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KS 417 - Faithful Over Successful
What if everything we've been taught about success is backward? In this thought-provoking exploration of biblical principles, Tyler McHart challenges listeners to embrace faithfulness over success and consistency over spectacular outcomes.
The journey begins with an examination of Proverbs 22:29 and a startling revelation: the word "success" appears only once in scripture, while "faithful" is mentioned at least 18 times in the Old Testament alone. This disparity reveals God's priorities and metrics for evaluating our lives and work. Through Jesus's parables about stewardship—both the Talents (Matthew 25) and Minas (Luke 19)—we discover that God rewards faithful consistency rather than mere achievement.
Most striking is the realization that the reward for faithfulness isn't a comfortable retirement but greater responsibility. "I will put you in charge of ten cities," the master tells the faithful servant. This kingdom principle transforms how we approach our daily responsibilities, family life, and business endeavors. Success follows faithfulness when we're consistent in small things.
Tyler shares personal examples from parenting his son, highlighting that faithfulness begins with simply showing up—to your Bible reading, prayer time, work commitments, and family responsibilities. Just showing up creates the possibility for something good to happen, while not showing up guarantees nothing will.
Ready to shift your focus from chasing success to cultivating faithfulness? This episode will transform how you approach your daily disciplines and long-term goals. Share this message with someone who needs this perspective shift today.
Proverbs 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, the show that helps you take your walk as a Marketplace Christian to the next level. Here's your host Christian entrepreneur, tyler McHart.
Speaker 2:So what's going on? Kingdom Success List. This is Tyler McHart coming at you, episode I don't know. 417, something like that. Excited to be able to do this episode with you guys. Appreciate you guys tuning in Wow.
Speaker 2:So I am on a walk right now. Just so you guys know, I decided to go back to something that I did last summer. This is actually my first day back from all the travels that I have done starting at the end of May. I'm done with traveling for at least for a good little while. Praise God, so excited to be able to be done with traveling so I can kind of get back into a routine. It's just difficult to be in a routine when you travel because you just as difficult. Anyway, I'm back. So I'm doing 75 hard, a little bit of a modified version. I did it last year, uh, but I want to just get back to just doing five things every day and making sure I'm just found faithful. And speaking of faithful, that's what I want to talk about today. That's what I want to talk about today. So a lot Guys, you guys have been with me for several years and I've had the verses, the verse of Scripture, at my intro of Proverbs 22, verse 29.
Speaker 2:It says Do you see a man skillful in his work, he will stand before kings. He will not stand before obscure men. I don't think I've ever shared with you guys how that little intro came to be. So I felt led to start a podcast many years ago 12 years, well, more than 12 years ago to be exact 12 years, well, more than 12 years ago to be exact and I had already started doing some things on YouTube posting videos and me talking on YouTube before the podcast and I just never really could get my arms wrapped around this whole entire thing of like posting stuff online and a video of me.
Speaker 2:So I decided I took a break from it and then started listening to some more podcasts of different ministers and also different guys that were talking about success and so forth, and again Holy Spirit started pulling on me again that I needed to do something. The Lord had something to say through me. So I began that process. So I jumped into this group, chat with a whole bunch of podcasters that they were actually trying to start their own podcast and as I was in this group chat with them, one of the gentlemen who does a goodness, I actually did have him on my podcast. His name is Tim Page. I have not talked to Tim in a long time. Anyway, I wonder how Tim's doing. By the way, if I ever call you up and I haven't talked a little while I'm just curious, that's all just curious, how you're doing. So anyway, tim puts out there on the message board, says hey, anybody that's looking to wanting to do an intro, professionally done intro for your podcast, reach out to me and we'll get something set up.
Speaker 2:I'm like no questions asked here. I know that you'll do good work and a whole lot better than what I'll do, because I'm not my brain doesn't. I'm creative, but I'm not creative in that sense, if you know what I mean. Anyway, tim and I get on the phone, we talk for about you know, 20, 30 minutes. Tim has a good idea of kind of what I'm looking for and literally, guys in one he sends over to me. Probably within a couple of days he sends over to me the intro that you hear in one take. I mean, when I heard it and he did it, I was like that's it and it's been that way ever since. I was like that's it and it's been that way ever since.
Speaker 2:And he's the one that actually introduced that verse to me. I probably had read it before, but I never sat there and really meditated on that verse ever before. And over the last couple days I've really been thinking and meditating on this idea of faithfulness over success, faithfulness over success. God wants us to be faithful over successful. And again, I'll tell you kind of the origin story of how this kind of came up. So, thumbing through Instagram and a reel pops up with my pastor, jensen Franklin, and Jensen, he just says this. It's a 30-second little bite, I mean it might not have been 30 seconds.
Speaker 2:He says he realized that in the Bible the word success is only really mentioned one time. One time, one time where the word faithful is mentioned. Just in the Old Testament alone. Just in the Old Testament alone it's mentioned 18 times. It's likely to kind of sink in Success only mentioned one time good morning, but in the Word, 18 different times, just in the Old Testament alone, faithful is used. I sat there and just said, wow, good morning. That's amazing. And then he went on to say this right here, which again kind of caught my attention even more. He said you know Jesus himself. Good morning Jesus himself. Morning Jesus himself.
Speaker 2:When he's telling the story of the servants that he, he tells a parable about the servants, you know that go and he gives one ten talents and another five talents, another one talent according to their abilities. And what does he say to them when he comes back, the two that actually, where they say I made a prophet, lord, for you. He says to them well done thou, good and faithful servant, ha ha. He doesn't say well done thou, good and successful servant, mm-mm, faithful. He calls them faithful, faithful. And then you can go and jump over to Luke, chapter 19.
Speaker 2:This parable of talents is actually found in Matthew 22. But then you go and find in Luke, just find in Luke 19, the parable of the minas. Luke 19, the parable of the minas and that story is pretty much the same thing Calls ten servants to himself. The parable goes and what's interesting about that one is that actually it's not according to their ability. He gives each one the same equal amount versus the one with the parable of the talents. He gives different amounts With the mina, which is some people say is a day's wage or not a day's wage but an annual wage. Anyway, he gives them one mina and he gives it to them equally. Well, the king comes back from actually receiving his kingdom and the first servant comes up and says hey, your mina that you gave me made more minas, and what's interesting about that is in that one.
Speaker 2:It's not a statement of you. Know, I made more minas. No, the mina actually made more minas. Money made more money, which is fascinating. And what does the king say, which is fascinating? And what does the king say Again? The king says, hey, well done thou, good and faithful servant. I will put you over 10 cities.
Speaker 2:One of the things that I'm realizing how God operates, guys, is the reward for faithfulness is more responsibility. How about that? It's more responsibility. Not just a nice little bonus check Morning, not a bonus check, not a. I mean, even if you did get a bonus check, it's actually that's more responsibility. That's been placed on you. Like, what are you going to do with that?
Speaker 2:But this king gave him ten more cities. Second one he said the same thing Well done morning. Well done that good and faithful servant. Faithful, again, not successful. Faithful Because of what you've done. I will put you over five cities.
Speaker 2:And again, the mina made more minas. The servant invested it and it made more minas Interesting. And it made more minas Interesting. But it's all about faithfulness. It's where it all revolves around. It's faithful. It has nothing to do with trying to be successful.
Speaker 2:I mean, I know that even my own podcast talks about keen success. Well, if I could actually change it Morning. I didn't mean to startle that dog. Anyway, what's interesting is that you know we hear the word success plastered all over the place. At least that's how I grew up, you know, and I do believe God wants you to be successful. He wouldn't have mentioned it in the place. At least that's how I grew up, you know. I do believe God wants you to be successful. He wouldn't have mentioned it in the Bible if he didn't want you to be successful, I mean. The other good thing about it is he tells you actually how to be successful in real easy terms. He says Joshua 1, verse 8, where it's really the only place it says in the Word about success is all you got to do is just meditate on the word day and night. That's it. Never let your eyes, uh, depart from it.
Speaker 2:So I believe the key is to to success is just faithful, just consistent, day in, day out. Good morning, not trying to be, not trying to outwork faithfulness, but just consistent, consistent and faithful. Show up. You know, I mean this morning, tyler Tyler Jr. I've kind of gotten in the habit now where I don't get my kids up anymore for school. I just don't. There was a big debate in my house for a long time. It was because my wife was like we need to get them up, they're going to be late for school.
Speaker 2:At some point, point we've got to cut the umbilical cord. They can't be relying on us a whole entire time. What's gonna happen when they go up to college? Are you gonna be the one to go to their dormitory and wake them up? Well, no, okay, well, I gotta learn to get up on their own. So Tyler.
Speaker 2:Tyler's been faithful about getting up early in the morning because he has football practice Morning. It's not really football practice, I would say, it's a. He's got football conditioning that's a better way to look at it Football conditioning. And since he has this football conditioning conditioning, he has to be up and going and I haven't one time not one time gone to his room and got him up. He's the one that's taking responsibility to get up himself. And guess what? He's been found faithful, faithful. He's shown up, he showed up.
Speaker 2:I think that's one of the first keys to actually faithfulness is just showing up, hands down, just show up. They don't. Because here's the thing If you just show up, you have a chance that something good is going to happen. I mean, just show up in the morning or in the evening, whichever one you feel best about, but just show up and get in the Word Just show up, there's something good. At least there's a chance that something good is going to happen with that, right? I mean, if I just show up to the gym, if I just show up to the gym and I've got my gym clothes on and I get inside that door, I know I've shown up and I know I'm probably going to do something in the gym, I mean it's just it kind of just kind of flows Right, just showing up. Hey, here's another thing about faithfulness Is that you're prepared, that you've actually taken the time to think through what you're showing up for, what you're showing up for. Now I'll tell you that I would rather someone show up period, not prepared, okay, but just show up because at least you're in the conversation, at least you're in the building, at least you're in the building, at least you're in part of what's taking place. But if you want to take it a step further, you'll show up prepared.
Speaker 2:That's a key thing right there Showing up prepared, faithful, just faithful. It says in Proverbs 28, verse 20,. It says that a faithful man will abound with blessings. Faithful man will abound with blessings. Faithful man will abound with blessings. I think this is the key thing, guys, is just showing up. It's not complicated, just showing up. I mean, as a dad, just show up for your kids, just show up. Just at least be there, right For your own health. Show up to the gym. Just show up, that's all Good morning, you know, if you're in sales, show up, curious. Show up, curious. Show up, curious about your people that you're actually reaching out to, about your sales thing, whatever your doodad that you offer, just show up, that's all. Just show up, show up, all. Just show up, show up and be curious about it, right?
Speaker 2:So this podcast is obviously sponsored by the family banking concept that I've. That, the Lord, lead me to start teaching people how to have their own banks this takes a long-term mindset and to be able to help set up your family for success down the road and ultimately be able to impact the kingdom of God. So if you're interested actually in learning about the family bank concept, send me a message. It's right down there. Make sure you include your email address or telephone number, whatever it is. I'll reach back out to you, send you some information about the family banking concept and how to actually utilize cash value, life insurance and legacy planning at the same time.
Speaker 2:So human success. I got two calls to action. Two calls to action. One is let's focus on being faithful versus successful. Faithfulness over successfulness. If that's even a word, just show up. Show up to whatever you're doing. That's all, show up. That's all show up. The second call to action is if this actually helped you out or gave you some clarity, or maybe inspired you, I'd ask you to share this with one person, one person that you might think would benefit from this episode. That's all, just share it. So, kingdom success, know that you're blessed, you're highly favored, you're empowered to prosper. You walk in divine health. The spirit of breakthrough is upon you, guys and gang, we'll catch you on the other side.
