Brunch N' Bible: "Build Your House (Faulty Foundations Pt. 2”) feat. Olamide Ogundele

Summary

Brunch N' Bible: "Build Your House (Faulty Foundations Pt. 2”) featuring Olamide Ogundele
Release Date: March 4, 2025
Host: Heaven Kore
Guest: Olamide Ogundele

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Introduction to Faulty Foundations

In the second installment of the "Build Your House (Faulty Foundations)" series, host Heaven Kore welcomes her guest, Olamide Ogundele, to delve deeper into the concept of shaky life foundations. The episode emphasizes the danger of building one's life on unstable grounds such as social media, personal achievements, and relationships, urging listeners to anchor their lives firmly in Christ.

The Impact of Social Media on Spiritual Foundations

Heaven Kore opens the discussion by highlighting how social media has become a substitute for seeking Jesus. She points out, “we have replaced Jesus with social media... looking for TikTok messages” ([00:46]). While acknowledging the role of kingdom influencers, she emphasizes that social media should complement, not replace, a personal relationship with God.

Olamide concurs, expanding on the importance of consistency in building a relationship with God. She advises dedicating at least 15 minutes daily to reading the Bible and prayer, stating, “start with 15 minutes consistent… by the 21st day, you will see yourself naturally just graduating into more minutes” ([02:20]). Olamide also shares practical strategies like using Bible app reminders to prioritize spiritual activities over mindless scrolling ([04:31]).

Building a Personal Relationship with God

The conversation transitions to fostering a strong personal relationship with God. Olamide emphasizes the necessity of intentional spiritual practices:

• Consistency in Spiritual Practices: She encourages setting aside daily time for Bible reading and prayer, ensuring these practices become habitual.

• Accountability Tools: Olamide discusses the importance of using tools like Bible app reminders to stay disciplined and reduce time spent on non-constructive social media.

• Engaging with a Local Church: Highlighting the significance of community, Olamide urges listeners to join a local church, participate in its activities, and engage with fellow believers for mutual growth ([04:46]).

• Balancing Spiritual and Secular Content: She advises integrating spiritual content into daily routines, such as listening to spiritual songs while working, to maintain a balance between spiritual nourishment and secular engagements ([06:37]).

Navigating Relationships While Keeping God Central

Heaven shifts the focus to relationships, both romantic and platonic, and their potential to undermine spiritual foundations. She reflects on how relationships can sometimes take precedence over seeking God, leading to compromised faith.

Olamide responds by advocating for the establishment of boundaries in relationships. She shares, “treating your relationship with God as though it were your relationship with your partner” ([10:28]). By prioritizing prayer and seeking divine guidance before discussing issues with others, believers can ensure that their relationships do not supplant their commitment to God.

Understanding and Embracing Purpose Rooted in Faith

The duo explores the concept of divine purpose, stressing that understanding one's God-given purpose helps reinforce a strong foundation. Heaven introduces Ephesians 3:17-19, emphasizing being "rooted and grounded in love," which is essential for fulfilling one's purpose.

Olamide elaborates on this by explaining that recognizing one's purpose as partnering with God in reconciliation efforts prevents drifting from foundational beliefs ([15:27]). She uses the analogy of different chairs serving unique purposes in a church setting to illustrate how believers can contribute uniquely to their mission while remaining united in purpose.

Maintaining Strong Foundations Amidst Challenges

Heaven and Olamide discuss the importance of a deep-rooted foundation to withstand life's burdens. Heaven references Colossians 2:6-7, highlighting the necessity of being "rooted and built up in him" to handle the "godly burden" of seeing others saved and thriving in their faith ([14:58]).

Olamide adds that maintaining strong roots involves conscious effort and the right associations. She introduces concepts from her upcoming books, stressing the importance of surrounding oneself with a supportive inner circle that fosters spiritual growth and accountability ([20:42]).

The Significance of Being Hearers and Doers of the Word

In concluding the foundational discussion, Heaven brings up the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Builders from Matthew 7, emphasizing the difference between merely hearing the word and actively doing it ([23:47]).

Olamide reinforces this by criticizing "tongue-speaking believers" who lack substantive actions reflecting their faith. She advocates for a balanced approach where believers not only engage in spiritual practices but also exhibit their faith through tangible actions, thereby embodying the teachings of Christ ([24:16]).

Conclusion and Call to Action

Heaven wraps up the episode by challenging listeners to assess their own foundations. She poses a reflective question: “What are you doing? Are you being a doer? Are you being a hearer alone?” ([28:41]). This serves as a call to action for women to strengthen their spiritual foundations by integrating consistent faith practices, establishing healthy boundaries in relationships, understanding their divine purpose, and actively living out their faith.

Olamide and Heaven encourage listeners to share the episode, engage with the content, and continue building their lives on the unshakable foundation of Christ.

Notable Quotes:

• Heaven Kore ([00:46]): “We have replaced Jesus with social media... looking for TikTok messages.”

• Olamide Ogundele ([02:20]): “Start with 15 minutes consistent... by the 21st day, you will see yourself naturally just graduating into more minutes.”

• Olamide Ogundele ([04:31]): “You have to be intentional about your spiritual... Bible app that reminds you in a day to say, hey, you have not picked up your phone to actually read the Bible.”

• Olamide Ogundele ([10:28]): “Treating your relationship with God as though it were your relationship with your partner.”

• Heaven Kore ([14:58]): “Being rooted and grounded in love... filled with all the fullness of God.”

• Olamide Ogundele ([20:42]): “Your inner circle is very important... people that will keep you in check.”

• Heaven Kore ([23:47]): “We have hearers and doers. The solution to this faulty foundation is... practical in the ways that they live their life.”

• Heaven Kore ([28:41]): “What are you doing? Are you being a doer? Are you being a hearer alone?”

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This episode of Brunch N' Bible serves as a comprehensive guide for women seeking to examine and reinforce their spiritual foundations. Through honest conversations and practical advice, Heaven Kore and Olamide Ogundele inspire listeners to prioritize their relationship with God, navigate relationships wisely, understand their divine purpose, and live out their faith with intention and action.

Transcript

[A]

Welcome to Brunch and Bible where we navigate womanhood through the Word. I'm your host, Heaven, and this is more than a podcast, it's a movement. At Brunch and Bible, women gather, grow spiritually, embrace the complexities of life through word driven discussions, and find practical applications for their own journeys. Today we're deep diving into a crucial faulty foundations. Sometimes the things we've built our lives on, sometimes social media relationships or personal accolades and accomplishments aren't as solid as we think. But here's the good news. God calls us to build on him and his truth. So let's talk about it. What are the cracks in our foundation and how do we rebuild on Christ the solid rock? Get ready for some real honest conversation. Let's get into it. Welcome everybody to part two of Build, you'd house faulty Foundations. If you have not checked out part one, I need you to stop what you're doing and go check that out before you come here. For those of you who have watched part one, welcome back. And we are at part two again of Build you'd house faulty Foundations. And again, I am not here alone. I'm with my special guest, Olamide, and she has just been blessing us and throwing gems at us left and right.

[B]

Thank you for having me.

[A]

I want us to park at social media.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Because I feel like that's a huge part of our world today and I even want to take a little spin on that. That's we have replaced Jesus with social media, even in our seek with him. You know, now we're looking for TikTok messages and we feel like these one minute clips that are very good, very anointed, very inspiring are feeding us spiritually. And if you use that as your spiritual nutrition when life does you basketballs, it is not going to take you anywhere. You know, building foundation is seeking God for yourself. Right. Social media can help. And I thank God for all the kingdom influencers who are doing their thing. They're actually doing what God has called them to do. But it can never replace your personal relationship with God. It can never replace your seek. It can never replace your secret place. Yeah. You have any thoughts about.

[B]

Yes, I do. And you know, I'm just going to come back to the first point, point I made earlier about consistency because at the end of the day I just want people who are watching this to, you know, leave this place with something in the sense of how, how do I get to this point where I build that relationship with God? So if you're looking at me, I Want you to start with 15 minutes. So like, just separate 15 minutes out of your 24 hours. I intentionally said out of 24 hours because you might be right there saying, I'm so busy. Please, if you can read your emails, you're not too busy. If you can pick up your phone and because this phone. Oh, my God, Evan, don't let me even go into that. Listen, pick up your phone in a day, then you do have 15 minutes for God in a day. So what I want you to do is read. Just pick a chapter of the Bible, read for five minutes, then think of what you can pray about for 10 minutes. Thank God. Ask God for things. Ask him for protection. I mean, start with asking. I mean, at the end of the day, you will graduate into you having that perfect communion. But I mean, start with 15 minutes consistent. I promise you don't do more than 15. Just, just start with 15 minutes and be consistent for about 21 days. And you see, by the time you are done on the 21st day, you will see yourself naturally just graduating into more minutes. And, you know, the second thing I would want to, you know, say is give yourself to accountability tools. I mean, I see a lot of people use their phones for things. And I'm like, if you're really intentional about your spiritual, then you would have like a Bible app that reminds you in a day to say, hey, you have not picked up your phone to actually read the Bible. And you have, you know, things on ig. I remember the time I was. I noticed that I was becoming addicted to Instagram. So I, I don't, I don't, I don't care about WhatsApp and some other place. I mean, of course I do read my emails, but I realized, ig, I'm there for an hour and I'm like, no, woman of God. We got to, we don't do this here. And you know, I, I was so, so engrossed with what can I do? And I just found, like, on IG, I found a setting that tells me when I'm 15 minutes on IG straight.

[A]

I should get out. Yeah.

[B]

Like you, you have been here for mother. And it just closes. It's by itself. And that really helped me. You know, that is one of the, the, the, the things you need to do to make sure that you intentionally work out your own salvation.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Because this is not what God would do for you. And also another thing you. The third thing I want to talk about is get a church. You see, you will see from script. You will see from Scriptures, how that people gather. You cannot just sit in your house and you want growth to bounce on you. You don't accidentally grow in the spirit. No, no, no, no. We don't do that here. You have to be intentional about it. So that means you want to get a local church, be submitted somewhere, and be part of the workforce. I mean, I traveled the other day, and I can count the number of people that were reaching out to say, hey, where have you been? That means you cannot appear. Some people are interested in knowing that you're doing the right thing. And the fourth thing that will come to mind would be taking more of, you know, spiritual content than social media. Have you realized that? I told myself at one point, this might not be for everybody, but based off where I'm going in life, I know the things I'm supposed to be doing. So, you know, the was telling me that Olamidi, if in a day out of your 24 hours, you take more secular content than spiritual content, your profiting would appear to all. And, you know, there's a way my profiting will appear to her. It might not be for another person, but I know where I'm going. All right, So I. I told myself and I told God, okay, so what do I do? Am I supposed to be praying all day? I will go to work. I have eight hours. And it was like, well, let's structure your life based on your life. So I realized, because I'm a scientist and I get to work a lot in the lab, so I realized that, okay, one of the things I can do to make sure I'm feeding myself with spiritual content would be I'm probably listening to messages as I'm working. I'm listening to spiritual songs. Right? Not just anything. And guess what? The part that hurts me to my soul was when God said, no movies daily.

[A]

And I'm like, sacrifice, sir.

[B]

What. What are you saying? Like, and this is a part of consecration. Like, and it got to a point because I began to do it consistently. I promise you, if I should feed my spirit man with too much of circular content, I become nauseated.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

My body begins to respond to it. That something is not right. It's not right. And. And that's the part where we need to tell ourselves and be true to ourselves as we get where we are going in life. You see, if you know where you're going in life, you know the things you'll be doing. I mean, if you want to suddenly become a pilot tomorrow, you know, you need to go to an aviation school. All right, so if we don't see you going to an aviation school, then we should know are you really interested in becoming a pilot? So if you really want to grow as a woman, if you want to be that woman of substance, it comes with a lot of sacrifice.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You might not be. It might not be too much regiment. Right. And I promise you, it's not as hard as we think, because I see a lot of movies, I promise you. Yeah, I see a lot of. It's just that the. The spacing is different. Yeah. I make sure there's a lot of balance, such that the spiritual content is here and the secular content is here. Because I don't want to be that woman that will get into a space and you're talking about things, and the only thing I know is spiritual. I want to be able to talk well rounded. Well rounded, absolutely. All right. Yes, coming.

[A]

Yeah. You know, I love what you're saying, because even going back to foundations, I don't know what they call. Is it called beams that they used to build the foundation?

[B]

I'm not sure.

[A]

Anyway, we're gonna call them beams. Okay, guys, there's not just one, there's multiple things that play into a strong foundation. Right. We know that Jesus is our foundation, but we need to be rooted, right. So that we can be built up. That's the first thing, is to be rooted so we can be built up. Before we get into that, I want us to talk about one more aspect of, you know, things that we have substituted for Jesus specifically for women. And I want to get into relationships, and not only romantic relationships, but also platonic relationships. Because what I've seen oftentimes is that not only do women replace Jesus or their walk or their seek, you know, with their man or their love interest, but also even friendships sometimes when things happen, the first people that we go to, our friends. And I remember at a point the Lord heavily rebuked me on this. I love my friends, right? And I can. I can sit with them. I can just. I can talk. We can talk about anything. And, you know, by God's grace, there are also women who are saved. Right. So, yeah, the content that we talk about is high level content. Sometimes we just, sometimes we banter. And with that, you become very comfortable. Right? So then when any little thing happens, and I remember one day the Lord corrected me, he was like, you're going to them for everything, and I want you to seek me first, you know? And so how is it, you know, how do we navigate that where, you know, God has given us these relationships. Some of them are not even godly, flat out. Let's just be very clear. Some of them are not godly at all. Right. But we can talk about both sides. But how do we navigate, you know, having these things in our life as women? I mean, as a woman, you will have friendships. As a woman, you know, if you so desire, you know, there would be a love interest. You know, how do we make sure that we're keeping, you know, Jesus at the forefront of these and seeking him first, even, and still maintaining those relationships to the point that we don't make them, you know, our foundation?

[B]

Okay. So for me, I will start with creating boundaries. Okay, so by boundaries, now, I mean, even in romantic relationships, there's an expectation. There's this expectation that you talk to your partner first before about things that has to do with both of you before you go ahead to talk to a third party. And that is how I want us to see our relationship with Jesus. Yeah. So that means if something happens to me first, I'm praying about it first, and I'm asking God for direction on what to do. So if God is instructing me to actually go ahead and speak with some, because sometimes we get ahead of ourselves and we're talking to the wrong people. We're talking to people that at the end of the day, would get the information but can't. Prefer solution.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So first, boundaries. Setting boundary and treating your relationship with God as though it were your relationship with your partner in terms of romantic relationship. Because sometimes we. We tend to put that ahead of our relationship with God. And. But in a situation where it's now a romantic relationship, then how do you now navigate that? And that is where I feel like you must. Your first love has to be Jesus. Yeah. You see, if you don't come to that point in your life where your first love is not Jesus, you will keep putting Jesus at one corner. And so it should. It should be in the middle. It should be at the center of everything.

[A]

Beautiful.

[B]

It should be at the center of everything. So that way, the first thing that. And it takes time also. So it's about you nudging yourself to say, hey, when you make that mistake. I talk to myself a lot. So, for example, if I was supposed to talk to God first and I. I picked up my phone to say, hey, friendy, blah, blah, blah, this happened. Y. And the next minute I hear in my spirit mind and saying, why did you call? We've not spoken about it. The next thing I tell myself is olamide. You don't do that. I'm like, I. I'm saying it out. See, you see, the thing with confession is it helps it to, you know, get registered in your spirit, man. It. It sinks in. You're not just replying thought with thought. At that point, I'm like, next time you don't do that, you don't call your friend first. We need to talk to Jesus. Okay. And I say, okay, okay, okay. So sometimes I. I'm sure, I make sure I'm. I don't do that where people are before they think something is wrong with me mentally. Well, yeah, that's what I think.

[A]

Yeah, absolutely. Like I said, there's so many things as women in this generation that we have replaced Jesus with. And a lot of us, you know, who profess to be Christians are walking around with very, very, very weak foundations. And we've replaced, you know, the. What should be our strong foundation, which is, you know, the love of Christ, the understanding of who he is and the abundance thereof with things, with situations, with boyfriends, with, like you said, career. And I just believe that once we are able to either. I think actually. I actually think there's two ways you can go about it.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Right. I think that when you're assessing a weak foundation, there's two things that can happen. And you let me know, since your dad is the construction, there's a foundation reinforcement.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And then there's a point where you have to completely demolish the building.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. And so some of us are in the category where we need to assess our weak foundation and find those reinforcements. Things you said, like being consistent in our walk, seeking the assembly of the brethren, having a church, having mentorship, you know, these things that are in place. And then there are some of us who. Your foundation is completely on the wrong thing, and you have the wrong perspective of God. And now God has to completely bring that building down and start afresh so that you can have the. The right. The right foundation. I want us to read this scripture. The first scripture is Ephesians 3, 17, 19. And it says that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, that ye, being rooted and grounded in love.

[B]

In love. Yeah.

[A]

May be able to comprehend with all saints. What is the why? With. Sorry, what is the width and length and depth and height to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. And I want us to park there, and I want us to talk about, you know, the love, the love of Christ and how that plays into Us being rooted and grounded in this walk of faith.

[B]

Okay, so, you know, when we talk about the love of God, the love of God, at the end of the day, still salvation. Because when you understand what it means for somebody to lay down his life, then you will know why you are here on earth. You see, at the end of the day, why a lot of us, we are missing, it is still on the subject of purpose, you see. And you know, when you don't realize that your purpose is not you being a doctor, your purpose is not you being a nurse. Because what happens to you when you change your profession, then that means you're out of purpose.

[A]

Are you on a purpose?

[B]

Right, right. Because now we, we do have different kind of chairs. That's the kind of chairs we use in the church is different from this one. We are sitting on this one. If, if this kind of couch is placed in our churches, we might not be too comfortable, because it might not be. It's not just the perfect one. However, the purpose of the chair is universal. This is for seating. However, we have cheers for bars, we have cheers for church. We have different kind of chairs. So that is how we are as a believer. I mean, as believers, we do have that universal purpose, which is to reconcile men back to God. However, we have different dimensions at which we express, express this purpose. So that means this chair is actually serving this purpose for us right now. And the chairs we use in church are serving their purposes right now also. But as believers, we must be able to find what our purpose is in terms of reconciling men back to God, because that is our. See, don't go out there looking for another purpose. I, I put it to you that the reason why God has not taken you up after salvation is because we are supposed to reconcile men back to God. I put it to you that the people who are probably helping us maybe record right now, they are serving this purpose. We are all in unity in terms of purpose right now because we want to get a certain word out to the community, want to get this word out to people to afford affect their lives. They are playing their part. It's just like when you're making a movie, right? It's a story. Everybody is working towards getting this good story out there. But we have somebody in the light department, we have somebody who is in the makeup section, somebody here and there towards one purpose. So I said all of that to say that your purpose would help you out in all of this. And so once you, it gets registered in your mind that you're on earth to work and partner with God towards reconciliation. All right. You will see yourself not shifting ground. Yeah.

[A]

And that is all rooted in the love of Christ.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

All rooted in the fact that he loved us enough to die for us so that we can live in purpose. Yep. And so that we can become like the theme of the season.

[B]

Exactly. And so that we can spread that love of God to everyone.

[A]

Absolutely. And the next verse I wanted us to read is Colossians 2, 6, 7. And I remember I was actually teaching a Sunday school for my youth class, and I read this scripture, and it was actually a really tough season for me. Very tough. And I was asked to teach, and the Lord gave me this. And I read Colossians 2, verses 6 to 7. And it says, as you therefore, have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith as you have been taught, abounding in it. With thanksgiving, the Lord opened my eyes to the part where it said, rooted and built up. Before you can be built up, you must be rooted. And there's. There's a. There's a saying that says, the taller the tree, the deeper its roots. And before you go up, you must go down. You must go down. And many of us have not taken that time to really dig deeply. Right. With the weight of our assignment, with the weight of what God wants to do with us, with the weight of. Of this Christian walk.

[B]

Y. Y.

[A]

Because what does God say? He says, take up your cross daily. It's a burden.

[B]

Y.

[A]

Being a Christian is really a burden in a good way, guys.

[B]

But it is.

[A]

It is a. It is a godly burden that we all have. That we would want to see all men saved, that we want to see people accomplish destiny, that we would want to see people freed, deliver, delivered, set free, healed. That burden. You will crumble under those pressures if you have not taken that time to deeply, deeply, deeply, deeply place your roots in the ground. And I can only imagine a huge, large tree with these weak, brittle roots that after a while, the tree will fall over. Right. And I want to just talk about that a little bit like the burdens and not crumbling under the pressure of this walk, because you have a foundation that's strong.

[B]

Okay. I mean, before I even address that, something kept on coming to my mind, and I felt I just need to be out with it, which is you need to pay attention to your association, you see, because what you mentioned about it being this work, being a body in a good way, it's to say that it's not something that you want to be intentional about. It's not something that comes off easily. You need to put that effort. I mean, that effort has to be seen. And that's where association comes to place. You see, I've realized, by the way, let me just say this publicly for the first time. I'm launching two books in March, so. And I know one of the title is the Believer Circle and the Power of Association. And you know, as we were just talking, it occurred to me that because one of the things I wrote in. In the book is how that your inner circle is very important. We have. We have. I see our association as three circles. We have the. We have the core, we have the inner circle, we have the outer circle. And, you know what happens to the inner circle is that it helps you to, you know, it helps you keep yourself in check.

[A]

Okay?

[B]

Because there are times, I promise you, heaven, there are times you don't feel like it. There are times that you like, oh, my God, can this just. Why.

[A]

Why we're done here. Like, why?

[B]

But you know, we have people that would just keep you in check. You know, people that would just not. Aside from praying with you, People that would just send you words out of the blues. I remember in 2020, I think I realized that I was finding it difficult to study God's word for some reasons. I was praying. I was doing a lot of praying. But of course, we both know that there is no balance if you're praying and there is no God's word to brood upon. Guess what? A friend of mine just sent me a message and she. She was not trying to be cute in the way she said it. She was just like, madame, why you been lazy with prayer? She said prayer, but immediately she said it, I knew, oh, my God, Holy Spirit, why did you whisper that to her? Because I knew what I was not doing correctly. So if you're out there right now and you feel like, oh, I know all these things, I can't, I've done them in the past. But what am I not doing correctly? You need to change the people around you. You need to be around people because, say, if you have to be ignited, then they have needs fire around you. So for you, for that ignition to be there, you need people who are on fire to be around you, such that people that will be able to call you and will look you right into your face and say, hey, you are messing with your life. If the devil should catch you with the way you are doing, if the devil should get hold of you because at the end of the day, you know, for people like us who wants to, you know, serve God with our life and all that, you think the devil is not happy, so he's looking for, you know, for corners to see, okay, let's see what she's not doing correctly. And that is why we need people that can easily pull us back and say, you are not on track. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

[A]

And you know, one thing that just came to mind as you were speaking, the solution when it comes to this foundation talk is actually found. The answer is actually found right in Matthew 7 where it talks about the wise man. Is it likened the, the parable of the wise man and the foolish men to those who are hearers of the word and doers versus those who just hear alone.

[B]

You just hit the point I was going to make, but go on, please.

[A]

No, you go, you go, you go, you go.

[B]

Oh, my God, no, don't do that to me.

[A]

You go.

[B]

All right. Because honestly, we have a lot of tongue speaking believers that are just running around with acknowledge. You see, I get to a place and I see you. I said, okay. I speak in tongues, by the way. Please don't get me, don't get me wrong, I'm a tongue speaking believer. But I want to know beyond your tongues, beyond your holding the mic, what exactly are you doing? What are the fruits that we are seeing? What is inside? When we begin to test you, what are we seeing? What, what is going on? Now, let me give you a fun fact. For example, if a guy comes to ask me out now, and you're somebody who is very vibrant in church, I will dig you more. I want to check you more because you can easily be carried away with, oh, yeah, they, you're holding the mic, you're serving. Service is good. Service is good. And that is what we'll see. When Jesus was talking to Matthew and Mary and he was saying, I mean, Matthew was like, jesus, why would you allow my sister leave me in the kitchen? Guess what? She was actually making the food for Jesus. You can imagine. She was.

[A]

I was looking for the scripture.

[B]

She was, thank you. Oh, my gosh. She was preparing this meal for our Lord Jesus, Savior.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Jesus was saying that my darling Mary is actually doing the work of the Lord, right? So you might be at the forefront of service and you are not in the presence of God. And that is more dangerous because God is like, look at you. What are you doing? You were there, you were here, but I don't see you. And that is when we we need to realize that we must prioritize being in God's presence first, beyond first before service. So that means if I'm going to church five times in a week and I don't get 15 minutes with God daily, I am wrong.

[A]

Go and sit down now.

[B]

So you, you need to make sure that there's something burning before you go out there to go to talk to people. So. And that's the part where I really want everyone listening to us to actually pay attention to and say, hey, you make you. You want to make sure that you're not just hearing. And when you behold yourself, we can't see the face of Jesus, right? That means when I look at myself, I can see the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. I can see somebody who is not just a Christian by faith alone, but even in my works, because action, the actions are very, very important. We don't just go around mislebeling the name of Jesus and saying, oh, grace would cover my darling. Well, as much as grace is available.

[A]

For us all, that's not what it was meant for.

[B]

That is not what it was meant for. You know what I see when, When I, When I talk to believers who wants to, you know, take grace for granted. And I'm like your royalty. If somebody, let's talk about maybe the prominent kings of the world, you don't see them even though they have, like so much authority over land, they can get any land for fun and all those things. You don't see them walking into a field and rolling on the floor saying, this is my land. I can't roll on the floor. No, it's not cute. It's not. It's not meant for royalties to behave in such fashion. So that means the fact that I knew, I know that there is grace available for me that confers on me the right to begin to walk in righteousness. I'm like, I must represent the Father. Well, I'm royalty. My last name is Christ. So that means I must not disgrace my Father. So that should give me that, you know, sense of belonging, of, no, I can't. No, I can't do this. But rather people pick that up and say, I can. What are you doing? You know, we don't do that here.

[A]

We don't, you know, hearers and doers. The solution to this faulty foundation is being not only just hearers of the word, but people who put faith in action y and don't just walk around with head knowledge, but are practical in the ways that they live their life. You know, you'd be so shocked. People really are just churchgoers, and they're comfortable with it.

[B]

Oh, goodness.

[A]

But here on this channel, we're not comfortable with that. Right? We're raising a woman who wants to be right, all that God has called them to be. And in doing that, your foundation must be strong. What does that mean? Being a hearer of this word, but not only stopping there, but being a woman who. Who does. What are you doing?

[B]

Y.

[A]

What are you doing?

[B]

Are you doing. What are you.

[A]

And, you know, I think we'll leave that with them. The. We'll leave them with that question. Right? So my question to you today is, what are you doing? Right? Are you being a doer? Are you being a hearer alone? Olamide, thank you so much.

[B]

Thank you for having.

[A]

Thank you for being here with me today and really just blessing the people of God. And, hey, if this has blessed you in any way, I want you to not only like, but I want you to share this episode with all your friends, and I want you to comment on how this blessed you, and we will see you in next week's episode. God bless you. Bye.