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 is a crazy place and it just seems to get crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and take a break. This is Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. We're a hub for inspirational Christian sermons, practical keys for Christian living, in Christian discussions and interviews. You'll be inspired to live the life that you were created for. Your host is a top ranking podcaster, best selling author, world record holder, aerospace engineer, life coach, evangelist and founder of John Gifta International.

0:41 Speaker 1: Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta.

0:47 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with John gift of podcast. And see you would have seen Bena that we are doing a series on getting clarity in life, and I believe that it is such an important topic and we've covered a lot of things, and I really challenge you to go back and see many of these topics because they're so practical, so helpful, and so need it for such a time as this, And I really believe that each of these can go deep into your life and make a great difference and impact as you journey in discovering your purpose as well.

1:16 Speaker 2: So first things first, I want to remind you of what I shed yesterday. I want to tell you that you know, I told you that if you really need to get clarity in life, there's a place where you need to slow down a bit, because sometimes the reason you are not getting clarity is not because that you're not moving or it is actually because you're moving to too fast. You know, when you are going on a road and you need to get directions, you need to slow down. If you need to change the direction or you need to make a shift, you need to slow down.

1:49 Speaker 2: You can't do that at a one hundred kilometers para or a ninety miles para. You need to make a shift. And today I want to just remind you of this important truth that you know. Yes, much as you need to slow down, there's also a place where sometimes, if you really need to get clarity, maybe you need to stop or pause pauses a better word, not stop, pause for a minute, pause for a while, because taking a break or pausing is such an important task as part of God's design for our life. If something is you know, really getting you worked up, you're not getting clarity, you you should not.

2:30 Speaker 2: For example, if you're on the road, again, the same analogy. If you're on the road and you're you're feeling like you're stuck, you're not able to get the you're not sure if you're in the right direction, or you do not know which move to make. You can't keep moving. Sometimes you need to pause and re evaluate where you are. You need to pause to check is this where I'm supposed to be? What is what is this locality? Where am I stay? You know, standing right now? You know you need to pause. See when I talk about pass you know, there's there's this side where you know, people are so scared about, you know, like going to the other extreme, but being complacent and lazy.

3:09 Speaker 2: I don't want you to go in that direction. But there's also a place where I want you to understand about the importance. When you look at the First Kings, chapter nineteen, there's a moment where Elijah is super super you know, overwhelmed with all that happening. His life is attress. So he is in this you know, this is the passage where he has it's actually in depression. But I want to talk about an important aspect here. Right he goes to this place, you know, And he starts lying down and sleeping.

3:42 Speaker 2: Okay, he's sleeping. After a while, the angel of the Angel comes and touches him and says, get up and eat. He looks around and he eats, and then he goes back to sleep. Okay. Eats and drinks water and then goes back to sleep. And the second time the angel comes again and says, get up and eat, otherwise you won't be strong enough to make the long trip. Okay, And the Bible says that he got up, he ate and he felt strong. See. I want you to understand. As much as we overspiritualize a lot of things, there is a place for practicality.

4:18 Speaker 2: Okay. Sometimes the reason may be the reason why you're not getting clarity, the reason why you're not sure what to do, The reason why no matter how much you work, no matter how much more time you're spending, you're still not being productive, is because it's because you're too tired physically, or you're not taking care of your physical health, or you're not taking the break or the sabbatical, or the place where your physical body, your mental, your your mind and your emotions are at a place of rest.

4:57 Speaker 2: It is so important. The reason why you need to get clarity is so that you can move towards your God given destiny. For that, you need energy. You get what I'm saying, You need energy, and energy doesn't come by you just you know, like for example, sometimes a lot of people overspiritualize everything and they say, oh, you know what, you gotta pray. Prayer is the answer. You know, in a typical Okase scenario, if somebody had to give a a counsel to Elijah at this point of time in his life, they would have said, oh you how what kind of a lazy person you are?

5:34 Speaker 2: You got to go and pray Elijah. Go and pray Elijah go, and you know fast? What did the angel say? The Lord's Angel, that's through the Bible says the Lord's Angel. It was not some you know, some angel, the Lord's Angel. Why there's a reason because sometimes people think, oh, it is just an angel. It is just maybe you know, like an angel that cared for him. No, it was the Lord in the Lots Center angel. And if the angel said eat, you didn't say fast.

6:08 Speaker 1: He said heat.

6:09 Speaker 2: He said the journey in front of you is long. The Bible says that after he ate, and he slept, he felt strong, and he went on a forty day and night journey back. Think about it this, Think about this right. Sometimes the reason you're not getting clarity on the direction or where you need to go, or you don't have strength is because you are weak. You are tired, you are exhausted. And I want you to understand. If somebody looked at Elijah in this season of his life, when he was eating and sleeping, they would come to the conclusion that Elijah was actually a very lazy person.

6:47 Speaker 2: But the truth of the matter is nobody else knows what was Elijah's passed. They do not know what he just went through, and they do not know what he is about to go through. He's going to go on a lot long, forty day journey. So he needed that rest. He needed that strength. And if you need clarity to think physically, also sorry to even think you need rest physically. You need to take care of your physical body. You need to take care of you know, like you need to sleep well. You know you need to eat well and drink good water, amount of water.

7:28 Speaker 2: See, these are things we neglect, but these are things that are needed. I know a lot of people especially in some of the religious over religious you know, ministers and all they say that, you know what, I fast and pray so much. I fast and pray so much, and then they affect their health gets affected. See, it's all a good thing. Fast thing is a good thing, Praying is a good thing. It's all a good thing. But you should know that even eating is also a good thing. You know, it's it's it's because God wants you to be fed so 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 if you're going to get your physical energy by only praying and not eating. See, there is a place for supernatural miracles and all of that stuff, Okay, there's no doubt about it. But there's also a room for the practicality. You know, that's the way God is designed. If if praying, you know, is going to give you physical energy all the time, then God would have never created food in the first place. You know, like you I opinion what him saying, he would have even when Jesus walked on earth, Jesus the son of the Living God, he wouldn't have you know, maybe fed the five thousand he wouldn't have eaten the fish.

8:49 Speaker 2: He would have said, you know what, I man should not live by prayed alone man, but by the word of God. So I everybody, keep preaching, keep listening to my sermons, keep you know, doing God's work. No time for food, no time to sleep. Well Jesus Hims, I have slept in the boat also, right, think about it. So what I'm trying to tell you is sometimes the reason you don't get clarity is not because you're not doing enough. It's probably because you're doing too much and 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, did you see how this word? Maybe you just need to sleep. Maybe you need to get a discipline sleep pattern, sleep for this many hours. You know, I'm not preaching from a place where I'm like, you know, everything is fine in my life. No, I'm telling honestly, a couple of years ago, when this podcast was, you know, consistently at the top on the charts right, especially number one in India and all of those charts, I used to record every single day apart from a full full time corporate job and other things that I was doing, like 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 years when I only slept for three to three and a half hours a day. Okay, it seemed like, oh, you know what I'm doing for the Lord God will strengthen me all of that. But at one point my body started acting up and then I had to, you know, take a step back reevaluate things. And I remember somebody telling me this, John, don't burn the two sides of your candle, you know, like by overworking. That's also not a good thing. Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.

10:46 Speaker 2: You've got to take care of it. And we need you for the long hurd. Your ministry needs to be there for a long time. You can't just burn everything up in a short time and just you know, before the ministry even takes off. And I think that's such an important thing for us because we live in a time where we think that, oh, if I don't do something, if I don't work harder, I'm going to fall. See, there is a place for work, hard work, smart, yes, but not go to the place of striving. Go to the place of trusting God and operating from the place of rest.

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