November 25, 2025 • 31 mins
Before the crowds and miracles, there was a workshop. We dive into the overlooked years of Jesus’ life and uncover five surprising lessons from His time as an artisan—insights that can transform your creative process, your sense of calling, and your daily life in the marketplace.
We explore how formation happens through process: patience, repetition, and the humility to start again. We talk about why learning people—presence, empathy, and emotional intelligence—matters as much as technique. We unpack how beauty trains the soul to see what others miss, and how structure and integrity give our work the strength to carry vision. Then we reframe hiddenness as sacred: most of Jesus’ life was offstage, and those years were not wasted. They built a resilient inner life that could hold a public assignment.
Along the way, we offer practical applications you can use right now. Treat your studio like a sanctuary where worship and craft meet. Ask God what He’s forming in you through your current season. Slow down to see the divine in the ordinary. Practice eye contact, focused listening, and undistracted attention with clients and neighbors. Build simple systems that protect your energy and honor your value. And give yourself permission to enjoy the season you’re in, trusting that quiet faithfulness is not second best—it’s God’s chosen path to strength.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
You know, before Jesus ever preached a single
sermon, ever healed the sick orraised the dead, you know what
he was doing every day?
He was actually a workingartisan in the marketplace.
I know you're like, I neverthought of that.
Well, yeah, his dad was anartisan.
And so more than likely in thetradition of the day, he grew up
doing what his dad did, whichwas being in his wood shop, his
studio every day, and workingwith clients and working on
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commissions and buildingbeautiful things and being out
in the marketplace.
And listen, if that surprisesyou, good, because it's a really
overlooked part of Jesus' lifethat I believe holds really
hidden details for all of us asbelievers, not only for us as
artists, but all of us that aretrying to walk in the kingdom
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every day.
And so in this video, I'm goingto be showing you five
transformational principles thatwe can learn from Jesus' hidden
life, how to apply those to ourlife today, and actually how
they can start changing the waywe see the world, we think about
our art, and we live out ourcreative calling in Christ.
Hey friend, I'm Matt Tommy.
Super glad that you're here withme.
Before we get started, make sureto leave me a comment.
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Let me know who you are, whereyou're watching from, and if
you're an artist, what kind ofart that you do so that we can
just all continue to supporteach other.
Listen, I've been a believer mywhole life, and really up until
uh just a few weeks ago when Istarted thinking about this, I
don't know that I'd ever get agiven ton of thought to Jesus'
hidden life.
You know, some theologians calluh the years from 12 to 30 the
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kind of forgotten years.
You know, all that we know isthat the Bible says that he grew
in stature, you know, and inreputation with with men and
God, and and the rest is kind ofyou know just left out.
But when you understand that inthose days a boy of Jesus' age
would have grown up doing thethings that his father was
doing, it's a reasonableassumption for us to realize
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that Jesus was in the home of anartisan.
The word there is actuallytecton.
And so he was in Joseph's homeand he was probably following
Joseph around in the studiodoing the things that that
Joseph did and learning from hisdad and learning to model that.
And, you know, the other day asI was praying about this and
just thinking about this wholeidea, I was like, wow, how cool
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is it that the first way thatGod reveals himself to humanity
is as an artist, right?
And the, you know, we know thenthat every other way that that
God reveals himself to humanitythroughout the Bible, throughout
the the biblical narrative, itall flows out of then his
creative nature.
I just think that's crazy.
That's that's incredible, crazygood, right?
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That everything that God does,the perspective that God has,
the way he's communicating withthe world is through the nature
of his creativity and being anartist.
And then when God chose to sendhis only son to earth to redeem
and to reconcile and to restorehumanity to him, he chose to put
his son in the home of, guesswho?
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An artisan.
See, I just think that it's it'stoo coincidental for us to just
overlook this.
There, there must be, and I hopeto to lay this out for you
today, there must be theseincredible reasons why God, an
artist, chose to put his son inthe home of an artist to be
formed by an artist to do thething that the Father had called
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him to do in his in his work ofredemption and reconciliation
and restoration.
And so that's what we're jumpinginto today.
And I'm just, I'm so excited toget this into you today because
again, when you start tounderstand God as artist and
Jesus as artisan and Jesus is asone that is not only created by
an artist, but formed on theearth by an artisan father, I
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just believe it changeseverything and gives us huge
keys that we can begin to applyto our life.
And the first one is this Ibelieve God put Jesus in the
home of an artisan becauseartists understand process,
right?
You're if you're an artist, I'man artist, been wondering my
whole life.
I understand process, right?
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There's patience and there'srepetition and there's trial and
error and there's mistakes andthere's starting over, and
there's the learning curve, andthe rhythm and the timing of of
the studio and all that.
There's a rhythm to this, right?
A process to this.
And I believe that that God theFather wanted that understanding
to be built into the life ofJesus.
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He wanted Jesus to be shaped bythe same creative process that
you and I are walking throughevery day as artists.
This is one of the beautifulthings, I think, when you
understand God's intentionalitywith this, and then you read in
God's word where it talks aboutthat Jesus was tempted in every
way.
He went through everything thatwe go through.
He can empathize, he's beenthere, he's walked the walk,
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he's gone through these things.
It's important for us to realizethat Jesus understood and lived
process.
Everything was not justinstantaneous.
Everything was not just, youknow, well, I'm the son of God.
I'll just work a miracle righthere at 14 years old in the
studio.
No, God the Father wanted Jesusto learn process from his
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earthly father.
And that just changeseverything.
I think it it lets us see Jesusas somebody that walks with
patience and with understandingand with a calm resolve that,
hey, I'm gonna walk this life,even as you understand Jesus
walking to the cross, heunderstood there's a process,
there's a flow, and I'm gonna befaithful to that so that I can
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be responsive to the things thatthe Father has called me to in
my life.
Think about in in your liferight now, and maybe even in put
it in the in the chat in thecomments, what part of your
process in life or in art, yourstudio practice, what part of
that process is stretching youthe most right now in your life?
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I know for me, it could bepatience, it could be, it could
be things taking a little bitlonger than I'd like, but put
those in the comments and let'sencourage each other as we
continue.
Now, the second reason why Ibelieve that God the Father
chose an artisan's home forJesus to be raised in was that
artisans understand people,right?
If you've ever worked as anartist in the marketplace, I
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have.
We had a gallery and studio formany, many years.
And if you're if you've got aworkshop, guess what?
Everybody wants to come in,right?
You're having to meet withpeople and you get the great
ones and the frustrating ones,you get the orders that go
great, you get the orders thatdon't go great.
They're having to, you know,dealing with nosy neighbors and
hurting families and people justwalking in.
You're having to deal with allthese people at the same time.
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And I think it's just soimportant to realize God the
Father did not want Jesus shapedin isolation.
He wanted him shaped in a placewhere he can learn empathy and
compassion and community andlearning to live with real
people.
And I just think, wow, Jesusknew what it was to live with
real people, with real needs,with real challenges.
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And I think it's one of thereasons why you see Jesus show
up with such incredible empathyand nowadays we'd call it
emotional intelligence, right?
In ministry.
He wasn't rushing, he wasn'ttaken off guard by people's
neediness because why?
He'd been shaped by that hiswhole life growing up in an
artisan's studio and in anartisan's home.
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Now, the third reason I thinkGod the Father put Jesus in an
artisan's home was that he knewthat artisans have an eye for
beauty and often beauty thatthat other people overlook,
right?
Because they're speeding throughlife or whatever.
But you think about Jesus ashe's making things with his dad.
He's out there on a buildingsite, he's shaping rocks, he's
working in in carpentry orwhatever it was that he was
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doing as an artisan.
He had to pay attention todetail.
He had to look for beauty, hehad to develop an eye maybe for
what beauty was within thatculture.
And I just think, you know, evenas Jesus is growing up and we
see him, you know, all throughthe gospels, we know that what
Jesus has noticed lilies andsparrows and mustard seeds, and
he saw fishermen that gotoverlooked, and he saw widows
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and children and orphans andpeople that were overlooked and
unseen and forgotten.
Those are the people that Jesuslooked at.
And that's just not random.
I believe that God had him in anartisan's home to learn to be
able to see things that otherpeople didn't see.
And I love that.
I love that that Jesus wasalways looking, not just from
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the head, but also from a heartof beauty.
The fourth reason is is one thatI think is is kind of
interesting, especially forsomebody that does what I do as
far as you know, building andcrafting uh my baskets.
I've always said that I thinkwhat I do artistically is is
very architectural.
And I think the reason, one ofthe reasons that God the Father
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put Jesus in an artisan's homeis that he wanted to have him to
have an experience withstructure and integrity.
You know, carpenters andbuilders, one of the things that
they understand is that they gotto know how things work
together.
Carpenters and builders, theygot to understand how a
foundation is set in and weightand balance and alignment.
And so Jesus, when you see himgrowing up in this and then you
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see him teaching, he taught inthat language, right?
Jesus talked about what?
Your house has got to be builton a rock.
He talked about being the chiefcornerstone.
He talked about yokes, he talkedabout wineskins and repair and
restoration.
So all of these things that he'stalking about, these were not
just trite sort of metaphorsthat he was bringing in.
These were right out of thelived experience that Jesus
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learned as the son of anartisan.
Now, the fifth reason I thinkGod chose Jesus to be raised in
the home of an artisan is thisidea of hiddenness.
You know, so many times asartists, we long for the stage.
We want our life to berecognized.
We want to make an impact andinfluence and that sort of
thing.
But but listen, Jesus spent,think about it, 90% of his life
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in a hidden place in the studio,in the workshop, on the job site
of an artisan.
No celebration, no, no wavingcrowds, nobody cheering him on,
just faithfully doing the thingthat the father had sent him to
do.
Obeying, learning, beingteachable, no platform, no
spotlight, no ministry title,just obedience and formation and
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having the presence of God andhaving the presence of his
father and maybe anybody elsewho was working there.
That that was just life.
And I think about that verse inThessalonians.
That's what I think about withJesus.
He grew up in this place ofhiddenness.
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And I think number one, itspeaks to identity.
Jesus had to know who he wasbefore he got about doing the
thing that God had called him todo.
And number two, I think itgives, it just gives me great
peace and comfort to know thatwhen I'm going through a season
of hiddenness in my life, andmaybe you're going through in
one right now, Jesus gets youand understands you and can
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empathize with you in a way thatnobody else can.
In fact, in the comments rightnow, if you're going through a
hidden season right now, andthat really ministers to you to
know that, hey, Jesus didn'tlive his whole life in the spot
life.
Jesus didn't live his whole lifein accolades and working
miracles.
Jesus lived 90%, 30 years of his33, uh 33 years on earth, he
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lived it hidden.
Just put it in the comments ifthat, does that encourage you?
Maybe even share a little bitabout the the hidden season that
you're going through right nowand and what that's doing to
your heart, because I guaranteeyou Jesus felt those same
things, and he wants to bringcomfort to you right now as
you're walking through that sameseason.
So, what does all of thisrevelation mean to your life?
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I want to give you five thingstoday that are going to really
help you to understand theimportance of Jesus growing up
in the home of an artist, havingnot only an artist as a heavenly
father, but an artist as a dadand being formed in that space.
And the first thing is this yourcreative process and my creative
process as artists, these arethe places are places where God
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is divinely forming us just likehe divinely formed Jesus.
Jesus was formed as a man, as aperson in the place of
creativity, in the studio.
And so are you.
I'm sure you could point rightnow.
In fact, you may want to put inthe in the chat times where
where God has shown you thingsabout yourself or about your
spiritual life in the context ofyour studio.
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Well, guess what?
That's not uh just a you know,something that's out of the
blue.
That's that's not just acoincidence.
That's on purpose, it'sintentional.
God is forming you.
So your studio space is not justsome kind of hobby zone or
whatever, it's a discipleshipspace.
It's where God is forming youinto the image of Christ and
preparing you for every goodthing that he has for you.
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Number two, your marketplacecalling is not less important
than what you may see as aspiritual calling.
In fact, I would say yourmarketplace calling is a holy
spiritual calling.
And again, we look to the lifeof Jesus.
Jesus spent most of his life,not up at the church house, not
up at the synagogue, you know.
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Jesus spent most of his lifewhere?
In the studio and in themarketplace.
And so for you and I as artists,and maybe even if you're not an
artist and you're watching this,the place where you're at in the
marketplace, where you're inyour business every day, where
you're maybe for an artist, youknow, uh in your studio, in your
booth, in your online gallery,at a show, wherever it is, that
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is not less spiritual.
That is exactly intentionallyspiritual.
In other words, that's where Godhas placed you and and desires
for you to be.
Why?
So that we can be among people,just like Jesus was and
releasing the kingdom.
And again, the marketplace ispart of where Jesus was formed
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as the Son of God while hewalked the earth.
That was an important part ofhis formation.
So don't let anybody, no matterhow well-intentioned they may
be, tell you that being aworking artist or being somebody
that's in the marketplace inwhatever capacity that might be,
don't ever let somebody tell youthat that's less spiritual, that
the only way you can bespiritual is to be in full-time
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vocational ministry or to be amissionary or whatever.
No, we're on assignment from theLord, and the Lord places us in
the marketplace just like heplaced Jesus.
All right.
Now, number three, you know, wetalked about Jesus being an
artist, being raised in the homeof an artist and being in the
studio and that kind of being ahidden season.
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It's important for you and I torealize this because hidden
seasons are where God preparesus for greatness.
Those 30 years before Jesusstepped out into public
ministry, those were notdelayed.
Those were not because Jesus haddone something wrong.
Those were seasons of him beingdeveloped.
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And so I gotta remind you,you're not behind.
You're being formed into theimage of Christ.
You're being developed into theperson that God's got for you.
And listen, every day that youshow up in the studio and you
pull out that paintbrush, youpull out those creative tools,
you sit down at the potter'swheel, you grab that jeweler's
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hammer, you write a song, youwrite a book or a poem, whatever
you're doing, and you feel likenobody gets me, I want you to
realize they didn't get Jesuseither.
They didn't see Jesus either for30 years, but those times were
irreplaceable.
Those times were so valuablebecause those were the times
where his inner life was beingformed so that when he was ready
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to step out into the thing theFather had for him, he was ready
and he was formed internally sohe could step out externally.
That's just a big, big, bigkingdom principle.
All right.
Number four is this yourattention to detail matters and
it mirrors the nature of Jesus.
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You know, every time, you know,maybe, maybe other people get a
little, a little frustrated withyou for seeing everything,
seeing, paying attention toevery little texture and every
little nuance, every tone, everymovement.
Listen, I'm horrible to ridedown the road with because I'm a
natural materials artist.
And so I'm driving down theroad, I'm I'm looking like this.
Why?
Because I'm like, oh, did yousee that tree?
Did you see that piece ofdriftwood?
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Or as I'm hiking, man, I'mfalling all over stuff because
why?
I'm looking at the rocks, I'mlooking at the flowers, I'm
looking at the bark on thetrees.
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But listen, the reason we dothat is because we're mirroring
the nature of Jesus.
We're seeing the world throughthe creator's eyes.
And listen, that's not that'snot just your personality,
that's just not the way you'rewired.
That's just not just becauseyou're an artist, that is divine
design.
And so I just want you to remindyourself that every time you see
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yourself looking at beauty andlooking at the detail, that's
not weird.
Even though everybody everybodyelse doesn't do it, it's not
weird.
It's actually a mirror of thenature of God within you.
And that ought to give you a lotof of hope and joy in your life.
Number five, the thing that kindof stands out to us for artists
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and why it matters is thatcreativity builds confidence for
kingdom impact.
This is this is so importantbecause you know, a lot of times
when we're stepping out on thethings that we believe God has
for us, we want it to, you know,happen immediately, instant
success, that sort of thing.
But the creative process thatJesus was formed in and learned
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to walk in, I believe it gavehim confidence to step out in
faith to do the things that theFather had sent him to do.
And so every project, everyexperiment, everything that
you're having a breakthrough in,everything that's a struggle,
all of that is building thissort of uh spiritual muscle
memory in you as well, right?
That every time you have abreakthrough in faith in the
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studio, you've now gotbreakthrough to step out in
faith and other things thatGod's calling you to.
And so God is using yourcreative process and my creative
process to grow us into ourcalling.
Now, listen, I want you to thinkabout these five things that
I've just said.
You know, creativity buildsconfidence.
Uh, number two, your attentionto detail mirrors the nature of
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Jesus.
Number three, hidden seasons orwhere God prepares greatness.
Number number two or numberfour, however you're counting
these, uh, your marketplacecalling is holy.
And and the last one, yourcreativity is divine formation.
Which one of these for you,these revelations of why it
matters, which one of these isreally hitting your heart today?
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Put that in the comments.
I'd love to see because everyone of these is going to hit
everybody different.
But when you start to understandthat the way Jesus was formed in
the home of an artist, it wasn'tjust for his formation, it was
for our formation as well, sothat we could follow him and
allow his life to be a model forour life as we're being
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developed in the kingdom asartists.
So I want to bring this in for alanding.
How can we actually apply theseprinciples in our life today so
that they make a realdifference?
Number one, I want to say thistreat your studio as a
sanctuary, as a as a sacredspace.
When you go in to your creativespace, and I don't care whether
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it's your basement or a sidebedroom or your kitchen table or
the porch or the shed or orwhatever it may be, maybe you've
got a beautiful studio.
When you walk in there, you needto realize, Lord, this is a
sacred space where I do sacredthings to do with my sacred
calling.
My worship is my creativeprocess, and my creative process
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is worship.
And so, Lord, I invite you intothis atmosphere.
Listen, if you want to know moreabout creating with the Holy
Spirit, I've got a great video.
You can actually check out fiveways to start creating your art
with God.
I'll put the link right here andalso in the description so you
can get it.
But starting to treat yoursanctuary, your studio space as
a sanctuary is a big, big, bigpart of beginning to create with
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Him.
All right.
Number two, just in terms ofapplication, I would start
identifying what God is formingin you.
Again, just start looking atyour life, looking at the
seasons and situations thatyou've been going through.
Maybe there've been somechallenges, maybe there have
been some awesome aha moments ofrevelation, but just start
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asking the Lord.
Say, Lord, what are you shapingin me right now through the
things that I'm walking throughcreatively and also in life?
And begin to ask the Lord, Lord,how can I cooperate with that in
my life so that I'm notresisting the forming that you
have me in, but I'm actuallycooperating with it.
All right.
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Number three, I would say, andthis is for everybody, you know,
in our in our Western world ofeverything being so busy, I
would say a big way that you canapply this lesson to your life
today is to slow down and tobegin to look for and see God in
the ordinary.
You know, a big part of what wedo as artists is uh cultivating
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and stewarding inspiration inour life.
And I don't know if if it's foryou, you know, going for a walk,
take 10 minutes today, go walkoutside wherever you are, look
at the trees, look at the grass,the flowers, the bugs, the
colors, the shadows, thewhatever it is, but be
intentional about slowing downand looking for ways that you
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see God in the mundane.
Because listen, I think that'sone of the beautiful things I
believe Jesus was learning as hewas being formed in an artisan's
home and as an artisan's studio,is to be able to slow down and
see the supernatural in thenatural.
And listen, if you can begin totrain your eyes and allow the
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the ears of your or your heart,the eyes of your heart to be
tuned to the voice of the HolySpirit, just like Jesus' was,
all of a sudden you'll start tohave a supernatural experience
just as you're walking throughyour day and as you're doing the
mundane, main mundane thingsthat that we all do in the
studio.
Why?
Because we're training ourselvesto look and listen for the
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movement of the Holy Spirit.
See, we get to see thingsdifferently, we get to see life
differently when we allow theHoly Spirit to train our eyes to
look through his eyes.
All right.
Now, the last thing, last coupleof things I would say is this
choose as you're looking for Godin the mundane and in the
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normal, choose to also do thatwith people, right?
Practice presence with people.
You know, I'm I'm sure that whenJesus was among people, he was
probably one of those peoplethat made you feel like you were
the most important person in theroom.
And you know it's easy to dothat.
It's easy to do that with eyecontact, it's easy to do that
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with focus.
I'm sure that when when Jesuswas in the workshop and a client
was coming in or he was talkingto somebody, take a moment, put
the hammer down, put thepaintbrush down, look at
somebody, talk to them with yourclients, with your with your
friends, with people that you'rehaving conversations with at
shows, practice fully beingwhere you are.
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Because listen, in those momentswhen we can intentionally push
out distraction and really focuson the person in front of us,
that's when the Holy Spirit cangive you new eyes and new ears
and speak things to youprophetically that you can
release to somebody in thatmoment.
And man, that listen, that couldchange their life forever.
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You could say one thing tosomebody that's in that's you
know a catalyst from the HolySpirit inside of you, and that
could bring freedom to them,that could bring joy to them,
that could bring breakthrough tothem, but it can't happen when
you're just distracted all thetime.
Right?
So slowing down, looking for Godin the mundane, practicing
presence with people.
And the last thing I would sayis this slow down and let
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yourself enjoy the season thatyou're in.
Again, I've said it a hundredtimes on this video, but I'm
gonna say it again.
Jesus spent 30 years in a hiddenseason before he was ever doing
any kind of public ministry.
And whether you're in a in atime of of being out there or
whether you're in a season ofbeing formed and still
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developing your artistic voiceand not sure exactly what things
are gonna look like, this is notwasted time.
It's a season of formation, it'sa season of preparation.
And so just you gotta you gottajust tell yourself every day,
remind yourself, God, thank youthat I'm aligning myself with
you.
And as I'm aligning myself withyou, God, I'm being formed and
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made and prepared for every goodthing that you have for me.
And listen, what God's got foryou later on down the road is no
more important than the formingthat he's doing within you right
now.
Because ultimately, this wholething is not about what we're
gonna do for God, but it's aboutthe life that we're living with
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God as the Holy Spirit isforming us into the image of
Christ.
So hey, take a moment.
Let me know in the in thecomments which one of these sort
of intentional practices are yougonna begin to focus on this
week?
How can you be intentional withreally allowing the Lord to work
this season of formation in yourlife as an artist?
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And the last thing I want to dotoday is pray.
I want to just pray that theHoly Spirit would begin to
awaken inside of you a newrealization of how he's created
you, how he's forming you, andall the good things that he has
for you.
So would you pray with me?
Father, thank you for being withmy friend right now.
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Holy Spirit, I thank you thateven in this moment that we're
in separate locations, God, thesame Holy Spirit that's right
here with me is right there withmy friend.
And God, I thank you that byyour Holy Spirit, your awakening
revelation within us right nowto be able to see the way that
you allowed Jesus to be formedas a man and as an artisan and
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as a redeemer and restorer andreconciler.
God, thank you that youintentionally set Jesus in an
artisan's home to be formed bythe very same things that we're
being formed with as artistsevery day.
God, I pray that you wouldcontinue to lead us and continue
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Allow us to walk with purposeand intentionality and grace,
especially in seasons that feellike they're taking longer than
we'd like, so that we can trustthat you who began a good work
in us is faithful to completeit.
And as we do the work ofcreativity and artistry, being
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by your design.
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We thank you for that, Lord.
In Jesus' name.
Amen.
Amen.
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You know, before Jesus ever preached a single
sermon, ever healed the sick orraised the dead, you know what
he was doing every day?
He was actually a workingartisan in the marketplace.
I know you're like, I neverthought of that.
Well, yeah, his dad was anartisan.
And so more than likely in thetradition of the day, he grew up
doing what his dad did, whichwas being in his wood shop, his
studio every day, and workingwith clients and working on
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commissions and buildingbeautiful things and being out
in the marketplace.
And listen, if that surprisesyou, good, because it's a really
overlooked part of Jesus' lifethat I believe holds really
hidden details for all of us asbelievers, not only for us as
artists, but all of us that aretrying to walk in the kingdom
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every day.
And so in this video, I'm goingto be showing you five
transformational principles thatwe can learn from Jesus' hidden
life, how to apply those to ourlife today, and actually how
they can start changing the waywe see the world, we think about
our art, and we live out ourcreative calling in Christ.
Hey friend, I'm Matt Tommy.
Super glad that you're here withme.
Before we get started, make sureto leave me a comment.
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Let me know who you are, whereyou're watching from, and if
you're an artist, what kind ofart that you do so that we can
just all continue to supporteach other.
Listen, I've been a believer mywhole life, and really up until
uh just a few weeks ago when Istarted thinking about this, I
don't know that I'd ever get agiven ton of thought to Jesus'
hidden life.
You know, some theologians calluh the years from 12 to 30 the
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kind of forgotten years.
You know, all that we know isthat the Bible says that he grew
in stature, you know, and inreputation with with men and
God, and and the rest is kind ofyou know just left out.
But when you understand that inthose days a boy of Jesus' age
would have grown up doing thethings that his father was
doing, it's a reasonableassumption for us to realize
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that Jesus was in the home of anartisan.
The word there is actuallytecton.
And so he was in Joseph's homeand he was probably following
Joseph around in the studiodoing the things that that
Joseph did and learning from hisdad and learning to model that.
And, you know, the other day asI was praying about this and
just thinking about this wholeidea, I was like, wow, how cool
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is it that the first way thatGod reveals himself to humanity
is as an artist, right?
And the, you know, we know thenthat every other way that that
God reveals himself to humanitythroughout the Bible, throughout
the the biblical narrative, itall flows out of then his
creative nature.
I just think that's crazy.
That's that's incredible, crazygood, right?
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That everything that God does,the perspective that God has,
the way he's communicating withthe world is through the nature
of his creativity and being anartist.
And then when God chose to sendhis only son to earth to redeem
and to reconcile and to restorehumanity to him, he chose to put
his son in the home of, guesswho?
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An artisan.
See, I just think that it's it'stoo coincidental for us to just
overlook this.
There, there must be, and I hopeto to lay this out for you
today, there must be theseincredible reasons why God, an
artist, chose to put his son inthe home of an artist to be
formed by an artist to do thething that the Father had called
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him to do in his in his work ofredemption and reconciliation
and restoration.
And so that's what we're jumpinginto today.
And I'm just, I'm so excited toget this into you today because
again, when you start tounderstand God as artist and
Jesus as artisan and Jesus is asone that is not only created by
an artist, but formed on theearth by an artisan father, I
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just believe it changeseverything and gives us huge
keys that we can begin to applyto our life.
And the first one is this Ibelieve God put Jesus in the
home of an artisan becauseartists understand process,
right?
You're if you're an artist, I'man artist, been wondering my
whole life.
I understand process, right?
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There's patience and there'srepetition and there's trial and
error and there's mistakes andthere's starting over, and
there's the learning curve, andthe rhythm and the timing of of
the studio and all that.
There's a rhythm to this, right?
A process to this.
And I believe that that God theFather wanted that understanding
to be built into the life ofJesus.
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He wanted Jesus to be shaped bythe same creative process that
you and I are walking throughevery day as artists.
This is one of the beautifulthings, I think, when you
understand God's intentionalitywith this, and then you read in
God's word where it talks aboutthat Jesus was tempted in every
way.
He went through everything thatwe go through.
He can empathize, he's beenthere, he's walked the walk,
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he's gone through these things.
It's important for us to realizethat Jesus understood and lived
process.
Everything was not justinstantaneous.
Everything was not just, youknow, well, I'm the son of God.
I'll just work a miracle righthere at 14 years old in the
studio.
No, God the Father wanted Jesusto learn process from his
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earthly father.
And that just changeseverything.
I think it it lets us see Jesusas somebody that walks with
patience and with understandingand with a calm resolve that,
hey, I'm gonna walk this life,even as you understand Jesus
walking to the cross, heunderstood there's a process,
there's a flow, and I'm gonna befaithful to that so that I can
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be responsive to the things thatthe Father has called me to in
my life.
Think about in in your liferight now, and maybe even in put
it in the in the chat in thecomments, what part of your
process in life or in art, yourstudio practice, what part of
that process is stretching youthe most right now in your life?
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I know for me, it could bepatience, it could be, it could
be things taking a little bitlonger than I'd like, but put
those in the comments and let'sencourage each other as we
continue.
Now, the second reason why Ibelieve that God the Father
chose an artisan's home forJesus to be raised in was that
artisans understand people,right?
If you've ever worked as anartist in the marketplace, I
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have.
We had a gallery and studio formany, many years.
And if you're if you've got aworkshop, guess what?
Everybody wants to come in,right?
You're having to meet withpeople and you get the great
ones and the frustrating ones,you get the orders that go
great, you get the orders thatdon't go great.
They're having to, you know,dealing with nosy neighbors and
hurting families and people justwalking in.
You're having to deal with allthese people at the same time.
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And I think it's just soimportant to realize God the
Father did not want Jesus shapedin isolation.
He wanted him shaped in a placewhere he can learn empathy and
compassion and community andlearning to live with real
people.
And I just think, wow, Jesusknew what it was to live with
real people, with real needs,with real challenges.
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And I think it's one of thereasons why you see Jesus show
up with such incredible empathyand nowadays we'd call it
emotional intelligence, right?
In ministry.
He wasn't rushing, he wasn'ttaken off guard by people's
neediness because why?
He'd been shaped by that hiswhole life growing up in an
artisan's studio and in anartisan's home.
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Now, the third reason I thinkGod the Father put Jesus in an
artisan's home was that he knewthat artisans have an eye for
beauty and often beauty thatthat other people overlook,
right?
Because they're speeding throughlife or whatever.
But you think about Jesus ashe's making things with his dad.
He's out there on a buildingsite, he's shaping rocks, he's
working in in carpentry orwhatever it was that he was
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doing as an artisan.
He had to pay attention todetail.
He had to look for beauty, hehad to develop an eye maybe for
what beauty was within thatculture.
And I just think, you know, evenas Jesus is growing up and we
see him, you know, all throughthe gospels, we know that what
Jesus has noticed lilies andsparrows and mustard seeds, and
he saw fishermen that gotoverlooked, and he saw widows
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and children and orphans andpeople that were overlooked and
unseen and forgotten.
Those are the people that Jesuslooked at.
And that's just not random.
I believe that God had him in anartisan's home to learn to be
able to see things that otherpeople didn't see.
And I love that.
I love that that Jesus wasalways looking, not just from
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the head, but also from a heartof beauty.
The fourth reason is is one thatI think is is kind of
interesting, especially forsomebody that does what I do as
far as you know, building andcrafting uh my baskets.
I've always said that I thinkwhat I do artistically is is
very architectural.
And I think the reason, one ofthe reasons that God the Father
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put Jesus in an artisan's homeis that he wanted to have him to
have an experience withstructure and integrity.
You know, carpenters andbuilders, one of the things that
they understand is that they gotto know how things work
together.
Carpenters and builders, theygot to understand how a
foundation is set in and weightand balance and alignment.
And so Jesus, when you see himgrowing up in this and then you
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see him teaching, he taught inthat language, right?
Jesus talked about what?
Your house has got to be builton a rock.
He talked about being the chiefcornerstone.
He talked about yokes, he talkedabout wineskins and repair and
restoration.
So all of these things that he'stalking about, these were not
just trite sort of metaphorsthat he was bringing in.
These were right out of thelived experience that Jesus
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learned as the son of anartisan.
Now, the fifth reason I thinkGod chose Jesus to be raised in
the home of an artisan is thisidea of hiddenness.
You know, so many times asartists, we long for the stage.
We want our life to berecognized.
We want to make an impact andinfluence and that sort of
thing.
But but listen, Jesus spent,think about it, 90% of his life
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in a hidden place in the studio,in the workshop, on the job site
of an artisan.
No celebration, no, no wavingcrowds, nobody cheering him on,
just faithfully doing the thingthat the father had sent him to
do.
Obeying, learning, beingteachable, no platform, no
spotlight, no ministry title,just obedience and formation and
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having the presence of God andhaving the presence of his
father and maybe anybody elsewho was working there.
That that was just life.
And I think about that verse inThessalonians.
That's what I think about withJesus.
He grew up in this place ofhiddenness.
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And I think number one, itspeaks to identity.
Jesus had to know who he wasbefore he got about doing the
thing that God had called him todo.
And number two, I think itgives, it just gives me great
peace and comfort to know thatwhen I'm going through a season
of hiddenness in my life, andmaybe you're going through in
one right now, Jesus gets youand understands you and can
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empathize with you in a way thatnobody else can.
In fact, in the comments rightnow, if you're going through a
hidden season right now, andthat really ministers to you to
know that, hey, Jesus didn'tlive his whole life in the spot
life.
Jesus didn't live his whole lifein accolades and working
miracles.
Jesus lived 90%, 30 years of his33, uh 33 years on earth, he
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lived it hidden.
Just put it in the comments ifthat, does that encourage you?
Maybe even share a little bitabout the the hidden season that
you're going through right nowand and what that's doing to
your heart, because I guaranteeyou Jesus felt those same
things, and he wants to bringcomfort to you right now as
you're walking through that sameseason.
So, what does all of thisrevelation mean to your life?
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I want to give you five thingstoday that are going to really
help you to understand theimportance of Jesus growing up
in the home of an artist, havingnot only an artist as a heavenly
father, but an artist as a dadand being formed in that space.
And the first thing is this yourcreative process and my creative
process as artists, these arethe places are places where God
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is divinely forming us just likehe divinely formed Jesus.
Jesus was formed as a man, as aperson in the place of
creativity, in the studio.
And so are you.
I'm sure you could point rightnow.
In fact, you may want to put inthe in the chat times where
where God has shown you thingsabout yourself or about your
spiritual life in the context ofyour studio.
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Well, guess what?
That's not uh just a you know,something that's out of the
blue.
That's that's not just acoincidence.
That's on purpose, it'sintentional.
God is forming you.
So your studio space is not justsome kind of hobby zone or
whatever, it's a discipleshipspace.
It's where God is forming youinto the image of Christ and
preparing you for every goodthing that he has for you.
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Number two, your marketplacecalling is not less important
than what you may see as aspiritual calling.
In fact, I would say yourmarketplace calling is a holy
spiritual calling.
And again, we look to the lifeof Jesus.
Jesus spent most of his life,not up at the church house, not
up at the synagogue, you know.
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Jesus spent most of his lifewhere?
In the studio and in themarketplace.
And so for you and I as artists,and maybe even if you're not an
artist and you're watching this,the place where you're at in the
marketplace, where you're inyour business every day, where
you're maybe for an artist, youknow, uh in your studio, in your
booth, in your online gallery,at a show, wherever it is, that
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is not less spiritual.
That is exactly intentionallyspiritual.
In other words, that's where Godhas placed you and and desires
for you to be.
Why?
So that we can be among people,just like Jesus was and
releasing the kingdom.
And again, the marketplace ispart of where Jesus was formed
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as the Son of God while hewalked the earth.
That was an important part ofhis formation.
So don't let anybody, no matterhow well-intentioned they may
be, tell you that being aworking artist or being somebody
that's in the marketplace inwhatever capacity that might be,
don't ever let somebody tell youthat that's less spiritual, that
the only way you can bespiritual is to be in full-time
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vocational ministry or to be amissionary or whatever.
No, we're on assignment from theLord, and the Lord places us in
the marketplace just like heplaced Jesus.
All right.
Now, number three, you know, wetalked about Jesus being an
artist, being raised in the homeof an artist and being in the
studio and that kind of being ahidden season.
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It's important for you and I torealize this because hidden
seasons are where God preparesus for greatness.
Those 30 years before Jesusstepped out into public
ministry, those were notdelayed.
Those were not because Jesus haddone something wrong.
Those were seasons of him beingdeveloped.
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And so I gotta remind you,you're not behind.
You're being formed into theimage of Christ.
You're being developed into theperson that God's got for you.
And listen, every day that youshow up in the studio and you
pull out that paintbrush, youpull out those creative tools,
you sit down at the potter'swheel, you grab that jeweler's
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hammer, you write a song, youwrite a book or a poem, whatever
you're doing, and you feel likenobody gets me, I want you to
realize they didn't get Jesuseither.
They didn't see Jesus either for30 years, but those times were
irreplaceable.
Those times were so valuablebecause those were the times
where his inner life was beingformed so that when he was ready
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to step out into the thing theFather had for him, he was ready
and he was formed internally sohe could step out externally.
That's just a big, big, bigkingdom principle.
All right.
Number four is this yourattention to detail matters and
it mirrors the nature of Jesus.
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You know, every time, you know,maybe, maybe other people get a
little, a little frustrated withyou for seeing everything,
seeing, paying attention toevery little texture and every
little nuance, every tone, everymovement.
Listen, I'm horrible to ridedown the road with because I'm a
natural materials artist.
And so I'm driving down theroad, I'm I'm looking like this.
Why?
Because I'm like, oh, did yousee that tree?
Did you see that piece ofdriftwood?
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Or as I'm hiking, man, I'mfalling all over stuff because
why?
I'm looking at the rocks, I'mlooking at the flowers, I'm
looking at the bark on thetrees.
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But listen, the reason we dothat is because we're mirroring
the nature of Jesus.
We're seeing the world throughthe creator's eyes.
And listen, that's not that'snot just your personality,
that's just not the way you'rewired.
That's just not just becauseyou're an artist, that is divine
design.
And so I just want you to remindyourself that every time you see
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yourself looking at beauty andlooking at the detail, that's
not weird.
Even though everybody everybodyelse doesn't do it, it's not
weird.
It's actually a mirror of thenature of God within you.
And that ought to give you a lotof of hope and joy in your life.
Number five, the thing that kindof stands out to us for artists
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and why it matters is thatcreativity builds confidence for
kingdom impact.
This is this is so importantbecause you know, a lot of times
when we're stepping out on thethings that we believe God has
for us, we want it to, you know,happen immediately, instant
success, that sort of thing.
But the creative process thatJesus was formed in and learned
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to walk in, I believe it gavehim confidence to step out in
faith to do the things that theFather had sent him to do.
And so every project, everyexperiment, everything that
you're having a breakthrough in,everything that's a struggle,
all of that is building thissort of uh spiritual muscle
memory in you as well, right?
That every time you have abreakthrough in faith in the
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studio, you've now gotbreakthrough to step out in
faith and other things thatGod's calling you to.
And so God is using yourcreative process and my creative
process to grow us into ourcalling.
Now, listen, I want you to thinkabout these five things that
I've just said.
You know, creativity buildsconfidence.
Uh, number two, your attentionto detail mirrors the nature of
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Jesus.
Number three, hidden seasons orwhere God prepares greatness.
Number number two or numberfour, however you're counting
these, uh, your marketplacecalling is holy.
And and the last one, yourcreativity is divine formation.
Which one of these for you,these revelations of why it
matters, which one of these isreally hitting your heart today?
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Put that in the comments.
I'd love to see because everyone of these is going to hit
everybody different.
But when you start to understandthat the way Jesus was formed in
the home of an artist, it wasn'tjust for his formation, it was
for our formation as well, sothat we could follow him and
allow his life to be a model forour life as we're being
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developed in the kingdom asartists.
So I want to bring this in for alanding.
How can we actually apply theseprinciples in our life today so
that they make a realdifference?
Number one, I want to say thistreat your studio as a
sanctuary, as a as a sacredspace.
When you go in to your creativespace, and I don't care whether
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it's your basement or a sidebedroom or your kitchen table or
the porch or the shed or orwhatever it may be, maybe you've
got a beautiful studio.
When you walk in there, you needto realize, Lord, this is a
sacred space where I do sacredthings to do with my sacred
calling.
My worship is my creativeprocess, and my creative process
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is worship.
And so, Lord, I invite you intothis atmosphere.
Listen, if you want to know moreabout creating with the Holy
Spirit, I've got a great video.
You can actually check out fiveways to start creating your art
with God.
I'll put the link right here andalso in the description so you
can get it.
But starting to treat yoursanctuary, your studio space as
a sanctuary is a big, big, bigpart of beginning to create with
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Him.
All right.
Number two, just in terms ofapplication, I would start
identifying what God is formingin you.
Again, just start looking atyour life, looking at the
seasons and situations thatyou've been going through.
Maybe there've been somechallenges, maybe there have
been some awesome aha moments ofrevelation, but just start
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asking the Lord.
Say, Lord, what are you shapingin me right now through the
things that I'm walking throughcreatively and also in life?
And begin to ask the Lord, Lord,how can I cooperate with that in
my life so that I'm notresisting the forming that you
have me in, but I'm actuallycooperating with it.
All right.
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Number three, I would say, andthis is for everybody, you know,
in our in our Western world ofeverything being so busy, I
would say a big way that you canapply this lesson to your life
today is to slow down and tobegin to look for and see God in
the ordinary.
You know, a big part of what wedo as artists is uh cultivating
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and stewarding inspiration inour life.
And I don't know if if it's foryou, you know, going for a walk,
take 10 minutes today, go walkoutside wherever you are, look
at the trees, look at the grass,the flowers, the bugs, the
colors, the shadows, thewhatever it is, but be
intentional about slowing downand looking for ways that you
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see God in the mundane.
Because listen, I think that'sone of the beautiful things I
believe Jesus was learning as hewas being formed in an artisan's
home and as an artisan's studio,is to be able to slow down and
see the supernatural in thenatural.
And listen, if you can begin totrain your eyes and allow the
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the ears of your or your heart,the eyes of your heart to be
tuned to the voice of the HolySpirit, just like Jesus' was,
all of a sudden you'll start tohave a supernatural experience
just as you're walking throughyour day and as you're doing the
mundane, main mundane thingsthat that we all do in the
studio.
Why?
Because we're training ourselvesto look and listen for the
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movement of the Holy Spirit.
See, we get to see thingsdifferently, we get to see life
differently when we allow theHoly Spirit to train our eyes to
look through his eyes.
All right.
Now, the last thing, last coupleof things I would say is this
choose as you're looking for Godin the mundane and in the
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normal, choose to also do thatwith people, right?
Practice presence with people.
You know, I'm I'm sure that whenJesus was among people, he was
probably one of those peoplethat made you feel like you were
the most important person in theroom.
And you know it's easy to dothat.
It's easy to do that with eyecontact, it's easy to do that
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with focus.
I'm sure that when when Jesuswas in the workshop and a client
was coming in or he was talkingto somebody, take a moment, put
the hammer down, put thepaintbrush down, look at
somebody, talk to them with yourclients, with your with your
friends, with people that you'rehaving conversations with at
shows, practice fully beingwhere you are.
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Because listen, in those momentswhen we can intentionally push
out distraction and really focuson the person in front of us,
that's when the Holy Spirit cangive you new eyes and new ears
and speak things to youprophetically that you can
release to somebody in thatmoment.
And man, that listen, that couldchange their life forever.
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You could say one thing tosomebody that's in that's you
know a catalyst from the HolySpirit inside of you, and that
could bring freedom to them,that could bring joy to them,
that could bring breakthrough tothem, but it can't happen when
you're just distracted all thetime.
Right?
So slowing down, looking for Godin the mundane, practicing
presence with people.
And the last thing I would sayis this slow down and let
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yourself enjoy the season thatyou're in.
Again, I've said it a hundredtimes on this video, but I'm
gonna say it again.
Jesus spent 30 years in a hiddenseason before he was ever doing
any kind of public ministry.
And whether you're in a in atime of of being out there or
whether you're in a season ofbeing formed and still
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developing your artistic voiceand not sure exactly what things
are gonna look like, this is notwasted time.
It's a season of formation, it'sa season of preparation.
And so just you gotta you gottajust tell yourself every day,
remind yourself, God, thank youthat I'm aligning myself with
you.
And as I'm aligning myself withyou, God, I'm being formed and
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made and prepared for every goodthing that you have for me.
And listen, what God's got foryou later on down the road is no
more important than the formingthat he's doing within you right
now.
Because ultimately, this wholething is not about what we're
gonna do for God, but it's aboutthe life that we're living with
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God as the Holy Spirit isforming us into the image of
Christ.
So hey, take a moment.
Let me know in the in thecomments which one of these sort
of intentional practices are yougonna begin to focus on this
week?
How can you be intentional withreally allowing the Lord to work
this season of formation in yourlife as an artist?
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And the last thing I want to dotoday is pray.
I want to just pray that theHoly Spirit would begin to
awaken inside of you a newrealization of how he's created
you, how he's forming you, andall the good things that he has
for you.
So would you pray with me?
Father, thank you for being withmy friend right now.
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Holy Spirit, I thank you thateven in this moment that we're
in separate locations, God, thesame Holy Spirit that's right
here with me is right there withmy friend.
And God, I thank you that byyour Holy Spirit, your awakening
revelation within us right nowto be able to see the way that
you allowed Jesus to be formedas a man and as an artisan and
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as a redeemer and restorer andreconciler.
God, thank you that youintentionally set Jesus in an
artisan's home to be formed bythe very same things that we're
being formed with as artistsevery day.
God, I pray that you wouldcontinue to lead us and continue
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to speak to us, Lord.
Allow us to walk with purposeand intentionality and grace,
especially in seasons that feellike they're taking longer than
we'd like, so that we can trustthat you who began a good work
in us is faithful to completeit.
And as we do the work ofcreativity and artistry, being
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in the marketplace and being inthe studio, God thank you that
we are just, we're just walkingafter our brother Jesus.
We're modeling the things thatHe modeled for us.
We're mirroring the life that Helived on this earth, which was
by your design.
And God, thank you that we getto live the life of artists and
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his creatives the way that youdesigned.
We thank you for that, Lord.
In Jesus' name.
Amen.
Amen.
Listen, my friend, I'm alwayshonored that you're here with me
every week as I'm releasingcontent, hopefully, to encourage
you and to give you clarity andconfidence and freedom in
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Christ.
Please make sure that yousubscribe so that you never miss
any of the great content thatI'm I'm putting out.
Also, please check out all thegreat resources that we've got
for you here on the channel, notleast of which is our
foundations course.
God's using it in the lives ofhundreds and hundreds of artists
all over the world to lay asolid foundation in Christ,
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overcome a lot of roadblocksthat have held them, uh, you
know, held them captive in thepast from being able to step
into all that God's got for themand really get a vision, a clear
vision and a clear pathway foreverything that God has for them
in their creative life asartists in the kingdom.
You can find out all about thefoundations course, as well as
uh all of my best-selling booksfor artists, our artist
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mentoring program, our thrivingChristian artists newsletter.
We got a ton of stuff that'sgonna bless your socks off.
And it's all right here in thedescription of this video.
So I love you, friend.
Thanks so much for being here.
Remember, till next time, youwere created to thrive.
Bye.
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All right, love you.
Bye.
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