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Discover How Stillness Can Change Your Art Forever

• Matt Tommey: Artist, Best-Selling Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur and Artist Mentor

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What if the creative breakthrough you've been searching for isn't found in more techniques or strategies, but in learning to be still? In this soul-stirring episode, we explore how sacred stillness unlocks divine creativity in ways that constant striving never can.

The tension between worldly pressure and spiritual flow creates a fascinating paradox for Christian artists. While culture pushes us to create faster, stay visible, and constantly perform, God whispers an invitation into stillness. "Cease striving and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10) becomes our creative manifesto, challenging us to trust that God has already given us everything we need for inspired artistry.

Drawing from personal experiences and biblical wisdom, this episode offers practical guidance for transforming your creative process. Learn how beginning each studio session with intentional quiet time, eliminating digital distractions, and releasing the pressure to make everything "content" can dramatically shift your artistic flow. Discover when to push through creative blocks and when to trust that stepping away might actually be the most productive choice.

At its heart, this conversation reveals that the most profound art comes not from straining or performing, but from positioning our hearts to receive. When we approach creativity as co-creation with the divine—receiving gifts of inspiration rather than manufacturing them through willpower—we access a flow that's both deeply fulfilling and spiritually transformative.

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So what if the creative breakthrough and fulfillment that you've been looking for in your life is really nothing to do with more techniques or strategies or becoming a better artist, but it's actually in learning to be still, in learning to listen to the voice of the Lord, enjoy his presence and actually connect with everything that he has for you in your creative process? Well, today, on the Thriving Christian Artist, I'm going to be talking about how stillness could be the key that you're looking for to unlock God's flow in your art. All over the world, artists are awakening. Painters and potters, writers and weavers, poets and dancers not chasing followers or fame, but sons and daughters called for such a time as this, transformed from the inside out, creating with purpose, releasing the glory of God and living in the power of the kingdom. Right now, this is the Thriving Christian Artist. Well, hey, my friends, super glad that you are here, whether it's your first time, first time in a long time, or whether you're a regular listener or viewer, really, really glad that you're here. Make sure you subscribe so you never, ever, miss any of the great content that I'm putting out right here on the Thriving Christian Artist.

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You know, today I want to talk about this idea of stillness because, I don't know about you, but in today's world that we're living in, this generation that we find ourselves existing in, it seems like more and more as artists, as people who are trying to share the creativity that God's put in our heart. Man, it just seems like there's so much pressure to be out there to create faster and create better and to perform and stay visible and don't miss being on all the social media platforms and doing all the stuff and the latest short form content and it could just be really, really, I don't know, devastating, I think, sometimes to our, our creative process. Because I don't know about you, but I find that that I don't create the best when things are really fast, when things are really feeling rushed and when I feel like I'm striving. Those are some of the times I feel the least creative, some of the times I feel like I'm just running on fumes, and I think we can all agree and probably because you're watching this video, I think you would agree with me that that is not God's best for our life as artists. God's best is that we be able to walk with him and operate as creatives in a flow, a flow that's not only meaningful for us, but a flow that is connected to his heart. Not only meaningful for us, but a flow that is connected to his heart.

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The thing I've learned in my own life is that when I'm feeling pressured and when I'm feeling pushed, that's almost always a recipe for disconnection, not only from the Lord, but also from the best creativity that he wants to flow through my life. But when I will connect with the Lord and connect in his presence, but when I will connect with the Lord and connect in his presence, his presence is always a source of greater creativity, greater inspiration, greater flow. See, in the kingdom of God and this is just not only in creativity but in everything in life the kingdom of God is always opposite of whatever the world is trying to sell you and pressure you and put on you. And the world says you got to do it faster and bigger and better than everybody else and shinier, and you got to do more of it, that more is better. The kingdom of God comes in this sort of deep breath, quietness sort of way. In this stillness it says nope, this way is different. The kingdom of God is different. God doesn't invite us into striving, he's inviting us into stillness.

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The difficult fact is, I think, for a lot of us is that sometimes we're so doggone busy doing things for God and trying to keep up with the Joneses, if you will, trying to keep ourselves out there and relevant on social media and doing all the stuff that we miss the silent voice of the Lord. We miss the still small voice that he's speaking. We miss the Holy Spirit nudges and clues that are absolutely all over us and all around us in life. But because we're so busy we tend to miss those things. You know, here on this time together, I love every episode. I love going back to Scripture and just based on everything that I'm teaching you here about being a creative in God's kingdom, on His Word.

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And there are two Scriptures, I think, that really come to mind that have a lot to do with stillness and not striving and really connecting with who God's created us to be as artists and in that place where we can be connecting with his best and deepest and most authentic creativity for us. And the first one is in Psalm 4610. You've probably heard it said be still and know that I am God. I love that. But actually in the NASB it says something a little different. It says cease striving and know that I'm God. See, it's one thing to think that you're being still, but it's another thing to take a deep breath, slow down, look at your life and say, even though I'm being still, am I really still striving or am I really trusting the Lord? I, I think about the the.

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You know, I heard a joke one time about a little boy, you know, that was mad. And his mama said you better, you better be nice, you better, you better act nice to your sister. And uh, you know, you, you better be. You know being polite and using all your manners that we talked about. And he said I'm being polite on the outside but I'm mad on the inside. I don't know if you've ever felt that way, but it's like I'm trying to be still God on the outside, but I'm striving up a storm on the inside Right.

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We're, we're always trying to figure out the next, the next best thing to do, the greatest thing to do, the next technique that we need to find, that, the next class we need to take, or retreat that we're going to go to or conference we're going to attend, that's going to change everything. That's going to be the breakthrough that we're looking for and God is just saying hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Will you just take a deep breath and cease your striving? In other words, would you trust me enough to believe that, in the stillness of my presence, you're going to be able to receive everything that I've already given you in Christ? Yes, what the Bible says right, we've already been given everything we need in Christ. And we participate in the divine nature, says in 2 Peter, 1, 3, and 4. It says we participate in the divine nature. Through what? In the divine nature? Through what? Through the precious promises of God.

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Well, what if the whole time, the Holy Spirit's been inviting you and me not to strive more, not to try to figure it out more, not to get better at this or that, although there's nothing wrong at all with getting better and growing in our skill and in the talent that God's given us? Of course that's a part of it. Right, being filled and skilled. And growing in our skill and in the talent that God's given us? Of course that's a part of it. Right, being filled and skilled. But what if, the whole time, God was trying to lead us into an invitation of receiving, by faith, all that he's already given us by grace. What do you mean, matt?

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Well, I mean that what if you started looking at your creative process as you receiving gifts from the Lord, gifts of inspiration, gifts of creative outlet, gifts of technique, gifts of strategy, gifts of ways of creating, gifts of perspective and inspiration, so that when you go into the studio, you're not going in there just trying to make it happen, you're not going in there just trying to make something that will sell. You're going in there knowing listen that your father has already given you and set aside for you every creative inspiration, every piece of knowledge, wisdom, understanding, every skill. He's already set all those things to the side for you, every skill. He's already set all those things to the side for you, and all he's waiting for you to do is come and rest in him, receive by faith and then lean into this process of co-laboring with him, so that the things that you are only seeing by faith in the supernatural actually become incarnational, actually become spiritual In the natural. They become art right through your cooperation, not because of your striving, but because of your stillness.

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Wow, you know one of the verses that I heard a lot of years ago that really struck me, and this is the second verse that I want to kind of bring to you today is in Isaiah 30, 15. This is the Lord talking to the nation of Israel and he says in returning and rest, you shall be saved. In quietness and in trust shall be your strength. And you say, oh, that's a nice, that's a nice scripture. But you know what the last part says. But you would not. But you would not.

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In other words, there's strength for us to receive as artists, in our creative process, in the place of quietness and trust, in just showing up in the studio, knowing who we are in Christ, knowing the calling that he's given us, being clear on the vision that he's given us for our life, knowing that, as we return to him and rest in him and are quiet before him, and trust that we've already been given everything that we need and that, as we create, as we show up in the studio, that's when those things are going to begin to flow to us in the measure and at the pace that we need in our life. Listen, god's word, if you've not learned this yet, god's word, these aren't just poetic suggestions, right, these are actually divine strategies, not just for us as artists, but for us as people in the kingdom. This is where supernatural peace and creative power and inspiration and execution actually come from. Not from our own abilities, not from us just getting better at doing what we do as artists, not just the latest Instagram hack or the latest course that we took from another artist that we really like. It comes from us learning to walk according to the word of God, not by power, not by might, but what? What? By my spirit, says the lord.

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And so, listen, I just can't tell you how important it is, when you approach your art, to get to the point where you, you are laying down on a regular basis your need to perform, your need to, to show everybody that you're still in the game, your need, you need to get the next amount of instagram followers or youtube followers, or or sell this much at a show or whatever it is. And again, there's nothing wrong with setting goals. Of course we set goals, we steward well what God's put before us. But listen, when those things become the driving force behind what you're doing, when those become the motivations of your heart, my friend, I'm telling you, they become a place of death, they become a place of, of torture, they become a place of of real uh, I don't know destruction and derailment and distraction that the enemy can use in our life, rather than choosing to abide. And there's nowhere, there's nowhere that it's more important for us to learn to abide than in the studio. See we, you know you've.

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You've had this experience before where you've been in the studio. Maybe maybe the studio is your garage, like it was for me for a lot of years, or your back porch, or or a spare bedroom, or your, your comfy chair. You know the front, wherever that is. You've been in that place, where've been creating before, and all of a sudden, two, three, five, six hours go by and you're like, whoa, what just happened? It happened when you just got in the flow, just this beautiful place of not worrying about what you're creating but just being so enthralled in the process that you just lose track of time.

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Listen, I want to tell you God I believe God loves that. He loves when we're fully engaged in the things that he's called us and created us to do. But I'm telling you, when that process gets mucked up, if you will, and gets clouded up and gets crowded by all of the striving and all of the performance stuff that we often try to bring to our creative process as artists, the pipeline of creativity, the pipeline of inspiration, the pipeline of fulfillment begins to slow and even stop. And so it's so important for us to be intentional about learning to posture our hearts and our mind in a place where we can intentionally listen and receive from the Lord, where we're starting intentionally, not with pressure to perform, but with presence. See, that's where, when you can start really looking at your creative process not just as something that's going to make you money only, not just as something that's going to get you recognized, not just as something that's going to make you and the Lord, where your creativity becomes worship, that's when the flow begins to happen. That's when true fulfillment begins to happen in your life, and I believe that's where true impact and influence are happening in your life as well, when we can say, lord, this thing that I do as an artist, this ain't about me, this is from you, this ain't about me, this is from you, it's for you, it's about you, it's through you, and although it's not only you that does it, I'm required to be a part of the process. Lord, I know that me just showing up and doing it on my own is not going to bring the life and bring the transformation and bring the results that you intended for me as an artist is only when I position my heart in your presence and jettison the pressure to perform. It's only there that I'm going to be able to walk in the fulfillment and the fullness that you have for me. So I want to give you a few things today. I hope you know I love to try to make things as practical as possible for you as you're, as you're leaning into your creative process. The first thing I would say is is this why not begin every studio session that you have with some stillness?

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I remember the first time I ever saw this. I was in Denmark. The only basket class I ever took was from a woman named Ann Linsgaard, incredible basketry sculpture artist in Denmark. I had flown over there and I was taking a, I think a five, seven day. I forget studio. You know class with her, me and several other people, but every morning in the studio this was in this like Danish farm field by the sea. I mean just like, oh, this gorgeous.

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You know, in the summertime she would, she would encourage us. I was going to say she made us, but I mean this is what we did. So I guess she did kind of make us. But, uh, every morning we'd come in and for 15 minutes she would encourage us to close our eyes and she would play this really meditative music for us. Now I don't know that she's a believer or not, I'm not, I'm not sure. But, man, I had such a connection with the Lord during those times because I don't know about you.

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But sometimes when I come to the studio I'm like I'm all excited, I'm ready to get going, and before you know, you're just kind of like on with the day and you're like, oh yeah, and Jesus, would you come and be with me today? Thanks, you know. Now, listen, we know Holy Spirit's with us all the time, right, he's not going anywhere, he's on board, he lives inside of us, right. But there's something really important I think about you pausing. Just like you may pause to say the blessing at dinner, to pause in the morning and the evening, whenever you come in the studio and just say, holy Spirit, I'm taking a deep breath right now and I'm breathing you in and I'm breathing out all the troubles and and things that want to take my focus today, and I'm pausing to listen and to breathe and to focus on you and to hear your voice.

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Maybe you pull out your journal, maybe you sketch a little bit in that place. Maybe you're you know, turn on some soaking music or just some real meditative music. Maybe you're asking the Holy Spirit, you know, what do you want to do today? When do you want to speak to me today? Maybe you just do nothing, maybe you just sit there in silence and just breathe and just really sense the presence of the Lord. But I'm telling you, when you do that, it's almost like declaring a Sabbath every day in your studio. See, sabbath, the Bible says. There therefore remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, not that every day has got to be a Sabbath day where you don't do anything, but that every day is lived in the spirit of Sabbath, which is what I'm going to cease my striving. I'm going to cease, depending on my own strength, and I'm going to. I'm going to lean into trusting that, even when I'm not doing anything, god is doing everything. Even when I'm not, even when I'm doing things that look like not a lot, even when I'm just showing up and worshiping and breathing and inviting the Lord, I can trust that God is at work, that all he's looking for is my agreement, not my striving right. So starting every session with some sort of stillness, I think, would be a huge, huge thing.

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Number two and this is just good life practice, I think, but this is especially important for us is artists turn off distractions. I can't tell you how many artists that I coach in our mentoring program in the foundations course. So many of them talk about being overwhelmed, distracted, can't get enough time to create, always being pulled in a million different directions, all this kind of stuff. And one of the questions I always ask is well now, surely your cell phone is off, right, you have your notifications turned off. You're not responding to every text message, every Facebook message. Surely you don't have your social media notifications? Just ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. It's all on your phone all the time, right, and almost every time artists look at me and go well, you know, listen. Let me just encourage you to put on your big boy, your big girl pants right now and turn those doggone notifications off.

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One of the one of the biggest things I think that that we can say to the Lord when we're saying you know we're, we're serious about this calling as artists is is when we will choose to turn off and block out the distractions that want to come in our life. You don't have to respond to every text message immediately. You don't have to respond to every like or comment on your Facebook immediately. You can turn those off, you can set a time to respond to those, and so I would encourage you email notifications, social media notifications, text messages, whatever that is turn those things off and allow your studio time to be a time in the sanctuary and time with him. Don't be somebody that is always responding to everybody else's emergency. Otherwise, you'll never, ever, ever have time to create All right. You'll never have time to be All right. You'll never have time to be able to enter into that, that really sweet spot of stillness with the Lord.

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Number three, I would say in regards to that create without feeling the pressure to perform. Now, what do I mean by that? I specifically mean don't treat the sacredness of your creative process as only a source for Instagram content. I don't know about you, but, um, I mean I well, let me just say this I built a very, very, very, very successful art business. Over the years, I've sold hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars in my own personal art and other people's art. Over the years I did all of that and I coach artists to do that in the mentoring program, primarily off of social media. You may be going. What I learned to love that Well, we'd love to teach you right inside the mentoring program. Come on in and join us. We talk about every day, but here's the deal.

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I think there is a huge risk to your creative flow and to the sacredness of your creativity when you treat everything that you're doing in the studio as content. That you got to have the doggone video camera on all the time, that you got to be snapping pictures all the time. Now, listen, nothing wrong with that If you want to, you know, create short form content, long form content. If you want to have things for Instagram, facebook, tik TOK again, love it, love it, love it. But if all that you're doing is feeling this pressure that well, I was going to do this thing, but I better get it on film, I better take a picture of it, I better stop and do an Instagram post, that's going to kill you creatively and that's going to suck the flow right out of you, and so you've got to learn to let your creative time be this sacred moment, not always a public performance, and that I think that's just a a healthy limit that all of us can have in our life as artists. And also this not everything that God's given you and showing you in your creative process is supposed to be shared or is to be shared, then I mean sometimes things, sometimes God just shows you something because he loves you. Sometimes God's showing you something just to teach you something in the moment. It doesn't mean that it's a quotable quote or an Instagrammable moment or has to be the subject for a next reel. It can just be for you. And so I would just say get off that train of having to feel like everything's content. It's a big, big, big time. Sucker and flow sucker if you will All right.

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Number next, learn to stop creating. Or I'll say, be willing to switch gears creatively when the flow isn't there. Listen, a lot of times, if you've got a lot of pressure to perform and you're approaching your creativity with a lot of pressure, you'll keep going, even when you know you have passed the point of beauty. I have screwed up more pieces of art in the name of I've got to get it done. Listen, you know, it's like that old song the thrill is gone, you know, you know. And the thrill is gone, you know. You know when the thrill is gone, right, you know when the inspiration has ceased. You know when the fulfillment is is waning, right when you're kind of shutting down creatively for the day. Maybe that's the time you switch to cleaning the studio, maybe that's the time you go answer emails, maybe that's the time you go for a walk or do something else.

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But I would just encourage you, part of recognizing and maybe cultivating this place of sacred stillness in our life is is allowing ourselves to rest and allowing ourselves to stop creating when we feel like the flow is no longer there. See, the lie of the enemy. The lie of the enemy is what? Well, if you don't keep going, you're not going to be done in time. If you don't keep going, you can't be a real artist. If you don't keep going, you're not going to have enough pieces for the real show. It's all this. You're not enough, you're not enough, you're not enough.

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So how do we always do spiritual warfare? We come in the opposite spirit of what the enemy says, and if he's coming at you with fears of not enough or you're going to miss it. The best thing to do is pull the plug. Stop. Take a deep breath, go take a walk, go be inspired, go sit on the back porch in the swing, go get you a cold drink of ice tea, whatever it is. But don't play that game with the enemy.

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Be willing to know that he is God in your creative flow and he's God in the moments when you're just being you. God blesses you with the creativity, not because you're performing, because he's good, because he loves you, and so the opposite is always true. If the flow is flowing, all right. This would be number next. If the flow is flowing, keep going. Is flowing, all right. This would be number next. If the flow is flowing, keep going. Let yourself go If you're in the moment, if you're in the flow, if it's just happening, man, let the river flow right. Enjoy these moments with God. Be willing to text a friend and say hey, I'm going to be a little late, I'm right in the middle of this. Let God lead those sessions. Let your creative flow lead those sessions.

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Listen, this is the beautiful part of being an artist, whether you're doing this for ministry or as a hobby or in business. This is this beautiful place where you and the Lord get to kind of guide the ship. And so I would say, when it's flowing, man, let it flow and don't feel bad about it Again. Don't let the enemy come and lie to you that you're not enough, that you're irresponsible if you stay in the studio. Obviously you can't stay in the studio for 24 hours a day, seven days a week and not go fix dinner and not do your household chores and care for your loved ones and all that. We've got to balance everything right. But I'm just saying, in those moments right from time to time, when the flow is there, go with it and also create boundaries in your life and schedules in your life where you can be creating at the time where you have the most freedom and ability to do that.

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I say this all the time on the Thriving Christian Artist. I'm saying all the time if it's important enough for God to give it to you, it's important enough for you to take it seriously and listen. God gave you your art because he loves you, because he's good, because he thinks it's important, because it's a way for you to release his nature and his kingdom in the earth. And, my friend, listen, if it's important enough for God to give it to you, doggone it. It's important enough for you to take time to focus on it and to flow with it when it's flowing. All right, listen these things I hope they're not an exhaustive list, right, but these are things that I believe that, if you'll begin to build these rhythms, if you will these signposts, if you will rhythms, if you will these signposts, if you will these, allow you to intentionally make room for the Lord and make room for Him to guide you, make room for Him to inspire you, make room for Him to flow through you. And that's what, in my estimation, being an artist is all about is allowing the beauty, the nature of God to not only flow to me and not only flow in me, but flow through me in everything that he's got.

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Listen, my friend, I want to pray real quick and just ask that the Holy Spirit would use has been using, I hope, this time together today to really bring you clarity and sort of nudge you into making a place of more and more stillness in your life, jesus. I thank you that you, even in your life, Jesus, you pulled away from all the hustle bustle and you went to be with the Father and Jesus. You said it was good that you go so that the Holy Spirit could be with us and lead us and guide us into all truth and wisdom and comfort us. And, holy Spirit, we repent, lord, for being so busy that we miss the nudges and the still small voice of your Spirit. Holy Spirit, I pray that you would, even now, inspire us and nudge us and lead us, enlighten us, god, in ways that we can be more intentional about creating breathing room, space, stillness in our life, so that we can hear you and sense you and interact with you and enjoy your presence in our creative process. We thank you for that, lord, in Jesus' name, amen.

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Hey, my friend, listen, if this has been a big blessing to you today. If you're watching on YouTube, I'd love for you to leave a comment. Let me know what you're doing to increase the amount of space in your life, stillness in your life, intentionality, where you can hear the Lord. Also, if you've been listening to this today and you're like, wow, there's a lot of work I need to do, I've been really listening to the lies of the enemy about striving and maybe who I am and what's possible or not possible, maybe you've been feeling like you want to get out of that striving flow and into this really rest, restful flow of the Lord, this kingdom flow, this identity flow with him, but you just don't know how. Listen, I'd be remiss if I didn't invite you to become a part and enroll today in our Foundations course. I started the Foundations course and I created this course as a way for artists to reconnect with our identity in Christ.

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Allow Jesus to heal the broken places in your heart, allow you to get clear on the vision that God has for your life and then begin to create daily habits through God's word and through the practical things that you're doing every day to pursue the call of God on your life as an artist, whether that's for your personal enjoyment or for ministry or for meditation, or maybe it's even for you that want to do this as a business. Maybe you're already doing your art as a business, part-time, and you want to take it to the next level. It all starts with building a solid foundation in Christ. Here's what I've noticed over the years. I've been an artist now for over 30 years.

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I've mentored thousands and thousands and thousands of artists over my time as a mentor and I can tell you definitively no matter how great of a marketer you are, no matter how great of an artist you are, no matter how short or long you've been doing it, no matter how much favor you may have on your life, if you are not building a solid foundation in Christ through intentionally learning to renew your mind with the truth of God's word, getting clear on the vision that he has for you and creating intentionality toward walking toward that every day. Listen, I promise you. I promise you, at some point the enemy is going to pull the rug out from under you and all of your good intentions are going to fall flat without a solid foundation in Christ. And that's why we started the Foundations course in order to help artists develop a solid solid as a rock foundation in their life, so that we're not building our art life on shifting sand, on the shifting sand of social media, on the shifting sand of fickle buyers, on the shifting sand of whether people like me today or not. We build it on who God says we are in His Word and in that place we can do anything right. We can do anything Building a business, building an art career, pursuing and growing as an artist. It becomes a whole lot easier when you're doing that in agreement with who God says. You are in Christ, and I'd love to be able to walk you through that process.

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Foundations is a nine-week process. It's a self-guided process. We've got an incredible community of artists from all over the world and just about every creative medium. You get to ask me questions along the way. I'd love to walk with you and show you how to build this solid foundation in your life as an artist.

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All right, hey, all the information for that is right here in this episode. You can click and enroll today and I can't wait to see you inside. All right, listen, friend. I love you so much. Thank you for being here with me every week on the Thriving Christian Artist and remember until next time you were created to thrive. Bye, hey, my friend, before you go, make sure that you're signed up for the Thriving Christian Artist Weekly. It's my free newsletter, full of spiritual encouragement, creative inspiration and practical tips to help you thrive in everything that God's called you to do as an artist in his kingdom. Every issue is absolutely free and it includes the latest podcast episode, featured artist spotlights, a worship song of the week and, again, tons of tips and encouragement and inspiration for you, to keep you inspired and encouraged, and everything that God's got for you as an artist in the kingdom. You can click the link right here in the show notes to join us, and it's a great way to stay connected. All right, love you, bye.