Getting Clarity in Life (Part 6) | Slow Down to Hear GOD Clearly | 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 Gifta.

0:46 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:48 Speaker 2: the Soul with John Gifta podcast where we're talking about

0:52 Speaker 2: various aspects with regard to getting clarity in life, and

0:55 Speaker 2: I really recommend you to go through the rest of

0:57 Speaker 2: the segments that we have spoken about since last week.

1:01 Speaker 2: We're talking about to various aspects on how you can

1:04 Speaker 2: look at various things and inculcate certain things and how

1:07 Speaker 2: you can do the right things in such a way

1:09 Speaker 2: that you will be able to get the clarity that

1:12 Speaker 2: you'd require in your life. And today, one of the

1:14 Speaker 2: things I want to talk about with regard to getting clarity,

1:17 Speaker 2: is that sometimes you know, when we're in the s

1:20 Speaker 2: Rutter race of life, on the constant mood, and we're

1:24 Speaker 2: always saying, you know what, I need to do this,

1:25 Speaker 2: I need to do that, and where we're tied up

1:27 Speaker 2: with so many commitments, or maybe we regard to the future,

1:32 Speaker 2: we regard to your calling, we re got to relationships

1:34 Speaker 2: or whatever. You may be in a place where in

1:36 Speaker 2: that constant mode where you keep wanting to do something,

1:41 Speaker 2: do something, do something, But there are two sides studies.

1:44 Speaker 2: One of the aspects that I want to talk about is,

1:46 Speaker 2: of course, you cannot be lazy, and you cannot just

1:48 Speaker 2: be like you know what, complacent and expect you know,

1:51 Speaker 2: everything to fall in place. But there is a place

1:54 Speaker 2: where sometimes we tend to go into this work mode,

1:57 Speaker 2: default mode, where we are constantly in that place where

1:59 Speaker 2: it's all about our striving, where hard hard work, where

2:02 Speaker 2: we put our hope, trust and reliance on our own

2:04 Speaker 2: efforts and accomplishments. Instead of getting that to the place

2:08 Speaker 2: where we take a step back, where we just pause

2:12 Speaker 2: and we just slow down to see things from a

2:15 Speaker 2: different perspective. I hope you're getting what I'm saying, because

2:19 Speaker 2: there is another aspect which I want to talk about

2:21 Speaker 2: in another segment with regard to slowing down and taking

2:24 Speaker 2: a step back. But today I want to talk about

2:26 Speaker 2: one aspect of regarding slowing down. You see, when when

2:30 Speaker 2: we're driving fast on the highway, or you're riding too

2:35 Speaker 2: fast somewhere and you're not sure of the place, you're

2:40 Speaker 2: not sure of the road, what.

2:41 Speaker 1: Do you do?

2:42 Speaker 2: You can't, you know, you continue in the same pace.

2:46 Speaker 2: What do you have to do? You got to slow down,

2:48 Speaker 2: you know. I remember there was a moment where on

2:50 Speaker 2: my birthday last year, I had to go first bike ride,

2:55 Speaker 2: uh and my brother was coming in the other bike

2:59 Speaker 2: on his and I was just zooming. I was like, man,

3:04 Speaker 2: this is so cool. And I think this was one

3:06 Speaker 2: of the very first moments when I was actually experiencing

3:10 Speaker 2: my bike on the highway, riding at one hundred limited

3:14 Speaker 2: speed per hour. I was so excited, you know. And

3:17 Speaker 2: at that moment, there was a time when my brother

3:20 Speaker 2: was trying to call me and signal to me saying, hey,

3:24 Speaker 2: you know what, we were supposed to take this right,

3:26 Speaker 2: we were supposed to take this road. But I didn't listen,

3:29 Speaker 2: I didn't pay attention, and I kept zooming, zooming, zooming,

3:33 Speaker 2: till I went to a point where I lost the

3:36 Speaker 2: way and we bought met at one point, and then

3:40 Speaker 2: we realized that we had come a long way in

3:43 Speaker 2: the wrong direction and we didn't know what to do,

3:46 Speaker 2: and we had to take u turns and we had

3:50 Speaker 2: to look for alternative routes, which was you know, like

3:55 Speaker 2: there were so many detours and all of these things

3:57 Speaker 2: that we had to deal with, and then it's a

4:01 Speaker 2: raining and finally we reached home about two hours later

4:07 Speaker 2: because of you know that the moment of me not

4:11 Speaker 2: slowing down. I want you to understand something here. You know,

4:16 Speaker 2: God will eventually take us to our final destination, no

4:18 Speaker 2: doubt about it. But sometimes the delays happen not because

4:22 Speaker 2: we're too slow, but because we're too fast. I wanted

4:26 Speaker 2: to understand. Sometimes the delays happen because we're not going

4:30 Speaker 2: at the pace that we are meant to go. Sometimes

4:33 Speaker 2: God wants us to go slow so that we can

4:35 Speaker 2: see the clear direction, so that we can take the

4:38 Speaker 2: right road, so that we will reach our destination. If

4:43 Speaker 2: I had gone slow, I would have been able to

4:46 Speaker 2: see the milestone or the direction posts out there which

4:53 Speaker 2: will tell me you got to take this left or

4:55 Speaker 2: this right. But because I was zooming, I missed seeing that,

5:02 Speaker 2: and that's why I had this deetour of over two hours.

5:05 Speaker 2: I want you to understand this important truth. Guys. Sometimes

5:09 Speaker 2: the reason why you're not getting clarity is not because

5:12 Speaker 2: you're not moving, but you're moving too fast. Okay, there

5:16 Speaker 2: is a place for moving, there is a place for resting,

5:19 Speaker 2: and I'm going to talk about all of those things.

5:20 Speaker 2: But today my message to you is it's time for

5:23 Speaker 2: you to slow down. It's time for you to slow

5:26 Speaker 2: down a little. Maybe you're going too fast, and that's

5:32 Speaker 2: why you're missing moments. You're missing opportunities, you're missing the

5:39 Speaker 2: people that God wants to connect you because you're too fast.

5:43 Speaker 2: You're running ahead of the pace that God has designed

5:48 Speaker 2: for you. I want you to think about this. You see,

5:52 Speaker 2: only when you come to that place of getting synced

5:56 Speaker 2: with the plan and the purposes of God away your life,

6:00 Speaker 2: then you know, like a Cairo's moment, things will fall

6:03 Speaker 2: in place. Then you will see God, you know, making

6:08 Speaker 2: you be at the right place at the right time,

6:09 Speaker 2: like how Boas was in the field when Routh walked

6:13 Speaker 2: into the right field. You see, if Bos was like busy,

6:18 Speaker 2: Oh you know what, I don't want to just stay

6:19 Speaker 2: in this field and let me go buy more fields

6:22 Speaker 2: or build more fields, you know, probably he would have

6:24 Speaker 2: been in a different field rather than being in the

6:27 Speaker 2: field that he was in where Ruth stepped in. You see,

6:31 Speaker 2: I want you to understand something that sometimes the importance

6:37 Speaker 2: of slowing down can never can never be replaced, Like,

6:43 Speaker 2: you need to slow down. You need to check, you

6:48 Speaker 2: know what, if something is not working, if you're not

6:52 Speaker 2: getting clarity, you need to introspect. You need to slow

6:57 Speaker 2: down a bit. You see, when we think about Peter

7:03 Speaker 2: and the gang, when they fished all night they caught nothing.

7:06 Speaker 2: They didn't say, you know what, I'm going to listen

7:08 Speaker 2: to a motivational speaker, say don't give up, so let's

7:12 Speaker 2: keep fishing till, you know, we get fish. They didn't

7:16 Speaker 2: do that. At one point they stopped fishing. They came back.

7:22 Speaker 2: They came back, and only when they came back to

7:24 Speaker 2: the shore, Jesus was walking by, and then he walked

7:30 Speaker 2: and he started preaching from Peter's boat, and then the

7:34 Speaker 2: rest is history. If they were still fishing, Jesus wouldn't

7:39 Speaker 2: have walked into Peter's boat, and none of those things

7:43 Speaker 2: would have ever happened. You get what I'm saying. So

7:46 Speaker 2: as much as we have to have this never give

7:48 Speaker 2: up attitude and keep going, there's a place for all

7:51 Speaker 2: of that. But there's also a place if something is

7:54 Speaker 2: not working. Slow down. It's okay, slow down, come back

7:59 Speaker 2: to the show. Because only when they came back to

8:02 Speaker 2: the shore, Jesus stepped into the boat and made history.

8:07 Speaker 2: Only when you slow down you will get the instruction

8:10 Speaker 2: that God wants to give away your life. Only when

8:13 Speaker 2: you slow down you can hear what God wants to say.

8:16 Speaker 2: Like I said with my example with my brother, he

8:19 Speaker 2: was trying to reach me, reach me, but I was

8:21 Speaker 2: riding at one hundred kilometers per hour. I didn't listen.

8:25 Speaker 2: But when I slowed down and I was wondering where

8:27 Speaker 2: am I, and then took my phone, I realized he

8:29 Speaker 2: had called me so many times, and then I had

8:33 Speaker 2: to speak to him, and then we met, and then

8:36 Speaker 2: we took the new route towards a home. So that's

8:41 Speaker 2: what I want to challenge each one of you today

8:43 Speaker 2: in this segment, that you need to learn to slow down,

8:47 Speaker 2: slow down. Just like Peter at that moment, he didn't

8:50 Speaker 2: keep fishing, he came back to the shore. He slowed

8:53 Speaker 2: down that process. You need to slow down, whether if

8:57 Speaker 2: you if you're like, oh my gosh, you know what,

8:58 Speaker 2: I'm not getting someone so you're going from one dating

9:01 Speaker 2: site to another one one dating app to another, or

9:04 Speaker 2: if you're trying to build your online business or your

9:10 Speaker 2: online presence and you're going from one platform to another.

9:13 Speaker 2: You're trying the new strategy. The algorithm measure all of

9:16 Speaker 2: those things over and over if something is not working out.

9:19 Speaker 2: This is a wake up call for you to slow

9:21 Speaker 2: down and see what God is asking you to do.

9:25 Speaker 2: What is God leading you to do, and when you

9:28 Speaker 2: slow down, you will get better clarity away your life.

9:32 Speaker 2: I want you to stay tuned in the next couple

9:34 Speaker 2: of days as well, because there are a lot of

9:36 Speaker 2: more topics to cover with regard to creating clarity in life,

9:39 Speaker 2: and I believe these are practical and they will be

9:42 Speaker 2: really helpful to you even with your life. I challenge

9:45 Speaker 2: you to share this around because I believe it is

9:48 Speaker 2: helping a lot of people and it will continue to

9:50 Speaker 2: help them when you do that.

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