Faith Or Fake - Self Confidence, False Humility, & Deception

“Fake it till you make it” sounds like motivation, but it can also become permission to live behind a facade. We go straight at the uncomfortable question: when does “confidence” turn into pretending, and when is it actual faith? If you’ve ever told people you’re fine while privately feeling stuck, tired, or unsure, this conversation is for you.

We break down faith vs fake with real-life examples that make faith feel practical, not mystical: a baby crying expecting help, sitting in a chair expecting it to hold, working all week expecting a paycheck. From there, we connect the dots to Hebrews 11:1 and the kind of belief that moves before the proof shows up. We also talk about the crab bucket mindset, why people laugh at big dreams, and how “get real” sometimes just means “stay where you are.”

Then we get honest about modern pressure: social media masks, keeping up appearances, and grind culture that leaves you with “income trickles” and no life left to live. A pawn shop story about a “gold” chain that turns out mostly fake becomes a mirror for our own choices. We even wrestle with Jeremiah 17:9 and why trusting your heart without accountability can be a trap, not freedom.

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Hey friends and families, it's Mr. You. Now, I wanna try something fresh and something different. Especially during our slow months in this season. So, starting this season, we're gonna release random but timely episodes from our first few seasons, which I gotta tell you are the most popular seasons of our entire podcast brand history. I think when you hear them, you'll know why they're so popular. It's gonna be great for new listeners and great also for longtime listeners who've been following us for a while. So stay tuned. Thank you for watching us and for listening. Hope you enjoy this new experience. We're going into the archives. Here's a blast from the past right now. I think you'll enjoy. Have fun.

A Blast From The Archives

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On this episode of They Call Me Mr. You, we're discussing faith today. Why do we quit so easily when it comes to something that we say we really, really want to do in life? Is it someone else's fault that we struggle to meet our goals? Are we addicted to the gamble of doing it all by ourselves? Are we even operating in faith at all? We're gonna discuss it in more detail on this episode of They Call Me Mr. You, which stops right now. What's up everybody? Welcome back to the All-Purpose Pod for an all-purpose life with your weekly memory check before you go change the world, baby. I'm your host today, season two, Mr. You.

Why We Quit On Our Goals

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Welcome back to the All-Purpose Pod for an all-purpose life. We your weekly merit check before you go change the world. We're in season two, baby. Wherever you are, how are we listening to our podcast today? Thank you so much for making The Call Me Mr. You part of your morning, your day, and your week. We are excited about our new season. We're hearing great things already from the previous episodes. Thank you guys for the support on our social media platforms, the phone calls, texts, emails, all the ways you're communicating with us on The Call Me Mr. You. We appreciate it very much. Thank you for tracking with us today. We're gonna go ahead and jump right on in. We got a lot to talk about on this episode: faith it or faking it. I tell you what, there are a lot of people who see that as very similar. There's a there's a saying out there, you probably can find it on your social media platforms or little memes and pictures and social media posts. They say faith it until you make it. The original version was fake it, f-a-k-e until you make it. That's weird. Let's kind of ponder that for a little bit. Fake it till you make it, or faith it until you make it. See, faith and fake may sound similar, but they are two very distinctly

Faith It Or Faking It

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different things. How long is it permissible for us to lie to ourselves? Because if you're faking it, that means you're pretending or you're operating under a pretense that what people are seeing that you want them to see is not actually what's happening. When is it faith? And when are we being fake? That line gets blurrier as time goes on. That old saying, fake it until you make it, sounds really strange when you think about it in context. What are you faking exactly? Are you faking a prosperous life? Are you faking being successful? Are you faking being a nice person? What are you faking? What are you pretending to do or pretending to have that you don't actually do, that you don't actually have? Who is this facade designed to impress? Who is this role that you're playing intended to deceive? A lot of what we do, unfortunately, but it seems to be a point of human nature, a point that I doubt many people can contend, is that a lot of what we do is for the benefit of other people. We do things to make our parents proud. We do things to look good to our neighbors. We look, we do things to impress the Joneses and keep up with them, whoever the Joneses are. They get a bad rap, whoever they are. We do things to impress people that we don't even like, whose respect we don't even really want. We want to impress them, though. So we do things to impress, to put project an image of something that's not actually real. Maybe someday it will be real, but right now it's not. But we're not content with that. We have to live under the illusion that things are we want them to be, but they're really not. What do we do to get there? We're gonna talk about it a little bit. But what is faith? What is being fake? You don't have to pull out a dictionary today. I'm gonna try to help you out, make things a little easier for you. Fake, F-A-K-E, is something not genuine or authentic. I'm sure we understand that pretty well. It's considered a counterfeit. It's essentially an unoriginal version of an original thing, I guess. Does that make sense? An unoriginal version of an original thing. We used to call people fake back in the hood or posers because they represented something publicly that was not at all like that privately. They were trying to fake us out. Here's what the Okie doke. They were pretending to be somebody that they actually were not, or nothing like at all. Faith, F-A-I-T-H, if we're using a very human perspective, might look just like to some people, you know, that you're pretending to be something that you're not. So that's why I can see why the lines are blurred between fake and faith, because people might say, Oh, I'm believing God that I'm gonna have this house and get out of this situation I'm in. I'm gonna have my own car and not have to hitch a ride everywhere I go or ride the bus. To people who don't understand the Bible or don't understand spiritual concepts and principles, they might think this person's being fake because they're pretending to or hoping to have something that they don't actually have, or in their minds, maybe they have no chance of having, or very little chance. Some people laugh when a person born and raised in the ghetto says they're getting out of this place and they're gonna have their own home. A big family, they're gonna have enough money to buy whatever they need, no longer living under the poverty line. To some, that sounds just like faith. To others, it's fake because the person is not conducting themselves realistically. When somebody says get real, a lot of time what they're saying is accept your circumstances, accept where you are in life. It ain't gonna get no better, it ain't gonna change. That's just the way things are for us in the situation that we're in, in the world that we live in, in the city and state that we live in, in the country that we live in, in the nation that we live in, in the neighborhood that we live in, in the community that we live in. It just is what it is. It ain't gonna get no better. When they say get real, that's what they're saying. They're saying be honest with yourself. But can you be honest with yourself and still have faith? Can you be honest with your shortcomings and still operate in faith? I think we can. To them, real is accepting the things the way they are and not hoping or expecting something that simply will never happen. Almost a broader idea of the crab bucket. Don't be trying to get out. Stay inside here with us because that's where you're gonna be at, and it's never gonna change. Try to climb out of here, I'm gonna break your claws off so you can't claw, so you can't claw your way out, so you can't climb. That's the reality of the crab bucket, but don't we see that in real life context too? Try to get out from where you've been all your life. Try to change the dynamic. Try to go into a field of your family or is opposite of the family business. Watch what happens. Watch the reaction of the family, watch the reaction of the neighborhood. Watch how they act. It's not much different than the crab bucket. Like calling your family crabs or your friends crabs from your sand, the concept comes from the same place. Faith is confidence without actually needing proof. Now, you may not particularly enjoy having your rim sleep shattered at 2 a.m. in the morning by a crying baby, but that baby is exercising their faith. They know that when they're hungry, if they cry for you, you're gonna come and they're gonna get fed. That's faith. You come home from a hard day's work and you plop down in your favorite chair. It doesn't even cross your mind that a chair you sat in a hundred times can't hold your weight or that it's gonna fall apart. That's faith. Even if you work a nine to five and you grinded out 40 hours last week, you expect a check to be in your bank account next Friday. That's faith, too. Faith and

Everyday Proof Of Faith

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confidence are the same thing. Where you place your faith and confidence is an entirely different story. We're gonna try to flesh it out a little bit, hopefully, during this episode. Now, is anything unrealistic or overly hopeful about those things? Whether it be the baby or you sitting down in your favorite chair, or you working and expecting a check at the end of the week. It helps when you've seen these methods work in the past. When you sat down in the past, the chair didn't fall apart. That gave you confidence. You tried it the first time and it didn't fall down. It gave you confidence, you know what? If I sit in it two, three, four, five, ten more times, it's not gonna fall down because it didn't happen the first time. When the baby's hungry and they cry, if you don't come, they're gonna be like, whoa, these folks seem really down with me. But if you come, they'll know when I cry, they look around for you. Because they expect you to come. When you work a nine or five shift and you work that five days a week, and you get that check in the mail, or you get that check in your bank account, your direct deposit, you know that there's a level of confidence now because you seen it, you worked, you got a check. You work, you get a check. It breeds confidence. Let's be honest. The baby still cries for the first time and you came. You sat in that chair on the showroom floor before you bought it, and it carries your weight. You worked that week in a hole and knew it wasn't a donation, right? Faith, faith, faith. Hebrews 11 and 1 says, now faith is being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see. Hebrews 11 and 1 says, now faith is being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see. Abel knew the right gift to offer to the Lord. He knew that by faith. Noah built a massive ark without seeing one raindrop yet. Abraham left everything he knew, everyone that he knew, without having any GPS, to go to a place he didn't even know where he was going to. A 99-year-old woman named Sarah was informed she would give birth and she believed the promise without any evidence, any historical data, anybody around her in her neighborhood that experienced the same thing. The Israelites walked on dry land when they was once a sea there a few

Hebrews 11 And Bold Belief

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minutes ago. Peter walked on water like no one has ever done just because his best friend told him he could. Gideon established a kingdom and defeated a longtime enemy of his people without any kind of pedigree or any kind of fighting skills. David believed he was capable of killing a bear and a lion just to protect his sheep and to do his job. That little child in their room, in the eyes of the observer, are just playing make-believe. Or maybe they're making themselves believe by continuing to see it, speak it, engage it, rehearse it, and accept that it's real even if they can't see it right then. Just like that little child, we live in a world sometimes of make-believe. Now the question is, are we just pretending that it's something that we think is real? Or are we hoping that if we continue to sow into this idea that we can do this, that we can have this better life, this greater level of prosperity, or more consistent and faithful friendship, or more finance. That if we believe it enough, that we can make ourselves believe it, and it'll come to pass. That little child in that room that plays make believe, whether it be your son or your daughter, niece and nephew, grandson, granddaughter, when they're playing make believe, I used to think it was weird. Even though I did it. Continuing to see something, continuing to speak it, continuing to engage it, continue to rehearse it, accept it, even though it may not be real in our hands in that moment, one day we can potentially see it. I'm actually a product of continuing to believe something that I can't see. I'm a product of continuing to engage and speak something into existence, rehearsing it, accepting it as real, even though I can't see it. I'm a part most of my life is a product of that. If only we can locate or relocate that childlike faith again. Hmm, that's really deep right there. A great question is how do we get from that solitary place in our playhouse, playing make-believe, to the world that we find on social media right now? See, the road isn't as long as you might imagine. It's not that far off. I can try to do some research, but although I don't really know what the intention of social media was supposed to be, excuse me, what it has become is far more than I ever imagined. Right now, social media is a prime place to play dress up, to play make-believe, to pretend to be a princess or a queen, a prince or a king, a Greek god, a mighty warrior, in short, whatever we want to be. Now, is that faith or is that fake? A wise person said that hope without a plan is simply a wish. That's a place where people put out a persona of who they want you to think they are, or who they want you to see them as. But deep down in that inner playhouse, that inner child, do they actually believe that this is real? Can they see this? Do they speak

Social Media Costumes And Masks

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it? Do they engage it? Do they accept it as real in their own minds, in their own lives? Before they project it out to you and try to get you to believe something that is something they may they may desire for themselves. They may want to be seen and known to be. The relevance they're hoping for from you on social media. That's uh another story. Let's come back to that at a later date. But sad to say, we still don't know who we actually are, if we're honest about it, social media and even off the social media page. So we keep the costumes on. We're playing dress up and make believe, but we keep the costumes on. The mask never comes off. It simply becomes easy to keep pretending that we're superheroes and we're invincible, we're impenetrable, and we're unstoppable. Yet we simply don't believe that we are any of those things. And we don't think we deserve to be any of those deep down inside. Is that faith? Or is that faking? I remember about 16 years ago, approximately. My wife and I were in a pawn shop. We were trying to find an amplifier for my keyboard. I was trying to learn how to play the piano for the nine for the 9,000th time. And we needed an amplifier, you know, just gonna help me with the sound. A lady in line right in front of us was pawing a gold chain. It was really nice looking. She said it was about it was worth about $500. That's what she originally paid for it, anyways. Now the broker said he could only give her $75, and she went ballistic. I paid $500 for this chain. And he said, ma'am, we're gonna give you $75. And he she didn't understand why. So eventually, after a few minutes of her going into

The Pawn Shop Gold Chain Lesson

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a hissy fit, he explained to her that less than a quarter of the chain was actual gold. And he showed her where the gold was located on the chain. So, what was the rest of it that she paid $500 for? She had faith that all those years she walked around wearing that gold chain with pride, looking at it as something that had high value. And she walked around probably with her head held up, like most of us would. She invested in that all those years, thinking that she was wearing a solid gold chain. She was wearing fake jewelry. A portion of it was real, but the rest of it was fake. How much of it is authentic and how much of it is fake? How many times have you begun a conversation with somebody who regaled you with tales of success, only to find that the person telling you this doesn't have the drive to take any of the steps that they laid out? They want to want what they said, but they're loathed by the idea of actually adding effort to this. Sweat equity, labor. If it can be given to them without any kind of effort, no struggle, no pains, no sweat equity, oh, sign us up. The easy route is the bomb. Let's do it. But if we have to, heaven forbid, do a little work. Position ourselves just a little bit. That sounds like too much, huh?

Dreams Versus Being Hired Help

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Do you tell people you're doing great all the time? Do you tell your family members that everything is okay? Are you in a dead end saying you're advanced? Is it faith? Or is it faith? If it's faith, why do you quit? Why do you so quickly surrender what is precious for something that shines a little bit temporarily? Why do you retain a job that makes you physically ill? I've asked myself that question several times. And I've dealt with it, but it's worth asking today. Why do you retain a job that makes you physically ill? Why are you carrying the words of an perhaps overbearing parent who said your value is in the professional field you're in? Rather than one that you really want to be in. What happened to the dream of owning your own business? When did you become okay with being hired and expendable help? I asked that question again. I think it's important enough to repeat. When did you become okay with being considered hired and expendable help? If you work a nine or five, I have to tell you this because I've experienced this recently. Well, it's been about a year and a half ago, but the the premise is still valid. If you work a nine to five, regardless of your pedigree, how much work ethic you have, how cool you are with the boss, how much you kiss up to the boss, how much overtime you do whenever you're asked, how many TPS reports you fill out for your boss just to make him happy, you're still considered hired help. You're expendable. If somebody gave you a job, they have the ability to take the job from you. Doesn't matter how great you are, you could be awesome, the most awesome worker in the whole wide world. You're expendable. At the end of the day, are you doing what someone else told you to do, or what you're doing what you are believing you are purposed to do? One of those no one can take from you. The other one can be easily taken. If you only have works without faith, that might be considered fake. There's a famous actress by the name of Anj Angelina Jolie. You may have heard of her. Never wanted to be an actor. Andre Agassiz, one of the greatest tennis players of all time, never wanted to be a tennis pro. You ever heard of Cardi B? She never wanted to be an entertainer. She wanted to teach history. Faking it is hard work to be something that you don't want to be. Or to do something that you don't want to do. All those people are named in a heartbeat. Some of you may want to change places with them. You may want exactly what they have. Not knowing what they've gone through to get there, of course, nobody ever wants that part. Nobody ever ponders that part, but you may want exactly what they have, thinking it's better than what you're gonna have, than what you're gonna see. Is it their names and faces may be all over your television set and all over your radio, but and all over magazines and websites, etc. But is it actually better? Do they regret doing what they didn't really wanna do in life? Even if they're successful at it? That's a deep question. Take that one home with you. All in order to please somebody who doesn't respect you at all, or perhaps you respect too much. It takes a lot of effort to keep up appearances, especially in this world. Whether you're a college student, an industrial worker, a CEO, a real estate agent, almost every one of them to a man that I've spoken to had a dream. It's a question that I, it's one of a go-to questions that I ask when I'm meeting somebody new. What do you dream about? What do you always want to do that you haven't done? Most times they're not doing it right now. They're industrial workers, they're college students, they're real estate agents, they're CEOs, they're technical engineers. But none of those were their dream. They're doing something else instead. Why is that? They're doing something else that may seem quicker or faster or smoother paths of success. Maybe they're hoping that if they do it for just a little while, they can jump off of that road and get onto the one that they really want. That rarely ever happens, just to be clear. If you add faith to those works, we have fulfillment and confidence, and you position yourself for the kind of breakout moment you need more than anything else. At one time, we had eight lemon trees in our in our backyard for the past five years or so. Most of those years, they had leaves but no flowers and no bud. We continue to water it, tend to it, prune it, fertilize it. We didn't know at the time that lemon trees grown from a seed take four years to produce lemons. Just a little random gardening factor to hope. Encouraged you guys today. How many of you can be told at the start of your new job that no matter what they go through, if you stay there for 10 years and not leave or quit, you'll see fruit for your labor and you'll be willing to take that gamble. See, I don't know a lot of folks that would do that from the outset. You kind of want the liberty to decide stuff for yourself. You don't want

Lemon Trees And Delayed Fruit

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to be locked into a contract or locked into a certain level of responsibility and effort. You want to have the freedom. And that's just us as humans, we want to have that. Honestly, I don't know a lot of people who would do that without having more guarantees. They want to know more of the big picture before they decide to say yes to something. That's exactly what we do most of the time. We gamble every single day. Sometimes the sure thing isn't what we want. And just so we can kind of get ahead of it right now, your nine to five is not a sure thing. Is that faith? Or is that fake? We take chances every single day. It usually consists of us trusting in some kind of shaky proposition, i.e. the human component, because if humans are involved, you never know how it's gonna turn out. I'm a human. I'm just being honest about it. Can you? The perception is that works is easy and faith is hard. People take on three to five jobs. I know folks like that. I'm related to folks like that. Side gigs, investments, stocks, real estate. I'm just trying to just roll the dice and just see if I can come up with the right combination, with the right level of success. I'm just rolling the dice, hoping it's gonna work. I'm going to school, amassing massive debt. I'm trying to just see if I can make it. I got all these jobs, all of them together, hopefully they give me the money I need to fund my dream. But I'm so tired because I work three to five jobs. I'm tired, I got a side gig, I'm tired, I got a family too. I gotta spend time with my daughters and my sons. I'm tired because I'm committed to my church. I'm tired because I gotta spend some time with my wife and have vacation. But I need all three of these jobs, all four or five of these jobs, so I can have the money to fund my dream and do what I really want to do. But I don't have time. On the surface, it sounds like person A is grinding and working hard to achieve their dream. What does grinding even mean anyway? It means to wear away, to wear down, to break down. Grinding is not really sound like a good thing. It sounds abrasive, rough, it sounds like it's a struggle and a conflict. I think we're thinking about grinding in the wrong way. You're grinding alright, but what are you grinding by working so hard that you can't function? Or working so hard to help somebody else get rich that you have nothing but that check that they promise you if you continue to keep working for them. Don't get mad at me. I'm just kind of sharing from

Grinding Yourself Down

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my experience. Person A may not have multiple income streams, they might have income trickles. They exchange hours for time with their family and others' fulfillments in life. They're just aiming to keep their heads above water. But they're trusting their employers and their organization and their own strength more than they do anything else. They got confidence in shaky propositions. That's the human element again. Where should faith be placed in these scenarios? As there's only one takeaway from this episode that you get today. I sincerely question if we can trust ourselves, to be honest about it. I don't think we can trust our own intellect. I don't think we can trust our own ability to make decisions like we do, as much as we do. I think that could be the most dangerous place that we can ever place ourselves. We can put ourselves, I guess we can't put aside our online personas. And we have a propensity to boast and to make ourselves look good when honestly we may look not so good if we were honest about it, but we can't do that because we have an image to

Can We Trust Our Own Heart

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protect. And then we have a willingness sometimes to deceive other people and make ourselves look like something that we're not. Publicly but privately, we're nothing like that. We're insecure, we're fearful, we're ashamed, we're sad, we're depressed. We're questioning if we can do it. We doubt we're ever gonna make our dream happen. So we lean on what's comfortable for us. We lean on what we can see, what we can touch, what we can feel. We trust in our own hearts. There's a passage in the Old Testament. It's in the book of Jeremiah, it's 17, chapter 17, excuse me, verse 9. And it highlights a very, very uncomfortable idea about our hearts. It reads, the heart is deceitful above all things, not some things, not a few things, not one thing or two things. The heart is deceitful above all things and incurable. Who can know it? That sounds really, really bad. Because the heart's inside your chest. That heart is a part of you, it's the essence of who you are, it's where your desires are. Even where some of your thoughts are and your will and your emotions. And the Bible says that it's deceitful above all things and incurable. So when you hear somebody say the heart wants the heart wants, it's just about what you want. Don't make it about nobody else. Don't make it about something you can't control and you can't work around and make decisions about. No, you just want what you want. And you don't care how you get it. You don't care who you gotta step on to get there, you don't hear who you gotta crush under your feet to get what you want. The heart can't be trusted. From this passage, we can clearly see that. If you look at the examples of all the things you've done in life that you did based on what your heart wanted, how did that turn out? Some people got that man they always wanted, their dream man. They got some questions about him today. Some guys got that woman, that's the one they wanted. Can be on the cover of a magazine. She's fine. That's what they wanted. Now they're like, what did I get myself into? Yeah, the heart won what the heart wanted alright. But can we trust our hearts? See, we glamorize our hearts, especially in the view of the public eye. We speak out about it like we're familiar, like we understand what is going on with our hearts, like we understand ourselves. I mean, let's be honest about it. You may sit here and say, you know what? If I asked you, did you know yourself? You say, Yeah, I know myself. Do you? I think we should be more honest about it. I don't know if you know yourself. How'd you how'd you learn about yourself? How do you know all about you? From some experiences, from a handful of years making decisions on your own without any accountability, without any real counsel or consultation. You just did what you wanted to do. Did that tell you about you, really? I say all the time if your Ford car has a problem, you don't call Mr. Bishi for instructions. You don't call them for a manual or for text support. You call Ford. Do you really know yourself? I can't think of a better indicator to find out about who you are as a person than the Bible. I can stand back and look at your experiences in your life and hear your story and ascertain some things about you, but you tell me what you want to hear because that's what we do as humans. Like on social media. We share the things we want to share and we duck the things we want to duck. We hide from the uncomfortable stuff that we don't want people to know about because it's embarrassing. It may shame us, it may shame our family. So we tell the things we want to know, want people to know about us, and we chuck away the things that we don't. So do we really know ourselves? Do we really know our hearts that well? We talk about ourselves like we know ourselves and what we'll do in every single situation. And a lot of times we don't do that. We say, I'm never gonna do that. That's not gonna be me. I know it's happening to you, but it's not gonna be me. And we're and when in the same situation, guess what we do? The exact same thing we say we never do. There's a reason for that. And it's pretty simple. We're just fallible. We can't be trusted if we go and based on what our heart says only. No wonder the lines between faith and what's inauthentic can be blurred sometimes. I'm not saying give it up and and and kind of that concept of you are what you are and nothing's gonna change, that's all you're ever gonna be. I'm not saying accept that. Just the opposite. I'm not saying don't embrace change and I'm not saying avoid growth. What I'm saying is let's stop lying to ourselves. Because faith and fake are not the same thing. The line can be blurred in this big old world that's around us. If you listen to certain people, people might think it's the same thing. Oh, you're fake, you're pretending, so you're walking in faith. Those aren't the same things. Faith is the confidence in someone other than yourself. And I don't mean one of your high school friends either. I don't mean the investment guru who's telling you if you join his master class, you're gonna be rich in less than three months. That's not what I'm talking about. Come on, fam. We don't have all the answers. Let's be honest. We don't have to understand everything before we engage our belief. We can be our own worst enemy most of the time. We need help from those that have done what we have not but desire to. Honestly, a lot of times we need a mirror and we need a friend. We need accountability. We can't walk this entire walk of life and not

Real Faith Needs Accountability

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trust somebody. That old adage that we should not trust or talk to strangers is one of the most idiotic things I've ever been a party to a party to, I've ever heard. Parents do that to protect their kids, and I get that, but there's not a person on this earth walking around that is highly successful, that didn't have to at some point talk to and trust a stranger. I met a stranger say in the in the store today. I believe that if that stranger trusts me with what I share with him, his situation is gonna be exponentially better than it is right now. I'm a stranger, he doesn't know me, I don't really know him. We have to trust at some point. We're fallible. We're surrounded by evidence of faith in action all around us. To be honest with you, you can try to fake it until you make it if you want to. I've tried that, I don't know how well that's done for me. Well, I do know it hasn't gone well. Pretending to be somebody I'm not has not gone well. Faithing it until I make it is something I could probably get behind because it takes the confidence off of me and what my abilities are, what I think I can do, puts my confidence in the Lord, which is where minds is. I don't know about you if you ascribe to that, but I can't think of anyone more sound, more dependable, more reliable, more faithful than the Lord Himself. So for me, I faith it until I make it. Today is a great day to allow our lives to reflect the same. We got evidence of faith all around us. Sometimes who you spend time with helps to accentuate your belief in your faith. If you hang around folks to say the same thing you've been saying, what more can you expect? Your thoughts are gonna be cause to come to pass exactly what you're thinking, what you're saying. Sometimes changing our circle, changing what we read, changing what we listen to, changing who we surround ourselves with. Today's a great day to allow our lives to reflect that. Being fake is a facade, and honestly, it's just too costly to maintain. Well, hope you guys enjoyed the episode today. Honestly, there's a lot of takeaways that I think you can get from this. Love to hear what your thoughts are. Please link up with us on our social media platforms, our big call me Mr. You Facebook page, our Instagram, and my personal Facebook page. However, you want to reach out to us. We'd love to hear your thoughts. Thank you again for joining us on They Call Me Mr. You, wherever you are. Have you listened to our podcast today? Thank you so much for making They Call Me Mr. You part of your morning, your day, and your week. Like we always say, we're your weekly mirror check before you go change the world, and we know you're gonna change it. You're gonna change it for the better. We believe in you guys. Hope we helped out just a little

Final Takeaways And How To Connect

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bit today. Have a fantastic day. Coach out. Enjoy the music.