Finding Clarity in Life (Part 7) | Resting Well to Hear GOD Clearly | John Giftah

0:01 Speaker 1: Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world

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0:47 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:49 Speaker 2: the Soul with John gift of podcast. And see you

0:51 Speaker 2: would have seen Bena that we are doing a series

0:53 Speaker 2: on getting clarity in life, and I believe that it

0:56 Speaker 2: is such an important topic and we've covered a lot

0:59 Speaker 2: of things, and I really challenge you to go back

1:01 Speaker 2: and see many of these topics because they're so practical,

1:04 Speaker 2: so helpful, and so need it for such a time

1:07 Speaker 2: as this, And I really believe that each of these

1:10 Speaker 2: can go deep into your life and make a great

1:12 Speaker 2: difference and impact as you journey in discovering your purpose

1:16 Speaker 2: as well. So first things first, I want to remind

1:19 Speaker 2: you of what I shed yesterday. I want to tell

1:21 Speaker 2: you that you know, I told you that if you

1:23 Speaker 2: really need to get clarity in life, there's a place

1:25 Speaker 2: where you need to slow down a bit, because sometimes

1:29 Speaker 2: the reason you are not getting clarity is not because

1:33 Speaker 2: that you're not moving or it is actually because you're

1:36 Speaker 2: moving to too fast. You know, when you are going

1:39 Speaker 2: on a road and you need to get directions, you

1:41 Speaker 2: need to slow down. If you need to change the

1:45 Speaker 2: direction or you need to make a shift, you need

1:49 Speaker 2: to slow down. You can't do that at a one

1:51 Speaker 2: hundred kilometers para or a ninety miles para. You need

1:54 Speaker 2: to make a shift. And today I want to just

1:57 Speaker 2: remind you of this important truth that you know. Yes,

2:00 Speaker 2: much as you need to slow down, there's also a

2:02 Speaker 2: place where sometimes, if you really need to get clarity,

2:06 Speaker 2: maybe you need to stop or pause pauses a better word,

2:10 Speaker 2: not stop, pause for a minute, pause for a while,

2:15 Speaker 2: because taking a break or pausing is such an important

2:20 Speaker 2: task as part of God's design for our life. If

2:23 Speaker 2: something is you know, really getting you worked up, you're

2:26 Speaker 2: not getting clarity, you you should not. For example, if

2:31 Speaker 2: you're on the road, again, the same analogy. If you're

2:33 Speaker 2: on the road and you're you're feeling like you're stuck,

2:36 Speaker 2: you're not able to get the you're not sure if

2:39 Speaker 2: you're in the right direction, or you do not know

2:41 Speaker 2: which move to make. You can't keep moving. Sometimes you

2:44 Speaker 2: need to pause and re evaluate where you are. You

2:47 Speaker 2: need to pause to check is this where I'm supposed

2:51 Speaker 2: to be? What is what is this locality? Where am

2:53 Speaker 2: I stay? You know, standing right now? You know you

2:57 Speaker 2: need to pause. See when I talk about pass you know,

3:02 Speaker 2: there's there's this side where you know, people are so

3:05 Speaker 2: scared about, you know, like going to the other extreme,

3:07 Speaker 2: but being complacent and lazy. I don't want you to

3:10 Speaker 2: go in that direction. But there's also a place where

3:12 Speaker 2: I want you to understand about the importance. When you

3:15 Speaker 2: look at the First Kings, chapter nineteen, there's a moment

3:18 Speaker 2: where Elijah is super super you know, overwhelmed with all

3:24 Speaker 2: that happening. His life is attress. So he is in

3:28 Speaker 2: this you know, this is the passage where he has

3:30 Speaker 2: it's actually in depression. But I want to talk about

3:33 Speaker 2: an important aspect here. Right he goes to this place,

3:39 Speaker 2: you know, And he starts lying down and sleeping. Okay,

3:42 Speaker 2: he's sleeping. After a while, the angel of the Angel

3:46 Speaker 2: comes and touches him and says, get up and eat.

3:49 Speaker 2: He looks around and he eats, and then he goes

3:52 Speaker 2: back to sleep. Okay. Eats and drinks water and then

3:55 Speaker 2: goes back to sleep. And the second time the angel

3:58 Speaker 2: comes again and says, get up and eat, otherwise you

4:02 Speaker 2: won't be strong enough to make the long trip. Okay,

4:06 Speaker 2: And the Bible says that he got up, he ate

4:08 Speaker 2: and he felt strong. See. I want you to understand.

4:12 Speaker 2: As much as we overspiritualize a lot of things, there

4:16 Speaker 2: is a place for practicality. Okay. Sometimes the reason may

4:20 Speaker 2: be the reason why you're not getting clarity, the reason

4:25 Speaker 2: why you're not sure what to do, The reason why

4:28 Speaker 2: no matter how much you work, no matter how much

4:31 Speaker 2: more time you're spending, you're still not being productive, is

4:34 Speaker 2: because it's because you're too tired physically, or you're not

4:41 Speaker 2: taking care of your physical health, or you're not taking

4:44 Speaker 2: the break or the sabbatical, or the place where your

4:49 Speaker 2: physical body, your mental, your your mind and your emotions

4:55 Speaker 2: are at a place of rest. It is so important.

5:00 Speaker 2: The reason why you need to get clarity is so

5:04 Speaker 2: that you can move towards your God given destiny. For that,

5:08 Speaker 2: you need energy. You get what I'm saying, You need energy,

5:12 Speaker 2: and energy doesn't come by you just you know, like

5:15 Speaker 2: for example, sometimes a lot of people overspiritualize everything and

5:19 Speaker 2: they say, oh, you know what, you gotta pray. Prayer

5:21 Speaker 2: is the answer. You know, in a typical Okase scenario,

5:24 Speaker 2: if somebody had to give a a counsel to Elijah

5:28 Speaker 2: at this point of time in his life, they would

5:30 Speaker 2: have said, oh you how what kind of a lazy

5:33 Speaker 2: person you are? You got to go and pray Elijah.

5:36 Speaker 2: Go and pray Elijah go, and you know fast? What

5:43 Speaker 2: did the angel say? The Lord's Angel, that's through the

5:46 Speaker 2: Bible says the Lord's Angel. It was not some you know,

5:49 Speaker 2: some angel, the Lord's Angel. Why there's a reason because

5:52 Speaker 2: sometimes people think, oh, it is just an angel. It

5:55 Speaker 2: is just maybe you know, like an angel that cared

5:58 Speaker 2: for him. No, it was the Lord in the Lots

6:01 Speaker 2: Center angel. And if the angel said eat, you didn't

6:06 Speaker 2: say fast.

6:08 Speaker 1: He said heat.

6:09 Speaker 2: He said the journey in front of you is long.

6:13 Speaker 2: The Bible says that after he ate, and he slept,

6:17 Speaker 2: he felt strong, and he went on a forty day

6:20 Speaker 2: and night journey back. Think about it this, Think about

6:23 Speaker 2: this right. Sometimes the reason you're not getting clarity on

6:28 Speaker 2: the direction or where you need to go, or you

6:30 Speaker 2: don't have strength is because you are weak. You are tired,

6:34 Speaker 2: you are exhausted. And I want you to understand. If

6:38 Speaker 2: somebody looked at Elijah in this season of his life,

6:41 Speaker 2: when he was eating and sleeping, they would come to

6:43 Speaker 2: the conclusion that Elijah was actually a very lazy person.

6:47 Speaker 2: But the truth of the matter is nobody else knows

6:49 Speaker 2: what was Elijah's passed. They do not know what he

6:54 Speaker 2: just went through, and they do not know what he

6:56 Speaker 2: is about to go through. He's going to go on

6:59 Speaker 2: a lot long, forty day journey. So he needed that rest.

7:03 Speaker 2: He needed that strength. And if you need clarity to

7:08 Speaker 2: think physically, also sorry to even think you need rest physically.

7:15 Speaker 2: You need to take care of your physical body. You

7:19 Speaker 2: need to take care of you know, like you need

7:23 Speaker 2: to sleep well. You know you need to eat well

7:26 Speaker 2: and drink good water, amount of water. See, these are

7:29 Speaker 2: things we neglect, but these are things that are needed.

7:36 Speaker 2: I know a lot of people especially in some of

7:38 Speaker 2: the religious over religious you know, ministers and all they

7:43 Speaker 2: say that, you know what, I fast and pray so much.

7:45 Speaker 2: I fast and pray so much, and then they affect

7:47 Speaker 2: their health gets affected. See, it's all a good thing.

7:52 Speaker 2: Fast thing is a good thing, Praying is a good thing.

7:53 Speaker 2: It's all a good thing. But you should know that

7:57 Speaker 2: even eating is also a good thing. You know, it's

8:01 Speaker 2: it's it's because God wants you to be fed so

8:05 Speaker 2: that you will have the energy to fulfill your purpose.

8:09 Speaker 2: You know, if you're going to get every answer, like

8:13 Speaker 2: if you're going to get your physical energy by only

8:15 Speaker 2: praying and not eating. See, there is a place for

8:18 Speaker 2: supernatural miracles and all of that stuff, Okay, there's no

8:21 Speaker 2: doubt about it. But there's also a room for the practicality.

8:25 Speaker 2: You know, that's the way God is designed. If if praying,

8:30 Speaker 2: you know, is going to give you physical energy all

8:34 Speaker 2: the time, then God would have never created food in

8:36 Speaker 2: the first place. You know, like you I opinion what

8:39 Speaker 2: him saying, he would have even when Jesus walked on earth,

8:42 Speaker 2: Jesus the son of the Living God, he wouldn't have

8:45 Speaker 2: you know, maybe fed the five thousand he wouldn't have

8:48 Speaker 2: eaten the fish. He would have said, you know what,

8:53 Speaker 2: I man should not live by prayed alone man, but

8:56 Speaker 2: by the word of God. So I everybody, keep preaching,

8:59 Speaker 2: keep listening to my sermons, keep you know, doing God's work.

9:02 Speaker 2: No time for food, no time to sleep. Well Jesus Hims,

9:08 Speaker 2: I have slept in the boat also, right, think about it.

9:11 Speaker 2: So what I'm trying to tell you is sometimes the

9:14 Speaker 2: reason you don't get clarity is not because you're not

9:19 Speaker 2: doing enough. It's probably because you're doing too much and

9:23 Speaker 2: your body is wearing out. You're not able to think.

9:27 Speaker 2: You're too tired and exhausted and you need to sleep. Somebody,

9:32 Speaker 2: did you see how this word? Maybe you just need

9:34 Speaker 2: to sleep. Maybe you need to get a discipline sleep pattern,

9:40 Speaker 2: sleep for this many hours. You know, I'm not preaching

9:43 Speaker 2: from a place where I'm like, you know, everything is

9:45 Speaker 2: fine in my life. No, I'm telling honestly, a couple

9:48 Speaker 2: of years ago, when this podcast was, you know, consistently

9:53 Speaker 2: at the top on the charts right, especially number one

9:56 Speaker 2: in India and all of those charts, I used to

10:00 Speaker 2: record every single day apart from a full full time

10:04 Speaker 2: corporate job and other things that I was doing, like

10:07 Speaker 2: I was writing my next book and all of that.

10:09 Speaker 2: I'm telling you, there was a season of about three

10:13 Speaker 2: years when I only slept for three to three and

10:16 Speaker 2: a half hours a day. Okay, it seemed like, oh,

10:19 Speaker 2: you know what I'm doing for the Lord God will

10:21 Speaker 2: strengthen me all of that. But at one point my

10:25 Speaker 2: body started acting up and then I had to, you know,

10:29 Speaker 2: take a step back reevaluate things. And I remember somebody

10:34 Speaker 2: telling me this, John, don't burn the two sides of

10:37 Speaker 2: your candle, you know, like by overworking. That's also not

10:43 Speaker 2: a good thing. Your body is the temple of the

10:45 Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. You've got to take care of it. And

10:50 Speaker 2: we need you for the long hurd. Your ministry needs

10:54 Speaker 2: to be there for a long time. You can't just

10:57 Speaker 2: burn everything up in a short time and just you know,

11:00 Speaker 2: before the ministry even takes off. And I think that's

11:04 Speaker 2: such an important thing for us because we live in

11:08 Speaker 2: a time where we think that, oh, if I don't

11:11 Speaker 2: do something, if I don't work harder, I'm going to fall. See,

11:16 Speaker 2: there is a place for work, hard work, smart, yes,

11:19 Speaker 2: but not go to the place of striving. Go to

11:22 Speaker 2: the place of trusting God and operating from the place

11:26 Speaker 2: of rest. As God leads you you take a step

11:29 Speaker 2: of faith, you will be more impactful.

11:32 Speaker 1: Emmen.

11:33 Speaker 2: I'll see you guys next time. God bless you.

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