A Cup of Freedom

Join the Movement: A Small Cup of Freedom is an expression of our ministry, Freedom 4-U. We are entering a beautiful new season with practical daily tools, enhanced resources, and a sharpened focus. To celebrate this expansion and ensure financial limits never stand in the way of a breakthrough, we have officially opened the Freedom 5000 Partnership until November 14th.If this podcast or our ministry has brought freedom, rest and clarity to your walk, consider helping us pay it forward to fund resource kits and coaching scholarships for the next individuals.👉⁠ [Click Here to Support the Freedom 5000 Partnership]⁠(On our secure checkout link, you can submit a one-time gift of any amount to help us cross the finish line.)Connect with Coach Matt directly at [email protected] or visit our Substack to subscribe to our free weekly devotionals: ⁠Visit our Substack⁠📝 Episode Description: The world tells you your worth is based on your performance plus what others think of you. Unfortunaltely, this belief system has entered Christianity. In this episode, Coach Matt reveals where the performance mindset started, why we perform for our worth, and how Christ has already fully met our needs for worth so we don't have to perform for what we already have.Reflect: When you realize your worth does not depend on your performance to get God's approval, how would that free you from the treadmill of trying to earn what He has freely given?

Join the Movement:A Small Cup of Freedom is an expression of our ministry, Freedom 4-U. We are entering a beautiful new season with practical daily tools, enhanced resources, and a sharpened focus. To celebrate this expansion and ensure financial limits never stand in the way of a breakthrough, we have officially opened the Freedom 5000 Partnership until November 14th.If this podcast or our ministry has brought freedom, rest and clarity to your walk, consider helping us pay it forward to fund resource kits and coaching scholarships for the next individuals.👉 [Click Here to Support the Freedom 5000 Partnership](On our secure checkout link, you can submit a one-time gift of any amount to help us cross the finish line.)Connect with Coach Matt directly at [email protected] or visit our Substack to subscribe to our free weekly devotionals: Visit our Substack📝 Episode Description: Are you running yourself ragged trying to maintain a flawless behavioral streak just to feel secure with the Father?In this episode, Coach Matt exposes the hidden trap of the " performance audition script"—the exhausting, performance-based cycle where we believe we have to earn our way back into God's favor every time we stumble or don't live up to certain expectations. Sharing from his own story of deep spiritual depletion and performance loops, Matt reveals why white-knuckling your way through behavioral modification will always leave you empty, and how true transformation only flows from resting in an identity that is already permanently finished.Scripture Focus:"For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace." — Romans 6:14Reflection Question:What performance script are you currently reaching for to prove your worth to the Father? What changes in your soul if you drop that defensive armor today and trust His finished work?

🔗 Links & Resources: If this podcast has blessed you today, you can support us through your gift today.Support the Ministry & Get Your Grace Bundle: A Small Cup of Freedom is supported by the generosity of listeners like you who want to see this message of grace and freedom reach more hearts. When you support the ministry with a financial gift of $25 or more today, we want to send you the full Grace Mindset Bundle digital download as our thank-you gift to help you step off the performance treadmill.Click here to Give Your Gift Episode Description:You’ve probably been told that as a believer, you house two separate natures locked in a relentless internal civil war. It sounds deeply spiritual, but it is a massive deception that leaves many Christians completely exhausted. Through your new birth, you only have one nature—and it is completely new, perfectly clean, and fully alive in Christ.In this episode, Coach Matt exposes your actual opponent: the flesh. Discover why the flesh is not your spiritual nature, who you are, or your old self back from the dead. Instead, it is simply a collection of old, worldly patterns of thinking, reacting, and behaving apart from Christ. Drawing from Paul's warning in Philippians 3, learn how the flesh can even look incredibly religious—forcing you to try your hardest to be moral or do things for God to feel spiritual. The liberating remedy is simple: stop fighting a battle Jesus already won, know your true identity, walk by the Spirit, and simply trust Christ to handle the pressure for you.Questions to Sit With This Week:Are you exhausting yourself trying to fight an internal civil war against a "bad nature" that Jesus already crucified on the cross?In what areas of your life is the religious flesh showing up, causing you to force your own morality or performance to earn worth?Apply for Deep Dive 1-on-1 Identity Coaching/Mentoring. (Work directly with Coach Matt to dismantle performance striving and ground your mind in your true spiritual DNA)Reach out directly at: [email protected]. Put "Coaching" in the subject line. Limited spots available.

🔗 Links & Resources: If this podcast has blessed you today, you can support us through your gift today.Support the Ministry/Podcast & Get Your Grace Bundle: A Small Cup of Freedom is supported by the generosity of listeners like you who want to see this message of freedom reach more hearts. When you support the ministry with a financial gift of $25 or more today, we want to send you the full Grace Mindset Bundle digital download as our thank-you gift to help you renew your mind in your true identity.Give Your Gift Here: 👉⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎧 Episode Description: Episode Title: Are you exhausted from trying to do something that has already been done? We are constantly surrounded by religious checklists telling us what to achieve next—telling us to try harder to die to self, fight for victory, or work ourselves to exhaustion just to prove we are finally being "really spiritual." In this episode, Coach Matt exposes the exhausting trap of trying to duplicate what Jesus already perfected on the cross. Rooted in the liberating truth of 2 Corinthians 3:17 and Romans 6:6, you will discover that real hope isn't about your human effort—it's about resting in the absolute sufficiency of Jesus. Learn how to drop your hands, step out of the performance loop, and experience the profound freedom of knowing that Jesus has already done it all.Questions to Sit With This Week:Are you waking up every day trying to build a bridge to a spiritual position that Jesus has already placed you in?What would change in your daily stress levels if you chose to believe that Jesus’s finished work is completely enough, without adding your own sweat and striving to it?🔗 Links & Resources:Support the Ministry & Get Your Grace Bundle: A Small Cup of Freedom is supported by the generosity of listeners like you who want to see this message of grace and freedom reach more hearts. When you support the ministry with a financial gift of $25 or more today, we want to send you the full Grace Mindset Bundle digital download as our thank-you gift to help you walk in your true identity.Give Your Gift Here: Click here to support the podcast

🔗 Links & Resources: If this podcast has blessed you today, you can support us through your gift today.Support the Ministry/Podcast & Get Your Grace Bundle: A Small Cup of Freedom is supported entirely by the generosity of listeners like you who want to see this message of freedom reach more hearts. When you support the ministry with a financial gift of $25 or more today, we want to send you the full Grace Mindset Bundle digital download as our thank-you gift to help you renew your mind in your true identity.Give Your Gift Here: 👉⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Episode description: Die to self? Deny yourself? I die daily? These may be popular phrases we hear in Christianity, but are they true. Join Coach Matt today as he unpacks the life giving truths of our new self/identity and the freedom that comes with it. You really can live free!

Retrain Your Mind for Freedom: Stop guessing how to dismantle the performance loops. Grab the Grace Mindset Bundle today. It gives you the exact practical framework to exchange performance lies for your true identity in Christ.👉⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to secure your copy of The Grace Mindset Bundle™ right now. This high-utility freedom tool includes our signature digital Grace over Grind book plus 4 custom audio tracks explicitly engineered to retrain your mind for radical rest and grace during your daily commute or morning routine.Other resources available: 2. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Secure the Performance vs. Grace Exchange Field Guide here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Print version available here on Amazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠3. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠For more resources on your freedom in Christ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠4. Get your copy of The Love of the Father, enjoying Jesus every day here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://a.co/d/0aQn1PFX⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support the Podcast (Buy Coach Matt a Coffee):☕ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy me a Coffee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(If this small cup of freedom blessed your spirit today, you can support our independent ministry here)🎧 Episode Description: What if the biggest mistake you are making in your spiritual life is fighting an enemy that Jesus already defeated? Performance religion has programmed us to focus entirely on temptation, tracking our flaws, and trying to white-knuckle our way into behavior modification. But a constant preoccupation with sin will actually enslave you to the very thing you've been set free from.In this episode of A Small Cup of Freedom, Coach Matt shares the most restful gift you have been given in Christ: your absolute freedom to choose. Rooted in Romans 6:11 and Galatians 5:16, you will discover that real hope is not about exhausting self-control—it's about allowing the Spirit of Christ to do the walking through you. Learn how to stop treating temptation like a failure of your character, and start viewing it as a faith opportunity to look away from the flaw and fix your eyes entirely on Jesus.Questions to Sit With This Week:When an old temptation or habit comes at you, does your mind automatically focus on fighting the sin, or do you treat it as an opportunity to focus on Christ Himself?What would change in your daily stress levels if you trusted the Spirit of Christ to handle the temptation through you, rather than relying on your own willpower?Links Mentioned in This Episode:Grace Mindset Bundle (Limited Time Offer): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click Here to get the Bundle at a special price⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Read the Full Breakdown & Reply Early: Head over to my Substack to read this entry, join our community, and to receive weekly encouragement on your freedom in Christ: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://freedom4ucoaching.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Grab the Grace Exchange Field Guide: If you want a practical, interactive freedom tool to start exchanging your performance for grace today, grab a digital copy of the workbook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here for the digital copy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (best for tablets/phones printing at home)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here for the print copy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (best for writing and taking notes w/ a pen)Get your copy of The Love of the Father, enjoying Jesus every day: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://a.co/d/0aQn1PFX⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Free Indeed Devotional: ⁠⁠https://a.co/d/03iz6Va3⁠⁠

Retrain Your Mind for Freedom: Stop guessing how to dismantle the performance loops. Grab the Grace Mindset Bundle today. It gives you the exact practical framework to exchange performance lies for your true identity in Christ.👉⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to secure your copy of The Grace Mindset Bundle™ right now. This high-utility package includes our signature digital Grace over Grind book plus 4 custom audio tracks explicitly engineered to retrain your mind for radical rest during your daily commute or morning routine.Other resources available: 2. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Secure the Performance vs. Grace Exchange Field Guide here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Print version available here on Amazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠3. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠For more resources on your freedom in Christ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠4. Get your copy of The Love of the Father, enjoying Jesus every day here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://a.co/d/0aQn1PFX⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support the Podcast (Buy Coach Matt a Coffee):☕ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy me a Coffee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(If this small cup of freedom blessed your spirit today, you can support our independent ministry here)🎧 Episode Description: Real freedom is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin. But if that’s true, why do you still sin if you are supposed to be so brand new? Why don't you always act like who you are? When you stumble, snap, or fall back into an old craving, it’s easy to feel like your new birth failed.In this episode, Coach Matt breaks down the game-changing theological distinction between the verb of sinning and the noun of Sin’s power from Romans 6. Discover how to stop treating your stumbles as a heart failure and start recognizing them for what they really are: "the flesh"—old, automated habit loops trying to get life apart from Christ. Learn how to practically apply Romans 6:11 to make a free choice by faith, step out of the striving, and live from the resurrection right now.Questions to Sit With This Week:When an old temptation hits, are you trying to work yourself really hard to "die" to it, or are you actively counting yourself already dead to its power because of Jesus?What old strategy are you still relying on to get validation or security apart from Christ?Links Mentioned in This Episode:Grace Mindset Bundle (Limited Time Offer): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click Here to get the Bundle at a special price⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Read the Full Breakdown & Reply Early: Head over to my Substack to read this entry, join our community, and to receive weekly encouragement on your freedom in Christ: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://freedom4ucoaching.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Grab the Grace Exchange Field Guide: If you want a practical, interactive freedom tool to start exchanging your performance for grace today, grab a digital copy of the workbook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here for the digital copy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (best for tablets/phones printing at home)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here for the print copy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (best for writing and taking notes w/ a pen)Get your copy of The Love of the Father, enjoying Jesus every day: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://a.co/d/0aQn1PFX⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Free Indeed Devotional: ⁠https://a.co/d/03iz6Va3⁠

Get your copy of our Free Indeed devotional here!Silenced the performance noise yet?👉⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here⁠⁠⁠⁠ to secure your copy of The Grace Mindset Bundle™ right now. This high-utility package includes our signature digital Grace over Grind book plus 4 custom audio tracks explicitly engineered to retrain your mind for radical rest during your daily commute or morning routine.Other resources available: 2. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Secure the Performance vs. Grace Exchange Field Guide here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Print version available here on Amazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠3. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠For more resources on your freedom in Christ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠4. Get your copy of The Love of the Father, enjoying Jesus every day here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://a.co/d/0aQn1PFX⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support the Podcast (Buy Coach Matt a Coffee):☕ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy me a Coffee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(If this small cup of freedom blessed your spirit today, you can support our independent ministry here)🎧 Episode Description: It is the most frustrating, exhausting question in the Christian life: Why do I still sin if I am supposed to be so brand new? When we trip over the same hurdles week after week, the religious performance script is always waiting to whisper that we are just inherently flawed, dirty, and broken. But that whisper is a deception.In this episode, Coach Matt exposes the spiritual hypnosis keeping millions of believers trapped in an identity that isn't even theirs anymore. Rooted in the reality of Romans 6, you will discover that your true identity is a matter of your spiritual birth, not your temporary behavior. Learn how to stop treating temptation like a proof of your failure, and start viewing it as a faith opportunity to declare who you already are in Christ.Links Mentioned in This Episode:Grace Mindset Bundle (Limited Time Offer): ⁠⁠⁠⁠Click Here to get the Bundle at a special price⁠⁠⁠⁠Read the Full Breakdown & Reply Early: Head over to my Substack to read this entry, join our community, and to receive weekly encouragement on your freedom in Christ: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://freedom4ucoaching.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Grab the Grace Exchange Field Guide: If you want a practical, interactive freedom tool to start exchanging your performance for grace today, grab a digital copy of the workbook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here for the digital copy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (best for tablets/phones printing at home)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here for the print copy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (best for writing and taking notes w/ a pen)Get your copy of The Love of the Father, enjoying Jesus every day: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://a.co/d/0aQn1PFX⁠⁠⁠⁠Free Indeed Devotional: https://a.co/d/03iz6Va3

🔗 Links & Resources:Surround Your Mind with Freedom: Celebrate Labor Day with us! We are running a special 25% Off Store-Wide Sale at our Freedom 4-U online store from now until the end of the holiday. Head over to grab the resources, books, courses and visual tools built to anchor you in your finished identity.Shop the Sale: https://payhip.com/Freedom4UCoaching | Use Coupon Code: FREEDOM25Episode Description:Are you exhausted from trying to force your behavior using raw discipline, willpower, and constant sin management? Many believers have been deeply deceived into operating out of a false identity—believing that what we do is who we are.In this episode, Coach Matt shares how discovering his true identity in Christ broke a heavy, rules-based lifestyle of burnout. Rooted in Proverbs 4:23 and 2 Corinthians 5:17, this message will challenge you to step out of the behavior modification trap and realize that you aren't a refurbished sinner trying your best—you are a brand-new spiritual creation. True freedom doesn't start with changing your actions; it starts with resting in who you already are.Questions to Sit With This Week:When you look in the mirror, are you answering the question of who you are based on your daily behavior, or based on your brand-new birth?If you are truly a brand-new creation, why don't you always act like it? Why do Christians still struggle so intensely with sin, and why are we so utterly preoccupied with it?

Silenced the performance noise yet?👉⁠⁠⁠Click here⁠⁠⁠ to secure your copy of The Grace Mindset Bundle™ right now. This high-utility package includes our signature digital Grace over Grind book plus 4 custom audio tracks explicitly engineered to retrain your mind for radical rest during your daily commute or morning routine.Other resources available: 2. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Secure the Performance vs. Grace Exchange Field Guide here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Print version available here on Amazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠3. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠For more resources on your freedom in Christ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠4. Get your copy of The Love of the Father, enjoying Jesus every day here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://a.co/d/0aQn1PFX⁠⁠⁠⁠Support the Podcast (Buy Coach Matt a Coffee):☕ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy me a Coffee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(If this small cup of freedom blessed your spirit today, you can support our independent ministry here)Episode description: Have you ever felt completely secure in your faith on Sunday, only to lose your temper, hit a wave of anxiety, or slip into an old habit by Monday morning? When you blow it before breakfast, an old religious performance script instantly starts whispering: "See? You haven't changed. You're still have a bad or wicked heart." But that whisper is a lie. In this episode of A Small Cup of Freedom, Coach Matt exposes the exhausting trap of spiritual self-sabotage. When your morning/day is messy, it isn't a heart failure—it's just an unrenewed mind reading from an old script. Discover how to stop punishing yourself, break the performance loop, and boldly step into the throne room of grace exactly when you need it most.Pause & Reflect Questions From This Episode:When you stumble or are having a bad day, do you instinctively run toward God for grace, or do you try to bench yourself until you've "earned" your way back into His good graces?What would change today if you stopped trying to modify your behavior and started living from your new birth right now?Links Mentioned in This Episode:Grace Mindset Bundle (Limited Time Offer): ⁠⁠⁠Click Here to get the Bundle at a special price⁠⁠⁠Read the Full Breakdown & Reply Early: Head over to my Substack to read this entry, join our community, and to receive weekly encouragement on your freedom in Christ: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://freedom4ucoaching.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Grab the Grace Exchange Field Guide: If you want a practical, interactive freedom tool to start exchanging your performance for grace today, grab a digital copy of the workbook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here for the digital copy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (best for tablets/phones printing at home)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here for the print copy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (best for writing and taking notes w/ a pen)Get your copy of The Love of the Father, enjoying Jesus every day: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://a.co/d/0aQn1PFX⁠⁠⁠