In my Creator’s Highway program, a deep dive course designed to unlock and exercise your faith-driven creativity, I introduce a framework I call the ‘5 Smooth Stones’.

These stones slay giants.

Giants like procrastination, perfectionism, insecurity, a sense of inadequacy or fear of failure.

Two of those Goliath smashing principles are Education and Application.

Both are essential to your creative and spiritual growth, but if I were to lean toward one it would have to be application.

Because it’s not what we know that matters, it’s what we do with what we know that makes the difference.

Application transforms mere knowledge into actions that unlock the potential for transformation.

As James so eloquently stated, “Be a doer of the Word” for in doing so we recognise and remember our true identity!

Read James chapter 1 for a feast of Holy Ghost insight.

Education is just as important, because knowledge is the raw material that later becomes wisdom and skill.

So, in this showdown between Education and Application there is no winner, both are required to grow in your creative and spiritual life, but they must always be a tag team.

Education tags application who does what is taught, taking it as far as it will go, then swings back round to find out and be informed and educated in the next steps.

This, friend, is the process that will keep you moving forward on what I call the Creator’s Highway. Learn and then lean in to apply what you now know.

Here’s a Holy Ghost directive for you:

“Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” (Philippians 2:12–13 KJV)

Work out what God is working in.

In the doing, you’ll discover your true calling.