Faith That Produces Evidence

If someone examined your life today, would they find evidence of your faith?

In Episode 5 of FaithFinder Season 3: Becoming a Faith Walker, Not Just a Faith Talker, we move beyond what we say we believe and examine what our lives actually reveal.

Faith was never meant to be hidden. It was never intended to remain a private conviction that never influences our actions. Genuine faith produces visible evidence. It changes how we think, how we speak, how we respond to challenges, how we treat people, and how we obey God.

The truth is, many people claim faith, but very little in their lives reflects it. They know the scriptures. They attend church. They agree with biblical principles. But faith is more than agreement—it is action. It is demonstrated through obedience, trust, perseverance, and transformation.

In this episode, we explore:

•  Why faith should leave footprints wherever it goes 
•  How obedience becomes proof of our faith 
•  The importance of faith leaving tangible proof in our lives
• True faith manifests through growth and visible acts

We also take a close look at the teaching of James, who challenged believers not to merely talk about faith but to demonstrate it through their lives. James reminds us that faith and action work together. One without the other creates an incomplete picture of what God intended.

This episode challenges listeners to ask difficult but necessary questions:

•  Is my faith visible in my daily life? 
•  Do my actions align with what I say I believe? 
•  What evidence would others find if they looked at my walk with God? 
•  Am I growing spiritually or simply becoming more familiar with Christian language? 

Faith walkers understand that faith is not proven by what happens on Sunday morning alone. It is revealed in everyday moments:

•  When you obey God despite uncertainty 
•  When you forgive someone who hurt you 
•  When you trust God during hardship 
•  When you serve others with humility 
•  When you choose faith over fear repeatedly 

Because real faith always leaves evidence.

🔥 As we continue through Season 3, listeners are encouraged to strengthen their walk through the 10-Day Active Faith Kickstart, a practical challenge designed to move believers from hearing God’s Word to living it daily. Faith grows when it is exercised, and evidence begins to appear when we consistently act on what God has spoken.

If you’ve ever wondered why your spiritual growth feels stalled, this episode may reveal an important truth: faith is not measured by how much you know—it is measured by how much you apply.

🎯 Faith Challenge for This Episode: The Faith Audit Challenge
Take time this week to evaluate your life honestly. Identify one area where your faith has been invisible or inactive. Then choose one specific action that demonstrates your trust in God and commit to following through.

Ask yourself:

•  Where is God calling me to obey? 
•  What step have I been delaying? 
•  What evidence of faith am I producing right now? 

Because at the end of the day, faith is not simply what we profess with our mouths—it is what we demonstrate with our lives.

✨ Faith walkers don’t just claim faith. They leave evidence of it everywhere they go.

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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, Tamari Anderson. Thank you so much for joining me today for season three, Activated Faith from Belief to Bold Living. We are now on episode five, Faith that produces evidence. Let's go ahead and pray. Most gracious in Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you. Jesus, we thank you, we thank you, we thank you. Lord, we thank you for your love, your grace, and your mercy. Lord, we thank you. Hallelujah for another day, Lord Jesus. We thank you for keeping us thus far. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Lord. We just thank you on today. Lord, we ask that you please forgive us of anything we have said, done, thought, or felt that is unlike you. Lord Jesus, show us the error of our ways that we may not sin against you. Heavenly Father, continue to order our footsteps. Lead us and guide us in your righteousness. Hallelujah. Word our mouths, Lord Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord, for correction. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord, for chastisement and rebuke. Lord, we thank you for loving us so much that you won't let us go down that wrong path. Hallelujah, Lord Jesus, as we go throughout the lesson today, Heavenly Father, I'm asking that you truly give us application of your word. We have to understand that our faith must be producing something. You, glory to your name. You say you know a tree by the fruit that they bear, Lord. Let our faith not only be fruitful, but produce faith in others, Lord Jesus. Let our faith be evident in what we say and what we do. Hallelujah. Lord God, let our faith, hallelujah, lead others back to you. Glory to your name, Jesus. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, Lord Jesus, where we are lacking in any area of our life in faith. Show us, reveal to us those areas, hallelujah, that we may then begin, hallelujah, to till that ground. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. To till that ground, Lord, we just thank you on today. Lord, we thank you. We thank you. We thank you. We thank you. Hallelujah for how you're gonna move on today. How you're gonna move throughout the rest of this week. Hallelujah! Glory to your name. How you gonna move throughout the rest of this month? Lord, we just thank you. We give you glory, we give you honor, we give you praise. And it's in Jesus' mighty name that we pray. Amen, amen, and amen. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Glory to your name. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. The focus for today's episode, I really want us to understand. Faith should always, and I mean always, leave proof that it was there. I love crime shows, not true crime, I'm sorry, just the light. I like true crime, but I like fake murder, you know, who done it and things like that. Um, I say that all the time. I I love me a good mystery because I'ma sit there and I'm gonna try to figure out who did it and what and how and all that good stuff. So um, if if you know anything about that, sometimes, you know, say for instance, they get to a house and they can see that you know um the person is missing, however, there is no proof of a struggle, there's no proof that someone broke in, like with a broken window or a broken door was kicked in or something like that. There's no proof, even though someone has said, hey, this person ain't showed up work, you know, family and friends ain't heard from them, and and they're missing, but there's no proof that there were oh glory, there was foul play. Okay, follow me. But I want it to be the opposite, hallelujah. When we show up on the scene, when we show up with our faith, I want us to leave that scene, hallelujah, and leave proof of our faith there. So I just want you to put that in your mind. I want you to keep that thought in your mind. Faith should always leave proof. So, just like um, again, I love sci-fi. I love sci-fi, don't believe in all of this stuff, but I love sci-fi. But you know, Bigfoot. People talk about how they have Bigfoot sightings and this and that because they see Bigfoot, Bigfoot footprint. Um, growing up, one of my favorite movies was Harry and the Henderson's. Um, but seriously, I want our faith to leave footprints. Okay, you can't claim you have faith and your life is unchanged. You can't claim you have faith and you're still walking around with doubt, fear. Let me rephrase that. You can still have uh a residue of doubt, a residue of fear and unbelief, but it should not be overtaking your life because you're saying, I am living, walking, breathing faith. So if that being the case, there has to be a change in your life. And again, I want you to leave footprints, and I'm gonna give a testimony. No joke, just this past Sunday, I happened to be uh blessed to be a vendor at an event, and uh uh I I apologize, I do not remember her name, but she was walking out and um I had my stuff set up or whatever, and she was like, We just began to talk, we just begin to talk, and it was it was just so organic. And she said, Can I give you a hug? I said, Yes, ma'am. And so we hugged, and as we hugged, she began to pray for me. And when I say she began to speak the word of God into my life, but one of the things that she said, she said, You don't just uh talk about faith, you live faith. She said, God has given all of us a measure of faith, but baby, you got some great faith, and that has always been my prayer. The word says, When Christ returns, will he find great faith in the earth? And my desire is for the answer to be yes. He's not gonna just find it in me, but anyone that I have had an opportunity to encounter and to speak it into their life or just to interact with them in any sort of kind of way, dealing with faith, he's gonna find great faith in them too. So, again, faith leaves footprints. This woman didn't know me from my next door neighbor, who I don't even know who they are. Um, but she didn't know me. But again, I thank God for how God let me know through her, guess what? You're doing a good work. I see your faith because sometimes, even us, we feel as though, Lord, I'm not doing enough, you know, I've fallen short here, or A, B, C, D, E, F, G, whatever the case may be. So I thank God for how He sends that word to remind us or to refresh us or to revive us or what have you. But our faith should always leave footprints. I tell this testimony, and I love my friend, I love her to life. And she even tells, I don't remember where we were at recently together, and she was like, Oh no, this is my sister, um, this is my faith walker. I mean, she that's how she introduces me to others as well. So, not just that I talk this thing, but I live this thing. Um, it's just who I am. When I say God has given me this is my ministry, is faith. So, in that, I want to make sure that we all understand we've all been given a measure of faith. We know that, but it's our responsibility to grow that measure of faith. And as we begin to grow, just like plants when they grow and and trees when they grow and and all manner of things, it starts small, but it gets bigger. Nothing that is born or produced, or however you want to say it, at this one size stays that size forever. Even miniature poodles and and all of those miniature doggies, they may start off one or two pounds, but they eventually get to about five or six, right? They don't stay one or two pounds. So, even in that, our faith has to show proof. And again, if you put a little five-pound whatever in some snow as they walk around it, they're leaving footprints. You can see where that dog has been in the in the snow. Um, you can see where someone has walked on the path of sand. You can see that, right? Right. Same way. If someone traces our life, if someone traces where we've been, are they gonna see the footprints of our faith in the remnants of that? Are they gonna see it? When I encountered this person, when I left them, you know, was their faith elevated? Well, in my testimony, did their faith grow or magnify or whatever the case may be? But that should always be you can't sit here and claim that you got faith, but your life is unchanged. You can't sit here again. I'm gonna say it like this: you can't sit here and say you have faith, but the people around you's life hasn't been changed. I mean, make it make sense, seriously. Okay, so then in that, I want you to ask, what evidence is your faith producing? What evidence is your faith producing? Is it producing more obedience? We've learned about that. Is it producing more sacrifices? We talked about that. Is it producing more consistency? And now, mind you, this is in you, okay? Not necessarily everyone else. I want to know, and we're gonna talk about that in just a second, but I want you to be able to see how the evidence of faith in your life are these things. You can come up with so many. Is it my prayer life has been uh strengthened? My my fasting has been, you know, I've been able to endure a longer fast instead of just a one, two-day fast, I went on a five-day fast, I went on a 10-day fast, I went on, you know, whatever the case may be. Has your faith been able to produce these things? And if so, what is the evidence? You should be able to go back a week from now, a month from now, a year from now, and see the growth within yourself of how your faith not only again leaves this proof for everyone else, but how you can recognize it within yourself. Because, yes, don't get me wrong, we are living epistles read of all men. Some people will never open their Bible, but they're gonna look at our lives. But what does it make what does it benefit me for them to look at my life to see a difference, but I don't see a difference, and I'm still, you know, on I hate to say it like this, but I'm still under this cloud, under this shadow, you know. You know, you see what I'm saying? I'm not, you know, happy go lucky and perky. I'm still, you know, doubting myself. And I mean no disrespect when I say this. When you doubt yourself, you're down God. Just saying it, take it how you want. But seriously, if I'm constantly doubting and I'm constantly worrying, and I'm constantly, you know, just taking the low instead of the high, it's great that someone else can see the evidence and the footprints and this and that. But if I can't see it in myself, because we should be able, I mean, that's in my opinion, the biggest boost is when I can look back a year ago and say, Oh, I didn't have faith for this situation. But this year, when I because again, we talked about this. I want to say it's season one, you don't pass that test, it's coming around again. So that first time you didn't pass that test, you failed, your faith wasn't where it needed to be, and you didn't realize that, you didn't recognize that. But now that faith is that test has come back around again and you pass with fine colors. That is the biggest boost, in my opinion, for me to say, thank you, Jesus, I'm growing in you, thank you, Jesus, I'm getting wiser in you, thank you, Jesus, my faith is maturing in you. See what I'm saying? So we have to be able to see that evidence ourselves, we have to be able to trace it ourselves. Yes, it's wonderful that someone else can see it, but it's even better if we can see it ourselves, okay? And I want you to do uh for a moment, take a self-reflection. Where have you seen you being more obedient? Or have you seen yourself being more obedient? Like when God has told you to move, did you move? When God has told you to go give a testimony, did you give a testimony? When God has told you to do something, again, that obedience, not just eventually, but immediately, glory, hallelujah. Immediately, um, I can't remember right now, forgive me, but we we talked about that. We gotta do, we gotta move immediately because even delayed obedience is disobedience and it's sin. Okay, so again, are we being obedient? Is our faith producing that immediately? What steps of faith have you delayed? Hmm, let's do a self-reflection. What faith step have I delayed? Seriously, what what what did I hear? What did I know? Again, I've been giving you guys faith challenges. We started that last season, so I've been giving you faith challenges. Are you actually doing those faith challenges? Or am I just putting them out there and no one's doing them? Like, seriously, this is when we talk about we live by faith, and I want this to be a bold living faith, daily, active living faith. And so these challenges are meant to make make you take that baby step. In my opinion, and again, this is just mine, they're not big, they're not big steps, they're little baby steps to be like, okay, I did that, okay, I did that, and then when you turn around and look back, baby, even baby steps, I'm not where I was a week ago, I'm not where I was six months ago. Because we're now in June, so this is six months ago. I'm not where I was because of these baby steps. So, are you doing the faith challenges every single week? Seriously, and then again, we want God to show us because sometimes we have blind spots in our lives, but as God begins to reveal those areas of your life where you're lacking in faith, what are you doing to grow it, to mature it, to cultivate it, to you know, so he can elevate it? What are you doing? It's not just about him revealing it to you, and then you just like, okay, no, no. Again, faith should leave proof. God showed you in this area of your life, you're not leaving proof of faith. So, what are you doing to start now leaving proof that okay, I I grew up in that area of my life, whatever the case may be, financially or or whatever the situation is, I don't know. But I want you to understand that literally, when the question is asked, if someone examined your life today, would they find evidence of your faith? I want you to ask that question. In fact, if you feel bold enough, go ask someone. If you were for to look in my life, examine my life over the past six months, year, two years, do you see evidence of faith in my life? I can say yes. I can say yes. God hears me, I can say yes. Because I took a bold step of faith just a little while ago. In fact, about a month ago. When I say bold, bold, but again, God opened a door that I could not walk through. There were I couldn't walk through. I could not not walk through. That's what I'm trying to say. I could not not walk through it. But again, if I want you to ask someone that, ask someone that. If you examine my life, do me a favor, friend. Do me a favor, mom, dad, sister, brother, cousin, auntie, uncle, whoever, do me a favor, examine my life. And in that, do you find evidence of faith? If they say yes, we're gonna say thank you, Jesus. Glory to God. If they say no, your faith challenge this week is to do one visible act of faith. That's your challenge to do. If someone says, No, I can't think of anything, you know, even again, I it doesn't have to be a bold step of faith. Just evidence, just evidence of faith. If they say no, that's your kicker, that's your key to go ahead. You know what? I'm gonna take a visible, okay? Visible, because again, we gotta leave proof, we gotta leave the foot footprint. I want you to do some a visible act of faith this week. It could be anything, anything, anything that God has told you to do, okay? We're gonna throw that caveat in there. Not just anything off the cuff, no. But you know you've heard the Lord say do it. You know you've gotten permission from you've got the green light from the Lord to do it, you know this has been in your heart to do this, has been on you to just do it, and you again you allow fear or or people's opinion and judgment to stop you, whatever the case may be. I want you to take that step of faith visible this week if the answer is no. Now, if the answer is yes, guess what? I want you to take a bigger, bolder step of faith this week. That's visible. Okay? That's your challenge for this week. Because again, there's no I I'm so serious. I want the Lord to find great faith in many when he returned. I want Christ to be able to be come back and be like, yep, yep, yep, yep. Oh, glory to your name. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. But that's what I'm looking for the Lord to do. Um, that's what I'm looking for the Lord to say when he comes. But again, we want great faith. Getting that great faith is gonna take some faith steps. We're doing baby steps right now. You know, in season four, I think we're gonna pick it up a notch and begin to take some bold steps of faith. Because again, I want us to go from just belief to bold living. We are supposed to have activated daily faith that just shall live by faith. How do we know that we're living by faith? So do your self-reflection, make sure that your uh faith is producing the evidence of again, obedience, sacrifice, um, consistency, uh, stronger prayer life, stronger fasting life, whatever the case may be, but go ask someone if they examined your life today, would they see the evidence of your faith? And if not, again, faith challenge for this week is to go do a visible, visible act of faith. If they say yes, I want you to take a bolder, visible act of faith, okay? Because we don't want just to continue to have the size, the mustard seed size of faith. No, we want again the mustard seed who produces this great big plant. Go go Google it. Compare a mustard seed when it begins to how it ends. That's us. We don't want our faith to stay the same. We don't want our the size of our faith to be the same. We want it to be massive. Okay? So we want to always, always, always. I this is just something my pastor challenged us to do. Those of us who are, you know, do YouTube or podcast or Facebook lives or what have it, is to ask who wants to give your life to Christ. You may be listening right now because God just allowed this to pop up and you were wanting to be nosy. I don't know the situation or the circumstance or the case, but however it is, if you know that you do not know the Lord Jesus Christ as uh for the pardon of your sins, you do not have an intimate relationship, you've heard of God. Yeah, you believe in a God, but I want you to know the God, the one true living God. And if you don't know him, you don't have a relationship with him, now is the time. Nope. Once you die and get to, oh, now I know that you're real, and I believe it's too late. It's too late. Once you draw your last breath on this earth, it's too late. Or once the Lord comes back, hallelujah, and it's judgment day, it's too late. But we now have time, he's given us a space, the opportunity, and a time now to give our lives back to him because he's already paid it, he already purchased it with the price of his blood. But now is the time to give your life back to him and to live a life for Christ. And those of you who once walked with the Lord, who knew him intimately and personally, who walked with him, who supped with him, and you've walked away from him. Now's the time to come back. It's not too late, it's not too late, it's not too late. Do not allow the enemy and shame to keep you from coming back to Christ. It's not that serious because I don't want you to look at your now, I don't want you to pay attention to your now. I want you to think about your eternity. I want you to think about where you're gonna spend eternity. Is it gonna be in the glory of the Lord or is it gonna be burning in the pit of hell? That's up to you. I mean no disrespect. I have a seven and ten, seven-year-old granddaughter, ten-year-old grandson. And no joke, last year I showed them TD Jakes did a play years ago. I want to say it was 2014, if I'm not mistaken. Um, Hell is for real. I sat down with my seven-year-old granddaughter and ten-year-old grandson and showed them that play. They're young, but I want them to know, even as children, hell is for real. And if you don't live for Christ, that's where you're going. But if you live for him and you serve him with your whole heart, we can enjoy heaven. The joy, the peace, oh, glory, hallelujah, of heaven. We can walk down those streets of gold, but the choice is ours. He's not gonna force us, he's not gonna uh hog tie us to live for him and to serve him and to worship him. He's not. The choice is yours on today. All right. We want to uh just end with a prayer, Lord. We thank you for we thank you, we thank you, we thank you for the lesson on today. Lord, we thank you for this opportunity to just come and learn more of you, Lord. As we do, as we all do our self-reflection, Lord Jesus, I want you to show us again the areas that we're falling short. Hallelujah. Show us, though, God, hallelujah, how we've grown, how our faith has matured. Hallelujah. Send them a word like you sent me, Jesus. Hallelujah, to refresh, to revive, to restore, and just to let us know, hallelujah, let them know you're on the right path. Glory to your name, Jesus. As they do their self-reflection, Lord God, I don't want I I bind up the hand of the enemy right now that will come and bring in fear and doubt and shame and unbelief, Lord Jesus, that will have them to oh glory, reflect with distorted vision, Lord. Give them perfect vision of their self-reflection. Right now, we bind up the hand of the enemy, we cancel the assignment to kill, still, destroy, distract, disturb, and discourage, Lord God. Right now, but let them reflect with your sight, hallelujah, with perfect vision given from you. Oh, glory to your name, so they can see where they've grown. Oh, hallelujah! They can see where they've matured themselves, they can see how their faith is no longer so small, Lord God, but how it's beginning to bloom. Hallelujah, glory to your name. And we just give you thanks on today. We give you glory, honor, and praise. And it's in Jesus' mighty name that we say amen, amen, and amen. All right. Join me next week for episode six. From fearful to faith filled. I'm gonna give my personal testimony on that one, but from fearful to faithful. You guys have a blessed day and a wonderful 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 encourages 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.