Thoughts Become Things Through Action

Growth is not simply telling yourself who you are in your head.

At some point, what you believe has to become visible.

Knowledge can puff us up when it stays only in our minds. Thoughts have to be translated into experience, action, and measurable results.

I remember a season when I intentionally started spending time around programmers.

They knew more than I did about technology. They were smarter than me in programming. They understood things I did not understand.

Instead of allowing pride to make me feel like I had to know everything, I humbled myself.

I listened.
I learned.
I served.
I asked questions.

Eventually, those relationships helped me develop a proprietary e-commerce system for music.

I invested about $5,000 into that system.

Over time, that investment turned into seven figures.

The thought became tangible because I acted on what I believed.

Since 2010, I have also had the opportunity to contract with at least 50 people through different projects and business opportunities.

But it was bigger than business.

Some of those working relationships became opportunities to share Christ and lead people to Him.

That taught me something important:

Your ideas are not the evidence of your growth. Your movement is.

Romans 12:3 teaches us not to think of ourselves more highly than we ought to think.

So don’t pat yourself on the back simply because you have great ideas.

Get excited when those ideas become systems translated into tangibility…..

Get excited when your faith becomes movement. (Action)

Get excited when something that was once only in your mind becomes tangible enough to help people, create opportunities, generate resources, and advance the Kingdom.

You have to act on what you believe. (Mark 11:22,23)

Don’t become a weekend warrior who talks about what should happen but never gets in the game.

Don’t become the person sitting on the bench criticizing everybody who is actually taking action.

People who constantly criticize and worry can become benchwarmers.

They spend so much time observing the people in the game that they never develop the courage to play themselves.

Leadership requires movement.

You may have to learn from people who know more than you.

You may have to serve.

You may have to admit what you do not know.

You may have to invest.

You may have to take a risk.

You may even fail and have to adjust.

But that is how thoughts become experience.

That is how ideas become systems.

That is how thoughts become things.

That is how faith becomes evidence.

“Thoughts become things when humility gives you the wisdom to learn and faith gives you the courage to act.”