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During the course of life we write many words but not all of them carry the same weight. The shopping list hastily scribbled on a scrap of paper doesn’t measure up- to yesterday’s diary entry for example. But what are the most important words you will ever write?

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During the course of life, we will write many words, but of course, not all of them carry the same weight in our shopping list. Hastily scribbled on a scrap of paper and stuffed in your background back pocket doesn’t really measure up to yesterday’s diary entry, for example. But what are the most important words that you will ever write? I want to talk today very briefly about what I believe are the most important 500 words that you will ever write. Now, if you’re still breathing, which I’m assuming you are as you listen to this podcast, the most important 500 words that you will ever write are the next 500. Now, with that mindset, you will always be ready to sit down and make sure that those words, which are the most important that you will ever write, are delivered to the page. And it’s way too easy to rest on the laurels of yesterday’s activities. Yesterday’s wins yesterday’s projects, yesterday’s words, or dream of some misty, far off day in the future when your best seller will finally hit the shelves. But neither of those mindsets really leads us to where we need to go. Many people have something off in the future, or one day I will do this.

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Others kind of sit looking back, oh yes, back in the day when I was a youngster or whatever, I did this or I accomplished that. But it’s really what we do today, right now, that is going to make the real difference to a tomorrows. And regardless of the foundation upon which you’re building, it may be that you’ve written many, many books. It may be that you’ve impacted hundreds, thousands, even millions of lives. But who’s to say there’s still not something there in the can ready to come out and spill onto the page that is going to have an even deeper impact than you’ve had already. And we will never know. You never know what’s on the inside until you uncawk and allow it to come out and allow it to flow. Your value and the contribution that you have got to give did not dry up the instant you wrote the end on your last project. Nor will it ever be realised if all of that treasure that you’ve got to bring to the table stays locked up inside until some, like far off tomorrow. That ultimately never comes. Whether it’s writing a book, whether it’s creating a course, whatever creative project you’re involved in, a new musical kind of album that you want to bring out, a new message that you want to express, a new videos that you want to make, or whatever it may be, whatever form it may take.

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There’s always the danger that we get caught staring at, and I’ll use words as a picture, but this could be easily applied to any creative project that you might be involved in. You get caught in the trap of staring at a 100,000 word mountain in your mind and because of that, you feel intimidated and never take your first step. And the same with any project. It may be that you’ve got something in your heart that you want to create an online course, but you’re looking and you’re thinking, wow, there’s so many different parts to this. There are so many hours of work that I will have to put in to create it. And instead of seeing it in small bite sized chunks, you’re looking at the hole and you’re freaking out the sizable nature of it. All of the things that are involved just back you off and you never take the first step. But however big the Hill may seem, however large it looms, it can be scaled down to one small 500 word step at a time. And that’s why I love this picture of the next 500 words are the most important you will ever write.

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Because you can do that. You can do that. The most important video that you will ever make is the next five minute video that you create for your course or your channel or whatever Avenue you are putting your value out to the world into. That’s why the only words are the only actions that you need to necessarily be concerned with right now. The only ones that really matter is the next one. The next step, the next action. As soon as those words are on the page, the baton is passed to the next 500 and the next 500, and so on. And if you can begin to build those creative streaks into your habits, into your schedule and become it becomes that creative expression. And that creative action becomes a habit that you no longer need to discipline yourself into. You will be amazed at what you can accomplish and accomplish in a much shorter time than you initially thought possible. Now, hundreds of books can be written this way. Thousands of mountains conquered and a legacy body of work left that can be left to impact, generations to come that would otherwise have gone to the grave with the dreamer who never took that first step.

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If you believe you’ve got a book in your heart that tries to be written, and as I say, it may be that you want to form your value, crystallise your value in other ways. You just transpose what I’m saying away from a book to a course or to a song or whatever it may be, but start pouring it on the page today. Sometimes those 500 words may just be a warm up for the real thing. In reality, those next most important words you will ever write may be actually not that good, but all of those not that good words that you put down, all of those not quite perfect videos that you shoot, all of those like almost their ideas that you seek to realise, all of them are steps toward that moment, that time, that expression that bubbles up from your heart and really just hits the Mark. I often say to people, you just got to keep shooting the arrows. We may miss a few. Some of them may not quite hit the target. But if we shoot long enough and we shoot often enough, we get closer and closer with every shot.

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You’ll be surprised sometimes as you just discipline yourself into these creative habits, what comes up from the inside? There’ll be times where you write things down or you say things or sing things and you will be the most surprised of anyone at what is coming forth. You’d be like, wow, this is amazing. And as we do that, as we let both the good, the bad, and the indifferent flow onto the page, we just make a decision in our heart that I’m not going to wait until everything is perfect. I’m not going to criticise myself so harshly every time I sit down at the keyboard or with my instrument. Every time I face the camera and speak to it, I’m not going to beat myself up because I don’t look like whoever is the big looker at the moment because I’m not this person or that person or I don’t do it as well as them. No, we are who we are. You are who you are. And as you exercise yourself in this way, you’ll learn how to better tap that flow from the inside. And as you prime the pump with persistence and daily discipline, put yourself in a position where you’re going to put at least 500 words down each day, even if they are just the ramblings of a tired mind.

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With every stroke of the penalty, you will feel your creative muscles building. You’ll feel the changes taking place in the way you approach your creative work. Now. Soon you’ll be looking forward to the adventure of discovering what the next most important words you’ve ever written are going to be. You’ll sit down with an expectation and a curiosity as to what the Holy Ghost is going to do together with you on this particular day. And it becomes then, instead of something that is a huge, looming, challenging project, it becomes more of a daily walk with God, a daily walk with the Creator, and an adventure that you are privileged to be a part of. Not only will you discover who you are and learn to hear your voice in the midst of all of the noise around you, but your voice will become clearer and clearer and sharper and sharper, so it penetrates the hearts of your heroes and helps to unlock what God has placed in them. So I encourage you. What are the most important 500 words that you will ever write? The next 500 what’s the most important song you will ever sing?

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The next one that you sing? The most important video that you’ll make it’s the one that you are about to shoot today. What’s the most important impacting podcast you’ll ever create. It’s the one that you do next.

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Thanks for listening to today’s episode. Hopefully it was a blessing to you if it was do, please consider leaving a rating and a review on whatever platform you are listening on. I also would love to encourage you to cheque out my new book faithful creative. We’ve got a package of resources designed specifically to encourage you in your Christian creative call. You can check that out at faithfulcreativebook.com and if you choose to pick it up, use the Promo code podcast for 50% off so you’ll get it for half price.

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Have a great rest of your day and God bless Jesus first.

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The man’s heart will devise his way, but the Lord will direct his steps. It’s not just a one way Avenue. You’ve actually got to make some decisions. You’ve actually got to come to the place where you say, I’m going to devise my way. And that doesn’t mean scheme it out and figure out how you can make it happen. But what it means is I’m going to regulate my life according to what I know in my gut. The Holy Ghost is telling me. And if that means that I need to do less so I can accomplish more, ultimately, then that’s what I need to do. One of the things that I need to do, because I need to carve out regular time several hours a day, both to pray and to write. I’m in the process of doing that. But yeah, the man’s heart divides his way, devises his course of life and his mode of action. You choose what you do. You choose what you do with your time, not someone else. We’ve got to lean into the word that God has given us. It says here in Habercook, I will stand up on my watch.

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I’ll set myself on the tower, and I’ll watch to see what he will say. I’ll watch to see what he’ll say. You know, a lot of us have got so many other things screaming at us all the time that we can never hear what he’s saying. The world is just constantly at us, trying to tell us, be this, do this, think this. But there’s a blank canvas, and we can allow the world to project onto it, and we can seek to see you’re going to become what you behold. You can let the world project onto it, and you can be conformed to that, or you can let the Holy Ghost and the words of the Father project onto it, and you can follow that. It’s not difficult to develop your inner faculty to see. You’ve just got to take time to do it. That’s essentially what prophecy is, Jim. The word inhibit Naba means to bubble up or to boil forth. It’s like percolate God’s words on the inside until they bubble up into your consciousness. I’ve seen this process of watching and hearing and acting in my own wife and daughter’s life a couple of years ago.

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They were just starting out in rhythmic gymnastics. And Larna coached Hannah by watching and acting because she wasn’t any big rhythmic gymnastics coach. In fact, a lot of the other coaches really look kind of slanty eyed at her, thinking, Where did you come from? And how did you do that? Because within a year, Hannah was the British champion. And it was like, look, we’ve been slogging this thing out for ten years, raising up these girls. How come these two just come in and sweep it clean? What’s going on here? Because Lana knew her limitations, and she would take time, and the Father would say, do this and she would take that step, that prepared step. And we can do that in any. You know, this is in rhythmic gymnastics. I think God’s into rhythmic gymnastics. Yeah, of course he is. He’s into us. He’s into Hannah, he’s into Larna. Do you think God’s into, like, short story, clean Christian romance? You bet, man. Because he’s into me. It means to bubble up or to boil forth. I just want you to close your eyes just for a minute. I’m wrapping up. I realised I’ve just kind of dumped a big download.

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Now, in your mind’s eye, I just want you to just empty that canvas, okay? So just clean the canvas off. White canvas, everyone Lee that okay. Just a big white screen. Can we just make the screen white there? And you just want a wide screen, okay? You don’t want to start painting on it. You don’t want to just let your mind run off in all sorts of directions. Just close your eyes and see the white screen. We all have it. We’ve all got this on the inside. Someone is going to paint on that screen. Someone is going to project on that screen. It’s either going to be the world or it’s going to be heaven. Jesus did what he saw his father do. And now I just want you to, you know, in the comfy seats at Cineworld, you know, the kind of big ones with a bit more legroom. I want you to sit back in one of those. It’s just you and dad in the auditorium. You got the wide screen up there. When you go and see a movie, you’re not looking to project the movie yourself. You’re looking for someone else to project it and you view it.

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Okay, so we’re going to let the Holy Ghost just switch on the projector. This is something that needs to be done consistently. Jesus did it on a daily basis. But just for the sake of just working here, I just want you to ask the Holy Spirit. Lord, just show me one thing. I don’t need to know the whole story, but just show me one thing about my future. One thing that you’ve prepared and provided for me to walk into. Just let the Holy Spirit put it on there. Let him just project it, paint it on there. And then, as he does, what I generally do, and this is how I prophesy over people as well. It’s exactly the same process, but profits. The best place to put it to use is privately. You say, okay, I Lee this. It might be a bit hazy, it might just be kind of black and white. It might be a little bit flicker or whatever. It depends how well you’ve developed the faculty, but you develop it by, like, any muscle. You just practise. And then you ask God, just expand on that for me. Show me something else.

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Show me more what do you mean by that picture? What does this picture represent or whatever question comes to your mind and as you ponder things, it’s like that to bubble up or to boil forth. We’ve got to give time. We’re so manic, we’re so involved in the hustle that we just don’t take time to hear. But I can assure you we can accomplish more in a moment of hearing than we can in a lifetime of hustling. Who sees something now? Who’s seeing anything? Yeah. Is it something that you recognise and witness to? Yeah. So you’ve got, you know and you’ve got. This is a God thing. The Holy Spirit will witness with our Spirit. The Scriptures say, does it concern your present? Does it concern your future? See, the scriptures say in the book of Hebrews that God framed the world through faith. He pictured it. But you know when you frame a picture, you give definition. You give definition to it. You define the boundaries so it comes into focus. That’s what we need to do. You need to define the boundaries. You’re not there to judge. You’re not there to determine whether it’s possible or not.

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Your part is to watch and see it play out on the screen and see. This is how faith comes. A picture will speak 1000 words. Who else is seeing something right now? It’s good when we see what the father’s saying. It’s not going to make us feel fretful. It’s not going to make us feel as though we’re inadequate. Because we know that we know that. We know that. We know this is what I was made for. And not only has God prepared the way he’s provided everything for me to fulfill this path that has called me to walk in.

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Thanks for listening to today’s episode. Hopefully it was a blessing to you. If it was do, please consider leaving a rating and a review on whatever platform you are listening on. I also would love to encourage you to cheque out my new book faithful creative. We’ve got a package of resources designed specifically to encourage you in your Christian creative call. You can check that out at faithfulcreativebook.com and if you choose to pick it up, use the promo code podcast for 50% off so you’ll get it for half price. Have a great rest of your day and God bless s Jesus first. Everything else follows.

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This is a brilliant one. Psalm 32:8. I will instruct you and teach you in the way that you shall go. I will guide you with my eye. God wants to show you some stuff. He wants you to take time to back off, to back down, to quit striving, to stop hustling, chill back, lean into him. And he wants to say, look at what I’m seeing. Look at what I see. I do what I see the father doing. Look at what I see, son. Look at what I see daughter. Come on, let me accompany you to the fulfilment of this vision. Jesus accomplished more in three years of Ministry. He did good. The boy did good. Were there still incredible needs that he didn’t tend to? You bet. Were there a lot of things in that three year Ministry that he left? Don’t give me a religious answer, okay? Yes, of course he did. There were loads of sick people that he never even lots of hungry people. And yet, was he ever fretful? Was he ever stressed? Was he ever thinking, oh, man, there’s so many needs. I just can’t fulfill them. Let’s run here.

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Let’s run there. His own friend dies. And because the dad had told him, Look, I’ve got a bigger thing going on here. I just need to just stay here for a couple of days, make sure the guy is cold and dead in the grave. Do you think that Jesus was worried about what other people would think? He left his own mate to just die Lazarus was talking about? Do you think that would have been misunderstood? Do you think the disciples would have been?

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How can you leave his best friend like that? Why are they feeding hungry? Why are they doing this? Why aren’t you doing that? Why aren’t you doing this? Why aren’t you?

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They’re doing that.

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And why aren’t you doing that? Why aren’t you doing that?

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Do you think a lot of that was going on all the time? And that kind of stuff is like a hornet’s nest of confusion in the spirit. And we can tune in to that, or we can choose to tune in to this is the Way walk you in it. I’m going to instruct you. It’s not just instructing you how to be a really good Christian and have a good Church service either. It’s like, okay, Jesus, how can I what ultra romantic series should I write best? Next? What genre should I go into next? What cover should I use for this? I mean, this is my life. How should I write this description? How am I going to build my email list to reach more subscribers, Lord, or whatever it may be? Jimmy, do you think Jesus is interested in those things? Just as much as how can I look really good on Sunday morning? The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. Steps means companionship. And you know what he’s going to do he’s going to order he’s going to render sure proper or prosperous he’s going to make preparation and provide for you.

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I absolutely concur when I started to focus in on what I know and I knew for years, man, I just didn’t I pursued other good things. I take God prospers boy, oh boy I’m still kind of a bit like, wow, how do I now deal with this? We pray for stuff and then God gives it to us and we’re like, oh I’m there. I’m like, man, I’m just little me but God wants big you fulfilling your destiny. Am I some big name anywhere? No. Am I going and everyone’s falling out?

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No.

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Is the glory coming down and I’m on the God TV? No. Praise God thank you, Jesus that I’m not because I’m finding that it’s a lot more comfortable to sit in the seat that he has prepared for me in heaven Than to try and push someone else out of their seat and then can I fit into this evangelist clothes or this pastor’s clothes or this Apostles close or whatever it may be I’m a lot more comfortable just like I can accomplish a lot more as myself than pretending to be someone else. Put it that way.

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Thanks for listening to today’s episode. Hopefully it was a blessing to you. If it was do please consider leaving a rating and a review on whatever platform you are listening on. I also would love to encourage you to cheque out my new book Faithful Creative. We’ve got a package of resources designed specifically to encourage you in your Christian creative call. You can check that out at faithfulcreativebook.com and if you choose to pick it up, use the promo code podcast for 50% off so you’ll get it for half price. Have a great rest of your day and God bless Jesus first. Everything else follows you.

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I love this verse. Psalm 16:7. I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel. King James, my reigns. It means your guts will also instruct me in the night season. And they can look at that and think, what’s he talking about, man. It means, you know, in your gut. I took a photo earlier of my gut. Moving on. Now, joking aside, I really do think that we know that we know on the inside. Sometimes we’re a bit frightened to follow the gut. It’s a bit frightened to kind of act on those things that God has put on the inside of us, because maybe they don’t fit the usual mould. They don’t fit the path of least resistance. They don’t fit with what we think Ministry should be. Or is this okay? But I know in my gut that that business is to finance my own writing. You know how I’m going to reach the uttermost parts of the Earth by writing books. And I started on that journey a long time ago, and I need to conform my world to that reality so I can fulfill my destiny. I think we are really driven by our values.

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You can measure where you’re at. You can measure the kind of where you’ve set your course. You can look at where you’re heading, and you can then backtrack and think, what values are driving me here. And sometimes we can fail to take time to truly discern, to approve and prize what is excellent, of real value. He prayed that they might learn to sense what is vital. We do so many things, and yet not all of them are vital for our call to be fulfilled. And we need to learn to approve and value what is of real value to us and to the call and to the path that God has prepared for you to walk in, because you’re going to be driven by that. And so I’ve been driven by a lot of things. I’ve been driven by a desire to be able to turn around to people at times and say, I told you so. A grown man pathetic told you I could do it or to shape up against someone else. These are values that we can take on. They’re not the values of the Kingdom, but they’re the values of the world.

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Some of us are so driven by the desire to make money and look good and drive the right car or wear the right shoes or whatever, we tend to forget that when we get to the end of this thing, all of that stuff will be swept away and it’ll just be us. But naked, all of those accolades, ultimately, there’s got to be something deeper on the inside that we’re driven by something. I’ll tell you what, it’s got to be. It’s got to be the voice of God. It’s got to be the voice of your dad speaking to your heart, saying this is the way walking in. It not a pastor, not some TV evangelist, not the latest greatest book that’s come out that everyone’s now understand me, they’re all good things. But, hey. And the key thing is that those values then have to be translated and boiled down and defined into habits. If our life on this Earth is not ultimately affected by the words of heaven, then what are we here for? We can claim to have all of this highfaluting Christian ideals, but if they’re not being lived out in our everyday life, they really count for nothing.

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And that takes a great deal of discipline. It takes a great deal of dedication, and it takes guts to be able to cut things off, like you were saying, to be able to cut things off and say, actually, this is what my dad has said for me to do. And I know that if I will just set my course and I will do everything I can to conform my life to fulfil that which the father said for me to do, I’m going to be the most effective and most efficient Minister on this planet in fulfilling my Ministry. This is a good one. The word walk there, it’s kind of off the screen, but it means to be to walk as a companion, to follow as a companion, to be occupied with, or to regulate one’s life. What is regulating your life? Now, we’re gone from values which are kind of the kind of bedrock that we come from. But unless those values are boiled down into habits that are lived out on a daily basis, it’s not regulating your life. And yet here we see that God has created us for good works, that we should walk in them, that we should regulate our life by those works that he has ordained for you personally, specifically uniquely, to walk in again, you know, in your gut.

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But the Spirit is also going to bear witness. The Spirit himself will bear witness when you just know, man, I just know that this is what God wants me doing. I just know it’s what God wants me doing. I’m scared to do it. I know it’s going to cost me. I know I’m going to have to any decision. The very word decision means to cut something off, like scissorscision, incision decision. It means to cut things away. Every decision we make ultimately means that we decide for something and decide against something else. I’m going to put that aside, and I’m going to follow this course to be led by the Spirit of God. That word led means to lead by accompanying the word walk, to follow as a companion, to lead by accompanying. What are we getting here? That this is not just Lone Ranger. This isn’t just Super Christian. This is like coming alongside the very word Holy Spirit means the one who comes alongside the standby. And what he wants to do is come Holy spirit. What he wants to do is come alongside and he wants to take a step and he wants me to follow.

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It means to lead by accompanying. It means Emmanuel, I’ve got works that are prepared for you. I’ve already provided so you don’t have to worry about how we’re going to finance this deal. You don’t have to worry about how you know I’ve got the right people lined up and they’ve been lined up since before the foundation of the world. It’s a chill. It’s all good. You don’t have to hustle. Yeah, just here and this is the way we’re going to walk today. Just come on to lead by accompanying. To lead by accompanying. And that makes it makes it a lot easier when you know that you’re not trying to carve out your own path. You’re not slashing through the jungle with your Indiana Jones outfit on. I was at comic Con yesterday, man some of the outfits there. You’re not slashing through the jungle. It’s okay. Jesus has slashed through the jungle and there’s a path already cut for you.

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Thanks for listening to today’s episode. Hopefully, it was a blessing to you. If it was do please consider leaving a rating and a review on whatever platform you are listening on. I also would love to encourage you to cheque out my new book, faithful creative. We’ve got a package of resources designed specifically to encourage you in your Christian creative call. You can check that out at faithfulcreativebook.com and if you choose to pick it up, use the promo code podcast for 50% offs. You’ll get it for half price. Have a great rest of your day and God bless Jesus first. Everything else follows.