Faith Versus Reality | The Sacred Life Podcast #41

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Faith versus reality. So how believers present themselves versus how they actually live when nobody's watching. [00:00:08] Speaker B: Jesus. I know. And Paul. I know. But who are you? [00:00:12] Speaker A: Real faith demands uncomfortable sacrifice and not just nice words and church attendance and being seen. [00:00:21] Speaker B: He will not make you humble yourself. [00:00:25] Speaker A: You have to put action behind each and everything. [00:00:29] Speaker A: Sacred life. [00:00:33] Speaker A: Sacred life. [00:00:35] Speaker A: Life. [00:00:38] Speaker A: The sacred life. Living a life. Living a life. Living, living, living a life. The sacred. [00:00:51] Speaker A: Sacred warriors. What up? What up? This your boy, Twain, the owner of. [00:00:54] Speaker B: Sacred of Pearl, Indiana. Johnson, the owner of Overcoming Daily. [00:00:57] Speaker A: Welcome to the Sacred Life podcast, where we will be discussing life, relationships, business, the Bible, and of course, how to. [00:01:05] Speaker B: Live the sacred life. [00:01:07] Speaker A: Welcome, welcome, welcome. Now, listen, as most of you will know, as some of you know, we've started over. We've started fresh. We're on our new own channel now. So we need your help. We need y' all to like to subscribe, to comment, and to share. You know, I mean, we left a challenge where we had, like over 10,000 people and viewers subscribers, and now we started over because we want to be on our own channel and not our clothing brands channel. Okay? So we need your help. [00:01:35] Speaker B: All right? [00:01:36] Speaker A: So tap in. [00:01:37] Speaker B: So thank you in advance. We thank you in advance. [00:01:40] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. So, Ms. Johnson, how things going? [00:01:46] Speaker B: Fantastic, y'. All? Absolutely fantastic. [00:01:50] Speaker A: Going fantastic. [00:01:51] Speaker B: Got my steps in already today. Let's see where we at. Well, some of my steps, I'm at 6,000 steps. [00:01:57] Speaker A: So we started the day out. We went for a walk this morning. [00:01:59] Speaker B: A cold walk. [00:02:00] Speaker A: It is cold out there. Okay. I want to give up. I promise you. I want to stop. And I think she knew because she took me a different route away from the house. So it was harder for the turn back. So it was what it was. [00:02:13] Speaker B: Well, how many steps did you get in today then? [00:02:15] Speaker A: Like, over 5,000 this morning, so. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, over 5,000 this morning. So I'm still moving. Yeah. I mean, so that's a big deal. Yeah. So today's topic, let's open with prayer. We're going to start prayer before we get going. Would you like to lead us? [00:02:35] Speaker B: Sure. Father Yahweh, we thank you, we praise you and we give you the glory, Father, we thank you for this podcast. We thank you for these people, and we thank you for the sacred life, Father. You've made that possible in and through your son. And we just pray for the listeners, Father, that they would be encouraged and that you would be magnified and that you would be glorified. In Yeshua's name, Amen and Amen Amen. [00:02:58] Speaker A: Amen. So today's topic, we Chin checking some of y'. [00:03:03] Speaker B: All. [00:03:03] Speaker A: Okay. So the thing is, your walk don't match your talk. All right? Faith versus reality. So you have people who. You got these. You got some. You got, like, the high and mighty Christians. Oh. You don't do this, don't do that. But what's your life like behind big talkers. Yeah, big talkers. What's your life like behind the scenes? What's your life like when people aren't watching you? What's your life like when the cameras aren't on you? I mean, what's that song about Cray? After the show, after the song, after the party stops, what's next? What's. What's. [00:03:35] Speaker B: Oh, you know, you're asking the wrong person. [00:03:37] Speaker A: Yeah, I am. It's like, what's next? What are you doing when people aren't seeing or watching you? You know what I mean? [00:03:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:03:43] Speaker A: So you ever encounter some of that with people? And then I've been commenting with people. It's like, you with them, whatever, doing certain things. [00:03:52] Speaker B: Well. [00:03:53] Speaker A: But this atmosphere is a church and things. [00:03:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:03:55] Speaker A: Go out somewhere and it's like, whoa, hold on, buddy. [00:03:58] Speaker B: Oh, but that's just the reality of it. This is not just a Christian or believer problem. It's a people problem. [00:04:07] Speaker A: Okay. [00:04:08] Speaker B: And, you know, and the question. The greater question is, why is that a problem? [00:04:11] Speaker A: Why is it. [00:04:12] Speaker B: Why is it a problem? [00:04:13] Speaker A: It's almost like I say with. [00:04:16] Speaker A: I usually use this analogy a lot when you would go. Actually, I used to say this when we used the club. When you go out to a club or when you would go out somewhere, you don't meet that person. You meet their representative. [00:04:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:27] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, when you first meet somebody, you meet their representative. That's not who you're really meeting. But it's afterwards when you get to know that person and you start building relationship, you're like, oh, I didn't see all this before. Where is this coming from? [00:04:39] Speaker B: Well, and, you know, really, we need to backtrack a little bit and ask, are you that person? You know, and so some of you may be like, well, of course I'm not that person. Well, just stay with us a little while. Let's. [00:04:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:51] Speaker B: Couldn't we all use a little bit of grow. [00:04:53] Speaker A: We all do it. Yeah, we all do it. You do it. Don't even lie to yourself. You do it. But how you about to find out how some of these. [00:05:01] Speaker B: And maybe you are not. I'm gonna. I'm gonna give People benefit of the doubt. Maybe some of you are not doing it, but that doesn't mean that you don't need to listen to this podcast, because you need to know ways. Ways to guard yourself from falling into it. Because if you've got a pulse and you've got breath in your lungs, there's always a potential that you could fall into. Yeah, Miss. [00:05:25] Speaker A: See, she gives you the benefits. I'm not. Because I'm telling you, I know you're doing it. That's always like people saying, I don't sit. You're lying. You're doing it. [00:05:32] Speaker B: Yeah, we're not talking about sin. [00:05:34] Speaker A: That's what I'm saying, though. So it's like the same thing. People can say, no, I don't do. You do. You do. And I promise you, when we go through some of these things, you're gonna be like, oh, okay, maybe I do a little bit. But we just prayed that some of these topics and some of these questions and talking points will cause you to want to change that or bring realization to some of the things that are being done. You know what I mean? So. And one. One of our talking points. I keep my feet. I got. Got kind of taking it easy today. So I got Santas and bearing shoes on. We just think it needs to. Excuse me if you saw that. Whatever. [00:06:11] Speaker A: The gap between image and identity. So how believers present themselves versus how they actually live when nobody's watching, we kind of was just already tapping into that. [00:06:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:25] Speaker A: You need me repeat that? Are you thinking on it? [00:06:30] Speaker B: No. [00:06:30] Speaker A: That look like something you want to shot. Shoot shots at? [00:06:33] Speaker B: No. Go ahead and say it again. [00:06:36] Speaker A: How believers present themselves versus how they actually live when nobody's watching. [00:06:44] Speaker A: You know what I mean? So you got those? Yeah. [00:06:49] Speaker B: Well, you know, I had this revelation. It's like a deeper revelation. It's a revelation I've been aware of, but it's even deeper. And you know, me doing the 365 community and always under. Always under a camera all the time. [00:07:03] Speaker A: Real quick, though, what's the 365 community? [00:07:05] Speaker B: Oh, the 365 community is a community of believers who declare and decree daily that they are overcomers by the blood of the lamb. And so it's a community where we focus on mindset, lifestyle, and overcoming. Daily we eat challenges for breakfast. [00:07:20] Speaker A: You bring a fresh video every day. You bring declarations every day. [00:07:25] Speaker B: PDFs, community. [00:07:26] Speaker A: I think y' all should tap in because it's a real. I go to it every day. I check it out every day. It's a real good community, almost like a devotional type theme thing. And so click below and I have the link to sign up and to check it out and everything. Is there a free trial or you. I know. We talked about that. Okay, so, yeah, tap in and check it out. You know what I mean? [00:07:46] Speaker B: And it's a paid community. [00:07:48] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a. Definitely a paid community. But how else will people invest? [00:07:52] Speaker B: You run daily. You run. You run daily drills with a community of believers. [00:07:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:59] Speaker B: That are serious about overcoming. [00:08:01] Speaker A: Yeah. And it's. It's only. It's what, 37amonth? That's nothing. Yeah, that's nothing. [00:08:06] Speaker B: Nothing. [00:08:07] Speaker A: Okay, so tap in. So go ahead. I'm sorry I cut you off, what you're saying. [00:08:10] Speaker B: Yeah. But no, this is the reality. We need to live every day, in every moment. Like, we're underneath them. Underneath. Like we're being recorded. Because we are. [00:08:20] Speaker A: We really are. [00:08:21] Speaker B: We're being recorded. And I'm not saying from like a worldly standpoint, but things are recorded in the books of heaven. Like, every day is recorded. We're being watched all the time. [00:08:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:33] Speaker B: And so if we lived our life from that truth. [00:08:38] Speaker B: How would we approach things? It would definitely be different. [00:08:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Like, what was that was asking when the. What's one of the kisses somebody. If y' all was sitting right beside you, would you do that? No, I'm like, well, he is. He's sitting right there. You know what I mean? So it's like when you bring that realization of that and really think about it, it's like, it's a different thing, you know? So. So it's like, what are you really doing? So the other one we have, when we speak boldly about God, but our habits, choices, and our lifestyle do not back it up. [00:09:14] Speaker B: Wow. [00:09:15] Speaker A: Yeah. We speak boldly about it. You know what that reminds me, it's almost being hypocritical. [00:09:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:21] Speaker A: In a sense. [00:09:21] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, the most dangerous. [00:09:26] Speaker B: Believer is actually one who's in alignment with. They have a. They don't only have lip service. They have life service. They have heart service. [00:09:37] Speaker A: Life service? [00:09:39] Speaker B: Yeah, a heart service. They lay it all down. They lay it all down. But I'm thinking the reason I grabbed my phone is. I'm thinking about. [00:09:50] Speaker B: And this is. This is where we get ourselves in trouble in life. You know, I was thinking about, as believers, you cannot go around acting, you know, speaking boldly. You can, but it can. It comes with its consequences. [00:10:05] Speaker A: Right. [00:10:06] Speaker B: So, you know, we see this. [00:10:09] Speaker B: In Acts 19:15, which. Where it says, I'm just find it here real quick. This is the kjv. And this, the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus, I know. And Paul, I know, but who are you? [00:10:26] Speaker A: Well, you know, you know. [00:10:28] Speaker B: So it's like you can, you're going to go out and you're going to flex and say all this boldness, but the demons are going to call you. [00:10:36] Speaker A: Out, you going to pull your car. [00:10:37] Speaker B: And matter of fact, is this the one where they people got their butts kicked? [00:10:44] Speaker B: You remember? [00:10:44] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The disciples really tried to cast out the demon. [00:10:48] Speaker B: Yes, here it is. Then the man in whom the evil spirits was leaped on them, overpowered them and prevailed against them. [00:10:57] Speaker B: So they, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. [00:11:02] Speaker A: He beat the brakes off of them. Yeah, he beat the brakes off of them. [00:11:06] Speaker B: Yeah. And so, and that, so that's the thing. We can, you know, as believers, we, you know, the other thing of thinking of it is, is that when we walk in in hypocrisy, a lot of times people don't know that they're walking in hypocrisy. [00:11:24] Speaker B: You know, the demons. [00:11:28] Speaker B: They mock that. They take full advantage of it in time. So it may not happen eventually. Yeah, may not happen eventually. [00:11:36] Speaker A: Working towards it. [00:11:37] Speaker B: Yes. And at the same time Father will allow that exposure. Not because he wants to shame you. [00:11:42] Speaker A: I bet you they step some things up after that. I promise you, they step some things up. [00:11:48] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, Jesus, I know Paul, I. [00:11:51] Speaker A: Know, but who you? [00:11:53] Speaker B: Yeah. So it's like he, those people were not even in the same group, the same click. Like they weren't. [00:12:01] Speaker A: What hood you repping cuz? [00:12:04] Speaker B: Not the kingdom because they got their butts kicked. [00:12:06] Speaker A: Oh, that's funny. That's funny. But it's not funny. But yeah, it's real. [00:12:11] Speaker B: It's real. It's real. And so I mean that's a really good example to think about. [00:12:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:16] Speaker B: Because if you're out there and you're promoting, you're promoting God, but your life is not clean. [00:12:27] Speaker B: It's just a matter. Well. And sometimes the enemy will let you get yourself really high before he attacks. Before he attacks. Because the attack is not on you, the attack is upon. On the testimony of what you're saying. [00:12:39] Speaker A: Yeah. And that's something we always saying about building your testimony, telling your story. [00:12:43] Speaker B: You better live that testimony out. [00:12:45] Speaker A: Got to live it out. Got to. [00:12:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:49] Speaker A: So. [00:12:54] Speaker A: Only being on fire when life feels good, but disappearing spiritually when discipline is required. So you partially on fire. Only, only being on fire. When it feels good, but then it disappears. [00:13:10] Speaker B: Or when you're in the mood. [00:13:11] Speaker A: Spiritually. Yeah. When you're in the mood or when. Like we said, when the camera's on. [00:13:15] Speaker B: Or when it's easy. [00:13:16] Speaker A: Yeah. So what, you. What are your thoughts about that? You know, I mean, only. [00:13:23] Speaker B: Say it again. [00:13:23] Speaker A: Only. Only being on fire when life feels good, but that disappearing spiritually when discipline is required. [00:13:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:36] Speaker B: That's not an overcomer. [00:13:40] Speaker B: Overcomer stays on fire. [00:13:41] Speaker A: Yeah. So you can then. Johnny Blaze. You can't flame on, flame off when you want to. [00:13:48] Speaker B: No. [00:13:48] Speaker A: You know what I mean? [00:13:49] Speaker B: No, no. [00:13:51] Speaker A: Gotcha. Got to be authentic at all times. At all times. [00:13:57] Speaker B: And the thing is, is if you're not authentic, then you don't have the anointing, and you're going to need the anointing to break things. [00:14:05] Speaker A: Yeah, you said to do the things that need to be done. To do the things that Yah wants. [00:14:09] Speaker B: You to do, you need the. [00:14:11] Speaker A: You can't do it in your own. So it ain't. No, I'm gonna do it here. I'm gonna turn it on. Holy Spirit, activate. Now, but the thing is, that was a good quote on saying people say, holy Spirit, activate. Hey, you need to have that activated all the time. [00:14:25] Speaker B: Yes, but it's a good way to. For focus. To say that, to bring you into focus. [00:14:29] Speaker A: Yeah, no, I agree with that. To bring it into focus, but don't use it as. No, turn on, turn off, switch, like. Yeah, I know. [00:14:37] Speaker B: Well, sometimes you can turn up the heat. [00:14:41] Speaker B: I do, yeah, I do. Like, you know, even though I may have a fire burning, what degree of that heat do I need to do what I need to do? [00:14:51] Speaker A: Almost like praying. [00:14:53] Speaker B: Same heat, just praying. [00:14:54] Speaker A: And then you stop praying in tongues. [00:14:56] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. [00:14:58] Speaker A: I dig that. Exactly. [00:14:59] Speaker B: Or I start waving my arms and I'm a praying and I'm appointing my fingers. Or I, you know, you know, things like that. [00:15:05] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. See, those are different, though, from, I mean, it disappearing and then you flipping. [00:15:09] Speaker B: Well, yes. And the other thing, remember is that Yeshua says that, you know, do what. Do these things in private. So he's talking about when you pray. Don't be like the hypocrite. [00:15:20] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:15:21] Speaker B: You know, where you're out and you want people to notice, like, you know, what are you doing in the. In that reveals who you are. Who you really are is not necessarily in the prayer closet, but our lives are an act of worship. And so what are we worshiping? [00:15:39] Speaker B: Are we worshiping self? Are we worshiping the flesh? Are we worshiping? You know, things mammoth like what are we worshiping? [00:15:47] Speaker A: Or you can go deeper to your job or your ministry. Yeah, I mean, because people worship those things. I mean, don't let your ministry be something that you worshiping. But, you know, I just want to say fully on. [00:15:58] Speaker B: But yeah, and I do want to say because of just my expertise, which makes me a lot more flexible in what how I see things, you know, is. Is that, you know, one of the reasons why people are. They have what appears to be hypocrisy is because they're wounded. They don't really know their true identity. Like they've. Life is speaking to them. So I mean, think about it. When you're, when you're a child and your mom, like, you know, you can run, you can act crazy at home, but then when you go out, mom says, act like you've got some sense. [00:16:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:34] Speaker B: I mean, you learn. You learn. Hypocrisy is learned. Like when you, you know, you show up a certain kind of way and that goes away. [00:16:42] Speaker A: Some of the things you talk about actually in one of your programs. So soul wounds, they go back to soul wounds. [00:16:48] Speaker B: Yes. [00:16:49] Speaker A: Yeah. Being like taught to be a certain way, do certain things. Things a certain way, we have to. [00:16:55] Speaker B: We, we grow in our. Our identity is hidden in Christ. And so we have to grow in our understanding of who Christ is. And we have to grow in our identity of who we are in Christ. And we have to work towards stealing all the noise and shedding all the bumper stickers is the way I would say, like the labels of this world. And that's so, you know, the first thing to recognize is like, wait a minute. That was hypocritical. [00:17:25] Speaker B: You know, because I'm gonna, I'm, I'm talking to those believers that are watching the podcast right now, and they're like, they want to show up and be the best version of themselves. They right for God that God would be magnified, that they want to have. They. They want to not. [00:17:42] Speaker B: What is the word? I don't. For lack of better words, they don't want to take away from the testimony. Testimony of God in their life through because of hypocrisy. [00:17:50] Speaker A: Gotcha. Gotcha. [00:17:53] Speaker B: So what a blessing it is that you get to be the true authentic version of yourself. But who is that? [00:18:01] Speaker A: And see, that's the thing. It goes to my next thing. In order to get to really tap into who that is, you have to become uncomfortable. I mean, that's something that we've been talking about. Here lately, a lot about being comfortable and uncomfortable. And it's like, why real faith demands uncomfortable sacrifice and not just nice words and church attendance and being seen. You know what I'm saying? We must be uncomfortable because the point that we. The minute that we become comfortable, you start getting a little slothful, a little laziness, and things start creeping in and you're not giving it your all. [00:18:39] Speaker B: Well, and I guess. And that's. You know, the reality of it is, is being your true, authentic self is uncomfortable. And getting to know your true, authentic self is uncomfortable because there, you know, our true self is hidden under layers of things. [00:18:53] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:18:55] Speaker B: And honestly, I feel like the. The truest version of ourself in Christ, it is hidden. It's a discovery. It's a journey that we walk out. So his Holy Spirit reveals to you. Like, wait a minute, you know, why are you acting this way here? But you act this way there. [00:19:13] Speaker A: Like, the funny thing is, that's something you actually pull my card on with actually recording this podcast. And even you do it sometimes. We're taking pictures. But that's a different thing with taking pictures. It's like, if y' all listen to. When we first started the podcast, I didn't have this enthusiasm. I was kind of like, dry and talking. It's like I was trying to be a certain way, and I just wasn't giving my full hyper adhdish me, you know, she's like, twink, that's not you that I'd be sitting talking to. And I thought about. I'm like, dang, you, right? Yo. So I mean, it's like, just be me. [00:19:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:50] Speaker A: Why. Why am I gonna come on here and not be me? [00:19:53] Speaker B: You haven't met your full self yet. [00:19:55] Speaker A: Who you. What you mean, I. [00:19:57] Speaker B: Anybody. Anybody. Life is a journey. [00:20:00] Speaker A: Oh, gotcha. [00:20:01] Speaker B: And we go from glory to glory. So if you have an. If you have an arrival mindset, just go ahead and shred it. [00:20:09] Speaker A: Yeah. You have not arrived because. [00:20:12] Speaker B: Well, I mean, you can. [00:20:13] Speaker A: It's a journey. [00:20:13] Speaker B: No, you can. You can arrive. No, you. Because this is a continuous journey. It's a mentality. That's why some people do the same things every day and never grow. [00:20:26] Speaker A: Okay, so you say they think that they have arrived. That's why they continue. [00:20:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, oh, I get that job. I get married, I have kids. It is finished. [00:20:35] Speaker A: So there's really. When you get to that point and you're not doing anything, you're not. [00:20:39] Speaker B: You're not looking for the new things that God wants to Do. [00:20:41] Speaker A: Yeah, I do that. I do that. [00:20:44] Speaker B: And the other thing is, is if you find yourself in, you know, having some hip, Some hypocrisy, the question is, are you in a place. Are you in the wrong place? Sometimes, you know, we really asking question questions like, father, how did I get here? What is the issue? So, like, sometimes we see this with kids. They will get with a peer group and they will take on the mask of the peer group. [00:21:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:14] Speaker B: But that is really not that kid. [00:21:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:18] Speaker B: They are probably connected to the wrong group. [00:21:21] Speaker A: Almost like, kind of like that. I can't talk. It reminds you of what went on in Chicago with the lady and her kids, and they got jumped by all that, the group of kids. And it's like, I bet a lot of was just a lot of them stepping out of character to fit in and blend in. Even though all of them was wrong, I think all of them should be punished. But, I mean, that's what it was with the group that they were hanging with and the people that it shouldn't have been. [00:21:45] Speaker B: Well, that's what I'm saying, though. But if you. If you're finding yourself with hypocrisy, then you've got to decide. And that's the other thing. And, you know, if I find myself in this situation. [00:21:58] Speaker B: You know, why am I there? You know, why am I there? You know, I noticed. [00:22:07] Speaker B: Well, I. I feel like Holy Spirit checked me on this. I was doing something, having a conversation, and I was joking about, which is really not me anyway. Like, I, like, had a kind of like a joking response. [00:22:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:23] Speaker B: And she's not the jokester. No, I'm. I'm all. I'm on the business here. I do have fun sometimes with it. A lot of times I have fun with it. But after I got done speaking this person, it was like. It was like the Lord said, why did you say that? Like, that's not even you. [00:22:44] Speaker B: And so, like, if we just practice God awareness and allow God to check us, but a lot of times we've already made up our minds. And so when we've already made up our minds, we can't see our own hypocrisy. That's the scary part. When you cannot see your own hypocrisy because you've made up your mind of what you are, true and authentic. But we all are tempted to be hypocrites at some point in time. [00:23:06] Speaker A: Right. [00:23:11] Speaker B: And, you know, and so that brings us back to, like, what, you know, the whole podcast, Sacred Life podcast is like, you know, are we're here to live a sacred life. That means therefore, we must have authenticity. [00:23:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:22] Speaker B: And that we get it. We have to get out from underneath these boxes, bumper stickers, these labels that. That maybe our parents put on us, the people we went to school with, maybe even jobs, maybe even social media Personas, and be true authentically. [00:23:38] Speaker A: How they labeled us and how we were when we were there, who we. [00:23:40] Speaker B: Are as an individual. [00:23:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:44] Speaker B: And find our tribe. [00:23:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:47] Speaker B: And that's. Yeah. That can be challenging. Honestly. [00:23:52] Speaker A: Sacred society. What up? What up? Are you serious about taking your overcoming to the next level? Maybe you lack a place for community and fellowship. Maybe you're looking for a place you can go every morning to do your devotionals. I have the perfect place for you. Overcoming Daily has a group. A group where everyone comes together and they fellowship Anna Overcomer coach. Anna releases a daily video every day. [00:24:18] Speaker B: Day. 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So why do you think believers struggle with spiritual consistency the most? [00:25:26] Speaker B: Because they don't make every day an overcomer day. [00:25:31] Speaker B: Right there. But that's why. That's why the Overcoming Daily community exists. [00:25:35] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. [00:25:37] Speaker B: Ask that question. [00:25:38] Speaker A: I didn't say that question to set it up. [00:25:40] Speaker B: I know that question again. [00:25:41] Speaker A: Why do you think believers struggle with spiritual consistent consistency the most? [00:25:47] Speaker B: Because it's hard. [00:25:49] Speaker A: Okay. [00:25:49] Speaker B: Being consistent in this world is hard. [00:25:53] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. [00:25:55] Speaker B: So you need to, you know, the part of it is you got to be locked in. And you know how you get locked in? You die daily. And then you connect yourself with people who will draw out testimony out of you. They'll draw it out. They will, they'll. They'll call you on your hypocrisy. [00:26:15] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. In love in a heartbeat. [00:26:17] Speaker B: Their transparency. You run, it's like running. It's like running with a group of people. They're trying, you know, their, their authenticity and their transparency is so bright. Like you, you feel like you're supposed to, you're supposed to be running. [00:26:36] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:36] Speaker B: With consistency. But see, this is the problem. This is actually the problem. There are less of them than there are everybody else. So everybody's looking like, oh, well, Joe, you know, like, I know he's. I know he does this on the weekends, but, you know, he, you know, he's pretty good guy. And I know he, he did does this and he does that and this and that. But you know what, what that does is it leaves space for you to do some of those things. [00:27:01] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Because you're not actually holding him fully accountable for the things that he is doing those things. [00:27:07] Speaker B: Well, he is. His brightness. His brightness does not convict you. [00:27:11] Speaker A: Is it bright? Is it dim? [00:27:13] Speaker B: Well, I mean, he has a bright. He has light. Yeah, but it's not so bright that you can. That you see your issues. See, that's why people. Oh, yes. That's what people try to numb us down. They hate it when we're, when we are shining brightly because it reveals their, their, you know, their areas for growth. We're going to say that Areas for growth. [00:27:39] Speaker A: Areas to grow. [00:27:41] Speaker B: Because we're all growing. We're all going glory to go from glory to glory. Just when you think like, you're shining brighter than everybody else, you, you know, you'll have an encounter with Christ in another person and you'll be like, wow, I don't do that. I do actually quite the opposite. Yeah, I've, you know, they, they were so quick to forgive. They didn't fuss that person out. They didn't, you know, that person tried to run them off the road. They didn't fuss about. They didn't blow the horn. They were calm. [00:28:10] Speaker A: That's the point. I'm trying to get to that calmness that being in calm and not. [00:28:13] Speaker B: Yeah, but having someone, you know, but having someone on earth that is truly a carrier of Christ and they have, you know, the Lord revealed to me one time I was praying and he asked me, I was. Had a vision about. [00:28:29] Speaker B: Opening prayer portal portals. And I know some people may not understand this, but, you know, like, as we pray, we actually crack the atmosphere and we open a space for God to come and discuss, descend upon us Right. And I was praying and then I was, you know, all of a sudden the Lord said to me, well, Anna, how. How far do you want to go? How big do you want to go? And that's the. That's the same situation. How much of Christ do you want other people to see in you? You get to determine that by. By you turn that dial. That dial. Like you crank that. You crank the lights up. Yeah, crank them up. [00:29:06] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:07] Speaker B: But I will tell you that goes. [00:29:08] Speaker A: Back to what we were saying before. [00:29:10] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:29:12] Speaker B: But I will tell you, when you crank those lights up, guess what happens? Hypocrisy starts to burn and melt. And you feel it. You feel it. Well, you feel it. So you. You want. You want that greater glory to be manifested in and through you. [00:29:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:29] Speaker B: Then what happens is when you crank up those lights, that heat starts to burn. [00:29:35] Speaker A: So that actually goes into my next. [00:29:38] Speaker B: It hurts. I'm not even gonna lie. It's not comfortable. [00:29:42] Speaker A: So with. In order to get that burning that you're talking about, this leads into what my next thing was. [00:29:47] Speaker B: I didn't read your notes. [00:29:48] Speaker A: I know what practical steps help a person bring their daily lifestyle into alignment with their faith. So what practical steps can they do in order to. To get that burning, to bring that fire up for their light to be? [00:30:03] Speaker B: Wow. That's a journey. [00:30:06] Speaker A: Getting a crap right now. I'm getting a crap. [00:30:10] Speaker B: Too much caffeine. Oh, yeah, that. That is a journey. That is a journey. And I would say the first step is humility. Thank you, Abba. That's the first step. It's humility. [00:30:22] Speaker A: Okay. [00:30:22] Speaker B: You know, the first step is humility. And the. So awareness is that, you know, I may have hypocrisy in me. Some of you may say, I may have it. And some of you like, oh, Anna, I have it. So first thing is you be humble. You're humble and you don't lie to yourself. [00:30:38] Speaker A: Right. [00:30:38] Speaker B: The other thing is, is the humility could be. Father, I know there's more to unlock and uncover about, like who I am in you. That would be the first step. The first step is humility. That's one of the things, is that. [00:30:49] Speaker A: That's one of the major keys, the end. Humility. Because we keep t. Tapping into that. [00:30:53] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, that's one of the things, is that God doesn't demand humility. He requested. [00:31:01] Speaker A: Say that again. [00:31:02] Speaker B: He doesn't demand it. That's not what. Well, I mean demand it. What I mean by that is he. That's the thing he will not do for You. He will not make you humble yourself. You. [00:31:14] Speaker A: That's something you have to do. [00:31:16] Speaker B: You have to do. That's a better way of saying it. So if you're waiting for God to do the humbling. No, that's your job. [00:31:23] Speaker A: But you hear people all the time say, God will humble you. God's going to humble you. Or he'll humble you. [00:31:27] Speaker B: Well, I mean, life will humble you. This life will humble you. And he allow this life to whip your butt. [00:31:36] Speaker A: Okay? [00:31:37] Speaker B: He will. [00:31:37] Speaker A: I like that quote. Rocket was said, life will keep beating you and beating you. [00:31:42] Speaker B: But I. You know, my understanding, and I mean my understanding from what I have read and studied is. Is that humility that he worked. He. He desires humility. And it's the only way we grow wise is in, you know, having that humility. [00:31:57] Speaker A: Right? [00:31:58] Speaker B: And he. That deep reverence for God. That's how we learn more. God is. God is God. [00:32:05] Speaker A: You know what he doing? [00:32:06] Speaker B: He don't play at all. You know what I mean? Like, playing. Like. You know, some people, they'll. They'll play with you. [00:32:12] Speaker A: Like. [00:32:12] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, they think they're. They think they're this or that. God is God, right? He don't do foolishness. [00:32:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:20] Speaker B: Yeah. So, you know, the first step. The first step would be humility, recognizing that what. You know, and there may be another way of putting it. There may be hypocrisy in you because you've yet to see. [00:32:35] Speaker B: You've yet to see. You know, like, I didn't. I. I saw that I was not acting according to my authentic self because I had my ear and my eye open to the Lord. And He. He spoke to me. He said, why did you do that? [00:32:48] Speaker A: Right. [00:32:49] Speaker B: You know, and I've seen this with people. I've seen. You know, I've seen it with people where I've said to people, this is not who you are. [00:33:00] Speaker A: You told me that. [00:33:01] Speaker B: Yeah, this is not who you are. [00:33:02] Speaker A: You told me that. [00:33:03] Speaker B: That our Earth suit is not who we are. Yeah, it's not who we are. [00:33:09] Speaker A: And I'll throw in. I even throw into that, like we said before, being uncomfortable, you got to get uncomfortable. You can't be comfortable in those situations. [00:33:19] Speaker B: Well, comfort compromises us a lot. So you're. You're more likely. If comfort is one of your values, if it's one. If it's one of your stones that you, you know, like you were talking. [00:33:31] Speaker A: About, if you're comfortable. [00:33:32] Speaker B: Yeah. You know. [00:33:36] Speaker B: Who we are is on the other side of comfort. And we see this in the life Of Christ. [00:33:43] Speaker B: We see the God in him. Ultimately, in what past? The cross. He dies. [00:33:54] Speaker B: Talk about uncomfortable. [00:33:57] Speaker B: But then he rises. [00:33:58] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:34:03] Speaker B: So we. Then it's like, oh, yes, he is the son of God, right? So he comes, he's walking as a. [00:34:12] Speaker A: Man upon the earth with us, with him. [00:34:15] Speaker B: And then he. He ascends to his true identity in heaven. But what did he have to go through to get there? [00:34:23] Speaker A: Hell, Literally. [00:34:27] Speaker A: Tell you. Sorry, hot seat. Hot seat. [00:34:32] Speaker B: Okay. [00:34:33] Speaker A: Have you ever caught yourself talking faith but not living it out? And if so, what caused that gap? [00:34:45] Speaker B: It's been a long time since I've been there. Yeah. [00:34:49] Speaker B: I want you answer that one. [00:34:50] Speaker A: Oh, no, don't. I'm not. [00:34:54] Speaker B: Why not? [00:34:54] Speaker A: I plead the fifth. [00:34:59] Speaker B: This is not court. Okay. [00:35:01] Speaker A: Have I ever. I, I, I wasn't planning to answer this. It wasn't a question for me. Let's see. Have I ever caught myself talk. Yep. Yeah, yeah, yep. [00:35:15] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:35:17] Speaker B: What was the question again? [00:35:18] Speaker A: Have you ever. Have you ever caught yourself talking faith but not living it out? What caused the gap? [00:35:27] Speaker B: Now, one of the things I will say as I've caught myself catching talking faith, because that's what I talk, it drives the children, they get tired of hearing about it, but I've talked it. And then finding a position, something come up, and then I'm looking in the natural instead of looking through faith. And then I have to change my language. [00:35:51] Speaker A: Right. [00:35:52] Speaker B: Yeah, it happens. It does happen. [00:35:55] Speaker A: I think mine was in when I was in that porn. Caught in porn. And. [00:36:04] Speaker A: I was in it, but I was still talking with people about how they shouldn't be watching point of how bad it was. And I think it was because I knew what it was doing to me and my life and family and everything. But so I would say I wasn't living in. That's what happened with that. But that was that, that's that gap. [00:36:22] Speaker B: Now, you know, I will share this story, which is actually very helpful. I had a friend. [00:36:29] Speaker B: That we went rock. We took the kids to I jump, and we were rock climbing, and I was like, I looked at that wall and I'm like, that is a high wall. And she, I mean, she's like, come on, Anna. Come on, overcomer. Come on, Overcomer. Coach, Right? [00:36:51] Speaker B: And she's like, you're an overcomer. Right? And then I was like, yeah. And I climbed that wall. But my initial response was, that is really hot. But she reminded me who I was. And I don't know the heart, but the, like the heart posture behind it. [00:37:09] Speaker A: But it worked. [00:37:11] Speaker B: It Was true. [00:37:11] Speaker A: It worked. [00:37:12] Speaker B: It was truth. Like, you know, and that's. That goes back to Community. Like, there. We're not going to be perfect. [00:37:19] Speaker A: Right? [00:37:19] Speaker B: We're not. We're not striving for perfection. We're striving for wholeness in God. [00:37:25] Speaker A: Yeah. I was like, this morning, I'm telling you, if we hadn't veered away from the house, we lap back around this house again. I'm like, yo, I'm done. I can't do it. You mean because we was just. [00:37:35] Speaker B: At first. [00:37:37] Speaker A: Yeah, we did, but at first it was just circling. We're in a big neighborhood. So we kept coming around by the house and I said, let's go this way, by the school. I'm like, dog, I said, you know what you're doing? [00:37:51] Speaker A: I told her that. Say, you know what you're doing. You get me away from the house. Because if we passed the house again, I was gone. [00:37:56] Speaker B: Yeah, but see, this is the thing, and I'm going to challenge those of you listening if you're saying to yourself. [00:38:05] Speaker B: I can't. Maybe it's not that you can't. You just don't want to see. He didn't. He, you know, he was. He said, I can't continue on in this cold. But he did. Yeah, you just didn't want to. [00:38:18] Speaker A: Want to. [00:38:19] Speaker B: And so what if you don't want to do it anyway? [00:38:22] Speaker A: I was finding an excuse not to in. My excuse was, it's cold. The wind was blowing in my face. [00:38:27] Speaker B: We have got to kill life. It is. The soft life compromises a lot. You know, it's kind of like the Matrix. What was the guy. He says, I just want to go back in and eat me. He's like, I want. He says, I know the steak is like the one that betrayed Neo. He says, I know the steak is not real, but I just want to. [00:38:48] Speaker A: I can't think his name about. [00:38:50] Speaker B: And there are. There are believers that Judas. Yeah, he was a Judas. Yeah. But there are believers that are doing that. [00:38:57] Speaker A: Yeah, this is true. [00:38:59] Speaker B: We are in the army of the Lord. We are. We don't live the soft life. [00:39:03] Speaker A: No, at all. [00:39:04] Speaker B: We live a surrendered life at all. [00:39:08] Speaker A: And our final question we're going to end it on is what dangers come from being a good talker but not a faithful doer? [00:39:22] Speaker B: That face, that's dangerous. [00:39:24] Speaker A: What dangers come from being a good talker? [00:39:27] Speaker B: I think that says it all. [00:39:28] Speaker A: But not a faithful doer. [00:39:30] Speaker B: Well, you can get your butt whooped like we just talked about. Like we just talked about. With the. Yeah, with the demons. Who are you? Yeah, who are you? Jesus. I know. Paul. I know. [00:39:43] Speaker A: He said. He's. It said. What is that? He said he beat them out of their clothes. [00:39:49] Speaker B: Yeah. They lost everything. [00:39:51] Speaker A: Do you understand? [00:39:52] Speaker B: They over. What does it say? What does it say? They overcame. [00:39:56] Speaker A: Breaks out of them. Yeah. Off of them. [00:39:58] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. So that they overpowered them, prevailed against them. Them. So that they fled out of the house naked and wounded. [00:40:09] Speaker A: Man, could you imagine that walk? [00:40:13] Speaker B: Yeah. But this is the thing, though. [00:40:15] Speaker A: Going back home is like. [00:40:16] Speaker B: But you know what? Then hallelujah. Because when you read on, it says this became known to all Jews and Greeks dwelling in Ephesus. And fear fell on them all in. In the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. [00:40:31] Speaker B: So your hypocrisy. [00:40:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:33] Speaker B: The exposure of that. [00:40:37] Speaker B: It all ends. He's going. He's gonna be glorified. He's gonna be glorified. [00:40:40] Speaker A: Can you imagine that. That walking back and that talk that y' all are having going back. [00:40:46] Speaker B: It's like what we should have done. [00:40:48] Speaker A: What we. [00:40:49] Speaker B: What were we thinking? [00:40:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:50] Speaker B: No, that I suspect. I mean, I suspect haven't done a study on that, but I suspect that they. They may have. [00:40:58] Speaker B: They may have thought that they could just do it. Like it may have been from the soul realm and not the spirit. Man. [00:41:03] Speaker A: Yeah. A flesh doing it from their flesh. [00:41:06] Speaker B: Yeah. The ego. [00:41:07] Speaker A: And that goes to James 1:21. It says, but be ye doers of the word and not hearers only. [00:41:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:15] Speaker A: Deceiving yourselves. You deceive yourself when you're only a doer and not a hearer. Are you a vice versa when you hear it don't do you know. And that was James 1:22, First John 3:18 says, My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but indeed and in truth. So all of these scriptures are coming with. [00:41:43] Speaker B: Yes, that's good. [00:41:44] Speaker A: Is giv something to do. And then you have a action. You have. You have to put action behind each and everything. [00:41:51] Speaker B: Well, and this is the reality. God says that we must worship him in spirit and in truth. [00:41:59] Speaker B: And the truth will. The truth will always prevail, but the truth always prevails and only ring it only. It always rings free. So eventually it may, you know. So, you know, the world works really hard to silence the truth with its false agendas. [00:42:16] Speaker A: But yeah, and I'm going to end it with this scripture now we're going to go back to the title. The title is your walk don't match your talk. And my Subtitle is Faith versus Reality Check. And so the scripture that I'm going to end with is Matthew 7:21. Not everyone that says unto me, lord, Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father, which is in heaven. So you hear people say, fake it till you make it. That ain't gonna get you in there. We always think we faith it, faith it until you make it. Yeah, I mean, faith it. Not fake it, faith it. [00:43:06] Speaker B: But. But move. Because sometimes people, at least people that under. Hear that fake it till you make it, they're moving. [00:43:11] Speaker A: They're moving. They're doing the action. [00:43:12] Speaker B: And some people, you'll say, faith it till you make it. And they'll be like, I'm just gonna sit. [00:43:17] Speaker A: Oh, gosh. Yeah, that ain't good. That ain't what I mean by that, though. [00:43:20] Speaker B: Yeah, but I just want to make. [00:43:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:43:23] Speaker B: Disclosure in there. [00:43:24] Speaker A: Yeah. So any other stuff you'd like to add to? [00:43:29] Speaker B: No. [00:43:30] Speaker A: Added this. That's it. I didn't tap into all of them, but that was pretty much it. I feel we covered the gist of it. [00:43:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, what I do want to say though, before we close is, is that there is no condemnation for those that are in Christ. And so, you know, if you find yourself showing. Being inconsistent and showing up as your true, authentic self, you know, one, do you need healing? Two, are you with the people that it's not safe to be your true, authentic, authentic self? [00:43:58] Speaker A: Say it again. When you find. You said when you find yourself showing up being your true, authentic self. [00:44:02] Speaker B: When you show yourself, when you should. I don't know. [00:44:06] Speaker A: When you find yourself not showing up. Oh, I got lost. Go ahead. Yeah, you just shut over what you were saying. Because I heard it wrong or something. [00:44:17] Speaker B: Yeah, I was giving the rundown. [00:44:19] Speaker A: Oh, my bad. [00:44:20] Speaker B: Yeah, as you were. [00:44:22] Speaker A: Yeah, I was trying to go with you. [00:44:24] Speaker B: That was a flow. But. But again, like I said, there's no condemnation for those that are in Christ. So if you find yourself not showing up as your true, authentic self, then the. You know, one of the things is to remember is that maybe there's. Maybe there's wounding there that needs healing. Maybe you're in a place that it's not safe to be your true, authentic self and you need to. To reevaluate the people that you're connected to. Maybe you have insecurity and you're trying to compensate for that insecurity, but ask the Lord to help you be the true, authentic person that he had in mind. On the day of creation for the season that you're in. Because life there are seasons and seasons shift. And so we go from glory to glory. So a lot of times we may be trying to think, think of the good old days, but the good old days is not where God wants you. Right now he's doing a new thing. [00:45:19] Speaker A: Right. [00:45:21] Speaker B: Or he may be wanting you to suit up. [00:45:23] Speaker A: I was just saying this morning for the next season. [00:45:26] Speaker B: Like start suiting up for the next, next season. Like where you're actually walking in that, that part, it's not fulfilled yet, but you're walking in it. [00:45:36] Speaker A: And some people get stuck insane in the same cycle. Then we touch on that about being in that same cycle and not going to the next level that he has for you to go to because you're just stuck in that same redundant cycle. [00:45:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:45:49] Speaker A: You know what I mean? [00:45:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Why community and fellowship and prayer and all those things are important. [00:45:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Don't link up with somebody that's stuck in a cycle just like you. [00:46:03] Speaker A: Ain'T overcoming. [00:46:04] Speaker B: Well, and honestly, like, as you. [00:46:08] Speaker A: As. [00:46:08] Speaker B: You decide, you know you're gonna. If you grow and the people around you are not growing, you may find yourself seems like alone for a season. [00:46:18] Speaker B: And just ask the Lord to lead you to your new tribe. [00:46:21] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Big facts. All right. But look, thanks for tuning in to the Sacred Life podcast. Like, subscribe, share, comment, check the description below. The information is in there about her group. You know, I mean, it's very, very. It was something. It's something that's very much needed for your walk for growing. It's a must have. All right, so tap in until next time. Live sacred peace Shalom. Living a life. The sacred. [00:46:59] Speaker A: Sacred.