Inspiration Station: The Best Story Ever!

The tension between belief and unbelief forms the backbone of this deeply personal exploration of Matthew 13:58 – a scripture that reveals how Jesus couldn't perform many mighty works in his hometown because people refused to believe. This paradox launches us into a raw conversation about how perception shapes our reality and potential.

Growing up in Brooklyn during its most dangerous era, I've faced countless moments where others placed a ceiling on what I could achieve based solely on where I came from. "Can anything good come out of Brooklyn?" becomes the modern equivalent of the biblical "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" – both questions reflecting how familiarity and preconceived notions can breed contempt rather than support. When people get too familiar with you – whether family, friends, or colleagues – they often cap your trajectory, deciding what you can and cannot do based on their limited perception of who you are.

The episode culminates with a powerful testimony of modern miracles I recently witnessed – three friends with legs of uneven lengths experiencing real-time healing during a service, fully documented on video. What struck me most wasn't just the miracles themselves, but watching people I've known for years observe these supernatural events with stone faces, unable to accept what was happening before their eyes. This mirrors exactly what Jesus must have experienced among his hometown crowd. The greatest barriers to experiencing the miraculous often aren't external circumstances but our internal resistance to believing extraordinary things can happen to ordinary people from ordinary places. What miracle might you be blocking in your own life because of unbelief? Perhaps it's time to stop letting others' perceptions determine your limitations and start embracing the supernatural possibilities waiting just beyond your doubt.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Episode Introduction and Scripture Focus
• 2:42 How People's Perception Affects You
• 5:34 Breaking Through Limitations Others Set
• 7:28 Familiarity Breeds Contempt
• 9:28 The Miracle Service Experience
• 12:55 Witnessing Versus Believing

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:07

Thank you very much. Welcome back to the All Purpose Pod for an all-purpose life. Wherever you are and however you're listening Today call me Mr you, you and the inspiration station, and thanks again for making us part of your week, pretty excited about this particular episode for several reasons. I'm kind of giddy about it, ben. She's so awesome man. I entitled this the best story ever because in my mind I said exactly what this is. But we'll get to that one toward the end of the episode. I want to kind of set the table for this a little bit. This is, but we'll get to that one toward the end of the episode. I want to kind of set the table for this a little bit.

Speaker 1: 1:08

This is a scripture and I want to give you this up front. So you have it. You can look at it, review it, kind of walk through it a little bit. But Matthew, chapter 13, verse 58. This is one of those scriptures where you walk away with more questions than you do answers, and scripture has a lot of that kind of impact on us because there's a lot that we don't understand and so our mind is in this kingdom as opposed to the kingdom that we are supposed to be paying attention to and investing in. But matthew 13 and 58 says jesus did not do many mighty works there in Nazareth, his hometown, because of their unbelief. Now it sounds as though Jesus made a choice. You know what I can do miracles. I've turned water into wine. I can do miracles. But in this place, in my childhood, the place where everybody is familiar with me, I'm not going to do any miracles here. Some folks may say you know what? Because of the level of their unbelief, miracles were ineffective in this location. Maybe it's a combination of both. I'll let you decide that. Hit me up in the comments section. Let me know which one you think it is. Do you think that Jesus could not do miracles there, in his location, because of the unbelief, or he chose not to because of the level of unbelief in this place that he grew up in? Let that be our main scripture for today. I want you to hold on to that one. We're going to get into why I think this is so awesome.

Speaker 1: 2:46

Next point you know I've been dealing a lot with how people perceive you and I think this is important because if you go on social media, if I ask certain questions, it's almost like bait. I know how they're going to answer, because it's the same mindset over and over again. A lot of times it's been regurgitated over and over again. People say I don't care what people think, it's their favorite line. I don't care what people think you do, and it matters.

Speaker 1: 3:16

You can you can, uh, hide behind the emotional wall, but it matters to you what people think. You want to feel like you make an impact in people's lives. You want to feel like you're making an impact in people's lives. You want to feel as though you're doing something that's of value for other people. So how your family and your friends perceive you, it does matter. Even in that scripture it mattered to Jesus because it determined what he was going to be able to do and how much he could open up and give and share to others, how they thought of him. And one thing that I think is powerful in this is that we deal with some of the same things, but do we deal with it in the right way, in the most positive way, in the most healthy way? I know people who are my relatives, and often I mean I don't use the term black sheep because I don't think it's indicative of what my life is actually like. But I feel as though people put you in a category. They kind of decide how high you can go. They kind of cap your trajectory in life, how high you can go, what you can achieve.

Speaker 1: 4:22

People look at where you came from and determine whether you are good enough. I've come from a place that I mean. Right now the borough looks fantastic because it's gentrified, but when I was growing up it was one of the most dangerous boroughs in the entire world, much less in the city. It wasn't safe. In a lot of ways it was perilous living to grow up in this neighborhood or grow up in this borough, but I did that. Thank God, I came out of it. I had scrapes and issues and challenges, like everybody else mid-death experiences, you name it. I've been through it but I came out of it.

Speaker 1: 5:01

But people will look at okay, I came from here and they will decide about me. I had people in job interviews decide about me because I came from Brooklyn. I had Brooklyn as my hometown or my address and they decided whether I could work for them or not because of where I came from, their view of that place, what they heard about Brooklyn, and then on top of that, you know I can make matters worse right the way I talk. I talk fast, sometimes I talk with my hands. It's intimidating. People get scared when I talk with my hands.

Speaker 1: 5:38

So mirror that with their own ideas about where you come from and who you are as a person. Perhaps even the color of my skin might play a part in that. I don't want it to, but hey, it might Mirror by their own self-image, by their own ideas of who they are as people. Add that all together and you got a cocktail of nothing's happening. So you got people who are familiar with you and you can apply this to your family members. I guess I'm trying to remember that there's just nothing happening. There's nothing. There's no love, there's no compassion, there's nothing there. It's just a dead zone. A dead zone for love and family pride and enjoyments and togetherness. It's a dead zone. Nothing's happening there. Maybe you guys can relate. Love to hear you guys' stories on our social media platforms, in the comments section on our YouTube channel. If you feel free to share it, love to hear it.

Speaker 1: 6:41

But even in your friendships, even in your regular relationships, people get familiar with you and there's an old saying familiarity breeds contempt and people start tapping off your trajectory and how high you can go, deciding what you can do, what you can't do, what you can do in this ministry, what you can do in this corporate organization, what you can do, what you can't do, what you can do in this ministry, what you can do in this corporate organization, what you can do on this job, what you can do in this community, what you can do in this friendship circle. People start deciding stuff for you because of their perception of you. They say can anything good come out of Nazareth? Can anything good come out of Brooklyn? Can anything good come out of Nazareth? Can anything good come out of Brooklyn? Can anything good come out of Charleston? That's the epitome of them not letting you be great. I want to let you be great.

Speaker 1: 7:36

This is what I believe Jesus faced in Matthew 13, 58. Chapter 13, verse 58, to be clear they looked at where he was. Did we grow up with him? Don't we know his mother and father and his brothers and sisters? Didn't we watch how they grew up? Didn't we see how they lived, what kind of house they lived in? How'd he become so great and so educated and so insightful and so wise? Where did he learn? He went to the same schools we went to and we didn't learn this. How did he learn it? Whose feet did he sit at to get this understanding and this knowledge? We've been here the whole time and we've never seen this.

Speaker 1: 8:24

People perceive you in a certain way, and you know what. Honestly, nothing you can do about that. You can't change people's minds. You can't try to make them like you. You can try, but it ain't gonna work. But you can try, though nothing but a temporary piece of band-aid, if you will. It ain't going to work. But you can try, though it's nothing but a temporary piece of Band-Aid, if you will. It ain't going to work. Are people going to think things about you? I'll be honest with you. People who are watching this show that follow what we've been doing for the past five years, almost I'm positive they have a perception of who I am, who they think I am. How do you think I'll respond? What they think I like? What do you think I like to eat? What kind of car do you think I would like to drive? It's crazy. Let's get into the story.

Speaker 1: 9:28

One weekend, pretty recently, I was at a service. It was supposed to be a leadership service, a service where the potential for miracles were going to happen, and I love this because not only was it a potential for miracles, but miracles actually happened. I got four people. I got three folks that I know friends of mine Friends of mine heard what I said now, actual friends of mine that received outstanding miracles. I'm telling you this because, okay, let me preface this by letting you know there's a history and there's a precedent for what I'm getting ready to tell you.

Speaker 1: 10:07

Our youngest daughter and she can attest to this she was born with one leg shorter than the other. She'll tell you this story and she was being prayed for Her mother and some others were praying for her, and her leg grew back to full size. She doesn't walk with a limp, there's no unevenness in her leg size. They're actually both straight and it happened right on the table, right in front of our eyes. That's the precedence. We're at this service and I got three friends with the same situation as our youngest daughter One leg shorter than the other, hips being disjointed, causing there to be an unevenness. One limb shorter than the other, hips being disjointed, causing them to be uneven, one limb shorter than the other, walking with a limp. All three of them. In the course of this two hour service, legs grew back to the correct size.

Speaker 1: 11:09

And not only did that miracle happen right before our eyes, it's on video. It's on my Facebook page, matter of fact. It may be on my YouTube channel, not sure, but it it's on my Facebook page, matter of fact. It may be on my YouTube channel, not sure, but it's definitely on my Facebook page, where you can see the actual limb growing out to size. I can go ahead and try to amp it up and make it more than what it is, but I don't have to Actual miracles taking place, the same kind of miracles Jesus wanted to do in his hometown, but they wouldn't let him. I'm going to end the story with this. The video speaks for itself. Nothing I can ask. This is actually a testimony also of one of my friends, also on Facebook and Instagram. I'll just say this While this was happening, people who I know personally for nine, 10, 12 years some of them watching this happen faces like stone, refusing to accept what was taking place right in front of their eyes, refusing to believe it.

Speaker 1: 12:12

Something in their hearts wouldn't let them believe what they were seeing. I truly believe that's what Jesus saw. He said you know what, because of the unbelief, you can't do any mighty works here. These people who I've known for years they've been wanting miracles in their own lives for years had a chance to have that. If only they just believed enough to accept that God is still in the miracle working business. But they couldn't do it and they walked out not believing. They walked out confounded. They walked out without fully being persuaded that God can still do miracles. Even if you don't believe that, it's up to you.

Speaker 1: 12:57

This is my show and I believe that this is what I talk about and this is what I saw. My Facebook page is verification of what I saw, and what I saw about my daughter's life is also verification. This is the real thing. This is really happening. Y'all you can be stone-faced about it if you want to. You can refuse to believe if you want to, but it really happens. It's a real thing. And guess what? I was a living witness and I'm so, so grateful. I was Wherever you are and however you're listening today. Call me Mr U in the Inspiration Station. Thanks again for making us part of your week. God is still in a miracle working business. Hallelujah, thank you.