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Episode 1000: Money, Health, and Wealth

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Today's episode is focused on the connection between money and health...

In today’s episode about investing in yourself through stewarding your treasures, I talk with you about the health and wealth connection.  I also share ten connections between health and wealth.  I share some ways you can improve your health and money.

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Episode 1000: Money, Health, and Wealth

[00:00:00] Scott Maderer: Thanks for joining me on episode 1000 of the inspired stewardship podcast.

[00:00:07] Jared Williams: I'm Jared Williams with biblical wealth solutions. I challenge you to invest in yourself, invest in others, develop your influence and impact the world by using your time, your talent and your treasures to live out your calling, having the ability to invest without compromising your Christian values is key.

[00:00:22] And one way to be inspired to do that is to listen to this. The inspired stewardship podcast with my friend, Scott.

[00:00:29] Scott Maderer: so the truth is whether you make a lot or whether you make a little, whether you're struggling with money, because you've got that feeling of, I make too much money to be this broke or you're struggling because you're in crisis and living paycheck to paycheck affecting and improving your money can also affect and impact.

[00:00:49] You're welcome. And thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship podcasts. If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to [00:01:00] be, then you must learn to use your time, your talent and your treasures for your true calling in the inspired stewardship podcast will learn to invest in yourself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you can.

[00:01:16] The work.

[00:01:17] And today's episode about investing in yourself through stewarding your treasures. I talk with you about the health and wealth connection. I also share 10 connections that come from health and wealth, and I also share some ways you can improve your health. As we talk about stewarding your treasures.

[00:01:35] Wouldn't it be great. If you could support this podcast and do it without costing yourself an extra dime, it turns out you can. All you have to do is use inspired stewardship.com/amazon. When you're ready to make a purchase via Amazon and a small commission, we'll come back to support the show. If you enjoy

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[00:01:56] Scott Maderer: show, when you're ready to buy from Amazon, just use inspired [00:02:00] stewardship.com/.

[00:02:01] You've probably heard the expression that health is better than wealth or that without good health wealth becomes useless. And that's definitely got some truth, but there's also truth that when we look at it, there is a connection between money. And physical and psychological health because financial stress, as we've talked about can cause poor physical and psychological health, which then creates more stress, which creates bad money decisions.

[00:02:35] And so on. That's a feedback loop that we've talked about before. So it's really not a question of is health better than well, should I pay attention to my physical health or should I pay attention to my financial health instead? This is another case of a both, and where paying attention to both is important because [00:03:00] without good financial caretaking, your physical and psychological health will be affected.

[00:03:08] There are ways that debt and pour money habits can affect your mind. It shows up as depression. It shows up as a money insecurity that leads to this feeling of hopelessness. At times, if you're living paycheck to paycheck, you have a feeling of being trapped in that situation and giving up hope that it will ever change.

[00:03:33] You can have a feeling of anxiety. Because you become hyper vigilant about everything that can go wrong, because if anything goes wrong without an emergency fund, without the ability to financially navigate it, you have both whatever the emergency is, plus a financial emergency. And so that leads to a feeling of anxiety.

[00:03:54] It can lead to feelings of low self esteem. Feeling like we're [00:04:00] somehow lesser than others and it can even affect our memory and our ability to do our work and do our job. It can affect things physically as well. It shows that it's consistent stress around money creates high blood pressure and can create headaches.

[00:04:17] I've seen people get better. From something like that, simply by getting their money under control. Now don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that cures high blood pressure, but in some cases, if it reduces stress, it can certainly. Those situations. You also, often, as we've talked about before, can have sleep problems, which then lead to additional health problems.

[00:04:42] You have weight gain, you have the feeling that you can't go to the doctor because you can't afford it, which creates a problem where if you have health issues, those health issues can expand and can add on. I could get worse and [00:05:00] worse. So there's many different ways that your health and your wealth can be connected both physically and psychologically.

[00:05:07] But the truth is if you can affect your money, health, you can affect your physical health. So there are ways to physically handle stress like we've talked about before physical activity, setting small goals, learning to meditate, doing better diet, getting better sleep, setting aside times for reflection and rest keeping an orderly environment.

[00:05:33] All of these things can help your health and help your stress level, but so can actually working on your money, setting down and having a money plan. Setting down and working with someone else to figure out what is it that's keeping me in the paycheck to paycheck cycle and water. The next steps that I can take to begin to move out of that.

[00:05:55] What are the things that I can do to have a business plan that allows me to [00:06:00] grow and develop? What is it that I can do that will allow me to have a plan around my money that allows my money to get better each time, instead of getting worse and worse. What is it that I can do to inject hope back into my life, through getting control of my money, see, believe it or not having a spending plan and then tracking against that plan and reviewing it, and then reflecting on it and making changes in either the plan or in your behavior as appropriate.

[00:06:35] Can actually improve your stress level. And if your stress level gets better than your physical health can get better. Now don't get me wrong again. I'm not holding this up as a cure. All this is not, Hey, if you get your money in order, then all of your physical illnesses will go away. That would be the last thing.

[00:06:52] I would be the one to suggest. But what I am saying is it can help your stress, which then can show up in your [00:07:00] psychological and in your physical wellbeing. Plus it allows you access to medical care because if your money is not an order, it is hard nowadays to pay for insurance, to get, to see a doctor, to have the medications that you may need.

[00:07:18] I know people that have had to choose between eating and paying for their medication, but the truth is you can change that. It's not easy. It takes work and it takes time, but it can have. I've seen people do it. So the truth is whether you make a lot or whether you make a little, whether you're struggling with money, because you've got that feeling of, I make too much money to be this broke or you're struggling because you're in crisis and living paycheck to paycheck affecting and improving your money can also affect and improve your health.

[00:07:58] Thanks for listening.[00:08:00]

[00:08:00] Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship podcast, as a subscriber and listener, we challenge you to not just sit back and passively listen, but act on what you've heard and find a way to live your calling. If you liked this episode on the stewardship of treasures, you can sign up for our treasures tips by going to.

[00:08:26] Inspired stewardship.com/treasures or text in the U S 4 4 2 2 2 treasures tips. And we'll send you five weeks of our best tips on stewarding your treasures until next time. Invest your time. Your talent and your treasures develop your influence and impact the world.

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In today's episode, I talk with you about:

  • The health and wealth connection...
  • Ten connections between health and wealth...
  • Ways you can improve your health and money...
  • and more.....

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.– Josh Billings

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Episode 999: Faith and Mindset

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Join us today for an episode about the connection between faith and mental health...

Today's episode is focused on why mindset, faith, and mental health are connected...

In today’s episode about investing in yourself through stewarding your talent, I talk with you about the connection between faith and mental health.  I share some of the ways faith can improve our mental state.  I also share why faith is connected to our mindset.

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Episode 999: Faith and Mindset

[00:00:00] Scott Maderer: Thanks for joining me on episode 999 of the inspired stewardship podcast.

[00:00:07] Alain Huskin: Hi, I'm Alain Huskin, author of cracking the leadership code. I challenge you to invest in yourself, invest in others, develop your influence and impact the world by using your time, your talent and your treasures to live out your calling.

[00:00:23] Having the ability to lead well is key. And one way to be inspired to do that is to listen to this, the inspired stewardship podcast with my friend, Scott.

[00:00:36] Scott Maderer: to know that even though it's a battle, even though giving up these limiting beliefs, even though making the change in your mindset takes time. It isn't easy. You can create a routine and a structure of faithfulness that will help you do this. That will help you change your mindset to one that's more optimistic.

[00:00:59] [00:01:00] Welcome. And thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship podcasts. If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to do. Then you must learn to use your time, your talent and your treasures for your true calling in the inspired stewardship podcast. We'll learn to invest in yourself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you can impact the world.

[00:01:26] And today's episode about investing in yourself through stewarding your talent. I talk with you about the connection between faith and mental health. I share some of the ways faith can improve our mental state. And I also share why faith is connected to our mindset. You've heard me talk about developing your talent and one of the best ways to do that is through.

[00:01:49] But if you're like most people today, it's hard to find the time to read. And that's why today's podcast is brought to you by audible. Go to inspired [00:02:00] stewardship.com/audible to sign up and you can get a 30 day free trial. There's over 180,000 titles to choose from. And you can pick one and listen your way to developing your talents via.

[00:02:15] That's inspired stewardship.com/audible to get your free trial and listen to great books. The same way you're listening to this podcast. Faith does have a connection to our mental health and stress reduction. And it's not just something that you read about it. It's actually been studied and seen to be true.

[00:02:38] So the truth is. Faith and spirituality have an effect on our mood and our optimism and therefore our mental health. It actually shows tangible reductions in stress. If it's something that you believe in that you participate in. Go [00:03:00] faith is a belief or trust in God. And this idea of believing in a higher power allows us to understand that concept of don'ts let the small stuff, because it allows you to begin to really dive deep on what is actually important to you.

[00:03:19] What are the things that matter the most? What are the priorities and values that you have that you want to stand for? Now you can do this in ways other than just faith, but the truth is that having a faithful mindset allows you to do this as well. It allows us to discover our sense of purpose, a bigger idea outside of ourselves.

[00:03:43] That gives us a sense of comfort and connectedness. That's the other factor, too. It allows you to plug into a community of fellow believers that allows you to have a community around you. And that interconnectedness is [00:04:00] also something that helps. Recover stress and improve the mental health. Prayer is even something that allows for us to communicate and give over things and understand and go through Lamentations and grief, go through different ways of relating with God in a way of communicating that helps us give up some of the negative feelings.

[00:04:26] That can create stress because it can enable us to give up some of the feeling of loneliness or some of the feeling of confusion. It's a way of trusting in God and turning things over to God, which allows us to reduce stress by giving up those challenges, by turning them over to a higher power that allows us to go through and apply those lessons.

[00:04:54] To ourselves and to others. Now the truth is there has been several scientific studies that have [00:05:00] shown that prayer and faithful living can have a positive effect on stress and mental health. There's been more than one study of more than one group that shown that people that belong to a faith community can statistically live a little longer because of that reduction in stress as.

[00:05:22] So the truth is that our faithful relationships can improve and connect our mental health to a higher power that helps us have a better attitude. Be more optimistic and be less stressed out. Because the truth is our faith is connected to our mindset. If you think about belief in anything, it's what wires, how we do our whole life.

[00:05:49] If you believe that your car will start, you go get in your car and turn the engine. If you believe that a chair will hold you up, then you're comfortable sitting in that chair. Our beliefs are [00:06:00] connected to what we do, and that includes our self-belief. So if somebody says something like your competence, Does that strike you as a truth or a fiction because your belief in that actually create some of those limitations.

[00:06:16] And the truth is that we believe in faith that God creates us a new, and that God is there to walk with us. Then you can begin to believe more in yourself, not in. Prideful way, but in a humble way, because you can recognize the blessings and the gifts that you have been given, and that now your job is to steward those gifts and act upon them.

[00:06:42] So our mindset, our beliefs affect our actions, which affect the outcomes, which feed back into our minds. And beliefs. That's that feedback loop that we've talked about before? So if a faithful mindset helps us have a belief that is more [00:07:00] optimistic and more beneficial, then it can also lead to better action, which leads to better outcomes, which of course leads to even better beliefs and allows us to give up some of the disappointments of the past.

[00:07:14] Some of the feeling of beating ourselves up for knowing. That we are not good enough that we haven't done enough. It allows us to set some of those feelings aside and say, yes, but I'm born a new today and I'm moving forward from where I'm at. I don't have to be perfect. That's not the goal. I just have to be striving to move in that direction.

[00:07:37] You can begin to know that even though it's a battle, even though giving up these limiting beliefs, even though making the change in your mindset takes time. It isn't easy. You can create a routine and a structure of faithfulness that will help you. Do this, that will help you change your [00:08:00] mindset to one that's more optimistic.

[00:08:01] We will help you see the benefits of this and allow you to change over time. Like we talked about yesterday, the truth is our faith is connected to our mental health. For those that believe and having a strong faith and an optimistic mindset will allow you to also this. Have a better belief system that allows you to have better action and better outcomes, which feeds back into that in a positive way.

[00:08:31] Thanks for listening.

[00:08:33] Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship podcast as a subscriber and listener, we challenge you to not just sit back and passively. But act on what you've heard and find a way to live your calling. If you liked this episode on the stewardship of talent, you can go over to inspired stewardship.com/talent inside.

[00:08:59] For [00:09:00] our five week series on the stewardship of talent, or if you're in the us, you can text 4, 4, 2, 2, 2 talent tips. That's talent tips to 4 4, 2, 2, 2, and get those tips until next time, invest your time, your talent and your treasures. Develop your influence and impact the world.

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In today's episode, I talk with you about:

  • The connection between faith and mental health...
  • The ways faith can improve our mental state...
  • Why faith is connected to our mindset...
  • and more.....

Can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? If then you are not able to do so small a thing as that, why do you worry about the rest. - Luke 12:25-26

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Episode 998: It Takes Time to Change

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Today's episode is focused on why it takes time and what to do to make changes...

In today’s episode about investing in yourself by stewarding your time, I talk with you about why we resist change so much.  I share how change always takes time.  I also share how that means we need to set goals to make the change happen and hold accountability to get there.

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Episode 998: It Takes Time to Change

[00:00:00] Scott Maderer: Thanks for joining me on episode 998 of the inspired stewardship podcast.

[00:00:07] Kim Avery: I'm Kim Avery author of the prayer powered entrepreneur. And I challenge you to focus on your calling as a Christian entrepreneur. One way to be inspired to do that is to listen to this, the inspired stewardship podcast with my friend Scott Mader.

[00:00:20] Scott Maderer: Through the inertia to stretch that rubber band into a new formation or to carve that river channel into a new channel that takes both time and energy. And this is why accountability can be so important because accountability allows you to borrow some of that energy from other people. Welcome and thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship podcast.

[00:00:48] If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to be, then you must learn to use your time, your talent and your treasures for your true calling in the inspired stewardship [00:01:00] podcast. We'll learn to invest in yourself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you can impact the world.

[00:01:09] and today's episode about investing in yourselves by stewarding your time. I talk with you about why we resist change so much. I share how change always takes time. And I also share how that means. We need to set goals to make the change happen and hold ourselves accountable to. As we talk about stewarding your time.

[00:01:30] Wouldn't it be great. If you could support this podcast and do it without just taking too long, it turns out you can't. All you have to do is use inspired stewardship.com/amazon. When you're ready to make a purchase via Amazon and a small commission, we'll come back to support the show. Just that quick.

[00:01:48] If you enjoy the show, when you are ready to buy from Amazon, just use inspired stewardship.com/. Why is changing so hard? Why [00:02:00] does it take so long to make a change? Even a change we want to make even one that seems on face value to be simple is really hard. And the analogy is. Our brain is like a rubber band.

[00:02:17] Our brain has a tendency to develop routines and structure and habit, and you can stretch it temporarily. With an input of energy, just like you can stretch a rubber band, but when you let go of it, it snaps back to where it was before. Or think of it like laying down channels for water, like a river bed.

[00:02:40] And the longer you do something, the deeper that channel gets the steeper, the sides get, and the harder it gets to change. The direction of that river flow, the harder it gets to bypass that river and create a new channel. This is what [00:03:00] habit formation is like. We crazy. The familiar, we take refuge in the things that we know and understand they feel comfortable and comfortable feels safe.

[00:03:15] The idea that it's the devil we know over the devil, we don't know, even if it's something that we don't enjoy, even if it's something that we really wish we could change. Sameness feels safe while change feels like danger. So we actually have to work to overcome that inertia. It takes time to do that.

[00:03:39] It takes energy to do that. Usually at its root is some sort of belief that may even be an unconscious one. It may not even really be something you brought out, but there's this subtle feeling that if you change. Then [00:04:00] something negative would happen that you've got to keep things the same. It can even be something like depression.

[00:04:06] If I give up this state of depression, then no one would care for me anymore. Or that, that this state is somehow my natural and normal state, even something negative. Can be feeling like it's safe and something that we know and something that we hold onto very tight. This is why change takes time. It almost requires going through stages of giving up something, almost like a grief process or a grieving process where we have to give up the old self and let that die so that we can create a new self.

[00:04:46] So anytime you hear someone talking about, oh, just do this and you'll change instantly recognize that's an event kind of mindset. That event mindset usually will make a change, but that change won't stick [00:05:00] long term. It takes time. There's a process to making change. And that part of that process involves setting smaller goals, setting incremental steps, looking at what's the next smallest change that I can make that begins to move me in the direction that I want to go.

[00:05:22] If I want to change my health habits. What can I begin to do to change how I eat or how are exercise or both, but not looking to suddenly begin training for a marathon, but just begin walking around the block or just begin eating a little better each day. This habit formation is about incremental change.

[00:05:48] It's about setting small goals and then beginning to work towards those goals. That is part of working towards those goals. Usually you need some form of accountability. Now [00:06:00] you can do this with public accountability, where you post things out there, like you see pictures of people posting their pictures.

[00:06:06] As they're trying to exercise or lose weight, you can do this with coaching or some sort of accountability process with another person or group coaching or other processes. This is why things like weight Watchers. Work. That's part of that accountability piece of knowing on Tuesday, you're going to have to step on this.

[00:06:25] And the same thing has to happen with any other change that we want to make, whether it's health, whether it's wealth, whether it's time, whether it's productivity, whether it's processing our emails, whether it's something big or something small, we have to look for the small goals. And yet we also have to tie it to an emotional, why what's the reason behind this.

[00:06:46] We have to give ourselves a big enough driver to put. Through the inertia to stretch that rubber band into a new formation or to carve that river channel into a new channel [00:07:00] that takes both time and energy. And this is why accountability can be so important because accountability allows you to borrow some of that energy from other people.

[00:07:13] To borrow some of that energy through the process of having someone else work with you to hold you accountable, someone else to say, Hey, are you making progress? As simple as asking that question is it can make a big difference in the progress that you actually make. A lot of times we think of accountability as a negative.

[00:07:34] We think about it is someone beating us up for not doing something that we're supposed to do. But the truth is accountability is a powerful tool towards changing because it allows you to borrow the energy of others. As you put in those new channels, as you stretch that rubber band and make the change that you know, you need to make.

[00:07:57] Thanks for listening.

[00:07:59] [00:08:00] Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship podcast as a subscriber and listener, we challenge you to not just sit back and passively listen, but act on what you've heard and find a way to live. If you liked this episode on the stewardship of time, be sure to sign up for our stewardship of time tips series by going to inspired stewardship.com/time or texting 4 4, 2, 2, 2 time tips, and that'll get you our best tips on stewarding your time until next time.

[00:08:43] Invest your time. Your talent and your treasures develop your influence and impact the world.

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In today's episode, I talk with you about:

  • Why we resist change so much...
  • How change always takes time...
  • How that means we need to set goals to make the change happen and hold accountability to get there...
  • and more.....

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new -Socrates

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Episode 997: Having versus Living Faith

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Join us today for an episode about the reason works result from faith...

Today's episode is focused on James 2: 14-20...

In today’s spiritual foundation episode about investing in yourself, I talk with you about James 2: 14-20.  I share why this isn’t a statement that works save but an example of how faith results in works.  I also share how faith should produce something…

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Episode 997: Having versus Living Faith

[00:00:00] Scott Maderer: Thanks for joining me on episode 997 of the inspired stewardship podcast.

[00:00:06] Al Comeaux: I'm Al Comeaux. I challenge you to invest in yourself, invest in others, develop your influence and impact the world by using your time, talent and treasures to live out your calling. Having the ability to manage change is key. And one way to be inspired to do that is to listen to this.

[00:00:27] The inspired stewardship podcast. With my friend, Scott Mader.

[00:00:31] Scott Maderer: because faith at the end of the day should always produce something. There should be fruits that come out of faith. There should be something visible. Not necessarily to other people, but visible to you and visible to God, there should be action that you're taking in some way. And usually that shows up in a way that other people can see.

[00:00:54] Usually it shows up in something that people can observe. [00:01:00] Welcome. And thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship podcast. If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to be, then you must learn to use your time, your talent and your treasures for your true calling in the inspired stewardship podcast.

[00:01:16] Go learn to invest in yourself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you impact the world. And today's spiritual foundation episode about investing in yourself. I talk with you about James chapter two, verses 14 through 20. I share why this passage, isn't a statement that works saved, but an example of how faith results in works.

[00:01:40] And I also share how faith should always produce something. Talk before about James chapter two verses 14 through 20 at passage goes like this. What good is it? Dear brothers and sisters. If you say you have faith, but don't show it by your actions. Can that kind of faith [00:02:00] save anyone? Suppose you see a brother or sister who has no food or clothing and you say goodbye and have a good day, stay warm and eat well.

[00:02:09] But then you don't give that person any food or clothing. What good does that? So you see faith by itself isn't enough unless it produces good deeds. It is dead and useless. Now someone may argue, some people have faith, others have good deeds, but I say, how can you show me your faith? If you don't have good deeds, I will show you my faith by my good deeds.

[00:02:32] You say you have faith for you. Believe there is one God. Good for you. Even the demons believe this and they tremble and terror. How foolish can you see that faith without good deeds is useless. It's interesting, but this passage comes up a lot and it was the one that I thought of whenever Barbie was talking about living faith versus having faith.

[00:02:57] Yeah, this idea that we can [00:03:00] have faith, we can have belief, but it doesn't show up in our life in any way. We don't take any actions based on. Is one that this passage in James is talking out against, and it's not contradicting the idea that Paul said we are saved by faith alone in a Feagins chapter two.

[00:03:22] And we'll talk about that later, but rather that they're arguing. It's two different things, Paul. Arguing against those who say I do something to earn salvation. And James is fighting against those who say I'm saved and therefore I don't have to do anything. There, there are two different examples of the same sort of problem of having faith, but not actually living your faith out.

[00:03:51] Whatever it is, you can see examples of this people who will claim to have faith. They will claim to be a Christian. They will claim to [00:04:00] be a believer, but then it never shows up in their life. It doesn't change anything that they do or that they say, or any action that they take that somehow just believing is enough by itself.

[00:04:16] And I would argue that this passage is an example of why that's not true because belief is included in salvation, but it by itself is not alone. Belief that doesn't change you, that doesn't transform your life is the dead faith that James is talking about. If they, Ephesians two that I referenced earlier says for, by grace, you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves.

[00:04:44] It is the gift of God, not of works. Lest anyone should boast for, we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. In other words, out of our faith, [00:05:00] even there, it talks about we are creating. For the purpose of good works. We are there to do some thing that these works are an integral part of showing our faith.

[00:05:14] There's something that comes out of our faith. Our love for God creates the action of good works. They're the effect, not the cause of salvia. There the effect, not the cause of belief. They're the effect, not the cause of faith. That is what living your faith is to me. Because faith at the end of the day should always produce something.

[00:05:45] There should be fruits that come out of faith. There should be something visible, not necessarily to other people, but visible to you and visible to God. There should be action that you're taking in some way. And usually that [00:06:00] shows up in a way that other people can see. Usually it shows up in something that people can observe.

[00:06:07] But again, the connection there is not that you're doing the face so that everyone else can see that you're good. It's that you're doing them just because you're called to do them. They come out of your own belief and your own relationship and your own feelings of love. You'll love and works. Go together.

[00:06:28] Faith in works, go together. Belief in works, go together, repentance and works, go together, salvation and works go together because the work comes from that. It's the evidence of the change in your life. And yet, I think we often struggle with that. We struggle with recognizing that out of our faith should come.

[00:06:52] Action. We struggle sometimes with doing the work because that we do it in a way [00:07:00] that we say this work depends on me. We don't recognize that even out of our works is actually coming because we are stewards for the blessings that God has given us. It's not ours to own either it's ours to do, but not ours to own, not ours to take the credit for.

[00:07:20] And that's a challenge. Every day, at least for me, it is because I always want to take on the responsibility of doing it myself. Let me take care of it. It's hard for me to recognize that my faith caused me to put that over to God sometimes. And to put that over to God all the time to let God know that he's got this, I don't have it.

[00:07:42] It's not on me today. And yet it is mine to do as well, because God has entrusted me with those works and those blessings to steward and take good care of on behalf of God and God's kingdom. It's a weird, both and [00:08:00] state I've talked before about having a, both and belief system instead of an either or beliefs.

[00:08:07] And that's what this passage from James meant to me. This is what I think we were talking about between having faith and living faith. Thanks for listening.

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In today's episode, I talk with you about:

  • James 2: 14-20...
  • Why this isn’t a statement that works save but an example of how faith results in works...  
  • How faith should produce something...
  • and more.....

So you see, faith by itself isn’t enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless. -James 2: 17

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