How to Overcome Resistance to Your Creative Calling: An Interview with Sherridean Carmichael

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In this powerful and Spirit-led conversation, I talk with Barbados-based artist Sherridean Carmichael about pursuing your creative calling with bold faith, overcoming resistance, and stepping fully into the identity God has already given you.

From her years as a top educator to her transformative work as a creative leader, Sherridean carries a message of breakthrough and Kingdom alignment that will inspire any artist feeling stuck or forgotten.

We explore how God uses challenges to shape us, how to recognize and reject the lies of lack and fear, and how walking in your true inheritance as a child of God releases creative freedom and impact.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• How to overcome the enemy’s resistance to your calling
• Why your creative inheritance is already yours in Christ
• Moving from striving to flowing in God’s provision
• Recognizing and walking in your Kingdom authority
• Encouraging other artists through your personal testimony

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فصول

1. Introducing Sherry Dean Carmichael (00:00:00)

2. Art as Ministry and Provision (00:03:12)

3. Overcoming Artistic Rejection (00:09:02)

4. Transforming Pain into Purpose (00:15:13)

5. Building Creative Community (00:19:00)

6. Prayer for Breakthrough (00:26:19)

7. Connect and Closing Thoughts (00:30:15)