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Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for
Speaker 2: the Soul with John gift of podcast. When I want
Speaker 2: to talk to you today about taking action towards your desires,
Speaker 2: I want to start with this scripture with you, and
Speaker 2: I want to explain this to you because a lot
Speaker 2: of people have this misunderstanding with regard to desires and
Speaker 2: the worse I want to talk to you from is
Speaker 2: Probabs thirteen, verse four, and this is what it says.
Speaker 2: I'm going to paraphrase from two different translations. It says
Speaker 2: lazy people want much but get little. This is from
Speaker 2: the NALTY version. Okay, but those who work hard will prosper.
Speaker 2: This is what the NALTY version says. When you look
Speaker 2: at the NIV version, it says a sluggard's appetite is
Speaker 2: never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.
Speaker 2: I want you to just understand something here, right. You
Speaker 2: may have desires from the Lord, and a lot of
Speaker 2: people are sitting there and just praying and hoping those
Speaker 2: desires will come to parts in their life. Okay, there
Speaker 2: are certain things that God has spoken over your life.
Speaker 2: There are certain things that God has shown you that
Speaker 2: you know are beyond the situation that you're in right now.
Speaker 2: That may be something that's far off, like simple example, right,
Speaker 2: it cannot practically happen right now. When you think about
Speaker 2: something that God has shown you that you know, you're
Speaker 2: going to have an international ministry. When God showed me
Speaker 2: that it's going to be an international ministry, I was
Speaker 2: still studying. I was not in a position to practically
Speaker 2: have a ministry. To start the ministry, I was pretty
Speaker 2: much young, and I was under my parent's care, and
Speaker 2: I had a lot of restrictions as a child. So
Speaker 2: even though I had that desire or that thing, there
Speaker 2: was always an element of the timing to it. Okay.
Speaker 2: But the truth of the matter is, when God gives
Speaker 2: the desire, you can't just sleep through and expect the
Speaker 2: desire to come to pass. You cannot just do nothing
Speaker 2: about it and expect to see something coming to fusion
Speaker 2: in your life. Okay. The Bible is very clear that,
Speaker 2: you know, if you're just lazy, if you're just being
Speaker 2: a sluggard, if you're a slacker. Another translation uses the
Speaker 2: word slacker. You know, if you're just being slack and
Speaker 2: you're just having all these desires, it has nothing, you know.
Speaker 2: The New King James version says the soul of a
Speaker 2: lazy man desires but has nothing. Right. You can have
Speaker 2: the desire, but if you're not taking steps towards it,
Speaker 2: if you're not going after the things that God is
Speaker 2: placed within you, you're not going to see the result.
Speaker 2: You need to move towards the promised land. The desires act,
Speaker 2: as you know, like guiding posts for you to move
Speaker 2: in that direction. But if you're just simply sitting and
Speaker 2: expecting that you would be able to go and walk
Speaker 2: in that promised land while you're simply sleeping in the
Speaker 2: place that you're in. You can't do that. You get
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. You need to take steps that are
Speaker 2: needed to be taken by you in that particular season
Speaker 2: of your life. Right, If I'm just saying I need
Speaker 2: to start, I have an international ministry. And when God
Speaker 2: led me and asked me to start the international ministry,
Speaker 2: and when I just sat at home and if I
Speaker 2: didn't take any step, I wouldn't be where I am today. Right,
Speaker 2: I need to take the steps that I can. I
Speaker 2: can't take an international step on day one, but I
Speaker 2: can start with the first step. You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You know, that's what I'm trying to tell you. You
Speaker 2: know you need to work towards it in the way
Speaker 2: that you can at that season and the way God
Speaker 2: leads you in that moment. Just for example, there was
Speaker 2: this particular season or this particular thing where I had
Speaker 2: to pray and ask the Lord for a particular visa process.
Speaker 2: And for the whole of last year, just being honest
Speaker 2: with you, just being honest with you, I kept praying,
Speaker 2: you know, God, give me the right opportunity, the right move,
Speaker 2: and the right way so that I can you know,
Speaker 2: get into this, get get this visa you know available
Speaker 2: for me, and it will be really helpful and all
Speaker 2: of these things. And to be honest, I prayed of
Speaker 2: last year, but the desire was there, but there was
Speaker 2: no action. There were people saying, it's not going to happen.
Speaker 2: You don't have you know, the right, I mean, you
Speaker 2: have the odds against you. It's not gonna happen. It's
Speaker 2: not going to work hard. And I want to just
Speaker 2: let you and I know this and that you know,
Speaker 2: when twenty twenty five started off, one of the things
Speaker 2: the law told me is start working on the things
Speaker 2: that you never worked on last year. And I just
Speaker 2: took the step of faith and to be honest, like
Speaker 2: God has been so good. God has been so faithful
Speaker 2: that you know, it actually got done. You know what
Speaker 2: I want you to understand today I'm just recording this.
Speaker 2: I just got it done in a matter of just
Speaker 2: two months since this year, in less than two months
Speaker 2: since this year began. Okay, what I want you to
Speaker 2: understand is there was a lot of work involved. There
Speaker 2: were people saying, you know, you're wasting a lot of
Speaker 2: time and money in this process. It's not going to happen,
Speaker 2: and all of these things. But the truth of the
Speaker 2: matter is my desire in this direction that the Lord
Speaker 2: was leading me was there even last year, but then
Speaker 2: I didn't see it come to fusion because I didn't
Speaker 2: take any step. But the minute I had the desire
Speaker 2: and I took this step towards it, and you know,
Speaker 2: ended up being lazing around or just hoping and desiring
Speaker 2: it rather started working towards it, against the odds, against
Speaker 2: the opposition, against all the discouraging voices, against the fact that,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm spending a lot of money, time,
Speaker 2: and all of these things into it. I really worked
Speaker 2: really hard in this process. But now I see, as
Speaker 2: the Bible says, but the desires of the legend are
Speaker 2: fully satisfied in the nality version, in the Navy version.
Speaker 2: And right now I'm like so amazed to see how
Speaker 2: God made this happen. You know what I'm saying. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying it's me alone, it is the Lord. It's
Speaker 2: me partnering with the Lord, and it's the Lord's hand
Speaker 2: and there's no doubt about it. But the desire, if
Speaker 2: you're not taking steps towards that desire in the way
Speaker 2: that you're supposed to take. You will not see the result.
Speaker 2: But today my challenge to you is that you know
Speaker 2: what every desire that God placed in you, every dream
Speaker 2: he placed in the visions he has shown you. Don't
Speaker 2: just put it off, you know, thinking like it it
Speaker 2: will anyway happen, even if it happens after fifty years. No,
Speaker 2: if there's something that you can do today that you're
Speaker 2: supposed to do, do it. You know, you do what
Speaker 2: you're supposed to do today, Do what the Lord is
Speaker 2: leading you to do. It can be something small, but
Speaker 2: God knows how to use that thing to be a
Speaker 2: greater blessing to multitudes. Ammen, God bless you.
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