FAITH THAT REWRITES THE RULES // S01E06 (EPISODE 6)
Exercising your faith is vital to overcoming life’s obstacles. It doesn’t just get us through little things or big things, it gets us through all things. It rewrites the rules on what’s possible.
QUESTIONS WE TOUCH ON IN THIS EPISODE:
- How big is your faith?
- Do you have crazy faith?
- Are you trusting His answer?
- Do you have faith that He can give you the impossible?
VERSES FROM FAITH THAT REWRITES THE RULES
Psalm 92, Corinthians 2:5 Romans 10:17 Hebrews 11:6 Luke 17:5 1 John 5:4
QUOTES FROM FAITH THAT REWRITES THE RULES
“The more I let it go, the more I realized if she’s fighting her nap, there’s a reason and God knows what it is and he’s going to lead us through. He makes a way where there is no way. No one was thinking we can go through a path in the sea. Right. Well, it makes me think of first Corinthians 2:5 that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.”
Michelle Watson, The Pantry Podcast S01E06: Faith That Rewrites the Rules
“That’s also the major of faith, that God’s got it. We asked for a child that we could have that would help us, you know, to continue in ministries and you know what he’s provided. He’s, he’s been faithful even sometimes when we’re unfaithful.”
Shea Watson, The Pantry Podcast S01E06: Faith That Rewrites the Rules
ANNOTATED TRANSCRIPT
Shea: It is good to give thanks to the Lord to sing praises to the most high. It is good to proclaim your unfailing love in the morning, your faithfulness in the evening accompanied by a 10 string instrument harp and the melody of a liar. You thrill me, Lord, with all you have done for me. I sing for joy because of what you have done. Oh Lord, what great works do you do? And how deep are your thoughts? Only a simpleton would not know and only a fool would not understand this. Though the wicked sprout like weeds and evil doers flourish. They will be destroyed forever, but you will Lord will be exalted forever. Your enemies Lord will surely perish. All evil doers will be scattered, but you have made me as strong as a wild ox. You have anointed me with the finest oil. My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies, my ears. I’ve heard the defeat of my wicked opponents, but the godly will flourish like Palm trees and grow strong like the Cedars of Lebanon for they are transplanted to the Lord’s own house. They flourish in the courts of our God. Even in old age, they will still produce fruit. They will remain vital and green. They will declare the Lord is just, he is my rock. There is no evil in him.
Shea: Hey, welcome to the pantry. That was Psalm 92. Yes. What do you think about that song?
Michelle: One of the things that I love though, the wicked sprout like weeds and evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever. And it just reminds me of the eternal mindset and how important it is to have that when you’re praying and when you’re operating in faith because otherwise you can so easily be derailed because you don’t see it happening in a way that protects this short initial life that we have in these temporary bodies.
Michelle: You know, if you’re not thinking in the eternal, you have a very limited mindset of what to ask for and what it should look like when he answers this changes that.
Shea: Right. Um, you know, they always say the faith of must proceed to move a mountain. And I think sometimes we look at that in this overwhelming sense. Like, how could you move a mountain
Michelle: or I don’t, I can’t even move a mountain. So how little is my faith?
Shea: You know? Either way. But I think when we, we think that it’s like, what do we do with that? You know? It’s like, what do we, if I have the faith of a mustard, seed, Whoa, wait, hold on. What’s a mustard seed? How much faith would that be? You know, we started, we started doing these mental cycles, like a formula.
Shea: Can you just like do an equation for me to let me know how much faith I need to have because we always want to cut it short, we cam be lazy. People hey, humanity can be lazy, I’m sorry if I finished you and say you’re lazy, but I think that sometimes as humanity we are, why not?
Michelle: Let’s not live in a prison of offense anyway.
Shea: And I only speak in the mirror. So, Hey, yeah, here we are though. We’re going to, we’re going to speak about faith a little bit tonight. I know that every day I wake up and I take that breath and I’m like, wow, God gave that to me.
Shea: So then what am I going to do that do with that breath, right? Or how am I going to trust in the Lord in the day to show me where I need to be, how I need to speak, how I need to listen. And, and honestly, it takes faith. It takes faith that you’re going to actually hear. So when we’re sitting there and we’re like, wow, faith of a mustard seed moves a mountain, it’s really little because our God is that big. See, we misunderstand the concept here. We’re looking at us little us little people. If you just stand back in the world, you know, from space, you can’t even see us
Shea: But that’s how big our God is. He is there all the time. He sees everything, he knows everything, but he knows our heart and he knows what we need. And if it’s something that’s necessary, he’s gonna provide it. You know? I know we asked for things sometimes on one side. I know we asked, I was asking for a minivan. Y’all know. Old man has a baby and let’s get a minivan.
Michelle: And it’s like, I don’t know. Honestly, I love him. Any man. Well I mean you’re big, you’re tall, you need something that’s fit for you. And that’s what exists.
Shea: I just remember that trip. Right, right, right. I just remember that trip where I drove the whole Northeast and I was like, Whoa, this is like, I’m so comfortable, I’m not crammed up.
Michelle: They are comfy. I will say they swallow me up, but they’re very comfy.
Shea: Right. And so I’m sitting there and I’m like, cause I had to sell my car. Y’all, you know, I love the sports car. It wasn’t even my wife trying to tell me to get rid of the sports car. It was the money that we were putting in that thing. It’s a money pit after a while. Right after. So I finally just pulled the trigger and got rid of it and I told the Lord, Hey, if that, if the car is there, we’ll buy it. You know, just show me. I, I’m trusting in you completely.
Michelle: There was a great deal on a minivan. Yeah.
Shea: I get to the day, I’ve got the $10,000 sitting in my hand to put down on this car. All of a sudden it’s not there wife says, yay, because she wasn’t digging the minivan. But it’s cool. It’s cool.
Michelle: I’m used to driving a Fiesta so the idea that I can’t just make donuts on a skinny street. Terrifying.
Shea: So what do we but what do we do? So I’m sitting there and I look on USA army, because I’m army I have accounts. I’m looking on USA and we’d always been thinking of a Subaru Crosstrek. I mean we thought about this before Calia and I go online and like bam, here’s this crosstrek bottom pricing. It has 700 miles on it and they wanted like 22 and usually when you buy a fully loaded brand new, this is a 2019 year old, it’s like closer to the 30k range on the East coast where we’re at. And there it was for 22k what? With $10,000 there’s a $12,000 car if fit right in to our budget. I didn’t ask for a Crosstrek, but he gave me something that my heart had always desired and I trusted in him. I’m not saying that’s always what happens, but you know there’s, there’s other stories in the Bible.
Shea:There’s Moses, he’s standing there and here comes, here comes the Egyptians. They’re standing on the red sea and the Israelites, you know, their faithfulness should have been more than a mustard seed anyways, or should have been a mustard seed. I’m not sure which one that would be. I think they didn’t have any cause they’re, they’re questioning Moses. Saying, why did you bring us here? Just to have us kill there. Why’d you bring us here? Only to have us taken back, right? And Moses kind of looks at them and he’s like, do not be afraid. Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians. From you. See today you shall see again, no more for forever. That’s a faith statement. This is Moses declaring you will not see them and the Lord will fight for you and you shall hold your peace.
Shea: Red sea parts. They go through the Egyptians like we could do this, yo, I’m sorry. I don’t know if I see an ocean go wide for these people who just rained down, all kinds of things on my community, right? I don’t know that I would have went into the water, but they did and gone look, it’s either you’re going to get it, you’re not going to get it or you’re going to wait on it. But either way you’re throwing it out there and you’re saying, you know, what would you call it all the time for fate? Crazy fate. Tell him that.
Michelle: I mean, I have to give credit to pastor Michael Todd because he had the 20 part series called crazy faith, but I have these different seasons that happen where God speaks to me. Something that aligns across different people that I’m listening to all at the same time. And that was one of the things that was really built up in me using this faith. And it was coming around the time where I had decided not to go back to work, work for myself, AKA work for the Lord, right? But under my own company name, I had decided that, you know, rather than have it all, you know, quote unquote figured out, have a baby and then sit there like it was so much easier without a baby. I was like, you know what? Instead of doing all that, I’m just going to do all the craziness at once.
Michelle: I’m going to start a business and have a baby all of the exact same time so that it accommodates this kid and I don’t have to refigure it out. That required so much faith. It’s amazing that for those three months I was holding her in my arms. She wouldn’t go to sleep without me and I was fine with that. I was enjoying that, but I’m going to have to start working for myself. What will I do? How much time am I really going to get if when she’s awake, I have to be watching her and when she’s asleep I have to be laying beside her every time. I had that I would remember all the faith versus in those moments I would just say, God, it’s on you. You know you have blessed us with this child. You want me to move in this direction with 3125 so you’re going to provide a way.
Michelle: Despite the fact we had a kid that for months didn’t have a normal nap schedule and in that time God was really using that. I could have gotten really annoyed with him like, God, why won’t you give her naps? Because I need her naps. Some days there’s a lot do. Some days I could afford to get distracted, but on the days when there I would wake up and be like, I have a lot of work to do. Amazingly, those would be the days she would sleep more and I would be able to get what I needed done, done, and then there would be the next day where her, naps might be all over the place, but I could spend that time with her. The more I let it go, the more I realized if she’s fighting her nap, there’s a reason and God knows what it is and he’s going to lead us through. He makes a way where there is no way. No one was thinking we can go through a path in the sea. Right. Well, it makes me think of first Corinthians 2:5 that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Michelle: Do not lean on your own understanding. It’s all him. He has ways you can’t even come up with because they’re so quote unquote impossible, but not for him. He’s the only one that’s not impossible for, and so the more I just kind of let it out, the better it is.
Shea: Amen. That’s awesome. I like that. And being from this side of the table, I’m your typical spiritual leader of the house and when all this comes on, I’m not typical at all, but I’m like, God’s got it.
Michelle: Which was madness at first badly. I remember those times. I remember those times. He’s just like, God’s got it and I’m like you don’t understand. He’s just like, God’s got it
Shea: That’s also the major of faith, that God’s got it. We asked for a child that we could have that would help us, you know, to continue in ministries and you know what he’s provided. He’s, he’s been faithful even sometimes when we’re unfaithful. He’s been super faithful and it’s awesome. You know, we all go through those bouts and three takeaways. First of all, we got to understand that faith comes from hearing Romans 10 17 right?
Shea: Faith comes from hearing from hearing through the word of Christ. The more we read the Bible stories, the more we see this, this map that’s been laid out in front of us. The more you hear testimonies from people who have had these little bits of faith or these huge amounts of faith, either way, you see God work, but we hear it, you know, through his word, through him where he gets the glory.
Shea: You know that if you don’t have faith, you don’t please him. I don’t know. That’s that. Then that’s deep. That’s actually really deep. If I’m not in faith, I’m not pleasing my father. That’s the trust that he wants us to have in him. That’s the belief that he wants us to have at him because he’s sitting there saying, I’ve got you. I’ve got you.
Shea: And so when you look at Hebrews 11:6 it says, and without faith it’s impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that watch this, he rewards those who seek him.
Shea: Our third thought on this, Lord, increase my faith. Lord, increase my faith. Lord increased my faith. You had 12 apostles, right? The disciples of Jesus. And they sat there this, these are guys that were with Jesus every day, day in, day out watching miracle after miracle, after miracle, after miracle after miracle. And in our minds we’re like, I would’ve got it, but here they are in Luke 17:5 and they’re saying, Lord, increase my faith so I can’t please him if I don’t have faith. I need to hear through his word. I need to increase my faith. Where do we stand in that? I’m asking this question out to all of you. I’m asking it even to myself, where do I stand in this faithfulness?
Shea: You know, we go through a lot of things in life and some things are worse than others and some things are harder than others and some things are really easy. I think sometimes in the easiest moments, our face lights cause we’re not asking. Right. That’s good. All good. But you know, and then when we get the darkness, whatever, you’re like, ah, screaming out. And it’s like, where do we go with this?
Shea: Where do we go with a mustard seed? We’ll move a mountain. There’s always a mountain. There’s always something going on in our lives. Man. I wish it was as simple as don’t eat the fruit. I mean probably still fail too. I was just going to be honest or I wished that there wasn’t so many things, you know, they were in this perfect garden. They were, everything was just kumbaya you know, Ooh man, this is awesome. And it’s like one thing and they didn’t have enough faith to trust that God would provide. Are we trusting that God will provide today?
Shea: And depending on when you hear this podcast, there’s a lot going on in the world right now from a financial issue to a virus. And man, it’s that time when we have to just trust, you know, every time you walk outside your door, you know there’s a left and there’s a right on all this. But you know, I look at it like this, Hey, I’m in God’s hands and everything that we go through, I don’t care what it is. Addiction, marital, money, have faith in God. Trusting God, be with God. Read the word of God because that’s where our faith needs to be. You know, if the apostles are asking to increase my faith, start here. Start with a little little mustard seed and see where it takes you.
Michelle: Yeah, I always like to say faith is preventative medicine. It prevents so many stumbles. It might not prevent everything that comes from the outside, but it really battles and wins out over the things that come from the inside. There’s a verse in 1 John 5:4 and it says, for everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory that has overcome the world, our faith, it beats everything.
Michelle: You know, it beats everything. And right now knowing the truth, that’s the armor that we need because you’re not going to see every prayer answered the way you want it to be right now. Often we ask for something, but we have this maybe unspoken, sometimes spoken hyper-specific way. We want it to be fulfilled. And sometimes that’s just not what it is. And so easy and it’s so easy for those moments where you have to wait a little longer or it looks a little different to end up challenging our faith for the enemy or our flesh to start doubting. Maybe he isn’t listening. Maybe I have to do something special or extra. Maybe I have to, you know, walk in circles six times or maybe I have to fast or you know, and I’m not saying any of those things aren’t right, but maybe it’s that he’s going to answer it different than you expected. And so we have to prepare ourselves for that.
Shea: We just automatically roll like I know I do it too sometimes. Oh, this let me fast. I want this. Oh, just let me fast. Was that discerned by the Holy spirit, right? It’s not always a formula. No, no, but I can tell you that when it is discerned by the Holy spirit, it’ll wreck you and one day we’ll talk about that. We’ll talk about, that’s a whole podcast about how I failed fasting and he realigned me back to it, but anyway, but no, I liked the faith.
Shea: I like the idea that we’re not always going to see it the way that we want to see it. God is so much bigger than that, so much better than that. See, in our little minds, these little people that you can’t see from outer space, we think that we have it all dialed in in the way that it should be in God sitting up there saying, Hey, let me orchestrate this because I’m going to show you how much more beautiful it can be. I just want you sit on a thought first. Faith comes from what? Hearing the word. Secondly, you don’t please them if you don’t have faith in third. Here’s the coolest one, Lord, increase my faith. Let’s roll in faith. Let’s roll in the idea that God has a greater plan for us, trust in him and move forward. Amen.
Michelle: Amen. Awesome. Thanks for joining us everybody and remember to just visit us at the pantry, podcast.com with prayer requests and questions and if you have things that you’d like to, here’s discussion. Yeah, we are always open for ideas. Awesome. Awesome. Til next time. Bye.