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- 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
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my leaders my leader my leader my leader thank you for tuning in once again I got a special message for you okay and I got some scriptures I I had an experience today as Starbucks that I want to share with you all and some scriptures that are going to help us maneuver have you ever been in a scenario in your life where you felt like man I should have stood up when they were talking about the faith you heard people talking about Jesus the wrong way you heard people talking about the church in the wrong light right and it it started to bother you you were you started to get
a little heated up and you were like ah you know what I mean and so there's a there's a tenacity or a part of us that gets offended and wants to act in a way that's of the flesh okay and that's actually incorrect we don't want to act according to the flesh because we won't be honoring God in this manner we'll be only proving the point that ah this Christian faith you Believers you're Hypocrites you can't control your emotions there is no fruit of the spirit so today I had an encounter at Starbucks that I want to share with you all and some scriptures that the Lord once again revealed
to me to share with you all so that moving forward in this year we can be better at the defense of the Gospel okay so let's pray heavenly father in the mighty name of Jesus Christ Lord we come to you today and we ask that you will speak to us through your word God speak to us through your word give us something to hold on to as we move forward in this time these end times where they're coming against the gospel folks are running away from the church they're running away from Jesus matter of fact they don't want nothing to do do with Jesus and so they come across us
leaders who are fired up for God on fire for Christ and they're looking at us like we're crazy Lord I'm praying that you will show us how to defend the gospel with meekness and with gentleness Heavenly Heavenly Father use me today to pour into your leader and allow them to be fed today let this leader not leave this video without being fed Heavenly Father father and receiving your word to the fullest we thank you for this time we thank you for this hour in Jesus mighty name we pray amen my leaders my leaders my leaders I want to first and foremost give glory and honor to Jesus Christ because without
him you and I would not be here today okay those of y'all who do not know me I'm a certified life coach my name is Mike Jaa on your CH I'm literally your intim Pastor I'm your internet internet Shepherd until we get that church building now check this out I have a desire to Shepherd I have a desire to pour into you all I've been doing this for years now whether it be in person one onone or whether it has been this online platform this is what I love to do why 2014 I almost committed suicide okay and before that time I was reading all the books I was into
different dark stuff that I did not know at the time was Witchcraft and false doctrines and it didn't help my situation I almost committed suicide until calling out to Jesus Christ okay and I have a testimonial video on this platform the reason I'm sharing this and I'm going to get more into this is because when it comes to the defense of the Gospel one thing that I've realized is you cannot take away my test testimonial of how I came into the encounter with Jesus Christ that is one experience that is surpasses wisdom God says that he'll confound the wise be not wise in this world he'll bring that to nothing
and the way that Jesus Christ came to me was in such a beautiful way that it gives me so much boldness and confidence that when I talk about my faith I know that if he encountered me in this scenario in the way that he encountered me he can encounter you as well too okay and so my leaders literally I'm sitting at Starbucks today and as I'm sitting at Starbucks today there was a Antichrist not too far from me and this woman is sitting with another woman and I just came there to do my Bible study my leader I ain't trying to mess with nobody I ain't trying to start no
problems I ain't trying to do none of that I'm just there cuz I'm doing my Bible study a little later in the day all right on this specific day and I believe God had me do it later in the day for a specific reason to meet with these people okay and as I'm sitting there just trying to do my Bible I'm in Galatians okay the lady begins to tear down the CH I couldn't even believe my ear am I really hearing this and I know it was because my Bible was out when you put the Bible out in public good things happen but also you you start you start triggering
the enemy you start triggering demons this lady starts to get pissed off and she starts to bash the church she starts to say the church is the reason for this this this hell on Earth right is the reason that everybody's gone astray it's the reason for control and manipulation she just starts going in she says I hate it I hate it and as the louder she got my leaders the more my spirit began to be stirred up as a pastor and as a man of God who loves Jesus Christ I felt like Peter right when the individuals wanted to come capture Jesus Christ and my boy took the knife out
and cut somebody I felt I felt like getting violent but that was not and would not have been the correct posture so as she's venting out knowing that I hear her I'm not too far with my Bible open I'm literally right behind them or rather right in front of the woman that was actually speaking I do something very particular okay and before I even tell you what I did I want to read this scripture I'm reading out of KJV version if you got your Bible I want y'all to open up to Peter Hallelujah Peter Peter Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ first Peter and I want you'all to open up
to chapter 3 and I want y'all to go on down to verse 15 we're going to read this together verse 15 Holy Spirit you be with us as we read this word allow this word Al to speak Lord and continuously guide me as I share this word with the leader that's made it this far into this message Heavenly Father 15 it says but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and be ready ready always to give an answer to every man that ask you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear and I'm read verse 16 I just feel led to read verse 16 I
was going to stop at 15 it say having a good conscience that whereas they speak evil of you as of evil doers doers they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ for it is better if the will of God be so that you suffer for well dooing than for evildoing Okay so it's better that I suffer for good doing than for evil doing and in my way that I Converse about Jesus Christ it should not be in a way that is evil I'm not trying to win a point by any means necessary by going back and tangling so many times I've seen individuals trying to defend
the faith in a way that gu they're they're convicted but you you sounding just as bad as them who are bashing Christ Christ Jesus curse words flying doing gymnastics all up by your mouth and it ain't good it don't look good because now we're showing that hey we ain't even got the spirit of self-control which is the holy spirit has the spirit of self-control we have this Temperance we're able to control our tongue even though we're offended that's not a flesh thing that's a that's a gift of the holy spirit it's part of his characteristics and so as I'm reading this mind you this lady did not asked me about
my faith she didn't ask me about why I believe in Jesus but I wanted to make it known that as she's talking all this smack there's a believer in the facility right regardless if she just saw the Bible so I thought to myself what can I do I don't want to go up to these people I don't want to interrupt their conversation this is not my space they may be in a meeting so okay here's what I do I say who can I call that's a brother in Christ so I pick up my phone try to call call some folks first person I I call they ain't answering and as
I'm calling the enemy is getting louder bashing the Fai I hate them they are ridiculous hey they the worst oh my God and she's leading this woman who she may be mentoring she's leading this woman astray I see that she's in a coaching and a counseling session and just drawing her completely away from the church okay the Antichrist Spirit was strong so I call another brother in Christ no phone call they ain't pick up I'm like damn Lord am I even supposed to be calling people right now let me just put some headphones on and let me just move aside and just forget about this but as she kept talking
my spirit is being stirred up nah man I can't go out like like this I call another brother in Christ and Hallelujah one of my boys picked up shout out to Seth if you're watching this he picks up now he doesn't know he doesn't know but as he picks up the first thing that he asked me he said hey brother how you doing what's been going on this year and in that question that he ask me I'm able to legitimately praise God I'm saying hallelujah I'm saying amen I'm giving testimonial examples of what Jesus Christ has been doing for me this year already last year already and God is getting
the praise and as the enemy is bashing and as the enemy is throwing stones at the church throwing stones at Jesus Christ I'm praising Jesus I'm giving God the glory I'm giving him the honor right I'm laughing I'm jumping up and down I'm dancing I'm giving God the praise and I know as I'm talking to him is agitating the spirit of the Antichrist as you give praise to Jesus Jesus Christ it agitates the spirit of the Antichrist and what was even worse she started to get louder and as she started to get loud I'm praising Jesus so much so that this wasn't of me but the spirit started to give
me scriptures that my boy my brother in Christ needed to hear so now I get the opportunity to read the word of God with boldness and with conviction onto my brother in Christ that's on the phone and I knew very specifically that this lady heard the truth because what was going on right now is I needed the seed of Truth to be planted in this woman I needed the individual that she was coaching not to hear such negative words about Jesus Christ but to hear words of testimonial words of praise words of truth that's what I needed her to hear because we also understand there's wolves and sheep clothing but
there's people in this world now who pervert the gospel they pervert the gospel it says this in the book of Galatians this is what I'm on as well too Ironically in the book of Galatians oh beautiful book of Galatians man Paul speaks about this very vividly okay he talks about how some individuals have come in to literally pervert the gospel that he was preaching to the Gentiles about how they did not have to be circumcised okay we have the circumcision of the heart now God doesn't just accept the children of Israel right he doesn't just accept those Jews but he accepts those of the Gentiles who confess in their mouth
that Jesus is Lord and believe that he rose and this gospel was so new initially they accepted it but some have came in and and perverted the Gospel of Truth and he was convicted of this and he was asking where did we go astray and when we read it says this I want to I want to say this verse 6 it talks about the perversion of the Gospel all right let's read let's go to Galatians if you got the time and you got your Bibles go to Galatians chapter one we're going to read from verse 6 this is just what's going on not just in that time but it's going
on on in today's time in Galatians 6 it says I Marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel so this believer this person that used to be a believer who was sitting there I can hear very clearly she had questions she had concerns she had doubts and so this person was perverting not even just perverting the gospel I mean taking the gospel in her hand and crumbling it and making it so that it did not exist and so it said I Marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto
another gospel which is not another there is no other gospel but there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ but though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you then that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed that's another word for be set aside by God let God Reign Vengeance on these people in other words let them be destroyed if any other gospel has come on you after you receed Jesus Christ and it's causing you to ER it's causing you to backslide it ain't no other gospel this is the Antichrist it says this verse 9 and we said
before so say I now again if any man preach any other gospel unto you that they have received let him be a curse for do I now persuade men or God or do I seek to please man if I yet pleased man I should not be the servant of of Christ that verse we're going to speak about that in a whole different message but I'm coming to you today to speak about about this with meekness in reverence for God were called to give an an account and if this lady had come to me if she had time and had come to me the first thing that I would have done
to this woman who's already denied the word of God it would not be for me personally to just preach the word of God first first okay the first thing that I would do is tell them my testimonial in my encounter I will tell them my Encounter With With Jesus you see see Paul who was doing the same thing persecuting the Christians murdering the Christians in Acts chapter 9 we see his conversion on the road to Damascus he gets hit by the Light of Christ which it says that the man that were with him they heard the light okay they saw the light but they didn't hear Christ Paul heard Christ
Christ okay Paul had an encounter so strong that it turned him to Jesus the one that he was persecuted I have to understand that in this world many people have not had an encounter with Jesus Christ they've had a religion with the words that are coming from this text even though the word of God according to Revelation is Jesus they have not had an encounter with Jesus Christ my prayer always as I'm speaking to folks who do not yet believe is that they're not just convinced by my words of what scripture has to say matter of fact I know that if their soil is not yet ready they're not going
to even receive the seeds which the word of God is I need to prep that mind and I need to share them an encounter with Jesus Christ which is my testimonial of almost committing suicide in 2014 I need to share with them that when I wanted to commit suicide my relationship with Christ wasn't really like that until I earnestly with my whole heart cried out to Jesus Christ Lord if you're who you say you are I need you to come into my life right now not tomorrow I need you today right now in this hour and I must challenge the individual who is going astray who has rejected Jesus Christ
I must challenge them to earnestly seek to call out in the name of Jesus call out on the name of Jesus I'm must challenge them they're in their own time if they would seek Jesus typically I give a seven-day challenge for these next seven days call out Jesus I know in my spirit as we depart that if they call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ he's going to reveal reveal himself they're going to have an encounter and while they're going off and I know they're going to have their encounter I'm going to be praying in the midst that Lord Jesus you will send your Holy Spirit you would
give them the ability to have a revelation of Jesus Christ Christ because many times my leaders we try to bring people to Christ like we try to save them the word said it's not for us to save it's for the drawing the Holy Spirit has to draw near them the Holy Spirit has to be the one that comes to touch him not me he may send me but it's not up to me ultimately it's the Holy Spirit that's God's job I'm just here to be obedient and to do my part which is to sh my testimonial of why I believe in Jesus and to stand firm with conviction but it
says with meekness I need to do it with gentleness and then with reverence with fear that word fear is reverence and honor and respect it is a little bit of trembling in there but it's I need to share this with the honor like give God the honor give him the respect and and how we act and how we do this it truly determines what this individual sees you may be the first representation of Christ in a brand new light in a brand new way that may be you you may be their first encounter they may have seen other believers they may have gone to all these other different denominations and
they didn't receive the proper Love Of Christ love covers up a multitude of sin beyond my faith Beyond me speaking in my tongue beyond all that it's the love and they just need to experience a different type of love and a different type of Grace so that they can say all Christians ain't the same dang I met that woman and she was just different than the rest of them wow because there is such a thing even among Believers as Church Church hurt or we see parents and we and we think damn my parents were Hypocrites they ain't even live by the word so we want to show a different example
and so today it was a it was you can say it was humorous but when I got on that phone I just wanted to share some good news that Jesus Christ has been doing in my life in hopes that when I was sharing this these individuals who were right next to me heard it right with a with a with my passion and my conviction and I pray that they heard it with love all right and I pray that the seed when it was spoken out it didn't go out void but it planted a deeper seed and I'm praying that at the name of Jesus Christ there was the Deliverance that
happened in that moment will I know who knows right but that was my encounter today I wanted to share that with you all because you all may be entering a space in this year where you have to defend the faith how will you defend it don't go back and forth putting your fist up that's not for us to do but have Grace have meekness and if they don't want to receive the word walk away in peace don't get so stirred up and bothered but go and now pray for this person that's clearly gone astray or has the spirit of the Antichrist all right let's pray 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 this word today in Peter Lord and I'm praying that this leader who's watching this video today you give them the ability to share their testimonial why are they so on fire for you what keeps them worshiping Jesus Christ what has God done let them share their testimonial with boldness let them not be afraid let them not be afraid to share the testimonial even if it makes them look weird even if it makes them look stupid give them the strength and the boldness and the confidence to speak with authority and
speak with power somebody needs to hear their testimonial Lord God and I'm praying that you get them ready to defend the faith with meekness and with reverence towards your name we know that eventually every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess Jesus Christ as Lord so father we thank you for this teaching today guide us as we go throughout this week be with us as we defend the faith we love you and it's in Jesus mighty name that we pray amen amen my leaders I love you but Jesus Christ loves you more if you would like to contact me make sure you slide through my email at J Global
gmail.com or send me a DM on Instagram at lifecoach Jaja and I'm going get back to you as soon as I can okay um it's been a pleasure thank y'all for making it to the end of this video If this did something for you make sure you hit that like button all right share a comment if you got anything and you want to you want me to communicate with you in the comment section go ahead and leave a comment below as well too all right I look forward to seeing you all in the next video we [Applause]
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