“God wasn’t nowhere near that,” snarked the Root’s Shanelle Genai.
The internet broke into fits at first sight of this clip. It’s being written right now, and it’s being written through your life.Gizelle Bryant and Jamal Bryant attend the Atlanta UNCF Mayor’s Masked Ball in 2019. Crazy faith was not just a long time ago. God wants to write stories of crazy faith through us that inspire another generation, and I believe that’s part of my passion and my life message: to tell people the greatest story God has ever written. But Jesus said that greater works will we do. I think somehow we think that the stories of Noah, Moses, Abraham, Paul and Peter are the real stories. And God is the same yesterday, today and forever. The most significant place you can be as a leader is in the will of God. Believing in God means we are connected in relationship to the One who loves us and who can change everything.
Believing in God doesn’t mean everything always goes right. I believe that the muscle of believing God in the face of trials makes us really what we say we are: believers. We have to go back to the Word of God, to the things God says about us, to the things we’ve seen him do in other people’s lives, and let that fuel our faith journey that fully blossoms in front of everyone else. If you’re hearing doubt, if you’re hearing people only giving negative reports, if nobody is speaking hope, then your faith can be stunted.
It’s very important that leaders have the right voices in our ears, especially when things aren’t going how we thought they would. But God has done it before, so I know he can do it again.įaith comes by hearing. I’ve been at a place where we didn’t have the money, where people left, where my feelings were hurt. Over time it becomes muscle memory, and you’ll be like, I’ve been here before. Faith is like a muscle: the more you exercise it the more it grows. Every step you take in faith proves that God is who he is, which gives you more faith. And when you have a strong yes for God, and if you can lead through the fear, the doubts, the frustration, then on the other side of that is a life of faith. I don’t have all of the credentials, but I do have a strong yes. He always uses people where his glory and power have to be seen through a vessel that may be less likely. Those types of things are really the catalyst for God to do miracles.
A lot of church leaders over the past year and a half have had to say, “I don’t know” more than anytime before.There’s not one leader in history that God used who did not face doubt, confusion, frustration and duality. That’s a hard thing for a lot of leaders, but it’s where faith begins to fuel your future. I would encourage every leader, no matter where you are, to first admit that there is a place where you don’t understand what’s going on. But faith continues when understanding ends. If everything were all good and I could run a staff, meet with everybody and lead all on my own, there’d be no need for God. If it all made sense to me, I wouldn’t need God. But God is not offended, scared or disgusted by our doubt. Many leaders don’t do that because it feels like we always have to have it all together. Practically, that means me having quiet time with God and really exposing the places where I have doubt, where I face fear and where I don’t understand. We as leaders need crazy faith because the people we’ve been called to serve are walking around trying to figure out where God fits into all of this.
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