Interviewing Annie Mayfield - Part 2 | Living Your Purpose in Life | John Giftah Podcast

0:00 Speaker 1: There are a lot of people who just live that kind of a life and it's all about like themselves, you know from a time.

0:06 Speaker 2: I've seen or what's your aim in life?

0:08 Speaker 3: Oh?

0:08 Speaker 1: I just want to go and finish a course, I want to get a job, I want to get married. You know, it's all about me myself and I what am I going to do? It's all about themselves. But I believe that each one of us are called for a purpose. And that's the essence of my second best seller, which I wrote on Bail Your Purpose, because I want people to understand that every single one here is your buyer purpose for a purpose by God, and that's very unique to each and every one of us. And I really love the fact that you know you are on the same lines with it.

0:41 Speaker 1: You know when I check out your YouTube channel. The first introduction that start with is that everybody is a messenger of God. Everybody has a unique calling, has a purpose. It doesn't have to be on a purpose.

0:52 Speaker 3: The way you shine the light that God gave you in all spaces that He's trusted you to walk. Wherever you are, you have the responsibility to shine God's light in that space.

1:05 Speaker 1: And I resonate with that a million times because I believe in the same thing that you know. You know, purpose is not just started church or a ministry or a charitable organization. It's about being the light in the darkness. It can be in the entertainment industry and you know to recently, I interviewed an Olibod Disney actress who also has a ministry, Gabriella Graves. I also interviewed another actor from Nigeria from our Kings of Comedy. He's a lead actor and he also prays and he makes content so that through entertainment and through those things, he wants to share the word of God.

1:40 Speaker 1: So I believe in being a person who is not just this, you know, this spiritual person. You know what, Oh I'm so holdly, you know, stuff like that that you're so unapproachable. But we need to get to a place where each one of us have a purpose in different areas. And my heart is the same whether it's politics or entertainment or somebody maybe in the education or somebody else in leadership. We need to go out into the world, into the dark places and start living out a purpose. So that's your heart as well.

2:10 Speaker 1: So what you got to had onto this.

2:12 Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I so much. But I think what you said was so beautiful about It's like even the title of your book Unveil your Purpose, right, like so beautifully r you think the process of unveiling, it's not always it's not easy, it's it's not pain free. Yes, Christ lives in us, but to tap into that and for us to look more like Him, there's a process of unbecoming and that can be really painful, that can be really excruciating. I think about in agriculture, and my preacher talked about this on Sunday.

2:46 Speaker 3: But you know, in the process of agriculture, like the when a seed takes root, there can't be any stones in the ground and in the soil. And he said one time he was farming and the seed wasn't growing pu there were these massive stones way onunderneath the soil preventing its growth. And I think, you know, that process of unveiling looks a lot like God removing stones out of our soil so we become good soil. But that's really hard and that's really painful. When even if your stone is your ministry, how many people you baptized on a regular basis how much you know about the Bible.

3:21 Speaker 3: It's like knowing about God versus knowing God. But I think about the blessing of trials and the blessings of test. You know, Jacob and Esau. I love the story of Jacob in Hissau, and you know, Esau says in the Bible like God loved Jacob, he hated Esau. While that word hated and Hebrew actually means more like just God withdrew his favor. His favor wasn't on Esau. However, you look at the story of Esau. Esau was blessed man like he had he was so wealthy, he had so much stuff, and so by every nature of the world, it looked like God's favor was on Esau.

3:55 Speaker 3: So what's the difference between Jacob and Esau. Well, Jacob went through a lot more trials than Esan and so through the trials he unbecame everything he never was to die looking more like his savior. And that's what you know. So the next time you go through a trial, you go through a test, you go through that unveiling. It doesn't feel good, but what a blessing because with each you know, chivl of the sculpture. I'm becoming and looking more like my Savior. And because of that, you know, you have like the lights inside of you from your spirit, and so with each crack, which with each break, you can shine that light in in the area.

4:31 Speaker 3: Whether you're an actress, whether you're an engineer, whether you're a salesperson, wherever you go, like you're serving God just as much as you're at your nine to five as you are when you're preaching in a pulpit. It's where you shine His light wherever you are.

4:48 Speaker 2: That's so true, That's so true.

4:50 Speaker 1: I just love the wing you gave an example of Yeah, you know people thinking that. You know, sometimes I've seen when they talk about purpose, people say, well, I just I just want to jump into it because I'm lazy. I don't want to go to one nine to five job, you know, I want to it's not a podcast so that I can become a millionaire in three months and quit my job.

5:07 Speaker 2: I'm like, you know, I've been doing this for a long time. People, It's not as easy as it looks.

5:12 Speaker 3: Well, And immediately can Roger going to say, like I can relate to you on that, like I told you this before, but like, I work a full time job and I write my books and in my podcast, and I hear the same thing. I mean, I'm twenty six, so it is like my generation that I hear all the time. I just want to do a podcast. Some people think I do it full time. I'm like absolutely not like, but I think sometimes it's one. Your purpose is you're called to Jesus Christ. You're called to a person. The beauty of that is that never changes no matter if you're a mom, if you're a dad, if you're a corporate worker, if you were a cousin, if you're a daughter, if you're a podcast host.

5:44 Speaker 3: Your purpose remains the same. The expression of that will change based off of your season. One season, I was a college athlete, that was my expression of my purpose, which is always to know Christ. Now obviously I'm not a college athlete, but I didn't lose my purpose because my purpose it's a person and that's Jesus and to make him known.

6:02 Speaker 1: God just uses us in our generation in the very unique space and in a very different way. And it's not an easy thing, like you know, it's it's unveiling, is like, it's a process. It's and I think it's more about coming down to ourselves, discovery.

6:18 Speaker 2: Who we are, what is the thing that we are born to do? Like simple thing.

6:21 Speaker 3: You know.

6:22 Speaker 1: Earlier this year, I realized that I need to go into some kind of fitness because I was getting out of shape, and because you know, the Bible is clear right, you know, your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. And I realized gym is not my thing, you know, running sports is not my thing.

6:38 Speaker 2: Uh.

6:39 Speaker 1: And then I loved I love water, and I just realized that. And I'm a big fan of the you know movie or this aspect of Titanic. So I'm like, well, you know what, I love water, So let me try swimming. And so it was a way to trick my mind. I realized that that every time I swim from one corner to the other, I just feel like, you know, the ship is sinking, you know, swim fart, swim far, so you think way of uh, you know, like just tuning my brain to think that way. Now, you know, I just completed six months of swimming, and I turned.

7:10 Speaker 2: Down and I look attracted now, you know.

7:13 Speaker 1: In a way, it's a sense of self discovery, right, I found what works for me and now it's working out for me. You know, like you said, Uh, your God's favor works only in the field that God has called you for. You know, people just say, you know, all things work to work together for good. You know, yeah, that's part of the words. But when you are called according to his purpose, you know, only when you are in the field that you're called to. You know, when you're in that purpose that God has called you, that's where all things are going to work together for good.

7:43 Speaker 1: It was when we talk about you know, like I said, Christian Singer, one of the topics people talked about this, Ruth and Boaz, right, it's it's not that just by accident they ended up meeting.

7:54 Speaker 2: It was in the field that they met.

7:57 Speaker 1: If Ruth was sitting and just crying, oh, man's she has to keep putting ashtang waiting for my boys, and.

8:03 Speaker 2: She'll still be waiting today. Why she had to go to the field.

8:09 Speaker 1: And boys also had to be not like, oh, I'm the rich guy, I'm the ruler, you know, why should I go to the field, you know and let my workers work. But he was not from place and he went to the field. And that's how boys and Ruth mean so sometimes we need to go to the field of purpose that God has for us. That's where favor comes. That's where we see things work out, that's where we see God align things, and that's how things will actually be more effective.

8:34 Speaker 2: That's how God will start using a.

8:35 Speaker 1: Lot of people just say God, use me, use me, use me. But if you're just a parked card, God cannot use it. You need to keep moving. Then God is going to start using you.

8:43 Speaker 3: So everything he said, I just I'm like, amen, Like take me the church. That's awesome.