Week of: Theme: Vulnerability Over Self-Preservation This Week's Truth "Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it." Matthew 10:39 You've built walls around your heart and called it wisdom. You've avoided hard conversations and called it peace. You've protected your image and called it integrity. You're not being wise, you're being a coward. Oswald Chambers said, "The blood of Jesus Christ can cleanse me at any moment from all sin, but I have to come into the light and confess my sin." Your self-protection is killing you. What you're guarding isn't worth keeping. What you're hiding is destroying what you claim to love. Your discipleship has been too safe. Daily Reading & Action Plan MONDAY: Read John 12:24-26 - "Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds." - Action: Identify one relationship where you're holding back truth to protect yourself. A spouse. A friend. A leader. Today, have the conversation you've been avoiding. Don't rehearse. Don't script perfection. Just speak truth in love. Even if your voice shakes. TUESSDAY: Read Proverbs 28:13 - "Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy." - Action: What are you concealing right now? Write it down on paper. Every detail. Every lie. Every rationalization. Then text your accountability partner: "I need to meet today. I've been hiding something and I'm ready to bring it into the light." Meet before sunset. WEDNESDAY: Read Ephesians 5:8-14 - "Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them... But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light." - Action: Identify one "fruitless deed of darkness" you've been protecting. The app you use in private. The relationship that crosses boundaries. The habit you justify. Delete it. End it. Confess it. Today. No transition plan. No weaning off. Expose it to light and watch it die.

I do have a self-guided journey coming out in February, that walks you through healing from Spiritual Abuse in the Church. These will be provide levels of healing and breakthrough based levels of courage, and follow through. With the help of a spouse, or a mentor/pastor/group leader helping them walk through the journey, but not carry the weight of knowing the journey. I see more journeys in the future: - Rebuild: Healing from Church Hurt. (Feb 2026) - Release: Healing from Religious/Legalistic Home Life. (2026) - Grounded: Transition from worldly leadership to Gospel-leadership (2026) Those are the 3 I see coming out. I will produce workshops and online classes for people who are looking for specific topics.