The David Lee Martin Show - Holy Ghost Encouragement For Christian Creatives

What’s the most important thing in your business?

Cashflow? Assets? Intellectual property? SOP’s? 

What’s the secret sauce that makes your business stand out from the crowd and how do you protect it? 

Let me tell you, it’s a great deal simpler than it may first appear, and calls for some radical shifts in practice if you plan on long-term growth and prosperity.

The number one thing that sets your business apart is…

YOU!

You are, after all, ultimately in the business of being yourself.

How you show up in the world is an overflow. Your business, ministry, or service to others is an expression of yourself, crystallised into products, publications, or some other platform.

You must protect your number one business asset. It is essential that you take care of your own needs and build your business with the lifestyle you want to create in mind.

Awkward questions. We hate answering them, but even more we hate asking them. After all, who really wants to be the douche bag who questions the emperor’s clothes, or points out a discrepancy.

What if we’re embarrassed? What if we’re misunderstood?

Let us express ourselves more fully, and without fear of repercussion. Let us learn the difficult art of guileless honesty with our family and friends. 

Let a culture that does not depend on keeping up appearances be the one that we cultivate. 

A community of friends who’ll bear with the worst to get to the best of you.

An din that, be bold enough to share not only your hurts and disappointments, but even more so your dreams and deepest desires.

Every day I encounter talented, passionate people who are nevertheless searching for their purpose. Not the necessary purposes of our dreary days like paying bills and putting out the trash – the big, hairy, audacious purpose.

A God-sized BHAP.

It seems that there’s often a disconnect between who we know we are on the inside, and what we do most every day.

And right there is the clue.

The disconnect is between the “who” and the “do”.

I’ve lost count of the number of people who want to be writer, but don’t write.

Or the folks who want to create a lifestyle business, but fear making the moves necessary to embark on that risky but exciting adventure.

Here at home base is my advice on how to discover and grow in your bigger purpose.

Walk after the manner of our pioneer father, Abram!

The biggest hindrance I see to God’s creative people finding their stride and moving forward with their ideas is a reluctance to show their work.

Chronic procrastination and never-quite-finished syndrome keeps them from shipping. Perfectionism steals their confidence and prevents the doors from being opened wide for the fresh public breeze of feedback to blow through the workshop.

And the world remains a poorer place for it.

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Overwhelm does not feel nice. In fact, it feels like a fierce assault on your senses that can leave you spinning, not knowing which way to turn.

In those moments when a million messages are flooding your brain, and a googol of voices are pulling you in every direction, remember this one choice fact.

The only step you need to take is the next one.

Take a breath.

That’s why the Scriptures teach us that even though it’s healthy and right to plan our way, consider our options, and built toward an envisioned end, God directs our steps.

“A man’s mind plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps and makes them sure.” (Proverbs 16:9 AMP)

The Lord directs our steps and makes them sure.

When you are groping for some certainty, the question to ask is simply, “What’s my next step?”

Not steps, not leaps, not milestones or missions.

Step.

Then open your heart to hear, not hustle.

Ever face interactions or circumstances that "rattle your cage"? In this episode I share a question my wife wisely highlighted recently when I expressed a bump in my own emotional road, and 3 daily disciplines I am exercising to grow and break out from the limits my thinking and emotions place on me.

Out of literally millions in the race you were the sole victor!

Only one very special seed broke that finish tape and fertilised that egg, and it was you!

You started as a winner, and you’ll end as one also. As a Christian, even death will not be able to hold you. Sin has already lost it’s grip and the grim reaper has no claim to your eternal destiny.

The greatest power in this natural universe, death itself, is rendered null in your presence. He may take a swipe, he will cost certainly swing his weight, but the final bell will declare your triumph!

You begin as a winner.

You end as a winner.

It seems that there’s a pattern here.

God is a God of expansion. His words, "Let there be..." are still hurtling in every direction extending the bounds of the universe we inhabit.

The same nature lives in you as His child, but there are ways in which we can limit Him if we are not careful to stay connected.

Lift the lid on your limits today, and let God speak into your circumstances.

If you are anything like me you live to discover more of God and His purposes for your life here on the green planet. It’s a lifetime of inquisitive deduction that unfolds through a growing relationship with an invisible but oh-so-real and ever present God who shows up in a multitude of ways that are undeniable.

God is real.

The idea that He has a purpose for your life is not just sermon-fodder. It’s true.

How do we enter into the place where our work and our worth align so perfectly that we feel we are living out our purpose with authentic faith?

Here’s my take for what it’s worth.

A Simple Truth For All Your Life And Loves

It all begins with something so simple you’ll kick yourself for not seeing it before. Truth is, you may have read it, you may even have nodded in agreement. The question is, how would this truth look if it were applied on a daily basis in your life and work.

Would the simplicity of what I’m about to share change the perspective you approach your everyday with, and would it affect your daily practices and disciplines?

Ready? Here it comes. This is as simple as it gets…

“Then said they unto him, “What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?” Jesus answered and said unto them, “This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” (John 6:28-29 KJV)

To do the work of God is first to believe in the work He did and does for us!

Jesus first!

Everything else follows.

One of the boldest statements you will find in Scripture is the time Jesus put it out there and declared, “I am the Light of the world!” (John 8:12)

Perhaps even more mind boggling is that He also said, “YOU are the light of the world!” (Matthew 5:14)

It is a startling statement, but it’s right there in red. He said it, I believe it, and to hell with any other opinion.

And if you are the light of the world, is it not time to stop skulking in the shadows?

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