Small Repairs, Big Results

We often pray for breakthroughs while overlooking the small warning signs that lead to spiritual breakdowns. What if your delay or defeat isn't because God said no, but because you've refused to fix what you could?

• Small repairs equal big problems when ignored
• Faith requires action – James 2:17 reminds us that faith without works is dead
• Unchecked habits become strongholds that lead to pride and resistance to correction
• What you tolerate will eventually dominate your life
• Movement leads to miracles – the ten lepers were healed as they went
• God won't do for you what you're refusing to do with Him
• Acknowledge God in all your ways, and He will direct your path (Proverbs 3:6)

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Chapters

• 0:00 Ignoring Small Warning Signs
• 2:42 ] The Danger of Small Compromises
• 6:14 ] Let God Do What You Can't
• 7:09 ] Your Repair Checklist and Prayer
• 9:25 ] Episode Closing and Patreon Info

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Most people don't crash because of the big problems. They crash because they ignored the small warning signs. A slight leak in the roof right Over time, that equals out to be a collapse in the ceiling right. A loose screw, a worn out tire on a car oh, we've all experienced this in some kind of way. Spiritually, it's no different. What if the delay, the detour, defeat, wasn't because God said no, but because you refuse to fix what you could? Let's talk.

Speaker 1: 0:55

Welcome back to the SoulFuel podcast. Listen, it's been a long time. This is the pit stop for your soul to be fueled for your journey in life, as you do it with Christ. Listen, this episode is a discussion and a conversation that I believe has the potential to really help each and every person out who chooses to take heed to these words. Right, we always pray for a breakthrough while overlooking the disobedience in our habits, and it's always the small habits that have the ability to cause us to go down this path of falling that is painful and causes us hurt, causes us pain, causes us money spent, literally literal money spent. Right, you want to go and do things the way that you want to do things, you want to grow in faith, but you ignore the cracks in your character and when the breakthrough doesn't come, you say I'm waiting on God. I'm waiting on God, but truthfully, he's waiting on you. I think this is a very important conversation, why? Because we need to understand that there is power in the minor adjustments. There is so much power in minor adjustments.

Speaker 1: 2:17

I'm going to bring up this scripture and some of you might be sick of this scripture. Honestly, I don't see how you get sick of scripture, but this is my favorite scripture and I hold it near and dear to my heart, and those of you that have been listening to the podcast or heard any sermons that I preach or Bible studies that I may have taught you know that I'm going to quote me some Proverbs, chapter three, verse six in all your ways, acknowledge him and he will direct your path. Another translation says always acknowledge him and he will direct your path. Another translation says and he will make your path straight. Right, you got to understand that sometimes it's not a major breakdown and most of the time, before we get to the major breakdown, it's always the minor. It's always the little, small things. It's the low oil in the engine, it's the like I said in the intro the small leaks that are coming out of the ceiling, right. But that oil change though, if you don't change, if you don't change the oil and your engine is dry, it's going to blow out, it's going to be over, it's over.

Speaker 1: 3:29

You're going to need an entire car, a new car, you're going to need a new engine. This is necessary to understand, even when it comes to a ball tire on a car, because a ball tire leads to a blowout. I don't know about you, but I've definitely experienced it with the older cars that I've had growing up. Right, driving so much on a tire where it becomes ball, it starts treading and you don't go and get the tires rotated. Eventually, you know, you can feel it in the way that the car is running, the way it's rolling, the way that it feels when you hit certain things, and all it takes is that one right movement, that one piece of pressure, that one issue to roll over, and you're on the side of the road hoping that you have the spare in the back with air in it and a jack so that you can pump it with no problem. Right, it's the same with our spirit, it's the same with our souls, right? We cannot afford to ignore these small repairs, because these small repairs equal big problems.

Speaker 1: 4:38

Small repairs are simply habits, their decisions, their motives, their attitudes, and you have to understand that you cannot afford to neglect the small repairs, because neglect leads to regret. In order to make the small repairs, you have to do this by this key ingredient and number one thing, and that's faith. Right, faith requires action. James, chapter 2, verse 17, says "even so, faith, if it has no works, is dead being by itself". You can't believe God for a breakthrough when you don't take any action. You can't believe God for a breakthrough while disobeying his instructions. He literally gave us instructions through the word on how we can win.

Speaker 1: 5:40

Someone prays for provision but won't work. Someone prays for provision but won't budget. Someone prays for provision but won't budget. Someone prays for provision but won't ask for help. These are the faith actions you have not because you ask not. And when you ask, you receive not because of your motives. So you have to check your motives. You have to again fix the small repairs.

Speaker 1: 6:09

Making a move in faith doesn't mean doing everything. It just means that you do what you can. You do what you can. Stop waiting on God to do what he's waiting on you to respond to. Why to do what he's waiting on you to respond to. Why? Because there are dangers when you do not fix these small repairs. There is the danger of small compromises and there is a danger to small compromises.

Speaker 1: 6:42

There's a book of the Bible that, I'll be honest, I haven't read a whole lot of, but, um, I think it's necessary to to really get, uh, what's there and to really understand the purpose of this particular book. But as I was reading and searching on this topic biblically, I find this book that hardly we ever I've never really heard, probably have, but I haven't really heard anybody really preach from this book and that's the Song of Solomon, right? The Song of Solomon, chapter 2, verse 15, says catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that are ruining the vineyards. I think this is super poignant, because unchecked habits become strongholds. They become strongholds and when they become strongholds they lead to procrastination in fixing. And then the longer you procrastinate, the more it builds pride. And what happens with this is when another fellow brother or sister tries to come to you and tell you about what you're doing, you can't really receive it because pride starts to well up and you've procrastinated in fixing it when it was a small problem. Now it becomes a big problem and you are not willing to do what it takes to change it because you get set in your way and again pride builds up and then watch this private sin. It all starts to build up. We got to understand this.

Speaker 1: 8:18

Going back to that roof analogy it's, it's, it's. It doesn't seem too bad at first because it's, it's OK, it's, oh, we just put a bucket under under that, under the ceiling. Oh, the, the, the, the, the oil change that's needed. We just go, we just go keep putting oil in it, or you know, we'll, we'll wait, we'll wait until next month. Then we'll wait, then that month comes around, we'll wait, we'll wait. But both things are going to lead to a collapse. The engine is going to be blown out, right, and the roof is going to cave in because the small repairs were not made.

Speaker 1: 9:02

Call out impatience. You call it out. I'm calling it out now. But you have to be able to call it out because you know that some of you walk away and have walked away in the past, and me too, including me. I have walked away in the past because I didn't see instant results. I didn't see the instant results. But you have to understand this what you tolerate will eventually dominate, and that's a fact.

Speaker 1: 9:34

Let God do what you can't, but do what you can. Let me say that one more time Let God do what you can't, but you do what you can. Philippians, chapter 2, verse 13. For it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. You do the small repair, he does the deep restoration and you can count on him to do it. He does it every single time. Look at the 10 lepers right in luke, chapter 17. As they went, they were healed. As they went, they were healed.

Speaker 1: 10:24

Movement led to the miracle. So, with faith without works is dead. You get absolutely zero, zero results when you do not move. But you make the moves that you can. You make the moves that, that that he leads you to make and you make the moves that you know is right.

Speaker 1: 10:47

By communicating to the lord and acknowledging him in all of your ways, you are praying about your next move when you move. That is just it's communication and people say I need to pray about it. It's not always asking for permission to do what you know how to do, to do what you are supposed to do, but rather it is communication which is including him, because he delights in the details of our lives. Acknowledge your path to him. Acknowledge your path to him. He straightens it. But ignoring him just puts you on a detour. It puts you on a detour. God won't do for you what you're refusing to do with him. One more time, god will not do for you what you are refusing to do with him. So can you make the repairs today? Huh, the shop is open. This is a shop. Right now.

Speaker 1: 11:56

This podcast, the Soul Fuel podcast, is a shop, and it is open, and the community of listeners are here for you. It's open, right? So here's a quick checklist, and here's something that I want you to do as homework. Right? Don't come to another episode until you do this. What's one habit you need to confront? You know it. What's one habit you need to confront? You know it.

Speaker 1: 12:29

Ask yourself what is one habit that I need to confront and then answer this question what's one instruction that you have been ignoring? Are you going out too much? Are you watching too much television? Are you trading gospel music for the word of God? Are you listening to too much gospel music and not more than you're reading your word. Where have you been waiting when God told you to move? Where have you been waiting when God told you to move? Have you been waiting behind a tree covering yourself with fig leaves? Have you been waiting behind a tree covering yourself with fig leaves? Or have you genuinely been waiting where you're supposed to be waiting but have not really gotten an answer because you're misunderstanding the small repairs that you're supposed to make?

Speaker 1: 13:47

So, listen, I'm gonna end this episode with a prayer and we're gonna say father, we come to you in the mighty name of jesus. We ask that you help each and every listener. Help us lord, where we have neglected the small things. Lord, where we have neglected the small things, where we have neglected to repair and make changes to the small things that we have control over. Father, we pray that you would show us how to obey in the little, so that you can trust us with much more. Lord, we yield right now to your wisdom, to your perfect will, and we let you know that we are ready to move forward. Come on, somebody, say that part with me. I'm ready to move forward in Jesus' name, amen. Listen, I pray. You got something out of this. I pray this was a good talk for you. I want you to win. I really do. I want you to win. I always want what the Lord wants and you should want what the Lord wants.

Speaker 1: 14:54

All right, so this has been another episode of the Soul Fuel podcast. I want you to make sure that you know that this is the pit stop for your soul to be fueled for your journey in life as you do it with Christ. This is Pastor Will, aka Willie R3, and I'm signing out. Make sure you join the fuel station patreoncom forward slash the soul fuel T-H-E-E-S-O-U-L-F-U-E-L. Your support helps me continue to crank out great content for you as we seek the Lord out and just make it happen. All right, listen, stay. Fuel be filled. Peace.