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Multiplication follows Stewardship.
Learning to do the most with what God has blessed you with!
Jennifer Paulino
June 02, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes
This Week’s Form Check FocusWe’re Back! And We’re Building SmarterWe took a quick pause for Memorial Day, but make no mistake, The Wait Room hasn’t lost momentum. In fact, after five weeks of showing up, writing deep, and walking through real life behind the scenes, it’s clear: we’re just getting started. But we’re also learning. And growth demands adjustment. Starting this week, Form Checks will drop every Monday. We will be sending out one strong word to ground your week, stir your spirit, and give you something real to stand on. All past devotionals are still live on the site. We ask you to trust what’s coming next because it will only make this community richer. We’re not shrinking. We’re sharpening. Let’s get it! |  |
The Parable of the Talents
24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ 26 But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.
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The Briefing
Multiplication is requires Subtraction… and we are not talking about math!
Let’s keep it real. Playing it safe isn’t biblical, it’s fear dressed in logic.
This week, we’re looking at the Parable of the Talents, but not from the usual “don’t waste your gifts” angle. We’re talking about taking risks. About moving with what God gave you, even if it’s just a little. We are talking about trusting Him to multiply it.
Because He won’t breathe on what you bury. He blesses what you’re brave enough to invest.
Think of the loaves and fish. It wasn’t the amount that mattered. It was the willingness to offer it. God multiplies what you’re willing to move with. That’s kingdom math.
Lately, God’s been speaking to me about taking the leap before I have the full plan. Trusting that if He sent me, provision is already in motion. That if I risk it in faith, He’ll back me up with favor. I’ve had to walk through doors trembling but obedient. And every time, He’s met me there! Not with certainty, but with power.
So here’s the check-in: Are you sitting on what God gave you, waiting for perfect timing? Or are you stewarding it in motion?
Faith isn’t always about knowing — sometimes, it’s about risking.
And the ones who risked it in the parable? They’re the ones God called good and faithful.
TODAY’S FORM CHECK
Training Lesson: What do you have in your hands that you are afraid to invest?
Meditate on these verses throughout this week:
Proverbs 14:23
Proverbs 13:20
1 Corinthians 15:33
Proverbs 13:11
What can God do with what you are afraid to invest? Make a list of all the possibilities associated with your surrenderance. During your prayer time, ask God to give you eyes to see and hears to hear what he has planned for what you keep holding on to.
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Feeling the Pressure Yet? Here’s our encouragement:
When we come to Christ we have a burden that should be carried with the utmost elegance and grace. It’s not a burden to be carried alone but rather with a community of responsible believers.
If you’re locking in, bring someone with you!
Forward this. Share the link. Invite them into the tension—into the place where waiting for God becomes training with Him. We carry light, but we carry well. Let’s build this together.
You’re not broken. You’re not too late. You’re being conditioned by the call.
And pressure? That’s just a setup for power.
Spiritual Supplements
Conditioning Recommendations
▶ Worship Song: I Surrender All by CeCe Winans
▶ Sermon of the Week: This Cost Me Everything - Pastor Stephen Chandler
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