“Walking in Faith: Seeking His Presence” Series (1)
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Powerful statement that requires vulnerability.
Are you willing to trust people?
No great relationship is formed without trust.
Whether it’s your personal, professional, or business life, you have to trust the other side in order to build a great relationship foundation.
As a kid, you trusted your parents or guardians to protect you and guide you.
As you grew older, you learned to trust yourself to make good decisions.
When you fell in love, you trusted the other person to love you, respect you, and take care of you.
If you are in sales, when you make an offer to your clients, your clients trust you to solve their problem and come up with a solution.
The same goes with your boss.
He trusted that you were the right candidate for the job. That’s why he hired you.
But trust requires an open heart and vulnerability.
Trust requires that you take your armor off and say, “Okay, I’ll give you a shot.”
In public speaking, we have what we call “Fillers.”
Fillers are senseless sounds used to fill up empty spaces when we speak.
These are your “aaaahhh”, “aaammmsss”, “soooo”, “you know”, “right”, etc
Subconsciously, communicators use fillers to maintain control of the room because they refuse to be vulnerable and give up the spotlight.
They use fillers to fill in the gap between one sentence to another because they feel uncomfortable with the silence in the room.
Fillers keep the flow going, but they can distract and sometimes annoy the audience.
One day, I was in a room observing a communicator delivering a training session to forty people.
This guy used the filler “Right” more than 100 times in one hour.
So yes, it can be annoying!
Willing to be vulnerable is not easy, but it’s necessary if you want to create a great connection with others.
~ Go to the source!
When I decided to grow my faith and learned more about GOD, a friend of mine, who is a pastor, told me...
“The closer you get to GOD, the harder it is for you, but the reward will be awesome.”
He was right because the more I read the Bible, the more personal growth gaps I found in myself.
For example, when a homeless person approached me at a red light and asked me for some money, I used to lie and say I didn’t have any cash even when I did have cash in my pocket.
Then I try to justify my lack of empathy by telling myself, “Oh, he probably wants that money to get drunk or buy drugs, until I read a verse in the Bible that changed my way of thinking...
Do not say to your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I’ll give it to you” – when you already have it with you.
By reading the Bible and doing my research, I learned that whatever the guy did with the money I gave him was none of my business because I can’t control his decisions; I can only control mine.
Can we be misinformed?
By experience, I tell you, yes, we can.
When I was a kid growing up in a little “Rancho” (Small Village) down south of Mexico, I was given crazy, senseless, bad information that allowed me to live with a lie for over 40 years.
Let me share the story with you.
“The Fall”
Genesis 3 in the Bible talks about “The Fall of Mankind”
This is where Evil introduced Sin (The forbidden fruit) to Eve, and Eve made the decision to embrace Sin.
Then Eve persuaded Adam to eat the forbidden fruit, and Adam got infected with Sin as well.
If you go to the source (The Bible) and read the punishment that GOD gave Adam and Eve for disobeying Him, you will find out that it had absolutely nothing to do with what I was told as a kid.
I was told that...
The punishment for Adam for eating the forbidden fruit was what is known today as the “Adam’s apple.”
The bump that shows in front of some people’s throat, called the “Laryngeal Prominence,” which is formed by the Thyroid Cartilage to protect the Larynx, also known as “Voice Box.”
Supposedly, when Adam ate the apple, the apple got stuck in Adam’s throat, and that’s why men (some men more than others) show a bump on their throat.
Crazy right?
Wait until you read what they told me about the women.
I was told as a kid that the punishment for Eve was a pair of boobs.
That’s right, you read it right.
Having a pair of boobs was the punishment for Eve for eating the forbidden fruit.
The boobs represented the apple of Sin
Which, by the way, nowhere in the Bible states that the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil is an Apple.
Someone made up the story of the apple, and the world followed.
That’s why it’s important to find the gaps and do your own research.
I trusted bad information for over 40 years until I went to the source (The Bible) and did the research myself.
Don’t make the same mistake I made.
Don’t wait too long to find the gaps in your life.
I recommend you do your research, find the gaps, be willing to be vulnerable, and learn to trust GOD.
Believe me, when you do this, you will feel a lot better with yourself.
Here are three things you can do to tighten your relationship with GOD...
Ask GOD for three things every day.
1. God, tell me what to do.
2. God, show me where to go.
3. God, put me where I need to be.
God bless you!
See you next week.
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