At 24, I felt powerless against a temptation I knew wasn't right. Then one verse changed everything, and I wrote a chorus I carried for 25 years. In this episode, I share the story behind "Resurrection Power" and play the finished song.

Whether you're fighting a temptation you can't shake or a dream you can't finish, the power that raised Christ from the dead is greater than the lie that you're powerless.

Scripture: Philippians 3:10 | Romans 6:11, 14 | Galatians 5:17 | Philippians 1:6 | Romans 3:23 | Romans 5:8 | Romans 10:9 (Scripture quotations from the Christian Standard Bible.)

🎵 Watch the lyric video: Resurrection Power 🎶 More original songs: Original Worship Songs | Bonnie Jean Schaefer ✉️ Did you trust Christ today? I'd love to hear your story: bonnie@adventurizelife.com

"Resurrection Power": Lyrics © 2026 Bonnie Jean Schaefer. Music produced with Suno AI.

Faithful Finisher | An Adventurize Life Podcast

How much of yourself is your job supposed to get? The danger is that I can spend my best energy being excellent at the work I'm paid to do, then arrive at the work I believe I'm supposed to build with whatever is left of me.

I want to do excellent work. But my job isn't the whole assignment.

Work, family, health, relationships, ministry, creativity, rest. They can all be good responsibilities. They cannot all receive maximum effort.

In this episode of Faithful Finisher, I'm wrestling with the difference between excellence and exhaustion, and the question ambitious people need to ask when we have to determine if "could" means "should":

What does faithfulness actually require here?

Give God all of you. Then let Him govern what each responsibility receives.

💡 Find where you fade.

Take the free Faithful Finisher Diagnostic and identify the pattern that keeps interrupting your progress: RiseFromStuck.com

👥 Stop walking alone.

Join the Adventurize Life League, where Christian dreamers challenge themselves, create meaningful work, build what serves others, and practice becoming faithful finishers: AdventurizeLifeLeague.com

🐲 Escape into another world.

I also write fantasy adventures as D.K. Drake. Explore the Dragon Stalker Bloodlines Saga on Amazon.

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I spent weeks building the Faithful Finisher Diagnostic.

Then I published it and thought: I kind of hope nobody takes it yet.

Because once real people encounter your work, you get something another revision can't give you: reality.

In this episode, I'm wrestling with the line between responsible improvement and hiding, and a standard I'm learning to use when I don't know if something is ready:

It's workable. It's improvable. But I'm going for it anyway.

If you're stuck in one more revision, one more test, or one more round of research, this one's for you.

💡 Find where you fade.

Take the free Faithful Finisher Diagnostic and identify the pattern that keeps interrupting your progress: RiseFromStuck.com

👥 Stop walking alone.

Join the Adventurize Life League, where Christian dreamers challenge themselves, create meaningful work, build what serves others, and practice becoming faithful finishers: AdventurizeLifeLeague.com

🐲 Escape into another world.

I also write fantasy adventures as D.K. Drake. Explore the Dragon Stalker Bloodlines Saga on Amazon.

📢 Subscribe & Review:

And if this episode made you think, move, or see your race differently, send it to one person who needs it and leave a review so more ambitious Christian dreamers and doers can find the trail that anchors them in Christ all the way through the finish line.