Podcast #311

HOW TO LET GOD TRANSFORM YOUR CONFIDENCE

In this episode of The Confidence Podcast, we're talking about

* How God is responsible for the transformation of my confidence

* My experience with personal development - doing it on my own versus doing it with God

* The tools I use on a daily basis to grow spiritually and to confidently live out my life with joy, happiness, abundance, peace and purpose, even though I never thought those things were available to me

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https://www.trishblackwell.com/the-best-worship-songs-to-encourage-your-heart/

MY EXPERIENCE WITH PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

-ON MY OWN

Lots of reading and consumption, but no implementation.

Overwhelm and impatience.

Confusion of who to learn from and what was important.

Responsibility to do it all on my own.

-ON GOD'S SIDE 

Presence and peace.

Progress and teamwork, to not be doing it all on my own.

Confidence that I would be guided as needed.

Freedom to know that I need to show up, and then to let God be God and do the rest.

Why is worship music important to personal development?  

I used to be embarrassed to let people know about the central role of worship in my life.  When I first starting dating my husband, I was worried he wouldn’t like how much I needed to have worship music on. He was a Christian, so I knew he wouldn’t be offended by it, but it still made me nervous to be vulnerable to the real role of worship in my life. It felt so nerdy and so weak. But I am weak. We all are. I need worship because I need God. I need to be close to Him, I need His strength and I need His truth. Worship connects me and fills me in those ways. Now my husband knows that worship music plays as the background in our house, and in the mornings, when the kids are both screaming at the same time that the dog is barking at a squirrel, I can see him smile at me, happy that we have a peaceful way to process everyday life without losing focus on what matters. (That said, as equally as I love worship music, you will also hear hip hop and reggeaton pumping through our walls).

I’m writing about worship and personal development because to me, a Christian life coach, they are interdependent upon one another. Over the past few years, I have received countless messages from podcast listeners, book readers and coaching clients wanting to know how I really found freedom from my anxiety, my eating disorder, my broken life. I’ve done therapy, coaching, journaling work and have read thousands of books. I have gone on retreats, gotten prayer, fasted and done cleanses. Those things are all good, but the single most powerful factor to my breakthroughs in my personal growth has been worship.