Key takeaways
- Trust is practiced before the full outcome is visible.
- Faith should move from encouragement into action.
- Connect conviction to one practical act of obedience.
- Use reflection, prayer, and accountable follow-through together.
Faith and Trust
A faith-in-practice teaching for visitors who need encouragement to trust God beyond what is visible.
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my my leaders listen thank you for joining me today I got a special message that I did not think I was going to be sharing today but it's so beautiful how God works but I've been rebuked today I've been rebuked one and set forth to obey a command that I did not want to obey that's what we're going to speak about today today's message is going to be about giving and I really want y'all to hear this story because the Lord sent me a minister to pour into me today and give me Clarity grant me directions and it was just confirmation of what the spirit has been revealing to me
and confirmation about the word okay and before I get into this message today I want us to pray heavenly father in the name of Jesus Christ Lord I Thank you for this time I thank you for this hour I thank you for this message Lord I ask that you will use me in this moment to speak exactly the words that you would have me speak to this leader so that they can get your message Lord when I read this word Lord let this seed be planted on good soil let them receive this word let them receive this word and let it produce a crop 30 fold 60 fold and 100
fold Lord God in Jesus name we pray pray [Music] [Music] amen My Le this is going to be a quick video video hopefully because I just want y' to get this principle that came to me today I'm going have to come clean with you all I'm going have to be honest the reason why the lord gave me this rebuke on giving is because earlier last year my leaders I've been a good Steward I would say on giving giving resources that yeah I really didn't have but sometimes I did have the resources and I would give it as well too but coming close to the end of the year as of
a few weeks ago things been getting a little tight let me just keep it honest with you and because things been getting a little tight man instead of truly 100% if I'm being honest relying on God I've been holding on to the little that I have and I haven't been really giv the way I should give I'm G be quite honest with you I mean giving to the church but kind of kind of giv to the church sparingly you know I I let me look at my wallet that'll do I got more but I can't really touch that right now let me just let me sparingly give thinking that you
know I've been giving this whole year nah no no no no no no Michael you need to be obedient I've been giving sparingly some much so to the point where the money had dried up so much that I said I ain't even really about to give at all so so today an individual came to me by the name of Louis and I'll probably going to get him on this platform if he's down to share his testimonial but something beautiful always happens to me every time I go to a coffee shop or Starbucks and I just open my bible and I begin to read God sends people my way he sends
prophets he sends pastors he sends ministers he also sends those who are of demonic demonic you know energy he sends those people the Witchcraft the demons the The Satanist who he sends them all something always happens when I'm spending time with God good or bad the other day y'all seen a video that I posted before this one which was talking about the defense of the Fate that was a moment or I had where it was an antichrist that was sent my way today it was a minister and his testimonial testimonial is so profound I don't have time on this video to share his story with you all and I'm going
to ask him for the permission to even talk about it if he would not like to come on the platform but it encouraged me so much and one aspect about his testimonial was in his giving okay it was in his giving and as he was speaking about his giving all I could do was think about this scripture that I want to to open up to today okay many of y'all know this but we're going to read it together I'm reading out of the KJV version and it's Luke Luke chapter chapter 6 verse 38 if you have time Luke chap 6 verse verse 38 and it reads this is Jesus speaking
give we just pause there and just end the video give and it shall be given unto you good measure press down shaken together and running over shall man give unto your bosom for with the same measure that ye meet with all it shall be measured to you again key word again so in the same measure that you give give it shall be given back to you and one of the things that we know about God is that when he gives us he never gives us in the portion that is the same thing that we put out he multiplies he's in the business of multiplication and as I'm hearing this individual's
individual's testimonial about what God has done to him and his family and his finances by just them giving and specifically given to the church tithing Faithfully many of us can argue about the tide all day long but this individual tithes and for them is this posture of Letting Go and giving to God what's what's his his Faithfully not not sparingly but faithfully and what it reminded me and how it checked me is how my behavior had been been recently past few weeks just trying to hold on to the little bit that I had had and if I'm not giving my leader how do I expect to receive and and especially
if I'm not giving to God the individual the one who's given me the resources to begin with how do I expect to be trusted when I get more all the Lord can truly see the word talks about that those who are faithful in in a little I can make you ruler over much but if I'm just holding on and I don't want to let go to the little thing that I have I don't want to let go how can he bless me so after this Minister poured into me in perfect timing just like the Holy Spirit often does the spirit tells you to do something that is opposite from your
flesh so my L I'm looking at this bank account as I'm looking at this bank account I'm looking at something that God has been convicting me about for like a few few weeks now this money has just been sitting in there and as it's just been sitting in that account he's been asking me like what you going to do with that and I had already made up my mind to make an investment in some items okay and when I got those Investments I was going to take what I got and I was going to make money from these Investments okay because this was my idea of how the provision is
going to come this is was my idea of how hey I'm going to do this this is what's going to pay for this semester of of my last few credits at Liberty University this was going to pay for my school this was going to do it not only that this was going to help my family right now this was going to do it I have been applying for specific jobs putting in applications application after after application application here application there application here just to hear crickets I ain't getting no phone calls back it's been months now and so yeah things dried up when I'm like okay I got to hold
on to this because I haven't getting no call backs and I got to make a move I got to do something because I feel like if I don't do something right now things will not go according to plan can I just be honest with you so I said let me use this the last bit of money that I have let me make this investment I know that if I do this things are going to work out weeks went by and the investment that I made they still haven't taken the money out their account I'm just wonder I'm thinking to myself why haven't the money came out why haven't the money
came out out the account it's still sitting there and today after the minister ministered to my spirit I got the conviction I need to give this money and all of this money that I've been holding on to I got to give this back to God this for him that's why the money ain't mov nowhere this money that I have sitting there for Jesus he freely gave it to to me I'm about to freely give it back and pay the stuff that I should have paid months ago I was convicted I looked at that account and the exact money that I was going to use for this investment down to the
cents I took that out the account emptied it and poured it into the church okay now this is not to talk about my charity this is not to talk about my giving it's not to let my my left hand know what my right hand is doing it's not about any of that this is just about a principle here of how I was being stubborn and God had to soften my heart from holding on and remind me that Mike you've been in a situation like this before where you've given and you didn't have it to give but God continuously he blessed you how did he bless you he blessed you with
good measure pressed down shaking together running over right shall man give unto your bosoms he always had individuals come and bless me in ways that I didn't even I didn't even write down where did this come from I Didn't Know provision could come in this way I didn't know funds were going to come in this man I didn't know that so I was challenged today to give and I had to send him a text message I said hey I appreciate you for sharing your testimonial today God used you minister to show me what I've been holding on to and I'm not going to move in 2025 as the recording of
this message if you watching this in 2026 shout out to you but I'm not g to move like this this year I'm not going to be stingy I'm not going to keep holding on to things that you telling me to let go of I'm not going to try to continuously move in my own understanding just because the circumstance around me has gotten tough now I'm going to stand firm and what he what he told to me what multiple people been telling to me this week is to trust God he said do you trust God just trust God be faithful down to the details but you got to trust him you
got to trust him and what does that mean that means be obedient do what he's telling you to do to my question my lady this today if you're watching this video do you trust God I know you going through some stuff right now everybody's going through something different but do you trust God Jesus Christ loves you dearly dearly okay and one thing that he wants you to know is that he he fills with compassion what you're dealing with and he has plans to provide for you and I reminded myself today is that those who keep their mind on the will experience perfect peace and I realize yo even with giving
this away I realize y'all I got I got peace cuz my mind is on on Jesus those who keep their mind on De will experience perfect peace my leader my leader if there's something you're holding on to let it go give if you like me and you've been stubborn lately with you're giving don't be stubborn Give It Away God's going to bring it back how did you get it in the first place remember that all right even me J coach J Pastor Mike like yo I get to those places where yo I need correction and I need to also once again remember once again hey have faith that's what this
platform is about have faith in Jesus God is your provider and watch him show out in a way that now it's going to increase your faith now when the Lord shows up and he will show up and and you will have a testimonial to share and guess what he's going to use this platform cuz he knows I'm going to give him the glory when a new testimonial comes through and I'm going to share to you all what God did all right so I just want y'all to get this message today give give and let go or whatever you're holding on to okay God is your provider and he will provide
okay heavenly father in the mighty name of Jesus Christ Lord we thank you for this time we thank you for this hour we thank you for your constant reassurance and your constant reminder father I'm praying for anybody who had a heart posture like mine because the times have gotten tough they've been just holding on to things not really wanting to give but Lord you said it's better to give than it is to receive and I'm praying that they will open their hands and they would let go of whatever resource they have and they would give it Lord give it to you first and foremost give it to the church give
what's yours and if there's anybody else they got to serve if there's anybody else they got to give unto let them give freely not begrudgingly but freely Lord God move in our hearts right now change our heart posture and give us the strength to do the will of the father it's in Jesus mighty name that we pray amen amen amen I love you my leaders but Jesus Christ loves you more see you in the next video we out
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