Lean Not on Your Own Understanding - Prov 3:5b | Christian Sermon | John Giftah

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0:48 Speaker 2: I want to talk about the fact where the Bible

0:51 Speaker 2: says lean not on your own understanding. Now, many times,

0:54 Speaker 2: even though we say we trust God, even though we

0:56 Speaker 2: say that you know, we want God's plan to prevail

0:59 Speaker 2: a way life, even though we say, you know what,

1:01 Speaker 2: I want God to do what only he can do,

1:03 Speaker 2: and all of these things we say, but sometimes you know,

1:06 Speaker 2: without our own understanding, we start trusting on our own

1:10 Speaker 2: and you know, skills, our own abilities. We start trusting people,

1:15 Speaker 2: We start trusting on our own self, and at the

1:19 Speaker 2: same time we start, you know, getting to the place

1:22 Speaker 2: where we think, you know, I know this, you know

1:24 Speaker 2: I can handle this. We start leaning on our own understanding.

1:28 Speaker 2: You know what I mean. So today my challenge is,

1:30 Speaker 2: you know, I want you to check yourself and introspect.

1:32 Speaker 2: Maybe there are areas in your life where God is

1:34 Speaker 2: leading you in a different path, but you are not

1:37 Speaker 2: listening to him. You're not depending on him, you're not

1:40 Speaker 2: leaning on him, you're not allowing him to lead you.

1:43 Speaker 2: You're not you know, trusting him with all your heart.

1:46 Speaker 2: So what you're actually doing is without your realizing, sometimes

1:50 Speaker 2: you end up leaning on your own understanding. You think, like,

1:53 Speaker 2: you know what, this is the best decision because I'm

1:55 Speaker 2: making this very informed decision. You know, there's a place

1:59 Speaker 2: for informed, there's a place for wisdom, there's a place

2:02 Speaker 2: for you know, being wise in the way you need

2:04 Speaker 2: to handle there's no doubt about it. But there's a

2:06 Speaker 2: place you need to understand where if God is leading

2:09 Speaker 2: in a certain direction, you should be willing to trust

2:12 Speaker 2: him to the point where you stop leaning on your

2:14 Speaker 2: own understanding and start depending on God. Today, my question is,

2:20 Speaker 2: are you going to the place where you trust Him

2:22 Speaker 2: and you have stopped leaning on your own understanding? Thinking

2:28 Speaker 2: like this is the best way to go, This is

2:30 Speaker 2: the best strategy I've been experienced in this. I have

2:34 Speaker 2: so much of knowledge. I've studied in this so and

2:36 Speaker 2: so best institute. I learned so much. I've gone through

2:39 Speaker 2: so much. I know this. I've been here for a

2:41 Speaker 2: long time, so I know everything. So the minute you

2:43 Speaker 2: have that attitude that you know everything is when you

2:47 Speaker 2: end up losing everything. I challenge you to get to

2:50 Speaker 2: that place of humility. You know one thing, I'm just

2:53 Speaker 2: saying this from my heart. Even this morning when I

2:56 Speaker 2: was talking to the Lord when I'm praying, I said, God,

2:58 Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, I don't know how to pray correctly. Please,

3:01 Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, you lead me to pray. You know, I

3:04 Speaker 2: want you to understand. You know, that is the heart

3:06 Speaker 2: of humility. I want you to have where even a

3:09 Speaker 2: thing like prayer, I've been praying for a long time.

3:11 Speaker 2: I know I've experienced a lot of amazing things in

3:14 Speaker 2: my life through prayer, and you know, tapping into the

3:17 Speaker 2: amazing levels and encounters through prayer. But still, the heart

3:22 Speaker 2: of attitude that you and I need to have is

3:24 Speaker 2: that humility where you say, God, I don't know to

3:27 Speaker 2: do this. I want to depend on your Holy Spirit.

3:29 Speaker 2: You help me, you teach me, you guide me, you

3:32 Speaker 2: mold me. When you start depending on him, then you

3:34 Speaker 2: start leaning on him. That's when you tap into unstapped

3:39 Speaker 2: territories in your life. Are you getting what I'm saying today?

3:42 Speaker 2: My challenge is instead of going on your own understanding,

3:45 Speaker 2: thinking like, you know, I know how to pray, I

3:46 Speaker 2: know how to read the Bible. You know, today I

3:48 Speaker 2: was like, God, I want you to tell me what

3:50 Speaker 2: you want me to read. And He led me to

3:52 Speaker 2: the right place at the right time. This is how

3:54 Speaker 2: God leads me to write it to the right place

3:56 Speaker 2: at the right time. When I just took in the

3:58 Speaker 2: microphone and I said, God, I want you to what is

4:01 Speaker 2: the series? You want me to do? What you want

4:03 Speaker 2: me to preach? What you want me to do on

4:05 Speaker 2: the podcast? You know, God leads me to the right

4:07 Speaker 2: thing at the right time. And I'm telling you when

4:09 Speaker 2: you start depending on the Holy Spirit, when you start

4:12 Speaker 2: acknowledging Him, and when you start leaning on God instead

4:16 Speaker 2: of leaning on your own understanding thinking this is the

4:18 Speaker 2: best thing to do, I'm telling you you will see

4:21 Speaker 2: God lead you. You will see him direct your steps.

4:25 Speaker 2: He is a faithful God. He is a prayer answering God.

4:30 Speaker 2: If you have a prayer today that you say, I

4:33 Speaker 2: want not to lean on my own and I want

4:36 Speaker 2: to lean on God more, and you say, God, I

4:39 Speaker 2: want you to direct my steps. When you say, God,

4:41 Speaker 2: help me to trust you more. God, I don't know

4:43 Speaker 2: how to pray. I don't know how to do this.

4:45 Speaker 2: I don't know how to do this the way you

4:47 Speaker 2: want me to do. When you start depending on Him,

4:49 Speaker 2: when you start humbling yourself, I'm telling you that is

4:54 Speaker 2: when you will see God take you places that you

4:57 Speaker 2: never even imagine.

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