"Steward Your Heart with Abundance"| Episode #78 | Builder of All Things | Author’s Cut: Chapter Five w/ Richie Breaux

Welcome to the Builder of All Things Podcast—where we go beyond the pages of the book and explore into the Author’s Cut! 🔥 Join Richie Breaux and Ray Bisnar as they break down each chapter in micro-episodes, giving you the behind-the-scenes insights, deeper wisdom, and real-life applications—just like a Director’s Cut for a book. 

In this episode, "Steward Your Heart with Abundance," we dive into the powerful story of Jesus telling the disciples — after His resurrection — to cast their net on the right side of the boat. They were exhausted, experienced, and had done all they knew to do… yet had nothing to show for it — until one small act of obedience changed everything.

🎣 This story isn’t just about fish. It’s about what happens when diligence meets obedience — and how God blesses those who are not only ready in the natural, but tender in their heart posture.

💡 In this conversation, we unpack:
* The difference between diligence and obedience — and why both matter
* How to know if you're in a season of testing or a season of blessing
* Why relationship with God helps you recognize His voice, even when it challenges your pride
* What it means to have a net-breaking miracle — that doesn’t actually break your net
* How abundance is both a gift and a test, and why gratitude, generosity, and humility are key

📖 “God won’t give you more than you can handle” — not just with burdens, but with blessing too. This episode is a heart check for anyone experiencing overflow, waiting for breakthrough, or trying to discern if it’s their time.
🧡 Let’s learn how to steward our hearts when blessings come — to focus on the blesser, not just the blessing.

👇 Drop a comment:How do YOU stay grounded when things start going well?

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Chapters

• 0:00 Right Side of the Boat Story
• 1:42 Diligence Meets Obedience
• 4:19 Abundance Without Breaking the Net
• 6:40 Heart Position During Abundance
• 9:10 Recognizing God's Voice

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:15

The portion of the chapter is called Right Side of the Boat and it's a story of Jesus telling the homies, the disciples hey, try this side. As small as it is, the change is right. Yeah, it's huge, but can you talk to me about that?

Speaker 2: 0:35

Well, just for the listeners, to kind of break down the story a bit, but this is time frame and context. This is after Jesus died already. So Jesus had died. The disciples, peter and the crew, the fishermen crew? They haven't seen Jesus since his death. So in their understanding he's still dead. Yes, right, so that's like the context of the situation.

Speaker 2: 0:59

And so they have been fishermen. They're professional fishermen, they know the waters, they know their boat, they know the equipment. They're professional fishermen. They know the waters, they know their boat, they know the equipment. They're like you put me on a construction site. Man, that's my world, that's my tribe, that's my arena. I'm a professional, I am literally a professional when it comes to building homes. That's what they are. They're professional in their field.

Speaker 2: 1:18

And they're going out fishing and guess what? They're not catching fish, which is kind of it happens. But odd for somebody who's professional in that trade and does it for a living to just not catch any fish. So that can already put a weight. But the fact that who?

Speaker 2: 1:34

The moment that they're going out, I don't think they've been fishing like that for a long, for probably three years, because they've been walking with Jesus, but now that Jesus died there. Guess what? Guess what they're doing? They're going back to their old ways because they don't know what else to do right now. So they're going back out to do what they got to do with this get some fish and just going back into survival mode. You know what I mean. But guess what? There's no fish and they're getting ready to wrap up for the day. And this is a similar story when Peter first met Jesus. So when Peter first met Jesus, it was almost a similar story. Yes, so here they are same story getting ready to wash their nets, you know. And then Jesus kind of yells out close enough, he's on shore. And from their perspective this is like some strange, some random guy hey, just throw it on the other side.

Speaker 2: 2:16

You know how offended I would have been. Like okay, not like go to.

Speaker 2: 2:21

You know these waters at this beach you know, hey, actually there's some fish over on the other side of the mountain, right over there, you know, it's more like like yo right, where your boat is, where you've been stressing all day checking for fish. You guys are tired, you're dead, you're already washing your nets, you're putting things away, but just right there. But on the other side of the boat A lot of them are like fool, get other side of the boat. I'd have been like fool, get out of here. Yeah, get out of here, man. But um, the voice they recognized. Wait a minute, what voice is that? I've been around that voice for three years. I recognize that accent, I recognize that voice. And that's when diligence meets obedience.

Speaker 2: 3:02

So you could be diligent, diligent, diligent, diligent, but not be obedient. So obedience is when God speaks and gives you what you need to do. I could have all the greatest tools, ray. I could have your best. To me, my favorite site job site table saw is a DeWalt. I love the DeWalt table saw, the chop saw you can have all the best. Yeah, I'm a milwaukee guy, though, when it comes to the battery tools. So I got all my, my battery, all my my tools and all these things fest tool, vacuum fest tool, chop saw on site. I can look like the man, but guess what, man? I've had guys bring all this stuff, set everything, and we ain't got no power. Battery's dead. Whatever reason, the power goes out, you're done, man, it doesn't matter how decorated your tools are right.

Speaker 2: 3:52

So I think diligence meets obedience is when you take one of your construction tools and plug it into the power man, and then that's when it's game on. So that's what happened, man. They heard the voice of the Lord. They recognized the voice from having a relationship with him and they were obedient. They did all they knew they can do, but why? This is very important because you're out there and you're like man.

Speaker 2: 4:15

Richie said just do all I need to do and victory's mine. True, Do all you need to do, but guess what? There are times you'll be on the boat, just like Peter and those fishermen. You did everything you know to do, you followed your old list and guess what? You're sitting there with nothing. So yeah, richie's wrong, do all you need to do, but victories are the Lord when you plug into the power. So when diligence meets obedience, that's the key. That actually, that's when your key key right is, is, is, is your diligence, grabbing the tools and resources, you know. And obedience is where to put and what door to put it in. It unlocks and opens the door.

Speaker 2: 4:52

So with that story, man, uh, yeah, they put it on the other side and they said it says the fish. There were so many, the abundance was so high they couldn't even handle the amount of fish, but the net never broke. So whatever they could fit in the net, fully maxed out of abundance and blessings, man, uh, they couldn't, it couldn't even. It couldn't, it didn't even break the net. So it was such a significant blessing. It was like I knew how much blessing you can handle before your net burst.

Speaker 2: 5:29

So I think there's like two sides of the fence.

Speaker 2: 5:33

There's one where there's so much stress, weight, life bills not paid, business shutting down.

Speaker 2: 5:40

There's so much, like on the negative side, weight, that God will say I won't give you more than you can handle to give you faith and assurance that I'm going to put you through the fire, I'm going to apply pressure in your life to strengthen you and to bring you back up, but I'm not more than you can handle.

Speaker 2: 5:59

But then the other side of the fence, I think it's the same thing with abundance, like he's going to give you, bless you, but not to detour you into, like, material world or to you know you just start going into addiction or lust or different things because there's just too much abundance. You know and so I think there's both sides that God can allow storms to strengthen you and also abundance to strengthen you but not give you more than you can handle, and that's what that scripture and that story specifically speaks to me is like there was so much fish, but just enough for the net that they can bring back to shore how do you protect yourself from knowing if it's an abundance or not, or it's, it's a test, you know.

Speaker 1: 6:40

I mean, does that make?

Speaker 2: 6:40

sense. Yeah, I think for me the the going into peter's reaction when that happened, I think, uh, his posture and his heart, he didn't even like when they caught the fish he didn't even like, I don't think he realized what was happening, he just responded to hearing the voice and so he jumped off the boat and swam to Jesus and just kind of left his team to grab the fish. And so I think his posture in his heart was number one is when I was, me and Tiffany were in a season where things felt like that season where the abundance was happening, we were winning awards, we were being recognized nationally, we were getting any job we wanted. I mean it was just like the net just was like we're grabbing everything. I mean everything you could think of was was happening that you would want in a successful, you know, residential construction business.

Speaker 2: 7:34

But for me, man, I think me and Tiffany know that I don't know if I have the key to recognizing when it's abundance test or a blessing, but I believe our heart position can help give us the lens and filter to see that, because I believe God gives to a cheerful giver. So what that means to me is if you have a cup and he's going to pour blessings into it has to be able to overflow into somebody else, and so if you're trying to just contain it, I I believe that for me is like the, it's a heart check. Like, okay, what am I doing with this? Like, am I worshiping it? Number one am I chasing it? Number two am I hoarding it?

Speaker 2: 8:22

so I think, those three would be like a personal gauge for me to see okay or am I grateful, am I giving and I don't have another G? Am I grateful, am I giving and, yeah, I don't have another G?

Speaker 1: 8:40

But that's good. You answered the question on the dot, richie, which is being grateful, like what Peter said. I think, coming back to just any blessing and I think you talk about it here briefly it's like always being grateful for the abundance or whatever blessing that comes in. You mentioned that Peter was more focused on the blesser and not the, the gift, or the giver and not the gift. Um, and there's a portion here as well where it's taking a step back. You know, when jesus called out to peter and them, not knowing you know as when, when someone you don't know or but I guess to him it was, he recognized the voice. But for someone to take advice, um, from some random person and for your pride not to get hurt or whatnot, that must be tough for you know. How do you even? Do you trust that voice or do you just be like, hey, let's just change it up and listen to this random guy?

Speaker 2: 9:47

well, yeah, I mean it could, and I think I put in the book in that kind of uh picture where it was like, hey, there's this random guy telling you to just throw it on the other side. But I believe also that when you carry a relationship with the builder of all things, that when he does speak you recognize who it's coming from you know what I?

Speaker 2: 10:08

mean you'll have that filter of understanding, that tone, that that authority, that you know, all the things that you've. They've walked with him for three years, so they had this relationship to know like, oh wait, I know that voice, yeah, like this is familiar grounds, like, and so I think their faith played, but also I think their relationship played a role too of being able to, you know, discern that you know it could have been some random guy like setting them up to do something that they, hey, you need to go on this side and over there. Actually, you know they could have died, you know, but, um, I think there are just things in relationship that they had that just kind of helped them understand like where that, where that call was coming from and where that message was coming from. Bye.