Not Every Open Door Is from GOD | Being Led by the Holy Spirit in Making Decisions | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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

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

0:46 Speaker 2: Hey, such a joy for me to join you today.

0:48 Speaker 2: If you've been checking out my episodes for the last

0:51 Speaker 2: couple of days this week, I've been talking about how

0:54 Speaker 2: we need to be aware and walk in that awareness

0:58 Speaker 2: of who's living on the insidifus, that is the Holy Spirit,

1:00 Speaker 2: and also the fact of how if you really want

1:03 Speaker 2: to testify for Jesus, if you really want to live

1:05 Speaker 2: the Christian life that you are called to live, you

1:08 Speaker 2: need to be aware of the presence of the Holy Spirit,

1:11 Speaker 2: and you need to develop your walk with the Holy Spirit,

1:14 Speaker 2: and you need to be in a place where you're

1:16 Speaker 2: sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit, because the

1:18 Speaker 2: Bible is very clear that we need to be always

1:20 Speaker 2: be filled with the Holy Spirit, that we need to

1:23 Speaker 2: be led by the Holy Spirit. And this is something

1:26 Speaker 2: that many times we in the back of our minds

1:28 Speaker 2: forget it because we are just living our life. I

1:31 Speaker 2: need to be aware, I need to make this decision,

1:33 Speaker 2: I need to do this, I need to do that.

1:35 Speaker 2: We are, you know, moving in that place of rational

1:38 Speaker 2: thinking and logical thinking where it's all about our decision making.

1:41 Speaker 2: But rather I want to challenge you that, yes, I'm

1:45 Speaker 2: not saying be stupid. I'm not saying be foolish. I'm

1:48 Speaker 2: not saying, you know, turn off your brain like I'm

1:51 Speaker 2: not saying in a negative light. But there's a place where, yes,

1:55 Speaker 2: you need to use wisdom discernment which God has given you.

1:58 Speaker 2: But there's also a place where you need to understand

2:01 Speaker 2: that you need to be led by the Holy Spirit.

2:03 Speaker 2: And sometimes when the Holy Spirit leads you, you may

2:06 Speaker 2: not even understand why he leads you in a certain way,

2:09 Speaker 2: and you need to still trust his leading because you

2:12 Speaker 2: know he knows what he's doing with your life. Now,

2:15 Speaker 2: let me give you an example, right, Like, for example,

2:18 Speaker 2: if you see one of the commandments that Jesus gave

2:22 Speaker 2: is go into all the world and preach the Gospel.

2:23 Speaker 2: This is like if I were to tell anybody, everybody

2:27 Speaker 2: would accept. Yes, Jesus wants you to go and preach,

2:30 Speaker 2: going and preaching about the cost good news of Jesus Christ,

2:33 Speaker 2: sharing the Word of God, sharing the Gospel, doing things

2:36 Speaker 2: for the Kingdom of God is something that nobody will

2:39 Speaker 2: deny as something bad. But I want to share something

2:42 Speaker 2: with you. If you look at Actscepter sixteen, right, there's

2:47 Speaker 2: something that really caught my attention. I think you might

2:49 Speaker 2: have heard about this section, but I just want to

2:52 Speaker 2: remind you and recommend this to you. If you look

2:55 Speaker 2: at verse six onwards, and I'm leading to you from

2:57 Speaker 2: the NLT version, right, Paul and Silas ravel through the

3:00 Speaker 2: area of Phrygia and Galicia because the Holy Spirit prevented

3:05 Speaker 2: them from preaching the Word of God in the province

3:08 Speaker 2: of Asia at that time. Okay, think about this. It

3:12 Speaker 2: seems like a contradiction. The Holy Spirit prevented them from

3:16 Speaker 2: preaching the Word of God, from preaching the gospel, Like

3:20 Speaker 2: come on, I mean like it seems like, oh man,

3:22 Speaker 2: you know what, if you look at it in the

3:24 Speaker 2: logical sense, it feels like it's the spirit of the Antichrist,

3:27 Speaker 2: because how can you say the Holy Spirit doesn't want

3:30 Speaker 2: you to preach? You know what I mean, Preaching is

3:32 Speaker 2: a good thing. Preaching is I mean, you don't want

3:34 Speaker 2: souls to get lost, right, But here's the thing I

3:36 Speaker 2: wanted to go on. Then, coming to the borders of Mysia,

3:40 Speaker 2: they headed north for the province of Bithnia, but again

3:44 Speaker 2: the spirit of Jesus did not allow them to go there.

3:47 Speaker 2: Think about this like, it seems like a contradiction. So

3:51 Speaker 2: instead they went on too Mysia to the seaport of Proess.

3:55 Speaker 2: Verse nine says that night Paul ad Division, a man

3:58 Speaker 2: from Macedonia in Greece or standing there, pleading with them,

4:01 Speaker 2: come over to Macedonia and help us. So we decided

4:05 Speaker 2: to leave for Macedonia at once, having concluded that God

4:08 Speaker 2: was calling us to preach to good news there. Now

4:11 Speaker 2: think about this even a thing like, Okay, you know what,

4:14 Speaker 2: I'm called to preach, So it doesn't matter where I

4:16 Speaker 2: got to go. I'm called to do this good work.

4:18 Speaker 2: So it doesn't matter which strategy God wants me to

4:21 Speaker 2: use I'm called to do ministry. It doesn't matter which

4:24 Speaker 2: a platform I should use. You know, that's how we

4:27 Speaker 2: generally think. But God is saying, you know what, even

4:30 Speaker 2: in that, you need to be led by the spirit,

4:32 Speaker 2: because sometimes God may not lead you to do certain

4:35 Speaker 2: things the way others expect. People may tell, oh, you're

4:38 Speaker 2: called to preach, just go and preach. Oh you need

4:40 Speaker 2: to be the light in the darkness. Go and be

4:42 Speaker 2: the light in the darkness in this platform, on this network,

4:45 Speaker 2: or go on this particular neighborhood or this community. But

4:49 Speaker 2: here's the thing I wanted to understand that you need

4:51 Speaker 2: to be in a place where you're so sensitive to

4:53 Speaker 2: the leading of the Holy Spirit that even if he

4:56 Speaker 2: leads you in a way that contradicts normal direction, are

4:59 Speaker 2: you will to take the price for that? Because if

5:02 Speaker 2: I were to go and say the Law told me

5:04 Speaker 2: not to preach, you may call me the Antichrist. You

5:07 Speaker 2: may say I'm led by her an evil spirit. You

5:09 Speaker 2: may say that that contradicts the word. But yes, the

5:12 Speaker 2: thing you see that the Holy Spirit himself led them

5:17 Speaker 2: away from preaching in certain places and led them to

5:20 Speaker 2: where they were supposed to be see can you be

5:23 Speaker 2: in a place where you develop your relationship with the

5:25 Speaker 2: Holy Spirit so much that you are knowing without a

5:29 Speaker 2: shadow for that that He wants you to go in

5:31 Speaker 2: a certain direction. He wants you to take a certain step,

5:34 Speaker 2: He wants you to follow a certain methodology or a strategy.

5:37 Speaker 2: He wants you to go in a certain way getting

5:40 Speaker 2: about to finishing the purpose that God has in store

5:43 Speaker 2: for you. You can't explain it to people. People may

5:46 Speaker 2: not understand it. You can't put it on paper, you

5:48 Speaker 2: can't explain it with da But can you get to

5:51 Speaker 2: that place where you say, you know what, if this

5:53 Speaker 2: is the way the Holy Spirit is leading. Just like

5:56 Speaker 2: the minute they got that vision, Diminity saw that there

6:00 Speaker 2: was a leading in a certain direction, they concluded that

6:03 Speaker 2: the Lord was leading them to go and preach the

6:06 Speaker 2: good news there. So today and my challenge is the

6:08 Speaker 2: same thing. Develop your relationship with God to an extent

6:11 Speaker 2: where you're not just led by your feelings, your emotions,

6:14 Speaker 2: by open doors and close doors. Just because you can

6:17 Speaker 2: go to a certain place doesn't mean God wants you

6:18 Speaker 2: to go there. You need to be sensitive to the

6:21 Speaker 2: Holy Spirit such that you know that the Lord wants

6:24 Speaker 2: you to go to a certain place. He will open

6:26 Speaker 2: the right doors. He will make a way in the

6:28 Speaker 2: right direction that He will take you places that He

6:32 Speaker 2: is meant for your life.

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