Daily Study: God speaks to us mainly through His written word. However, He is also in the business of giving us dreams and/or visions as part of our toolkit for direction for our entrepreneurial calling. A simple distinction I use between them is that dreams happen when you are asleep and visions happen when you are awake. In today’s study I am providing a few basic principles to interpret dreams and visions. This is by no means a complete study on the topic, but it is a great starting point.

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Holy Spirit:  This year, I want the CFE community to focus on believing me for what they want. Believe for the success they desire in various areas of their lives and callings. Be bold in their believing and remain consistent throughout the year in their beliefs. Align their thoughts and actions with what they are believing me for. Some need to believe for continual growth from last year, while others need to believe for new success. This is a very personal year for CFE, with personal requests and results. Encourage them to seek me to determine what they should be believing for this year and to stand in faith that, through me and them working together, their beliefs will come to pass. 

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Ministry Updates: I am outlining the 2025 cadence of CFE, which now follows a simplified daily, weekly, and monthly rhythm to guide you in your spiritual growth. The daily cadence includes studies and confessions, while the weekly cadence consists of Open Forum every Wednesday evening and Sunday morning services. The monthly cadence features gatherings in Atlanta that include a mix of full-day immersive experiences on major topics and shorter half-day gatherings for Bible study and fellowship, providing consistent connection opportunities for both local and worldwide members. The first gathering of the year, the Clarity Experience, will take place on January 18th.

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Daily Study: God's words in the Bible are powerless if they are not planted and watered in your heart. For example, an apple seed is useless until it is planted in the ground and watered properly with rain, then it can produce an apple tree. In the same way, God's words are seeds that need to be planted and watered in the ground of your heart. Once planted and watered, the word-seed's harvest is faith. 

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Daily Study: Is God punishing me? Have I done something to make God mad? Have I been disobedient to His Word? These are just a few questions we ask ourselves when bad things happen to us. However, these are actually the wrong questions to ask. In today's study, we examine why bad things happen to us, and how we can avoid them or stop many of them from happening in the first place. 

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Happy New Year, CFE!

I hope this year is starting off wonderfully for you all. I’m dropping this podcast on New Year’s Day, 2025, to wish you a Happy New Year and to kick things off with a prayer for new success.

Before we get to the prayer, I want to share a few thoughts about the change of a year. There’s nothing magical about the transition into a new year. The calendar year is simply a marker that separates seasons.

However, the plans and promises of God are not bound by time. If there are things you didn’t accomplish in 2024, that doesn’t mean you have to stop pursuing them just because the year has changed. If you believed for something in 2024 and it didn’t happen, that doesn’t mean you should stop believing for it in 2025.

The calendar year may change, but the things God has placed in your heart and the promises He’s given you are timeless. If you feel like you didn’t accomplish everything you wanted in 2024, don’t be discouraged.

Keep moving forward. Carry those goals into January, February, and March—however long it takes to fulfill the things you believe God has called you to do. Don’t let the transition into a new year bring you down.

If you didn’t achieve everything you thought you should have, or if you didn’t receive all that you hoped for, it’s okay. With that in mind, let me share a prayer over us—a prayer that you can also speak over yourself:

**Lord, I thank You that You are the one who crowns CFE this year with Your goodness, and Your paths drip with abundance. I declare that this new year is filled with new opportunities for CFE, breakthroughs, and success. You are leading us forward.

We trust in You with all our hearts and lean not on our own understanding. In all our ways, we acknowledge You, and we know You are making our paths straight this year. We commit our plans to You and believe that You will establish them according to Your will.

CFE and all its members are like trees planted by streams of water, yielding fruit in their season. Our leaves do not wither, and whatever we do prospers this year.

As we seek Your kingdom and Your righteousness, we know all these things will be added to us as well. We walk in faith, trusting that You are able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all we can ask or imagine, according to Your power at work within us.

We declare that this year is a year of success, favor, and divine alignment because You are working all things together for our good. Thank You, Lord, for the new success You have planned for us in this new year. We receive it with gratitude and faith, in the name of Jesus. Amen.**

Let’s receive that prayer as a declaration for 2025 and step into this year with faith and expectation for new success.

I’ll see you this Sunday as I share the word of the year for CFE. Be blessed, and I’ll talk to you soon.

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Daily Study: Research shows that two to three million churchgoers leave their church every year. Most leave because of burn out or because they were hurt in someway by their church. With these statistics in mind, in today’s Study, I am addressing the reality that so many Christians are contemplating leaving a church.

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Daily Study: The Bible tells us that when trouble comes our way, God will create a way of escape. He does this so we can overcome all bad situations. So what is this way? The means our escape is His word. 

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Sunday Service: As we prepare for 2025, I feel led to revisit the message of letting things go. I first shared this message when I informed my local church that it was time for our ministry to come to an end, and I recently delivered it to a congregation in Atlanta. While some of you may have listened to the recording, as a global church family, we haven’t yet had the chance to discuss it together. So, let’s talk about it. Is it time to let go of certain things in your life and business that are not working?

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Ministry Updates and Partnership Invitation

Hi CFE! I hope you’re having a great week. I wanted to pop in to share some updates about Church for Entrepreneurs (CFE) and also ask you to pray about partnering with us.

One thing I’ve been thinking about lately is how we approach partnership. Usually, at the end of every podcast episode, I make a request for people to partner with the ministry. However, I’ve been feeling in my spirit that this might be too frequent, and I don’t want to overwhelm our listeners. So, moving forward, when you listen to a podcast episode, it will focus solely on the message—unless there’s a special reason to include a partnership mention.

Instead, I’m planning to separate partnership requests into a different format. For example, I might do a dedicated podcast like this one once a week or mention it at the end of live events, such as a Sunday service or Open Forum. I just want you to know that partnerships are how we operate, but I want to approach this in a way that feels thoughtful and balanced.

Now, let me update you on what’s going on. I’ve just finished uploading the next seven days of Daily Studies and Daily Confessions to the podcast feed and online community. The Daily Studies are actually posted five days a week—so technically they could be called “Weekday Studies,” but “Daily Studies” sounds better! However, the Daily Confessions are truly daily, available seven days a week.

The way I prepare this content is by planning week by week. Many of the Daily Studies are based on messages I’ve preached before. I go through the archives to bring those teachings back to the surface, interspersed with new messages and series as God leads me.

Right now, we’re working through the Book of Romans, currently in Chapter 13. We’ve got about three chapters to go, and I’m hoping to wrap this up in the next couple of months since we’re taking it slowly, line by line.

As I record this, it’s 11:43 PM Eastern Time, so you’ll probably hear it when you wake up tomorrow. These updates are meant to be short and focused, giving you a sense of what’s happening in the ministry while also inviting you to pray about partnering with Church for Entrepreneurs.

Partnership is vital for what we do. When you partner with us, you provide us with the time and resources needed to operate this ministry. Our mission is to help believers grow spiritually so they can fulfill the calling God has placed on their hearts.

I truly believe that spiritual growth is the key to unlocking the success God has planned for you—not just techniques or strategies. While those are important, true success in God’s way comes from understanding and following His ways. As the Bible says, “Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”

By focusing on your spiritual growth, we’re helping you seek God first. As you do that, you’ll unlock the success God has for you in your entrepreneurial calling—whether that’s in business, ministry, good works, or another area He’s placed on your heart.

Thanks for listening to this update and for considering partnering with us.

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