September 23, 2023 • 12 mins
What happens when we surrender to the Holy Spirit and bear witness to Jesus with our words and actions?
In the second part of our discussion, we unearth the significance of the metaphor of planting seeds of faith and its influence on our lives. We share a riveting tale of discovering two large seeds in an unexpected place, showing how the seeds of faith we sow can bloom in our families, communities, and even in the most casual interactions.
Get ready for a profound reflection on the impact of these seeds, their growth, and the unseen ways they touch lives. This is an episode that truly embodies the power of faith, surrender, and the difference we all can make when we decide to be witnesses for Christ.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning y'all.
Welcome back to my.
Shelly's got some things toshare and I hope that this is
gonna bless you.
I hope that everything is goingwell for you.
God is so good, he's so amazingand there's a couple of things
that I wanted to share that heplaced on my heart this morning.
Sometimes, when I'm in prayerand the Lord reveals some things
(00:25):
, sometimes I want to tell y'all.
Sometimes I'm like, can I keepthis to myself Because people
will not understand.
But, lord, I pray that you willgive us all the spirit of
wisdom and understanding andhearts that will receive and
surrender to your will.
Lord, right now, in the name ofJesus, so that y'all you're not
hearing me, but you're hearingwhat he says for your life.
(00:49):
In particular, yesterday I didthis podcast for a gentleman I
know.
I shared it on on the socialmedia streets.
His name is Joe Dalton and he'sa businessman who's very
successful.
But the Lord has been leaningon him in different ways.
Joe and I are from verydifferent backgrounds.
He's again successfulbusinessman and Dublin.
(01:11):
He's had a podcast there ontheir channel.
That's the longest running onefor in Dublin for years.
He's quite popular in thebusiness world but the Lord has
been really working on him.
He's a Catholic and he's beenstudying the word, not the word,
not the Bible, but he's beenstudying books written by other
(01:35):
saints, right because he'sCatholic.
So it was such a powerfulconversation in a few ways, and
as I was thinking more aboutthat conversation, I just wanted
to share with you some of thethings that I learned.
I think is going to help all ofus, and the first is around
witnessing.
So how I came to meet Joeactually how Joe came to know
(01:58):
about me is just doing the liveprayers online and I've been,
like you know, most of you knowbeen doing live prayers for more
than a year.
But I have always beenconnected to the Lord my whole
life.
I can't tell you when I foundthe Lord, or the Lord found me,
(02:18):
or how people say.
You know my salvation day, like.
I can't tell you that becausesince I was a child, I knew that
, that he had his hand on me ina different way.
I always knew that I didn't askfor it.
I don't think I'm special inany way, but I do know that the
Lord has had his hand on my lifeand has saved me some for some
(02:39):
incredible things that havehappened to me for many, many
years.
He's kept me for real and Ifound myself in the conversation
with Joe, and not just with Joe, but that with many people.
That Lord will send you people.
He'll send you one or two andthen he'll increase the more
that he trusts that you're gonnasay what he says and not what
(03:01):
you want to say.
I'm just flipping up.
I've got a lot of thenotifications coming, and so as
the Lord starts to, as you startto build a relationship with
Jesus, he starts to trust youmore and then he'll start to
send people so that you canwitness, not about yourself, but
about him.
And so just purely a lessonabout witnessing.
(03:24):
And here was a gentleman thatsuccessful, but he was yearning
for Jesus and all it was is theLord sent me there in that
capacity to witness, not to bragabout what the Lord then got me
this and how he blessed me, andI've known Jesus for 20 years
and none of that.
(03:45):
It is a heart posture and inorder for you to witness, you
need to come from a place ofsurrendering in yourself.
So this morning I'm justgrateful that the Lord is giving
all of us an opportunity towitness and again, you don't
have to witness Some of you, allI know are church leaders and
evangelists and pastors andbishops and all I get that.
(04:07):
But you still have to witness.
The way you show up as a mom,the way you show up as a spouse,
the way you show up as a friend, all of those are opportune.
The way you show up in yourcommunity, what you say, what
you say about others is soimportant, the way that you
witness.
And so I pray that the Lord isgoing to reveal some new
(04:28):
opportunities for you to witnesshim and draw again.
The whole point is to drawpeople back towards that kingdom
right, the kingdom of heaven.
So that was the first thing Iwanted to share.
Something else that came out ofthat.
It's first, secondThessalonians, verse 11 and 12,
and it says to this end, wealways pray for you that our God
(04:50):
may make you worthy of hiscalling and may fulfill every
resolve for good and every workof faith by his power, so that
the name of our Lord Jesus maybe glorified in you and you in
him, according to the grace ofour God and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
And so again, I pray for you.
(05:10):
I pray that you're gonnafulfill every good thing by the
work and the faith of the powerof the Holy Spirit, by God's
power, not yours, not ours,right, why?
Because the name of the Lord,jesus Christ, that's you know
when I say glorify yourselfthrough me so that they can see
you and not me.
That's what I'm talking about.
Is that his glory is all aboutthe glory of the Lord, it's not
(05:33):
the glory of Shelley.
So that is something that Iwanna share about witnessing and
as you surrender your heart andthere's more of a heart,
posture and less judgment, thenyou will bring more people to
Christ.
Right, it's not about judgingwhat people are doing.
Jesus is neither liberal norconservative.
Okay, that's our construct,that's what we do.
(05:56):
We have, we're using language.
You know being careful of whatwe say, because what you say you
can actually isolate people,right?
So I'm very mindful of what Isay.
If I were to say to thisgentleman or anyone I come in
contact with about the liberalnews and conservative news, if I
(06:16):
play those games, I'm nottelling anybody about Jesus,
because he could care less aboutthat.
He wants our hearts, he wantsour soul.
None of us are perfect.
I don't care which side of theaisle you're on, the message of
salvation is for everybody andas he tells us in Romans this is
(06:39):
Romans 11, romans 11, verse 25,.
Lest you be wise in your ownsight, right, it's not you know,
it's not your wisdom, right, itis the wisdom of the Lord.
What is he showing you?
So, lest you become wise inyour own sight, what you see you
don't understand.
Let God do what he's gotta do.
(07:00):
He's just, you know, putting usin position to witness to other
people.
And again, it doesn't matterwhich side of the aisle you're
on, don't fall into politics.
You know, this is what happenedthe first time the Lord came.
People started pulling him intoa political sphere, of which
side, you know, fighting for us.
Right, that was the mistake.
But he's not here, for it's notabout that.
(07:23):
It's the heart.
It's the heart and the spirit.
Right, the Lord's been spiritand truth.
The second thing I wanted toshare with y'all is something
happened to me this morning inmy house, and I was.
We have a little room.
It's basically set up as alibrary.
I keep a very clean house.
Okay, if you know me, you knowthat to be true.
I looked out on the floor thismorning and there were two seeds
(07:44):
and they were pretty big and Ithought where did this come from
?
Cause I literally cleanedyesterday.
They were huge.
It looked to me like a plumseed.
Two, two really big seeds.
One was like right at the edgeof my, at the opening of our
library it's like a seed on thefloor, and another one was under
a chair and it was so crazy andI was laughing and I was like
(08:07):
Lord, what does this mean?
And it was so funny that theHoly spirit was like you've got
seeds of different sizes indifferent places.
I've got seeds of differentsizes in different places.
So many of us are plantingseeds of different sizes in
different places.
(08:30):
Okay, so some of your seeds thatyou're planting might be
planting seeds into your family,the way that you're investing
your time, the way that you'reinvesting your money, the way
that you're investing into yourcommunity, and maybe it's you
know, you've, you've you spoketo again.
I'm going to call out my friend, mckisha.
The Lord connected her to alady at a nail salon and built a
(08:53):
relationship of witnessingthrough that.
That was one.
It seems like a small seed, butthat's a seed that you don't
know where it's going to go.
Right, maybe it's the largestseed.
What we're doing here, wherewe're literally planting seeds
of bringing you God's word andworshiping alongside of you and
praying with you and growing theprayer group and you know,
(09:14):
trying to provide these placeswhere you can feel safe, talking
about Lord coming in here toget equipped and then you go on
and you equip somebody else.
This is a.
This is just a station whereyou're coming in to recharge and
then you go out and do the work.
But for a long, long time I'vebeen planting seeds in many,
many different places ofdifferent sizes, and we're
(09:36):
shifting now as we're cominginto a place where he's
harvesting some of those.
So I planted the seeds, then Iwent into a season where I had
water the seeds, which is whereI am now, and then there's a
harvest that come and theharvest is for his kingdom, not
mine, his kingdom, not mine.
So I want to encourage you thoseof you all who are planting
seeds of different sizes andthey're in different places to
(09:59):
just keep doing what you'redoing as long as you are letting
the Holy Spirit guide you andlead you and telling you where
to go, and you know he's goingto give you opportunities to
witness and witnessing as a seedand y'all you're witnessing,
whether you're saying nothing orsomething.
So you know something.
I tell people because I'm inthe brand industry okay is that
(10:20):
your brand is in the room longbefore you get there.
People know about me beforethey even meet me because my
brand and my reputation is itsupersedes me.
It's in that room long beforeyou get there.
So if he's giving you now, ifhe's calling, if you feel a tug
on your heart where you want tosee, you're saying I feel like I
just want to serve Goddifferently.
(10:40):
I want to serve him more Right,and I want to plant those seeds
.
Just know that you know thoseseeds, that you're going to
plant different seeds indifferent locations and it's all
going to come together right,because all things right come
together for the good of thosewho love the Lord, who are
called by the Lord.
So I just want to encourage you, even if it feels like, hey,
(11:00):
you know I've been doing thisover here and doing this over
here and Lord, what's happening,don't worry about it.
Seeds in different sizes anddifferent locations and he will
pull it all together in theright time.
Your harvest is coming.
Okay, right now, you just plantthe seeds.
Just keep planting the seeds,keep doing what he's telling you
to do.
Show up where he's telling youto show up, surrender to the
(11:21):
Holy Spirit and let him lead andguide you.
So, witnessing from a place ofwhere again, full surrender, and
you're not judging people,you're not, you know, using the
words of the world because youwill condemn people like opening
your heart right, witnessing ina way, and then just being
encouraged that, yeah, we're allplanting seeds, but they're in
(11:42):
different sizes, in differentlocations and it's all to God's
glory at the end of the day.
So, father, we just thank youfor this opportunity.
Thank you for this message,lord, thank you for your
encouragement and your grace andyour goodness.
Lord, as we all go out into ourday now, wherever we are,
whether we're watching this liveor we're watching this on a
replay, we're watching thisaround the world I pray that you
(12:03):
will give us a freshness of dayand draws, as you continue to
draw, as closer to you.
Lord, I just thank you for yourmercy, thank you for your
goodness and thank you for yourHoly Spirit.
Amen, all right, that's all Ihad.
Y'all have a wonderful,wonderful day.
Tell somebody you love them.
Be kind to each other, amen,bye.
Good morning y'all.
Welcome back to my.
Shelly's got some things toshare and I hope that this is
gonna bless you.
I hope that everything is goingwell for you.
God is so good, he's so amazingand there's a couple of things
that I wanted to share that heplaced on my heart this morning.
Sometimes, when I'm in prayerand the Lord reveals some things
(00:25):
, sometimes I want to tell y'all.
Sometimes I'm like, can I keepthis to myself Because people
will not understand.
But, lord, I pray that you willgive us all the spirit of
wisdom and understanding andhearts that will receive and
surrender to your will.
Lord, right now, in the name ofJesus, so that y'all you're not
hearing me, but you're hearingwhat he says for your life.
(00:49):
In particular, yesterday I didthis podcast for a gentleman I
know.
I shared it on on the socialmedia streets.
His name is Joe Dalton and he'sa businessman who's very
successful.
But the Lord has been leaningon him in different ways.
Joe and I are from verydifferent backgrounds.
He's again successfulbusinessman and Dublin.
(01:11):
He's had a podcast there ontheir channel.
That's the longest running onefor in Dublin for years.
He's quite popular in thebusiness world but the Lord has
been really working on him.
He's a Catholic and he's beenstudying the word, not the word,
not the Bible, but he's beenstudying books written by other
(01:35):
saints, right because he'sCatholic.
So it was such a powerfulconversation in a few ways, and
as I was thinking more aboutthat conversation, I just wanted
to share with you some of thethings that I learned.
I think is going to help all ofus, and the first is around
witnessing.
So how I came to meet Joeactually how Joe came to know
(01:58):
about me is just doing the liveprayers online and I've been,
like you know, most of you knowbeen doing live prayers for more
than a year.
But I have always beenconnected to the Lord my whole
life.
I can't tell you when I foundthe Lord, or the Lord found me,
(02:18):
or how people say.
You know my salvation day, like.
I can't tell you that becausesince I was a child, I knew that
, that he had his hand on me ina different way.
I always knew that I didn't askfor it.
I don't think I'm special inany way, but I do know that the
Lord has had his hand on my lifeand has saved me some for some
(02:39):
incredible things that havehappened to me for many, many
years.
He's kept me for real and Ifound myself in the conversation
with Joe, and not just with Joe, but that with many people.
That Lord will send you people.
He'll send you one or two andthen he'll increase the more
that he trusts that you're gonnasay what he says and not what
(03:01):
you want to say.
I'm just flipping up.
I've got a lot of thenotifications coming, and so as
the Lord starts to, as you startto build a relationship with
Jesus, he starts to trust youmore and then he'll start to
send people so that you canwitness, not about yourself, but
about him.
And so just purely a lessonabout witnessing.
(03:24):
And here was a gentleman thatsuccessful, but he was yearning
for Jesus and all it was is theLord sent me there in that
capacity to witness, not to bragabout what the Lord then got me
this and how he blessed me, andI've known Jesus for 20 years
and none of that.
(03:45):
It is a heart posture and inorder for you to witness, you
need to come from a place ofsurrendering in yourself.
So this morning I'm justgrateful that the Lord is giving
all of us an opportunity towitness and again, you don't
have to witness Some of you, allI know are church leaders and
evangelists and pastors andbishops and all I get that.
(04:07):
But you still have to witness.
The way you show up as a mom,the way you show up as a spouse,
the way you show up as a friend, all of those are opportune.
The way you show up in yourcommunity, what you say, what
you say about others is soimportant, the way that you
witness.
And so I pray that the Lord isgoing to reveal some new
(04:28):
opportunities for you to witnesshim and draw again.
The whole point is to drawpeople back towards that kingdom
right, the kingdom of heaven.
So that was the first thing Iwanted to share.
Something else that came out ofthat.
It's first, secondThessalonians, verse 11 and 12,
and it says to this end, wealways pray for you that our God
(04:50):
may make you worthy of hiscalling and may fulfill every
resolve for good and every workof faith by his power, so that
the name of our Lord Jesus maybe glorified in you and you in
him, according to the grace ofour God and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
And so again, I pray for you.
(05:10):
I pray that you're gonnafulfill every good thing by the
work and the faith of the powerof the Holy Spirit, by God's
power, not yours, not ours,right, why?
Because the name of the Lord,jesus Christ, that's you know
when I say glorify yourselfthrough me so that they can see
you and not me.
That's what I'm talking about.
Is that his glory is all aboutthe glory of the Lord, it's not
(05:33):
the glory of Shelley.
So that is something that Iwanna share about witnessing and
as you surrender your heart andthere's more of a heart,
posture and less judgment, thenyou will bring more people to
Christ.
Right, it's not about judgingwhat people are doing.
Jesus is neither liberal norconservative.
Okay, that's our construct,that's what we do.
(05:56):
We have, we're using language.
You know being careful of whatwe say, because what you say you
can actually isolate people,right?
So I'm very mindful of what Isay.
If I were to say to thisgentleman or anyone I come in
contact with about the liberalnews and conservative news, if I
(06:16):
play those games, I'm nottelling anybody about Jesus,
because he could care less aboutthat.
He wants our hearts, he wantsour soul.
None of us are perfect.
I don't care which side of theaisle you're on, the message of
salvation is for everybody andas he tells us in Romans this is
(06:39):
Romans 11, romans 11, verse 25,.
Lest you be wise in your ownsight, right, it's not you know,
it's not your wisdom, right, itis the wisdom of the Lord.
What is he showing you?
So, lest you become wise inyour own sight, what you see you
don't understand.
Let God do what he's gotta do.
(07:00):
He's just, you know, putting usin position to witness to other
people.
And again, it doesn't matterwhich side of the aisle you're
on, don't fall into politics.
You know, this is what happenedthe first time the Lord came.
People started pulling him intoa political sphere, of which
side, you know, fighting for us.
Right, that was the mistake.
But he's not here, for it's notabout that.
(07:23):
It's the heart.
It's the heart and the spirit.
Right, the Lord's been spiritand truth.
The second thing I wanted toshare with y'all is something
happened to me this morning inmy house, and I was.
We have a little room.
It's basically set up as alibrary.
I keep a very clean house.
Okay, if you know me, you knowthat to be true.
I looked out on the floor thismorning and there were two seeds
(07:44):
and they were pretty big and Ithought where did this come from
?
Cause I literally cleanedyesterday.
They were huge.
It looked to me like a plumseed.
Two, two really big seeds.
One was like right at the edgeof my, at the opening of our
library it's like a seed on thefloor, and another one was under
a chair and it was so crazy andI was laughing and I was like
(08:07):
Lord, what does this mean?
And it was so funny that theHoly spirit was like you've got
seeds of different sizes indifferent places.
I've got seeds of differentsizes in different places.
So many of us are plantingseeds of different sizes in
different places.
(08:30):
Okay, so some of your seeds thatyou're planting might be
planting seeds into your family,the way that you're investing
your time, the way that you'reinvesting your money, the way
that you're investing into yourcommunity, and maybe it's you
know, you've, you've you spoketo again.
I'm going to call out my friend, mckisha.
The Lord connected her to alady at a nail salon and built a
(08:53):
relationship of witnessingthrough that.
That was one.
It seems like a small seed, butthat's a seed that you don't
know where it's going to go.
Right, maybe it's the largestseed.
What we're doing here, wherewe're literally planting seeds
of bringing you God's word andworshiping alongside of you and
praying with you and growing theprayer group and you know,
(09:14):
trying to provide these placeswhere you can feel safe, talking
about Lord coming in here toget equipped and then you go on
and you equip somebody else.
This is a.
This is just a station whereyou're coming in to recharge and
then you go out and do the work.
But for a long, long time I'vebeen planting seeds in many,
many different places ofdifferent sizes, and we're
(09:36):
shifting now as we're cominginto a place where he's
harvesting some of those.
So I planted the seeds, then Iwent into a season where I had
water the seeds, which is whereI am now, and then there's a
harvest that come and theharvest is for his kingdom, not
mine, his kingdom, not mine.
So I want to encourage you thoseof you all who are planting
seeds of different sizes andthey're in different places to
(09:59):
just keep doing what you'redoing as long as you are letting
the Holy Spirit guide you andlead you and telling you where
to go, and you know he's goingto give you opportunities to
witness and witnessing as a seedand y'all you're witnessing,
whether you're saying nothing orsomething.
So you know something.
I tell people because I'm inthe brand industry okay is that
(10:20):
your brand is in the room longbefore you get there.
People know about me beforethey even meet me because my
brand and my reputation is itsupersedes me.
It's in that room long beforeyou get there.
So if he's giving you now, ifhe's calling, if you feel a tug
on your heart where you want tosee, you're saying I feel like I
just want to serve Goddifferently.
(10:40):
I want to serve him more Right,and I want to plant those seeds
.
Just know that you know thoseseeds, that you're going to
plant different seeds indifferent locations and it's all
going to come together right,because all things right come
together for the good of thosewho love the Lord, who are
called by the Lord.
So I just want to encourage you, even if it feels like, hey,
(11:00):
you know I've been doing thisover here and doing this over
here and Lord, what's happening,don't worry about it.
Seeds in different sizes anddifferent locations and he will
pull it all together in theright time.
Your harvest is coming.
Okay, right now, you just plantthe seeds.
Just keep planting the seeds,keep doing what he's telling you
to do.
Show up where he's telling youto show up, surrender to the
(11:21):
Holy Spirit and let him lead andguide you.
So, witnessing from a place ofwhere again, full surrender, and
you're not judging people,you're not, you know, using the
words of the world because youwill condemn people like opening
your heart right, witnessing ina way, and then just being
encouraged that, yeah, we're allplanting seeds, but they're in
(11:42):
different sizes, in differentlocations and it's all to God's
glory at the end of the day.
So, father, we just thank youfor this opportunity.
Thank you for this message,lord, thank you for your
encouragement and your grace andyour goodness.
Lord, as we all go out into ourday now, wherever we are,
whether we're watching this liveor we're watching this on a
replay, we're watching thisaround the world I pray that you
(12:03):
will give us a freshness of dayand draws, as you continue to
draw, as closer to you.
Lord, I just thank you for yourmercy, thank you for your
goodness and thank you for yourHoly Spirit.
Amen, all right, that's all Ihad.
Y'all have a wonderful,wonderful day.
Tell somebody you love them.
Be kind to each other, amen,bye.
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