Haters Gonna Hate: Faith When No One’s Clapping

When your dreams get mocked, your support fades, or even God seems silent, how do you keep going?

This episode dives into the raw struggle of rising above when no one’s clapping. With powerful stories and practical lessons about fueling your faith through the Holy Spirit, you’ll learn to be your own cheerleader—whether it’s a business idea, personal growth journey, or living for God. It’s Raw, it’s Real, and it’s Hardy!

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[00:00] Intro: Rising When No One Claps
[00:55] Even Your Own Friends Will Discourage You!
[05:43] From Being Bottle Fed to Chewing Some Meat of Faith
[10:01] Noah: Built While They Laughed
[13:01] Esther: "Oh Well...If I Die, I Die"
[17:26] Encourage Yourself in the Lord

Transcript

Intro: Rising When No One Claps

Morgan Hardy 0:01

Have you ever poured your heart into a dream only to get laughed at? Or you're or let's say you're walking with Jesus, you're trying to live right, but the cheers from church fade, and even God seems quiet. What do you do in these situations? I mean, you can't sit around waiting for God or anyone else to keep pushing you to do what's right, or for you to chase your dreams. At some point, you've got to decide to rise and encourage yourself. At some point you do. This is Hearty Talks, where we keep our faith raw, real, and hearty. We're discussing the tough stuff, real conversations, raw mistakes, and bold takes. Let's be real. So

Even Your Own Friends Will Discourage You!

Morgan Hardy 0:55

a couple years back, I got this idea to do some land investing. Raw dirt, not houses, not stocks, not Lego action figures or whatever people invest in. Land. I spent weeks geeking out with research, playing with numbers. I even built my own special spreadsheet that I was going on Facebook Marketplace and gathering what other land's going for, and I'm sitting there just crunching numbers. I even went as far as seeing if a piece of land I already owned would sell for what I wanted for. At first I thought this is nuts. This idea will never be successful. People would buy that. But the deeper I dug, the more research I did, I started to realize that value is in the beholder's eye. People will pay what they want. That's why my iPhone keeps going up in price every single year, even though they only release a real useful new feature once every three years. So I I did my research. And I I was pumped, excited. This all occurred while my best friend, he he works on the riverboat, and he was he was out of town for work. So while I was doing all this, I I couldn't discuss with him. He didn't have enough time to sit and talk to me for an hour or so. So when he got home, uh I laid out my business plan with great details. I went over all the numbers, all the ideas, how I was going to accomplish it. And you have to imagine my excitement because, well, I was already neck deep. I was closing on the land in a week. I've already done all the research, I've already looked all over seeing what land's doing. I I knew I had some potential here. But I thought I was going to be met with praise and support for my best friend, and it was actually a little mockery. He told me that was going to be the biggest mistake I would ever make. The biggest. He thought it was foolish. And he said it makes no sense. People will never buy that. Well, I ended up buying the land. Uh, and a couple months later I sold a piece of it, the first piece, and I was beginning to reap the reward of my first investment. I I I was starting to see that there that this is real, this can happen. Well, before my excitement had been distinguished a little bit because of my friend. This here reignited my faith in this idea. I knew if it could happen once, it could happen five more times. I I was you couldn't tell me though at this point. I done seen it with my own eyes. Uh well, I went back to my buddy and I told him about this about my first deal. And here I go again. I was expecting him to say he was wrong, and he was excited for me. And instead, I was met with more ridicule, more discouragement. He he even hinted that sometimes you just luck up on stupidity. He he was like, There's stupid people everywhere, I guess. Uh you you'll get one every now and then. But this time, his words didn't faze me. I've done seen it in action. He couldn't break it down. A little time passed, and I sold the second lot, the third lot, the fourth lot, and a lot of miracles and really strange situations where those land deals happen along the way that uh you would think is impossible, but you know, God but God, that's all I can say. He he listens to your prayers. But I learned a valuable lesson through all this. That land deal taught me that sometimes you can't even count on your best friend to encourage you. You can't. Even the ones you go to for everything will disencourage you sometimes. It stung, it hurt, and that was just one person.

From Being Bottle Fed to Chewing Some Meat of Faith

Morgan Hardy 5:43

Even so, sometimes it's your entire support system that you have always leaned on. Their support can even fade. That's what I faced in church. Going from a new convert with all the love and attention to a uh, what's the word I'm looking for? Uh for lack of better words, to more of a seasoned saint, going from a baby to an adult in Christ. Uh I had to learn to hype myself up. Now, hold up. I'm not talking bad about the church. Uh that's not what that's not my goal here. Let me explain what I'm trying to say. So when I first got in church, I was ridiculed with depression, uh, loneliness, mental issues. Uh uh, list goes on and on. I had the the boy, your boy had problems, needless to say. And I needed a lot of nurturing. I was constantly glued to the tit of the saints, constantly needing fed with encouragement. For the first good while, anytime I fell, uh, whether it was temptation or depression or whatever it was, anytime I fell, I was met with an army of believers to grab me and put me back on my feet. Rather, if it was them praying with me in the altar, talking to me one-on-one, taking me to lunch, inviting me over group events, and just discussing what's going on with me. Uh I had an army. And church folks rallied around me. But as I became a, I guess, matured saint, the support faded. It was, it didn't disappear, but it did, it faded a little bit. It's almost like, hear me out. It's almost like once you're not this shiny new convert that everyone can play with, you're expected to have it all together. But as I kept falling, I had to learn to pick myself up with prayer and a little Holy Ghost fire. I had to do it myself. Now, now hear me out. Hear me out. Let's be real. This is normal. This is how it's supposed to be. You can't think that this is a bad thing. The church never left me to fight alone. When times were really bad, they had my back. They were still praying for me. They were still praying with me. They still encouraged me at times. They simply began to act like any good parent would because at some point a parent has to let their child face a little bit of the real world on their own. At some point, a child has to quit drinking out of a bottle and grab a cup. A church, hear me, a church can't grow if all of their resources is constantly helping the established saints. This leaves little room and energy for the newcomers. All of this, all of it, this this whole idea here, it's the same foundational principle of what Paul was trying to relay in 1 Corinthians 3. He said, At first you weren't ready for the meat because you were still babies in faith. So I fed you milk. You see, new Christians get milk, but grown saints has got to chew some meat. I had to learn to pick myself up with prayer, worship, and a little self-encouragement. No more training wheels, just faith. That shift from being bottle fed to a little silence in church, and not to mention my my friend's mockery, it forced me to find my own fire. And you know, the Bible is jam-packed with heroes who had to do the same thing. They faced haters or they faced silence, yet they still chose to rose.

Noah: Built While They Laughed

Morgan Hardy 10:02

The best story, I would say, is the story of Noah. We all know the story of Noah. Even the Muslims know the story of Noah. It's in their religious text. But let me break down this perspective for you. God tells Noah to build a massive ark because a flood's coming. God decides to flood the earth because it's full of all types of evil. But you have to understand this this was a wild, unheard of idea. You you just don't grasp it because rain didn't exist yet. Genesis 2, 5 through 6, it says, For the Lord God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there was no people to cultivate the soul. Instead, springs came up from the ground and watered all the land. Rain didn't exist. It wasn't there. We didn't see the first rain until the great flood. You have to imagine Noah, sweat dripping down his beard. He's hammering plates under a scorching desert sun. He's building an ark which is 150 yards long, bigger than a football field. He's doing all of this in a bone-dry land where rain is literally a myth. Now, scripture doesn't explicitly say people mocked him, but you have to imagine neighbors probably came by and they they were laughing at him, calling him crazy. Kids, teenagers, whatever are probably throwing rocks, calling him stupid. He's sitting here building a boat when there's never been rain. His family is probably thinking he lost his mind. His own wife might have whispered, um, honey, are you sure about this? God didn't send any angels to cheer him on. All God did was give him the blueprint, but no pep rally. All he had was silence. Noah works for decades in silence, no encouragement, none. We're not talking about a week. We're talking about years. Noah's hands is blistered, his back is screaming, but he keeps swinging, he keeps building. Why? Why? Because God's promise burns in his chest. Once he gets finished, the rain hits. All the haters drown. Noah's arc floats high, and you have to imagine he probably clapped for himself a little bit because he proved them all wrong. This is like my land deal. Noah's idea got lots of laughs, but he built anyway, encouraging himself in the Lord.

Esther: "Oh Well...If I Die, I Die"

Morgan Hardy 13:01

Now, his story isn't the only one. Another favorite story of mine, this is actually my favorite book in the whole Bible. Uh just a little side note, it's the only book that doesn't mention God one time. His word, his name's never mentioned, but you can you can see the presence of God throughout the entire story. But the book of Esther. Now, picture this. Esther is a young Jewish woman living in ancient Persia. She has to hide her identity to survive because at the time Jews were extremely discriminated and even killed. Uh she's in she was an orphan raised by her cousin Mordecai. She, even though she was an orphan and an outcast, she marries the king of Persia, King Xerxes. She's now Queen Esther. But a crisis starts to unfold. Uh Haman, the king's right hand man, he hated Jews, hated them. He was probably realistically the first Hitler, if you want to get down to it. And he he comes up with a decree to wipe every Jew out, every man, every woman, every child. Well, when this decree goes out, Mordecai begs Esther to act. But there's this huge problem. At the time, you could not approach the king uninvited. You would literally be killed. Even as being the wife of the king, she had to be invited. It was a death sentence to approach the king uninvited unless he, it says unless he lifted his scepter as in a nod of approval. Esther knows that someone has to do something, but who? The Jews are discriminated. No one knows that she's a Jew, but she's in the high court married to the king. She realizes she is the only possible person who has any sort of potential to speak to the king without dying. Yet it was still a major risk for her. You have to imagine Esther's outside that throne room, her heart's pounding like a war drum, her robes are shaking, her knees are shaking, she's sweating. She's got this wild idea. She's going to go in uninvited to save her people, the Jewish people. No one else can. The guards aren't cheering. The Jews aren't cheering. Her fellow church members, they're not cheering. The maids, her helpers, they're probably whispering, Esther, that that's suicide. You can't do that. You're going to be killed. God's not sending any sign. All she's got is silence. Now, it says for three days she fasts and prays. No food, no water, just her and God. Lips moving in desperate prayer. Now, Esther 4 and 16, it shows us that she finally grows a backbone after doing all this. And she hypes herself up. The words she used in that verse is, well, if I perish, I perish. She basically said, screw it. All of us Jews are going to die anyways if I don't do something. If I die, I die. Screw it. She encouraged herself. She steps in, her head's held high, she her eyes locked on the king, and that scepter lifts. And she lives. She's able to talk to the king about what's going on, convince the king to throw this decree away. Her people are saved. Now, no claps, no praise until it was all done. She, all she had was just courage. Like my church story, Esther stood alone as a mature saint, leaning on prayer to face the impossible, to encourage herself. Wow. Just wow.

Encourage yourself in the Lord!

Morgan Hardy 17:26

You know, you can't wait for applause from your friends, your your support system, or even God. Sometimes you have to be your own cheerleader. King David found his own strength. And I I actually love the way the King James Version says it. The words they use just backs this whole this whole thought process up. In 1 Samuel 30 and uh verse 6, it says, David encouraged himself in the Lord. Encouraged himself. That's just powerful. God didn't encourage him. It said David encouraged himself. You go on, and Jude, uh in the book of Jude, it tells us that we have to encourage ourselves through faith and prayer. Jude 1, uh verse 20, it says, But ye beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. God isn't always going to be audible telling you, good job. Good job, son. Good job, daughter. You got this. That's a good idea. Your friends aren't always going to cheer you on. Jude is showing us that sometimes we have to build up our own encouragement. This is literally your playbook when haters hate. And I know that's a that's a fun little way of saying it, but they do. They do. People are gonna hate on you no matter what. It don't matter how much good you do in this world, someone's always got something negative to say. Uh your mind may tell you that others think you are stupid, but don't listen. It will tell you that you're not strong enough, but don't listen. It will tell you this business idea is gonna fail, or your mistake you've made is you're too far gone. Don't listen to any of that junk. People will tell you your dreams and business ideas are foolish. Now listen, Steve Jobs was called a fool. Bill Gates was called a fool. They researched, they chase their dreams, and they changed the world. And you can too. You can change your own destiny. But when you're doing this, you got to realize wisdom is going to be your best friend. You have to do your research. You don't jump into anything without research. That's just, that's not wise. You have to have a wise council of people, preferably familiar with the subject you're seeking advice on. And the Bible talks about this over and over again in Proverbs and Psalms. It's just, it's just so wise to have a council of people to talk to and discuss. You also have to pray about it. Now, if you're not going to get counseling from the Almighty Counselor, you're doomed from the start. That is the most important step. But you also need counsel from your spiritual leaders, your pastor. And if you do all this, uh Joshua 1 and 9 says, be strong and be of good courage. Use wisdom, and if it won't ruin you, chase that dream. Now, this ain't just about dreams. This is also about just encouraging yourself in general, even when you make mistakes. All in all, you just have to remember haters are going to hate, no matter how much good or bad you do. Whether it's your best friend calling your dream stupid, or your sports system starting to seem like they're miles away, or even your own mind telling you to quit. But Noah built his ark, Esther walked in that throne room, and you can rise too. I pray, my prayer is this episode encourages you to learn to be your own cheerleader. Learn to hype yourself up. Learn not to wait on others to validate you and lift you up. You can do this on your own. If you're struggling, encourage yourself in the Lord in all seasons of silence. If you enjoyed this episode, please like, share, and subscribe. People all over the world feel stuff like this every single day. My heart's desire is to use this platform to help someone find the light and the dark. Anyways, I I've rambled enough, but thank you for listening to my heart and just remember stay real.