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This week, Shape The Culture speaks on being able to feel the fire when we step out on faith. Like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, we must be willing to take full ownership of our free will. When we take responsibility for our choices, we allow our faith to grow. Walking by faith means that we take risks, we face uncertainty, and we  move through our own doubt and fears. By doing this, we begin to have more courage in our personal power and allow ourselves to be aligned with the spirit of God.

This week Shape The Culture focuses on how we can allow our lives to be a light for others. As we take our practical and mystical steps of faith, we set an example for others. Your faith can be calm, confident, daring, and bold all at once. However faith looks for you, you must stand on it. Being grounded in who we are and taking full responsibility and control for our choices allows us to be the leaders we are called to be. Everyday, you have the opportunity to spread confidence and encourage people to take their own steps of faith.

Shape The Culture continues their series titled Got Faith? This week, we look at how believing is a form of seeing. When we start to believe in something, we gain insight from our visions and dreams. We start to form a picture of what is to come inside of our minds. We might not be able to see this physically, but we can see it spiritually. Holding onto this belief is a form of faith that allows us to take practical steps to make our visions a reality. As we hold onto our dreams and visions, we have to prepare ourselves knowing that things rarely go as planned. As we live and grow, dream, and work, we have to understand we will never be able to plan everything accordingly. We won’t be able to make sure that everything goes exactly how we want it to. We would be better off focusing on what we can control. Which is how we treat people, conduct business, how we give and how we receive, how we provide support for ourselves and others, and how we ensure that we contribute to the welfare of ourselves and others. If we can keep ourselves focused on these things then the natural evolution of life and progression will take care of itself. 

Shape The Culture continues their series titled Got Faith? As we continue to dive into the story of Daniel, we begin to see what it takes to make a miracle. Our daily steps of faith lead us towards making the unbelievable possible. Faith is an internal belief. We have to allow our confidence to grow through the decisions we make each and every day. Taking those practical steps of faith put us in the position to witness the miraculous. 

Shape The Culture continues their series titled Got Faith? This week, the second chapter of Daniel's story is covered as we look at how little steps of faith lead us to even bigger movements of faith and eventually can lead to miracles. Through our trials and tribulations, we have to be willing to believe in the unbelievable. The only thing capable of blocking our faith is ourselves. We can be our own best friend and our own worst enemy. It starts with trusting ourselves to make the right decisions. We have to trust in our abilities to discern and make sense of our situations. By becoming more confident in ourselves, we will be able to push ourselves to stand through our storms with faith.

Shape The Culture begins their new series titled Got Faith? We look at the beginning of Daniel's story and see what it means to pick a side. Faith means to believe in what we cannot see. When we decide to step out on faith, we are making use of our free will. Faith can be mystical and practical. Everyday there are plenty of opportunities for us to exercise our faith and give ourselves a chance to watch results make themselves. As Daniel chose to eat vegetables and drink water, we can make the decision to implement better life choices. 

Shape The Culture wraps up their series titled A Dream Deferred. This week, we look at David's dream of building the temple coming true. Even though, David was unable to see the temple the dream was still kept alive. When a dream is deferred that does not mean it is canceled. Being postponed gives us the opportunity to gain more clarity and discernment. Our insight provides us with the wisdom we need to make sure that our dreams are completed with perfection. When we move according to God's timing and trust in our process then the results will speak for themselves. David did not see the temple, but he can rest assured knowing his plans and details are what contributed to the success of the operation. 

Shape The Culture continues their weekly series titled A Dream Deferred. This week, we look at David's final instruction to Solomon to do the work. When we have a dream, it's important that we focus on the work and let the results come to us. Your work is how everything begins to happen. We have to be strong and courageous even when our work may seem overwhelming or fruitless. By focusing on our work, we are able to let nature take its course and be prepared when it's time for the dream to become a reality.

Shape The Culture continues their series A Dream Deferred. This week we focus on God's plan for David and the temple. When we think about God's plan, we have to understand that it is a plan for humanity. God's plan requires us to work and collaborate with others to make it a reality. Our dreams and hopes are connected as we pursue growth and progress. Great intentions must be focused on coming together for the greater good. It takes teamwork and a united vision to make a reality that is bigger than us come true.

Shape The Culture continues their series A Dream Deferred. The story of David wanting to build the temple is read again and this time we read that it was David's son Solomon who was called to build the temple. This illustrates the principle of paying it forward. When we have our dreams, we have to understand that those dreams require help and the gifts of others. No dream is accomplished solely by one person. Paying it forward allows us to give first and challenges us to love unconditionally. To help humanity move forward, we must rely on each other and continue to help each other learn and grow. 

Shape The Culture begins their new series titled A Dream Deferred. This week, a look at David's plan to build temple being rejected by God is examined. Through the introduction of this story, we see how having a humble mentality with awareness allowed David to realize that he must continue to walk in his path. Clarity and discernment comes from being able to choose the narrow path and acknowledge that we don't always get what we want. When we commit to progress, we allow ourselves to walk our path being content to play our role.

This week Shape The Culture wraps up their Solid Foundation series. This episode focuses on how having a solid foundation leads to authority. When Jesus spoke to the people, he spoke with authority that comes from weathering our storms and learning the valuable lessons experience has to teach us. When we dedicate ourselves to building a solid foundation, we place ourselves in a position to stand on who we are and stand behind the choices we make. 

Shape The Culture continues their series titled Solid Foundation. This week the parable of the foundation built with rock and sand is examined again. The focus is now on the sandy foundation and how the storm wipes away a foundation without any experience. When storms come, we must learn how to stand through them. Standing through the storm is how we step out on faith and provide ourselves with the experience and insight needed to make our foundation solid. 

Shape The Culture continues their series titled Solid Foundation. This week, the practice of wisdom is discussed as we examine what it means to build on a solid foundation of rock. Through the storms, trials, and tribulations, we are called to continually try new things while stepping out on faith. Only when we put into practice what we hear from God will we learn the true value of wisdom. Each time you step out on faith you are giving yourself the opportunity to learn valuable information while increasing your clarity and discernment. 

Shape The Culture starts their new series titled Solid Foundation. For the first episode, the parable of Jesus turning away people performing miracles is used to discuss our willpower. It's important that we gather the strength we need to ask ourselves hard questions and work on our character before focusing on our accomplishments. You can do great work with bad intentions. We have to make sure we know where our motivation comes from before we seek out what we want in life. When our intentions are pure there's no limit to how far we can go.

Shape The Culture concludes their series titled Greater Than. This week, we travel to the end of Joshua's journey as he tells the people to choose for themselves. We have to be able to make the decision for ourselves on if we will follow God or not. We have to be able to rally ourselves to hold to our commitments and follow through with the right action. Only you can lead yourself to where you are supposed to be.

Shape The Culture continues the series titled Greater Than. This week the story of Joshua telling the sun to stand still is told as we examine what it takes to have unbelievable faith. To be greater than, we must be willing to accept that we can do the unthinkable and have the mindset of victory at all times. God already believes that we can do more than we ever imagined, we just have to be willing to believe in ourselves. By stepping out with active faith, we become participants in our journey rather than being passive witnesses.

Shape The Culture continues their series titled Greater Than. This week, the story of Joshua and Jericho is explored as we learn how important it is to be devoted to our calling and discernment. Just like Joshua, we must be willing to put in the work and have the patience to receive what God has ready for us. We must follow our instructions precisely and demonstrate our faith by committing ourselves to right action. The process doesn't always make sense but understanding comes with time so we must stay down for the come up.

Shape The Culture continues their Greater Than series. This week, Shape The Culture takes a look at the miracle of the parting of the Jordan River and how Joshua was able to learn from Moses and the parting of the Red Sea. Through parallel miracles, we are able to see how the past is a present to help us learn how to walk in our faith, trust in ourselves, and lead to victory. We have a responsibility to learn from the lives of others as we witness their success and shortcomings.

Shape The Culture continues their series titled Greater Than. This week, we learn the blessing behind being unconventional and sharing God's grace with everyone no matter the situation. As we read about Joshua, Rahab, and the two spies, we see that this was an extraordinary moment for God's grace to be shared. By stepping outside of their comfort zone, everybody in the story was able to reach new heights spiritually and live in their own greatness. When we decide to be unconventional we allow ourselves to upgrade from an earthly mentality to a heavenly mentality.