Getting Clarity in Life (Part 5) | Letting Go of Control and Trusting GOD | John Giftah

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

0:05 Speaker 1: is a crazy place and it just seems to get

0:08 Speaker 1: crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and take a break.

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

0:45 Speaker 2: Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the Soul

0:46 Speaker 2: with John GIFTA podcast. It's to join on for me

0:49 Speaker 2: to be with each one of you today is I

0:51 Speaker 2: want to continue talking about the aspect of getting clarity

0:55 Speaker 2: in life. We spoke about various aspects. I want you

0:58 Speaker 2: to go back to the episodes of last week to

1:01 Speaker 2: go through the step by step process that we've been

1:04 Speaker 2: talking about, you know, getting clarity in very series of life.

1:08 Speaker 2: I just want to quickly remind you of a couple

1:10 Speaker 2: of things that I just want to remind you so

1:13 Speaker 2: that you have the flow as we move forward as well.

1:16 Speaker 2: So the first thing I told you about clarity is

1:19 Speaker 2: the importance of coming to that place where you realize

1:21 Speaker 2: that clarity comes from hearing the voice of God. You

1:24 Speaker 2: need to, you know, make sure that you develop your

1:27 Speaker 2: gift of hearing and discerning the voice of God. We

1:30 Speaker 2: will talk more about it in detail, and it is come.

1:33 Speaker 2: And I also spoke to you about how God will

1:35 Speaker 2: not give you all the details right in the beginning,

1:37 Speaker 2: So you need to take a step with what the

1:39 Speaker 2: message or the word that He has already given you.

1:42 Speaker 2: Whatever He has given you, take a step of faith,

1:44 Speaker 2: and you will see God leading you every step along

1:47 Speaker 2: the way. And I also told you that sometimes you know,

1:50 Speaker 2: even if God wants to speak to you, when the

1:53 Speaker 2: voices of other people or the people around you who

1:56 Speaker 2: are not sind with what God wants to do in

1:59 Speaker 2: your life, those voices are louder, then you will find

2:03 Speaker 2: it hard to hear the voice of God. So you

2:05 Speaker 2: need to learn to distance yourself from other voices. You

2:09 Speaker 2: need to learn to distance yourself from the influence of

2:12 Speaker 2: other people who do not understand what God is doing

2:15 Speaker 2: in your life. And also in the last segment, of

2:21 Speaker 2: this series that I spoke about last week was on

2:24 Speaker 2: the importance of clearing your mind, and I said the

2:27 Speaker 2: Pipe season Fustimity Scepter four, verse five says, you know

2:32 Speaker 2: that we need to get to that place where we

2:34 Speaker 2: need to have a clear mind in all situations when

2:38 Speaker 2: the when you look at the nulti version, so reminding

2:40 Speaker 2: all that get into that place of having that clear mind,

2:44 Speaker 2: you know, instead of having all of the things that

2:47 Speaker 2: are drawing you away from God, distracting you and deviating

2:51 Speaker 2: you and you know, causing you to lose focus. Make

2:54 Speaker 2: it your commitment to have a clear mind in all situations. Today,

2:58 Speaker 2: I want to talk about the aspect with regard to

3:01 Speaker 2: finding clarity in life, and I believe it's just an

3:04 Speaker 2: important area where we need to learn to trust God

3:07 Speaker 2: enough to let go and let God. I know it's

3:12 Speaker 2: a very common theme where say let go and let God.

3:15 Speaker 2: But I want you to think about areas in your

3:18 Speaker 2: life where you are still holding onto things that you

3:21 Speaker 2: want to still keep the control instead of letting God

3:24 Speaker 2: have the control. Maybe the reason why God is not

3:27 Speaker 2: giving you the next picture, or he's not giving you

3:30 Speaker 2: the next word, he's not giving you the next instruction.

3:34 Speaker 2: Maybe you're not able to see what God is doing

3:38 Speaker 2: in your life because you're still caught up looking into

3:41 Speaker 2: something that you are not willing to let go off.

3:44 Speaker 2: Maybe it is a relationship that I told you move

3:47 Speaker 2: out of this because only then He's going to move

3:49 Speaker 2: you into the next better relationship that he wants to

3:52 Speaker 2: bring across your part, but you're still unwilling to let go.

3:56 Speaker 2: Or maybe there is a situation where you went through

3:59 Speaker 2: an unfair thing in your life and you're allowing that

4:03 Speaker 2: to stop you from moving ahead. You're constantly looking backward.

4:08 Speaker 2: See this is a word for some of you. It's time.

4:11 Speaker 2: Like the Apostle Paul said, you know what, I'm not

4:13 Speaker 2: going to keep looking back, but I'm going to press

4:15 Speaker 2: forward to the new things, the better things that God

4:18 Speaker 2: has in store for me, Which means you need to

4:21 Speaker 2: be in a place where you need to really look

4:23 Speaker 2: at yourself. Are there areas in your life that you're

4:25 Speaker 2: still holding on. Maybe you're saying, you know what, I

4:28 Speaker 2: want to control this. I'm not willing to give away

4:31 Speaker 2: control to this area of my life. Maybe with regard

4:34 Speaker 2: to your dreams, your desires, your ministry, your calling, your relationship,

4:37 Speaker 2: you're still holding on to it, and I want to

4:40 Speaker 2: challenge you today, if you really want to see clarity,

4:46 Speaker 2: this is a word for you to let go, Let

4:49 Speaker 2: go and let God. You know, the Bible says one

4:53 Speaker 2: of the familiar passages or verses that we often talk

4:55 Speaker 2: about is probably three verse five and says trust in

4:59 Speaker 2: the law with all your heart, and lean not on

5:01 Speaker 2: your own understanding. Many times we are unwilling to, you know,

5:06 Speaker 2: stop leaning on our own understanding. We say, you know what,

5:09 Speaker 2: I figured this out, I know this is what I want,

5:12 Speaker 2: this is this is how I have studied, this is

5:14 Speaker 2: my intellectual mind speaking. I'm not willing to let go

5:17 Speaker 2: of this. But this is a wake up call to

5:20 Speaker 2: some of us today to say, you know what, it's

5:22 Speaker 2: enough of us just chasing after things and saying, why

5:26 Speaker 2: am I not seeing a result? The reason you're stuck,

5:28 Speaker 2: the reason you're not able to see the next move,

5:31 Speaker 2: is because you're unwilling to stop leaning on your own understanding.

5:37 Speaker 2: You're unwilling to let go of the things that are actually,

5:41 Speaker 2: you know, affecting you even more. And it's a moment

5:45 Speaker 2: or a wake up call for you to say enough

5:47 Speaker 2: is enough. You know what I'm going to let go

5:51 Speaker 2: and let God lead me to where he needs to

5:53 Speaker 2: lead me. I want you to think about this because

5:57 Speaker 2: I believe this is such an important message for such

6:00 Speaker 2: a time as this, because a lot of people are

6:03 Speaker 2: you know, caught up into things like you know, I've

6:05 Speaker 2: seen this, you know, like how they say this like

6:11 Speaker 2: a thread or a rope. You know, people who are

6:15 Speaker 2: holding onto a rope and unwilling to let go of

6:18 Speaker 2: the rope, and they don't realize that that rope is

6:25 Speaker 2: affecting them even more, that rope is affecting them even more. See,

6:30 Speaker 2: when you look at Acts chapter twenty seven, there is

6:33 Speaker 2: a moment I want you to go into the depth

6:36 Speaker 2: of the story because there's a lot to look at

6:39 Speaker 2: and unpacked, but I want to come quickly to one

6:42 Speaker 2: of the you know things, because this is so important.

6:47 Speaker 2: When you see, there was a huge storm that was raging. Okay,

6:51 Speaker 2: the apostle Paul is here on this boat and there's

6:55 Speaker 2: a storm and they tried everything, you know, like things

6:59 Speaker 2: were like going really really bad. They had not listened

7:02 Speaker 2: to divine instruction when Paul had spoken to them, So

7:05 Speaker 2: right now everything looked really really bad, and you have

7:10 Speaker 2: to understand something. When they tried everything, nothing worked. And

7:17 Speaker 2: finally the Bible says the soldiers cut off the ropes

7:23 Speaker 2: and let the ship drift away in the sense like

7:28 Speaker 2: if you see in some of the translations, it says

7:31 Speaker 2: that you know, they took you know, cutting loose their anchors,

7:34 Speaker 2: they left them, and they allowed the ship to go

7:39 Speaker 2: wherever it went. I want you to think about it.

7:42 Speaker 2: They literally let go of the control of the ship

7:46 Speaker 2: and that's how they ended up landing safely in Malta.

7:53 Speaker 2: And you know, fun fact, I was just coming to

7:55 Speaker 2: know recently about how Malta is still a huge Christian country,

7:59 Speaker 2: that the standards chance up for Christian principles and all

8:02 Speaker 2: of that stuff, and all that came across because of

8:07 Speaker 2: this storm, you know, which caused Apostle Paulity to land

8:12 Speaker 2: in this place. And you know how it all happened.

8:15 Speaker 2: When the storm was raging too much, they couldn't control

8:18 Speaker 2: the ship anymore. They let go and allowed the ship

8:24 Speaker 2: to take them whatever wherever, like whatever happens later, it

8:27 Speaker 2: happened like they took off the control and that is

8:32 Speaker 2: what guided them towards Malta. I wanted to think about this,

8:38 Speaker 2: if in your life. There are some areas things are

8:41 Speaker 2: not working. No matter what. If some area you're not

8:45 Speaker 2: able to see the hand of God, the move of God,

8:47 Speaker 2: the part of God, the presence of God, or you're

8:49 Speaker 2: not able to see the favor of God. Maybe this

8:53 Speaker 2: is a wake up call for you to introspect other

8:56 Speaker 2: areas where you're unwilling to let go. This is your

9:00 Speaker 2: moment to take off the sales, take off and let

9:05 Speaker 2: go and see. Let God lead you just like that

9:09 Speaker 2: in so you controlling it this, let it go with

9:12 Speaker 2: the flow, and you will be amazed to what God

9:15 Speaker 2: can take you through or where He can lead you,

9:19 Speaker 2: because that's another way where you'll actually get clarity. Or

9:23 Speaker 2: this is where God wanted to take me. This is

9:26 Speaker 2: where God wanted to lead me. This is the person

9:28 Speaker 2: God wanted to bring it into my life. This is

9:31 Speaker 2: the way God wanted to do and it is marvelous

9:35 Speaker 2: in our sight.

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