Faith That Speaks AND Acts

Scripture Focus: Mark 11:23
“For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed... and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.”

Words matter.

God created the world with words. Jesus spoke to storms, sickness, demons, and dead situations. Throughout Scripture, we see the power of speaking in agreement with God's truth. But there is a danger that many believers fall into: speaking faith without walking in faith.

In Episode 7 of FaithFinder Season 3: Becoming a Faith Walker, Not Just a Faith Talker, we explore the powerful connection between what we say and what we do.

Faith was never meant to be merely verbal. While our words are important, biblical faith requires more than declarations—it requires action. Faith walkers understand that their confession and their conduct should tell the same story.

Too often people declare:

•  "I trust God." 
•  "God is my provider." 
•  "I'm walking by faith." 
•  "God has a purpose for my life." 

Yet their actions reveal fear, hesitation, doubt, or unwillingness to obey.

This episode challenges us to examine whether our actions are supporting the words we speak.

In this episode, we discuss:

•  The biblical power of speaking God's promises 
•  Why faith-filled words are important 
•  The danger of speaking faith while living in fear 
•  How obedience gives credibility to our declarations 
•  Why actions and words must work together 

We also look at how many believers have become skilled at making faith declarations but struggle to take faith actions. Speaking God's promises is important, but declarations are not a substitute for obedience.

Noah didn't just believe God—he built the ark.

Abraham didn't just agree with God—he left his homeland.

Peter didn't just confess faith—he stepped out of the boat.

Faith always moves beyond words.

This episode highlights the difference between:

•  Positive thinking and biblical faith 
•  Empty declarations and active obedience 
•  Talking about trust and actually trusting God 

Because when words and actions come into alignment, faith becomes powerful.

A faith walker understands that every declaration should be supported by corresponding action.

If you declare God is your provider, are you trusting Him when finances get tight?

If you declare God has called you, are you taking steps toward that calling?

If you declare God is faithful, are you obeying Him even when circumstances are difficult?

These are the questions that move faith from theory to reality.

🔥 As listeners continue growing through the 10-Day Active Faith Kickstart, this episode serves as a reminder that faith development happens when God's Word moves from our mouths into our daily decisions. The goal is not simply to say the right things—it is to live what we believe.

If you've ever found yourself:

•  Speaking faith but struggling to act on it 
•  Making declarations without taking steps of obedience 
•  Wondering why your faith feels stagnant 
•  Wanting greater consistency between your words and your walk 

Then this episode will encourage you to bring your confession and your conduct into alignment.

Because faith is most powerful when what you say and what you do agree.

✨ Faith walkers don't just speak God's promises—they live as though those promises are true.

When your words and your actions come into alignment, your faith becomes more than a statement.

It becomes a lifestyle.

Download your free copy of the 10-Day Active Faith Kickstart now!!

Transcript

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Life and death, we can speak that. I declare speak life, not death, but then follow it up. Oh, glory, with life actions. Okay? This is Faith Finder, where faith becomes your roadmap. Welcome, welcome, welcome back to Faith Finder Podcast where faith becomes your roadmap. I am your host, Tamara Anderson. Thank you so much for joining me. We are in season three, y'all. Activated faith from belief to bode living. We are now in episode seven, Faith that Speaks and Acts. We ain't just gonna talk about it. We're gonna be about it. Let's go ahead and jump into prayer. Lord, we just thank you. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Glory to your name, Lord God. We thank you, we thank you, we thank you for the lesson that we're gonna have on today, Jesus glory. We thank you. We understand in your word that you said that we should not just be hearers only, but also doers. So Lord, we're not just gonna speak that thing, Lord Jesus, but we're gonna back it up with action and faith in you, not faith in our abilities and our limited knowledge and finances or whatever the case may be. But Lord, we're backing it up in our actions and our faith in you. So Lord, I just ask that you please be with us on today. Please be with us in this lesson. Lord, please forgive us of anything we have said, done, thought, or felt that is unlike you. Continue to show the errors of our ways, Lord God, that we may not sin against you. Continue, Lord Jesus, hallelujah, to show us those areas of our life where we're lacking, hallelujah, in full faith, Lord Jesus. Or like we spoke about last week, that there's some fear still there, Lord Jesus. We want to come in and allow faith to completely and totally eradicate everything that is unlike you, every ounce of fear, every ounce of disbelief, every ounce of unbelief, every ounce, Lord, God of doubt. We want to be filled, hallelujah, with faith. Faith in you, faith in your word, hallelujah, faith in your promises. Glory to your name, Lord Jesus. So, Lord, help us not just to speak it to be pleasing to others, Lord Jesus, but help us to speak it and do it to be pleasing to you, hallelujah. Glory to your name and Lord. We just ask that you be with us in this lesson. Hallelujah. Open up our ears to hear our hearts, Lord God, and our minds to receive. Hallelujah. But above all of that, Lord, give us application of the lesson that, and again, hallelujah, as we apply it to our lives, help us to share it with others. It's in Jesus' mighty name that we pray. Amen, amen, amen. Our scripture for today is coming from Mark chapter 11, verse 23. For verily I say unto you that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he has said shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith. And that's a big ask. That's a big thing. And I want us to uh know that our focus for today's episode is aligning our confession with our actions. We want to align our confessions, what we are saying out of our mouth, what we are speaking, what we are confessing, we want that to align with our actions, what we are actually physically doing. All right, okay, so I want us to talk a little bit about this because I love this scripture, and growing up, I'm sitting here again, just just I'm a visual person, me. I'm a visual person. I said that all the time. So when I read the word, I have to I I like to see it. Like studying Exodus. When I tell you, I was loving how um they were building the tabernacle and in um Genesis when Noah was building the ark, um, I could visually see it. Um, so again, that's just the way my brain works. So when we get to this scripture, I'm sitting here, okay, a mountain, and y'all look at how you want, but I seen how the ice caps are melting, and so that's what I see. Not an actual physical mountain like um uh the Rocky Mountains. I see a mountain like an ice cap, and when you speak to that thing, it has to move, and when it moves, it sinks. It ooh, glory, hallelujah! It literally has to move, it sinks, it melts away, it's it's it's gone. That's how I see it, okay? But again, so the word of the Lord lets us know that we have power, our words have power. We can speak life and we can speak death. So I want us to begin to not only confess, just say anything, but understand the power that what we are speaking, okay. So I want us now to shift. We need to shift from just arbitrary words, idle words, to faith-filled words. Okay, not only that, I want us to now back up those faith-filled words that we are speaking with works and make sure they are in alignment. I told y'all this back in season one, if I'm not mistaken. I was literally saying one thing, um, and minutes later, seconds later, said something totally contrary to what I said. So sometimes we just speak. We have a lot of us, we just speak um cliches, we just say something to say something. We there's a lot of people, I'm not gonna lie, when I say I believe they love the sound of their voice, they love the sound of their voice. No joke, seriously, but um, we have to understand we the word lets us know we will give an account for every idle word, okay? So let's change that from idle words to faith-filled words, and then let's back it up with action that puts it all in alignment. Um, again, I I it wasn't to my pastor let me know. You do realize you said in one breath this, but in another breath, almost the opposite. The two you you can't do that. We can't. We can't sit here and say that I'm trusting and believing the Lord for this new job. Um, but when someone says, Hey, I heard about this job, you need to go ahead and apply for it. We don't apply. See what I'm saying? We're saying we're trusting the Lord for this job, but when we have the opportunity to apply for a promotion or something, we don't take that action. So our actions have to align with our words. Our actions have to align, and again, we're not. I I hope, I hope, I hope, I pray that you guys understand. Our faith is not based in of us, it's not. Our faith is in the Lord Jesus Christ, the one true living God. Our faith is in his word, our faith is in his promises, our faith is in his strength, his might, his power, who he is. That's what our faith is based upon. But when we begin to speak those things, we have to then therefore do those things. No joke. When I tell you, I said this for a couple of weeks now. God opened a door. I've had a prayer, a prayer. When I uh the Lord gives Proverbs, Jesus. Oh God, my brain, I hate it when it happens. Um, Proverbs where it says um the wealth of the sinners laid up for the just that that scripture, and it says that a good man leaves an inheritance unto his children's children. That scripture, it's on my refrigerator, because I I have been praying that prayer for decades. No joke, no joke, and I believe God just now opened up that door for me to for that scripture to be fulfilled in my life, okay. But I've been praying for, believing for, and just because the door is open, don't mean that there's nothing that I gotta do on my part. No, now, Lord, you open this door. Okay, I gotta uh cancel out every spirit of fear, I have to cancel out doubt, I have to move, I have to do this because you you see what I'm saying? So that's what we gotta do. We can't sit here and say out of our mouth, oh, I'm gonna be a millionaire one day or a billionaire one day, or I'm gonna be, you know, the next president, or whatever the case may be, and then there's no actions to back up those words, or our actions actually contradict our words. Make the math ain't mathing, y'all. The math ain't mathing. So we gotta understand that speaking it, just speaking it, that's not enough, and that's it is not. There's a danger of speaking faith while living in fear. Oh, glory. There is a danger of speaking in faith while living in fear. Because God, excuse me, God is going to whoo glory. God is going to call you out on it. He's going to call you out. No jokes, no ifs, ends, or buts about it. God's gonna call you out on that. So you can't sit here and think I'm speaking and I'm speaking it because ultimately, Jesus, Lord, y'all bear with me because this this you're not pleasing him, you're pleasing them. Your words are not pleasing to him, they're pleasing to them. So those who are hearing you, those who are listening to you, those who you are confessing these words in front of, it may be pleasing to them, and you may be able to uh fool them, and you got them snowed, but you don't have him snowed, and you're not pleasing to him at all because you're living a life of fear. And we just talked about that last week. You're living a life of fear, so understand there's a danger when we sit here confess one thing, but we're living something totally different. You're lying. Thou shalt not lie, you're lying, seriously. You're lying. We got to be honest about this thing, and again, being honest, if you sit here and say my desire is to be a millionaire, but I'm uh I'm just gonna give an example. My desire is to be a millionaire. God tells you I need you to do TikTok videos, I need you to begin to speak, and you truly have a fear of public speaking. Hello, no joke. He told me to do Facebook Lives, mind you, Facebook Lives, and I told this testimony, Facebook lives were in my own home. In my own home. I ain't in front of nobody, but the fact that I gotta go live and you see my picture, and again, there's some uh self-insecurities dealing with me, it was the hardest thing ever. But I heard him clearly. I heard him clearly. I was in Pennsylvania. The woman of God gave me confirmation immediately, immediately, and I did it. Just like when he said the podcast, woman of God told me, my first lady, God said doing podcasts, Lord, I can't, it's it's to understand all that it takes to do a podcast, that's beyond my knowledge, beyond my wisdom. God confirmed it for me a year ago. No, yeah, a year ago. A year ago, and I still didn't start to November. Again, we cannot sit here and think that there's a danger, there's that there's not a danger in speaking life, speaking faith, speaking, but you're living a life of fear. Okay, so I want you to understand living what we have to live what we declare. We have to. We we know this to be true. We are living epistles, red of all men. Living epistles, red of all men. You never know who was actually watching you, not just listening to you, but watching you. So they hear you confess this faith and this strong faith and this and that, but then they're watching you secretly as you actually live it out. And and they're saying, Wait, her words, his words are not living up to what they're actually doing. So we have to live a life of whatever it is that we're declaring. Okay, we have to allow obedience to give us credibility to our declarations. I'm serious, seriously, it would be one thing. I'm a no-joke, and then this again, the biggest example ever. Um when I know that I know that I know that I know something, I'm very bold about it. When I, you know, barely know a little bit, you I'm quiet as a church mouse. That's just who I am. I'm quiet as a church mouse. But if I know that I know that I know, baby, you can't we can sit here and debate this topic all day long if you want. That's just me, okay. So um, quiet as a church mouse at church, because again, public speaking, speaking to people, one-on-one, maybe two on one, got it. But I was not the social butterfly, I just was not. That's not who I was. Um, but one of the elders or ministers or deacons, whoever it was, I know it was a man at the church happened to see me at work. I know my job. And I again, this is back at Swick at the uh the bookstore of a community college, and we had a return policy. Baby, when I say it said after this date, there are no returns, there's no refunds, there's no nothing. I stood on policy, I stood on the rules, and I would sit there and argue you down because that whole philosophy is the customer's always right. No, they're not, especially nowadays. Mind you, this is what 10, 11, 12 years later. People are so entitled, but they were students were really entitled back then. So literally, I was sitting here arguing with a customer one day, and because I was so zoned in, I never cursed. Don't so don't think I got out of character per se. I never cursed this customer out or whatever, but I stood on principle, I stood on policy, and I stood, and I didn't back down and I stood, but my demeanor was different, my uh words were harsh, okay, and it that to me again, you never know who was watching because after that whole encounter, he stood to the side off to the left and stood to the side, and when I was done, he said, Sister Tammy. And I was floored. Okay, now let's take it a step further. Understand that there everything you say and do, the Lord sees you. Everything you say and do, the Lord sees you. Okay, so he sees when you're saying one thing and your actions are not lining up to that. He sees, he knows for me. That was a natural thing again, 10, 11 years ago, and I hold that concept now. No joke, no joke. Again, I took it a step further. If I go off on you, can I turn around and witness to you? No, so that dictates a lot of what we do. But understand what if I sit here and I say that I'm believing the Lord, okay, me personally, transparent. When I say I am going to be a New York Times bestseller, I am going to be a New York Times bestseller. I I wholeheartedly believe that. I'm being honest with you. Writing books is my passion. That's what I believe God gave me. I was six, seven years old when I worked my wrote my first book. No joke. And when I say I love that my granddaughter is in her too, but I'm going to be a New York Times bestseller. This is what I'm confessing. Confessing here nationally on my podcast, I do it all the time. But if I never write another book, if I never promote myself, if I never do book signings and book events, how am I going to be a New York Times bestseller? I'm confessing that. So what are the actions that are following my confession? Just like uh this Thursday, June 18th, 618 Day here in Illinois. All of my coloring books are on sale for $6.18. It's a plug, but seriously, my desire is to get people to my website to see my other books. God has given me, I God given, God given, not Tammy, God given books. And so I want people to be blessed by that. In my head, go glory. Thank you, Jesus. In my head, if I'm a New York Times bestseller, that means millions of people have read about the goodness of God. Whatever principle or concept that that book has in it, millions of people have read it. And and most of my books are most of them are about faith, but they're all Christian-based, faith-filled books, faith-based books. That's all they are. So my desire with putting my coloring books, which everyone loves to color, I'm just not finding out. Not my world, but everybody else's world. But I put my coloring books on sale to drive them to my website, to drive them to my books. God has given me another book, and I got told, Lord, help me organize my life because I need to get to writing. He's you know open doors and giving me platforms, but Lord, let me have space and time to write. But again, I'm confessing that I'm standing on that. But my actions also are backing that. Like next week, someone invited me to be a uh a vendor just to sell my books at their vacation Bible school at their church. When I say, woo, mind blowing. But if I don't show up, again, my actions, if I don't show up, how am I gonna be a New York Times bestseller? So we gotta understand. While a person may never, but uh please believe someone is watching your life. Please believe somebody's watching your life, they're watching what you're posted on Facebook, Instagram, I'm about to say Instacart, TikTok, whatever social media platform you're on, they're watching it. Then, if they because people who are my friends are literally my friends, people who I physically met, some form, fashion, or another. Um, but if they're your friends, they're also living the life that you're living off of social media. They're watching that, they're watching the life that you're living off of social media, they're seeing how you are on your job, out in the streets, at the grocery store, whatever the case may be. They're watching your life, and they're seeing whether what you're saying, posted on social media, what you're saying at church is actually the life that you're living. And we want to make sure, again, we're not just using idle words, we're using faith-filled words that are then followed by faith-filled actions to have again active daily faith. Okay, we know again the the the Bible lets us know the power that our words have, life and death. We can speak that. I declare speak life, not death, but then follow it up, ooh, glory, with life actions. Okay, so our faith challenge for this week. I want you to choose one thing you've been declaring. So whether that's writing that book, whether that's making that t-shirt, whether that's starting that business, whether whatever it is that you have been declaring that God has given you the go-ahead to do, I want you to back it up with one matching action. Okay, if you are saying I trust God, I need you to act like it. Seriously. If you're saying, Okay, I heard you, Lord, but again, I'm an author, so I'm gonna use write a book. And as a person that I hope is watching, that hope is catching this. But seriously, God gave me a book um with faith. Very first book I ever wrote, and it's because I had to speak at a women's event. Um, and I the the word that God gave me was faith. That's what He told me. Faith. Jesus, that was 2013, the end of 2013. I had to walk that bad boy out, but I wrote and wrote and wrote. I would give up five o'clock, four o'clock in the morning to work work on my book because then I worked outside of my home. Um, I was full-time uh going to school, work literally working, going to school, um, all of these major things. Excuse me. So, but I said, Lord, I trust you. When it came time to finish the book, God had opened open the door to where someone um edited my book absolutely free. She was a teacher, English teacher. I want to say English as a second language teacher, if I'm not mistaken, Tracy. Um, God has sent a woman that never met, but through connections, to design the book cover. Um, and then here's God. And and you got something just trust the process. You trust God, trust the process. She had uh take taken longer to create the book cover than what she said, so she had one price for creating it, but because she didn't meet her deadline, she reduced the price, and I still got the book cover. This is what I'm talking about. God literally led me through the pipelines and YouTube and and Google, what have you, to figure out how to self-publish. This is the lore. Then once my book came out, sitting there with my cousin's wife at my auntie's house, she was like, Oh, you should do a workbook because my church would love to have this, but we like to do books with workbooks so we could seriously. That's how God did that process. So I'm saying I trust God. God declared, write that book. And it was January of 2016 when He said, Okay, now time. I had been working on it, writing on it. He said, now it's time to get it done. Seriously. April 2016, I published self-published my very first book. Later on that year, worked with a group of women, did my first journal, uh 30-day devotional. I'm sorry, devotional. Later on that year, did the workbook. When I say again, I'm declaring I'm going to do this thing. God said you had this, I instilled this in you as a child. Now I need you to go ahead and bring it forth. Now, 10 years later, okay, Lord, it's been 10 years. I know my books are not just meant to be for the local people, no offense, of Illinois and Missouri. Don't get me wrong, my one book is in Africa. Thank God for that. I think one book is in Australia. I thank God for that. But Lord, now is time. It's 10 years, it's time, it's time, and I believe He's given me the avenue to be able to really pour the finances into getting my books out there properly. But again, I'm declaring one thing, but are my actions lining up to what I'm declaring? Yes. Yes, I was given a phone call. Hey, I can you want to be a vendor? When I say less than 24 hours, I'm not joking. I have a spot here, it's free. Would you like to be a vendor? Me tired could have been like, nah, I ain't doing that. But I'm declaring I'm gonna be a New York Times bestseller. Well, how are you gonna do that if no one knows you have books? Tired and all, I had my husband load up because I had just when I say just hurt my hip playing around, I couldn't even lift the toes. Seriously, seriously, but guess what? God opened the door, and from that door, God opened another door. So we have to make sure what we are declaring, we are backing it up in alignment with our words. I mean our actions. Our actions are backing up our words, okay? So let's open up the altar, the virtual altar. Uh, who would love to give your life to Christ? Seriously, who would like to give your life to Christ? Um, it's not hard, it's not hard, and I don't ever want anyone to think that sin is not fun and it don't feel good because if it didn't, so many more people would be saved and serving the Lord. But sin is fun, sin does feel good, but the Bible lets us know in this so clear sin's gonna lead to your death spiritually, but eternity in hell. Eternity in hell burning. See, we can't wrap our minds around the concept of eternity because our life is but a whisper, but a vapor. Whether it's 112 years or 12 days, our life is but a vapor, but a whisper. But eternity, eternity, forever and ever and ever. What we just like, oh glory, hallelujah. Our actions have to line up with our words to say that we're living a life of faith. Our actions now dictate our eternity tomorrow. Our actions now live for the Lord, don't live for the devil. Because he's just using you to get back at God. He's jealous that he can never make it back to heaven. So his declaration is to take as many souls with him to hell as possible. Don't let him use you. Don't let him, don't be fooled by him. And again, that person who once walked with Christ, you already know. You already know, but right now he's a using he's using shame, he's using condemnation to keep you from returning to the Lord. Let him know who you belong to. You belong to the Lord and come back to Christ. Come back to Christ. It's not that hard. It's not, it's not. The word lets us know his burden is light, his yoke is easy, so it's not hard. Didn't say it wouldn't be a suffering way, but again, the yoke is easy and the burden is light. That burden of sin is so heavy. It's so heavy. Oh my goodness, it's so heavy. And that condemnation is even heavier. But you can literally let it go and return to the Lord. All right. If that's you, you can just leave a comment and I will reach out to you. I will be praying for you that God sends you to a Bible-based believing church in your local area that you may be rooted and grounded and grow and be used for your kingdom purpose. All right. Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for the lesson on today. Jesus, we thank you, we thank you, we thank you. Heavenly Father, we're going to take a shift. Hallelujah. And we're going to make sure that our actions line up our words, Lord God. And our words are just not going to be idle words anymore, but they're going to be faith-filled words. Jesus, we're going to make sure, Lord God, that as you see us living our life, it lines up with your word, Lord God, and it lines up with the words that we've already confessed. We just thank you on today, Jesus, for just your love, your grace, and your mercy. We thank you for the lesson. We thank you, hallelujah, for being a good, good God. Hallelujah, a good, good Father. And Lord, I just ask that you be with each and every one of us, Lord Jesus, as we take our faith challenges this uh week, Lord Jesus. Help them to become bolder in you. Help them, Lord Jesus, to take better greater faith steps in you, Lord Jesus. Not in their abilities, but in your abilities, Lord God, your power, your strength, your might. Hallelujah. Your graciousness, your mercy, Lord Jesus, your long-suffering. Let them be reminded of who you are and what you have. Hallelujah. Who glory? In your hands. Glory to your name, Jesus. So let them take greater faith steps. Hallelujah. Lord, we just thank you for your love, your grace, and your mercy. It's in Jesus' mighty name that we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Again, if you're saying I trust God, I need you to act like it. And that's your faith challenge for this week. Back up whatever you have been declaring out of your mouth. What actual matching action. All right. Join me next week for episode eight. Faith that knows when to move and when to stay. That's not this week, okay? That's next week. I need y'all to move this week. No one gets to stay this week. But next week we'll talk about faith, uh, faith that knows when to move and when to stay. 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.