Hello everyone this is your boy Taban John Emmanuel Malatteri and we are back
again with another episode of WIC Guardians of Thought. I hope you guys
have been doing well. I hope you've been chilling. Time flies when you're busy.
Not when you're having fun. I mean it does when you're having fun. Let's put that to the side.
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around for this week's episode but I have also done what we usually do here
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situations and you are able to overcome and that somehow in some way I hope that
this episode will touch you in a way and will bring some insight that will be
useful with regards to you dealing with certain issues. So I'm not gonna waste
your time today. Let's just get directly into the episode. Take care.
On today's episode we're gonna be dealing with something I'd like to call the
period of waiting. Now I think the period of waiting is something that most people
do not talk about but it is a period that is essential that every individual
goes through when they have conceived an idea or a vision and they need to
actually bring forth this vision into the current reality. Now in the lives
that we live we know that high achievers are usually praised. We always have
results and certain individuals being put on the spotlight because of a
certain level of achievement or a certain level of skill that they have.
Now one thing that we do not usually talk about is the period of waiting and
the thing is that the period of waiting is kind of a weird period because we
might call it the period of waiting but the word waiting in itself in this
context does not mean waiting not doing anything but rather waiting doing a
certain things or having certain habits within that time but not seeing the
results of those habits to the extent that you would want to see them. So I
think with regards to maybe football players or maybe basketball players some
of these people their period of waiting is kind of described by them waking up
early in the morning going to the court or to the football pitch at times when
the team has not actually come for practice yet or maybe times that are
outside of practice for them to kind of hone in on their craft, hone in on their
skill and the thing about this period is that it usually is a very challenging
period because it needs a lot of faith in the conceived idea, a lot of faith in
the conceived vision that one has as an individual because it has challenges
that need to be overcome. Now the thing is that with regards to discipline and
consistency it is not easy for you as an individual to be able to be consistent
if you do not have a strong reason why you need to be consistent, if you do not
have this why that we often hear people talk about it is very easy for you to
give up when challenges arise because you do not own that energy that is
needed for you to overcome. You need a certain level of hunger, a certain level
of thirst and this certain level of hunger and thirst is usually given birth
by you honing in on your vision, honing in on what you have visualized in your
long time as an individual and this could be with regards to your education
this could be with regards to small goals in your life or even the major
goals in your life. Now one thing that I've noticed is that like I said we
usually look at the people who have achieved the things that we want and we
often do not take the advice that they give with regards to what needs to be
done within the time of waiting, within the period of waiting. I think it is
very it is very important for us as individuals to kind of sit down and
first of all have a clear vision of where we want to be, what we want to do
and where we want to see ourselves in the future but then we also need to
understand the reason behind our ambitions, the reason behind our goals
and why we are doing certain things. I've seen this lesson being very evident
within the lives of people like David from the Bible. We meet him at one point
where we see the Prophet Samuel come over to his father's place and call over
his sons and we see David being anointed. We see the conception of this calling
upon his life but then after he is anointed and after Samuel lays hands on
him we see him going back to be a shepherd and he kind of disappears for
some time and I kind of got this amazing understanding, this amazing revelation
while I looked at this period of time of David because it was in this time that
some of the people around him were probably like wasn't they probably met
him maybe at the well or something and were like isn't this the same guy who
was anointed to be King why is he still here tending to his father's flock but
the thing is that if David did not believe in the vision that was given
to him if David did not trust the process trust his calling and trust that
he who called him to do it would give him strength and teach him what he
needed to learn within the waiting period then it would have been easy for
someone like David to give up on his calling and I think I believe that he
didn't rather I believe that in his time of calling he learned a lot he learned
a lot with regards to being a shepherd and the learning that was kind of
brought forth in the situation that he was in kind of applied towards the
future applied towards his calling as a king and often I think that as
individuals we find ourselves in this period of waiting where sometimes you
don't have the results that you wanted sometimes you don't physically you don't
see anything that could possibly you know make you believe that you're on the
right path or make you believe that you're moving further and further closer
to that time where you're able to see your vision come to pass but I think it
is very important for us to take lessons from the lives of the people around us
from the lives of our forebearers for from the lives of people like Abraham
because it was Abraham who had one of the craziest time of waiting one of the
craziest periods of waiting because we see him at that moment of conception
where God gave him his vision and this amazing promise with regards to him
having being the father of many many many nations and many many people and
yet we see him in this period of waiting having to face certain challenges that
seem to oppose that vision or seem to kind of oppose the realization of that
vision and I think that we can learn something from him because one thing
that he had is that he had patience one he had a strong conviction in his why
that was the second thing and the third thing I think is that his perspective
was not changed by the circumstances around him he chose to walk by different
senses rather than the senses that would have kind of led to him believing what
was happening in the current moment rather than believing what would happen
in the future and I think this is where by where the Bible kind of talks about
walking by faith and not by sight and the thing is that with regards to our
convictions with regards to some of the things that God puts in our hearts he
puts them there so that we may be able to look towards those things and not
towards the things that are happening around us it is often the case that I
have kind of said this I've kind of noticed is that when God kind of reaches
out in a very very explicit way usually something that opposes or that is
contrary to what he told you happens after like if he if he if he if he reaches
out and says I love you and I'm going to do this and this in your life I'm going
to hold you I care for you I know that usually after that there's probably
something coming something coming real soon that is going to try to make me
believe otherwise and he gives us these words sometimes it's his written word
sometimes it says word that he speaks through our intuition and this word is
there to give us faith because faith comes by hearing and the thing is that
if we choose to hear if we choose to listen to the words that encourage us
to rise above our situations to rise above the current challenges in order to
get where we need to get we are able to move differently we are able to move
with vision we're able to move with certainty despite what is happening in
our lives and I think this is an amazing lesson that we see in the lives of the
Patriots we see in the lives of people like David we see in the lives of many
other people I think it is very important even when looking at the lives
of some of the very successful people in our current days when we look at
entrepreneurs when we look at internet personalities there are certain people
who had that periods of waiting where some of them have kind of had to read a
ton amount of books they had to kind of work on themselves work on their
character work on learning the things that they feel like they lacked and they
thought that what these things were kind of acting as barriers to them being what
they wanted to be at that time so I think it it is very important for us to
kind of know the different seasons in our lives the different seasons with
respect to different goals but also know how to react within those seasons
because if you know that you're in a season of waiting if you know that
you're pregnant it's going to be easy for you to act right it's going to be
easy for you to carry out the proper prenatal care for you to make sure that
you are able to bring forth your vision you're able to deliver at the rightful
time like I said I think when the Bible says that my people perish because of
the lack of knowledge we perish in different ways because of lacking
knowledge in different ways if you do not know what season you're in with
regards to certain things in your life you're not going to know how to react
properly to those seasons and that's where you kind of terminate your vision
you terminate what has been spoken upon your life you terminate the certain
things that you are so close to bringing forth and usually I think one way we
terminate all the things that God has put in us and all the things that we
have planned is by taking on the opinions thoughts and beliefs of other
people people who are not there when you had initial intimacy with your vision
the initial intimacy with the revelation that God had given you and it's kind of
a weird concept also that I that I just can't get my mind around but I fall
victim to it sometimes I find myself at times taking in the voices of people who
truly do not know the realist version of me who do not know my capability you do
not know my full ability who do not know what God has put in me and it's quite
weird that we take the opinions of these people and allow them to bring us down
where in actual fact we are supposed to believe to be crazy with regards to our
faith in who we are and I think one thing is that being believing in yourself
should be to an extent where you don't believe in yourself because of the
confidence you have in your ability but rather you believe in yourself because
of the confidence you have in God's ability in Him choosing you despite your
weaknesses in Him saying that you are what I made you to be despite where you
are right now despite who you think you are right now despite your shortcomings
and I think despite anything that might be a weakness in our lives he says that
my grace is sufficient in your weaknesses and this is something that we
often forget but it is something that I feel like we need to hone in on and kind
of work on because if we are not able to have the right mindset with regards to
our period of waiting we are not going to be able to do the things that we need
to do when we're supposed to be waiting we are not going to be able to walk the
steps of faith that we're supposed to take in that period of waiting so if
there's something that I would like you to take from this episode I would say
that waiting is not just waiting but waiting is an active process of
of being sensitive to the things that you're doing being sensitive to the
things that you're learning being sensitive of the environment you're in
being sensitive in it even in the times where you're doing things that you might
not think are adding to your vision like most people say that like I usually hear
people say that school is useless in nowadays I think I have a different
perspective because I have learned that certain things within school have been
very useful with regards to changing the way I think and changing the way I
approach things and because I am sensitive towards my vision I am able to
appreciate the small things in the smallest places even with regards to my
education I'm like okay I'm doing logical statements right now I'm doing
statistics I'm doing this and that but how is this actually pushing forward my
true calling and often because of the sensitivity I found out that I'm able to
understand certain concepts and apply them to various aspects of my life and
because of this awareness because of this because of having my eyes
constantly looking and seeing how everything aligns with regard to getting
me where I need to be in my time of waiting I feel a certain level of
appreciation of the things that are around me and I'm also able to hold in
and work harder on the things that I know I have to do and it makes it a bit
easier because I can see them working for my good indirectly or directly so I
feel like it is very important for us to kind of like I said know the seasons
that we're in but also have a different perspective towards actually approaching
them this is all that I had planned for today's episode when I post that it's
probably gonna have all these crazy visuals and stuff I did not record
myself I do not record video but I hope that you guys really enjoyed this
episode from your boy it's a bond John Emmanuel Malatadi I hope that you guys
take care I hope that God continues revealing himself to you take care ciao