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Proverbs. Chapter 22 Verse 29 says. Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings. He will not stand before obscure men. Fellow marketplace Christians Stop apologizing and start winning. Welcome to the success edge show that helps you take your walk is a marketplace Christian to the next level. Here is your host, Christian entrepreneur Tyler McCarty. Swallow successes List of stopping a car coming at you. Episode 1 52 I am driving through the beautiful small town of Madison, Georgia. Baby, Yes, Madison, Georgia. Um, it's a beautiful day. Beautiful day. So at 9 47 in the morning Happy New Year. Happy 2019. Everyone hope all is well with you guys. Um, I do have a couple quick things. I want to go with you guys before I jump in tow. Talk about about the genesis of my faith or living by faith. The genesis of living by faith. So, um, you know, Amy and I, uh, currently I'm on a fast right now and really enjoying that. I feel I can share that with the audience and very excited about that. And this will be my fourth year in a row that we've done a Daniel Fast, Um, for 21 days, the beginning of the year, and I highly recommend it highly, highly recommended. So kind of in the middle of it right now, so very excited. Be able to be experiencing what God's showing me right now. The other thing that I wanted to I mentioned to you guys is Amy and I rebooted family on a mission podcast. So if you're looking for you know, uh, a show where that it's just two people kind of sitting across the table from each other, having some dialogue about what's going on their life and how that, you know, they're applying the principles of God in their family and in their life and with their kids. Then you might want to check out family on a mission because that is exactly what Amy and I are doing. We just released Episode 13. So excited. Be able do that, too. Um so ah, let's see, what else did I want to say? That's about it right there, guys, I've got some of the very end that I want. Teoh let you guys know, and there's a big old rooster. Wow, I've never seen that rooster before. It's a big rooster. Well, inside joke with me and my wife anyway. Um, so here we go. Let's talk about the genesis of Tyler's walking by Faith Notices said Not not Tyler's faith, but walking by faith because it says very clearly in the word in multiple places. First, in the kind of possible mine is, I believe in Romans. Chapter one says the just shall live by faith. Okay, so in the kingdom, the currency or how we bridge from the unseen to the scene how we, you know, see a transaction. If you look at it that way from the heavily realm to the earthly room, What is that? What is that thing that's going to get that down here on Earth? And that is called faith. Faith is a very, very, very important topic. And the Holy Spirit, you know, earlier action right before 2019 started, he got, he instructed me, said, Hey, Tyler, I want you to talk about faith and kind of the beginnings of your faith and where you're at and kind of a little bit of the A B. C's of eight the basics of faith. And so here we go. I'm gonna talk about that with the guys and kind of my, uh, genesis or my journey Where began where I am today And you know, the you can learn Maybe one gather of something for just from my story of where I was at. So as you guys know, I got stated age nine I gave my hardened heart to the Lord Jesus believed that he died on the cross for my sins And I believe the rose on the third day and I got saved and I thought I was man gonna become a preacher, right? Ah, preacher, that's that's basically what I what I thought. And, you know, to a certain degree, that manifestation has definitely happened because, you know, a little bit of what I do actually right now is preach at you, so to speak. Anyway, So I got saved, and, you know, it began this whole entire progression of me learning about, you know, living by faith. And, you know, I'll give you some stories of of me actually living by faith and then kind of some moments in time where my living by faith of my journey in my faith Walk really were divine defined. So let me start with really kind of weird things. You know, I was always one of those sold out Christians. I was, you know, it was a nice guy, you know? I love the Lord, you know, I didn't You know. I mean, I wasn't perfect at all. Growing up. I mean, I still you know, uh, has I grew up sometimes cost, which I probably shouldn't custom, but I got rid of that, you know, Might have looked at the girl the wrong way. Or, you know, uh, might not act to write with a female either. You know, there were things I wasn't perfect. That's okay. Can I just be honest with you? But, you know, for the majority of it, I you know, I was a good kid. Um, good, honest, wholesome kid. And when when I was right around, you know, 15 16 17 years old. You know, the Lord really began to work with me or work, you know, somehow or another where I was starting to grow closer to him. Where that my desire, Yeah, that's a good way to put it my hunger and my desire to know him. Mawr became very, very, um, a priority to me. Ah, high, very, very high priority to me. And where that I was wanting to be lead of the Lord, you know, start again, going out of walking by faith and not by sight and being led of the Lord in my day to day things. And you know that this was you know, this is me as a teenager, and I remember again, again, this is a defining moment. I remember going and, um, when I was 17. Yeah, I was No, I was 18 years old and I was, you know, well, scooting back up when I was 17 years old, I felt led to quit football notice. I said I felt led to quit football. I I said I did not have a piece would be a good way to put it. The enjoyment of playing football was what I what I would call taken away from me least that it was not in my heart. It just wasn't in there, you know? My head might have said, you know, you need to keep playing for both man, My heart wasn't there anymore. And I was very sensitive that time to my heart and what my heart was. You know, the peace inside my heart. You know, at that time that was That was probably the thing I was taught the most in the growing up from my spiritual upbringing in that time was, you know, what is what is peace? Peace is your umpire. And that is a great little you know, voice, you know, for you to have inside of us where's your piece? You need to have your piece locator inside of you. And I remember that very distinctly in my piece just was not in football anymore. And so I decided going is my coaches, my friends, my even my own father. I decided not to play football. Hang on. Let me get a quick swig of water. Quick, guys. So that junior year, I decided to quit football because I wanted to get I I believe that I was being led to track and field, and I believe that God was going to do something awesome in my life and that I was gonna receive a track and full scholarship at a state school to a division one school. Those are the three things that I kind of somehow or another concocted in my head, or I believe God for well, now, flash forward. I had a horrible track and field season that junior year. I participated in the junior Olympics during that summer did not do well placed. Actually, I think I might have been, um I don't know if I was last in the Catholic on that I was competing in, but I just I was not very good. And but that didn't stop me. I still went on. I did cross country, um, I And during that summer, in between there, I mean, God was really you know, I was really developing my faith. Me, I remember, um, you know, God leading me or what? I sense that God was leading me again. That piece with, you know, relationship that I had with a young lady that I had been, you know, with her for dating her for a long time. What? I proceed a long time. I felt like I remember telling one of my friends when he picked me up at the airport. Hey, I'm I feel like I'm gonna I feel like the Lord's leading me toe, you know, break up with so and so. And he's looked at me. It's like, yeah, right, man. Lord not telling you that. And I just said, Well, I'm just telling what I'm sensing here. And sure enough, about a month later, um, about a month later, that happened, I felt led of Lord to do it. I remember some scenarios happening where people try to convince me not to do that. And, um, yeah, I just I was going based upon what I was sensing inside of my spirit, that piece of where that my piece was leading me with lowers doing that was just trusting God. And, you know, that was probably the story right there. Or the how is living by faith at the time, You know, peace. Is that that trust? You know where? How does that? That was kind of what it was looking like again going back to that track and field thing. I decided not to apply to any schools that I was gonna wait on the Lord to give me a break for a school to call me. Yeah, I was just thinking about this kind of wild even think about. But I was waiting on that, so I would didn't fill out any any college applications at all. I had only taken the S A T one time in a C. T one time and did not do well either. And so it was It was not looking too bright for me. And I remember in February wadding up a whole bunch of applications for a bunch of college Is that we're sending me stuff and remember wanting them up and, you know, with tears in my eyes throwing them away. Because And I remember saying, Lord Well, Lord, it's on. You all right? I'm gonna trust you. I don't know what else to do. I'm gonna trust that you're gonna make this happen. You're gonna do this. This is just how is gonna be so as I moves it on down. I mean, my mom was even asked me. Hey, you're gonna plateau college. You know, all these friends of yours, they're getting accepted to college. Do you want to go to college? Really, I did, but the thing was, I believe God, that he was gonna do these things Well, um fast forward a couple months later or a month later. Whenever that was maybe late January, early February, maybe a month later. All of a sudden, you know, in the middle of the middle of March, maybe March. April? Yeah. Somewhere in there, I went to, uh I got a call in March, actually, and from a coach at Coastal Carolina, Adversity saying he heard about me. He wanted me to come out for recruiting, visit the coastal and check out the track that hadn't been built yet. And so on my recruiting visit, Mom and Dad and I and the whole family packed up with South Carolina has never been toe Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Didn't know where was that and, well, behold uh, now, in the latter part, actually, the end of May, Um, God, I received a letter of intent or signed my letter of intent to go in my scholarship and to go to Costa Carolina. Diversity How to stay. School, track and field. Division one boot. All right, so my faith was obviously being built with all these decisions that I was making a trusting god of being led by this whole piece thing. The time. Now, here's the hairs. Here's and I kept doing this, um, going to church. You listen to the word, you know, some trying to have my quiet time as best I could. Reading the word, you know, again, I wasn't perfect. Might fall down. You know, as far as you know, some kind of sin or sometimes stupid thing that I might do. But I would always pick myself back up and, you know, get back on the horse, so to speak and keep on riding. Well, I remember another is time that, you know, I saw supernaturally that, you know, I was proposing to Amy and it was pouring down rain, and I was going to propose to outside and had this whole entire event set up. And I remember the Lord that I felt the Lord had led me to do all these things. And lo and behold, it was pouring down rain. It rained, I think. They said it rained 12 inches that day in Myrtle Beach. And I remember the Lord's. I remember saying, Lord, should I cancel this engagement of proposing a me, you know, my future wife or continue on And I didn't get an answer. I didn't I didn't have, like, this thing of, like, this said Lord or anything like that. And at that moment, I remember saying, you know what? Fine. I'm just going to trust you that you're gonna work it out because I feel like you led me this far. Even though you're not talking to me about it right now, Fine. If this thing screws, ups your fault, it was kind of my attitude and because I remember hit my steering will driving with road because I was kind of getting to the point of no return because there was things in motion. I don't have time to going through those things motion. So any way I mean, this is where I was. This was my faith level. This is what I was, how I believed I was just trust in God and, you know, allowing my faith, allowing my piece to kind of guide me If I was feel lead this way, I was going to trust The Lord is gonna work it all out, which is which is good. But it's not the best. It's not. It's not really the You know what? I've come to learn and understand. Now, guys. So let me go to this story where really kind of the watershed experience happens. So I meet the honey Bunch. As you guys know me, I've talked with a honey bunch. The honey bunch were like little Jesus juniors running around, you know, laying hands on people seeing, you know, believing that money was gonna come in, you know, laying hands on the handkerchief, given it to someone to go take the hospital, seeing that person get healed. You just stuff like that that were, you know, that Have a hurricane come through there, Come come across for South Carolina. Is that, you know, there wasn't even being any kind of damage to their house, or there wouldn't be even a tree branch down in their yard after hurricane came stuff like that that you just hear about from people that but I was actually I actually knew them. I was talking directly across the table from these people that they have the supernatural things happening, you know, with them. And I was just like in all of how they could have this. And so they began this process with me of teaching me. You know what? Faith Waas and started giving me some books and some understanding of it because I sure wasn't getting in my church of the time nor any church. And I remember very distinctly you know, them giving me this book about you know, the words of your mouth and the power of your tongue and that you're hung by your tongue. And you know, faith is is something that you have toe have basis for that you need to have scripture, that you're backing it up and it needs to be coming out of your mouth. And he's be planted in your heart that, you know, the needs to grow up out of your heart. All these things I was learning I was like, Man, this awesome stuff. And so that moment in my life in 24 years young I had a big, big need that big, big need waas finances. My finances were so screwed up, I was in debt. Um and I just it was not a pretty sight, Not a pretty sight. It all grab another sort of water of good guys. And so, as I began this process of Okay, I've gotta find Scripture, and I've got to meditate that scripture and meditating means saying it out loud or, you know, muddle muttering it and, you know, allowing it to come out of your mouth. That's very key, all right. And so I began. I found Scripture and it was Philippians 4 19 says my guys to supply all my needs according riches and glory in Christ Jesus and I begin saying that. And as I begin saying that it say it, Say it, Say it, say, You know, multiple times. And that went on for maybe about, you know, two months, 23 months that I was saying that Scripture just believe in that Scripture in hanging my hat. No, my faith on that scripture right there that my finances we're going to get fixed. My guy was going to supply because trust me, I was on a commission based, you know, for real estate. And there was no commission coming in, and Amy was, ah, substitute teacher. Sometimes during that time, and she was also changing jobs and becoming a private school teacher, which didn't make a whole lot of money believe I combined income that year for us at that time was maybe a combined income of $18,000. Yeah, rockin it, baby. Well, but I still again. This is during the month of May, the end of May, that this all took place, This story of where I saw faith really come alive. And from this point, Faith just became very real to me of how to operate in faith. And you obviously have learned more stuff from then. But this was again the genesis of me living by faith, understanding how to operate in the kingdom. So I was confessing the word and understanding the word and realizing that what comes out of my mouth is very important. So I remember that Friday afternoon was late. It was in late May, Um, I everybody to go on. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon. Everybody had gone in the office. I was last one there, and I was just gonna check my bank balance. And at that time they didn't have, like, you know, after anything like that, this back 2000 what to 1 4002 So 2002. And so I dialled the number of punching in punching my account number and the lady goes or the teleprompter. Nina says you have $17 in some odd sense in your account. And I remember in my head thinking, Oh, my goodness, what am I going to do? I mean, just the normal things that you sit there and just scream in your head. And I remember nothing came out of my mouth and as it didn't come out of the mouth, I remember sitting there just hitting my head on my desk, thinking you are such a me, What do you do? You got these a couple checks that you've already written on, You know, they're on their way. What are you going to do? Your mortgage payment? All these things that just were sit this I never mind enough money. And I remember just like his Yesterday was a bright, sunny day in May, and I remember standing up and I remember like because it was almost like he got squeezed out. I mean, not from my head. I didn't come from my head, came from down and deep inside of me that he got squeezed up from, you know, coming up. I just really out of my mouth just said, Well, as I was saying, I said, Well, my guy's going to supply all of my needs According to Richard, Glory in Christ. Jesus, Remember, I grab my things and started walking on the office. I didn't say anything else and literally. Probably if it might have been 30 seconds, I wouldn't let it. Wasn't more than that phone call happened. Get a phone call from a previous place that I was doing some again commission sales at night for selling some things, you know, Teoh residential homes And this lady, the accountant calls me up and says, Hey, Tyler, you know, how you doing? Haven't talked a little while, you know? Hey, are you Are you in Myrtle Beach? And I'm like, Yes, ma'am, I am. And she says, Oh, great. I've actually got a check for you of some commission that we owe you were I was actually going through some of our books and somewhere sales that we had. And you actually have, you know, commission that we owe you that. I just found out, actually, literally this afternoon. And I'm like, Wow! Well, praise Lord, I'll come behind. Picket up, she says, would you like to know what How much it is. And I'm, like, thinking in my head like Well, sure. I mean, it doesn't you know it's a check? Definitely. Very interested. Check. She's like, Well, I don't know how much it is. I said Okay. How much is it? And she says $3200. And I'm like, hold the phone. Whoa! Holy cow! Yes, I will be there very quickly. And so speed my little boogie boogie Boogie cell phone over there to pick this check up from her. And I was I was going over there, And as I was getting the check, I remember thinking to myself, Holy cow! The word works. This this is amazing. My guys to supply all of my needs. According to Richardson, during crises remember coming home and sharing this with Amy, And she was just I'm calling the honey bunch and share what just happened. And they're like, That's how it works. So that's how the kingdom works is you work the word you put the word out of your mouth. You planted inside of you. Get it inside of you. And guess what the word works and success as community. There's the genesis of faith right there. For me, That little story is where that you've got to find in Scripture your word, the promise that, you know, that is written in Scripture for your situation. All right, find it and meditate on it until it becomes mawr rial to you than your situation. All right, And then make sure it comes out of your mouth, okay? Because that's that's how that's how you transfer, you know, or get Angelique, your angelic forces working on your behalf because they only can adhere to the word of God. And this is how faith operates. This how the bridge from the unseen gets to the scene, right? This is how that all takes place. So that's the genesis of my faith of walking by faith. I should say so. Success as community. I'm excited about that for you guys. Now, let me wrap up with this, okay? Something else I'm stepping out of faith with, and I just trusted Lord on that again. I was in my quiet time, and I felt led of the Lord to do this and that. Is this right here? Um, I'm gonna start a patron page. All right. Where? That You know, if you feel led, this is only if you feel led. You know, if to to want to actually become a patri on our patron, the success edge podcast. I want to give you that opportunity to do that, you know, Success edge, you know, has been I've never asked. Never have asked for money at all during this whole entire time that I've had success As what now, coming on almost five years now, almost coming up in six years. And I've never asked for any money or never. And I feel led that. I want to give you guys an opportunity that if you want to partner, if you want to become a patron, whatever. How you want to look at it, um, to give you that opportunity. All right, So much to leave it at that. I don't have the website yet set up, but that's coming. Okay, so I want to let you guys know that that I'm gonna be in launching that, you know, here soon? Probably. So if you feel led to do that Hey, more power to you. I'm also gonna put out episodes. Absolutely. But I just want to give you that is the opportunity to become patron our partner with me in this journey on the success edge. Okay, so guys know that you're blessed, highly favored and power to prosper. You walking divine help the spirit of breakthroughs upon you guys. And guess what? Guys will catch you on the other side.