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[0:00]If you don't stop breaking your promises to God and you don't stop falling short, God's gonna be done with you and you're never gonna meet your potential. It's probably something you wrestle with every single day and that very fear is the exact reason why. I bet you genuinely want to change, you want to read your Bible, you want to change your habits, you want to do the things that reflect the person you want to be, but you fail time and time again and keep doing the very things that you hate. I know you know the version of yourself that you know you can be, you want consistency, you want discipline, you want to become that godly man, but for some reason, it feels like every single action you take goes against that. I bet every single night you tell yourself, tomorrow is gonna be different. I'm gonna wake up and spend time with God. I'm gonna pray, I'm gonna do the hard things, I'm gonna become the man that I know I can become and you genuinely mean it, then the next day comes and it's like everything goes to pieces. You don't pray, you feel that distance from God, you see yourself scrolling, you see yourself escaping, you skip the alarm clock, didn't go to the gym, and before you know it you're in the same exact position making the same promise to yourself over and over and over again. When you're trying to become the man you know you should be, you're not just thinking about what's the next action I can take to reinforce that. You're thinking, this is putting my identity in jeopardy. So now every single thing you do is a verdict against that fear that you are that person that isn't enough. No one has ever told you that behavior and discipline is not the root issue. Everyone tells you to just try harder and make it happen, but they don't realize that deeper underlying factor is what is really causing you not attaining the things that you want to attain. Your brain does not feel safe to move towards things and grow because it's holding a weight against your entire identity, but not every single thing you do is proof that you are not enough. Every single thing you do is trying to prove something, trying to earn something and fill a void, and that produces pressure. That pressure produces fear, and your nervous system is now in this fighter flight mode and you cannot function, you cannot operate, no matter how bad you want to in that state of tension when you are trying to grow closer to God. When you are trying to grow closer to God and you're trying to prove something or earn something, the moment something feels off, the moment prayer feels flat, the moment it feels like the Bible is off, you will interpret that now as there's something wrong with me. I'm a fake Christian, God must be distant now. That makes you run farther away from God and that pushes you farther into your problem. You were never, you were never attached to actions, you were never attached to getting small wins, you were attached to the idea of what committing those actions would have produced. And the moment that you don't get that intended outcome, that's when you quit and you run away because there's no reason for you to do it anymore. When your identity is secure, everything will stop feeling like a test. And now that everything is not a test, it can become an expression. Now every good action you commit is no longer proof of something, it's actually you just showing who you already are. All you have to do is align your daily choices and reinforce your daily choices with the truth with who God says you are and that identity. Now there's no more threat, and now that the threat is gone, your brain's not gonna see these hard things as something that's scary, and it's gonna start to see these things as something that reflects who you are. The moment you stop trying to force things and you start just expressing things is the moment you're gonna feel close to God again. The moment consistency is actually gonna become natural and the moment you're finally gonna stop feeling like a fraud and realize that every single day you are becoming that best version of yourself, not to earn it, not to prove it, but to express it.