Finding Clarity in Life (Part 9) | Let Peace Be Your Umpire | 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 it's such

0:51 Speaker 2: a joy for me to be with all of you

0:52 Speaker 2: today as I am continuing the series on getting Clarity

0:56 Speaker 2: in life. And I believe that this is such a

0:58 Speaker 2: timely series, and I challenge you to go through the

1:00 Speaker 2: rest of the segments that I've talked about in the series.

1:03 Speaker 2: I believe that all of these will help you as

1:05 Speaker 2: you are journeying in discovering or getting clarity in your

1:09 Speaker 2: life as well. So today I'm going to talk about

1:12 Speaker 2: a very important parameter that you need to keep in

1:14 Speaker 2: mind with regard to getting clarity, and this parameter is

1:18 Speaker 2: known as peace. The Bible says in Collusions three fifteen

1:22 Speaker 2: that the peace of God will be your empire. Empire

1:26 Speaker 2: is like a decision making factor. The peace of God

1:28 Speaker 2: should reign over you and guiding you and telling you

1:31 Speaker 2: which way got to go, in which way you're not

1:33 Speaker 2: supposed to go. If you are going in a certain

1:36 Speaker 2: direction that you're supposed to go, you'll have that enough

1:39 Speaker 2: peace that will tell you, yes, you're in the right track,

1:41 Speaker 2: even in the midst of all the chaos that is

1:44 Speaker 2: around you. Whereas if you're going in the wrong track,

1:46 Speaker 2: even if everything looks good, if it looks promising, if

1:49 Speaker 2: it looks like it's a God thing, still you will

1:53 Speaker 2: have a tea unrest if you're not where God wants

1:55 Speaker 2: you to be. I remember there was a time when

1:58 Speaker 2: I was stuck in an organized just I do not

2:00 Speaker 2: know off me if you know this, but I'm actually

2:02 Speaker 2: an aerospace engineer and minister of the Gospel, and I

2:07 Speaker 2: forsed to work in an organization which was very toxic.

2:10 Speaker 2: It was not a good organized organization, and no matter

2:13 Speaker 2: what I tried. I was never able to lead that organization.

2:16 Speaker 2: It was like I was stuck there. There was a

2:18 Speaker 2: limited growth and the salary was too low, and I

2:21 Speaker 2: was struggling to maneuver through that season. But there was

2:25 Speaker 2: this inner peace from God, like, you know, you got

2:28 Speaker 2: to stay here. You got to stay here for a while.

2:30 Speaker 2: And only when God wanted me to make a move,

2:33 Speaker 2: he showed me through visions saying, you know, it's time

2:35 Speaker 2: to make a move. And there was an opportunity that

2:38 Speaker 2: came along the way, and God helped me make the move.

2:41 Speaker 2: See that's what I wanted to understand. You need to

2:43 Speaker 2: move as fer the leaning of the Holy Spirit. And

2:47 Speaker 2: one of the ways that the Holy Spirit leads and

2:49 Speaker 2: guides you is through that piece. See when I mean peace,

2:52 Speaker 2: I'm not saying that everything will be fine, everyone will

2:55 Speaker 2: be supportive, everything will work out very very great in

2:58 Speaker 2: the sense of the outside. But sometimes peace means in

3:02 Speaker 2: the midst the storm. You know, God wants you to

3:04 Speaker 2: be here, in the midst of the storm. You know

3:06 Speaker 2: this is a step that you need to take, in

3:08 Speaker 2: the midst of all the noise. There is that clear

3:10 Speaker 2: direction from God saying I wanted to go in this

3:13 Speaker 2: particular way, and I wanted to understand, like even in

3:16 Speaker 2: my life, so many times I've seen this where there

3:19 Speaker 2: was a moment where I had this great opportunity and

3:22 Speaker 2: I was really looking forward to it, and I always

3:25 Speaker 2: wanted it, and I thought this was a great audition

3:28 Speaker 2: to try, and it was a ministry opportunity. And I

3:32 Speaker 2: had spent an hour and a half and went to

3:35 Speaker 2: this particular place, but somehow I do not have peace.

3:39 Speaker 2: I had so much of undress. You see, even if

3:41 Speaker 2: it's a god thing or a spiritual thing, even if

3:44 Speaker 2: it's a good thing, even if there is nothing explosively

3:48 Speaker 2: bad in it, if it is not of the Lord,

3:51 Speaker 2: you will have that unrest. I was speaking in tongues,

3:53 Speaker 2: speaking in tongues, and I was constantly feeling unrest. And

3:56 Speaker 2: then I left that place and went see he used

4:00 Speaker 2: the thing I wanted to understand, to get to that

4:02 Speaker 2: place where you are allowing that peace of God to

4:06 Speaker 2: reign and rule over you, to be that empire in

4:09 Speaker 2: your life. There was a moment when similarly, I looked

4:13 Speaker 2: at this very good opportunity and I was like, you

4:15 Speaker 2: know what I want this. It looks really good. I

4:17 Speaker 2: think this is from the Lord. But there was an unrest,

4:20 Speaker 2: but I did not pay attention those a couple of

4:23 Speaker 2: days when I was involved in it, I did not

4:26 Speaker 2: sleep even a bit, but I just did not get it.

4:29 Speaker 2: I did not realize that this was not from God.

4:33 Speaker 2: I mean I didn't I mean for in this, since

4:36 Speaker 2: the undrest was a sign from God saying you got

4:40 Speaker 2: to watch out. But because I didn't pay attention to it,

4:44 Speaker 2: what happened, it ended up in a very bach place.

4:47 Speaker 2: So that's why you need to learn to discern. You

4:50 Speaker 2: need to learn to discern if this is from the

4:52 Speaker 2: Lord or not through the peace or the unrest. If

4:56 Speaker 2: you have the peace from the Lord, you know this

4:58 Speaker 2: is from God.

4:59 Speaker 1: Go.

5:00 Speaker 2: I still remember there was a moment when we had

5:03 Speaker 2: to choose and finalize the logo for the ministry, especially

5:07 Speaker 2: if you had seen on my YouTube videos or the

5:10 Speaker 2: television programs or any of those banners. You to see

5:15 Speaker 2: the JJI the John Gift International Ministry logo. And the

5:19 Speaker 2: thing about this logo is I about about ten years

5:22 Speaker 2: ago I had set up a competition to set out

5:27 Speaker 2: and finalize a brand new logo for the ministry. And

5:32 Speaker 2: this time I had almost finalized on the wrong one

5:36 Speaker 2: because it looked like everybody, especially the close ones who were,

5:42 Speaker 2: you know, giving me recommendation, said this is someone you've

5:44 Speaker 2: got to go with. And somehow I did not have peace.

5:48 Speaker 2: But I just said, you know what, if everybody is saying,

5:50 Speaker 2: let me go with it. And I even sent a

5:53 Speaker 2: message to the person that you know what, I guess

5:55 Speaker 2: I'm going to choose your design for this logo and

6:00 Speaker 2: you're going to win this competition. But that night I

6:02 Speaker 2: did not sleep even a bit. I was like rolling

6:06 Speaker 2: and I was having so much of unrest. And then

6:09 Speaker 2: as I was speaking in tongues and praying, you know,

6:11 Speaker 2: another design came into my mind and I felt the

6:16 Speaker 2: peace about it, and I felt I should go with that.

6:19 Speaker 2: And what did I do? Even though I had already

6:22 Speaker 2: decided to go with the other one and supposedly finalized

6:25 Speaker 2: on it. I backtracked and I said, I'm sorry, but

6:29 Speaker 2: I'm making a change. And then I chose this particular one,

6:32 Speaker 2: which a lot of times even now, people say, oh,

6:35 Speaker 2: your nomal looks really cute. It's standing out, it looks

6:38 Speaker 2: very professional. See what I wanted to understand is this

6:41 Speaker 2: important truth, right, even if a hundred people tell you

6:44 Speaker 2: in a different way, follow the peace that God is

6:47 Speaker 2: giving you. Don't allow the undrest to you know, you know,

6:54 Speaker 2: make you feel like you know what? Oh even though

6:56 Speaker 2: I feel this underside, need to just allow that to

6:59 Speaker 2: die and oh no, allow that handrest to also guide

7:03 Speaker 2: you and say, maybe this is not what God wants.

7:07 Speaker 2: Maybe I need to reevaluate my choices. And so I

7:10 Speaker 2: really challenge you today that you know you will allow

7:13 Speaker 2: peace to be your empire, that you will allow God's

7:18 Speaker 2: peace to reign over your life, and you will allow

7:21 Speaker 2: these undrests to be those factors that tell you to

7:24 Speaker 2: take a step back, revaluate, and you will make the

7:27 Speaker 2: right choice for your life.

7:29 Speaker 1: Amen.

7:30 Speaker 2: God bless you.

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