Getting Clarity in Life (Part 3) Wrong Voices Block Clarity | John Giftah

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0:48 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:50 Speaker 2: the Soul with John gift of podcast. And if you've

0:53 Speaker 2: been checking out the last few episodes on the series,

0:56 Speaker 2: we've been talking about getting clarity in life, and I

0:58 Speaker 2: believe that it is such a neat topic, especially in

1:01 Speaker 2: the beginning of the year. A lot of people are

1:03 Speaker 2: seeking clarity. What decision should I make? Where should I go?

1:06 Speaker 2: What should I do? And you're in a place where

1:08 Speaker 2: you're saying, John, yes, you're saying that I should hear

1:11 Speaker 2: the voice of God, which is what I spoke about

1:14 Speaker 2: in the first segment of the series, and then yesterday

1:18 Speaker 2: I was talking to you about how God is not

1:20 Speaker 2: going to give you the full picture, and you need

1:22 Speaker 2: to get started with the word that He has given you,

1:25 Speaker 2: with the message He has given you, with the instructions

1:27 Speaker 2: He has given you. When you get started, when you

1:29 Speaker 2: get going, God will eventually speak to you. God will

1:32 Speaker 2: eventually start guiding you when he needs to give you

1:36 Speaker 2: more information. And today I want to talk about one

1:39 Speaker 2: more aspect where you may be saying, John, that sounds great. Yes,

1:42 Speaker 2: you're saying that God will bring clarity, God will speak

1:45 Speaker 2: to me. But I'm in a place where I feel

1:48 Speaker 2: that God has not given me any instruction to get started.

1:51 Speaker 2: I feel like, you know what, I'm not getting any

1:54 Speaker 2: clarity in my life at all. I feel so clouded.

1:56 Speaker 2: I feel like I'm in a very foggy situation. I

1:59 Speaker 2: do not know what decision to make, what step to take,

2:02 Speaker 2: and where to go, what to do. I'm really, really,

2:05 Speaker 2: really stuck in my life. Well, today, one of the

2:07 Speaker 2: things I want to talk about is the importance of

2:10 Speaker 2: you checking out the people of the card has asked

2:15 Speaker 2: you to leave, or the wrong people in your life.

2:18 Speaker 2: Now I wanted to say this very respectfully. I'm not

2:22 Speaker 2: saying let go of people, or you know, like cut

2:26 Speaker 2: off all ties with people. I'm not saying you should

2:30 Speaker 2: just walk out of every relationship or sometimes you need

2:32 Speaker 2: to you know, like I'm not saying in that sense,

2:36 Speaker 2: to be abrupt, to be you know, someone who hates

2:41 Speaker 2: on people, who's just suddenly disappearing from people. That's not

2:45 Speaker 2: what I mean. But listen to this carefully. You need

2:47 Speaker 2: to be cautious about the influence of certain people in

2:51 Speaker 2: your life. One of the scriptures I want to start

2:53 Speaker 2: by talking to you today is found in Genesis thirteen,

2:57 Speaker 2: verse fourteen, which says, after and departed, the Lord's spoke

3:04 Speaker 2: to Abraham. After Lot and departed, God spoke to Abraham.

3:09 Speaker 2: I wanted to pause and think about this. God did

3:14 Speaker 2: not speak to Abraham anytime soon while Lord was still there.

3:20 Speaker 2: But the scripture is very clear in giving us this

3:23 Speaker 2: information that have the Lot departed, the Lord spoke to Abraham.

3:30 Speaker 2: I don't know who needs to hear this word, but

3:32 Speaker 2: some of you need to come out of certain circles,

3:38 Speaker 2: certain communities, certain groups of people. You need to start

3:41 Speaker 2: distancing yourself from certain people, or maybe you need to

3:46 Speaker 2: stop allowing certain voices to dictate your life. You need

3:51 Speaker 2: to stop allowing certain people from influencing the decisions in

3:56 Speaker 2: your life. Today, I wanted to think about this. Maybe

4:00 Speaker 2: the reason why you're not able to hear God is

4:03 Speaker 2: because you're hearing other voices more loudly in comparisons to

4:08 Speaker 2: the voice of God. That's why maybe you need to

4:11 Speaker 2: get to that place where you're intentional in saying, let me,

4:14 Speaker 2: you know, maybe start distancing myself from this voice. Maybe

4:18 Speaker 2: this is not the right I mean, somebody may mean well,

4:22 Speaker 2: they may have good intentions, but maybe they are not

4:25 Speaker 2: someone who has the blueprint for your life as much

4:29 Speaker 2: as God has. I mean, they may have good intentions,

4:32 Speaker 2: they may mean well, but God is the one who's

4:36 Speaker 2: leading you, guiding you, and has the plan and purpose

4:38 Speaker 2: for your life. So sometimes even well meaning people may

4:42 Speaker 2: not understand what God intends to do in your life.

4:46 Speaker 2: And that is why it is so very important for

4:49 Speaker 2: each one of us to come to that place and say,

4:52 Speaker 2: maybe the reason I'm not hearing God, maybe the reason

4:56 Speaker 2: why God is still silent. Maybe the reason why I'm

5:01 Speaker 2: not getting to hear God's voice clearly is because there

5:06 Speaker 2: are other noises that are speaking very loudly into my life.

5:11 Speaker 2: And this is a wake up call for you to

5:13 Speaker 2: introspect the people in your life. There may be people

5:16 Speaker 2: that you need to start distancing yourself. There may be

5:19 Speaker 2: family members you can't just upproptly cut ties, but maybe

5:22 Speaker 2: you can allow them to influence the decisions of your life.

5:27 Speaker 2: Maybe there are certain groups of people that are you know,

5:32 Speaker 2: making you have other thought processes. You know, for instance,

5:36 Speaker 2: there were good people who meant well. There were circles

5:40 Speaker 2: that I was, you know, a part of, and all

5:44 Speaker 2: of that, and there were moments, you know, as long

5:47 Speaker 2: as I'm a part of the groups, everything seeing like yo,

5:50 Speaker 2: you know what what the ideas they're giving seem so nice.

5:53 Speaker 2: You know, this is so fun and so good. This

5:56 Speaker 2: is like you know, they used to even give me

5:59 Speaker 2: ideas on the minute, and all of these things till

6:02 Speaker 2: a moment came when the Lord cut i mean, made

6:06 Speaker 2: me get out of those circles. And I'm telling you,

6:09 Speaker 2: when I started distancing myself, I started realizing how many

6:13 Speaker 2: of those ideas, how many of those thought processes, were

6:17 Speaker 2: actually not in alignment with the will and word of God. See,

6:23 Speaker 2: sometimes we are part of certain groups, and we think

6:26 Speaker 2: just because this is what everybody thinks, this is what

6:29 Speaker 2: everybody believes in my circle, I think that is the

6:31 Speaker 2: right thing. You know. One of the words that the

6:34 Speaker 2: Lord was speaking to me yesterday was I was meditating

6:37 Speaker 2: on God's word about the One of the aspects is

6:41 Speaker 2: regarding the culture that we are living in. If you see,

6:46 Speaker 2: especially from an Indian perspective, in the corporate sector, when

6:50 Speaker 2: you're working, many of them have a very toxic environment

6:54 Speaker 2: where there's no workular balance that there is no you know,

6:58 Speaker 2: like in you know, like place for taking care of

7:00 Speaker 2: your health, or the balance with taking care of your

7:03 Speaker 2: commitments or working on your calling. You know, it's like work, work, work,

7:08 Speaker 2: from the minute you wake up till the minute you

7:11 Speaker 2: go to bed. It's all about that cycle that many

7:13 Speaker 2: people are living in. And a lot of times people say,

7:17 Speaker 2: you know, we're living in such a world. We need

7:18 Speaker 2: to accept it. This is how it is everywhere. But

7:21 Speaker 2: then the Lord is challenging me to think, just because

7:24 Speaker 2: everybody says this is the normal doesn't mean this is

7:27 Speaker 2: God's will. You have to understand that, right, you have

7:30 Speaker 2: to come to that place like just because everybody's like,

7:34 Speaker 2: you know, this is the social media world we're living in.

7:36 Speaker 2: Everything is measured by how many likes, views, shares, and

7:41 Speaker 2: comments and engagement that you're receiving. It's all about the followers,

7:44 Speaker 2: the subscribers, and all of that. Numbers numbers, numbers, numbers.

7:48 Speaker 2: But just because that's how the world system believes, doesn't

7:52 Speaker 2: mean that's how the word of God says. You get

7:55 Speaker 2: what I'm saying. So that's where you need to come

7:58 Speaker 2: back to that place, to come back to the place

8:01 Speaker 2: of peace, come back to the place of trust, come

8:04 Speaker 2: back to the place where you say, God, you know what.

8:08 Speaker 1: I want to.

8:09 Speaker 2: Really introspect this circle or this community, this group, these

8:15 Speaker 2: nice people, they have nice people. They may mean well,

8:18 Speaker 2: maybe family members, friends, whoever it is. But this decision

8:23 Speaker 2: or this choice, or this advice or this word of counsel,

8:27 Speaker 2: is it in alignment with your will? Is it in

8:30 Speaker 2: alignment with your word? Is it in alignment with your principles?

8:34 Speaker 2: Is it in alignment with what you have called me

8:38 Speaker 2: to do? If that is not the case, even if

8:41 Speaker 2: they are the closest ones, even if they are gone

8:45 Speaker 2: to so many great extents to actually help you in

8:47 Speaker 2: the past, I'm not saying ditch them. I'm not saying

8:51 Speaker 2: throw them away. I'm not saying don't honor them, be

8:54 Speaker 2: grateful for how they helped you in the past. But

8:57 Speaker 2: you need to draw in the line in the sand.

8:59 Speaker 2: And you know what, when it comes to the decision

9:02 Speaker 2: between me and my calling, between me and what God

9:05 Speaker 2: wants me to do, I'm going to make a choice

9:08 Speaker 2: and say, this group, or this counsel or this person

9:13 Speaker 2: you know, or this community is not helping me in

9:17 Speaker 2: the next level of my destiny. So I'm going to

9:20 Speaker 2: distance myself. I'm going to be cautious. I'm not going

9:24 Speaker 2: to allow this thought process to influence my life anymore.

9:28 Speaker 2: And so when you make that choice, and when you're

9:31 Speaker 2: intentional about it, that's when you will start drawing a

9:35 Speaker 2: little away from those groups. The influence will start withdrawing

9:40 Speaker 2: from you. And then eventually what happens, you will start

9:44 Speaker 2: hearing God more clearly, you know, Like, that's what I

9:47 Speaker 2: want to tell you. When when I started, you know,

9:50 Speaker 2: distancing myself or when I started disconnecting from that group,

9:54 Speaker 2: that they were really good people. But when I started

9:57 Speaker 2: doing that, I realized much of but I was believing

10:01 Speaker 2: what I was trained to believe what advice I was receiving.

10:06 Speaker 2: We're not in alignment with what God was saying. And

10:10 Speaker 2: I think sometimes you need to withdraw. I think this

10:14 Speaker 2: is even a world with recurt to relationships. I think

10:17 Speaker 2: so many times people just you know, like, oh, I

10:20 Speaker 2: can't live with this person. I need this no matter what,

10:22 Speaker 2: however that toxic it is. I always say this, take

10:25 Speaker 2: a little break and start distancing yourself. You will be

10:29 Speaker 2: able to see things more clearly. You will be able

10:32 Speaker 2: to see the red flags clearly. You will be able

10:34 Speaker 2: to see shortcomings clearly. I know nobody's perfect, but what

10:38 Speaker 2: I'm trying to say is, you know you will be

10:40 Speaker 2: able to see things in a different light. And I

10:42 Speaker 2: think that's something that you need to really work on today.

10:46 Speaker 2: And I really challenge each one of you and the

10:48 Speaker 2: sound of my voice, that you will ask a lot

10:50 Speaker 2: to show you areas in your life, people in your

10:53 Speaker 2: life that you need to disconnect from, the areas in

10:56 Speaker 2: your life where you need to start walking away, the

10:59 Speaker 2: communities or the group or the circle from whose influence

11:03 Speaker 2: you need to start with throwing a little better. Amen,

11:07 Speaker 2: I'll see you back in the next episode.

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