Have you been searching for camaraderie and understanding as you pursue a God-shaped dream?

Have you noticed that the people you’re closest to struggle to understand when you share about your God-shaped dream? Or maybe you’re just hoping they’ll celebrate that little milestone you just reached, but their reception is a bit too lukewarm for your liking.

IF YOU’VE STRUGGLed TO FIND a supportive COMMUNITY for You & YOUR DREAM, THIS IS THE EPISODE FOR YOU.

I get that it hurts a little when you think your close people will love your dream as much as you do, and they don’t. However, this episode is not about them.

It’s about the two primary ingredients you must have in place if you’re expecting to make any noticeable progress toward your dream becoming a reality—no matter what other people think about you or the dream itself.

I’m sharing this today because it’s my birthday month and more than anything, the gift I want to give YOU is the confidence to take some action steps right now rather than waiting for the perfect time when you finally feel inspired, or when your dreams are actually understood by the people you love, or you have 100% certainty that this is what God would have you pursue.

None of those things are actually necessary (and they’re not even super easy to accomplish, and I’d guess that’s part of why you feel stuck right now).

In this solo episode you’ll learn:

Why soaking up inspiration from everyone else’s dreams online isn’t serving you in the way you think it is,
What to do instead of expecting your friends and family members to “get” you and your excitement for this dream, and
Strategies to find time for your dream right now, even if you’re a busy mom, have a day job, or are caring for aging parents.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

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Scripture:

For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.

~ Romans 12:4-8 (NIV)

There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.

Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.

Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.

Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

~ 1 Corinthians 12:4-20 (NIV)