The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals
The Gap Between Knowing and Feeling
You’ve heard about CHEW™ – this method for moving God’s love from your head to your heart. And you get it. You really do. You see the logic: if you truly believed that God loves you as much as He loves Jesus, then your whole life would transform. Your anxiety would ease. Your relationships would deepen. Your decisions would come from a place of belovedness instead of performance or fear.
But here you sit, still finding yourself not regularly practicing CHEW.
Maybe you tried CHEW™ once or twice on your own. Maybe you got stuck after the “Confess” part. Maybe you asked yourself the central question – “If I really believed that God loves me as much as He loves Jesus, what would change right now?” – and… nothing. No clarity. No shift. Just the same old patterns playing out.
So you wonder: What am I actually going to get from CHEWing? Is this just another spiritual practice? Another thing to do? Another way to feel like you’re failing?
The answer is no. But you might need a guide.
The Breakthrough That Happens in 30 Minutes
Here’s what we’ve discovered: sometimes all you need is one focused, guided CHEW™ session with a practitioner who understands both the spiritual and emotional landscape you’re navigating. One intense, laser-focused conversation together can crack something open that weeks of trying alone simply cannot.
Hebrews 10:24-25 reminds us that we are designed to sharpen one another and spur each other toward love and good works—and that happens through faithful gathering and mutual exhortation. When you sit down with a trained practitioner who’s walked others through this exact journey, something shifts. You’re no longer alone in your confusion. You’re no longer interpreting your own signals without feedback. You have a partner in your transformation.
What happens in that one session can be astounding. In less than a half hour of intentional work, you don’t just grasp the CHEW™ framework – you begin to feel something. You experience:
- Deep spiritual refueling. You come in depleted – running on performance, duty, or just survival mode. You leave recharged. Why? Because you’ve actually encountered God’s affection toward you, not as an idea, but as a living reality your heart can receive.
- The revelation that God’s love for you is identical to His love for Jesus. This sounds simple in a sermon. It sounds radical when you wrestle with it in real time with someone helping you see the implications. The practitioner doesn’t just tell you this – you discover it through Scripture, through questions, through the Holy Spirit’s work. And when it lands, it lands deep.
- False beliefs surfacing. Often, what’s stopping you from CHEWing isn’t laziness or apathy. Often, we intellectually know what we believe, but are subconsciously operating from a false belief in our hearts. Maybe you believe God’s love is conditional on your performance. Maybe you think real transformation happens through sheer willpower. Maybe you secretly doubt that God cares about the “small” stuff in your daily life. A skilled guide helps these beliefs rise to the surface so you can name them, question them, and trade them for truth.
- Practical guidance to stay on track. One of the biggest obstacles people face is drift. You start asking the core question, and suddenly you’re thinking about seventeen other things. Your mind wanders. Your emotions scatter. A guide gently brings you back. “Let’s stay with that question a little longer. What’s coming up for you?” That simple redirection keeps you honest and focused.
- Clarity on how CHEW™ applies to your real life. It’s one thing to practice CHEW™ in a quiet moment. It’s another to know how to ask the question when you’re in a tense meeting, a difficult conversation, or a moment of decision. Your practitioner helps you translate the framework into the actual rhythm of your life.
The CHEW™ Breakthrough: Let’s Go Deeper Together
If you’ve been curious about CHEW™ but stuck, here’s what a private session looks like in real time:
Confess: Name What’s True
Your practitioner creates space for radical honesty. “What are you actually feeling right now before God about this?” Not what you should feel. Not what sounds spiritual. What’s really happening in your heart?
Hear: Let God Speak Through His Word
Instead of random guidance, your practitioner asks: “What Scripture do you think would be helpful for you to wrestle with in this moment?” Often, the verse you need surfaces from your own memory or intuition, or your practitioner may suggest some particularly applicable passages. You read it aloud. Your practitioner asks: “What does this reveal about who God is and how He loves?” One verse. One truth. Spoken and received.
Exchange: The Question That Changes Everything
This is where it gets personal. Your practitioner walks you through the core question: “If I really believed that God loves me as much as He loves Jesus, what would change right now?”
Not someday. Not eventually. Right now. In this moment. In your next decision. In how you see yourself.
“What would you release?” your practitioner asks. “What would you receive?”
Walk: From Insight to Action
The last step is always practical. “What’s one small step – something doable in the next ten minutes or the next day – that shows you’re trusting this truth?” Not a massive life overhaul, but a single, believable action that proves you’re taking God’s love seriously.
What Changes When You Have a Guide
1. Faster Breakthrough
A guide cuts through the confusion. What might take you weeks of fumbling, a practitioner can help you access in thirty minutes.
2. Honest Accountability
It’s easy to convince yourself you’ve worked through something when you’re alone. A guide lovingly calls you deeper. “I think there’s more here. Can we stay with this?” That external perspective is invaluable.
3. Personalized Insight
Your practitioner listens not just to your words but to what’s underneath them. They notice patterns you’ve missed. They ask questions you wouldn’t have asked yourself. They connect dots between past pain, current behavior, and future possibility.
4. Permission to Feel
Many high-performing Christians push past their emotions or spiritualize them away. A good guide creates permission to feel what you feel – grief, anger, longing, joy – and to bring all of it to God. This is where transformation actually begins.
5. The Refueling Effect
You came in running on fumes. You leave genuinely recharged. Not pumped up on inspiration, but actually fed—by truth, by encountering God’s love, by the presence of a caring witness.
How to Step Into Your First Session
Come curious, not skeptical. You don’t have to have it all figured out beforehand. Come with one real question, one area where you sense God’s love hasn’t moved from your head to your heart yet.
Be radically honest. The session is only as powerful as your honesty. If you’re pretending to be more together than you are, you’ll leave the same way you arrived. Tell your practitioner the real thing—the doubt, the fear, the weariness.
Trust the process. CHEW™ isn’t complicated, but it does require you to slow down and pay attention. Resist the urge to rush or perform. Just show up and let God work.
What Awaits You
Picture yourself in that first session. You sit down. Your practitioner listens. You confess what’s really going on. You open Scripture together. You ask the question that matters: If I really believed God loves me as much as He loves Jesus, what would change?
And something does shift. Not because your practitioner has magic words, but because you’ve stopped long enough to actually encounter God’s heart toward you. You’ve named a lie and begun to believe the truth. You’ve found one small way to live differently.
When you walk out, you don’t just understand CHEW™ intellectually. You’ve felt it. You’ve experienced it. And you know – really know – how to do it again.
That’s the power of one focused, guided CHEW™ session. It’s not a replacement for the daily practice of CHEW™ing on your own. It’s a catalyst. An awakening. A moment when head knowledge becomes heart transformation.
CHEW On This™ Right Now
Take five minutes. Sit quietly. Ask yourself one honest question:
Confess: “Father, what’s one area where I know something about Your love in my head but haven’t let it move to my heart?”
Hear: Open Scripture. John 15:9 says, “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.” What does Jesus’ confidence in His Father’s love reveal about what’s possible for you?
Exchange: “If I really believed Jesus’ Father is my Father and loves me with the identical love He has for Jesus, what would change about my shame, my performance pressure, my need to prove myself?”
Walk: One micro-action: Reply to this email with the name of someone you know walks with God faithfully. That’s your signal that you’re ready to take one guided CHEW™ session.
Respond in Worship
When God’s love moves from principle to presence – worship flows naturally. Not because you’ve worked hard enough or believed the right doctrine, but because you’ve been met by the Living God who is actively loving you in this very moment.
Take a moment right now. Find a song that carries truth – maybe Kristian Stanfill’s “Jesus Loves Me” or Michael English’s “His Love Compels Me.” Don’t just listen. Actually sing the words back to God. Not as a performance, but as a response to His surprising, active love.
Take the Next Step
Ready to experience your own breakthrough? A private CHEW™ session with one of our practitioners at 1st Principle Group isn’t just another hour on your calendar. It’s an invitation to encounter God’s love in a way that changes you.
Schedule Your Private CHEW™ Session →
Curious about what CHEW™ actually is? Start here:
- The Daily CHEW™: What It Is and Why It Transforms
- From Head to Heart: Moving God’s Love Into Your Daily Life
- When Knowing Isn’t Enough: The Power of Encountering God’s Love
Join the Community
You don’t have to figure this out alone. Thousands of Christian leaders, professionals, and ordinary people are discovering what happens when they stop trying harder and start receiving deeper.
The Daily CHEW™ isn’t just a framework – it’s a rhythm, a practice, a way of staying connected to God’s heart. Join a CHEW™ group, practice with others who get it, and watch what God does when you actually let His love land in your heart.
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Every step remains prayerful and relational – God is the active subject, we receive and respond. When you step into a private CHEW™ session, you’re not adding another task to your load. You’re making space for transformation. Join others who’ve discovered that one focused hour with a guide can unlock what months of trying alone could not. Experience the breakthrough. Let God’s love move from your head to your heart. Take one small step toward the life you’ve been longing to live.
With you on the journey,
Ryan
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