00:00there are signals he sends around us and within us perhaps it's not god's will it's not god's time
00:09and you're on a journey somewhere a circumstance beyond your control can block you can stop you
00:17it's very common for people to attribute that to the work of the devil oh the devil blocked me
00:24as a christian what is for you is for you the only one who can stop you from reaching your
00:31destiny is
00:31yourself so i i don't want us to subscribe to the notion oh a circumstance came and that stops me
00:39that's the devil stopping me as a christian that can be a signal god sends around you to readjust
00:47your direction my name is clarence from zambia my question has to do with um how to identify god's
01:04time i really struggle to identify when let's say god blesses me with a job i really struggle to
01:14understand whether it's really within god's time or not so for example right after the previous uh
01:22interactive prime meeting two weeks ago i received uh an invitation for an interview but what what was
01:31strange in that interview was the questions were coming as though they were trying to put me in a
01:37corner so that i don't get the right the questions right and then it it gave me a lot of
01:43anxiety right
01:45in the interview so i i kept wondering whether it was really within god's time or not so that's what
01:54i
01:54i really wanted to understand because i've been thinking from that interview to date i've been thinking
02:00is it really in god's time that i should have this job or not and that's why i really asked
02:06this question
02:06as to how do i identify god's word god's time i would just encourage you brother the answer still
02:12comes back to what we shared earlier the most important thing the most important thing is
02:21taking care of your relationship with god because the closer we draw to god
02:30the clearer our understanding becomes of his will for us and his time for us now one of the ways
02:45in which we
02:45can know that closeness is the sensitivity we have to the signs and signals god sends god speaks to us
02:56within us within us and around us there are signs there are signals that testify to the
03:03acting in line with his will so i can give you a very common example when you are praying about
03:12something
03:13and the will and time of god come there will be a genuine peace of hearts that accompanies that
03:21it will not be with worry it will not be with tension it will not be with with stress there
03:27will be peace
03:28of hearts on the contrary when god is not involved in a step you want to take there will be
03:34disturbance in
03:36your spirits disquieting your spirits despite your prayers if we are where we should be spiritually we then
03:48can become more sensitive oh what is the holy spirit saying is this the right time no is this the
03:58right
03:58time yes there are signals he sends around us and within us perhaps it's not god's will it's not god's
04:08time
04:09and you're on a journey somewhere a circumstance beyond your control can block you can stop you
04:18it's very common for people to attribute that to the work of the devil oh the devil blocked me
04:25as a christian what is for you is for you the only one who can stop you from reaching your
04:32destiny is
04:33yourself so i i don't want us to subscribe to the notion oh a circumstance came and that stopped me
04:41that's the devil stopping me as a christian that can be a signal god sends around you to readjust your
04:48direction it's not his perfect will for you it doesn't mean you should begin to pray against it or
04:56as i said earlier try and force the door open no just like apostle paul in act 16 when he
05:02was going
05:03his way and something blocked him what happened the next day a revelation came go here
05:11rather than going to one direction he was blocked that was a signal god sent to stop him
05:18then the next day a revelation came go to macedonia
05:24so i want to encourage you brother when we talk about divine allocation
05:28revelation if god has something for you and it is for you even if there is a deliberate
05:39attempts a calculated effort to stop it
05:44if it is for you nothing can stop it your concern is have i played my part have i prepared
05:51like you go
05:52for an exam okay you go for a interview you don't expect everything to fall into your lap from heaven
05:58you prepare you play your parts you go if if you see a sign from the people that maybe they
06:04are they
06:04are looking for a way to sabotage it look nothing can sabotage what god has divinely assigned you
06:10your concern is play your parts give your best and leave the rest if it's the will of god it
06:18will
06:18come if it's not the will of god it will not come because you are his child so don't give
06:24too much
06:24attention to the behavior or the attitude or the experience in that particular interview because that
06:31can feed the narrative that if you don't get the job oh they were against me or they deliberately set
06:38this up because they had someone they wanted to give you know i hear that a lot from people they
06:43will say oh they don't give me the job because there's favoritism they had a candidate that they
06:48had as a favorites so it's injustice that they did not give me this job and then you get offended
06:54you
06:54find yourself resentful and what this is doing is denying god's sovereignty even if those people
07:03intended to sabotage your attempts to get the job if it is for you nothing can stop it nothing can
07:12hold
07:13it back the only one who can stop it is you if you don't play your parts so i would
07:19say to you my
07:20brother take notes of my advice earlier in terms of the sensitivity to god's will which includes his time
07:32being directly connected to the degree at which god's word dominates our hearts how serious we are in our
07:40spiritual life if you take care of your relationship with god you deal with those things that are taking
07:47you away from him that are hindering you from spiritual sensitivity that are robbing you of peace
07:53and you are close in your relationship with god in the course of the journey there will be signs there
07:59will be signals to confirm and show you this is right or this is wrong there'll be signals within you
08:06there'll be signals around you your degree of sensitivity to recognize what god is saying
08:11through them is directly connected to how serious you are in your spiritual life that's why word of god
08:21prayer word of god prayer word of god prayer word of god prayer take them as an accomplice they must
08:29go
08:29together don't separate them this is the journey of faith we become stronger in our battle with
08:36temptation we increase in our knowledge and understanding of jesus and we push ahead in telling
08:45the lost about him these are three ways in which you can assess you are spiritually growing your
08:51understanding grows your knowledge of jesus christ grows your knowledge of his word grows that brings
08:58you to a place where you become stronger in the battle with temptation every situation comes with
09:04temptation it does not mean temptation ends no prayer will remove temptation but you become stronger
09:12and equally you push ahead in telling the lost about jesus recognizing that as he has saved you
09:19you can be a tool through which you show the way to others so that would be my encouragement to
09:26you
09:26brother if that is the job for you the time god has for you the will of god for you
09:32don't give too much
09:34attention to the behavior or the antiques of those who interviewed you your own response is your own
09:40responsibility play your parts give your best and leave the rest
09:52ultimately if they know you are a christian and you stand for what you believe
09:59they may misunderstand your actions at first they may misinterpret your actions probably
10:06they may look at you strange but they will end up respecting you
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