Obedience Comes Before Confidence - Shane Winnings, Pastor Joby Martin & Denny Thompson

What did you feel, like, at, now looking back, what did you feel at that time that was, that was being built inside of you?

Man, um, boldness for one, you know, 'cause those first ...

I, I always still get nervous going to talk to someone, you know, just cold about the Lord, like out in public, you know, 'cause you get all these thoughts, like, "I'm interrupting them.

They're probably in a hurry.

They don't wanna hear this."

Isn't it funny how the devil can work? 'Cause you have, like, been in war.

Yeah.

Been shot at.

Yeah.

And si- and then went back.

Yeah.

But then talking to a random guy [laughs]--

Yeah, you get, like-

... about Jesus, the enemy's like, "Oh, you don't wanna do this."

And you start to try to reason your way out of it, and so I would just try to be the person who's like, man, if I feel the Lord speaking, I, I would say, like, I'm gonna get myself caught or, or get myself stuck.

So if I feel like the Lord's like, "Hey, go talk to that guy," before I had a chance to process why I shouldn't, I would just be like, "Hey, dude," and now he's looking at me, and now I have to say something, you know?

That's-

So I'm stuck.

That's so smart too, 'cause that's like-

So I felt the boldness and then I felt the love for the one, you know?

Wow.

Um, because I had 50,000 followers on TikTok a month in, and that's just a number.

Mm-hmm.

But, like, I'm talking to one guy at a park who's, like, having severe anxiety and doubting things in life, and so all of a sudden that number has a face, and I, and so it, it gave me a respect for, like, the reach that we have through social media.

Well, what you don't know, when, when I, when I talk to people about sharing your faith, what you don't know is that that person could have been praying last night, "Okay, God, if you're real"-

What did you feel, like, at, now looking back, what did you feel at that time that was, that was being built inside of you?

Man, um, boldness for one, you know, 'cause those first ...

I, I always still get nervous going to talk to someone, you know, just cold about the Lord, like out in public, you know, 'cause you get all these thoughts, like, "I'm interrupting them.

They're probably in a hurry.

They don't wanna hear this."

Isn't it funny how the devil can work? 'Cause you have, like, been in war.

Yeah.

Been shot at.

Yeah.

And si- and then went back.

Yeah.

But then talking to a random guy [laughs]--

Yeah, you get, like-

... about Jesus, the enemy's like, "Oh, you don't wanna do this."

And you start to try to reason your way out of it, and so I would just try to be the person who's like, man, if I feel the Lord speaking, I, I would say, like, I'm gonna get myself caught or, or get myself stuck.

So if I feel like the Lord's like, "Hey, go talk to that guy," before I had a chance to process why I shouldn't, I would just be like, "Hey, dude," and now he's looking at me, and now I have to say something, you know?

That's-

So I'm stuck.

That's so smart too, 'cause that's like-

So I felt the boldness and then I felt the love for the one, you know?

Wow.

Um, because I had 50,000 followers on TikTok a month in, and that's just a number.

Mm-hmm.

But, like, I'm talking to one guy at a park who's, like, having severe anxiety and doubting things in life, and so all of a sudden that number has a face, and I, and so it, it gave me a respect for, like, the reach that we have through social media.

Well, what you don't know, when, when I, when I talk to people about sharing your faith, what you don't know is that that person could have been praying last night, "Okay, God, if you're real"-