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How do you know if it's God who's asking you to do something? Two years ago, I gave up caffeine cuz I felt like God was asking me to do that. How did I know? I had a full-time job, a three-year-old trying to build a YouTube channel, just started a business, and I would often find myself getting 4 to 7 hours of sleep at night. So, on those days, I drank a lot more cold brew, coffee, energy drinks, whatever to be able to get me throughout the day. And I started to get this feeling that I needed to cut back. I realized on weeks where it was really stressful and I was drinking lots of caffeine and I felt my body pushing itself, the next week I'd get sick and then I'd find myself crashing lots of sleep to eventually recover again and then go back into the same loop of feeling really busy, drinking more coffee to survive to only find myself sick again. Notice the pattern, but what was I supposed to do about it? I had to do all the things, but was I going about it the right way? And that's when I got that feeling. Instead of drowning more caffeine, what if I just rested? Of course, then my mind races. if I stop, if I rest, everything will fall apart. And then the other side of my mind is saying, when you're sick, you crash anyway and are forced to rest. So, I told you 2 years ago, God asked me to give up caffeine. How did I know? Well, that particular day, I just chugged a cold brew because I'd been up till 2:00 in the morning the night before and had a day full of meetings and I felt my heart racing. And you know that feeling in your throat when you start to get sick? I had that again. And I just had this feeling like rest. I'm like, I can't rest. I don't have time to rest. And then I was in my next meeting and I zoned out and I had all this scripture come to mind. One of them says this. If anyone then knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it is sin for them. Now, is caffeine a sin? No. And I had this feeling that I was supposed to give it up because instead of resting, instead of saying, "God, help me through this day." I would chug caffeine. My pastor once said this and it changed my life. If you want to know God's will for your life, think of the four letters that spell out will. W does it align with the word of God. I, the influence of others, the people that God has surrounded you with. How is he using them to speak into your life? L leading of the spirit. What is the Holy Spirit telling you to do? The last L, life situations. Based on what's available in your life, is this something that you could do? Well, the Bible says I should rest and caffeine became a vital for me. Influence of others, people were telling me I needed to rest more. Leading the spirit internally, I knew something was wrong. Life situations, could I actually do it? I felt like if I did, everything would fall apart. But yes, I could. And so that day, I gave it up. And it was hard. But scripture also says in James 4:7, "Submit yourselves then to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Again, caffeine's not the devil. But if we are going to something else before God, how are we going to know when it's him asking us to do something? Now, here I am two years later still doing all those things I was doing before and now doing it God's way. By resting, putting his priorities over mine. So, on day 45 on the road to 100,000 YouTube subscribers, how do you know when it is God who's asking you to do something? You know, if he is asking you to do it, he will give you the strength to take the steps along the way. But you do have to take the steps.