The Profundity of Purpose

The Kingdom Light – Episode 1086

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On today’s program, I wanna share with you a personal testimony of how God continues to work on me. No, I don’t have everything together yet. I’m not in any way, shape, or form perfect. And I’m soooo glad that God cares enough to keep chipping away my rough edges. This testimony is still fresh for me. It is my hope that you will find a great lesson within it. Stay tuned…

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Welcome to The Kingdom Light, where CHRIST is KING and TRUTH MATTERS! Our mission: To shine the Kingdom Light in an otherwise dark world!

Alright, I’m just gonna jump right into this ’cause I feel it’s important and someone out there needs to hear it. Let me start by saying, I am still capable of learning new stuff. Thankfully. When I started putting notes together for this episode, I was about to title it, “The Profoundness of Purpose.” But as I was typing the word profoundness – which I apparently made up because it’s not a real word – my predictive text suggested the word profundity. I was like, huhm. And wanting to make sure I was using the right term, I asked my phone to define profundity…

There it was: the quality or state of being profound; depth. Yep, that’s what I was looking for. Hey, I learned something! Now, I had considered myself to be a fairly intelligent person, right? But I didn’t recall ever hearing or learning the word profundity before. See, we often need to be reminded that we haven’t quite learned everything yet. The problem is, too often, we fail to be teachable.

That’s where my testimony begins. I started GCM in 2011 with fire and motivation. I was actively seeking lessons in the Word so I could share them with my viewers. Over time, I gradually began to drift ever-so-slightly to the boundaries of my path. It wasn’t on purpose, I was just allowing other people’s video content to influence me a little bit. That in itself seemed natural and harmless at first. After all, our own personalities can be easily influenced by those around us.

As the years moved along, the ministry God gave me began to change with the times – also very natural. By the time I got into podcasting, I’d been greatly influenced by other podcasters that I liked. My own show became fashioned more and more after those of people like Dan Bongino and Charlie Kirk. Okay, perhaps there’s nothing wrong with finding patterns that work for other people and using them myself. But it progressed to a point where I was often not being ME as much as I was being LIKE SOMEONE ELSE.

Because of this, producing my own content became less and less of a thing I thoroughly enjoyed doing anymore. I was losing my sense of purpose as long as I was trying so hard to just put something out there that was patterned after someone else’s show. I was making things more difficult and complicated, which led to a number of lengthy gaps where I was doing basically nothing with GCM. It became stagnate and unfruitful.

I was very upset that this ministry had become more like a bothersome chore than a personal calling. Honestly, I let that fact cripple me to where I felt like I might never revive GCM. The enemy kept whispering that I should just let it go. “You had a good run. It’s okay to retire from it now and just enjoy life.” (pause) What a bunch of loser talk! God didn’t make me a quitter!

It was during this past year’s long hiatus from podcasting that God finally got my attention and caused me to refocus. He took me back to the beginning of GCM – where it all began, how He had called me, and how simple and natural it was to just follow wherever He would lead me. He inspired me to reproduce all of the old videos I’d done on YouTube, and to re-release them on Rumble. And it was in the midst of THAT when I realized my purpose.

While I was in the beginning stages of releasing The GC Revisited, I heard the words of Pastor Eddie Cupples one Sunday. You know how sometimes you’ll hear a profound truth and then God begins to download an entire lesson around that truth? I love when that happens! Well, God’s message to me was clear. In fact, I shared it in a post earlier this year.

Boom. I finally understood why things had gotten so complicated and where I’d gotten off track. And folks, this is exactly why that episode I did a few weeks ago was titled, “Getting Back to Our Roots.” Anyone who has followed GCM long enough will notice that The Kingdom Light podcast is much more like the original GC web-series and less like other people’s podcasts.

God called me to be ME. And He called you to be YOU. Never ever forget that. And when we are faithful to follow His purpose for our lives, He is faithful to equip us for every circumstance. Not only that, but discovering our true purpose gives meaning to our lives. It’s a source of strength and happiness. God wants that for you, and so do I.

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