What’s holding you back? (A Message for Christians) ft. Rory Vaden
The Matthew West Podcast
The Matthew West Podcast
5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
What if the most difficult parts of your story are the exact qualifications God wants to use for your calling? New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned speaker Rory Vaden joins me for a conversation that will completely reframe how you see your past. He reveals how looking at your past pain, setbacks, and tragedies is the fastest way to find your unique, God-given purpose. Let’s go to the Story House!
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| 0:00.0 | For all of us, you are most powerfully positioned to serve the person you once were. |
| 0:06.9 | Your past self. |
| 0:08.3 | The fastest way to find somebody's purpose is to look at their pain. |
| 0:12.7 | What challenges have you conquered? |
| 0:15.1 | What setbacks have you survived? |
| 0:17.1 | What tragedies have you triumphed over? |
| 0:19.3 | The goal is to find your uniqueness and exploit it in the service of others. |
| 0:26.3 | That's good. |
| 0:27.1 | From a spiritual perspective, we would say that that is finding God's divine design of your identity. |
| 0:33.1 | Living into the thing that he created you to be so that you can do the thing that only you can do. |
| 0:38.9 | And if you do that over and over and over, eventually you break through the wall. |
| 0:44.0 | And once you're on the other side of the wall, you can do just about anything. |
| 0:48.9 | What's going on everybody? Welcome to Matthews by Matt. He really hope you like it. |
| 0:51.3 | I really hope you like it. |
| 1:11.5 | What's going on, everybody? Welcome to another episode of the Matthew West podcast. I'm your host, Matthew West. And as always, I really hope you like it. Thanks so much for joining me, man. I'm so excited about today's show. But before we dive in with today's guest, there's some exciting things happening, my friends. And I know that you're going, what is it? |
| 1:13.6 | Please, please tell me. |
| 1:15.3 | Well, there's three things on my mind that I want to make sure that you know about. |
| 1:20.0 | Number one, we just announced and just went on sale for our 2026. |
| 1:25.9 | Are you ready? |
| 1:26.4 | Drumroll. |
| 1:31.9 | Alaskan Cruise. Oh my goodness. Together, |
| 1:35.2 | we're going to sail the seas. We're going to see glaciers. We're going to see whales. |
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