Episode 3,960. Why the small stuff matters to God.

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in it. I pray that your heart is ready to receive what God has in store for you.

It's not about what I'm saying, it's about what God is tapping into you.

What is that? Lean in. Why the small stuff matters to God.

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Have you ever thought why the small stuff matters to God? I mean, shouldn't just the big things

that shift your life, get all the attention? You know, it's easy to let your everyday get swallowed

up by the routines and distractions. You've got this, right? Work deadlines, household chores,

let's just talk about the laundry again, lots of dishes, and endless to-do lists that we often

overlook where our faith truly intersects with our everyday moments.

But you must remember, God cares deeply about the seemingly small, mundane parts of your day.

It's in these moments that your faith becomes real, not just a Sunday sediment, but a lived reality.

Consider Colossians 3 versus 23 and 24. Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart,

as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance

from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

This scripture reminds us that no task is to trivial when done with a heart oriented toward God.

The dishes you wash, it can be a holy moment. The emails you send, most definitely.

The podcast episodes I record for you, yeah, what about the conversations you have with your

kiddos, with your spouse? They all hold spiritual significance when aligned with the desire to

honor God. You can have those holy moments all the time. But why is it that we kind of just put

those off to the side? Like, oh, it has to be Christmas, or it has to be some special big,

I don't know, maybe like even a wedding. We create these ideals in our head from our own doing

instead of looking to what God points us to. In fact, Jesus points us to the daily intersection.

Look at Luke 16 verse 10, whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with very much.

And whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.

Look at those little things of life, right? Faithfulness in the little things of life is the

foundational soil where spiritual growth happens. And when we overlook the mundane, we miss

opportunities to live out God's values, kindness, patience, integrity. Look at another one.

In Matthew 6 verse 33, but seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will

be given to you as well. Seeking God's kingdom isn't only about these major decisions in your life.

It's not about just buying a house or are we going to move or I'm going to take this other job.

Am I going to buy a new car like the big thing to grand gestures? It's also about putting him first

in how you handle your daily commitments, your mindset during your challenges when you're mad and

you want to just blast out your spouse with words after words after words, you know you've been

there, including attitude towards others. Why the small stuff matters to God because it does.

And if it matters to him, it should matter to us. What does it look like when faith and daily life

intersect? That means choosing gratitude over grumbling and traffic. Maybe you've been grumbling

too much with the weatherman or woman or whoever's giving us the forecast. More snow. Are you kidding me?

We are in the south and into snowing still as I'm recording this episode. Come on. I've had

conversations by the way with our Heavenly Father. I'm like, Lord, can you turn the temperature up?

This is why I move south not to be in the cold. I'm just saying, right? What about offering

compassion when stressed or praying quietly during a moment of overwhelm? When did you just hold

your tongue when it was easier to lash out? That's hard to do. It's living with the awareness

that your everyday actions echo far beyond your immediate circumstances. They resonate in God's

bigger story. It's not just about you. God's got the bigger story. That's why this small stuff

matters to God. So don't get trapped in the illusion that your faith is separate from your daily grind.

It's not. It's precisely where you are right now that God wants to meet you at. He wants you

here. Create your now with him. Walk with him in your everyday God's way. And when you stop

glossing over what fills mundane and instead invite God into those moments, your life reflects a

faith that's honest, a faith that's active, alive and deeply rooted. Have you ever had that thought

how you know you're just that Sunday Christian or you're just sitting a Sunday pew and that's what you

do, right? Go read Romans 12. Offer your whole self every day as a living sacrifice I'm paraphrasing,

by the way, holy and pleasing to God. Your daily life is your worship. It's where you say, God,

I trust you here. Now that doesn't mean that you're not supposed to take action. That doesn't mean

you just sit in the pew or you sit on the sidelines, right? No, it doesn't. When you walk by faith,

you have action. You don't just sit there and be like, okay, I'm waiting for the burning

bush. I'm waiting for the lightning to strike nope. But you have to be involved. You have to

understand that he wants to be with you, not just sitting in the Sunday pew or in that Sunday chair

that you have to be there all the time, that same place really. What would happen if you went and

set up three or four rows back or hundreds of seats back? Put him on how big your church is.

What if it would be different where you actually turn the church off on your tablet and actually

went to the building that you watched and met the people face to face? Let faith and life collide.

Let it happen in your nine to five, your family chaos, your quiet mornings. I feel like we need to

have Dolly Parton singing here right now, right? We're gonna have a let faith and life collide.

Come on. Stop sitting here pretending that God only shows up in a building that has a cross on it.

He does not. And we get it so backwards. We're looking to people for answers. When was the last time

you picked up your Bible? Actually, your Bible. Not the instrument of what you read it off of.

I know it's convenient. I enjoy traveling with less. I've been traveling a lot and will continue to

this year. I'm traveling every single week non-stop. On average seven and a half to eight hours a

week. I'm traveling right now every week for this entire year. Guess what? I'm not gonna complain.

I'm gonna figure out a way that maybe God can meet me in those quiet places when I'm on the road.

And yeah, when I am traveling, sometimes I don't want to have to carry the Bible. And so I do have

it only on my smartphone or my tablet or on my computer. But when I'm home and I can grab and hold

my Bible, grab it, hold it, know it, read it, learn it. Don't look for people that you put up on a

pulpit. Don't raise them higher than God's Word. I've told you many times before with me personally.

I don't want to be called pastor. I don't want to be called honestly teacher. Sometimes scares me too.

I'm not a theologian. I don't pretend to be any of those. I don't want to be any of those. I'm

someone here that comes to you, truly with a girl who has a heart for Jesus, who has her entire

life. I can't explain it. I'm not the perfect one where I can sit here and rattle off all of these

things. I mean, sometimes you hear me say the, you know, the references within the Bible. You

know what? If you were to ask me on the street, I'd say they're going, it just doesn't come to me

like that. But what comes to me is how I live it in my every day. I know the scriptures. I have

them written on my heart. But it's because I'm not hung up on who taught them to me. I'm hung up

on God's Word, God's love, God's sacrifice, Jesus sign on the cross from my sins and being

resurrected so that I may have eternal life and that the Holy Spirit resides within me. Amen.

And we tend to forget that, yeah, faith in life, they do collide. Working nine to five, right?

Why not let faith in life collide? Okay, I know I'm kind of stretching it here. It's all

apart. But maybe you'll remember it. Maybe it'll be something sticky for you. Because maybe this

has been your blind spot. You're trying to do it because your pastor says it or your Sunday school

teacher or your great good friend that you've done everything together in the church. That's

fabulous. There's nothing wrong with that. But don't put them ahead of your heavenly Father.

Not even your spouse. There are a lot of people out there that are deceitful.

You got to know what God is telling you. Get into the Word. Don't just trust me. Go and look

at these verses. Ask yourself, what does this mean to me? What am I supposed to do with this?

I know some people probably think I'm a little bit crazy at times because I talk about laundry

and Jesus all the same time, doing the dishes. I know I've shared the story before, but I feel

like I'm going to share it now anyway. I can remember I was, I don't know what I was working on.

It dealt with creation now. I was writing something. I was doing something. I had to take a break.

I wanted to go get some groceries before I went to go pick up the kids at school. This is when

they still need a mom to go pick them up. I think I had two at this time, thinking back at the time

in school of the five. I saw the two younger ones. I went to the grocery store and got a few

things. But as I started my shopping, I had, I mean, I was having conversations with God and

I was just going in. As I was standing in front of the lettuce, if you've ever been to some of

these grocery stores, they have all the lettuce and all the greens all nicely laid out,

kind of up. You can see everything right in front of you. You don't have to look down. You're

looking straight at them. I'm perusing this whole beautiful display of lettuces and all of this

and I'm like, Lord, what lettuce would you get today? What would you go with? What should I do?

What sounds good to you? Okay, little did I know that I was not talking in my head. I was talking

out loud. Oh, yes, I was. And there was a woman, only one other woman, but she was down by just a

couple arm links from me. So not very far. And she kind of turned and looked at me and she said

everything okay. I said, Oh, yeah, I just thought I'd ask for some guidance here on lettuce. I thought,

Oh, she probably thinks I'm some weird kooky girl. Why not take God grocery shopping? Why not?

He wants to be a part of your everyday, but for some reason, we put him in the box that says,

God, you only need to be here. And then we wonder why we have complaints later.

Now, I'm telling you right now, even though I go grocery shopping with him, I still have complaints.

We all will always have complaints, because we're on this side of heaven. I don't have to remind you

of that, but I think we all need to be reminded that faith and life need to collide. It's supposed to.

We're not supposed to put God in a box and get him out, right? He's not just this piece of jewelry

that we only wear him. Have you ever seen those beautiful tennis necklaces or tennis bracelet?

There's a lot of women who only wear them on, well, normally you see them on like holiday occasions

or red carpet events, something that's very, very fancy. Why not wear it every day?

I don't know. It's a good question. I can't say I have a real one that I would wear every day,

but I'm just asking that question. If you have it, why not wear it every day? God loves you. Why not

let him be with you every day? And not when you just think he needs to be. Don't you think he knows best?

Why the small stuff matters to God? Because you matter to God. And if you think about how many

people there are in this world, we truly are kind of the small stuff, aren't we?

But to him we're the big stuff.

So I guess really today, I wouldn't encourage you. I really want to remind you that this is the day

that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Snow, sleet, 50 degree weather,

negative one degree weather. Maybe you're in Hawaii and you've got 78 degree weather.

My grandson and I were looking at Hawaii in Honolulu and I was like, oh my goodness,

to be there right now, I should be. It would be great. I can't be. But it would be great.

The weather was gorgeous. I don't have rain for like another week or so. Now they'll have their

tropical morning rains, right? But this is the day. And every day you should wake up proclaiming

that and allowing God to walk with you in your everyday because let me tell you what really matters

is not how you define it. But more importantly, how God does. Go in peace. Be present.

Be incredible. Be you. I love you so very much. I cannot wait to see you on the other side.

Blessing's hugs and lots and lots of love. We'll talk to you real soon. Have a glorious blessed week.

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