What are you so scared to lose if you say yes to God?

Your control? Your comfort? Your plans? The fun you think you're having?

Now here's the harder question — what if you already lost it? What if you never had it in the first place?

In Part 1 of this two-part message, Frankie Lubin (Mr. Made Different) gets straight to it: a lot of us are scared to say yes to God because we think it means giving something up. But you never had control — you just had the stress of pretending you did. Saying yes to God isn't giving something up. It's putting something down. Something heavy you were never supposed to carry.

Frankie walks through three benefits of the yes, straight from the Word:

PEACE — the kind that shows up in the final hour, like the Red Sea parting when the soldiers were closing in. Not worldly peace that comes and goes with a drink or a joint — God's peace that holds even when everything's falling apart. (John 14:27, Philippians 4:6-7, Isaiah 26)

REST — not rest for your body, rest for your soul. Because some of us sleep eight hours and wake up tired. The man with millions can't sleep scared somebody takes it; the man with nothing can't sleep scared he can't pay. Both made money their master. Your soul was built to rest in God alone. (Matthew 11:28, Psalm 62:1, Exodus 33:14)

A FUTURE YOU DON'T HAVE TO CARRY — because there's no guarantee of tomorrow, and you were never built to carry it. Frankie shares the verse a stranger sent him when his grandmother passed two months after his daughter was born — and how her last prayer was that all her grandkids would come to Christ. (Jeremiah 29:11, Proverbs 3:5-6, Matthew 6:34)

You were never in control. But the One who is — say yes to Him, and He'll make it right.

Part 2 coming next week.

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When's the last time saying yes to God actually cost you something?

Not the yes you say in church. Not the yes you say when everybody's watching. The yes that made you uncomfortable. The yes you had to die a little bit for.

We spend all this time talking about saying no to people. But what does the yes actually require?

In this episode of the Words of Encouragement Podcast, Frankie Lubin (Mr. Made Different) gets honest about a hard truth: a lot of us are big dogs in the flesh but puppies in the spirit. Gangsters in the flesh but punks in the spirit. We can tote a gun but can't remember the word of God. We'll sit an hour in traffic to get to the dispensary or the liquor store but can't spend an hour worshiping the God who gave us the grace to still be here.

Frankie walks through what a yes to God actually requires — obedience, death to the old version of you, putting Him at the center, and spiritual warfare. He looks at Peter in the garden: bold enough to swing a sword at a soldier, then too scared to answer a servant girl's question hours later. Big dog energy in the flesh, puppy energy in the spirit.

And he gets personal about his own obedience: "I'm obedient when it's convenient. I'm obedient when I'm comfortable." Serving at church, starting a podcast — that ain't too bad. But am I obedient when God asks me to pray for my enemies? He shares the real cost of his own yes — the 4am the Spirit wakes him up whether he likes it or not, and the days he forces himself back to sleep.

Anchored in Ephesians 6:12, 2 Corinthians 10:4, Galatians 2:20, and Luke 9:23 — pick up your cross daily.

Stop drinking the Kool-Aid of what everybody else said you'd be. You were made in His image. He knew you before you were in your mother's womb.

So who you gonna believe?

It's time to say yes to the Kingdom.

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You'll drop everything for a text from your boss at 9 o'clock at night. But God's been nudging you on the same thing for months — maybe years — and you act like you can't hear Him.
That gap right there is what this episode is about.
In this episode of the Words of Encouragement Podcast, Frankie Lubin (Mr. Made Different) gets honest about the fear every working man carries: saying no at your job feels like career suicide. So you say yes to every shift, every project, every "hey, can you just" — and go home with nothing left for the very people you're doing it for. You become a yes-man at work and a no-man to your own kids. Yes to the overtime. No to the game. Yes to the boss. No to the practice, the PTA meeting, the things that matter in their world.
Frankie opens up about leaving his stable nine-to-five after his second daughter was born — the hour-and-a-half drive each way, three hours a day gone, the nights he thought he'd made a mistake, and the faint whisper of the Holy Spirit saying "bear with me, I got you." He talks about the deeper fear of the self-employed man who doesn't have one boss but a dozen — every client, every customer. And he admits the thing he couldn't shake: he'd wake at 3am with no problem for his job, but couldn't hold that same time for God.
Anchored in Colossians 3:23-24 — work as unto the Lord, not for human masters — and the story of Daniel, who gave the empire his excellence but never gave it his worship. Work hard. Be the best they got. But when the job asks for what belongs to God — your time, your integrity, your family, your soul — that's where you draw the line.
Your boss signs your check. He doesn't sign your breath.
You weren't made to be scared of a man. You were made different.
⏱️ Chapters
00:00 — The gap: quick to say yes to your boss, quiet with God
01:40 — Welcome / the mission
02:30 — I'm talking to that man (the callouts)
05:00 — Why I left my nine-to-five after my daughter was born
08:00 — The bigger fear of the self-employed man
12:30 — Faith over fear: seek the kingdom first
14:50 — Colossians 3:23-24
15:20 — What that yes at work is really costing you
17:00 — How to actually say no to your boss
18:30 — Daniel: excellence without worship
20:00 — Yes-man at work, no-man to your kids
25:00 — Closing prayer
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