You won’t find your voice sitting under a tree waiting for it fall on you like an apple. That’s not the way the creative dynamic works. The only way to truly discover your voice is to start using it.

Find Your Voice By Using It

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One of the things that I always say to the members and students in the Christian Creative Academy is that you’ll only ever find your voice by using it. You know, you’re not going to find it or discover it. You’re not really going to discover, certainly the fullness of what you’re called to just sitting under a tree waiting for it to fall on you like an apple. You know, that’s not the way that the creative dynamic works. The only way to really discover your voice is to start using it.

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You know, it might you may use a brush and paint. It might be a magic and music film or fabric word and page. The form that it takes is flexible. But the key thing is to be willing to step out and begin to express and begin to experiment in a trying new things. And, you know, we’re not backing off, refusing to kind of remain silent and just giving your hard, giving your time, giving your energy to make what’s on the inside, outside.

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And like any language, this language of the heart is something that we learn to express. You know, initially, I certainly am a find and still find. You know, I have a vision, a vision of what can be on the inside. But the swipes that I take often miss that Mark. You know, I brush what’s possible. I come close, I skim it sometimes. Sometimes I get a bit closer. But, you know, it’s only as you hone your gift and use your voice to bring value to others that your heart, your hand, your mind and mouth really begin to harmonise.

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And what you hold on the inside, you’re able to translate with greater clarity. And the message that you carry is becomes sharper. So it penetrates deeper below the surface. But not all of us begin with everything in place. None of us begin perfectly expressing what we want to say. None of us begin writing the the perfect novel or singing the perfect song. The Scriptures tell us that even Jesus had to grow in wisdom and stature. Luke five Luke, to verse 52, says Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favour with God and with man and early stage entrepreneurship.

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And this this creative and barking that we’ve undertaken, you know, is really it really is a battlefield strewn with abandoned dreams because often the first faltering steps lead to scuffed knees or worse, and certainly a lot of bruised egos. And those those grand dreams that we have are these big ideas that we carry. These are high hopes that we come, you know, really can smash hard into reality when we realise, wow, this is going to take work.

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This is going to take a lot of energy, a lot of focus. It’s going to actually take more of me than maybe I initially anticipated. But the antidote to whatever discouragement you may face can really be summed up in one word. And that word is action. Do your way through. OK, take that one to the bank, man. Do your way through. Keep making, keep believing, keep the joy set before you, whatever you may be enduring.

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You know, while, you know, while we are building a business or building a family or building a legacy or whatever it is or whatever else it is we’re looking to build. God is in the business of building you. He is in the business of honing your character. And you know that that that stalwart character that can carry the kind of responsibility that he would have you carry and the influence that he would have you bring. That character is often chiselled, you know, on the rock face of discovering who we are and discovering how much we got to bring.

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But you got to dig deep. Sometimes the challenges that we face when we commit and devote ourselves to discovering this kind of creative freedom that we were craving, it means that we have to dig into some subterranean areas. There is. A huge deep well within you that I believe God wants to open up and beneath that ton of dust that is blocked that well, all of that humanity that sits like covering up this divine call invocation, you know, as you keep digging, it will begin to bubble up.

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It will be it will begin to be seen more and more and more on the surface, you know, with every swing of the speed, with every time you put yourself out there with, every time you have another go, with every other chance that you take, yeah, you are a spirit. And inside of you, the Bible says that there is a fountain of life springing up. Yeah, this this fountain is poised and prepared to bring deliverance to many, many, many other people and your creative life and call a part of a far greater purpose than just the songs you sing or the words you write, the pictures you paint, the videos you make.

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These are all just like one part of the picture, one one shaft of light that’s shining from that inner world that that is inside of you. And so I just want to encourage you, you know, find your voice by using it. Keep digging. Just write one more article, sing one more song, put another encouraging word out, you know, and your voice may feel like it’s hidden right now. It may be muffled under layers of questions and even plenty of doubts.

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But as you commit to consistently arrive on the world’s doorstep and make your thoughts and dreams, knowing the questions, one by one will be swept to the floor and new doors of opportunity are going to open for you. You are a creator. Yeah, you know, you can go make something today and you need make no apology for doing so. We’re all on a journey to discovering ourselves and I think that even you will be amazed how remarkable you actually are when that river breaks through and breaks through all of the noise and the beauty of the new creation, the new creation, who you are, the old is gone.

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The new has come. There’s this wonderful creative call on your life. But it’s only ever going to be seen and heard as you choose to step out and make it known as you choose to exercise your creativity and let your voice and let your let what’s on the inside come out. You know, you are going to be amazed at who you find on the inside of your own heart as you do so. Well, thanks for listening. Hopefully it’s been an encouragement to you today.

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If you want to connect any further, you can do so through my website at Davidleemartin.com. Have a great day.