2 Reasons why GOD Closed Doors in your Life | John Giftah | Inspirational Christian Sermon

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0:42 Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. Now, one of the questions that a lot of people ask time in and time out is John, why did God close this door? I've been asking God to open this door. I've been praying about this. I've been asking him to make a move. I'm asking him to show up and show out in the area of my career, show up and show out in my relationships, show up and show out in regard to my ministry, my calling, my business, in some area of my life. But why is it that I'm seeing closed doors?

1:13 Why did God shut that door? Things were going fine, Things seemed like everything was working out, but what suddenly turned around? And I don't know why God is not answering my prayers. Are you asking this question today? Are you in a place where you're wondering why did God shut the door? Can I tell you something to the Saints of God? Are you beating yourself and saying, maybe I did something wrong? Maybe this because of my mistakes or my sins of not doing something or doing something that I should have done, or do saying something I shouldn't have said, that's what brought me here.

1:46 But I'm here to tell you something there, Saints of God. Yes, there is a path to where you need to introspect and check if you are where God wants you to be, if you are in line or in the place where you are sinked with what God wants you to have. But I'm here to tell you, when it's all said and done, you can never be beyond what God has ordained for your life. And sometimes no matter what you do, no matter how hard you work, no matter how much you pray, no matter what steps you take, you will be in a place where doors are shut.

2:17 And you may be in a place like that today and you're saying why did God shut that door? Why did that prayer not get answered? And I want to share two reasons in this episode why God shuts doors in our life. And I'm talking to you from Genesis, chapter seven, verse sixteen, and it talks about a time when God called Noah to build an arc because God wanted to protect Noah and his family from the coming destruction the waters rising all over the world. And I wanted to understand this is what it says.

2:57 And a male and female of each mind entered just as God commanded Noah, and the Bible says, and the Lord closed the door behind them, and the Lord closed the door. I want you to understand something, dear scenes of God. It is not Noah who closed the door. God closed the door. And you may be wondering why did God close the door. God could have said, Noah just closed the door. God could have given the keys to Noah. But why did God close the door? Use the reason when we look at Noah, he was a human like you and me, right, and when you see in the scripture the water levels rising and Noah and the family is safe inside the ark.

3:44 There could be two things that could have happened Number one, they could have heard the screams of their relatives, their own siblings, Noah's siblings, because he did have siblings, but none of them made it into that because none of them accepted the message of righteousness that Noah was preaching to But Neiver just not repenting. So that's why they were still outside. And as a human, he could have heard their screams. And Noah's sons, wives, these three girls, their family was still outside.

4:23 They could have heard their screams. They could have said, Hey, that's the scream of my dad, that's my sister, that's my mom. Please please, Noah opened the door, let them in. You see, Noah could have been in that place where has a human He could have said, you know what I understand. I think they would have learned their lesson. Let me open the door and let them in. And what would have happened. Everybody would have rushed into the arc and everyone in the Arcuda sunk. The Arcuda sunk because everybody would have tried to get in.

4:56 What I wanted to understand is God closes some doors because he wants to prevent the wrong people from getting into your life. He wants to prevent the people who will drown you, who will cause you to sink to stepping into your life. So stop getting hard on yourself for closing that door. Stop getting hard on yourself because you didn't get into that job. Stop getting hard on yourself because that relationship didn't work through. Because I want you to understand, God prevented the wrong people from stepping in because as a human, he would have said, Hey, you know what I feel sad when I hear my own I mean, just imagine, Oh my gosh, it's my own mom.

5:40 Please open the door Noah. They could have pressured Noah, or even Noah could have felt like, oh my gosh, it's my brother. I love this brother of mine. I want to open the door. Maybe he repented, please let me open the door. See, that's why God did not want emotions to play its role and causing Noah to open the door. See, sometimes God closes doors because I've seen a lot of people, especially native relationships, and you know, a Christian singles, I've seen this a lot. You know, even when God tells them closed this door, when when when it's just within their capacity, they try everything under the sun to try to open that door.

6:18 Because emotions are involved. And that's why God is saying today, I closed this door because I didn't want you to open out of your emotions. I didn't want you to be drowned by the wrong people. And the second thing I want you to understand is, you know, through the pandemic, when people were all in isolation or social distancing, people were living together in their homes. You know, there were so many studies which showed that, you know, the number of devostrates increased or relationships store out.

6:54 Why because people staying together there was always going to be some rubbing. You know, you can be the best of friends, you love the other person, but you know, they can always be disagreements. And many people tend to go to the place where they can't stand each other because they want to get out. They want to you know, stop seeing the other person, you know what I mean. They get so mad. And sometimes I've heard people say, you know, you know, and even if I get COVID, it's fine, but I'm going to leave this house because I'm fed up of being here.

7:25 You know, you know what I mean. Being in that kind of enclosed environment can be as difficult as you can imagine. Many of you might have experienced that in your own life. But I want you to understand something here. When Noah and the family were inside the art, they could have felt the same way. They could have said God arguments, They would have had disagreements, they could have fought among each other, because they were humans like you and me. You see, even after the you know, coming out of the art, there was a moment when there was an argument or disagreement and between Noah and his youngest son.

8:03 So you can imagine that there can be disappointments and upsets, and that's that's how relationships are. So Noah and his family were inside the ark day in and day out, and there was a lot of opportunity for them to have issues in their relationships. And somebody could have gone mad. Somebody could have said, you know what, it's fine even if I die, It's okay, and I'm getting out of this boat. And they gotta opened the door, and they gotta jumped out. They gotta taken the key from Noah, so to speak, and then just headed off.

8:37 You know. But because God shut the door, even those who were in could not jump out and mess up their destiny. The reason God shut the door is not one reason I told you earlier is so that the wrong people don't come and drown you. The second reason why God shuts the door is because God doesn't want you to be misled. He doesn't want you to go off track and sink and drown. Today, I want you to understand that God is a good God. He's a loving father. He has your best interests at hard. When he shuts doors in your life, he's not shutting doors because he hates you, he wants your life to be miserable.

9:21 He shut the door to protect you from the wrong people coming into your life. He shut the door to protect you from going off track and drowning. I want you to get to that place where you come in terms with God and say, God, I thank you for closing these doors. Thank you that you closed on that relationship, thank you for closing that carry your opportunity, or thank you that I was sent out of this job, thank you that that ministry or that business or that opportunity didn't work out the way I thought.

9:53 Because I believe you have the best for me in store. Lord, I pray release this word over every single person watching, listening from across the globe that this world will go for it and strengthen them to know that you have their back and you will lead him to their final destination. In Jesus name, I pray Amen, God bless you. You've been listening to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta, we hope you were blessed and inspired to live the life that God has for you. Make sure to subscribe to the John gift To YouTube channel for regular uploads of sermons, skits, interviews, and more.

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