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What am I tolerating that Jesus does not? As children of God, we have been given a royal platter of promises for every area of our lives, but the authority to walk in the fruits and results of those promises remains with us.

Sickness Intolerance!

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I’ve been reminded recently of my faith roots and when I first came into Christianity and began to discover just the wonders and the depth and the reality and substance of God’s word, how much the message of faith really kind of centred on my discovery, really, of what was possible and the realisation that we are not in a position of passive acceptance of our lot in life, that actually God has given us this wonderful substance called faith, this measure of faith that’s been given to each one of us as we came into Christ.

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And we can grow that faith. We can exercise that faith and we can see results for it. And as I was walking with friends this morning, we go out and we pray once a week. We go over the hills and pray together. And we were talking about some of the intolerances that people experience, like lactose intolerance, gluten intolerance. One of one of the guys was talking about how he used to be incredibly lactose intolerant until Jesus healed him.

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You know, he couldn’t even have a little splash of milk in a cup of tea without being violently sick. And we you know, as the conversation continued, we realised that the scriptures and Jesus himself and God is sickness intolerant. Yeah, that’s the most beneficial intolerance you’ll ever you’ll ever come across. Jesus had an intolerance for everything that did not line up with his father’s will. And as we were discussing it, I’ve been through some circumstances recently that have challenged me.

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And to be honest, my response to them was not as spiritually vibrant as I would have liked it to be. Let’s just leave it at that. But it really the conversation I had this morning really beg the question, Lord, what am I tolerating in my life that you do not tolerate? You know, as children of God, we’ve been given this royal platter of promises for every area of our lives, but it still remains for us to sit at the table and eat.

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It still remains with us. The authority to walk in the fruits and results of those promises remain with us by your faith, Jesus said, be it until you you can have whatever you accept and say, you know what I’m like. I’m accepting some things that and saying some things that I simply do not want. And I am, to be honest, I’m convicted. I’m kind of a little irritated with myself in that I want to be reaching for the things that the Lord has provided for me, not just accepting, not just yielding, not just not just sitting back, not just laying down, but actually standing up and saying, look, the book tells me the book, The Inheritance, the document, the will has bequeathed this blessing to my life.

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And I come and I claim it today. Because our faith will always be acted, will always be activated by no one, by what we allow in our heart, and then what we put in our mouth from the abundance of the heart, the mouth will speak. I love Romans 10. And, you know, the whole chapter is so full of juice for the spirit man. But Romans 10:6-8 says the righteousness which is of faith speaks in this way.

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The righteousness which is of faith speaks. That’s important in itself. But it doesn’t just speak. It speaks in a certain way. And it says the word is near you, even in your mouth and in your heart. That is a word of faith, which we preach God’s word, God’s creative, power producing sickness, death, sickness, healing, debt, raising prosperity, releasing glory, calling word is near you, in your heart and in your mouth, and again in two Corinthians 4:13.

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And oh wow. I just love the message of faith. It’s so liberating to understand that we actually have some I have the right to act. We have the means to step up and begin to declare, you know, we are not we are not bound by circumstance. We are not bound by situations that presently may seem to stand in the way of what we know we can become. But we have in our heart and in our mouth all of the tools necessary to affect a change to Corinthians 4:13.

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We are having the same spirit of faith according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken. We also believe and therefore speak. We believe and therefore speak. And we will will always speak according to what we believe. Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God. If we want what the word of God promises, we need to be sowing the right seed into our heart and we will always speak life or death.

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There’s really nothing in between. The spirit realm is not a neutral realm. There is. There is no neutral in the heavenly eyes. I promise you, it’s life or death. You know, black or white, truth or error. And according to the spirit through which and by which we speak, we will see the fruits of it death in life or in the power of the tongue. And those who love it will eat the fruit thereof. And I ask myself the question, I’m not judging anyone else, I’m not I’m not like I may be, you will receive this as a question that you can ask yourself.

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But I am asking this question of the man in the mirror. What am I allowing that should be bound? What am I allowing that should that I should be disallowing what exists in my life that does not exist in heaven because we’ve been given the authority to bind on earth what has already been bound there. Yeah, what are we, as children of God, tolerating here on the Earth that has already been bound up and dealt with in heaven because we are called to reach out and declare and call for and pray and expect Lord Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

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Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. I’m an advocate right now of sickness, intolerance, poverty, intolerance, doubt, intolerance, fear, intolerance, shame, intolerance, prayer, lessness, intolerance, lack of love, intolerance, impatience, intolerance. And instead of trying to defend my failures, instead of trying to build up some kind of bulwark against kind of this this light of God’s word, shining on areas where I’d like my agreements with something other than the word of God, I want the light of God’s word to shine on them so brightly and call them out, put them right out there for me to see and anyone else who wants to so I can address them for what they are, which is a lie.

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It’s not the truth. The truth. You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. I want my future to be framed by the word of faith, no words of doubt, compromise and resignation. How about you? Well, thanks for listening. Hopefully. It’s been an encouragement to you today. If you want to connect any further, you can do so through my website at Davidleemartin.com. Have a great day.

Money scared me. So you can only imagine my horror 7 or 8 years ago, when unforeseen circumstances pushed me out of ‘ministry’ and into the workplace.

Power to Create Wealth? Meet My Business Partner…

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I’m getting very close to earning my first million dollars from book royalties, and when I say book royalties, I’m talking about short self published books. But the truth is, I was really never much of a businessman. In fact, the truth be told, the whole realm of business and moneymaking and anything that went with that was so foreign to me that I had like the xenophobic zeal to stay away from it. I like people who knew me back in the day will testify to that fact.

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You know, I was really conflicted here. I was like CIA background. My wife, Larna and I background is church planting missionaries. And it seemed less than beneficial for me back in the day to spread my energies and attention across too many demand and disciplines. And and to be honest, I felt more comfortable being creative in the realms of public speaking and evangelism than I ever did in business. To me, business at the time. And this was like obviously for whatever reason, I was wearing a certain coloured spectacles I was looking through.

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But to me, business was full of people who are less than happy chasing after something that would never satisfy them. And, you know, although I feel like I’m sitting in confessional right now, like expressing my then prejudices, you know, I’m certainly not saying that I was correct or justified in the assumptions that I’d made. But the truth be told, I think underneath it, underneath it all, in the realm of business, I was just woefully insecure.

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Money scared me. So you can only imagine my horror seven or eight years ago when due to unforeseen circumstances, I stepped out of ministry into the workplace or the marketplace, really. And although my history was as a graphic designer and website builder before I went into church planting, my skills were so rusty. You know, my portfolio of work was very sparse, you know, and from way back in the day and on top of that, really any reasonable doors that open for creative work were flooded by hundreds of applicants, most of whom were teenage geniuses.

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And he was, I think, long in the tooth, it seemed, even though I was still quite young myself. And, you know, it really I knew I needed something, a solution that didn’t depend on my natural competence. And, you know, I understood that my creative gifts and talents and skill and history would only take me so far and to be honest, not far enough. And then I found an answer in the scriptures. Who’s ever found an answer in the scriptures that has let them up.

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Deuteronomy 8:18, says, You shall remember the Lord, your God for it is he that gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant, which he swore to your fathers as it is this day. You know, God promises here that he would anoint these same hands that had been laid on the snake that had cast out devils. These same hands could create wealth. His power and grace could be applied to building a business in the same way that it worked to build a church or a family.

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And honestly, that revelation was such a relief that this wasn’t all down to me. The financial future of my family did not depend on me alone. Your financial future does not depend on you alone. I saw elsewhere in the Scriptures that were told that God will supply all our needs according to his riches and glory, not my riches or lack of them. Yeah, but his riches. And he has lots of them and say, my encouragement in today’s episode is that you would invite Jesus to be your business partner.

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He is the best business partner that any man or woman could ever have. I mean, this this dude owns the cattle on a thousand hills, the hidden treasures in the oceans. And really pretty much everything that exists belongs to him. Yeah. What a great investor to have backing you as you step out. And on top of that, he will be your best friend, a marvellous mentor and a perfect partner to you, as well as being the king of your heart.

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And all of that really means that things stack up in your favour, you know, and, you know, I. And believe that business breakthrough, I can believe for business breakthrough, you can believe for business breakthrough in the same way as any other project of faith that you undertake. You know, if I take time to hear his counsel and apply my creativity to money generation, I’m virtually guaranteed to step forward into success. And success, incidentally, is not success compared or measured by the world, not measured by what others are doing or not doing.

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But it’s going to be entirely fitted to your own unique set of gifts and personality. Roll forward now. And I mean, seriously, it may be somewhat of an exaggeration, exaggeration to just say I rolled, I tripped, I stumbled, I cried. I hoped I tried. I failed. I feared. I prayed, you know, forward those three those years, you know, and I could, you know, believe in God is not something that is necessarily always easy.

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And you may not come through it unruffled because he’s dealing with you in the midst of you dealing out there in the world. And, you know, this was an entirely new realm to me, business was entirely new to me and previously I’d been terrified by it. It’s not an easy journey. Sometimes when you are having to bore your heart up, when ideas fall flat or, you know, bills try to convince you otherwise than what the scriptures are saying.

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But that’s where faith and patience come into work, isn’t it? And as you keep believing, as you keep coming back again and again to the knowledge that you are not alone in business and that your success is not based only on your own limited capacity, but on God’s boundless generosity, you’ll discover that Deuteronomy 8:18, works for you. You know, as I’m really now close to a million dollars in royalties from self published books. And on top of that, there are other creative projects that are growing and bearing good fruit.

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Now, that may not seem like a lot to some people. It seems like a great deal to me, you know, and and through obedience to Deuteronomy 18, you know, some of the ideas that I’ve acted on are making me money month after month, even years after completion. And the greatest thing is, you know, you can go into entrepreneurial endeavours and entrepreneurial business without needing to compromise. You don’t need to twist and turn things and see your own conscience in the process.

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You know, my my business meeting, you know, the most important business meeting of the day is the one in the early hours of the morning Father, Son and Holy Ghost, where we can sit down together and allow our imagination to run wild. You know, they are really are a formidable team. And, you know, as the junior entrepreneurial partner in my own business, I am I’m happy to have them on my side. And fears that held me bound for so many years I found were unfounded.

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You know, invite the Holy Ghost today to take the senior position in your creative business, arrange a board meeting. Yeah, maybe. Maybe for later today. Maybe for tomorrow morning. But make sure you arrange a board meeting at your nearest opportunity, because I believe he already has ideas to share with you because truly, God is the best business partner. Well, thanks for listening. Hopefully it’s been an encouragement to you today. If you want to connect any further, you can do so through my website at Davidleemartin.com.

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Have a great day.

Never fall for the lie that you must wait for a bolt from the mysterious blue. The Inspirer dwells with and in you. He is present and always ready to infuse your heart and mind with ideas beyond your own making.

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Today, I want to talk about the inspired life, life filled and overflowing and receiving inspiration, because it really living and inspired life as a son or daughter of God like you are, should be completely natural. You know, you don’t need to pay any homage to the muse. You don’t have to sit around waiting for something to fall out of the sky into your heart, like a big revelation or groundbreaking idea, because the truth is you have a greater one than any muse living in you.

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You know, you don’t have to wait for this bolt from the blue to take you over whatever it is you’re trying to conquer, because the truth is he lives in you. His present, the Holy Ghost is with you and he’s ready to infuse your heart and mind with ideas that are way beyond your own making. The Passion translation renders Proverbs 12 five. And I really like this. I’m not sure how entirely accurate it is, but I’m going to receive it by faith anyways.

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It basically says that the lovers of God are filled with good ideas. The lovers of God are filled with good ideas. Proverbs 12:5 in The Passion translation. You know, and really the most important skill that we can learn as sons and daughters is to lean into his indwelling and hear his still small voice speaking within us. And the beauty of this process is when we learn to be more comfortable and confident in what we hear and acting on what we believe we’ve heard, we will grow in confidence because we will see that it was indeed the Holy Spirit speaking to us and within us.

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And, you know, that path from our heart to our hand, from kind of the the H on the inside to the actualisation of it, we’re through through our actions and our obedience becomes less fraught with friction the more we do it. You know, we’re not caught in that place of self-doubt as often as maybe we once were. You know, the scriptures tell us in one Corinthians 2:16, you have the mind of Christ one Corinthians 6:17, says he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.

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I mean, how more how much more inspiration do you need? How more inspired could you be than to have the very spirit of all creation living within you and feeding your mind with his wisdom in this fusion of his divinity and your humanity makes for such a powerful, creative coupling in fellowship with the Holy Ghost. You’ll second guess yourself less and you’ll respect the ideas that bubble up from within you more and more. You know, I mean, I know in the early days, and to be honest with you, I’m not going to pretend, you know, even even many times now, you know, there’s the creative life is full of let me let me think about it.

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How to put this. The creative life is full of the challenge because we’re always stepping beyond our comforts. You know, we’re never stepping off. Well, most of the time, we’re not stepping into something that’s guaranteed. We’re putting our ideas into the world, you know, with a level of faith. The foundation that they’re built on is not like a nice iron clad guarantee. X plus Y equals Z. It’s more like, wow, I feel inspired by God to do this, to share this, to step out in this.

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But the results are really out there waiting to be realised. And that does take courage. It does take faith to do that. And I know certainly in the early days, even more so, you know, my ideas, it was like I put them into this big oven called insecurity, and they would cook away in there, you know, insecure oven of self doubt and depreciation of my giftedness that that that tendency to compare with other people, all of the things that go into that kind of crazy kitchen where we cook up our ideas.

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And, you know, it was like, you know. Look, and I would think, well, real writers, as if I wasn’t one, you know, it would always, always be looking at others as if they were somehow different to me. But the truth is, we are all the same. We are all in the same boat. You know, most of us are like the rest of us. And you know that that sense of being a pretender sometimes can hog the steps that we take and kind of bite at our heels.

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But, you know, I began to realise that, like, this is what people call imposter syndrome is actually just an indication that you are probably moving in the right direction because, you know, if we’re not imposing on new territory, if we’re not stepping over our present boundaries, stepping out of our own self-imposed status quo and into into destiny, you know, then maybe we need to put a little fire underneath our thoughts and a bit of fire underneath our prayers and a bit of fire underneath our actions and begin exercising those faith and creative muscles a bit more, because creative life, by its nature, is courageous.

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It’s not designed with comfort in mind, but however uncomfortable it may feel. Yeah, it is not ill fitting. And this is the thing. There’s this juxtaposition of, you know, being willing to step outside of our comfort zone, yet being increasingly comfortable doing so. You know that David, David, like of David and Goliath fame, he felt compelled to run toward the giant with his slingshot swinging while all the rest of them stood cowering in the crowd.

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You know, he broke free from the crowd, claimed his covenant identity and stepped out onto the field in his own clothes with his own familiar weapons and vitally aware that he was the majority because he was in relationship with God. So it’s not a matter of faking it until we make it. You know, we live an authentic life aligned with our passions and we pursue God’s best with every step that we take. And however imperfect those steps may appear, they are nevertheless ordered by the Lord.

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And everyone that we take leads us closer to fulfilment. You know how David put Seoul’s armour on, he would have been left dead in the dust. There’s no question about it. And I believe that it’s the same with our creative Christian life. It’s not about us copying others or squeezing ourself into somebody else’s mould. It’s really a journey of discovery of who we are as individuals. In your creative life and pursuits, a well fitted to your personality and your specific God given gifts, you are essentially in the business of being yourself and becoming more and more and more and more of that as you go forward.

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I love the scripture in the amplified Bible one Timothy 4:16, it says, look well to yourself, to your own personality. This is Paul speaking to Timothy. You know, Timothy was an insecure guy when you read Paul’s letters to his essentially what was like a son to him in the Lord Paul. The language of it and the way Paul speaks is very much like a father speaking courage to the hard of a somewhat questioning son. And I think that we are often a bit like that questioning son.

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But in doing so and then Paul encouraged him, hey, look, you don’t have to be like me. You don’t have to be like someone else. Look well to yourself and to your own personality, Timothy, and live courageously and confidently from that place. Be who God has made you to be. And in doing so, really living and dealing true to our own convictions and values and personality, accepting increasingly who we are and the way that God has made us, will immediately cause us to stand head and shoulders above the crowd.

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Because often the natural tendency, the tendency of the natural man is to want to blend in. But the tendency of the God infused man or woman is to stand out, to stand up, to step up and say, hey, I’m ready to be counted. I’m a son. I’m a daughter of the living God. I made Obey in his image and I will not be silent, you know? He continues in that verse, Timothy 4:16, persevere in these things and hold to them for by so doing, you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

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There’s a perseverance and a holding on to this truth that God has made us in his own unique image. And we stand alone. The only one who is us. You are the only you, and you will only ever be the only you. That’s why you’ve got so much to bring, you know. And together with the rest of the body of Christ, we are meant to be a vibrant orchestra. We don’t just all play the same instrument.

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Jesus put it this way. I love this. As you can tell they’d like. I love all of these scriptures. They’re so empowering, so liberating. Jesus said, take my yoke upon you for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. And you know, God’s yoke for us isn’t easy because it’s insignificant or paltry. Some tiny little matchstick. It’s a young man. It’s like a solid bit of kid that goes over the shoulder. You yoke yourself together with him like the old and the young orcs ready to plough the ground, ready to prepare the way and God’s yoke for you is easy because and it’s light because it is well fitted.

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It sits smoothly on your shoulders. Carrying the weight of it together with the king is not a burden to you. It is a joyful journey, a fruitful discovery to walk with Jesus and work out what he is working and working in, working out this creative calling, working out this entrepreneurial journey, working out how you can better bring yourself to the table and add value to the world and share your worth to the ends of the earth. And your job is not to strain your way to success.

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It’s to yield to God’s leading and follow his example as he speaks to you, as he shows you and as he leads you. And so the inspirer, the spirit of God himself, the very breath of God himself to be inspired, means God breathed inwardly, God’s breathing, God’s inward breathing. He dwells in you, and he is partnering with you every single day to bring his creative power to bear on all that. You put your hand to say, if you’re going to be diligent in anything, be diligent in this, stay connected to the flow.

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You know, it’s going to carry you far beyond anything your talent alone could ever take you. And so inspiration is not in short supply. You know, Jesus is not kind of scraping around in the bottom of the barrel thinking, man, it’s been like over 2000 years and were running dry here, you know, here and there. There is not there is not a drought of inspiration. There is no drought in heaven. There is more than enough.

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And if we will connect and stay connected to the vine, if we will trust him and listen to him and walk with him and love him and worship him with all of our heart, mind, soul and strength, we will see magnificent results. I love the Philippians again. Another one. I love Philippians 1:19. In the amplified Bible, there is a bountiful supply of the spirit of Jesus Christ. And you, my dear brother, my sister should live full of eager expectation that bountiful supply being poured out in your life and through your life.

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Well, thanks for listening. Hopefully it’s been an encouragement to you today. If you want to connect any further, you can do so through my website at Davidleemartin.com. Have a great day.

Faith provides the foundation for vibrant Christian living. By faith we are saved, sanctified, and set in place. It is also by faith that we flow in the unique anointing our Father has placed upon us.

Faith and creativity go hand in hand.

Creativity and Christianity are connected.

Faith & Creativity – Power Twins

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Faith is the foundation of every part of Christian life by faith was saved. That’s how we came into this incredible family by faith, was sanctified by faith, was set in our place. And it’s also by faith that we flow in the unique anointing and gifting that the father has placed within us. And so faith and creativity go very much hand in hand in hand. Creativity and Christianity are absolutely connected in the most vital way. And and that’s why I believe that this coupling of Christ and creativity is such a supernaturally powerful Twyning.

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Christians really should be. And we would expect them to be the most creative people on the planet. You know, Hebrews 11 verses one to three such beautiful verses as say now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen and continue through faith. We understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that things which were seen were not made of things which appear. So we’re taught here that faith sees the invisible and makes it visible.

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What creativity does exactly that faith turns intangibles of hope into concrete results. Creativity does the same. We see something on the inside and we and then by by faith, we bring it to the table. Entrepreneurship works in the same way faith calls things that do not yet exist as though they already did. It conceives and reaches for them before the fact. So and creativity does the same. Romans, for 17 says God gives life to the dead and calls those things which are not as though they were.

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You know, those ideas that are hidden in your heart, the entrepreneurial hopes that you harbour faith and creative action will bring them to the table in ways that are beyond your wildest dreams. It really does. And it takes faith to dream. It takes faith and courage to step up, to step out and let your voice be heard. But as soon as you do, wild possibilities open up the exercise of faith, the exercise of creativity and taking creative action is just such a door opener.

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You know, Jesus is a partner in your creative projects, and thankfully he he has a rather extensive experience in both faith and creativity. And, you know, for me, this is one of the stones that we put in our sling. In fact, it’s the first stone, you know, the scripture says to us, seek first the kingdom of God, align your life with him and everything else will follow. Matthew six, verse 33. And when we step onto the field, you know, we want our identity to be shaped by the words of God, not by the words of man, not by our history and not by whatever doubt or insecurity might say.

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We want to we want to close all of those other mouths and allow our father to declare identity over us, you know? And so when he says you are his workmanship, you say amen. When he declares that he’s prepared these wonderfully fruitful works for you to walk in, when he declares that you will prosper in all you’re put in, all that you put your hand to, you say, yes, yes, Lord, a man and a man.

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You know, I think that humility is not denying God’s high word over your life and shuffling around on the planet. Playing small humility is accepting God at his word and acting and speaking accordingly. And so when we accept that we are covenant men and women created to create and bring Kingdom life to the earth, we will be able to staunchly look down in the eye, will be able to look that giant in the eye and ask why is the rest of the crowd so cowered by this uncircumcised philistine of fear and insecurity?

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Truly with faith as your first stone in the sling, no giant can stand in your way. You, my dear brother, my sister, are destined to win. Well, thanks for listening. Hopefully. It’s been an encouragement to you today, if you want to connect any further, you can do so through my website at Davidleemartin.com. Have a great day.

But sometimes more is not better, and simple systems and processes can be the most liberating adjustments to your creative endeavors you will ever make.

Simplify To Multiply – Growing Your Creative Business The Minimalist Way

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So today, I want to talk about simplifying in order that you might multiply, really growing your creative business in a minimalist way. You know, creative projects, I think sometimes have a tendency to balloon. We can very easily over complicate and accumulate rather than slim down and simplify and creative nature. Really is resplendent with ideas. And projects can sometimes take on a pretty wild life all of their own. And this happens in life and family. It happens in business.

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And things do tend to kind of run astray if energy is not applied to keep them very, very slim and streamlined. Yeah, and sometimes more is not always the better avenue to take. Sometimes we think more content, more of this, more of the other. But really I found that less. And this is kind of a phrase that’s a little tired now, but less often is more. And by applying simple systems and processes, you can enjoy some of the most liberating adjustments to your creative Devers endeavours that you’ll ever really experience.

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And, you know, although something like systems and processes may seem like it may sound like an expletive to many creatives who prefer the language of spontaneity, I’ve actually discovered and I’m a spontaneous, spontaneous, spontaneous, loving, creative myself. So, you know, I’m in that company. But I found that systems lead to freedoms and that fortuitous accidents never did. Yeah, that actually applying myself to understand the processes through which my creative output actually is delivered to the audience that I’m seeking to benefit and bless him has been so helpful.

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You know, rather than remaining a mystery, really paring the whole thing back and looking what exactly is taking place here. And there’s a reason to do that. You know, often as creatives, I’m a writer. So certainly as a writer, I actually enjoy my own company. You know, I find, you know, the solitude that we crave is often necessary for us to produce our best work. But the problem is when that when that individuality, when that solitude crosses over into the other side of what we do as creatives, it can really hamper us.

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You know, maybe there are certain things in your creative business that only you can do. You know, it’s this is your this is where your unique contribution to the world is manifest. But when we want to couple our art with business, when we want to take our passion and turn it into profit, it’s important that we kind of are able to extricate those two things, the art side of things and the business side of things. And really, when I talk about systems and processes, I’m very much talking about how our work gets out to the world.

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And again, I can only really give examples most clearly from my own life as a writer. But, you know, there was one time when there was like the clear and present danger of me being the writer, the editor, the cover creator, the the the one who sorted all the advertising out, the one he posted to all of the social platforms, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. And all of that can so deplete your energy and so kind of spread your focus.

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And I’m not saying that we should not learn the ways of those things, but we should learn the ways in them in a manner that gives us an understanding of the processes involved so we can then hand those processes on to someone else to take care of for us. Certainly as our business grows and set to grow often we need to let go and to let go. Oftentimes we have to simplify, you know, one of the one of the most productive things I ever did in my business, my creative.

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This was to press the pause button on production and just take some time to consider my process is getting really granular with the kind of the profit producing activities in my business and my life and my creativity and in documenting those really carefully and really clearly. And I did this with a view to discovering ways in which they could be done by someone else and in a way that that someone else didn’t need all of the kind of particular skills that I have, you know.

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How do you get someone to do some of the tasks that you’re so used to doing? If those tasks involve, like years of training in some special kind of software, how can you simplify that? How can you use kind of the bog standard every day, software, platforms, etc, to produce an equally good result? But have someone else produced that result for you? And in the development of it, it and in the scrutiny of what I was doing, I actually found myself discovering new ways to do the same thing in a much easier, much less complex manner, you know, and it’s really wiping away all of those complicated frills and making a pathway that can be duplicated.

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Yeah. So it can move from just your heart and head to the hands of another person who can then take on some of those tasks and those responsibilities, thus freeing you up to really engage more fully with just the creativity side of things, the things that only you can bring to the table for your particular creative business, whatever it is, whatever it may be. And so these these quicker, more intuitive paths often require less effort to fulfil some of the core components in in the process of you getting your work out to the world.

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And and so it’s really moving away from the me factor, you know, really looking for ways to extract yourself from the business side of things. So you yourself are then free to concentrate more fully on creating unhindered from all of the frustrations that come with the machinery that go along with balancing art and business, passion and profit. And so today, I just want to you know, if you’re a fellow Christian creative and you’ve got a business that is working, you know, and there’s machinery involved in that and there are processes and systems that you are currently taking care of yourself, it may be time to just hit that pause button, even for a short time, and look at ways in which you might be able to simplify and look at ways in which you can make them as seamless as they can possibly be.

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And once you’ve determined what they are, document them and look for ways in maybe that maybe you can outsource that work to someone else to take care of for you. Now, some things can be automated, but others really will need to be delegated. But, you know, between between eliminated elimination, getting rid of things that are unnecessary automation, allowing software and services, online services to take care of some of the items for you automatically and then delegation, it really does serve it right down.

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So the things that drop into your palm that you need to do far less than maybe they presently are right now. And so, yeah, at the outset, this kind of process can seem a little burdensome. You know, it takes time to do this. It takes a lot of energy and concentration and focus to really make this work. So you don’t just slip back into the kind of me, myself and I doing all of the various tasks within your business.

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But the fruits of it, you know, if you will apply yourself diligently to this, really will just lead to a just a greater liberation to pursue your practice, to pursue your passions and to live the liberated creative life that you always dreamed was possible. So simplify to multiply. It’s as simple as that. Thanks for listening. Hopefully it’s been an encouragement to you today, if you want to connect any further, you can do so through my website at DavidLeemartin.com.

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Have a great day.