Discerning your Season | John Giftah | Inspirational Christian Sermon

0:01 Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world is a crazy place and it just seems to get crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and take a break. This is Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. We're a hub for inspirational Christian sermons, practical keys for Christian living, and Christian discussions and interviews. You'll be inspired to live the life that you were created for. Your host is a top ranking podcaster, best selling author, world record holder, aerospace engineer, life coach, evangelist and founder of John Gifta International.

0:43 Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. Now, when you look at a country like India, we have different fruits that are available at different points of time the year that when you look at mangoes, for example, they're predominantly available during the summer season, but there are some ways they bring in mangoes out of season. Also, they use some preservatives, they use some chemicals, and then they produce these mangoes and they sell them at an exhorbitant price at a season that's not meant to be a mango season.

1:23 But the problem with those mangoes is that they may seem fine at some points, but for the most part, they're just not tasting like a natural mango. They are first of all costing a very exhorbitant price, but at the same time, you'd never get the taste that you really wish to get from a mango in the first place. You get what I'm saying why, because mango is meant for a specific season. Certain kind of a fruit, like a watermelon, is meant for a certain season. So there is a specific understanding that fruit will be its best when it's in season, when it's available in its season, when it's produced, and when you are feeding on it in that season, and when you try to get it out of season, it's not as suspect.

2:09 It sometimes gets worse. You have to pay a heavy price, and it's not the way you really wish to have it as well, So understand that there's an element of seasons in fruits, and you need to understand that in our life as well. There's an element of seasons, and we need to get to the place where we need to discern seasons. And that's something the Lord has been putting a lot in my heart, and I feel in my spirit very strongly that as a ministry we are stepping into a new season right What the Lord has been doing in the past has been awesome.

2:43 We've had amazing things that the Lord did. We had run out guests on the podcast. We had a lot of opportunities that came through the podcast, through my social media, through YouTube, and all of those things. And I'm grateful for all of those things, and I'm grateful to the Lord for all of that. But at the same time, I feel invest better that this is a season of a new beginning or a new change that's happening in the ministry. There may be strategies that the Lord is going to bring in that's going to be different from what we did in the past.

3:13 I'm even contemplating or praying about whether the podcast is going to continue as a daily podcast or maybe make it once in a couple of days or something. But there's a there's an aspect that even if something is successful for a period, you need to understand seasons. You need to understand something that is good in one season will not be good in the next season if it's not meant to be. Even the people in your life they have helped you, they were they were really awesome of friends, they were really good to you in the past.

3:45 But you know what, at some point you need to understand if they're not meant to be in the next season, the very people who are a blessing would sometimes become a burden, and you need to understand that you don't have to cling on to them because they were helpful to you in the previous season. You don't have to cling onto them or allow them to be a burden to you, or allow them to you're right over you, or allow them to you know, limit you and stop you from moving into the next season because they helped you in the previous season.

4:15 You need to understand that. See very grateful, be nice to people. But at the same time, I understand there's an aspect when you understand that if somebody is not meant to be in the next season of your life, you need to keep your limits. You need to get to that place where you're like, okay, one, you know what, I'm going to set out boundaries. I understand these people were in the previous season, but things are changing, even in your ministry, in your personal life, things that work in the past.

4:41 If you're realized, oh my gosh, why isn't this working out for me. Why isn't this happening? Why this thing worked out so well in the past, Why is it that it's suddenly drying up. I want to share a scripture with you, and I want to think this forward. And it is found in for Samuel, chapter seventeen. And this is what I'm from the nib version. From verse two. There is a drawth that happens, and the word of the Lord came to Elijah. Leave here, turn eastward and hide in this ravine east of Jordan. You will drink from the brook, and I've directed the ravens to supply with food there.

5:21 So he did what the Lord told him. He went to the Scareth ravine east of the Jordan and stayed there. The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and they drank from the brook. So the Lord tells him, it's time for you to leave this place. There is a droughth here. Go to this place,

5:46 you know, and I've directed the ravens to feed you, and you can get water from the brook. And when you look at verse seven, this is what happens. Sometime later, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. Then the word of the Lord came to him, say go at once to Zera faith in the region of Siddom, and stay there. I have directed a video there to supply you with food. So he goes there and then the video up supplying him with food. So that's just a better phrase the version of what happened.

6:17 So what I want you guys to understand here is this important truth. In one season, he was being fed by ravens and he got the water from the ravine, which was directed by God. God told him go there. But suddenly it looked like the ravine was the brook was just drying up. And you're like, oh my gosh, I'm that is my source of water. Why is it drying up? Why isn't God doing something about it? What is going on? But that's when the Lord said, it's your season is over. This thing that worked in the past, it's not going to work out anymore.

6:49 It's time for you to move to the next thing. This is what God has been putting in my spirit. Guys, this is what the Lord has been telling me. And I want you guys to get to the place where you discern if something is you know, if you feel like it's drying up, if you feel like something has become like a burden rather than a blessing, if you feel like something that you used to do so easily suddenly becomes a difficulty. I wanted to slow down and introspect and ask the Lord God, are you saying something to me?

7:15 Are you telling me to move on to the next thing? Or am I still holding on to the old pattern, whold way of thinking, old lifestyle that I used to have, of their old friends who are limiting me now? I wanted to introspect, guys. Introspect, Maybe a strategy that worked in the past, you're still trying that today, but it's not going to work out because it's an old strategy, and it's time for you to ask a lot, what is the strategy you have for me today? Maybe something that worked out really beautifully in the past.

7:45 And you're like, you know what, this is a way to do. This is what my forefathers did, This is what has been worked out by so many people in the past. I do believe this is what it's going to work for me. No understand seasons. Understand seasons the same fruit in a season that it's not meant to be, can be very costly, and you end up paying a high price for it and still feel unsatisfied because it's not as tasty as it should be. The very people who are a blessing will suddenly be a burden to you if they're not meant to be in the next season.

8:28 Or maybe you are saying, I'm scared to let go off this season. I pray that you will come to that place where you discern seasons and be willing to let go to move into the next season of your life. You know, we all say God, bless me, take me to the next level, next season, or all of that, but there are there are moments you need to take that step. If Elijah was sitting there and just saying, God, what it is going, what is going? Please bring water, and if he did not listen and obey god instruction to move out of that place, he will surely die.

9:05 You need to get to that place, guys, where you need to take that step to listen to what God is saying, what is he sharing in your spirit, what is he downloading within you, and say, if God wants me to move into the next thing, am I keeping myself from moving forward because I'm just stuck in my past comfort zone, what worked in the past, what I'm comfortable with. You know, you can never step into a new room without leaving the previous room. Right in a house or any way. Likewise, if you want to step into the new season, you need to be letting, willing to let go of the previous season.

9:46 Today, I pray that God will give you the courage and the ability to let go of the previous season. If God is leading you, discern seasons. First of all, discern your season. Discern where God is leading you. You know this may not be for everybody at this point point of time, but at any time the Lord is saying your season is done, get ready to pack your backs and move to the next season. Be willing to do it. Be willing to do it, And God, I pray in the name of Jesus, those who are listening you'll get to the place where they have the ability to discern the seasons.

10:23 Speak to them, Lord, speak to them clearly that it's time to move to the next season. And also give them the courage and the strength and the ability to listen to your word, your voice, and obey your voice and move into the next season that you have from there. In the name of Jesus, I pray Amen, God bless you. You've been listening to Fuel for the Soul with John gift We hope you were blessed and inspire to live the life that God has for you. Make sure to subscribe to the John gifted YouTube channel for regular uploads of sermons, skits, interviews and more.

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