.

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And I think that's really where it really comes down to, because let's partner with God instead of saying, God, you need to partner with us.

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And I think there's so many people out there that run around with this whole faith mentality that says, if I have enough faith, God's going to do whatever I say.

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That's not what the Bible tells us.

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It says God is already working.

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And if I Have faith.

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I'm going to join him where he's working instead of demanding he join where I'm working.

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Because if I'm going to get unstuck, if I'm going to trust, then I need to look at what he's doing and just trust that whatever he's doing is the best.

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Not good enough, but the best.

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And I want to join the best.

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So we're going to look at where God's working, we're going to join it, we're going to build that trust.

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Listen, I know this sometimes sounds easier said than done.

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Like we get caught in these spirals of overthinking and perfectionism and just when you think you haven't mastered, you're stuck again.

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We have to wonder.

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We often struggle with the wondering, is it a good idea or is it a God idea?

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I hear God.

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Did I not hear God?

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I'm gonna, let's remove a little bit of that.

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Let's fix our eyes on the bigger picture.

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Let's dig deeper into relationship and let's trust God in the story that he's writing in your life.

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Not just the step, but the whole story of what he's writing in your life and how you're going to impact generations and then have the courage to just take that next step.

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We don't need to take 10, but take the next step.

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And I think life will be different.

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And I'd love to hear how your life is going to be different.

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I'd love to hear if you have any questions and one of the great ways that you can do that, if this message has stirred something in you, I'd love to invite you into a deeper conversation.

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I just started a weekly mailing list and I would love to have you on that.

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Not going to be me just sending you, hey, here's an episode.

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We go deeper.

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We talk about some behind the scenes stuff.

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There's questions of the week that I'll answer for people who send me questions, whether through email or voice.

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And I have ways to show you how to do that.

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But if you're interested in joining a growing newsletter where we can have these conversations and we take these episodes deeper, I would love to have you join it.

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You're going to find the link in www.leadwithjim.com.

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when you go there, you'll find the link right at the top.

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And here's the thing, I want to journey with you on this, on this thing we call faith, this thing we call entrepreneurship.

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So hop on.

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Let's have this journey together and I'm going to see you on the next episode.

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And remember, I'm praying for you.

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I'm believing for you.

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And I know that whatever God's doing in your life, you are going to win.

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About the Podcast

Online Business for Christian Creatives
The podcast for faith-driven creators who want to grow their audience, income, and impact—with God at the center.
Feel called to create, lead, and build something meaningful—but feel scattered, stuck, or spiritually off track? You’re not alone.

This podcast is for faith-driven creatives ready to grow a business online without losing their soul in the process. Hosted by leadership coach and multipassionate entrepreneur Jim Burgoon, each episode equips you to clarify your calling, grow your authority, and build a purpose-led business that actually works.

Whether you’re starting fresh or pivoting with purpose, you’ll learn how to:

Find focus as a multipassionate Christian

Grow your online presence through podcasting, content, and personal development

Build influence with simple systems and leadership growth

Step into strategic and spiritual alignment as a Kingdom-minded entrepreneur

New episodes drop weekly—featuring teaching, real talk, and honest conversations designed to help you lead with faith and live with impact.

👋 It’s time to stop overthinking and start building—with God at the center of it all.

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