Don’t Keep the Blessing to Yourself | John Giftah | Inspirational Christian Sermon

0:01 Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world is a crazy

0:06 place and it just seems to get crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and

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0:39 Gifta International. Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. Now,

0:57 when you look at the wood prosperity or the blessings from the Lord or favor,

1:02 there are two extremes of people that I've come across. One extreme is

1:07 totally against anything to do with prosperity or favor or riches from the Lord or

1:14 wealth. And they're like, you know what, that's all wrong. It's

1:17 a sin to have money, and you know, so on and so forth.

1:19 I still remember one lady. She always us on your messages are a

1:25 blessing to me, and so on and so forth, till one day she

1:27 saw me post a Bible words which had the word prosper in it, and

1:32 she got so mad. She said, you know what, VS. Christian

1:34 should never use the word prosper or prosperity, and because you use that,

1:41 you're a false prophet, you're a prosperity preacher. And she's stopped to fall

1:44 away. I'm like, oh, my goodness, that that kind of an

1:48 extreme group, because I've been in two sides of the coinment. I mean,

1:53 I've seen people from the traditional perspective, part of the traditional church.

1:57 At the same time, in terms of the charismatic side, I've seen the

2:00 other extreme where people are all the time focusing on themselves. You know,

2:06 Oh, I need money, I need my promotion, I need to get

2:08 this in my life. I need to achieve my dreams, I need to

2:12 see success and you know, build my empire. And you know it's all

2:15 about themselves. So there are two extremes. One extreme is like I shred

2:21 or I detest anything to do with money, and the other extreme it's all

2:25 about I want money for myself. But I want you to understand, when

2:30 you look at the biblical perspective of this topic, you have to understand the

2:34 most important thing to understand is that there is a thin line between going against

2:40 it at the same time not going so much into it. What do I

2:47 mean by that? Kingdom driven gospel is not shunning down on having money,

2:53 because when you actually do the work, you realize how much of money is

2:58 required to be honest, in doing this podcast, there's so much involved,

3:06 high quality microphone and we still need to build, you know, audio system

3:15 in a deeper way. That's that's something I've been praying and waiting on God

3:19 for. And also, you know, the platforms in which I host these

3:23 podcasts and so many different things. Everything involves money. You know. The

3:28 recordings for my YouTube videos are with the studio. They need money. We're

3:31 going on TV on New Year's Day. I need money. I mean,

3:35 so everything involves money. You can't say I don't need money. You need

3:38 money, okay, But at the same time you have to understand that you

3:44 don't need to run after money just for yourself. The reason you need it

3:49 is so that God blesses you, so that you can be a blessing.

3:53 Now, when we look at them incident recorded in the Bible about Jesus feeding

3:57 the five thousand in John chapter you had to remember that the little boy had

4:04 filos of bread into fish. What I want you to know is that he

4:11 brought the filos of bread and the two fish for himself. If he had

4:16 consumed it, he would have been nourished, and that's it. He would

4:21 have been fine because he had what he needed for himself. See, a

4:27 lot of people are living this kind of a life where they think I have

4:30 what I need for myself and that's enough. But that's a selfish way of

4:34 living. If he had done what he had done, we wouldn't be talking

4:39 about that little boy today. But because what he had was given into the

4:46 hands of Jesus, Jesus was able to feed the five thousand men, and

4:50 probably people say they were our fifteen thousand men, women children together, fifteen

4:55 thousand or twenty thousand, whatever be the numbers. Thousands were fed when what

5:01 this little boy had was given it in hands of Jesus. What I wanted

5:05 to understand is what he had was only for himself. But when you give

5:12 it to God, he's able to multiply and use it for the extension of

5:16 His kingdom. What you have maybe only for yourself, But why didn't you

5:26 pray that God will bless what you have to an extent that you can be

5:30 a blessing to other people. This boy brought food only for himself. He

5:35 didn't bring food for his neighbor, bring food for other people. He brought

5:40 food for only himself. But what God did was God blessed him enough so

5:46 that it was not just that this boy had more food, it was that

5:50 everybody else had food. That's what God can do with your life. Guys,

5:57 if you would just take the limits off and say, God, this

6:00 is what I have, and I don't want to restrict what you want to

6:04 do through my life. What I may have may be small, insignificant,

6:12 but I'm going to be believing in you for big things. If that boy

6:15 said, you know, why should I give it to Jesus? I mean,

6:17 I just have enough for myself. I just have it for myself,

6:20 we wouldn't have seen the miracle right the same way with regard to your money,

6:27 with regard to your resources, your talents, your gifts, everything.

6:30 Don't you say it's enough if I have for myself, No, pray,

6:34 ask God to bless you more so that you can be a greater blessing to

6:38 other people. Not only was this boy fed, but other people were fed

6:43 with what he had. What you have today may be insignificant, but I

6:47 want you to understand that God wants to use it to bless other people.

6:54 Stop living for your self, guys, Stop just living a selfish life.

7:00 It's all about me. It's all about me. No. If you can

7:02 pay bills, pray that God will bless you enough to pray other people's bills.

7:09 If you have a roof over your head, pray that God will bless

7:13 you enough so that you can provide roof over the heads of people who are

7:17 having no home. Ask God for big things. That's what differentiates a person

7:28 who's just like living a selfish life, like I don't need anything just for

7:32 me, but they think that they're being humble. No, you're living a

7:36 selfish life, and a person who's like, oh I need money for my

7:43 I need money for me. No, or even your promotion so that when

7:49 you are promoted it's not just about you. You may get some hykeen your

7:53 salary, you may get more influenced. You can use that promotion to maybe,

7:59 you know, give opportunity for somebody else, mentor somebody else. You

8:03 know, through all of those ways, you can indirectly or sometimes directly,

8:09 shout about Jesus. Why do you restrict yourself today? My challenge is have

8:16 this right perspective that record to the blessings of the Lord. Don't just live

8:20 for yourself. Get to a place where you say, what I have maybe

8:24 just for me, but I give it to God so that He will use

8:28 it to bless other people through me. In Jesus name, I pray,

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9:35 Soul with John Gifta. God bless you. If your heart stops beating,

9:43 now, do you know where you're going? If you came face to face

9:46 with death? Now do you know where you're going? And this is not

9:50 a message of condemnation. This is a message of hope. That is,

9:54 a God who loves you so much sent his only son, Jesus Christ to

10:01 come down and pay a heavy price by shedding every drop of his blood on

10:07 the cross. Thank you for dying for my sins. When you believe in

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10:22 I'll just encourage you today to make the simple step of fate and say,

10:26 Jesus, I thank you for what you did on the cross. Thank you

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