For those joining us here welcome and for those already following us on YouTube thanks for the support. On January 1, 2023 at midnight we launched our first video but this is not the start of the journey in fact it started near the end of 2022 when Rachel Starr Thompson guest spoke at Wellspring Community Church in Welland Ontario and introduced us to the Tech Fast Challenge she was doing through the winter months and challenged others to do. As I am a Techie I had to adapt the challenge a bit. I was allowed to watch and listen to Christian content online only. I was allowed to use Discord but only to answer messages from my family. I was NOT allowed on any social media platforms other than Discord for any reason.
I spent time reading many books and listening to songs on my Spotify playlist and watching lots of Christian YouTubers. Here is a list of highlights and their impact:
1. Seeds By Rachel Starr Thompson - I read the first book before the challenge but book 2 during. This book instilled in me that our example in how we live our life out in the world is where we have the greatest impact on others. People walk and mimic what we do and say.
2. Ruslan, Mike Winger, etc - I watched a lot of the big name YouTubers like Ruslan and Mike Winger especially his live q & a videos. I was learning a lot from his videos.
3. Watching You by Rodney Atkins - This song made me cry but had a similar message about how the son watches his father and learns from him
4. Stop Worrying by Troy Black - I actually stumbled upon Troy Black when he did a prophetic word on Ruslan and it was dead on according to Ruslan himself, some details he would not have known unless God gave them to him. The book was powerful and taught me that if I followed God's calling and purpose he would always provide us with what we need to do what he has called us to do. This reminded me of in 2020 how God brought me the verse Romans 8:28 three times in the same weekend from very different sources. On the same weekend I stumbled upon Manifest on Netflix and the whole show was about Romans 8:28 and their calling. I binged watched the full season on the Friday night. On Saturday a Non-Christian friend pinged me on LinkedIn and started to talk to me about life and purpose and where he should head next in his life. We chatted about his options for his career and the best place to go. During the conversation he knew I was a Christian and he said a friend of his had given him a verse that he felt he should relay to me as we were discussing purpose it was Romans 8:28. Odd, I thought. I mentioned it to my girlfriend about the 2 occurrences. Sunday came and we watched a sermon at The Meeting House streamed because we were all locked down. During the service Bruxy Cavey was speaking on a topic that had nothing to do with callings or purpose then right in the middle of if he stopped and said "God is prompting me that someone watching needs this." He quoted Romans 8:28, nonchalantly and then just continued the service. I thought I imagined it but my girlfriend turned to me and confirmed I was not. She heard it too. After the service we rewatched that part and sure enough it was true. This was what God was putting on my heart but I had no idea why. Then a few years later during the fast it had come forth and I was learning more.
There was lots more that was guiding me as well. Christmas week was tough. I was struggling a lot mentally. I remember for Christmas I got a Rubber Duck this will come into play later. Between Christmas and New Year's Eve I started having dreams and remembering them. This is rare for me as I don't typically remember my dreams. The first was actually something he put on my heart before the Tech Fast. He told me I had used my gifts for many years to help the tech and marketing community needed to share my gifts to expand the kingdom. As he had shared that before I was not surprised by that dream. The second dream was the Saved By Grace Alone logo and I heard a voice say this is ALL that matters. Everything else is causing division and we need to focus on the basics and bring many. I saw a harvest of grapes which made sense because I was living in wine country. The third dream was more bold, showed the YouTube logo and said many are struggling. As I awoke from the dream the Rubber Duck was sitting on my nightstand looking at me. I thought back to my days as a developer and how I used it as a debugging tool. I would explain the problem to the duck and by doing so find the error in my logic and thus the bug. I told this to my nephew and he told me in Alpha that they did something called the 3 minute gospel where someone was dying and you had to explain them the gospel in 3 minutes so they could be saved. This became my first video Rubber Duck Evangelism. These 3 dreams together led to the channel being launched New Years Eve right at Midnight.
From the launch until now I have been creating content when prompted by God to do so but the main goal is to help Christian YouTubers under 1,000 followers build their audience. I have had many reach out to me offering me advice and I have been sharing this with others both through messenger and IRL and also in the comments of their videos. God has been expanding their audience sometimes through my advice and sharing of their content but also by God inspiring them to create amazing content that the algorithm loves.
I look forward to see what God does through the end of the year and beyond. I have been hearing a lot about 2024 and that the harvest is ripe but the reapers are few.
Starting September 18th we began a new series based on the From Only Fans To True Follower Of Jesus YouTube playlist. check out Part 1: From Only Fans To True Followers Of Jesus
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