Discerning the Advice you receive | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. I want to start off by shouting from my ministry experience. One of the things is, I've seen a lot of people give me a word of advice. Now, for the most part, they mean well, and they may say certain things that seem like a word of advice or word of wisdom, or sometimes it looks like a good word from somebody's experience. At the same time, sometimes it looks like maybe a warning or something that I need to be aware of to protect myself, to watch over myself so that you know, I don't fall into the pit that somebody else went into somebody made some mistake, and you know all of those things.

So there's a place for a warning or a caution. There's a place for somebody giving a word of wisdom to do something in a better fashion. All of those things are true, but there's a thin line where you need to be careful from where the word is coming, because you see, there is a very important aspect that I've shared many times from the word of God. You see through the proverbs constantly it says, you know, the wise listen to advice. In the multitude of counselors, there is safety. So there is a place for listening to advice.

There is a place for listening to counsel There is a place for or you know, being in a place we are humble enough to receive correction and all of those things. There's there's no doubt about all of that stuff. But there's also a place you need to understand that sometimes just because something sounds like it's a word of wisdom, sometimes something sounds like a good idea or a word of advice. Sometimes something sounds like a warning, but it may not be coming from the right source. It may not be from God, it may not be a godly wisdom.

It may not be a godly counsel. It may not be from the right source in itself. It may actually be the exact opposite of what God wants you to do. So you need to pay attention to this. You need to look at the intent. You need to look at from where is this word coming from? Think about it. I want to start up by sharing a scripture with you, and I want to take this forward. And it is seen in Proverbs twenty six, verse thirteen, and I'm reading to you from the Nulty version, and this is what it says.

The lazy person claims there is a life line on the road. Yes, I'm sure there's a lion out there. See here, you see, somebody is giving a word of warning. Somebody is saying, hey, listen, don't go out there, don't go just stay here, be in this place. You're safe, you're secured. Don't walk out because there's a lion, even though there's not a lion. So they're lazy, and they want you to be lazy, you know what I mean. So it comes on the outside like a word of protection, a word of you know, like the person really cares for you.

Though it comes like, oh my gosh, this person is saying to you be carefully. It's like a warning or a caution. But you see the word is clearly saying that a lazy person says this. In other words, somebody who doesn't want to put in the work want to sit down and they feel guilty or they feel, oh my goodness, how can I see somebody else do the work? And so to keep the other person from doing it to suit themselves, they don't want the other person to do so in that pretext, they're stopping the other person by going out.

So it looks like on the outside, a word of you know, you know, a concern, a word of you know, like you really care, the person really cares for you. It looks like a word of warning. But then you see the intent. It actually comes from a place of laziness. Are you getting what I'm saying? It looks fine from the outside, and say, oh, maybe there's a lion. So this person maybe saying the truth. So I need to just stay back. But if you stayed back, what is going to happen is you're not going to step into the fullness of what God wants you to do.

That's not the true thing. You get what I'm saying, you have to look at the intent of what the other person is saying. No, even in my ministry, so many times I've seen people who don't want to do any work. Okay, let's not just say ministry. Even in terms of YouTube or motivation or a comedy, all the different things that I do. I've seen people who don't want to put in the work, who don't want to do any heart anything. You know, they just want to, you know, go to like what it says it and watch movies or waste their time and do nothing productive with their life.

You know, sometimes they create a lot of rackets because they can't tolerate the fact that I'm doing something, you know what I mean, So they just make up something just because they feel like, oh my gosh, this person does that makes me feel bad that I'm not doing anything, so I will stop that person also from doing you know, a lot of times this is what happens. You know, it comes out as something like a word of wisdom or a word of warning, a word of caution, a word of advice. But the truth is, it's the intent is it's coming from a place of laziness.

You need to be careful, or it could also come from a place of fear. You know, sometimes one of the biggest things is fear can manifest in the form of a very nice advice. You know, even a couple of months ago, when I had to go somewhere to minister Okay, I face a lot of opposition, I face a lot of challenges, and the thing is this, you know, this was one of the persons saying this to me, saying, you know what, you don't go there. There's a lot of persecution out there. There's persecution out there.

You know. It's kind of like the way you know this word is saying, you know, there's a line out there. There's a line out there, you know, persecution out their persecution at so don't go. You know, it sounded like it came from a place of what I say, like a like a very good word of wisdom or an advice, or you know, a warning or a caution. But in reality, it came from a place of fear. You know, I don't want you to get into trouble, you know what I mean, a place of fear. But when the Lord clearly spoke to me and said I want you to go, I ended up going and thousands of people were blessed, and even I was blessed, you know, going there to minister to people.

You see, thousands of people's blessings would have been withheld if I had let somebody else's fear stop me. You get what I'm saying today, I'm asking you to get to that when I'm not saying, you know, don't listen to advice. I'm not saying, don't pay attention to what people are saying. You know, when you receive a word of advice, you know, take it and then pray about it and look at it and see what the Lord is saying to you in your specific case. And beyond that, if a load is saying, no, that's not from me, this is not from my source.

This is this is just you know, the person's own feelings, their own emotions, their own background, their own experience. Sometimes, you know, people may give you advice without understanding what God is doing in your life, you know, without understanding or having a perspective of what God is doing. Or they may not have the full perspective, they may not have the full view. They have certain experiences, they have a background, they have a limited knowledge and they may use that to tell you this is the way to do when maybe God has spoken something beyond that over your life and it's leading you in a way that is beyond what they have as their base knowledge.

So don't just listen to what somebody is saying, but get to a place where Okay, this person is saying there's a lion. This person is saying, don't go. It seems like a warning and advice. But God, what are you saying? You know, that's the best place to go. Where. Yes, it's good to listen to advice, it's good to you know, listen to godly wisdom and counsel and spiritual discernment and all of those things. But beyond that, get to that place where you hear God's voice for yourself and say, what does God want me to do?

Where is God leading me? What is God guiding me? Or take the step as God is instructing you to do. So today I pray that you'll get to that place where you get that wisdom from God to take the right steps today. Don't just follow whatever people are saying. Don't just allow other people's words to just dictate your life. Go beyond the intent, Go beyond to see is this coming from the right place. Is this a real issue that I need to pay attention to or is it just because they have their own issues and they're not dealt through then that's why that's coming.

Or is it something that is keeping me

from doing what God wants me to do? And I pray in the name of Jesus that you will get to the place way you continue to do what God has called you to do. 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. Follow John Gifta on Instagram for regular inspirational posts, and don't forget to check out the best selling books written by John Gifta, Who Am I which will help you understand your identity and the latest number one bestseller Unveil your Purpose, helping you discover your purpose and to start walking in it.

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