100 weeks on YouTube I think this video is gonna inspire you stay with me coming
up next hey everyone welcome to Wednesday's with crystal on my hundredth
week straight here on YouTube I am so glad that you are watching and maybe
this is your first time here well welcome to the celebration and maybe
you've been with me since week one this video is gonna be a little bit different
because I just want to take a moment and just celebrate all that God has done you
know it was back a few years ago and a member of our team here our creative and
outreach director had told kept telling me that she felt like I should start a
YouTube channel and y'all I'll just be honest with you I never had it in my
heart to do YouTube channel um honestly never thought it'd be something that I
would do and she kept on telling me you know crystal I think you did great well
the more she talked about it the more God just began to stir my heart and time
went on and I began thinking about it but I was probably kind of like you the
moment that God puts a dream in your heart you kind of get scared to do it
does anybody else like me and the more I thought about it the more scared I got
and the more reasons I gave myself that it was a terrible idea and so time went
on and I just kept talking about it and finally Bryan my husband he goes crystal
are you gonna do this or not and so I was like okay I'm gonna do it so we set
a day and we recorded that first video in the first few times I had friends
with me on here because I thought if I have them with me then it'll kind of
distract that's me doing a YouTube channel and I'll hide behind my friends
and after a few weeks of that I stepped out and I started doing the videos by
myself and honestly I can tell you this has been the craziest journey every
single week I'm just hitting record looking into this camera and
leaving that you're gonna be on the other side of that you know since we
started it's been incredible how many people their lives have been changed
literally so many views like tens of thousands upon thousands of views every
single day we only get emails and comments from you guys about you know
finding my channel and from people who were on the verge of suicide and came
across one of my videos it just literally it touches my heart and I'll
just say like I'm so thankful and for this journey and a hundred weeks has
been so amazing um growing with you and learning with you and every single one
of you have been so special and it's been really amazing to see what God's
done in fact and back a few months ago I was in Austin Texas and this lady came
up to me at a restaurant and she's like oh my gosh are you crystal for
Wednesday's with crystal I was like yes that's me and she began sharing how by
watching my channel she got inspired to start her own channel and she was
telling me about how God is just doing amazing things in her life you know I
read in the Bible in John chapter 6 and um how Jesus when he fed the multitudes
after he got done feeding the multitudes I've always been perplexed by verse 12
and he tells the disciples when everyone had had enough to go gather up now the
fragments the broken pieces that are left over so that made nothing may be
lost or wasted you know when I think about my life I would say that I
wouldn't be one of the people that would say that I was the whole loaf of bread
that was passed out or the perfect piece of fish that was passed out if I could
just be honest I feel like my life was the broken piece you know I never really
felt qualified I've never really felt like I brought something grand to the
table no doubt there's better speakers out there no doubt there's better
channels no doubt there's better at communicators people who are way more
better versed than I and much more knowledgeable but here's the thing is
that God has chosen to use this little space here on YouTube to do amazing
things and I love that what Jesus says there that nothing may be lost or wasted
you know if I could say that my journeys taught me anything over the last hundred
weeks is that God can use even the things that we would say is
insignificant even the things that we would call small and kind of cast them
to the side that God can take those little fragments and he can make
something beautiful with it you know I've learned over the last two years of
doing YouTube we haven't missed a single week together since I started and I can
just say that I've learned the first thing if my journey could teach you
anything is this is that consistency is always worth it
you know it's easy to do something once but I want to challenge you as you're on
your journey to do whatever God's called you to do just keep showing up just keep
showing it you know I loved when I was watching the Super Bowl the other day
and the Eagles won and as their quarterback was standing there giving
his speech and him Betty's falling and he's holding his precious baby girl and
he said this he said you know we've been dreaming about this since we were little
boys and he said it every day we kept showing up for practice and every day we
just kept giving our best since we were little boys until now you know I thought
about that statement I just thought how many years of the hiddenness of people
not seeing the practice not seeing the hours that he put in not seeing the
sacrifice and they're in that moment the whole world celebrated with the Eagles
as they won the Super Bowl championship but the truth is they were showing up
and being consistent for a long time before anybody celebrated with them and
friend let me tell you the Bible tells us that what we do in secret God will
reward us openly and want to tell you that in your own life
that even when you feel like maybe you're not making progress maybe you may
feel like gosh does this even making a difference I want to tell you that it is
making a difference and every day you choose to stay faithful to what God's
told you to do your one day closer you're one step closer your one moment
nearer to the moment everything's gonna change that everything's gonna break
through so the first thing I would tell you is to be consistent the second thing
I would tell you is don't think that a small thing can turn into a big thing
really quick so many times we look at the small things that God is doing and
we think can God do anything big with this small thing but I want to remind
you that everything that turned out big in the Bible started out with something
small even think about when God decided to rescue the whole earth he didn't send
a full-grown man to come do it he sent a baby he was letting us know
when I get ready to do a big thing it'll often start out as a small thing you
know here on my channel when I started out had zero subscribers and I was just
believing to do something great for God not even knowing what it looked like and
God has done a really big thing some of my videos have taken off and literally
gone all over the world I get messages from people why because God isn't afraid
to do a big thing with the small thing let God have your small thing let God
have the little thing that you think there's no way that this can turn into
something great you know going back to when Jesus fed the multitudes he sends
the dust the disciples out through the crowd and he asked them does anybody
have anything and there was one little boy with a sack lunch you know you think
about that and beating thousands of people that little boy could have looked
at that small thing and thought there's no way that God can turn this into
something great but when he was willing to surrender what he had God was more
than willing to give what he had see when we give our little God always meets
us with his much I want to challenge you wherever you're at
- just give God that you have whatever it may look like
and I promise you this that he will give you much so it's been an incredible
hundred weeks here on YouTube I'm actually really excited to tell you guys
I'm gonna be starting a podcast you're really soon and where you'll be able to
get additional bonus content from me full-length messages and so you'll want
to be staying here on my channel so that way you won't miss out as soon as that
launches I'm so excited to share that with you I've been getting all the
details together and you guys have been asking for it for a long time so I
cannot wait to share with you more of my heart as we continue to grow together so
hey with all that said if you're not subscribed you want to be subscribed I'd
love for you to join my community here on YouTube and truly from the bottom of
my heart truly thank you thank you for being on this journey and thank you for
believing in me thank you for growing with me and I can't wait to see what God
continues to do as we grow together I love you so much
let's see something awesome for God in these next 100 weeks
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