00:00it's not about how people receive your contribution it's about how you give your contribution
00:07if you work hard for the glory of god with all your hearts even if people try to misinterpret
00:13or twist your words your work will speak for you and the results will speak for you
00:25thank you brother quick for giving me this opportunity the message was really touching
00:31but my my major question that i wanted to ask is like um how do you deal with the situation
00:40whereby
00:40for example i've been promoted from the work to be able to come to work in the office and
00:48whenever i want to give some suggestions some ideas which benefit the company i seem to express
00:57a bit of resistance from my other colleague not knowing whether maybe she feels as if i'm trying
01:05to take the job away or not so sometimes i end up being silent but it's actually drawing me back
01:12to
01:12even fully uh show myself my potential of what i'm capable of doing so at the end of the time
01:23especially if i'm now at home um i end up like having uh dreams whereby it seems like i'm getting
01:32angry
01:33so when i wake up during the day it's like every time in my mind in my thoughts in my
01:37heart i'm
01:38missing some kind of grudges or some bitterness where they'll be like if i go to the office tomorrow
01:44i'm gonna just breast and just say it out or something like that i just really need your help
01:50and advice how the way to do about it to be silent talk about it my boss or to just
01:59pray to god in prayer
02:01the example that our sister is sharing is a slightly different dynamic in relationship because you are
02:10referring to your colleagues in your workplace obviously that's a very different dynamic to let's
02:15say a husband or wife uh or even even a friend because you you will choose your friends of course
02:22you choose your husband and wife but when it comes to colleagues at work you don't necessarily have a
02:26choice of who you work with so i think the key thing is this sister silence should never come from
02:34a
02:34place of fear it should come from a place of wisdom sometimes it's wise to be silent and
02:42there's nothing wrong with choosing in an environment such as your work to not speak out if you realize
02:52the people concerned are not actually ready to listen to what you have to say but it should never come
02:58from
02:58a place of fear fear of the opinions of people or fear of uh how they may see you or
03:07view you like
03:08like what you said that maybe oh they will think that i they want to i want to take this
03:14job or they
03:15may think this you can never control what people think of you so uh having the thoughts or opinions of
03:24people as a yardstick for determining your action is never an effective strategy it's about doing what
03:31is right oftentimes it's the right thing if you have a contribution to bring it to speak out
03:36even though people may not have a good impression of you that doesn't change the importance of
03:44your your contribution and especially if you have something valid to say sometimes the right thing
03:49may be to to keep quiet i want to make that clear it's that we are motivated by wisdom not
03:55by fear
03:56because in a workplace you may realize that oh it's not every issue i should address whereas maybe in a
04:03husband and wife you should address it but in a workplace because you are dealing with different
04:08characters maybe not everyone you work with is a christian not everyone will you work with shares
04:14the same faith or the same principles as you so you have to exercise wisdom in how you address issues
04:20and
04:20navigate that but on a personal level if you have something important to say the fear of how people
04:29receive it should not be a motivation for you not to speak out if you have something valuable to
04:35contribute if you have something important to say in your workplace uh then irrespective of the response
04:42to it that's not your responsibility you can't control how others respond to what you say but you can
04:48control your choice to speak out if that's the right thing to do so on a personal level when you
04:54say
04:55you go back home and sometimes you maybe feel offended or perhaps bitter towards colleagues
05:01at work or that anger tries to rise in your heart this is where you have to counsel yourself okay
05:07you
05:07need to counsel yourself with the truth of god's word once again you cannot control someone else's
05:12response so why on earth would you fall into the trap of bitterness over something that you cannot
05:20control that is a waste of time a waste of effort a waste of focus it's not about how people
05:27receive
05:28your contribution it's about how you give your contribution if you work hard for the glory of god
05:35with all your hearts even if people try to misinterpret or twist your words your work will speak for you
05:42and the results will speak for you or in the words of jesus by our fruits we shall be known
05:49so if if at the end of the day people think oh well this person is trying to take my
05:54job and you you
05:55all you are doing is contributing to the well-being of the company at the end of the day the
06:00genuineness of
06:00your motives will spring through your subsequent actions and attitude you don't have to fight
06:06to prove yourself because your your work will speak for you so don't give attention to unnecessary
06:14distractions okay if you have an important point to make don't be afraid to make it if there are
06:20circumstances where you choose to be quiet it should be because of wisdom not fear
06:30it's the holy spirit who ignites the word in people's hearts without the holy spirit we cannot
06:35understand without the holy spirit the sermon i preach today may may emotionally move you but will not
06:43spirit will not spiritually change you
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