Created to Follow is a podcast by The WeTHRIVE Initiative that explores spiritual formation and what it truly means to follow Jesus. Join us for deep reflections, thoughtful conversations, and biblical teaching designed to help you grow in faith, become more like Christ, and THRIVE in every area of life.
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There are a few different tools available to help us with our walks with God. These tools, called the spiritual disciplines, are ways that we can learn to grow and to allow the Holy Spirit to renew us in every area of life. They are:
* Prayer - communicating with God
* Study- learning about God
* Meditation- thinking about God
* Worship- feeling and expressing love, adoration, and reverence for God
* Community- Growing in relationship with God with others who are on the same journey with Jesus.
* Fasting/abstinence- learning to surrender ourselves to God by giving up food and/or things for a time.
* Rest- learning to focus on God and the things that are most important by stopping to rest from the busyness of life.
* Service- putting God and others first by sacrificing our time and talent to benefit others and to obey God.
* Generosity- sacrificing our finances for the sake of helping others and giving back to God.
While each of these spiritual disciplines is meant to help us grow spiritually we have to realize God doesn’t intend for us just to THRIVE spiritually. His plan and desire is that our relationship with Him would bring healing, transformation, and wholeness in EVERY area of life. Understanding and practicing these spiritual disciplines can result in the growth that we need to see wholeness and His renewing power in every aspect of who we are.
Today we’re going to talk about how practicing the spiritual discipline of PRAYER can benefit not just our spiritual lives, but our emotional, relational, financial, and physical lives as well.
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8 Sept 2025
Purpose-Driven Goals: Planning Your Life GOD'S Way
Having discipline will be useless unless you have a goal in mind for who you want to become and a plan to get there.
So, what should our ultimate goal be as followers of Jesus?
In this episode, we discuss the greatest goal that anybody could ever set themselves: Loving God in every area of life.
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25 Aug 2025
The Need For Discipline
Over the past few weeks we’ve been looking at how even though areas of our lives might be broken and cracked because of sin, the Holy Spirit renews and sanctifies us when we choose to follow Jesus. When it comes to the Holy Spirit’s renewal and growth, though, we have the responsibility to make sure that our lives are surrendered to Him otherwise we won’t experience that renewal. We also have to do our part in the process as well.
There are several practices that we can implement in our everyday lives that help us stay connected to God, focused on Him, instead of ourselves and on the path that the Holy Spirit has us on. These practices are what we in the spiritual formations world call spiritual disciplines. Before I talk about these practices, though, I want to spend this episode focused on a key principle that we need to understand that will help us remain focused on growth in every area of life.
GROWTH TAKES DISCIPLINE.
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