{"id":59726,"date":"2021-09-23T18:50:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T01:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livingwaters.wpmudev.host\/?p=59726"},"modified":"2021-09-23T18:50:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T01:50:55","slug":"human-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lwrv.org\/resources\/human-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the past month while preaching, I have mentioned that I have been listening to a podcast called \u201cHuman Hope<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0 I stumbled across this podcast as I was driving across Oregon to see family this summer, and as I listened to Carlos Whitaker talk to people and share stories that released hope, I was hooked!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first episode I listened to was titled \u201cI Tipped The Piano Player $55000\u201d.\u00a0 Of course this caught my attention, so I had to listen.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story goes like this\u2026..Carlos is a speaker and travels all over the nation speaking at churches and conferences and this one day he happened to be in the Atlanta airport with a nudge that he should get Chick-fil-A in between flights.\u00a0 Little did he know that the nudge he was feeling would lead him to changing a mans life in an hour.\u00a0 As he was in line to get some food, he heard a piano and thought it was just the music playing in the airport, but then looked over and saw a gentleman playing a grand piano, not too far off.\u00a0 Instead of taking his food to the gate which he would be boarding his plane, he sits a little ways away from the piano and listens.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The truth is, Carlos is a man that is led by Holy Spirit and he knew that Holy Spirit was doing something and he wanted to be part of it.\u00a0 He sat and he waited for instructions from the Lord, and then he moved out in obedience.\u00a0 He went and started talking to the man playing the piano.\u00a0 He asked questions and got to know a little bit about him.\u00a0 Then Carlos went back and sat down, again listening to what the Holy Spirit was telling him.\u00a0 A few minutes later, he started taking video of this man playing the piano and decided to post it on his Instagram page, giving people the opportunity to give a tip to this guy.\u00a0 Tonee, the man playing the piano, only had $13 in his tip jar when Carlos went over, and he had been playing for a few hours by then.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carlos has a huge following on IG and as he invited those following him to give, he had no idea the amount of money that would come in very quickly.\u00a0 Within an hour, $10k had come in.\u00a0 Carlos had to go catch his plane, so he let Tonee know before he flew out of Atlanta \u2013 and of course Tonee was in shock and blown away by the generosity.\u00a0 By the time Carlos arrived home that evening, the amount donated was at $55k.\u00a0 By the time that Carlos closed this all down, he and his \u201cInsta-Familia\u201d (IG followers) had raised over $70k to give to Tonee.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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