Decision-Making in Life? - Let GOD Say | John Giftah

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0:43 Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John GIFTA. Yes, a lot of people today in life are just going about trying to make decisions. You may be in a place where you want to make this decisions in your life and you're saying, John, you know what, I don't know what to do, what step to take, what move to make? Which direction should I go? Whom should I speak to? What should I say or what should I put on the resume? Or what job opportunity or carry a move should I make? Should I way just jump right in a way or you know, there's so much that people are having and most of the time people make decisions hastily, they make decisions under pressure.

1:25 They make decisions because of the circumstance. See, there is a place where God uses circumstance also as part of God's way to lead us into the way that he wants us to go. But for the most part, that's not the only way God uses to lead us into the right part. Because today I remember most importantly that you and I are having the gift of the Holy Spirit. We have the Holy Spirit living on the inside of us, and Jesus said that he will lead us, He will guide us, and we have to walk in the spirit. We have to be filled and be led by the Holy Spirit of God.

2:01 The Bible is very clear in Romans that you know, those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. So you and I have an advantage. You and I have a benefit, and that is the fact that the Holy Spirit of God himself and living on the inside of us, and he wants to lead us. He wants to guide us, and he wants to direct our steps. Now, this is something that you might have heard so many times, but I want to start off by sharing something with you. Of course, this is again from the Old Testament.

2:29 But if the Old Testament itself was something that we say, something that was so great, then how much more benefits we have as people in the New Testament because the Holy Spirit is freely available with us and in dwelling in us, and he's going to lead us through right. This is a moment in First King Stapter seventeen was two onwards, and I'm reading from the Naibi version, and this is what it says. Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah, saying, leave here, turn east to and hide in the care revine.

3:02 He's of the Jordan. Okay, you will drink from the brooke, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there. Okay, listen, who gave this word? The Lord gave the word, and the Bible says in verse five. So he did what the Lord told him to do. He didn't think about it. He didn't quest in God, he didn't ask God, how is it going to be possible? What if the brook drives up? What if the ravens don't show up? What if I feel bored? What if it doesn't You know, it doesn't make sense. God, I'm a prophet.

3:30 I need to minister to people, and you want me to just run away to Brooke and stay there. But he didn't think twice. He just obeyed the voice of the Lord. You know, that's a word for you guys. You know, I Love of the Bible, says in Hebrews eleven, verse eight. In the amplified version, it says, how when God's told Abraham to leave, he didn't even trouble his mind about it. He just trust in the Lord and he took this step. That's the place I encourage each one of us to go to a place where we are so led by the spirit of God that we don't think, we don't analyze, we don't sit and look at all the options.

4:06 We just obey, knowing this is what God wants us to do. Right For that, you need to have that level of intimacy with God. You need to develop and grow your connection with God to a place where you know, this is the Lord's speaking, this is the Lord's voice, This is the Lord directing your step. So here's the thing. And then it says he went to the character wine east of the Jordan and stayed there. The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and they drank from the brook.

4:39 In Verse seven says sometime later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. See it seems like an irony. Gods said, Oh my gosh, this is another message altogether. God said, listen, I wanted to go to this place, and he will drink from the brook. God said, you will drink from the brook, And now that that very brook dried up, it seems like a contradiction. I know I appreached in similar patterns from this while ago, but I want you to catch this because this is so powerful. God said, you will drink from the brook, But now that brook dried up.

5:20 Sometimes your life may seem like a contradiction to what God has spoken. God, you said I should do this, but now it looks like I'm a failure. I trusted in your leading. I knew you were directing my steps, but the very thing that you put me to seems like it's not working anymore. God, where are you? What is happening? Did I hear you wrong? But here's the beautiful thing right. Even when that happened, Elijah stayed till verse it says, then the word of the Lord came to him and said, go to Zarah Fad in the region of Sudom and stay there.

5:57 I have directed a widow to supply you with food. And he went to Zara faith and the story goes on. What I want you guys to understand here, this is important. True Elijah took every step not led by his circumstance, not led by what was happening around, not led by his feelings, not led by his logic. He was led by what the Lord was saying. Every step he took, he said, you know, this is what the Lord said. The word of the Lord came to him, and then he took the step today. I want you guys to understand something here.

6:32 Get to a place where you are continuously directed by the Lord. Don't just make decisions on your own. Don't just make decisions hastily. Don't just go by your feelings, don't just go by your emotions, don't just go by how the circumstances guiding you. Sometimes you can't circumstance me seem like it's contradicting, But the Lord is saying, because the Bible says the broke was drying. But the Lord didn't say anything. He could see the brook was drying, and he was like, you know, the Lord said he will take care.

7:07 But the Lord spoke to him only after the brook dried up. And then God said time for you to make a move. You see, he didn't rush. He didn't. You know, if you and I were in the place, we will be worried. Oh my gosh, the brook is drying. I don't know what's going to happen. Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness. We give wondering, And you know, just keep contemplating and keep worrying about it, over and over and over again, running in your mind at the back of your mind. But here's this Elijah who did not just hastily run away from there because the brook dried or he was drying.

7:41 He moved only even the law told him to move. I want you to understand that, guys, God knows what you need when you need to trust him. He knows what's best for you, he knows how to direct your steps. You're in the palm of his hands. You're his most price possession, and you mean the world to him. Today, I want you to get to that place where you trust him, even if it doesn't make sense. You're saying, John, God told me to do this, But now mad Brooke is right up. Maybe wait, God knows that you can handle is some more time, at the right time.

8:17 He's going to tell you what to do next. Be led by him. Be in a place where God is directing your steps, not your circumstance, not your feelings, not your emotions, not outside Prussia, but only the Lord, and He will make all things beautiful in his time. Amen, God bless you. You've been listening to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. We hope you were blessed and inspired to live the life that God has for you. Make sure to subscribe to the John gifted YouTube channel for regular uploads of sermons, skits, interviews, and more.

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