Attractively Different Podcast

Are you convinced that God has a bigger purpose and plan for your life but you just haven't seen it come to fruition? If you've been there (or are there currently) you know that the purpose of life can feel so uncertain. Is it as grand as you think it can be or monotonous as it feels? It requires faith to keep pressing forward.

In today's episode, I want to talk about what it's like to walk in your journey to the purpose and the assignment that God has for you. You know you're capable of something greater but feeling a little doubt that you're capable of walking in that assignment because it's not here. This can create negative thoughts that doubt that it's coming, or feel like you may not be good enough for the assignment that God has for you.

When you have these moments of doubt and self-criticism it can lead to comparison. We compare ourselves to those around us who are succeeding in their God-given assignment. The enemy wants us to believe our negative self talk so that we convince ourselves to quit.

If you're in a period of life where you know that your potential is great but you're just not seeing it come to fruition. Know that you're in a training ground that is proving yourself to be faithful for the assignment that God has for your life purpose.

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Don't you wish that God would just reveal the WHOLE ENCHILADA? You know ... just show you the plan form the beginning to the end. How is this going to work out? Is this going to work?

In today's episode, we discuss why God doesn't reveal His plan for your life purpose all at once. Our brain's have trained us that in order to avoid failure it's important to know if a plan will succeed or not. It's wise to perform analysis and understand an issue from beginning to end. Yet, God rarely works that way when it comes to succeeding in the purpose of life. 

"Knowing" causes us to feel in control because we don't like how it feels to be "out of control". Yet, what if the only way to be "in control" was to feel out of control by trusting in the God who is in control. What would change in your life if you knew that God concealing the entire plan for your life so that it could succeed? He is always good and knows that the enemy would disrupt the plan if it was revealed all at once. 

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What makes you unique?

There are people who want to make a difference in the world but lack the confidence that they can really make a difference. So people get caught up in trying to copy a method that doesn't align with your unique value. This is unsatisfying, frustrating, and will lead to burnout. 

In today's episode, I want to talk about how embracing what makes you unique will position you to prosper in your assignment. Proverbs 18:16 says that a gift opens the way and ushers the giver into the presence of the great. Your uniqueness is your gift and will usher you into the presence of the great. Your life purpose is to walk in your unique gifting to influence others for the kingdom of God. Yet, it's easy to want to copy the "proven" methods of success but struggle being authentic because it doesn't align with who you were uniquely created to be.

The purpose of life is to share your unique gifting and solve problems for others. If you're not sharing you unique gift with the world then you'll struggle to fully step into the assignment that God has for you.

Joseph is an example of how his unique gifting positioned him to be promoted to one of the highest positions in Egypt. Joseph was promoted because he provided a plan to a large problem.

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If God has provided more than enough, then why are so may believers begging and crying for God to do something? They're living with a mindset of lack where there just isn't enough. This is unnecessary because there are so many benefits that are being left on the table that will enhance your life purpose and testimony to the non believer.

In today's episode, we talk about how there are so many benefits that believers are leaving on the table because they're seeing themselves as servants instead of son or daughters of the King. Hebrews 4:9-10 talks about Jesus becoming a sabbath rest for us. The only way that sabbath rest was possible is because God provides more than enough.

Before Jesus came, we were waiting to take hold of the inheritance that God has for us. Jesus was sent to purchase our freedom and break us free. We were adopted and recognized as God's son. Yet, our tendency is to revert back to our old religious programming.

We are citizens of heaven and have the rights of the kingdom. Through faith, we have access to ever great blessing and promise so that we could escape from the moral decay that is in the world and become partakers of divine nature.

The purpose of life is to operate inside the freedom that Jesus gave to us. We don't have to stand on the sidelines begging and convincing God to provide for you. These promises have been given so we can escape the lack and the bondage that religion places on us.

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Don't miss this if you're feeling the pressure of life and need a break to release the pressure. These moments of pressure are frustrating and can be all about making it to the next day but when you're in a survival mentality you can lose vison in life. Also, and more importantly, you will miss out on opportunity when it comes.

In today's episode, I want to talk about why it's so important to have vision beyond just getting to the next day, and how this can set you up to maximize your opportunities when then come. Failing to have vision when the pressure is high will leave you wanting more out of the opportunity when it comes.

It's exhausting to feel the pressures of life and simply make it another day. The weariness drags you down, and it when the pressure releases there's a feeling of satisfaction that will cause you to stop or slow down. Yet, stopping or slowing down when the pressure is released will cause you to miss out on bigger advancements in your life purpose.

So, one of the tactics of the enemy is to keep you living in lack. He wants you to feel exhausted and weary to minimize your impact on the kingdom of God. This is why having provision allows you to have vision for your life and maximize the opportunities when they come.

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Who do you choose to take advice from? What do they have that you want?

In today's episode we discuss what is required for change and how it applies to the Christian life. As believers, it is crucial that we can clearly share how a life in Christ is better than the alternative. Yet, the fruit our life produces is the megaphone to the world. People will only allow you to influence their life when you have something they want.

People are hurting when they're searching for peace, hope, healing, purpose. As believers, you become the brightest life when you are fulfilling your life purpose, you are full of peace and hope. The purpose of life is to complete your God-given assignment to grow his kingdom, and in that pursuit Jesus offers us life to the full. A life that is characterized by more than enough.

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How well are your coping mechanisms serving you?

In today's episode we discuss how your strengths are keeping you in a "shell" of your potential, and might be holding you back from succeeding in your life purpose. This episode is for you If you want to break through and become everything you were created to be. We each have a unique and great potential but we are "sleep walking" through life based on our early childhood programming.

The psychological term is called "dimming of consciousness" where we have basic survival mechanisms where we dissociate from painful experiences as a way of surviving or staying safe in the world. This begins when we are babies because we, as humans, have the longest period of dependency of all mammals. We possess wired in defense mechanisms that protect us form being too overwhelmed or harmed by emotional or phycological threats. Therefore, as children there are maneuvers and coping strategies that are used to protect us that overtime become patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. Over time these patterns turn into automatic habits that influence where your attention goes in the world. These early coping mechanisms aren't needed anymore and can become constraints with how we think, feel and act .

The purpose of life is to complete your God-given assignment to grow his kingdom, and it requires faith and courage to fully step into our true identity. Therefore, we must fully develop the how we think, feel and act.

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Do kingdom principles ALWAYS work? My guess is that you're probably nodding your head in agreement. Yet, I've found that a lot of believers aren't even sure what they are. What differentiates God's kingdom from Satan's kingdom, and how does it apply all around the world?

In today's episode, I want to share with about an organization I had the pleasure of meeting with recently. It's a not for profit called Watts of love, and they supply solar lights to people around the world who do not have light. These lights improve the safety for the families who receive them but it provides a new opportunity to prosper.

The purpose of life is to love God well and have fun doing it. When we operate in our life purpose we become more like our creator and have a testimony of faith that shows other's that "it's possible." It's good news that your creator wants you to prosper in everything that you do. Psalm 1 says that the person who delights in the Lord is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither - whatever they do prospers. Friend, hopefully this is encouraging to you that all things are possible through Christ.

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As a believer, how do you handle your desires? Do you feel the freedom to walk in those desires or do you suppress them because you believe that a "good Christian" should not fulfill their desires? This is a constant struggle for most believers and can potentially cause them to miss out on their life purpose.

In today's episode, I want to share with you how your desires are put inside of you to help you fulfill your life purpose. Religion has taught us, as believers, that fulfilling our desires is a sinful thought and action. There's an idea that a "good Christian" sets their desires aside and "take up their cross." Religion has positioned following Christ as a life that is hard and undesirable. Yet, Jesus said that He came to give us life and to give it to the full. He also said that His yoke is easy and His burden is light.

The purpose of life is to complete your God-given assignment to grow his kingdom, and it requires faith to follow His word and operate within our desires as He has designed. Therefore, when we believe that a desire is evil it is actually a result of a God-given desire that either cannot be fulfilled or we try to fulfill that desire in the wrong way. Hopefully this episode is encouraging to you to explore what desires you have suppressed due to a religious mindset, and what desires has God put inside of you that will help you fulfill your assignment.

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True or false … in order to get ahead someone has to lose? Satan has perpetuated this idea that life is a zero sum game where the only reason that people get ahead is because they took from others. This is a severely limiting belief for believers because it's going to limit their impact on the kingdom of God, and prevent them from fully operating in their life purpose.

In today's episode, I want to discuss how God's kingdom is all about the win/win. If you feel like the success of someone else is actually costing you provision or blessing then you won't want to miss this episode because we're going to get into what Satan has to gain by perpetuating this lie and how it can cause you to come to the wrong conclusion about God and his provision.

God has positioned us where the purpose of life is to be generous on all occasions, and when we exhibit this type of generosity everyone wins. Yet, it's impossible to be generous on all occasions if you don't have enough. Satan knows that the only way he can get ahead is to lie, cheat, and steal. Therefore, our greatest offense as believers is to operate in God's kingdom where everyone wins.

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