Grit,Faith and Divine provision

The podcast episode discusses the topics of grit, faith, and divine provision. It emphasizes the importance of perseverance in the face of obstacles and trusting in divine timing. The host shares personal experiences and biblical references to illustrate the concepts. The message encourages taking practical steps towards turning mental goals into reality, highlighting the partnership between human action and faith in achieving desired outcomes. Trusting in God's provision is portrayed as a journey of growth and character development, requiring active participation and perseverance. What's going on peeps, welcome back to the Mental to Matter podcast where we take mental thoughts and we turn them into matter. Today's episode is going to be about grit, faith, and divine provision, but before we get into the episode, please hit that like button, hit that bell so you don't miss another episode. We're going to be digging deep into faith, digging deep into mental hurdles, and really just this is a partnership of us becoming our best selves. So as I'm working on myself, because I'm not perfect, I want to know how you're working on yourself and let's come together and just be our best selves together and make this world a better place. Can I get an amen? All right, so what we're going to talk about today, like I said, is grit, faith, and divine provision. So today we're talking about something I've been wrestling with personally, and I know many of you have too. We're talking about grits, about those moments when obstacles feel insurmountable, when your faith gets tested, and when you have to make the choice to trust that God will provide everything you need. Let me ask you something real quick. What's one thing you've been thinking about? What is that dream? What is that goal? What is that calling? You know the one. It's been sitting in your mental space and you want to bring it into the physical world, but there's something blocking it. Maybe it's fear. Maybe it's a lack of resources, or maybe it's just hard. Here's what nobody tells you about turning mental into matter. The obstacles are real. They're not imaginary. They're not just limiting beliefs that disappear when you think positive thoughts. That's mumbo-jumbo talk. These limiting beliefs are real. These thoughts are real. They come from your mind. So I was talking to a friend last week who's been trying to start a business for two years. Two years, and I've been wrestling with the same thing with this podcast, but something that he told me about his two-year journey of trying to start his business stuck with me. He said, I feel like I'm pushing a boulder uphill, and every time I make progress, something knocks me back down. Can anybody relate to that? You start making progress, you got the dopamine hit of like, oh, I'm about to be an entrepreneur. I'm about to be a business owner. I'm about to get this promotion in my company, and then, bam, something happens. And that's when grit comes in, because there's two options that you can do. You can get knocked back down, sit on your butt and turn the other way and cry, or you can stand up tall and figure out a way to get past that boulder, get past that obstacle, or maybe you might have to pivot and go another direction to get past that boulder. But at the end of the day, you have to take those actions to get past it, because no matter what, your time is going to come, no matter what. Either it's going to expose you, or it's going to open you up to the world, to who you really are. I got that from Iron Golden. But here's the thing about grit that I've learned, often the hard way. Grit isn't about tough, being tough all the time, beating on your chest like King Kong and screaming at the sky. It's not about never feeling tired or discouraged and being like Kevin Gates back in 2016. I don't get tired. Real grit is about getting back up when you've been knocked down for the fifth time that week. When you've been knocked down for the 50th time that month. When you were knocked down at 500 times at the end of the year. It's about showing up every Tuesday when Monday broke your heart. It's showing up every quarter when Q1 was not where you want it to be. It's showing up in 2026 when 2025 was not what you wanted it to be. The Bible talks about this in Romans 5, verse 3 through 5, Paul says, we glory in our sufferings because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character, and character, hope. Notice he didn't say suffering produces immediate success. He said it produces perseverance. Perseverance produces character and character produces hope. That's the process. Mental to matter isn't instantaneous. It's a forging process like metal being shaped into fire. Now let's talk about the faith part because this is where it gets personal for me. I grew up hearing God will provide and honestly my faith wasn't 100% in that because I was real caught up in seeing physical things happening to fulfill what I wanted. So the classic saying, see it to believe it. But what I learned over time is that you have to see it in your mind first before you see it with your physical eyes. And that's what I've learned about divine provision. God doesn't always provide what you think you need when you think you need it. He provides what we actually need when we're ready to receive it. So you can want to see what you want to see and think that you're supposed to get it in this timeline. January 1st, I'm going to make $100,000 by the end of the year. Maybe God doesn't think that you're equipped to even handle that $100,000. You might just blow it right away. So it's not happening in the timeline that you want, but you have not because you ask not. So I just encourage you to go bigger than what you think you need. It's a side note there. There's a story in Exodus 16 about the Israelites in the wilderness that I love. God provided manna every single day, but here's the catch. They could only gather enough for that day. If they tried to hoard it, it was rocks. Why would God set it up that way? Because he was teaching them daily dependence, daily trust, and daily faith. The fact of the matter is we only have now, else the future doesn't exist technically. The past is in the past. You can't do anything about it. Literally all we have is right now. Think about your situation right now. What if the provision you're waiting for is already there, but in a form you haven't recognized yet? What if God is providing daily manna, but you're so focused on wanting the whole warehouse that you're missing the bread at your feet? I'm not saying settle for less than what's God's best for you. I'm saying recognize the provision that presents while you're working towards the promise. So all right, this is where we get practical because mental to matter requires action. Faith without works is dead, right? So here's where we're going to do it together. I want you to grab a piece of paper, open your notes on your app right now, either one. We're going to turn this podcast episode into a partnership moment because that's what this is. Ready? Here are three questions I want you to answer. Question number one, what is the mental picture you've been carrying? Write it down in one sentence. Be specific. Not I want to be successful, but specific. For example, I want to start a nonprofit that helps single mothers get job training. Be very specific. Question number two, what is the best obstacle, sorry, what is the biggest obstacle standing between mental and matter right now? Name it. Be honest. Is it money? Is it fear? Is it a person? Is it your own inconsistencies? Be honest. Question number three, what is one action, no matter how small, that you can take in the next 24 hours to move that mental image closer to physical reality? Now notice, I didn't ask you to solve the whole problem. I asked you to take an action, even if it's small, because here's the secret about grit and faith working together. You take the step you can see, and then God illuminates the next one. Amen. Amen. Amen. Proverbs 16.9 says, in their hearts, humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps. You do the planning. You take the action. God establishes the steps. That's the partnership. That's the promise. You put your head down, you plan, you put your head down, and you take action, and you pray to God to help you flourish in those actions and planning, and what is God going to do? He's going to establish the next steps, aka build the future that you want. You can't build the future because you have no power over the future. But what you can do today is plan and take action today to make tomorrow better because God is preparing you for tomorrow. So the biggest message today really is take it day by day if you want to be super-duper simple. But okay, let's get a little deeper. Let's get a little deeper, okay? I'm having fun. I don't know about y'all. So let's go deeper on this trust thing because I know some of you are thinking, okay, that's great, but what if I take the steps and nothing happens that always happens? I end up just doing this and that. You know, nothing happens. Okay, valid question, and I can say I've been there. I'm pretty sure all of us have been there, but here's what I've come to understand. Trusting that God will provide everything you need doesn't mean trusting that everything will be easy. It means trusting that in the difficulty, in the waiting, in the unexpected detours, God is still working. There's a difference between provision and preference. We often confuse the two. You might prefer the door to be open on your timeline. God provides the strength to wait and the wisdom to see which door he's actually opening. You might prefer the smooth path. God provides the grit to walk the rocky one that builds your character because if you're not the person that you need to be when God puts you in the situation that he's going to put you in, it was pointless. You might prefer the immediate answer. God provides the peace that surpasses understanding while you're in the question. I'm going to let that sit. I want to be really, really clear about something. I'm not telling you to be passive. I'm not saying sit around and wait for blessings to fall from the sky. That's not faith. That's just being lazy. Biblical faith is active. It's Noah building the ark. It's David picking up the stone. It's Esther walking into the king's court. It's action combined with faith and trust. Here's your challenge. Do the work. Take the action. Make the plan and then release the outcome to God. Don't even worry about it. Do it. Don't even worry about it. Do it. Don't even worry about it. I might make that a shirt. Do it. Don't even worry about it. Do it. Pray. Don't worry about it. I'm making a song too. Do it. Pray. Don't worry about it. Do it. Pray. Don't worry about it. That's where peace lives, in the doing and in the trusting simultaneously, and this is what I've had to learn over the years. We're coming to the end of our time together, but before we go, I want to pray with you because this partnership we have is grounded in something bigger than us both. So close your eyes and bow your head. Heavenly Father, thank you for every person listening right now. Thank you for the vision you've placed in their hearts, for the dreams that wake them up at night, for the calling that won't let them rest. Lord, I pray for grit, not the kind that makes us hard, but the kind that makes us resilient. Give us the strength to get back up. Give us the courage to take the next step, even when we can't see the whole staircase. Heavenly Father, deepen our trust in you. Help us recognize your provision, even when it doesn't look like we expected it. Help us to see your hand at work in the delays, in the difficulties, in the detours. Turn our mental into matter. Lord, take the thoughts you've given us and help us bring them into physical reality in your glory. In your son's name, in Jesus' name, I pray, amen. All right, partner, here's your homework before the next episode. Take that one action you wrote down, do it, then come back and tell me about it. You can DM me, email me, leave me a review. I want to hear how you're turning mental into matter. Remember, this isn't just motivation, this is transformation, and we're in this together. Until next time, see you later, stay blessed, keep the faith, do the work, trust the process.