A few years ago, Ian Banner gave a woman a prophetic word about a difficult trip to Australia — something she’d told no one. She went quiet, then looked at him and said, “Aren’t you amazing?”
In that small, almost invisible moment, Ian had a choice. Soak up the credit, even a little — or get it out of his hands as fast as possible.
In this Walk and Talk episode, he unpacks the eight-word deflection he reached for instead: “No — isn’t God amazing? That he wanted you to know he was with you.” Drawing on 1 Corinthians 12:3, Ian makes the case that the temptation to take a sip of the credit is the single most dangerous reflex an untrained gifted Christian carries — and that the reflex to deflect it has to be installed before God ever uses you again, not worked out in the moment.
The episode ends with one practical task: decide now what your version of “No — isn’t God?” is. Write it down. Practise it. Have it ready. Listen to find out why the men and women still doing this faithfully at seventy all learned the same reflex early.
Chapter timestamps (approximate):
00:00 A moment in church that nearly went wrong
01:30 “Aren’t you amazing?” — the choice nobody else noticed
02:30 Why the credit always lands on you
03:30 The small sip that costs you everything
05:00 1 Corinthians 12:3 — every gift points to “Jesus is Lord”
06:30 The freedom of a trained deflection reflex
08:00 One action — decide your eight words now
09:00 Prayer and close
