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.

Theme: Surrender Over Comfort This Week's Truth "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me." —Luke 9:23 You've been baptizing your preferences as convictions. What you "feel led" to do is often just what you want to do. What "doesn't feel right" is usually exactly what God is asking. Oswald Chambers said, "The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else." Your discipleship has been too convenient. Daily Reading & Action Plan: MONDAY: Read Mark 8:34-38 Action: Identify one area where you're protecting yourself from obedience. Name it. Pray: "Jesus, I surrender [specific thing]. Whatever the cost, I will obey." TUESDAY: Read 2 Corinthians 6:1-2 Action: What have you been putting off? Confession? A hard conversation? Breaking off something? Do it today. Not tomorrow. Today. WEDNESDAY: Read Psalm 32:1-5 Action: Confess your secret sin to one trusted person. Call them. Meet them. Say: "I need to confess something I've been hiding..." No minimizing. Just truth. THURSDAY: Read Matthew 6:24 Action: List your "second masters" (approval, comfort, control, money). Circle the strongest one. Destroy something connected to it today. Delete the app. End the relationship. Cancel the subscription. FRIDAY: Read James 5:16 Action: Ask someone to hold you accountable. Text them: "I'm serious about holiness. Would you meet with me weekly to pray and ask hard questions?" Schedule it today. SATURDAY: Read Jeremiah 17:9-10 Action: Identify one area where you've been "waiting to feel ready." Obey today regardless of feelings. Forgive. Serve. Give. Confront. Break the habit. SUNDAY: Read 1 Corinthians 10:13 Action: Stop saying your struggle is unique. God has already provided your way of escape. Take it today. The accountability you've avoided. The boundary you've refused. The help you've been too proud to seek. This Week's Question