Hello, hello, hello. This is support John Emmanuel Molatedi and I am back with another episode of Wic Guardians of Thought.
I hope that you are doing well. I pray that you're doing well.
It's been a week since the launch of this podcast. I'd just like to take my time to appreciate you guys. Thank you for the love and the support that I've been receiving.
Thank you for the feedback that I've been getting. I've been getting tons of feedback from friends, family and people I did not know before.
I'm just glad that this podcast is kind of having an effect in the world and helping people out in whatever way it is helping them out.
One thing that I once said I was talking to my friend last week and I mentioned how in a world that is full of expectations, a world that is full of always grinding and having amazing results.
I kind of chose to make sure that with regards to this podcast, I'm going to focus on making sure that I relate what is in my heart, believing that it will be relevant for the few people that will be relevant for in that day.
If that's one person, that's okay. If that's two, that's okay. As long as what I have given to the world has effect and actually helped someone out, I feel like I would have done my part.
Talking about expectations, today's episode is going to be focused around expectations, focused around the journey in general.
I think I'm going to touch on one quote that is kind of mentioned a lot of times. People always say that it's the journey and not the destination.
But often in life, you get to certain points where you're tried by certain challenges within the journey and sometimes these challenges may make you kind of have these feelings of doubt,
whether that might be in yourself or maybe doubt within that present moment, maybe due to your emotions and you being overwhelmed.
And it might actually change your whole, those feelings might change your whole outlook over such a way of thinking.
But I think with regards to the journey in general, I would say that walking with God, walking with yourself is something that kind of is special in a way because
you have to kind of learn how to walk with yourself, have a certain amount of faith in yourself, in your ability to overcome challenges and to get out in the long run.
But I think to actually get to a point where you have a certain amount of trust in yourself, you need to have a certain amount of trust in an external being,
in an external, I would say an external foundation that kind of holds you and always sustains you through the challenges you go through.
And for me that has been God since the beginning. I have always had a reliance upon Christ, I've always had a reliance upon knowing that as a human I have my insufficiencies, my weaknesses.
And instead of holding onto those, I have found strength in laying them before Him and actually taking His word for what it is, allowing Him to use His grace and His strength so that His strength is shown within my weaknesses.
There are certain times I think where I've always asked myself, I've actually also had prayers where I was like God, why don't you just show me the things that I'm supposed to do in my life or show me everything pertaining to my life,
because if I know those things I feel like I'll be able to kind of walk in that path better.
Maybe I think as humans we usually want to know everything and I don't know, maybe that kind of ties into our desire to have some form of control in our lives.
But I remember one time where I actually talked about this and I was talking to my father and he looked at me and he said, well, it's kind of funny.
What he said is that the reason why sometimes we aren't given all the answers is because we need to move in faith and actually totally rely upon Him, upon His goodness in each and every day and believe in the plan that He has for us,
a plan that He has told us is a good plan, plan to prosper and to give us hope in the future, according to Jeremiah 29-11.
And I think this opened me up to the realization that the reason why faith, we live by faith and not by sight,
I think sight in itself means that you see the obvious, you see what is before you, you might rely on the knowledge that you have,
but relying on something else means that you are giving yourself fully to that thing and with respect to me and my walk in my life,
that has been totally relying or learning how to totally rely on God, relying that His goodness and His mercy will help me in my insufficiencies
and more so over that despite me not knowing what tomorrow holds, I know that He knows what tomorrow holds
and above that I know that He will sustain me tomorrow and all that I need to do on my end is to submit and to be humble
and to be obedient to His instruction. I think this kind of blew my mind in a way because it opened me up to a realization
or a reality where I didn't have to know all the answers to various things and in not knowing the answers,
He would start revealing certain things that I had been yearning for and I think it's not, I wouldn't say that it's like a reverse psychology kind of thing
but it was more of a, I'm kind of giving up my control and totally relying on you and when noticing how reliant I was in that instance
or after understanding this crucial part of life, I think that's when He made me a steward of certain things pertaining to my life,
certain things pertaining to certain things that He's planned for me and I think it's the same with all of us.
When you get to a certain level of totally depending on Him, I would say that He is able to trust you with certain secrets and with certain revelations
and I think also on the same topic, one thing that my father said is that he said that one reason that why He might not reveal everything to you right now
is that if you see all the things you have to go through, you might not want to choose His path or choose His way
because the thing is that life has challenges and also I would say that if you are going to know it, let's say just for like a specific challenge,
if you're going to know that you're going to face this challenge, you know, sometimes you would actually choose to opt out if you possibly could
but with respect to life, some challenges we can't opt out of.
So being at a point or in a situation where you could look at all the challenges that you are going to face in your life,
that would kind of, I feel like that would overshadow you because you're looking at everything you're going to need to overcome at one point
and you're asking to actually see all of those things.
So I feel like God doesn't reveal certain things still relating to reliance
because we're supposed to believe that even though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death that He will be with us,
we have to use our faith to believe in what Isaiah 43 verse 1 to 2 said when He said that even if you pass through the waters,
I will be with you even when you pass through the rivers, the water shall not overflow or drown you.
I think totally giving yourself over to God, knowing the challenges are coming and certain things are going to come in your life
is a huge step of faith and it shows that you believe and you've totally given yourself over.
And that in general, I feel like makes your faith.
That in general is what the Bible talks about when it says that we are growing from faith to faith.
That in general is us maturing as humans, maturing within ourselves, maturing within our walk with Him.
And that is what makes the journey.
When we look at people in the past such as Abraham, you know,
I've been at points where I've been looking at certain promises in His words, certain promises that He has given to me
and I've asked myself, when are these going to be fulfilled?
And I kind of had to look back at people like Abraham and notice that this guy was promised to be a father of a nation
that was supposed to be so numerous and so great.
And yet only look at the time when He was given this vision, the time where He was given these words
and the time where they actually started to come into being.
Or we could say the time where we see the first signs of these words coming into effect.
We notice there was a huge period of time in between there where this man had to walk by faith despite what was happening around them.
Despite what was happening in his life, despite the condition of his body, despite the condition of his wife.
And I think this was a beautiful thing because in our day and age we live in a time where
we have loads of expectations from ourselves, loads of expectations from other people
to have certain results, to get to certain destinations.
And at times I feel like this kind of throws off our balance, throws off our faith
and throws off us actually enjoying the journey, actually growing from faith to faith.
So I would say that in your time of training, in your time of learning, in your time of preparation
we need to hold on to what you are doing, hold on to God, hold on to His word,
hold on to trusting in the process if you've planted the right seed.
I would say that if a seed has been put into the ground, if you truly have faith in that seed,
if you truly have faith in the quality of what you've been putting in as your work,
you will not dig and try to check the progress of that seed each and every day,
but rather you will continue to provide that water in order to promote the growth of that seed.
Same thing with regards to the things that are in our lives.
Same thing with regards to the goals that we are gunning for.
We need to plant our seeds, believe in the seeds that we've planted in various aspects of our lives.
We need to check the models of our success equations, check the variables and make sure that our variables are okay.
Put input, I would say put our energy into those variables accordingly and by so doing we are sure to succeed.
But like I said, usually there's this period, I would say, we used to call them gestation periods.
And it is within this period where sometimes things actually look like the opposite of the vision you were given,
the opposite of what you had hoped for and what you had wanted.
But it is in this time that we need to hold on to what we know, hold on to what we believe will be our reality
because it is our reality in our minds, it is a reality in our spirits.
It just needs us to properly birth it, to properly bring it to this life or to this physical reality.
So I just wanted to encourage you and just say that if you have been putting in the work and if you have been doing this for a long time,
do not give up, do not lose faith in the process, do not lose faith in the journey.
Continue grinding, continue trusting in yourself, continue trusting in God, continue trusting in His Word.
And by so doing, you will reap the results and the rewards of having faith and actually grinding and actually working towards your goals.
I hope this message kind of brought some insight to your life today.
I really hope it did.
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From your boy, Sapanjuan Emmanuel Moletedi, I hope that God continues to bless you, continues to guide you, continues to perfect you in all your ways.
And I pray that everything that you do that is light guide you and lead you.
That is a wrap on my side.
Please stay tuned for the next episode.