The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Leaders
Yesterday, a successful marketing executive sat across from me, clearly exhausted. “I’ve tried accountability groups, Bible reading plans, and even hired a spiritual director,” he said. “Now you’re asking me to CHEW on God’s love daily. Honestly, isn’t this just another discipline I have to muster willpower for? Another rule that will eventually fail when I get busy or discouraged?” His question was raw and honest—and it revealed what every high-performer fears: Will this be another spiritual practice that ends in failure?
The Honest Truth About CHEW and Your Willpower
Here’s what I told him—and what transforms everything for high-achieving Christians:
“You’re absolutely right—CHEW is another discipline that requires willpower. And yes, you will fail when busy or discouraged. But here’s what makes CHEW different: it’s specifically designed for people whose willpower fails.”
Your accountability groups punished inconsistency. Your Bible plans made you feel behind when life got crazy. Your spiritual director couldn’t meet you at 2am when shame hit. CHEW says: ‘Come back tired. Come back failing. Come back after a month of nothing.’ The transformation doesn’t come from perfect consistency—it comes from returning to God’s love every time your willpower fails.
The brutal truth: If you’re struggling with stronghold sins like hidden addictions or deep personal battles, you’ll likely need to CHEW daily for months to see core beliefs surface and change. But the grace isn’t that consistency doesn’t matter—the grace is that God meets you in your imperfect attempts at consistency without requiring perfect execution.
Research confirms this: consistent spiritual practices create psychological safety that allows deeper beliefs to surface for transformation. When you regularly experience God’s unconditional love through CHEW, you literally create the safety needed for shameful core beliefs to emerge and be healed.
This is where CHEWing transforms everything…
Instead of another performance-based discipline, CHEW becomes your consistent return to the love that’s already yours.
CHEW in 3-5 Minutes:
- Take three deep breaths— God’s love is present now, ready to meet your inconsistent willpower with perfect grace.
- Adore: “Father, You love me whether I CHEW daily or weekly. Your love doesn’t fluctuate with my spiritual performance.”
- Confess: “What am I actually feeling about my spiritual track record? Am I afraid of failing again? Exhausted by trying to measure up?”
- Hear: Scripture + truth they need:
- “He knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust” (Psalm 103:14)
- “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9)
- Exchange: If I really believed God’s love works through my weak willpower rather than despite it, how would that change my approach to spiritual growth?
- I would exchange fear of spiritual failure for confidence in grace that works through failure.
- I would exchange pressure for perfect consistency for freedom to return consistently, imperfectly.
- Walk: Use habit stacking—attach CHEWing to something you already do daily (morning coffee, lunch break) to create sustainable consistency without willpower battles.
- Thanksgiving & Worship: “Thank You that transformation happens through returning to Your love, not through perfect spiritual performance. I worship You as the God whose power is made perfect in my weakness.”
Why CHEW Works When Other Spiritual Practices Fail
CHEW is different because it’s built for high-performers who’ve been burned by spiritual failure:
- It expects inconsistency instead of punishing it
- Every return is celebrated regardless of how long you’ve been away
- The practice itself creates the safety needed for deep beliefs to surface and change
- Consistency serves grace, not performance—you CHEW regularly to create opportunities for God’s love to reach deeper places, not to earn spiritual points
For stronghold sins: Yes, you’ll need disciplined consistency. But CHEW makes that consistency sustainable by removing the shame cycle that destroys other spiritual practices. When you fail at daily CHEWing, that failure becomes your invitation to return to grace, not evidence you’re spiritually defective.
The Discipline That Transforms Through Grace
CHEW is a grace-based discipline—it requires intention and regular return, but the power comes from what you receive, not what you achieve. Your inconsistent willpower becomes the perfect context for God’s consistent love to do transforming work.
CHEW On This™: If I really believed God uses my failing willpower as the context for His transforming love, how would that change my entire approach to spiritual growth and personal transformation?
Community: Practice CHEWing with others who understand that sustainable transformation happens through grace-empowered consistency, not willpower-driven performance. Learn why community amplifies grace-based transformation
Want More?
The Daily CHEW™ and discover grace-based rhythms that sustain transformation
Select Resources:
- Why Spiritual Disciplines Fail for High-Performers
- The Neuroscience of Grace-Based Transformation
- From Performance to Peace: A Leader’s Journey
With you on the journey,
Ryan
The next question most executives ask me: “Okay, but how do I know this will actually work for my specific hidden struggle and not just make me feel guilty about another failed spiritual discipline?”
Read Part 2: How CHEW Transforms Your Secret Struggles (Without the Shame Cycle)
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