Freedom From the Exhausting Drive to Perform
Rush
Gather Ministries
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Your drive to perform and achieve in order to feel valuable doesn't come from God. It comes from your flesh. Are you ready to entrust your worth and your heart to Jesus?
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Rush Podcast is a production of Gather Ministries (https://www.gatherministries.com/), a non-profit organization led by Jennifer & Justin Camp. Through our five ministries, we equip men and women to encounter God in the every-day lives they're living. From Loop for Women, an email devotional focused on beauty & prayer, to WiRE for Men, an email devotional that helps men see life with God as the greatest adventure of all time, we hope we have something that matters to you.
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About your hosts:
Justin Camp is a writer and storyteller with a heart for adventure. He created the WiRE devotional for men with modern, busy men in mind and writes books, articles, and devotionals aimed at equipping & encouraging men of all ages. He is a co-founder of Gather Ministries, a nonprofit he runs with his wife, Jennifer, and before he decided to spend his days with a pen and his favorite journal always nearby, he was a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley and a lawyer on Wall Street. Justin, Jennifer, and their three children live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Jennifer Camp, co-founder of Gather Ministries, grew up in an almond orchard in Northern California. A former high school English teacher, she loves to write and encourage people to go deeper into their own stories and into their identities in Christ. Jennifer is the Amazon bestselling author of Breathing Eden: On Light, Fresh Air, and New Things and Loop: What Women Need to Know. She also writes at jenniferjcamp.com and is bringing a poetry collection into the world in early 2024.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do you want freedom, freedom from expectations that are not your own, expectations of this |
| 0:12.6 | world, pressure to perform that is in accordance with a false belief in what is good, in what |
| 0:20.4 | is worthwhile, in what is for you, do you, then do this son, daughter, run? |
| 0:37.6 | Rush podcast, Holy Spirit in modern life, |
| 0:41.0 | Philippians 3, 12 through 14, the message. I'm not saying that I have this all together, |
| 0:51.8 | that I haven't made, but I am well on my way reaching out for Christ who has so |
| 0:59.0 | wondrously reached out for me. Friends, don't get me wrong, by no means do I count |
| 1:05.9 | myself an expert in all of this, but I've got my eyes on the goal where God is beckoning |
| 1:12.9 | us onward to Jesus, and I'm off and running and I'm not turning back. |
| 1:26.5 | Holy Spirit in us, this is what we heard for you. |
| 1:36.1 | This worry can come up a lot, the worry of I am not doing enough, I am surely a disappointment |
| 1:51.0 | to you. What do I do with this life you've given me, God? And the first thing that needs to be |
| 1:58.0 | addressed is how you feel about me. Why do you worry about not doing enough? What is there for |
| 2:06.6 | you to do other than listen for my voice and respond? Yes, it is the response that you were |
| 2:14.3 | concerned about, but let's put that away for right now. Rather, we must start here, the alignment |
| 2:22.2 | of your heart with mine. This is how you are made to live, you are made to listen for my voice, |
| 2:30.3 | and this voice can look so differently depending on the circumstances, can't it? |
| 2:36.7 | When you know me and you look for me, when you expect me to communicate with you, |
| 2:43.4 | it helps your heart to receive me. Do you want freedom? Freedom from these expectations that are |
| 2:50.7 | not your own? Expectations of this world, pressure to perform that is in accordance with the |
| 2:57.4 | false belief in what is good and what is worthwhile and what is for you? Do you? Then do this, |
| 3:06.9 | son, daughter, run, now, run hard into the place where I am. I am here asking you to ask me this, |
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