hey everyone welcome back if this is your first time welcome for the first
time my name is Shalayna Janelle I'm a preacher singer songwriter and author
but today I want to talk about my testimony of living and walking by faith
okay and so I want to give you a little bit
of backstory okay when I was 18 years old
I moved to Los Angeles California I'm originally from the Northeast
I am from Massachusetts and I moved straight out of high school to Los
Angeles California because it was always in my spirit since the age of four
probably even before to be a singer songwriter and an actress and to be an
entertainer and so I moved to Los Angeles and I began to act and so I was
actively acting in commercials and doing some commercial modeling as well but
mostly acting and stuff like that um I was not really in the modeling thing
that was never really what I was about but acting in commercials and in film
and so God had blessed me with many opportunities in the entertainment field
and in the entertainment environment and that was what God has called me to do he
called me to be a light in Hollywood and to minister to those in Hollywood in to
those who are in the media and in the arts and I absolutely love doing that
and so that's basically part of the back story for me I moved to Los Angeles
California with basically nothing and I knew nobody I had never been to
California before I didn't know I just didn't know anybody so hopping off the
plane I was I guess you would say surprised as if you would hop off the
plane and go to anywhere you've never been before right and so I hopped off
the plane it was extremely hot I am NOT a hot weather type of girl I like the
snow like the fall I like the winter I do not like
heat and so thank God I get to go to heaven right and so praise the Lord and
so yes I moved here and I was acting and stuff like that and working with my
agent I had been doing it for some years since I had moved to Los Angeles
California but when I first moved to California I didn't just hop off the
plane and start acting I had to work my way to that point to even be able to get
agents to be able to you know start being seen in front of even little
casting directors and then the bigger casting directors and stuff like that
and so it was a process and so that was even living by faith because it's a
constant not knowing what your next job is gonna come from not knowing where the
next thing is gonna come from because us actors don't have a job unless we have a
job you know we're auditioning and then we booked the role that's our job but
once that job has finished filming that or finished shooting then off to the
next job or off to finding the next job and so many people would never want to
be in that position they wouldn't be able to handle it but I actually do love
the acting world so that doesn't bother me but it was definitely a constant
living by faith because you don't know what your next thing is coming from and
so as an actor in Hollywood especially a Christian you have to pull on God and
believe that God is going to provide number one for you in general but also
provide the opportunity and opportunities in work for you as well
and so let's fast-forward I started getting to audition for some bigger name
casting directors so for people who like Catholic shows that you've probably
heard of before and so I started to get into rooms with them and this is years
later okay my whole process of I moved to LA in 2009 when I graduated high
school and then gradually I began to progress okay when acting really started
kicking off for me that was about
I would say four or five years after I have moved to LA I started getting in
better audition rooms getting you know meeting more people and stuff like that
and things just started to be good to go uphill and so I've always loved acting
and entertaining and desiring to pursue a career in that ever since I was about
like four years old it could have probably even been way before then
because I was singing since I could make noise and so I always had some form of
wanting to entertain just within me and that was obviously clearly a god-given
thing and so I'm in LA God sends me out here to LA and as I'm auditioning God
will have me minister to people at auditions as I'm at events God will have
me ministering to people at events as I am on sets God will have me ministering
to people on sets and left and right I'm able to minister to people in Hollywood
where me from four years old up until 16 I knew I always wanted to be a singer an
actress and an entertainer at that age I was not saved yet so all of these dreams
and hopes and aspirations they had absolutely nothing to do with God and to
then get saved at 17 move out to LA less than a year later and all of a sudden
God is saying I want to use this and use it for my glory and I find myself being
trained by God in the spirit him really molding and shaping me and doing all
types of things and now I'm able to pursue my dreams and ministering to
people on sets that was crazy for me and so I wanted to give that back story
about me moving to LA and be being an actress and entertainer because I wanted
this actual particular testimony that I'm about to tell you to make sense to
you because if I just tell you the particular testimony that I'm about to
tell you it would probably not make sense to you and you'll be like
what is she talking about I don't even get it it has no impact so um I had to
give you that back story of me moving to LA at 18 years old I had only been saved
for less than a year and I moved to LA never having been here before I moved to
LA on a whim on a hope in a dream and because I knew that God was still
sending me here contrary to what everyone else was saying okay and so
fast forward to December of 2015 by that time I'm pursuing acting on a level I
have never been pursuing it before by the grace of God and so I remember all
of a sudden I'm now auditioning and I'm booking in I'm getting into bigger rooms
and when we say rooms we're talking about casting director rooms and I'm
just like wow God you are blowing my mind right now you're blowing my mind in
this season and I remember I was in a room with one of the casting directors
from Empire and then about two weeks later I was in a big-name casting
directors room as well and when she was looking at my audition because sometimes
the most of the times they have a camera and they're taping your audition and
they're looking at you through a computer screen through a monitor screen
and they're not physically looking at you sometimes and so this particular
casting director was looking at me through the monitor screen and I
remember I finished my audition and she's dead silent and I'm dead silent
cuz I'm waiting for her to speak I'm waiting for her to say thank you leave a
boy for her to say something and then she goes oh oh I'm so sorry
watching you was like watching TV yeah I'm sorry I got I got distracted you're
really good you're a really good actress and so remember I had just been in an
audition room where one of the casting directors who cast Empire and then about
a couple weeks later I'm in this audition room now
it was right at that time where the Lord says I need you to stop acting right now
I need you to focus on something that I'm about to show you it is full-time
ministry in a different capacity than you've ever done it because you have to
understand while I was an actor I was preaching I have put out a gospel EP so
I was doing ministry at that time as well as at auditions
on set at events I'm telling the world about Jesus I'm that bold girl that
people know she's for real about God that is a worshiper of God that is
someone who lives holy no matter where she's at even in closed doors in the
dark at her house she's living home and so God says I need you to stop acting
right now because I want to bring you into something different and I remember
when he said that I was like okay God because it's it's funny how things
started really rapidly going well and things were taking off on a deeper level
in the career that God actually told me to pursue and then he said stop which
means quit your job acting was my job I was not working a computer job while
pursuing them and so quit my job quit my job and so for me in particular this is
not just a regular quit your job scenario this is a quit your job and
quit your career something you loved and knew you wanted to pursue since you were
4 years old you know what I'm saying and so it wasn't like oh I'm just gonna work
at this office space for such-and-such a time to accumulate a certain amount of
money you don't really care about that and this has been something since four
years old I knew I was gonna do what everyone told me I
I should have been doing all types of other stuff and so when he says leave
I said yes Lord yes Lord that was my first reaction yes Lord because I'm a
yes Lord Kanha karai I'd like to submit to the Holy Spirit because he knows
what's best he knows what's best beyond everything he knows what's best and so
I'm like okay Lord okay Lord and I remember he gave me confirmation upon
confirmation and so that in fast-forward full-time ministry had started in a new
capacity because like I said I was already preaching I had online ministry
as well as well as um ministering while I was acting out focused on ministry in
a different capacity and so I'm like okay Lord and so I was walking by faith
before believing God before and that that
testimony I I may if the Lord leads me do a testimony about my journey as an
actor and about how living with faith was implied with that as well but since
this testimony is not about me being an actor I just had to give that back story
so that this part makes sense but I made to a video as well cuz I know some
people will be blessed by it and so he pulls me into full-time ministry in this
new capacity I remember when he when everything really started to take off
and whatnot and all of a sudden he began to put books in my spirit book after
book after book and I had never considered writing a book like writing
books like come on now uh y'all know me for those of y'all
y'all y'all Cemi- know me, Cemi- know me okay you
don't know me know me but you Cemi- know me
Oh through my videos I don't I don't look at me as I'm that bomb girl I'm
that bomb girl that's not how I look at myself and so I'm bomb I'm a write book
and you gonna read it and you're gonna read it everybody gonna read it that's
not how I look at myself okay I look at myself as a servant of the holy God
okay and so I remember he began to give me all these book ideas I'm starting
writing books and things are just popping off and then he as I'm writing
these books because I began to write I think it was one and then in the middle
of that one he shifted me to writing another one which you guys now know as
the gates access to the throne of God because it was the first one I ever
released because he wanted that who releases that my people need to know
about this topic and so at your leisure you can look up the gate access to the
throne of God and so this was so awesome how he began to shift me into this
season of writing I call you to be a scribe a prophetic scribe to the
nation's and so I'm like I I knew I was called to the nation's even while I was
acting but um write books okay this is awesome this is different this is more
pulling on God this is more trusting in God and remember I don't have a job so
trusting God once again like I was doing my whole entire walk with Him and so
this is a different phase of trusting the Lord this is lower no type of income
you know um bills still have to be paid but I believe you can pay my bills cuz
you've paid them before all right all of this stuff you've done before God has
supernaturally provided for me so much even while I was an actor
and I needed provision I needed things I needed resources I needed money I needed
food the Lord gave me so many supernatural permissions and I'm
probably gonna do a separate testimony video about supernatural provision as
well because I know that that will boost the faith of many people but back to the
story I never once questioned whether God was going to provide it was never a
question of was he going to provide because he he is a provider he has
always shown himself to me since I've known him as a provider and so you know
I submitted to the will of God the Bible says that if any man wants to be a
disciple of Jesus Christ he must pick up his cross and follow Jesus he must deny
himself pick up his cross and follow Jesus and see many people they don't
want to get to the point of denying themselves and so this particularly
reminds me of Acts chapter 16 where Paul was on his way to one place doing his
missionary works and doing preaching the gospel and ministry doing all those
things and then the Lord shifted him to go to a new place and so the Lord had
him moved from one direction to a new direction and that is exactly what the
Lord did to me because the Lord actually had me on a
certain path and then said okay now I need to draw you back right now for you
to go do this endeavor that I'm telling you to do and so even with Paul Paul was
not doing some random thing he wasn't going on random missionary trips and
just pulling cities and countries out of a hat he was going places where the Lord
gave him unction to go but at this particular time when he was on his way
to go to this new place the Lord said okay well I need you to go here instead
and that's why we have to be so willing to follow the Lord wherever he leads and
don't get so caught up on what we think we should be doing or what even you want
to be doing it's definitely not about what you want to be doing and so Paul
and switching places and many people came to
the Lord many people got saved it was conversion because of his his obedience
to the unction and because of him truly following Jesus because his ministry was
truly about ministry Jesus and souls it wasn't about his own self and filling
a roster and all types of stuff like that and so he was able to move when the
spirit told him to therefore he was able to see Holy Spirit results and that's
what I'm about Holy Spirit results and so I shifted to where God told me to
shift to and all of a sudden I began to write books which like I said it was
nothing I had ever said god I want to write books never said that before if
anything the only book that I could have ever imagined myself ever writing was if
I ever became a super super super famous actor I would write a memoir when I
became like 80 you know um there was never a book where like I'm gonna write
a book because I'm gonna write books for people continuously God put that in the
plan for my life God put that in my path he shifted me into the right place and
I'm so blessed to have been able to write these books and he's been giving
me supernatural provision 2016 when things really took off 2016 was one of
the best years of my entire life I got the opportunity to go to Paris and all
my goodness the Lord's hand mood so mightily in Paris it was it was a wreck
it was off the chain out there in the parish streets and so God's hand moved
and I just love seeing the work of God you know like the book of Acts that is
the real church that is how we're supposed to always be operating like the
book of Acts that's not some "Woop Woop" Wonderland type thing that is real deal that's what
we're all supposed to be operating like operating in the fivefold ministry
operating in the prophetic operating in the gifts of the Spirit operating like
geez he said he has given us power to take up
serpents to trample over serpents to cast out demons he has given us those
power that power from on high to do those things and I believe been walking
in those ways every day and so 2016 was a awesome year and this is to where I am
now this leads me up to where I am now continuing on in doing this new new
season even in this new season God has blessed me with opportunities to be able
to be on TBN as a television host and also TBN's young adult network
JUCE TV as a television host and I'm also working on another project as a
television host and so God is flourishing and bringing my life to
where it should be at this time the desired place that he wants me to be in
this time and so I was taken out of one way to get put into another sector and I
I I just love what he is doing and I was blessed to be able to be afforded the
opportunities and blessings that he has given me even when he maneuvers people
some transitions and some shifts can be temporary and some could be for ever
meaning long-term forever and it's not up to us that's all up to God and so
when God said I want to shift you it's been a blessing for me and that doesn't
mean that God may not ever have me act again it just means that he had
something that I needed to do and so shifts can be temporary seasonal or
long-lasting they can be for a lifetime but that
not up to you that's up to God and so when God shifts you somewhere he could
literally shift you in three months later shift you back because that
assignment was only for three months or he may shift you and it is a
permanent shift of taking you out of somewhere it's only up to the Holy
Spirit amen and so you just have to be healed dating just led by the Holy
Spirit any man desires to be a disciple of Jesus Christ
he must first deny himself pick up his cross and follow Jesus
that's the separation when Paul said all right this was on the plans this was on
the list to go to such in such a place but the Lord is shifting us in this
direction that was denying himself picking up his cross and following
literally following the unction and the moving of the Holy Spirit of Jesus
Christ and so even with my situation I choose and everything I do to follow
Jesus no matter what it is no matter what it looks like even if it looks
crazy to other people could look crazy to Christians it could look crazy to
friends family whatever the case may be I'm gonna choose what Jesus wants me to
choose and so I truly live by that scripture that if any man wants to be a
disciple of Jesus Christ or called himself a disciple of Jesus Christ he
must first pick up his cross or deny himself pick up his cross and follow
Jesus and that's where many people they they hoped at they're like okay well I
want Jesus I want the benefits of Jesus but they don't deny themselves pick up
their cross and follow Jesus and why did I even tell this testimony because I
wanted to tell this testimony because God how they Mia he has such an awesome
plan for your life will things be hard yes they very very well may be hard
well things go your way no they probably won't go your way unless you are totally
lined up with the Holy Spirit and you want to do what the Holy Spirit wants
you to do which I encourage you to line yourself up with the Holy Spirit and
desire to do what the Holy Spirit wants you to do and so you're gonna sometimes
face obstacles those are to build your faith
sometimes have to let things go sacrifice some things by no means is God
telling everyone to quit their jobs no he's not doing that and so this is not
an advertisement for anyone to quit their job ok so don't say she'll why
didn't told me to quit my job no no let's simmer down simmer down ok he will
begin to Jesus Christ and that's what my testimony is it's just fearless and
fierce obedience to Jesus Christ why was it fearless and why was it fierce
obedience it's fearless and fierce because a dream
that I had since I was 4 years old I laid it down for the sake of a
transition that the Lord wanted me to go on and I could have easily if I was in
the flesh I couldn't easily said well Lord you called me to be on set and to
minister to people while my mom said I could've easily said that because he did
call me to be honest a minister of people on set but one thing I know is
that I know how the Lord operates and the Lord shifts and the Lord operates in
seasons and so if you didn't know that know that the Lord he shifts things and
he operates in seasons and so where you are right now may not be where you're
gonna be even tomorrow or a month from now God shifts things okay there are
some people who at one time were attending a church next thing you know a
year later there a pastor of a church God shifts things okay and so understand
that things don't always stay the same will that be uncomfortable for you maybe
so but it's God's will does it mean that much to you does God's will mean that
much to you in your heart because God's will should mean so much to you that
you're willing to go through the fire when you're willing to go through the
uncomfortability I just want to encourage you by my life and by my
testimony I have not denied Jesus no matter what I've had to do no matter
what I've given up no matter what I faced I've continued to stay on the
course that God wants me to be on I'll continue to if God said let this go I've
let things go if God said I need you to do this thing I've done
things there was things I had to do that I had never done before but God was
functioning me to do them and so it's not always that he's telling you to
sacrifice something sometimes he's telling you to do something okay and so
you just have to listen to the Spirit of God I want to encourage each and every
one of you to listen to the Spirit of God be yielded to the Spirit of God and
most of all be obedient to the Spirit of God he has great plans for you Jeremiah
29:11 says that he does the thoughts and plans he has for you plans of peace to
give you hope and a future he doesn't want to harm you and so he wants each
and every one of his sons and daughters to tap in to those plans that he has for
us it is when his sons and daughters do not tap in to those plans that he has
for them that things go haywire and people end up going in cycles for years
and years and use the same cycle and never get anywhere and then they're like
but God you promised this and God you promised that yes God did it God did
promise something but you promised you would be obedient
aren't you being obedient that's the key I just gave you a key to the kingdom one
of the keys to the kingdom be obedient that's a wisdom key be obedient
obedience will unlock things that knowledge can never unlock obedience
will unlock things that even sometimes favor will not unlock obedience will
unlock things that jomama the person up the street the President of the United
States of America cannot unlock but your obedience can unlock it there's a reason
why the Bible says that obedience is better than sacrifice there's things
that obedience will unlock that sacrifice will not unlock be obedient to
God be obedient to God if he's telling you to sacrifice then your obedience
would be to sacrifice but don't sacrifice something and then be
disobedient to what he's telling you to do it's like because then he's gonna say
I told you to do such-and-such and you gave up something
obedience okay and so I want to encourage your spirit to let you know
that God number one is a provider okay he's provided for me since 2009 I moved
here September 18th I believe it was 2009 September 18th and I'm here right
now it's almost I think in what two or three weeks will be September 18 again
which will mark eight years God has provided God is a supernatural provider
and so I would encourage your spirit if you don't believe God will come through
for you with any form of provision he will I'm a living witness he is provided
for me supernaturally some people look at me crazy because of it so be like
some people are jealous because of it why does God do this for her why does
God give her supernatural finances and listeni than that because I'm in the
perfect will of God to what he's calling me to do amen being the perfect will of
God for when he's called you do so God will always provide Bible says he will
supply all your need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus his
riches in glory are infinite he created everything he owns everything the Bible
says the earth is the Lord's and the fullness there he owns everything he's
got your back okay and so I also want to encourage you those of you who are
struggling with walking by faith living by faith this whole walk with God is by
faith the Bible says we walk by faith and not by sight it's not about what you
see it's not about what you think it's not about what you learned in school
it's about the Spirit of God and walking in living with the Spirit of God it
takes faith to even be saved okay and so you have some type of faith all
right you're not faithless right now unless you do not know Jesus and so you
have some type of faith but now exercise that so it will grow don't despise the
process the testing and the shifting because it's the process the testing and
the shifting that will grow your faith the Bible says we go from faith to faith
and so if we go from faith to faith how is that by being tried in our faith okay
when your I in something there comes a verdict
okay what's your verdict can be that's your faithless or that you are faith
full meaning full of faith and faith full literally being a faithful type of
person and so you want to be exactly what God has called you to be and I want
to encourage you and every one of you to be in the timing of God and that's
pivotal the timing of God cuz when he told me to shift I shifted at the right
timing and when he said to do it and so we as believers need to be so keen in
the spirit and obedient to God amen and so I pray my testimony of living my
faith has blessed you I would give up everything for the sake of the gospel
again I would give up everything for Jesus again I commit my life as a living
sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God because it is my reasonable service and
I encourage you to shift your mindset to have that type of mindset as well that
is the way God desires you to walk that's the mindset God desires you to
have that is a pure Kingdom mindset totally for the glory if you have any
questions you can feel free to put questions in the comment section email
me questions as well this particular video was done by the unction of the
Holy Ghost because he wanted me to talk about this particular situation okay
until I couldn't give my life testimony in one video you see how long this just
section of something that happened in a short period of time in my life took a
long space of a video and so yeah this video is done all in obedience and by
the unction of the Holy Spirit and so I pray it has bless you I want to pray for
each and every one of you guys that you will walk by faith live by
faith totally trust and be yielded to the Holy
Spirit and that you will just even know his voice and heed his voice even more
okay so let's pray father God in the name of
Jesus I just asked that you just begin to go within the hearts of each and
every one of your servants or God I ask right now that you deal with the faith
of each and every one of your child if they feel like their faith is failing
then God pick up their faith God pick up their faith from off the ground God and
restore it replenish it and stir it up in their belly God Lord even stir up
those rivers of living water God that the Holy Spirit will be so predominant
in their life that they will yield to him in ways that they've never yielded
to him before Lord I pray right now in the name of Jesus that walking and
living my faith will be the portion of each and every one of your sons and
daughters Lord God and Lord in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth I ask that
you rise each and every person up in the spirit to be the men and women of God
that you've called them to be to be the obedient servant that should called them
to be Lord God that when they hear your voice that they hear your instruction
they will follow it and that they will not follow the flesh they will not
follow the ways of the world nor the enemy God Lord I pray right now in the
name of Jesus that you begin hallelujah God to allow each and every one of your
children to know that you have their back no matter the circumstance no
matter the situation that you are a provider you are a deliverer and that
when you shift you shift for purpose God and we thank you Lord God that you have
purposed each and every one of your sons and daughters and I ask that you instill
such a trust within each and every person Lord God they will trust you like
never before Lord God all the days of their life not just in particular
seasons but in every season god from here on out God not just when things get
hard but from here on out God there will be the people who say yes Lord they
won't people be the people who say I trust you because I know you
Lord let them have the spirit that job had
where he trusted you beyond circumstances he trusted and knew that
you are God for your scripture says hallelujah we can trust and know that
you are God Lord I pray that each and every person will just trust and know
that you are God the God that created them before their parents even knew them
the God that created them for a specific purpose to be fulfilled on this earth
you are the God who loves them you are the God who has restored them and who is
even restoring them right now god I thank you for the restoration that you
are even giving your children right now Lord God I thank you for the stirring of
the Holy Spirit in their belly God that you are giving right now hallelujah god
I thank you that you are doing a complete turnaround in the lives of each
and every one of your children then that thing will be faith Walker's God from
here on out faith Walker's God faith walkers faith
walkers I speak right now in the name of Jesus that each and every one of you our
faith Walker's not will be faith Walker's but our faith Walker's
hallelujah for God ordained it before the foundations of the world he knew you
he knew you you know what I pray that each and every one of your sons and
daughters come in agreement with this prayer and live it out and I seal this
prayer in the matchless name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth it is so it is
finished it is finished in Jesus name Amen my god God is so faithful and I
think you guys off for tuning in and I truly pray that this has blessed you if
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