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The Unfolding

Justin Stuart: "I Knew Inside That God Was Doing Something in Me and I Had to Listen to That" | Unfolding Short Stories

The Unfolding

Northwestern Media

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9867 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

 
 

"I knew inside that God was doing something in me and I had to listen to that." 

Justin Stuart had built something huge: a YouTube channel with millions of subscribers, billions of views, and a successful business with his closest friend. But even with all of that, he began to sense God stirring something new in his heart. In this episode, Justin shares what it looked like to walk away from a life that seemed successful by every measure and trust God with what came next. 

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0:00.0

we decided to shut it down. And that was the hardest decision of my life. But I knew inside that

0:05.9

God was doing something in me, and I had to listen to that. God's story, your life.

0:16.1

Unfolding short stories.

0:19.9

There's a strange kind of tension that comes when your life is good, and yet God seems to be

0:25.2

stirring something new. Not because the old thing was bad, not because you failed, but because

0:31.1

sometimes we outgrow a dream, or sometimes a season changes, and because sometimes the Lord begins to loosen your grip on something

0:40.0

familiar so he can lead you somewhere that he's been planning for some time. Something more true

0:46.6

to the version of you that God created. That's where Justin Stewart found himself. And for him,

0:53.2

that tension led to one of the hardest

0:55.0

decisions of his life.

0:57.4

What do you do when you are faced with the most difficult decision of your life? To change

1:05.3

or not to change? I have been creating YouTube videos for over 14 years now.

1:11.6

And when I first got into video making, I did it for just the love of the game.

1:17.6

As a kid, I grew up next to my neighbor and friend Andrew, who was and is my business partner in our YouTube company.

1:30.9

And we just grew up making videos as kids.

1:36.6

Like we had no intention of turning it into a business or trying to make something of it.

1:42.1

But obviously God had other plans because that eventually became our full-time business.

1:47.3

And it was really just a fun place to simply share videos.

1:53.9

But slowly we started to realize that we can make money on YouTube.

1:56.5

So I was going after that goal.

1:59.8

And then our YouTube started to take off.

2:04.5

We started creating content where we were doing these skits at first,

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