The Artist Mindset Makeover: Recent Episodes
Matt Tommey: Artist, Best-Selling Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur and Artist Mentor
Welcome to the Artist Mindset Makeover my friend. I’m really glad you’re here because I believe God is waiting for you inside this makeover. He’s waiting for you to invite Him into your heart and mind, allowing the Holy Spirit to begin a powerful process of transformation with you. No matter who you are, what you’ve been through or what you’re currently going through right now, realize that the Creator of the Universe is standing ready to enable you with all grace to see His transforming power invade your life. Get ready! You’re about to step into your new normal.As you’re getting started on this journey, I want to give you a brief understanding of how transformation happens for us in the Kingdom of God. But first, here’s how it doesn’t happen: by trying harder on your own or waiting for God to show up and “shazzam” change everything. It happens through what the Bible calls the renewing of your mind. That’s not a God-only process nor is it a you-only process. It’s a cooperative process between you and God empowered and led by the Holy Spirit. Here’s how it works.God awakens your heart to His vision and plans for your life. You begin to come into agreement with those plan and realize that the closer you are to Him, the more they reflect the deepest longings of your heart. As you envision and dream with God about the plans He has for you through prayer and your divinely-inspired imagination, your heart begins to be what the Bible calls ‘fully persuaded’. Once that happens, God’s plan for your life becomes more and more clear each day.Along the way, you’ll be faced with fear, anxiety and accusation from the enemy usually based on your past, the opinions of others or your own feelings of unworthiness. You have a choice (and this is key)! You can either continue to agree with the lies of the past or you can recognize those lies, intentionally replace them with the truth of God’s Word and then reinforce that new truth at every opportunity. It’s your choice. The Holy Spirit is there to empower and lead you but my friend, it’s your choice. As you choose to make those choices to align your thoughts with God’s Word over time, based on the precious promises of God, your heart and mind will begin to change. They will literally shed the old and be clothed in the new, creating new pathways in your brain that will align with God’s best for your life.This Artist Mindset Makeover is designed to help you start that process by addressing the 7 most common misconceptions (lies) that artists believe and replace them with the truth of God’s Word. Welcome to the journey!
Introduction
Welcome to the Artist Mindset Makeover, my friend. I’m really glad you’re here because I believe God is waiting for you inside this makeover. He’s waiting for you to invite Him into your heart and mind, allowing the Holy Spirit to begin a powerful process of transformation with you. No matter who you are, what you’ve been through, or what you’re currently going through right now, realize that the Creator of the Universe is standing, ready to enable you with all grace to see His transforming power invade your life. Get ready! You’re about to step into your new normal.
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If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times: Matt, I just don’t know what God’s plan is for my life. My friend, God’s not trying to hide from you! In fact, it’s His good pleasure to give you the Kingdom (Luke 12:32). The resistance you feel may simply be the frustration of the enemy and the fruit of untruth you’ve believed about how the Kingdom works. It could also be the rush of excitement and adventure that comes with a little bit of nervousness, not knowing exactly how each step will happen in your life.
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Have you ever noticed in the Bible that God doesn’t have any favorite occupations? That’s right! Regardless of what we do, God is our source. He promises to provide for and bless us abundantly because we are his children, not because of how we perform. And the good news is, that promise doesn’t just apply to the overtly “spiritual” things of life. Everything in our life is designed to be used by God to release the transforming power of His Kingdom, all while allowing us to live the abundant life Jesus promised.
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Just like the woman at the well, our past hurts can hold us back from experiencing everything that the Lord has designed for our life. Yet with a simple yes, Jesus can set you free, and you can experience His freedom.
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Your heart is an incubator. Whatever you put inside of it will grow and bring forth a harvest in your life. Just like a garden, the soil doesn’t care what kind of seed you insert. Regardless, that seed will sprout and grow. When you start to replace the lies of the enemy and your past with God’s Word, believing it in your heart and acting on it by faith, your reality will change.
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God desires to work in you and through you as you pursue His design for your life. As you do, your unique expression will unfold, and you can trust that His presence will be moving through your work. In that reality, the work you create literally becomes an intersection point for the Holy Spirit to move in the life of another.
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There are a lot of misconceptions in the minds of Christians and especially Christian artists who think that if they make money from their art, somehow they are selling out, taking advantage of the situation, or even desecrating the gift God has given them. Nothing could be further from the truth. In reality, no matter what you’re called to do, God’s promise is the same: to guide your steps, provide for your every need, prosper you in all your ways and make you a blessing. Wow, what a promise! Of course, that’s all predicated on the fact that your life is submitted to Him, and you’re cultivating an intimate relationship with God every day. In that context, everything is possible!
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Most artists live out a place of either hoping, waiting, and begging God to do something in their life, or when that doesn’t work, they take matters into their own hands and start working, sweating, and striving to make something happen on their own. Neither is God’s best for life in the Kingdom. In fact, there’s a simple pathway in the Kingdom that goes like this. Out of intimacy with God, we receive revelation by the Holy Spirit in line with our God-given design and our assignment in the Kingdom. When we begin to walk in that, God releases provision for us to do the work He’s called us to do in our life, resulting in lasting fruit, impact, and personal fulfillment. This is the outflow of resting in His presence.
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As we wrap up this series, I just want to thank you for taking this journey with me. But it doesn’t have to end here. Below you’ll find some additional resources I have available to help you continue to grow into and fulfill your calling as an artist in God’s Kingdom.
I want to encourage you to check out:
The Thriving Christian Artist Podcast:
http://MattTommeyMentoring.com/Podcast
My Weekly Blog:
http://MattTommeyMentoring.com/Blog
My Website:
http://MattTommeyMentoring.com
Created to Thrive Artist Mentoring Program:
https://matttommeymentoring.mykajabi.com/CTTMentoring