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Authenticity in Faith 0:02 We wanna honor God because He sees everything.0:10 You were born with a plan and a purpose. He's the God of all things possible. He's the God of all0:22 miracles.0:52 Welcome to Grace Grace with Naina Michelle. I'm Michelle Humphries.0:55 And I am Naina Keegan. Welcome to our broadcast today. Today we're gonna be talking about God meeting us where we are, not where we pretend to be. Hello. Where we1:07 pretend to be. You know, and what does that mean exactly? You know, well, are you 1 way when certain people are around, when you're by the church people, when you're by1:19 you know, maybe you think you have to act 1 way, and then, you know, nobody's looking, so to speak, and you're out doing whatever that you know is completely against what you should be doing, you know,1:31 where is the real you? It's like, you know, let's let's, like, open the door and reveal what's behind door number 2. You know, because we need to give it all to God. It's not like he doesn't know1:43 all of these things. He's gonna meet you right where you are. He he's not surprised by anything that you're trying to maybe hide from him or, you know, whatever whatever you're compromising in some way1:55 that you think you might be getting away with it or whatever it is, it's that's not the case. It's not the truth. And in a lot of these things that we might be doing, you you we think that, you know, is hidden from the2:07 Lord, is actually blocking our own blessings in a lot of ways. Because, you know, God wants you, all of you, the whole you, the real you, because he made you, and nothing that you're doing, nothing surprises2:19 him at all because he knows it all anyway. And so we're only fooling ourselves, we're only causing ourselves to just go around the mountain 1 more time and to lose these blessings2:31 that God wants to bestow on us, that wants to use us, wants to give it you know, give us his whole purpose and plan laid out for us. He wants us to walk in that, but not if we're2:43 only pretending, you know, if we're if we're just kind of like a sideline Christian.2:47 No. We don't want to be that. And and I like you're talking about, everybody wants to be blessed, but not everybody wants to be vulnerable to their friends or to the Lord or they you know, we2:59 have this little, person that we take out that, you know, can be the little Pharisee. And then when we come back, maybe we're, like you're saying, not living the the life3:11 that we are saying we're living. And I love this scripture. It's everybody loves Psalms, and, it's the first 1. Psalms 1 13:23 through 3. It says blessed. You wanna be blessed? Here's how you get it, and and you're and there's no pretense in this. Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked. So don't hang3:35 out with the wicked and don't call friends that aren't saved to ask for advice just because you wanna hear what they have to say because that's really what you wanna do?3:43 That's worldly advice.3:45 Yeah. That's worldly advice, and that will we're talking about if you really wanna be blessed, here's how you do it. And it says, blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked nor stand in3:57 the way of sinners nor sits in the seat of scoffers, but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water4:08 that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. So do you want to prosper? Then you have to be the authentic4:20 Christian. You're not gonna sit, and even even if you're, you know, what's sitting in the seat of scoffers? You know, even if you're watching TV and4:32 they're scoffing about the Lord, I don't care how benign, how PG the show is. If they're scoffing, you need to click it off. I know that that that crucifies4:44 the flesh, but it's true. We don't need to watch other people scoff at the Lord. And if they're scoffing in real life, you need to take a stand and say, hey. This is4:56 not how we're gonna be. You know, if you wanna be blessed, then you need to stand up for the Lord. You need to do the courageous thing because, yeah, you might lose friends,5:08 but you also may have 1 or 2 or maybe even more that come back around and watch you stand. And and, you know, to me, that's the way to win5:20 is if you wanna win souls for the Lord, then then you follow this, and you're blessed, and people wanna people also wanna be blessed. And they're watching as you're standing.5:32 You're standing up, and you're saying, hey. Don't talk about the Lord like that. That's not okay. It's not okay to be irreverent. It's not okay to scoff.5:41 Right? Well, and it's not okay to stay home. I mean, it's it's okay. It's not it's it is okay to stay5:47 home when maybe5:49 people you're hanging out with are gonna, you know, go somewhere that you know you probably shouldn't be or shouldn't go, or the things that you shouldn't watch. You know? Missing out. Yeah. Yeah. Or or home. You know,5:59 the, you know, your the Bible talks about your eye gates and, you know, what you're watching, listening to. It all comes into your spirit. Are you practicing what you preach? Are you walking the walk, or is it just a6:10 talk? Is it is it, you know, you're you're saying 1 thing in front of, you know, your Christian friends or whatever, but then what are you going home and watching? Or what are you saying? Or are you, you know, you know,6:20 fighting with your family in crazy way? Like, where's the real deal? Like, you know, we're to we're called to love 1 another. We're called to be the example, the hands, the feet, the eyes, the ears, the the6:32 mouthpiece of Jesus. And and, you know, if you're if all of that isn't matching up, well, then maybe we have to rethink some of those things and take a look at some of those things and repent and ask the Lord to help us6:44 and see where we're off. Because the Bible talks about, in Corinthians, second Corinthians 3 18, that I am being changed from glory to glory. I decree transforming glory6:56 over my life. Like, that's what we want, the glory to glory to change us to be more and more and more like Jesus. And, you know, when when you're when you're pretending to be something that you're not, like, do do7:08 the real people around you, the people around you all the time know the real you or not? Like like, you know, I was I was, I I was talking to my son the other day about, like when you're dating somebody.7:20 Like, do you ever just think, like, when, you know, they say, what is it, like 6 months before the real person comes out, like you can kind of like be fake for for whatever amount of time or whatever. And I7:32 see so many people that have maybe gone through a divorce and say, well, they really had me fooled or they had this or whatever. But the 1 thing I can say is is like I will look at my son7:43 or my kids when they're dating. Are you are they their selves? Are they acting themselves? Being the exact person that I know they are every single day around that person. Because if7:55 they're not allowed or they can't feel like they can be themselves or any of us around that person, well then, why is that? Why because is this an8:07 insecurity issue, like, that you think that they're not gonna like you for the real you? Are you pretending to be something you're not? Is it false pretense? Because, again, how are you gonna keep this up? You're gonna8:17 be miserable if you can't be yourself. And in the in the same way, you know, you're not pulling 1 over on Jesus. You know what I mean? He knows who you are. He knows every day, you8:29 know, what makes you tick, what makes you laugh, what what hurts you. He knows all of these things. And so we have to every day just give it all to him. And that's you know, like even pretending, you think, Michelle,8:40 like, when you pretend that that doesn't hurt me, I'm just gonna I'm you know, like like, you know what I mean? Like, so much some people walk around so with, like, you know,8:52 they're so hurt that they don't let their guard down in any way because they're afraid of those things to come again. So they're just, you know, disallowing the real love to shine through into their lives9:04 and stuff. So so even from that standpoint too, not being yourself, so that you're able to receive, you know, good things, love, and and and and, you know, just the relationships that God does9:16 want you to have.9:17 Amen. Amen. And with that, we're gonna take a little break. You're watching Grace Grace with 9 and Michelle.9:22 Just like all of you, I had problems sleeping. I had tried every pillow out there and nothing worked. I'd flip flop all night, use my arm for support and I'd fall asleep or I'd wake up with a sore neck or maybe a9:33 headache. Well, quality sleep comes from keeping your neck straight at night. You have to fill in that space between your head and your bed. That's why I invented MyPillow. MyPillow's patentedLiving a Life of Integrity 9:45 fill adjusts your exact individual needs and it doesn't matter if you sleep on your back, stomach, side or any combination of all 3.9:53 When I got MyPillow, I'm asleep almost immediately. I stay asleep at night and I wake up more well rested in the morning.10:01 So go to my pillow dot com or call the number on your screen. Use your promo code to get Classic King My Pillows for only 19 98. Mean size just 18 98. Standard classic, my pill10:13 is only 14 98. That's right. Only 14 98. Plus all orders, 75 dollars or more, ship absolutely free.10:23 Welcome back. We are discussing God will meet me where I am, not where I pretend to be. And we don't wanna be pretenders. And I know sometimes we cover topics that10:35 maybe they're not fun to talk about, but you know what? It's important not to be a pretender. Like, you really do need people in your life that are iron sharpening10:47 friends that you can say, hey. I fell here. I did this. You need to be able to be vulnerable with, not everybody, but some10:58 people so that will hold you accountable. Don't just go to the people that'll say, meh. No big deal. Go to the people that will really pray for you, that will really, hold11:10 you accountable and say this is what the word says. Make sure you're not just hanging on you know, hanging out with people that are in total agreement with your sin. You know? And and, I mean, I11:22 really haven't ever noticed this verse before, but as we were studying for this particular program, I found it, and it's in second Timothy 3 13. And it says, evil11:33 people who pretend to be what they are not will become worse. Oh my goodness. That is scary. I mean, like, if you harden your heart, you're just gonna become more11:45 evil. So you you know, the Bible says, that to break up the fallowed ground. What is that? What is fallow ground? It's a hardened heart. Make sure that your11:57 sins have not caused your heart to become hardened towards God. Make sure that you go before the Lord and say, God, anywhere that my heart is hard towards12:09 you, I ask you to break up the fallowed ground so that I will be pliable, so that I will be vulnerable before you and not afraid to come to12:21 you with my sins and and then go outside and pretend like somebody, that I'm not. I don't ever want to be that. 1 of my greatest fears, and I know Nina knows this,12:33 is I've always been afraid to become a Pharisee. It's like, you know, we go to church. We read the Bible. We, you know, become, you know, to where you're just filled with all this knowledge.12:45 We listen to sermons. We got all the songs down. We know when to lift our hands, all this stuff. But, honestly, that's so scary. Please, God, we ask you. Don't12:57 ever let us become Pharisees.12:58 Don't wanna be an imposter. No. I mean, that's the thing.13:01 So this this scripture was like, oh,13:04 God, please. I know. You know what? That's the thing about it. I feel like, you know, like, everything convicts me, which I'm glad about. I'd rather have it that way. But, you know, than to not be. But, you know, 1 of13:15 the I think a good measuring stick for this is is, are if you can the people that are around you, okay, are are you worried, like, are are they people that you can13:26 just not go say, hey, let's just pray right now. I'm gonna pray over you right now. No matter where you're at, no matter what you're doing, you know, or do you back away because they're gonna think you're weird if you're13:35 praying? You know, like, is the real you? Because the real me would just be like, right now, like, right here, let's pray. I don't care. I don't care who says what. I don't care if we're praying in a restaurant and what13:45 other people think. Couldn't care less.13:46 Well, we have. That's for sure.13:48 All the time. And so and so we prayed for other people and wherever we go, because whatever the Lord calls me or asks me to do, any of us to do, it's him you're hearing his14:00 voice, and it's about obedience, and it's about being the person he's called you to be, not a pretender, which means get up, go do what he asked you to be because he doesn't need you. He can go to the next14:11 person that's gonna listen to him, and he can use them. And then the more you don't you don't listen, the more you're gonna back away and the more it is harder to hear because the more you know,14:23 I heard from him and he said this, and then that person, you know, needed that prayer right then and there. And, you know, it's like he'll always use you in those things. So so isn't that a14:35 good measuring stick? Like, are you comfortable? Can you just be yourself and go pray with that person or for that person? Can you grab their hand? Can you you know, and and and, you know, I know recently, my husband,14:46 you know, he's a physician and and somebody he's working with, at at the hospital who's having a rough time, who who, you know, really not don't hear any scripture, a lot of those things coming out. And I14:58 and I said, I sent my husband scripture to go, give him this, and then give him this. And what what was he saying? To, oh my gosh. Thank God I needed that so much. Thank you so much. And it's like, that's the thing.15:10 We're not gonna be afraid of, well, they're not really a Christian or they might think I'm weird or whatever. Let's do what God's called us to do. Let's not be impostors in this world, and let's just get about the15:22 Father's business because that's what's so important. That's what your purpose is right here. Go, tell, do, be. All that you15:31 need to call. Other thing is when you're, you know, when somebody calls me and they are walking in sin, I can't help15:42 it. I'm gonna call it out because God did not call me to to me, I have risked losing friends because I have called out sin. And, I have had15:54 friends that didn't talk to me for a while. But when they got I knew, and I didn't take it personally because you know what? They weren't running from me. They were running from God and his truth and his16:06 standard. But the Bible says when the enemy comes in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard against evil.16:14 Yeah.16:14 And and sometimes that evil is is happening amongst people that you know. And you wanna be their friend or you wanna be their buddy so much that you won't call it out.16:27 And you know what? God there there is a long list of sins that can land us in hell. And our who who will be your friend? Who's your real friend? Your16:39 real friend is the 1 who says this is what God's word says. This is his standard, not mine. I didn't make this up. This is where it says it. I find that whenever I'm just reading it out16:50 loud, like, just out of the word itself, then it's not as scary because this is God's word. I'm just bringing it up in this conversation because I I17:02 am so sorry that you're walking through this and you think this is okay, but God says it's not. And in fact, it's it's it's so much, off the17:14 beaten path that this could land you in hell if you continue down this path. And so I know these are hard words for some people, but there is a list. There are many lists in the17:26 Bible that say that if you are these things, you will not make it to heaven. And so then who's your friend? It's the 1 who's not pretending that everything's okay with17:38 you and God just to be your buddy, and your real friend is the 1 who it says better are the wounds of a friend than the kisses from an enemy. And17:49 so sometimes we wound, when when we're talking and not to be ugly, but to be right with the Lord. 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From all of us here at MyPillow Thanks, Amanda.19:00 Welcome back to Grace Grace with Nina and Michelle. We're talking about being who god made you to be, not who you are pretending to be right now. And so I I I made this little list because I was19:12 thinking about, you know, if we're if we're gonna follow God's plans and purposes for our lives, then we're we're to be set apart. We're not to be like the world, or we're in the world but not of the world.19:24 And so here's some things that I was thinking about. You know, maybe, you you study while others are sleeping. Decide while others are delaying.19:36 Prepare while others are daydreaming. Begin while others are procrastinating. Work hard while others are just wishing they had this or that. You know, save19:49 while others are wasting. Listen while others are talking. Smile while others are frowning, be kind when others are being hurtful or gossiping, and persist20:01 while others are giving up. You know, I think if we just kind of make some little tweaks, some of these these things are pretty basic. It's easy stuff. But if you really just think about how these little20:13 things can end up being something kind of monumental, if you just start implementing some little changes. You know, don't be the 1 who just, you know, is sitting around feeling sorry for yourself all the time where20:25 everybody thinks you have it all together, that you you you're just, you know, doing all this great stuff and yet here you're just this whining hot mess at home complaining about everything. You know, it's like, so so20:36 maybe take those few steps. I'm gonna get up. I'm not gonna complain today. I'm gonna work harder today. I'm gonna, you know, check on some people I haven't checked on in a while. I'm gonna, you know, maybe whatever it20:48 is that your need is right now, you know, maybe, you know, you're just having a pity party, you feel very discouraged. Well, maybe from your discouragement, you go encourage someone else. That might20:59 be you know, somebody always has it worse than us. And so many times, if you would get yourself mind off of yourself and go bless somebody even in that very same place21:11 that you're suffering, you're gonna find that that's gonna bring about healing and deliverance and blessings in your own life. And so it just really, you know, it's it's just getting off the21:23 pretense, the false pretense, and getting out there and just taking 1 step at a time, 1 step in the right direction. Change these few simple things. This is not hard. You know? You know,21:35 decide. Tomorrow, I'm getting up a half an hour early, and I'm just gonna spend time with the Lord. I'm gonna read the word. Start in a daily devotional. Maybe that's what you just read every morning, a daily21:46 devotional that has some word in it. You know, you can go to pray dot com. There's so many people to choose from. I know our our show's on there, but so many different pastors and sermons and things that you could you21:56 you can, you can check out. And start with, like, a daily devotional every day just to get you started. Start with, you know, maybe just decide, Lord, show me if I'm complaining too much.22:08 Stop me in the midst of my complaining so that that I I don't have that hardness of heart. You know, show me where I'm procrastinating, where where I'm wasting time, where I'm wasting money. You know, wherever those22:20 things are, just start with those little things and just see what God does. It doesn't have to be monumental stuff, you know, that's super hard or you feel like you're overwhelmed by it. But it's just little little22:31 things that can really start getting you on the right track. And you'll notice Yeah. Oh, I okay. Thank you, God. I I know I shouldn't be saying that.22:38 I shouldn't be talking like that or whatever. Right. And and and complain and remain. You know? So and and don't rationalize. You know, we all have a tendency to rationalize22:50 our personal sin or things that maybe it's not downright sin, but it's things that are causing us not to prosper in the way that23:02 God desires us to prosper. We rationalize. You know? It it truly is you know, the the secret to our success is hidden in our daily routine. So true. How23:14 are we living?23:15 Make your bed.23:15 What does make your bed.23:17 Well, that's a book. Yeah. It is a it23:19 is a book. Start with that. It is a book, and and things like that matter. You know, that you know, make your bed, get dressed, you know, make yourself23:31 look as presentable even if you work from home. You know, I I work out of my home, and, and I I do try, you know, to to try to look my best because I find that if23:43 I don't, that I'm not as good of a worker that day. You know? I'm not I'm not being as productive or fruitful that day. And, and I think all of these things matter in in just making your23:55 bed. I mean, that's a big portion of your room, your bed. Right? Simple little things can get us where we need to be. And and, you know, the Bible says that we're gonna be like polished24:07 arrows in the hands of the Lord. So if we wanna be those polished arrows and not pretenders, then in our daily routine, when nobody's looking, we are24:19 being that consistent, godly, praying, praising, victorious Christian because that's who we are,24:31 and that's who God called us to be. And if we wanna hit that mark and prosper like it says in Psalms 1 1 through 3, we are going to begin to24:43 put things in our daily lives that are gonna get us to that target, and that's where we wanna be.24:49 Yes. And even in your own family, even if you start with that, you know, how are you speaking to your wife, your husband, your kids? How are you speaking in front of your kids? Like, what what is going on in your in your25:01 own house? Like, do people think you're Joe family, you're just perfect little, and yet that's all going on in your house? I mean, you know, God's gonna hold us accountable for those things, you know? And so start with,25:12 you know, if you if you're tempted to just jump down your your your spouse's throat or you're gonna you're gonna attempt it to be in a fight, just stop and and just stop and think of25:24 something kind you might say. Amen. And say, oh, you know, hey, sorry about sorry we we're just disagreeing. I'm sorry. Be the bigger person and see what God does through that. That's right. Instead of, you know, you25:35 know, going yelling at a child or whatever, like, sit him down and have a conversation and do because how would Jesus respond to you if that was if that was you? So we're25:47 so grateful that that you guys are part of our team here at Grace Grace. We just love you all, and we're just thankful that you were watching the show today. Michelle, you wanna do a quick prayer?25:57 Lord, we pray that you bless and keep each person watching, and may your face shine upon them, Lord, and give them peace and prosperity. Amen. In Jesus' name. Amen.26:07 God bless you all. We love you. Love you.26:10 Does science disprove God? Is there a26:12 war between science and faith?26:14 We don't need God to create a universe. There's no evidence for God, and it's irrational.26:19 Is there no evidence for God?26:20 Am I delusional for my beliefs?26:22 It is delusional and stupid. Am I brainwashed? Do I ignore reason?26:27 Logic. Critical thinking.26:34 Science.26:44 RDOF uses logic and reasoning.26:47 RDOF has empowered my sons to defend their faith with facts.26:51 If you wanna be equipped to defend against the biggest objections to the existence of God, RDOF is the place for you.27:01 Has science really ruled out God? Is faith at war with science? 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