Welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson. I'm here to encourage you in your walk with God. Thank you for joining in.

Today's podcast is sponsored by Cunningham Financial Group. John Cunningham is a friend of mine and a brother in Christ, and he can help you with financial

decisions and future planning.

He's been a big help to me and my family, and I commend him to you.

You can reach him at 205-913-1720.

I am so thankful you're here, so let's get started.

So today's title is a very simple one. It's a small deviation from a phrase we all know really well, believing is achieving. I've shortened it a little bit

because I really want you thinking about the word believe today. I'll be asking you three

questions today to help give clarity to what you believe, why you believe it, and how you can use that to achieve great things.

I'm hoping that multiple times this week, you will remember the common phrase, believe to achieve,

and then you will start asking yourself these questions. The questions today will revolve around the things that you believe, the things that you believe in,

the things that matter most to you, the passions, sincerely your own that exist in your heart.

Because once we can identify those things, not what everybody else believes, not what you're

being told to believe by your parents, or by the preacher, or by the government, or by the

culture, when you truly identify what's burning within you,

and you put that into action, that kind of belief can lead to great achievements.

But I'm afraid that there are a great many people who are trying to achieve things that they don't really believe in.

To be transparent with you, I think that has been the case for me, even recently.

But I came upon a podcast not long ago, suggested by a friend, Phil Robertson,

preacher from Gainesville, Florida.

He put me on to this podcast. It is secular in nature. It's about training and athletics and CrossFit. But one of the hosts, renowned trainer and author Ben Bergeron, he challenged me. I've never met the man, but through the

speaker in my car, he challenged me to ask myself three questions about what is really behind

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