The Thriving Christian Artist

Grace-Paced Creativity

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

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Have you found yourself caught in an endless cycle of creative hustle and disappointment? That relentless pressure to produce more art, gain more followers, and achieve greater success can leave even the most passionate artist feeling depleted and inadequate. But what if your greatest artistic achievements don't come from working harder but from learning to walk at God's pace?

This episode challenges the cultural narrative that equates success with constant productivity and instead offers a revolutionary alternative: grace-paced creativity. Drawing from Matthew 11:28-30, you'll discover why Jesus invites us to "learn the unforced rhythms of grace" and how this profoundly impacts your creative practice. Rather than allowing external pressures to drive your internal creative process, you'll learn how to operate from the inside out, guided by God's truth and the Holy Spirit's leading.

Just as nature operates in seasons—sowing, growing, harvesting, and resting—your creative life follows similar patterns. There's immense freedom in recognizing the season you're in and honoring it, rather than feeling inadequate because you're not constantly producing. This isn't about becoming unproductive; it's about the transformative shift from striving in your own strength to co-laboring with God.

Through practical frameworks like the Core Four Focus (Connect with God, Clarify your priorities, Create, and Cultivate relationships), you'll discover how to maintain this grace-paced creativity daily. The fruit is profound: peace in your studio, joy in the process, fulfillment in your journey, and experiencing God's favor. Instead of quick success followed by burnout, you'll develop depth, groundedness, and longevity in your creative calling.

Ready to stop feeling rushed, anxious, and inadequate in your art practice? Join us as we explore how slowing down might be your greatest creative advantage. Your art matters—and so does your soul's rest.

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I don't know about you, but it's super easy to get overwhelmed and frustrated and just feeling really driven when everything around you these days feels like you got to do more and go faster and achieve more and be better and get in front of this person and that person and have more followers on this social media post and it just seems like success. The way the world promises it is always tied to doing more or going faster or working harder. But what if life in the kingdom and what if your greatest artistic achievements and your greatest fulfillment in life is not from working harder but actually from learning to slow down and walking at the pace that God sets for your life? We're going to talk about that today and how to do it practically today. On the Thriving Christian Artist.

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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, friends, super glad that you're with me today, whether it's your first time, first time in a long time or whether you're a regular listener and viewer of the podcast. I'm really really glad that you're here. Make sure that you hit the subscribe button so you don't miss any of the great content that I'm putting out here every week to encourage artists on our journey, not only with the Lord, but also in our art practice and even art business, depending on what God's called you to in this season of your life. You know, I don't know about you, but I can't tell you how many artists that I've talked to over the years who are living kind of in this constant frustration. They're running themselves ragged trying to figure out how do I create more and post more and sell more and get out there and just on this constant cycle of repeat and feeling like it's always got to be bigger and better and faster and more, and they feel like they never measure up. It's sort of this always this game of inadequacy and trying to to feel like they measure up in this world and among other artists, measure up in this world and among other artists and you know, if you're not careful, whether you love Jesus or not, it's really, really easy to think that that's normal, that that's the way we're supposed to live as artists and, for many of us, as entrepreneurs.

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But I want to really help to reshift and reshape sort of your idea of what the pace of life is supposed to look like in the kingdom of God. Now, this doesn't mean that we don't get up every day and do the things that God's called us to do and work hard, work diligently and that sort of thing. But I want to give you a different model, if you will, today, a model of rest, a model of cooperation that really is in constant odds and constant tension with everything that the world is trying to get us to participate in and, frankly, maybe at great odds with everything that you've been taught or that's been modeled to you, or even that you've practiced in your own life. I love that old quote from Maya Angelou that says when you know better, you do better, and I hope today is going to be one of those opportunities that when you start to realize that God's got a different plan for your life, jesus has a better way, a better pace of life for you in the season of life you're living, I hope that that's going to really bring into a lot of freedom today and empower you to live the life that Jesus died for you to live, and the Holy Spirit is empowering you to live today.

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I can remember years ago when I saw the verse I think it's 1 Thessalonians 4, 11, that talks about this sort of ideal life of living quietly, minding our own business and working with our hands, and I said, boy, that's a recipe for a great life. You know, sounds like to me. You know, to be able to live quietly, do the things that God puts on my heart to do, to love Him, to love others, to trust Him for the outflow and the output of my life, to trust that fruitfulness is the result of my faithfulness, not of my striving man, that's a great, great way to live. I want to say to you, if you're somebody that's living right now in a way that feels like you're just tired and worn out, and you're always feeling like you're two steps forward, one step back, never really making progress, I do want to invite you into something today that I think is really radically freeing and is at odds with the life that you may have been living so far. You know, I love to start in Scripture every time we get together, because it really is the basis for everything that we do in our life as sons and daughters in the kingdom and as artists, right as the Bible and the leadership of the Holy Spirit, the voice of the Lord. These are our signposts, these are our compasses, if you will, that guide us on our journey.

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And there's really no better place than to look in Matthew 11. I think it's in verses 28 through 30, where Jesus comes into the middle of the hustle and bustle of life and really gives, just like he always does, gives a completely new model for living, and I don't think there's any better translation of this than the Message Bible. It's just become one of my favorite places to read this verse and to commit it to memory. But in the Message version it says this. It says are you tired and worn out? And some of you may know this, as you know, come to me all you who are heavy laden, and I'll give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. So this is a little bit different translation, but just let this wash over you, right? It says are you tired and worn out, burned out on religion? Come to me, get away with me and you will recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me. Watch how I do it, learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly.

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Wow, I can think of so many times in my life where living freely and lightly were not my testimony, living freely and lightly were not the way that I would describe myself. I find that many times in my life the enemy will try to pull you on either sides of the pendulum right. Either get you just to where you're totally freaked out and paralyzed because of inadequacy and fear and anxiety and just paralyzes you and you can't do anything, or on the other side, you're just hustling, grind all the time, trying to make it happen, trying to measure up to the latest thing that the world is trying to sell you that says you know that's what success equals to? And man, it's anything but freely and lightly living. It's anything but having something that's well-fitting. It is much more akin to feeling like it's heavy and not fitting, like it's really bringing you down and really cramping your style and forcing you, if you will, into a life that is not the life that Jesus designed for us. And you know why I think a lot of people try to make the Bible more poetic than practical, and I've been guilty of that in my life.

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This is a super practical invitation from Jesus. It's an invitation to lay down the life and the way of life, the pace of life that you may have been living in, and realize that hurry and bustle and striving and grinding and all the stuff that takes your energy, all the stuff that makes you feel like you're not inadequate, all the stuff that makes you feel like you're on this continuous hamster wheel. Realize, maybe for the first time in your life, this is not God's best for my life. Now, what does this not mean? It doesn't mean that he doesn't want you to be about the things that he's called you to. It doesn't mean that you're supposed to stop creating. It doesn't mean that you're supposed to lay on the floor and just worship him all day and expect the angels to bring you manna and clients. No, it means that we participate with him right in the things that he shows us, right as we walk with him, just like the disciples, as we walk with Jesus daily, as we're led by his voice and we see the model of Jesus's life in the Bible.

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We live in an atmosphere of restedness. See the Sabbath. I love it in Hebrews when it says there therefore remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. That doesn't mean that we're supposed to be living all on Sunday, but it means that we live. The position of our heart is one that we say, even in my not hustling and grinding, in my not worrying about what's going to happen tomorrow, in my not burning the candle at both ends, in my not working, feeling the pressure of working 12-hour days, seven days a week, just to make it out of this curse of the starving artist.

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In order for me not to do that, I'm going to choose the Sabbath life, in other words, what I'm going to choose, to rest in the fact that, even when I'm not doing what everybody else is doing, I know that God is doing more than enough. God has already provided everything that I need, and as I'll choose to rest in him and flow with him, in this sort of grace-paced rhythm of life, our art and our life become a lot more than just output, a lot more than just product. It really becomes an overflow of our relationship with Him. See, that's where the peace is, that's where the fruitfulness is, that's where the grace is, not from you and I trying more, but from us learning to rest in Him. Our faithfulness is what produces fruitfulness in our life. I will say that again our faithfulness, and really our faithfulness to rest in Him, is what produces fruitfulness.

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And so the whole Christian life, I think, for so many of us, is just these ongoing opportunities where Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit and through his word and through the situations of life, is teaching us to rest in him even as we're actively working with him and so really understand this. This doesn't mean that you're unplugging from what God's called you to do, but it means that you're changing the position of your heart to do. But it means that you're changing the position of your heart, you're choosing to come out of agreement with the pressurized sort of way that the spirit of mammon and the spirit of this world and the enemy of our soul wants us to live, which is that I got to do more, I got to produce more, I got to go faster. It's choosing to come out of agreement with that and coming into this idea that I've already been given everything that I need and as I choose to walk in this grace-paced life with the Lord, he's going to bring everything that I need exactly at the time I need it, and I can trust that he's the one is in control as I learn to lean into him. So I want to give you five things today. I think that I've learned over the years that are things that I'm endeavoring to do in my own life, things that I teach in our courses and books and mentoring program, but things that I know have real-life, practical ability to change the way that you're walking and experiencing life every day. These are doors, if you will open doors, open opportunities, invitations, if you will, to step into this sort of grace-paced life that Jesus has for you.

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The first thing is what we've kind of been talking about a little bit, which is learn to escape, choose to escape, rather this more is better trap, all right, there's always this lie that the enemy's trying to bring us that you know, if you produce more, if you do it faster, if you do it better, if you do it this or this and this, if you're, you know, if you're not producing constantly, that sometime somehow you're falling behind, sometime somehow you're you're less than you got to choose to realize again this is something God does with you, not to you. You got to choose to realize again this is something God does with you, not to you. You got to choose to realize that that is not the truth of God's word. See, external pressure is always going to be there in our life. Right Problems of life are going to be there. External pressures of life are going to be there. Deadlines are going to be there. Competition is always going to be there. Feelings of inadequacy are always going to be trying to come in. So none of that is changing, right, none of that is changing. Social media is going to be there. Your sales goals, your ideas for what you want to do, the next best artist that you've just seen on social media, that's always going to be there.

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But that cannot be our internal driver. See, these external pressures. The enemy wants to use the external pressures to become an internal driver, but that's not how the kingdom works. The kingdom works not from the outside in, but from what the inside out, that is, our internal drivers, become what? The truth of God's Word, our relationship with Him, our choice to rest in His goodness and rest in His grace and operate from a place of learning to walk by what he's modeled for us in His Word and by the Holy Spirit's leading us, rather than feeling the pressure that the world wants to bring on you.

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I mean, if you just paused right now and just thought what's the latest thing, what's the thing? Maybe today that you've been feeling pressured by Pressure to get it done, pressure to do more, pressure to be better than pressure to not miss it, what's that thing? And it's a great opportunity to take that opportunity. You know the Bible says take every thought captive To take that opportunity to the Lord and say Lord, what do you say about this? Because I can guarantee you, grace does not rush, grace does not drive, grace does not pressure. You know what grace does Grace invites, grace flows in a rhythm that is set by the Holy Spirit, by life in the Spirit, and so, nine times out of 10, if you're feeling those feelings of anxiety and pressure and I'm going to miss it and I got to do it, all that kind of stuff the first main thing you need to do is just take a big old breath and extricate yourself from that situation and say Jesus, this does not feel like you right now. Say Jesus, this does not feel like you right now and I'm choosing not to participate. I'm choosing not to entertain those thoughts of anxiety right now, because you know what happens if you start entertaining those thoughts of anxiety.

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They become a horrible dinner guest, right? They want refills. They want second, third portions. They want to stay for dessert. They want a take-home box. They want to bring friends over right, this is not the kind of thing you want to stay for dessert. They want to take home box. They want to bring friends over right, this is not the kind of thing you want to be entertaining, right.

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So you got to realize that the most spiritual thing many times that you can do when you're starting to feel those anxious feelings of driving and doing more, is just simply to say no and just simply realize that not everything that comes to you, no matter how good it may seem on the outside, not everything, is a fit for the design of God in your life and the season of life that you're in. And learning to say no can probably be one of the most spiritual and most important things that you do to keep you in the rest of God in your life. This rhythm of rest, this grace-paced pace of living, all right. Number two is this Grace has a rhythm. You know, I've seen this in my own life but, just like in nature and in creativity, grace kind of works in these seasons.

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Right, there's the grace to sew things in your life, right To's the grace to have to just to sow things in your life, right, to kind of get things started, to plan things. There's a grace for growing and cultivating things in your life. Maybe in your art journey you're in a place of growing right now. There's a grace for harvest and man, just for enjoying the fruit of the bounty, of all the things that you've sown. And there's also grace for resting. Realize that every tree can't produce fruit in every season. Right, there's got to be a season of allowing ourselves to rest, of allowing the ground to go fallow in your life.

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And listen, none of those seasons, whether it's a season of planting and sowing, or growing, or harvesting or resting, neither one of those is any more the Lord than the other. See, the enemy wants to tell you well, if you're not harvesting, if you're not in the season of bounty, that somehow you're more than enough, you're inadequate. Right, you're missing what God has for you. You're going to miss it. He wants to lie to you about those sort of things. But there's a whole listen, friend. There's a whole lot of freedom when you can realize that, hey, this is a season of planting, it doesn't look like the season of harvest, or this is a season of rest. I just got through harvesting rest. I just got through harvesting and this is a season to kind of lay things down right now and do things that bring me life without any expectation of them producing anything. Wow, that is huge. So I'd invite you right now even to think what season am I in? Maybe put that in the comments if you're watching here on YouTube. What season are you in? Are you in a learning season? Are you in a pruning season, a resting season, a harvest season and growing season? All of those are good when they're in alignment with the season that God's got you in.

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See Jesus again in Matthew 11, he says I don't want to lay anything on your life. That is, I don't want to pressurize you. I don't want to give you a responsibility, a design, a calling, a purpose and a plan. I'm not going to give anything to you and lay it on you if it's heavy or ill-fitting, if it feels like it's crushing you, listen, if it feels like it's crushing you, it's probably not God's idea you, it's probably not God's idea. If it feels like I just I'll also say this Sometimes it's not God's idea, sometimes it is God's idea, but you've been trying to do it in your own strength. See, I tell people all the time that I coach and that we mentor, we mentor. You know, I've mentored thousands of artists. We mentor hundreds and hundreds of artists in our mentoring program every month and I tell them all the time.

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You know this idea that I'm always trying to encourage myself in the Lord to dream bigger. Why? Because when I dream small, it encourages me to only do things that I can do in the natural. It encourages me to only do things that I can do in the natural, and so dreaming big is one of those things that forces you to get into the supernatural realm. But here's the thing, friend if God's given you supernatural dreams, if you know that he's called you as an artist and he's created you for this time, for such a time as this, and the season is right and you're going after it, and you know that you're in alignment with what he's got for you, but you're feeling nothing but pressure and anxiety and stress and overwhelm and all that kind of stuff Nine times out of 10 is because you're approaching that in your strength, not in his supernatural grace.

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I've just learned over the years again, I'll say it again faithfulness is what produces fruitfulness in our life. And when you can realize that your only responsibility is to nurture and to care for, to keep in front of your eyes the thing that God has called you to, to nurture relationship with Him, to be faithful to the things that he's called you to and listen, when you do that, when you're diligently pursuing everything that God's called you to do, you can trust that he's the one that's going to bring the multiplication, he's the one that's going to bring the acceleration. But I'm telling you that is a choice, because the spirit of this world and the accuser of the brethren, the enemy of our soul, he is always trying to set up circumstances that will convince you otherwise. And so you got to choose to enter into this place of rest with the Lord and you say well, man, I've been trying to do that. Well, listen, I got to do it multiple times a day. Multiple times a day.

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In fact, this is a big part of renewing our mind right, a big part of renewing your mind and taking thoughts captive. You know, you've heard me maybe talk about the five R's that I talk about in all my books, and for you know the five R's for renewing your mind. The first one is recognize right, taking every thought captive. Recognize is this thought that I'm feeling right now, this thing I'm feeling right now, does that sound and feel and look like what's in God's word and his best intention for my life, or does it sound like an attack from the enemy, a pressurized mirage that he's trying to lead me into? That is our first line of defense and that's a choice that only you can make. All right Now. Number three what's number three?

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Co-laboring versus striving? You know I really like to three Co-laboring versus striving. You know I really like to think of co-laboring as this. Co-laboring is not you not doing anything and waiting on God to do everything. No, co-laboring is us laboring together. I'm doing my part, god is doing his part, right, but it really is about asking you know, jesus, what is it that you're doing today? You know, jesus said I just do the things that I see the Father doing, and so you can ask the Lord every day as a part of your normal time with Him. Lord, what is it that you're doing in my creative life? What is it that you're wanting to do in my business? What is it you're wanting to do in my relationships? How can I partner with you today?

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That's a super, super foundational part of what it means to live the abundant life and to live an intentional life with the Lord, to live a life that is co-laboring. It's one of the reasons why I developed what we call the Core Four Focus Framework. It's the framework that we teach in the mentoring program. It's the framework that we base our core four planner on, because every day, I just ask artists to do four things, the same four things I do Connect with God, clarify what it is that he tells you to do, create, be in the studio doing the thing God's called you to do, and cultivate. That is, connect with others that need to know about your art, that want to buy your art, sell your art, share your art, share the impact of what's going on. When you do those four things, that is what it looks like for an artist to co-labor with the Lord. You're not taking all the pressure of making it happen, but you're doing your part. Again, it's not about us trying to force the outcomes, which is where most of the frustration comes in our life, but it's not about us trying to force the outcomes, which is where most of the frustration comes in our life, but it's about this faithfully walking with the Lord, faithfully being in His presence, faithfully renewing our mind and inviting the Holy Spirit into that. It's huge. That allows grace to define your pace, not pressure and panic. Pressure and panic are not designed to set the pace of your life. All right that anytime you again you feel those things, you know that's not the Lord. All right.

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Number four practical frameworks for grace paced creativity. What does that look like? Well, again, I'm going to go back to our core four and for those of you that haven't gotten yours yet we love these I'll just show it here on YouTube. If you're on the podcast, you can get the link as well. But our core four planner this is a practical framework every day. It's a 90-day planner.

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That's all about grace-paced creativity. It causes you every day to say Lord, what are you saying, lord, every day? What are your priorities for me today, lord? How can I clarify the season that I'm in and the things that you have me to do, what feels forced, what doesn't? How can I cooperate with you on a regular basis? That's what learning to walk in grace looks like. Is this constantly checking in with the Lord? Again, not out of fear, but out of a desire to be like Lord. I just want to be in the pace, and right now this is feeling a little bit rushed. Right now it's feeling a little bit weird, feeling a little bit pressurized. God, I'm just going to take a moment and breathe, maybe put on some worship music. I'm going to check in with you.

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But listen, you got to realize in your life, not everything is urgent and important. It's got to be done right now. Some things can be pushed off right, something that's going to be done at the end of the week. Some things are not for you to do, they're for other people to do. So you got to learn we all got to learn to discern the things that we say yes to and the things that we discern to say no to, because saying yes to the wrong things brings the wrong results in your life.

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Learning to say yes to the right things opens the door for God's favor, for God's opportunity. And so this sort of filter of grace, if you will, in your life, when you understand who you are, what God's called you to the season of life that you're in, how God's grace is flowing through you, that becomes a filter, right? So when something comes into your life, an opportunity or a temptation from the enemy or whatever it is, you can just ask hey, am I sensing right now Holy Spirit with you? Am I sensing right now that this is in alignment with my current assignment, with my current season, or is this causing me to feel fear and guilt and shame and inadequacy and rushed? When you run it through the grace filter, when you run it through this filter of of co-laboring with the Lord and resting in him rather than being rushed man, it just just about every time it gives you this clear answer of wow, that thing that I was feeling so pressured by that wasn't even the Lord, that was just something trying to take me off off my game and get me focused on something that was not even his intention for my life.

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The last thing is this Our understanding the fruit of walking with him. What's the fruit of walking with him? The fruit of walking with Jesus is the fruit of the spirit right Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness I'm going to forget one Goodness and self-control. Did I get them all? But listen, peace in your studio, learning to have joy in the process, having fulfillment in your journey and in your life, seeing God open doors and experiencing the favor of God in your life, this sort of grace-paced creativity in your life and in your business. This is where you start to live life to the fullest, live the abundant life. This is what starts producing depth in your life. This is what starts producing a groundedness in your life and sort of you know, depth over speed, if you will, this sort of idea that we're looking for longevity, not just for a quick blow up and then burnout.

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I don't know about you, but I mean I'm 51 right now. I want to be an artist for as long as I live. I want to be about the things that God's called me as long as I am taking breath on this earth. But the only way that you and I can do that is through living this grace-paced life of rest with Him and listen as you learn to walk in that. You know it happens slowly but surely. There's a subtleness that comes in your heart, your creative voice begins to mature, your impact begins to be multiplied and your heart stays soft and it stays discerning and you have an ear, if you will, toward his voice. That's how maturity in the kingdom happens. And so, my friend, I want you to realize your art is important, being productive is important, doing things for the Lord is important. But listen, life in the spirit and life well lived as a son and as a daughter, that is essential.

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If you've grown up, maybe even today you're sitting there thinking that somehow Jesus is behind you, just kind of cracking the whip. Get to it. You better get busy, you better get Listen. I just want to tell you that is not the voice of the Lord, that is not the testimony of Jesus, that is not the model of Jesus in His Word. I want to invite you today Go, grab a copy of the Message Bible.

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Go any other copy as well, it doesn't matter. But look up Matthew 11, 28 and 30 and read those verses again and ask the Holy Spirit, holy Spirit, what does it look like for me to walk in the unforced rhythms of your grace? I want to encourage you to do that, because when you do, everything starts to change. I also want to encourage you. If this is an area of your life that you know wow, I have struggled with this a long time and I think I get it Then I'm back in the gully, if you will. I'm back on the side of the road, back in this rut, doing the same things I always did, and you're just kind of on this roller coaster of results in your life.

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I want to invite you to check out the Foundations course. Our Foundations course is something that I developed for artists who are really wanting to get clear about God's vision for their life, really allow the Holy Spirit to come in and heal the broken places of your heart, learn how to renew your mind and also begin to get clear about the habits and practices that every artist needs in our life to start really walking in alignment with everything that God's got for you, whether that's a business, whether that's ministry, whether that's just art, is personal enjoyment or just you know, you just want to see your life be fulfilled as a creative person. The Foundations course has proven itself to be absolutely transformative in the lives of artists and I want to make sure that you have the opportunity to grab that today. You can get all the information right here in the description and become a part of the Foundations course and not only join me, who's there every step of the way with you, but also join artists from all over the world in that journey as well.

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All right, my friend, I want to pray and just ask God to really do some incredible things in your life as you start really totally taking seriously, maybe for the first time, this idea of grace, paced living in your creative life. So, jesus, we thank you. God, we thank you that you came as a man and you lived and you went through every pressure filled situation and under underwent all the temptations and anxieties that the enemy wanted to throw on you. God, you went through those with the grace of the Father empowering you to be able to walk in a supernatural way. And, jesus, we know that the same power that raised you from the dead lives in us and that we can live that same grace-filled, grace-paced life. But, lord, we can't do it without you and Holy Spirit. I know that you've used our time today in my friend's life to begin to prick their heart and begin to bring things to their mind that are maybe areas of their life that they've allowed the enemy to come in and bring pressure and anxiety and just a rushed feeling. And, lord, I pray that by your Holy Spirit, you would lead them in these next moments, and even right now, god, would you lead them into your truth about who you've created them to be, what you've called them to do, the season of life they're in the pace of the journey that you've called them to. We thank you for that, lord, in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Again, friend, thanks for being here. If you're watching on YouTube, please leave me a comment. Let me know what the Lord showed you as I prayed. Maybe let me know what he was bringing up in your heart as I was teaching today. I would love to know that. And, of course, if you've got a question, let me know. I'd love to answer that for you as well, either in the comments or, who knows, maybe on one of the episodes upcoming. All right, I love you, friend.

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