When God Says Move Before You’re Ready

Have you ever felt God leading you toward something bigger… but fear, uncertainty, or lack of preparation kept you standing still?

In Episode 2 of FaithFinder Season 3: Becoming a Faith Walker, Not Just a Faith Talker, we dive into one of the greatest challenges of faith: moving before you feel ready.

Many people are waiting for perfect conditions before they obey God. They want every answer, every detail, every guarantee, and every door already opened before they take the first step. But throughout Scripture, God often calls people to move before they fully understand where they’re going.

Abraham is the perfect example. In Genesis 12:1, God told him to leave his country, his comfort zone, and everything familiar behind. The difficult part? God did not give Abraham the full blueprint first. He simply said, “Go…”

And that’s where true faith begins.

In this episode, we discuss:

•  Why God often calls us to move before we feel prepared 
•  The danger of waiting for perfect timing instead of trusting God 
•  How overthinking can delay obedience 
•  The difference between preparation and procrastination 
•  Why faith requires trust even when details are missing 

This episode will challenge listeners to stop depending on comfort, logic, and visible certainty—and start depending on God’s direction.

Because the reality is:

•  Noah built before rain came 
•  Peter stepped before the water held him up 
•  Abraham left before he knew the destination 

Faith walkers don’t wait until they feel fully qualified. They trust that God will provide strength, wisdom, and direction along the journey.

🔥 This episode also connects directly to the 10-Day Active Faith Kickstart, where listeners are being challenged to practice daily obedience and intentional faith action. If Episode 1 awakened your faith, Episode 2 pushes you to move it.

If you’ve been:

•  Delaying what God told you to do 
•  Waiting for confidence before obedience 
•  Struggling with fear of failure or uncertainty 
•  Feeling stuck between comfort and calling 

Then this episode will encourage you to stop waiting for readiness and start walking in trust.

🎯 Faith Challenge for This Episode:
Identify one thing God has been pressing on your heart to do. Stop waiting for every detail to make sense. Take one concrete step toward obedience this week—even if you still feel unprepared.

Because sometimes the miracle doesn’t happen before you move.
Sometimes it happens because you moved.

✨ Faith walkers don’t need all the answers—they just need enough trust to take the next step.

Download your free copy of the 10-Day Active Faith Kickstart now!! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dI0Cm9SUZXkPo8gP4BHSiHSNRLLT8BJu/view?usp=drive_link

Transcript

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Life is a journey, and faith is the road that takes us forward. Welcome to Faith Finder, where we discover what faith truly is, how to use it every single day, and how to grow the measure of faith God placed inside of us. Every bump has purpose, every turn has meaning, every mile brings you closer to who God is shaping you to be. This is Faith Finder, where faith becomes your roadmap. Welcome to Faith Finder Podcast, where faith becomes your roadmap. I am your host, Tamara Anderson. Thank you so much for joining me for season three, Activated Faith from Belief to Bode Living. We are now on episode two when God says move before you're ready. It can be a little scary, but we're gonna jump into it today and we're going to just again walk by faith. So, like we do always, let's begin with a word of prayer. Most gracious in the Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you, we thank you, we thank you. Jesus, we thank you. Hallelujah, glory to your name, hallelujah, hallelujah, glory, hallelujah, Lord. Right now, I first ask that you please forgive us of anything we have said, done, thought, or felt that is unlike you, Lord Jesus. But we thank you, we thank you for your love, your grace, and your mercy. Lord, we thank you for your reconciliation, hallelujah. We thank you for salvation and justification. Glory to your name, Lord Jesus. Hallelujah, Lord, we thank you for being uncomfortable sometimes. Your words and everything give thanks unto you, for this is your will concerning us in Christ Jesus. So, Lord, we thank you for being uncomfortable at times. Glory to your name. We thank you for the growth that you've shown us and you've revealed to us, Lord God, and you've manifested in us over the past three seasons. Lord Jesus, we thank you, we thank you, we thank you for not only our growth and our faith, but our growth in you. Hallelujah. We thank you, Lord God. We thank you, we thank you, we thank you for drawing us with love and kindness. Hallelujah, Lord. We thank you for your love, your love, your love. Glory. Hallelujah, Lord, as we dive into the lesson on today, I ask that you open up their ears to truly hear you, Lord. I am just a vessel on today, Lord Jesus. I'm just a tool in your toolbox, Lord. So let them hear you clearly. Glory to your name, Jesus. Activate even the more another level of faith within them. Hallelujah. Open up their hearts, hallelujah, and their minds, glory to your name, Jesus, for a better understanding, Lord Jesus. But give us application of the word, application of the lesson, application on how we should move next. And Lord, we just thank you. We give you glory, we give you honor, and it's in Jesus' mighty name that we pray. Amen, amen, amen. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Glory to your name, Jesus. Again, episode two. When God says move before you're ready, our scripture for today is coming from Genesis chapter 12, verses 1 through 4. I'm going to read the King James Version. It says, Now the Lord has said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show you, and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and I will make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing, and I will bless them that bless thee, and I will curse them that curset thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. So Abram, ha, glory. So Abram departed as the Lord has spoken unto him. And Lot went with him, and Abram was 75 years old when he departed out of Aaron. Hallelujah. So our focus for today's episode is literally obedient without full full clarity. Obedient without full clarity. So let's just for a second talk about Abraham. So Abraham is known as the father of faith. I mean, just look at his life. If when you begin to read about him in Genesis, just look at his life. So we know Abraham as the father of faith. But going back to uh chapter 12, we're gonna talk about that faith walk again. When God says move before you're ready, when God says move and you don't have the full picture, there has to be we talked about this, a level of obedience. We talked about Martin Luther King's famous quote, and I love it. Faith is taking that first step when you don't see the whole staircase. Abram, this because this was before his name was changed to Abraham. So Abram did not have the full picture, he did not have the full staircase, he did not know even where he was going. All he knew was God said go, and he was obedient. That takes a lot, and I do mean a lot of faith. It takes a lot of obedience, it takes a lot out of us. It literally takes us out of oh, glory, it takes self out of us. We have to take us out of self. That's what I'm trying to say. Take us out of self. That's what it does. Because guess what? I'm not thinking about this logically, I'm not thinking about this analytically. Glory to your name, and that's what faith is. We can't, I'm a very analytical person, I say this all the time. But baby, when it comes to faith, there are some things I just I don't even try to analyze, I don't try to understand, I don't try to sit there and figure out plan A, B, C, and D. Because, like in natural, like for instance, if we're going, you know, if I'm doing a service or if I'm, you know, uh organizing something, then yes, that's natural. I'm gonna have plan A, B, C, D, and I might even have an E. I'm just being honest with you, because that's who I am. I'm very analytical. But when it comes to faith, I I said this, I believe, in season one. That goes out the door. Logic goes out the door when it comes to walking by faith. And Abram did just that. He heard the Lord. He again, like we talked last episode, he didn't sit there and debate. Oh, is this God? Is this not God? He knew it was. No, if, ands, or buts about it, he knew that it was God. So he was like, Bet, I hear you, Lord. He didn't sit there again and wait to figure out, well, what am I gonna do? Where am I going? Who am I taking with you? How is this gonna work? He didn't do any of that. He packed up his camp and he went. He didn't sit there on on his you know, hands for a couple of days or a couple of weeks or a couple of months. No, he moved. Verse three, so Abram, I'm sorry, verse four, so Abram departed. So Abram departed. It he didn't sit there and think about it, and sometimes, and I'm being honest, I'm kind of moving, you know, a little bit, it's going to be uncomfortable to be faithful to what God is calling you to do. It's going to be uncomfortable to do to be obedient. Okay, just want to say that, but I'm gonna get into that in just a second. But seriously, and if we look at this, this is kind of the first step or the first thing that the Lord wanted to test Abram's faith in. Get up and go. This man was 75 years old. Now, true enough, back then their 75 was not our 75 nowadays, because we know Methuselah lived over, you know, what 300 years if I'm not mistaken, but still, we know they had longevity of life, longevity of life. So, even in that 75, then I'm even if I say 50, 45, I'm just saying that is seriously, someone my age hearing God, and just so you know what, I'll pack it up and go. And I'm gonna share with this. I was uh on I believe it was TikTok, I believe, I believe it was TikTok. And when I say obedience without full clarity, the young lady, she I do know she had a child. I don't remember how old the child was, and I don't remember where she came from, but God told her to go to New York. God told her to literally go to New York, so um she gave away everything or sold everything. I don't remember the whole story, but she everything that she can fit for her and her son, she put into her car and she went to New York. Not having a place to live, not knowing what you know what kind of job she will have or anything. When I say that's that level of faith that God is looking for. I'm not joking with you. When you hear say, when you hear God say do you do. You don't question, you don't second guess. And again, us 2026, we oh Lord, I gotta understand, I gotta know what I'm doing, this and that. I gotta again, I'm a planner, I get it, but there comes a point to where you can't plan God's move in your life, you can't plan that. You can't sit here and even tell him how to direct his will in your life. You can't do that, and we have to get to a place where it goes from belief to absolutely, positively, daily bold living for Christ. No ifs, ends, or buts about it. And me again, watching this TikTok, I'm just like, oh Lord, I first of all, I'm not gonna be transparent, being honest. I thank you. You've never had me do anything like that. My bold moves have been totally in a different way, a different, you know, way. God has never just told me to up and go like that. And I, you know, again, each one of us has our walk with the Lord, each one of us has a path that we're on, and he knows what he's doing in our lives. But that to me was like, mmm, faith on a thousand. That's my opinion. And I'm being honest, and again, Abraham, I want y'all to understand this. That was the first time that the Lord said, Hey, go. But don't we know how later on he told the Lord also told him to sacrifice Isaac? Again, he didn't have full clarity. He at this point he had a promise. He had a promise. Oh, glory. I will bless thee that bless thee, and I will curse them that curse you. And thee shall, and of thee shall the families of the earth be blessed. So he had that promise. I'm gonna bless again everybody. And he even told him after this that your seed would be as the sand, countless. So he knew he had a promise, and he knew God was up to something, didn't quite know what. But even when he told him to go sacrifice Isaac, he was obedient in that, and God provided the ram in the bush. So understand, don't think that this big faith leap that God is gonna ask you to do is gonna be one and done. No, ma'am, no, sir. It's no sir, no ma'am. It's not, it's not. God is going to test you and test you and God is going to instruct you. I mean, seriously, how do you think our faith is going to grow if we don't know that we have the faith to move boldly? I mean, seriously, how do how do we find that out? By God giving us instructions and something to do, something to say, somewhere to go, something bold. And then when we do it, we realize, oh, my faith has grown. Oh, I do, I am living boldly for the Lord. Seriously, it's not until we're asked to do something that we know that we are bold and oh glory, a holy bonus about us. I love that. A holy bonus about us. Yes, yes, I'm not joking you. I promise you. For me, because I want us to understand, we have to be moving without all the details, we have to move without all the details. And I was sitting there as I'm preparing, I'm like, Lord, give me, and He just dropped it into my spirit. We have to be willing to move again without all the details, without full clarity, without understanding our next step. And I promise you, uh, this was last year, if I'm not mistaken. I believe it was last year, if I'm not mistaken, it might have been a year before that. But um, preaching is is new to me. I've only been doing this a couple of years, and so I don't always, first of all, I don't never feel confident in and of it myself, being honest with you. I just don't. But God always sends me confirmation of the word. So yesterday was or this past uh Sunday was Mother's Day. Um, yeah, yesterday, today's Monday, forgive me. So yesterday was Mother's Day, and I had to preach. And mind you, um, we are a small church, so I also had to teach Sunday school, and God had given me the word back in April for this this so I knew what I had. I hadn't finished it or what have you, but I knew the topic and the thought. So as I began to sit down and get ready, get ready, get ready. So Sunday morning, being honest, just tired because I had a busy weekend. Um, about seven o'clock Sunday morning, I begin to study the Sunday school lesson. And when I tell you again, confirmation that what God had given me was for that day. Well, going back, I could say last year, year before last, I got given me a word, but I'm standing there that Sunday morning in prayer, and I hear something totally different, and I'm like, okay, maybe that's just me. Maybe that's what he wants me to say. You know, maybe that's for me. But as I was standing in church, mind you, I print out my messages and I have my notebook or my little folder thingy, and as I'm standing there, I hear uh during praise and worship, I hear the Lord, I hear the Lord, I hear the Lord, but again, me, I'm being honest with you. God, you already gave me a word for today. I don't understand this. I'm not prepared to preach this, I'm not prepared to speak upon this, I'm not prepared. So as I go to get into the pulpit, my pastor hugged me. He said, Say what thus said God. Say what thus said God. And when I tell you, it was like I have no choice. And I cried and I cried because I said, Y'all, I have a message. God gave me a message, but I'm hearing the Lord say something different. I'm hearing the Lord, and it was my first time ever, ever, ever, where I got I had a prepared message, but God gave me something different, and I literally had to move as God moved. Seriously, again, living with that bold faith, hallelujah. Moving when you don't understand, and and when I say God had to give me word for word for word on what to say that Sunday morning or afternoon, whatever time it was, because I had nothing. It when I say it was nothing but the Lord, it wasn't me at all. So that was my example of moving, hallelujah, without all the details. I had nothing prepared for the shift that God had, but by the same token, and this is what we could testify, hallelujah, glory to your name. Thank you, Jesus. Woo! Hallelujah. We can testify to when we move in faith, hallelujah, when we're obedient to the Lord, hallelujah, we're out of self, it ain't got nothing to do with us. The people that are blessed behind it, yes, we will be blessed, it does something for us. Again, it shows us how our faith has grown, and and it, I believe, just puts us on another level in the Lord, but beyond that, hallelujah, glory to your name, it blesses the others when we're obedient, and and and even in that that day, hallelujah, to sit there and hear God, I have never did that before. I promise you, but everyone that came to the altar that day to hear God give them a word through me, I was honored to be used by God, I was honored to be his tool, his vessel on that day to bless his people. And when I tell you, glory to your name, Jesus, it was scary, it was so uncomfortable, but because I felt the Lord right there with me, I did it anyway. I did it afraid, I did it scared, or whatever the word you want. I did it. I was and because it was almost like as I thought about it in the beginning, I was I was very scared, but as I moved with the Lord, as He, you know, downloaded, I wasn't there, no, no more thinking about me or how I felt or whatever. I was, I promise you, it is scary when you first think about having to do something out of obedience and not knowing what's next. It's very scary. I'm not gonna lie to you, and I'm not gonna fake the funk. But once you begin to move in it, the fear goes away. All scaredness goes away, I promise you, because you feel the Lord with you and you know that he's there, no ifs, ands, and buts about it, and you know that again, it's not necessarily always for you and you to be blessed, but for the person on the other end of your obedience. Glory to your name. I got a phone call, I believe it was Saturday, and uh she said, I just heard God say uh the Lord say give you a call. And she again, obedience, not being fully aware of what's next. She said, All I heard, I was coming in the house, if I'm not mistaken, she said, but she said, I heard God say call you. So she called me, and I'm like, Okay, I don't know. I don't even remember what I was in the midst of doing, um, because I ended up stopping. I they don't know if I was hanging up clothes, folding up clothes or something, but I end up stopping. Um, but seriously, and she made that move. She heard God didn't know what was next, made that move, called me. And I'm like, Well, you know, I don't hear anything from the Lord like to give you. And so we just begin to chit-chat. And as we begin to chit-chat, God just began to download her for me again through her obedience. She didn't know what she was calling for, she didn't know, you know, if it was something for her, something for me, or whatever. But then she began to hear God, she began to hear God, and I was blessed through her obedience, and that's how it has to be. It's going to be uncomfortable. I want to give you Matthew 11, 29, and 30. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Because believe you me, I promise you, glory, hallelujah. When God has told you to do something or say something, or whatever the case may be, and you don't do it, you're not gonna be restful. You're not going to be restful in your soul. In fact, you're gonna be restless because you know it was God, and you know he told you to do that, and then you you're disobedient now. And then I mean, you're gonna be restless in your soul, in your mind, in your spirit. I'm just letting you know. But the Bible says, and ye shall find rest unto your souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Here's the kicker: he didn't say it would be comfortable. He nowhere in that scripture, and you're not gonna find it nowhere in the Bible where he says following him is gonna be comfortable. It's not so get that out your mind. We are so, oh my goodness, so used to things being comfortable. Oh, glory, hallelujah! Comfortable, comfortable today. No joke, today, four. Well, there were I see four, I don't know how many came out, but two well, women came to my house, and the gentleman stayed at the bottom of the stairs. But these people, Jehovah's Witnesses, they were three of the four were on canes. The one man that stood at the bottom of my steps, I could tell he had a stroke from the way he walked there. He was holding his uh left side. I could tell he had had a stroke. They all had to be no joke past 70. I'm not joking you past 70. And like I said, three of the four were walking on canes, but here they are. She rang my doorbell. She said, I just want to share scripture with you. Yes, ma'am. I mean, don't get me wrong, I know the word. So, yes, ma'am. She said, Thank you so much for opening your door. Yes, ma'am. I ain't got a problem opening my door. But again, what what what hit me? There's no way they were comfortable in walking, and they're all walking on canes. Like I said, the one you could tell he had had a stroke from the way he leapt and the way he was holding his arm. They could not have possibly been comfortable in coming out, knocking on doors to give a scripture and to witness about the Lord. I know again, they're Jehovah's Witness. I'm apostolic, that's neither here nor there. But again, they were not comfortable, they were on canes and they were elderly. How much more is it that we have to be comfortable to do what God has called us to do? His nowhere you're gonna find his word saying, What I'm calling you to do, my will for you is gonna allow you to be comfortable. Didn't I say suffer for Christ's sake? There is no comfortability in suffering for Christ's sake. We have to go through tests, trials, and tribulations. They're not going to be comfortable. No, it and buts about it. They're not. So understand being obedient like Abram was is going to cause you to be uncomfortable. And in that discomfort, thank you, Jesus. In that discomfort room, guess what? We still gotta continue. We still gotta move. We still gotta be obedient in the discomfort. No, it's not even an option. I'm being honest with you. I said this, I don't know if it was season one or season two. We no longer have an option. The just shall live by faith. Guess what? Living by faith, you're gonna be uncomfortable. You're gonna have some discomfort in your life. But wonderful thing about it is the Lord is still with you. He is so faithful in his love towards us that he's gonna be with you. He's not gonna call you to something and then say, ah, bye. Nah, that's people. That's not the Lord, that's people. But even in that, guess what? We still have to do what God has called us to do. And I'm I'm being honest, not only will you be blessed, like the uh God promised Abram, but everybody that blesses you, I'm gonna bless them. And guess what? On the other end of your obedience, somebody is going to be blessed. You're gonna be blessed, but somebody else is going to be blessed. So, like we always do, I want to give a faith challenge for the week. Do something God already told you to do. Again, there's no if, ands, or buts about it. You know it was the Lord, He told you to do it. I want you to go ahead and do it, even if you don't fully understand. You don't know what is He touched, he said, take this step. You don't know what step two looks like, you don't know what's on the other side, and I get it, it can be uncomfortable, it can be a little scary, but once you take that first step, I promise you, there's a sense of peace because you've been obedient. I want you to move without overthinking, and I want you to move without waiting for the perfect timing. I'm so dead serious. Move without overthinking and move without waiting for the oh, I'm gonna do it, but I'm waiting on this. I'm gonna do it, but you know, I gotta do this first. No. Move, just move. So, as always, I want us to again, I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do this, something my pastor told me years ago to do, and I love it, I love it, I love it, and then it just it does something for me. I'm gonna ask who wants to give their life to Christ, who wants to give their life to Christ? Who out there don't quite understand what the the message on today, the episode, because you know you're not you don't know the Lord like that, not not like that just yet. Maybe you've heard this or you've heard that, but I want to solicit today that you come and give your life to Christ. It's not hard, and again, it may be scary, but I promise you, once you take that first step, you will fill him with you, and he'll be with you every step for the rest of your life. I promise you, he will never leave you nor forsake you. I promise you. Or who's that backslider that once walked with the Lord? You knew you were walking with him, you felt him in every step that you took, but then you took that step away from him, and now all it is is one more step back towards him. It's just one step, just one step. If that's you today, go ahead and leave a comment, and I will pray with you and reach out to you. We don't ever want to give the enemy more credit than he deserves. Ever. Ever. And don't get me wrong, yes, it may be fun out there, but don't look at the now, look at your future. Don't worry about the now, worry about your eternity. Where are you gonna spend eternity? All right, all right. As always, we're going to end in a word of prayer. Lord, we just thank you for this lesson. Lord, we thank you. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. We thank you for the word of God that gives us so many examples of men and women who walked and lived by faith boldly, hallelujah, unapologetically living by faith. Lord, we thank you, hallelujah, that we're not doing this in the dark, Lord, but that you are with us. Hallelujah, Lord. Let our lives be the example for the next glory to your name of us living boldly, daily with active faith. Hallelujah. Let that person that's watching us, because again, we are living epistles read of all men. They may never open up your word, Lord, but they're watching our lives. Let them see your faith. Hallelujah. Live through our lives. Glory to your name, Jesus. Lord, we just thank you on today. We thank you for that. So maybe they didn't make a comment on today, but they decided to give their life to you, Jesus. We thank you, hallelujah. Glory to your name. We thank you for that one, hallelujah. Again, maybe didn't leave a comment, but they heard something on today, and they decided to give their life back to you, Jesus. We thank you on today for that. Lord, I just ask that you be with us, hallelujah, as we are, oh glory, go throughout the week, throughout the day. Jesus, as we go, hallelujah, living boldly, being your now day example, hallelujah, of Abraham's glory to your name, taking that bold faith, taking that step of bold faith, and it's in Jesus' mighty name that we pray. Amen, amen, amen. I ask you all to join me next week for episode three Faith that steps out of the boat. Faith that steps out of the boat. You guys have a wonderful day and a blessed week. God bless. Thank you for traveling with me today on Faith Finder. Every mile we take together strengthens our faith, sharpens our vision, and reminds us that God is guiding the road beneath our feet. If this episode encouraged you, make sure to follow the podcast, leave a review, and share with someone who's on their own faith journey. Until next time, keep trusting, keep growing, and keep moving forward. Because faith isn't just something you have, it's something you live. This is Faith Finder, where faith becomes your roadmap.