Where Is Your Faith #36

[00:00:00] Speaker A: If you have the faith, I'm going off of your faith. You got more faith than me. Don't be stupid and just be like, oh, whatever, I'm going to just have faith and do something stupid. [00:00:07] Speaker B: No, it has to follow biblical principles first and foremost. What are you believing in right now? Who are you believing in? And we need to operate from that place. And so if we're not walking in the spirit, we're going to have problems, right? [00:00:26] Speaker A: Sacred Life. Sacred life. Life. Life. Life. Life. The sacred life. Living a life. Live, Living a life. Living, living, Living a life. The sacred, Sacred. What up? What up? This your boy, tween, the owner of. [00:00:50] Speaker B: Sacred Apparel, and Anna Johnson, owner of Overcoming Daily. [00:00:54] Speaker A: Welcome to the Sacred Life podcast. We'll be discussing life, relationships, business, the. [00:01:00] Speaker B: Bible, and of course, how to live the sacred life. [00:01:03] Speaker A: Yes, that's the whole purpose. Welcome, welcome. Today's topic is where is your faith? Took me a second to click that there. Where is your faith? Now listen, before we get started on that, I need you to do me a favor. Take and, like, subscribe, leave a comment, or whatever you feel like doing to get us out to everybody else. I know you like the podcast, Whatever. And we want to be seen by more. [00:01:28] Speaker B: Sharing is caring. [00:01:29] Speaker A: Sharing is caring, baby. Share the love. Okay, so subscribe, like, and comment so that we can get the algorithm out. The algorithm and get things going. [00:01:41] Speaker B: That's right. [00:01:41] Speaker A: All right. So how you been? [00:01:44] Speaker B: I'm great. [00:01:45] Speaker A: You're great. She just be so one word. I'm good. I'm grateful. How is your week? [00:01:51] Speaker B: It's been good. [00:01:52] Speaker A: Really good. Kids Been. [00:01:54] Speaker B: It's been productive. [00:01:55] Speaker A: Productive. [00:01:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:56] Speaker A: Busy, though, too. A lot. [00:01:58] Speaker B: Yeah. I said productive. I don't like the word already. [00:02:02] Speaker A: Be. Always. Be. [00:02:04] Speaker B: I don't like that. [00:02:05] Speaker A: Okay. [00:02:05] Speaker B: I don't like that word. Busy. A lot of people are busy. [00:02:09] Speaker A: Busy but not really being. [00:02:10] Speaker B: Yeah, Productive. Okay. [00:02:12] Speaker A: All right with it. All right. [00:02:13] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:02:14] Speaker A: So today's topic is where is your faith? And actually, I got this. The topic came to me yesterday. We were having the discussion and she don't know, but she said we were in the bedroom, we were talking about something, and she was getting onto me about something. That was the way that I was looking at something. [00:02:35] Speaker B: Oh. [00:02:36] Speaker A: And I was like, dang. Her response kind of threw me because it used to be I would always be the one that would have the crazy faith. You know what I'm saying? And she would always. It would. It would always be if you have the faith. I'm going off of your faith. You got More faith than me. And I think through the years of me having that crazy faith out, that it kind of warmed me a little bit. So mine kind of started wearing down a little bit. And her response, her answer yesterday, it just blew my mind. She's like, I ain't even worried about it. We just gonna. And I'm like, dang, hold on. I'm supposed to be the one that's responding like that. But it made me realize that I wasn't having the faith like I used to have. So that's what led me to ask. The question is like, where is your faith? Whether it's with situations, with money, whether it's with relationships, entrepreneurship, whatever it is. The thing is, are you still running in faith? Are you still believing? [00:03:40] Speaker B: Glory. Glory. [00:03:41] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? So you could hop in any minute, because I've been. [00:03:46] Speaker B: I'm just. I, like, I'm just reflecting on it because I didn't realize that that had such a. Yeah. [00:03:53] Speaker A: A huge impact. [00:03:53] Speaker B: Impact. [00:03:55] Speaker A: I used to. I'm always the one with the faith in it. Like, I would always say, yeah, jump off the cliff, but we'll worry about the parachute later. You know what I'm saying? And here lately, a lot of things have been weighing on me. And so it's like I found myself pulling back and not having that faith like I used to have. [00:04:11] Speaker B: Well, it's not that you've lost your faith. It's the exercise not operating like I used to. You have to exercise faith, you know, and so our life. You're what? [00:04:22] Speaker A: You're. [00:04:22] Speaker B: Our lives. Your life has shifted, and you've been doing a lot of things in the natural. [00:04:27] Speaker A: Right. [00:04:27] Speaker B: So you've not been maybe relying on. [00:04:31] Speaker A: It like I used to. [00:04:31] Speaker B: Well, you've not had to rely on it as strongly as you've had to in the past. So then that just shows that you always have to have, like, that being mindful of exercising it. [00:04:41] Speaker A: Right. [00:04:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:04:42] Speaker A: So it was just like, after that, it was a huge eye opener, and it was like, it made me just want to go jump off a cliff and worry about the parachute just for no reason. [00:04:51] Speaker B: I didn't know that. [00:04:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:53] Speaker B: Don't be reckless with your. Okay. And so you make sure that. Make sure that God is in it before you jump off the clip. [00:05:01] Speaker A: That's the thing. You know what I'm saying? You still. It has to make sense, you know what I'm saying? [00:05:05] Speaker B: I don't know about that. [00:05:06] Speaker A: Well, to understand, like, don't be stupid and just be like, oh, whatever. I'm gonna just have faith and something stupid. [00:05:11] Speaker B: No, no. It has to follow biblical principles first and foremost. It has to honor God and God has to. Like some things God has to call you to. [00:05:22] Speaker A: Right? [00:05:23] Speaker B: You know, like if we exercise faith and God hasn't called us to exercise in that area, then we may be paying that bill ourselves. [00:05:34] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's see. We gotta allow room for his supernatural tools. Like, I did a post on TikTok this morning and the post is saying I was talking about feeding the mass. You know what I'm saying? Feeding the. What is the 5,000? And so was it 5,000? Yeah, yeah, feeding the 5,000. So it's like a lot of us worry about how we're going to feed them, how we're going to do that, but all we need to do is just bring the bread and the fish. [00:06:07] Speaker B: Yeah, that's all we. [00:06:09] Speaker A: That's our part. We bring the bag of food, bring the bread and the fish, then we let yah do the rest. He let him do his supernatural part and get it out to however many other people, whatever it needs to go out to. But too many times that we try to do it all. We try to do it all. So it's like if we're trying to do it all, we're trying to drive the car and do everything, what is he going to do? Where are we leaving the room for his supernatural to happen, for him to operate in the supernatural, Right? [00:06:37] Speaker B: So, you know, I was asking that question, where is your faith? Because you were putting more faith in the challenge than you were your God. And so that question as posing, where is your faith? Like, what are you believing in right now? Who are you believing in? [00:06:56] Speaker A: Right? [00:06:57] Speaker B: Who are you? Who are you? Honestly, like, it's like we're cheering for doubt and discouragement sometimes when we're supposed to be cheering for God, right? [00:07:05] Speaker A: Facts, facts. But yo, you know, it's something I just realized too. We started without even praying. [00:07:11] Speaker B: Well, I already knew that about you. [00:07:13] Speaker A: Ain'T saying that was upon the breaks. So, yeah, let us pray. You want to praise this in prayer? [00:07:19] Speaker B: Father, Father, we thank you and we praise you and we give you the glory. Father, Father, we pray that you would be glorified and magnified not only in our lives, but in the lives of each and every listener that may be listening or watching this podcast. Father, Father, we pray that you know that we would grow in understanding and that we would grow in the exercising of the gifts that you've given us, Father. And Father, we just welcome you in. We just lift your name high and we pray that you would be magnified in this time together. In Yeshua's name we pray Amen and amen. [00:07:52] Speaker A: Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So, yeah, back where we were. Yeah, Secret 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. She gives you devotionals every day. We get different call to actions, things to help us build, to help us in our walk, in our relationship with God every day. And it's a blessing to get this every morning. Don't have to go out searching for the different scriptures and different things do because all that is given in that instance. So why don't you consider joining Overcoming dailies morning meetup? To get more information go to overcomingdaily.com but it is an investment. It's only 37. Only $37 a month. Okay, so I'd consider joining. I'm a part of the group. I enjoy it. I meet up with them every morning. We go to devotions on Thursday. She goes live every morning. But every day there's a video there going over the devotionals, going over the call to actions and different things that she brings to us every morning. So consider joining. Like I said, for more information go to overcomingdaily.com till next time, live by Sacred peace. So I got a couple of scriptures. Like I got all the slew of scriptures. We have to remember that faith and in this port and well, it's talking about faith is important in overcoming doubt and loss of faith. So I think, I don't know if I want to say the loss of faith because I didn't really lose faith, but I haven't been operating in it as strong as I had. What was that? Look? You think I lost faith? I don't think I lost faith, but I hadn't been operating in it as strong as I have exercise. Exercising in it. Like I'm running to the edge of the cliff before I jump. I was like, ooh, I don't know if I'm ready to jump right now. You sure we got everything? No, I don't know. I said, look, I know, I'm just. [00:10:10] Speaker B: Thinking, not going, no, I'm just listening. [00:10:13] Speaker A: So I got, let's, let's run with you got James 1 and 6. It says, but let him ask in faith with no doubting. For he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. You know, I mean, so we have to have faith without doubting. Don't doubt if you're doubting, it's like, where's the faith at? Well, doubting it, you know. [00:10:39] Speaker B: Well, it's like being a ping pong ball. Like, when you're faith, you're on one side, then if you doubt, you're on the other side. And we want to be going one direction. We don't want to vacillate between two points. [00:10:51] Speaker A: Right. [00:10:52] Speaker B: So faith gives us the power to, like, move forward into our destiny, into our future, and take the actions that we need to get to that place that the Lord's calling us. But when we doubt, we vacillate between two points. So we're not getting very far and, and in the right direction. So we may go back, then we get. We move forward, then we go back. That's like going back and forth between faith and doubt. But we have to recognize part of it is just recognizing, like, wait a minute. Who am, who am I? Who am I? Well, I am an overcomer by the blood of the Lamb, the testimony of my faith. I am a follower of Yeshua. I'm a son or a daughter of God. I am, you know, I've been grafted in. You know, I abide in Yeshua. I'm yoked with Yeshua. These are things like, we just need to get it right and we need to operate from that place. And so if we're not walking in the spirit, we're gonna have problems. [00:11:54] Speaker A: Right? Yeah. Yeah. Well, that also makes me think back to who is it? We was listening to this. I think I told you about it, and now I was talking with Darius about it, and the person was talking about worrying about things all the time. [00:12:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:11] Speaker A: And so someone had asked him and said, when I'm going through these problems and stuff, and I don't feel Yahshua is with me or is showing up or whatever, what am I supposed to do? No, that's what it was. Okay. It was talking about the disciples in the boat with Yeshua. And he was sleep. You know what I'm saying? And so the person was saying, well, what do I do in my situation when I feel that he is sleep and I'll try to get stuff. He said, sleep with him. You know what I mean? Just rest. If he sleep and not worried about it. Why would you be worried about it? You know what I'm saying? So that was the same as, like the disciples in the boat. They're freaking out and carrying on because Messiah was sleep. It's like they should have just chilled and rest assured, he's with him. So it's like, what was going to happen, you know, I really like that he was like, sleep. You risk too. Don't worry about it, you know? [00:13:05] Speaker B: And see, faith is something that's given to us. It's a gift from God. If anyone believes, it's really because God has given him the gift of faith. Our duty is just to exercise it and to resist the enemy. [00:13:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:17] Speaker B: Yeah, gotcha. So where is your faith? You know, are you having faith in years, little faith in your challenges, or are you having faith in who you are, in him and what his word says? [00:13:30] Speaker A: Right. Are you walking in faith where you really don't have the faith? I think I was doing that at one point too. It's like I went. I didn't want you to see that. I didn't really have the fix. I'd be operating in it. But I didn't want to show it that it's like, oh, well. [00:13:47] Speaker B: And that brings up another point. Don't fake it. [00:13:50] Speaker A: Exactly, exactly. [00:13:51] Speaker B: Address it. Yeah, I'm not. Don't fake it. Address it. So, you know, and don't create a stage for it. Like, address the situation. If you're wrestling with Dao. Don't fake it. Actually confront it. [00:14:09] Speaker A: Yeah. How you say, you say hit, come. Address it head on or whatever. [00:14:14] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Meet it at the door before it can meet, before it can get in. [00:14:19] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:20] Speaker B: You know, so if you're wrestling with discouragement, you know, combat it with the word of God. [00:14:29] Speaker A: Yeah. So things have changed since. [00:14:31] Speaker B: That's. Yeah. And the other thing that helps with faith is gratitude. Like, when you start speaking your gratitudes through all the things that. All the things that the Lord has done, it stirs up your faith. And sometimes we just fail to stir up our faith. We get too much into our physical environment that we forget to stir it up. Like, it's great to recount, recount our steps and our stories that the Lord has done. Or we. Or we start to forget and, you know, we need to keep that fire burning, that wait. The Lord is still very much more. He's very much still active in my life. [00:15:07] Speaker A: You're right. Gotcha. [00:15:10] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Praise Father. [00:15:13] Speaker A: Okay, so, yeah. So are you struggling with any of that? Are you operating in faith or do you have that little bit of doubt and you aren't fully operating in the faith that you should be operating in. That's the question. [00:15:29] Speaker B: Yeah. And your mood will tell some things sometimes. Like your mood and your focus will tell where your faith is. You know, if you're finding yourself discouraged, if you find yourself doubting, if you find yourself irritable, if you find yourself frustrated, if you find yourself spinning your wills in the wrong places, then that's an indicator that your faith is not in the Lord. [00:15:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:51] Speaker B: Because when you put our faith in him, we like it can. After you just meditate on that, a few minutes. Creates a fire. [00:15:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:59] Speaker B: And you know why it creates a fire? Because there was already a one kindled there. There was already a lot. Yeah. There was still an ember in there. Yeah. Yeah. There was still one there. But sometimes you just got to feed it. [00:16:11] Speaker A: Yeah. Feed the fire. [00:16:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Just seeing this, like, you know, the wind in there. [00:16:17] Speaker A: Just a little blow. [00:16:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:19] Speaker A: So. [00:16:19] Speaker B: And moving your hand over the fire. Oh, no. [00:16:22] Speaker A: Yeah, that's good. And see, it takes. It takes more work to start the fire than that. [00:16:28] Speaker B: Yeah. You got to keep it burning. [00:16:30] Speaker A: Feed, and they keep it burning. Who said it? That was just. That was just. What was that? It takes more work to start the fire than once. [00:16:39] Speaker B: You said that to you. [00:16:40] Speaker A: You said that. I knew I heard it somewhere. It takes more work. I like that. [00:16:44] Speaker B: I was talking about momentum. Yeah. Yeah. And leverage and. Because we're talking about business. It was Friday. [00:16:52] Speaker A: It's more work to start a fire and do it from scratch than what it does to feed the fire. [00:16:59] Speaker B: Keep feeding it. [00:16:59] Speaker A: Keep it going. So once that flame is burning, once. [00:17:02] Speaker B: You get that momentum going. So. [00:17:03] Speaker A: Right. It was yesterday. Yeah, yesterday. Because I was. Yeah. So. Yeah. [00:17:08] Speaker B: So stay in whatever. Stay in the positive vein that the Lord has placed you in for sure. [00:17:16] Speaker A: All right. [00:17:16] Speaker B: Or else you're going to have to go the final. [00:17:19] Speaker A: You got to do it all over. [00:17:20] Speaker B: Again and burn in again. [00:17:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:21] Speaker B: It's too much work. Too much work unnecessarily. [00:17:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:26] Speaker B: But if you must. If you let the fire go out. If you must. [00:17:29] Speaker A: Well, I ain't letting the fire go out. We going to keep feeding. [00:17:31] Speaker B: Get a scandal on it. [00:17:32] Speaker A: Yeah. So don't let your fire go out. All right. Keep throwing whatever you gotta throw in the paper straw. Yeah. What's the squeeze stuff? The. What's the stuff? The lighter fluid. [00:17:42] Speaker B: Well, my go to squeeze stuff. Yeah. Mr. John. Not an expert at fires. You couldn't be an Orson. [00:17:50] Speaker A: No, I'm not. Good at fires? [00:17:53] Speaker B: No. [00:17:53] Speaker A: At all. So, yeah. So that's it. That's all we got for you. Is there anything you like to leave with that? So that's it. Look down below and follow us on our socials. Have any questions, email us. And like I said, subscribe, leave a comment. Let us know if you like this, let us know any questions you have, what you liked about it and tell somebody about us. You know what I mean? So thank you for tuning in. Till next time. Love Thy sacred Peace Shalom Living a life the sacred, sacred.