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This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reflectingthecreator.substack.com

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reflectingthecreator.substack.com

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reflectingthecreator.substack.com

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At the end of his life, King David was charging his son to complete the work God was calling him to. King David had spend years preparing the materials and laborers for the building of God’s temple. At the end of his life, David knew it was time for Solomon to step up and get to work completing this project God began in David but would use his son to complete. It is easy for disciples of Christ to get bogged down in learning, growing, and getting to know Jesus more. We fail to act because we get so focused on preparing. There came a point when the preparation was complete and action needed to take place. What area in your life is God calling you to act, to do the work? God has left His commission to us as believers here on earth. His purpose is to use us to complete Jesus’ mission. The church is His tool to proclaim the Gospel and make disciples. We are called to be people of action, people of good works (Ephesians 2:10). Brian challenges us today to examine our lives and walks with Jesus and what work is God calling us to do. We don’t need to get caught just being but also doing. What is God calling you to do today? What is that mission that God has prepared you and your path for? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reflectingthecreator.substack.com

As disciples of Jesus Christ, we are called to pray for one another. We can easily get wrapped up in bringing our own needs and issues before God that we forget to bring others before God in prayer. We see Jesus set the example of praying for His own disciples in John 17. Paul also references time and again how he prayed for those to who he was writing his letters to. Galatians 6:2 commands us to bear one another's burdens. James tells us to pray for one another. To live as part of God's family is to commit to praying for one another. Today's question to you is, who is on your list? Who has God placed in your life to lift up in prayer. Yes, we should boldly come before God with our own requests and issues. We should pray for our leaders, our spouses, our children. But we should also make it a discipline to daily lift our fellow believers up in prayer before God. There is something powerful that the Spirit of God does in our own life as we obey His command to pray for each other. Who is on your list today? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reflectingthecreator.substack.com

For those who are married, you know a good marriage takes work. This week, Brian and his wife celebrate 16 years of marriage. He reflects on what are the major keys that have influenced and strengthen their marriage over the past decade and a half. Here is the link to the book Brian Shared about, Character Matters: https://amzn.to/3yiN0zD This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reflectingthecreator.substack.com

Are you tired? It can be tiring to be a follower of Christ in our culture today. We are facing pressures we have never faced in our country. Perhaps some of us are worn out from putting out and serving with little harvest to show for it. Today, we will look to God's Word for encouragement. Brian gives 3 challenges...or maybe 4...to help those who may be feeling tired or down as they face life as a follower of Christ in an ever-increasingly hostile world.To watch the full message Brian mentions, visit: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit reflectingthecreator.substack.com