Category: Guided by Faith, Driven by Purpose

July 27, 2025

Then the LORD God called to the man “Where are you?”

                                                            Genesis 3:9 NLT

I didn’t know where I was.

The career I had pinned all my hopes to was over, it ended as the result of a combination of fear, poor judgement, and misfortune.

I was in the fifth year of what would be my seven-year wilderness journey and had just come out of a life-changing three-day trauma intensive. Two things had happened to me: first, my old operating system, ASW 1.0, was removed, and second, It was replaced by a new operating system, ASW 2.0.

My old operating system was removed when it’s wounds, lies, vows and strongholds were clearly exposed and brought into and under the healing power of Jesus. Because of this, the fear and anxiety that had been the undercurrent of my life was removed. In its place the drivers of my new operating system created a sense of calm and peace that I was not accustomed too.

When God asked Adam, “Where are you?” It wasn’t because God didn’t know, because he knows everything. It was because he wanted Adam to know, where he was. Not his physical location, but his mental and emotional place, his inner world.

Before we can begin our climb to our promised land, there are questions we need to know the answer too: who am I, how was I made, and how do I work? I call these the “Base Camp” questions. But there are three questions that are even more important and are the drivers of every human operating system and the questions that everyone longs to be able to answer “yes” to: am I accepted, am I secure, and am I significant? In my own journey in order to know where I was, I first had to answer “yes” to these most basic questions. Then I could begin the transformational journey from a career into my CALLING.

Can you answer “yes” to these questions? Are you accepted, secure and significant? Unless you can, you will not be able to answer God, when he asks, “Where are you?”

Do you long to know that you are accepted, secure, and significant? You can be, right here, right now in this very moment. Because through Jesus Christ, believing that he died so you could live, all three of these questions are answered YES.

It is only in Christ Jesus where we find our acceptance, security and significance, and in knowing that, we are ready to leave “Base Camp” and begin our climb and become all we were created to be and do.

Let that truth encourage you today.

Until next time,

LIVE INSIDE OUT,

Andy Wyatt

Recommended Reading: WILD at HEART, by John Eldredge

Until next time,

Be Guided by Faith, Driven by Purpose,

Andy Wyatt

JuLY 27, 2025

June 1, 2025

¹⁵ The high and lofty one who lives in eternity,
    the Holy One, says this:
“I live in the high and holy place
    with those whose spirits are contrite and humble.
I restore the crushed spirit of the humble
    and revive the courage of those with repentant hearts.

Isaiah 57:15 NLT

I was a control freak!

I had an operating system that was powered by a lie I believed – if it is to be it is up to me.

Because I believed that if I was going to experience anything good in my life, I had to take it, the natural outcome was an almost total desire to control everything: people, events, outcomes.

You get the picture, and you are probably as uncomfortable reading this as I am remembering it.

I wrote in the introduction of PRO LEADERSHIP – book two, about my BIG DREAM and HUGE VISION, one that I could never do alone, because I don’t control outcomes, but I do control input and my input is my AGENCY. That is what I am called and responsible to apply.

Those are the words of a recovering control freak.

That is what I am.

My recovery has taught me that CONTROL focuses on outcomes, and I don’t control them; I do control my AGENCY which is all about input. Being focused on outcomes will waste time, cause anxiety, “brain damage”, and stress. I know this universally true.

But before my recovery could begin, I had to learn to let go of the control I felt I needed to have. I had to recognize that what I believed, if it is to be it is up to me, was a lie.

It took work to get here.

I began to recognize thinking I controlled outcomes was a symptom of the PRIDE that was working in my life, but as Proverbs 16:18 NLT says, Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall.

But GOD, is faithful and compassionate and he did not treat me as my sins deserved.

He is a GOOD Father, and when my pride contributed to the ending of my career, he stepped in when I asked him, giving me a new operating system so I could walk in the calling that replaced my finished career.

He knew the WHY behind the lie I believed, he saw the WOUND that caused the LIE. He knew the VOW that sprung from the LIE. And he understood the STRONGHOLD the wound, lie and vow created in my life, and how it kept me from being all he meant for me to be.

This is how I began my recovery.

FIRST, I turned from myself to, The high and lofty one who lives in eternity, because he is the one who controls all outcomes.

NEXT, I listened to what he said, the Holy One, says this: “I live in the high and holy place with those whose spirits are contrite and humble. I restore the crushed spirit of the humble and revive the courage of those with repentant hearts.

The high and holy place – not “A” high and holy place but “THE” high and holy place, where I will spend eternity because of my faith in Jesus Christ. I live from this perspective.

THEN I RECOGNIZED: 1) those who live with GOD have contrite and humble hearts. I wasn’t and didn’t, but he allowed my experience to make it true for me. 2) He restores the crushed spirit of the humble. The process of humiliation crushed my spirit, but GOD restored it, wonderfully. 3) He revive(s) the courage of those with repentant hearts. Falls or Failure can open the door for fear to displace courage. But GOD, knows COURAGE is the most important character attribute, so he gives it, experientially. That is what he did for me.

Do you have a broken heart?

Do you have a crushed spirit?

Has fear displaced courage in your life?

Humble yourself, turn to Jesus, repent from your heart. Do this now, and he will restore your broken heart, your crushed spirit and revive your courage.

He did it for me, he will do for you too, because he has no favorites.

You only need to ask him.

Until next time,

Be Guided by Faith, Driven by Purpose,

Andy Wyatt

June 1, 2025

May 25, 2025

God says, “Rebuild the road!

Clear away the rocks and stones

so my people can return from captivity.” Isaiah 57:14 NLT

“Andy, what’s the most important thing I need to do to be successful in this role?”

That was the first question a new CEO asked me when we were first introduced.

I answered, “do your work”.

“What do you mean,” he replied, “I’ve been doing that, 24/7 for six months.”

I paused, to consider my response and decided he needed an answer from my heart not my head.

So I replied, “I know how you feel, because I felt the same way once, but I learned that the most important factor in success is not what I do, but knowing who I am. So the work you need to do, is inner work. Knowing WHO you are. That is where you will discover REAL success.”

I wrote in the preface to my next book, WISDOM FROM THE WILDERNESS, that life is a cycle from CAPTIVITY through a WILDERNESS into a PROMISED LAND. My experience has taught me this is true, not just for me, but for everyone and especially for leaders.

My wilderness experience taught me I needed to clear away the rocks and stones, so that I could enter my “promised land”.

Those “rocks and stones” where behind my CAPTIVITY, beliefs that were holding me back.

But how do you clear them away?

By doing your inner work.

For me that work started by turning to my inner life, my faith and to Jesus. Trusting him through my pain and doing the self-examination I needed to do to become all he created me to be.

For me, it was a BIG project: a three-day trauma intensive, followed by 18-months of intensive counseling and now a monthly check-in with my therapist. It was hard, but it was good.

Your project may not look like mine, but everyone has work to do.

Doing the work helped me to understand, what Jesus meant when he said, You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. John 15:16

The “fruit” of my life in CAPITIVITY, did not last, because it was rooted in the wrong things, so it produced bad fruit.

But God, choose me and appointed me produce fruit, good fruit. When God calls, he equips us and works in us. When we are rooted in him the result is good fruit.

What type of fruit is your life producing, would you like it to be different?

Consider that you may need to do some work; are there rocks and stones in your path that need to be cleared away?

Start with turning to your inner life and to Jesus, he will help you.

I guarantee it.

Because he said it, Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. John 15:4-5 NLT

Until next time,

LIVE INSIDE OUT,

Andy Wyatt