Don’t Mess Your Life Because of This.... | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. A lot of people today are messing up their life, losing their destiny, losing a lot of things that they can actually accomplish and be a blessing to a lot of people and live a long life that will glorify God in and through their life. All because of this important aspect that they tend to deviate from their calling. They tend to go astray from what God has asked him to do just because they're jealous of somebody else. They just can't digest the fact that somebody else is prospering in something.

Who's somebody else's being a blessing who's being used by God in a greater fashion or in a different way in comparison to them. You know, I want to just start off by sharing a scripture with you, and I want to take this forward. And it is found in for Samuel, chapter eighteen. There's a moment when you see that David is being so successful in everything he does. The scripture goes on to say, even if you look at chapter seventeen and chapter eighteen, you talk about how David was successful. He because the hand of the Lord was upon David, and he was able to do really great exploits.

Because when God is with you, you can do great exploits. Okay, there's no doubt about it. And here's the thing. I want you to understand that there was a moment when he was getting so much a victory that people started seeing songs and saying, our Saul is killed thousands. David killed ten thousands, and verse eight says in chapter eighteen of Firs Samuel, this made Saul very angry. What's this about? He said? They credit David with ten thousands and me with only thousands. And from that time on, verse nine says, okay, and I'm reading from the n LT version.

From that time on, Saul kept a jealous eye on David, and you see as time progresses, he constantly chases after David. See, I want you to understand something very important to you guys, that Saul was already making history, becoming the first king in recorded history of Israel. He's the first king of Israel. He's there's nobody once you are first. You are first. There's nobody else who can take the place of first. No matter how many kings come after that, they can never be the first king, because the first king is history.

You get what I'm saying. You know, the other day I was talking to somebody and I said, you know, so and so was the first celebrity guest I interviewed, which means that this is the first person. No matter how many people come after that, no matter how many people do after that. You know, yes, they are specially in their own way, but this person was first. This person was the first to accept the invitation to be on my podcast. And you know that made me feel really happy. So you guys have to understand this important truth.

There's something about the first David was going to become the next king, but still he was going to become the next king, but not the first king. So Saul had all the reasons to be excited about the fact that he was making history becoming the first king of Israel. There's no one else who had become the king of Israel because they only had judges to rule. And Saul was in a place where he was making history of becoming the first king. But what did he do. He became jealous of David, started chasing after David.

He messed up his destiny. He put the whole country in jeopardy. He was not even taking care of his own people or the affairs of the kingdom. He led the kingdom into unnecessary wars and so much of trouble and turmoil, so much he just led. There was this constant fight between the in the Saul and this you know men, and David and this men, and you know, it was it was so much of chaos that could all be avoided if Saul was secured in who he was. Today, a lot of problems happened just because people are insecure in who they are.

You know, there was a moment when I felt like there was a sense of jealousy in me when I looked at certain people and I saw how they were successful in the very things that I wish I was successful for. You see, that's when the Lord was showing me this. You know, I'm being successful in the areas that God wants me to be successful. If I overlook that and try to be successful in something else and I try to be jealous of somebody else in their area of success, then I'm going to be messing up. And that's when I had to get to that place when I said, God, please, I don't want to be assault.

I want to learn from Sault, but I don't want to be assault. Help me to be grateful and work towards what you have asked me to be in the area that you want me to be. And today I'm pray that you will get to that place where you won't be jealous of somebody who's successful in something that you're not meant to be successful at. Saul was successful as the first king. He had a lot of responsibility to secure his people, to take care of the needs, to bring about good policies that will be beneficial for the people.

But instead of doing all of the good for the people, what was he doing. He was just chasing after David. He just went off track. He just wasted everybody's resources and time and everything on things that did not even make any sense. Today, I pray that you will be secured in who God wants you to be, in the area that God wants you to be. You see, Saul was the first king, even though David was going to become the next king, but they would only become the next king, but never the first king. Saul was making history.

You know, when I was thinking about this, like I said, you know, when those jealousy thoughts or thoughts of enemy came to me, when I was thinking, oh my goodness, this person is successful in this area and I'm not. And the Lord remind me of the areas that I've been successful that right when I think about, you know, grateful the God, where the ministry took off, with the podcast or even the book becoming number one and all of these things, you know, the very people that I was, I was like, oh my gosh, why are they successful in something and I'm not successful in those areas now I and the Lord reminded me and said, you're successful in areas oh that they are not successful at you know what I mean.

I'm not putting myself in a high pedesta or in low pedestal. But I'm telling you from my heart because I want to be open with you guys, that I also deal with these things, and I also face these moments when I had to get to the Lord and I said, God, please help me. I have this area where I'm feel jealous about this person. Help me. I don't want to lose my life. I don't want to go off track. I don't want to mess my destiny. I don't want to be like a Saul when I can actually learn from Sault so that I can be a better version, so that I can you know, in many ways, I made history in my family in different places, like for example, in the university when students whenever allowed to preach, I made history, you know, out of ten eleven thousand people.

I made history. When when the book became you know, number one, or even the podcast hitting the number one. In many ways, these these these were all part of history in different things that I did, you know, and I'm telling you guys, you know, Saul was also making history. And sometimes we can be so jealous of somebody else because they're successful in something that we want to be successful at. When I pray that God will give you you and either strengthen the grace to say, God, help me to overcome that jealousy.

Help me to deal with that and come to that place where I'm secured in who you want me to be, so that I will find success in what you want me to find success at. And I pray that you will not be like a Saul messing up your life, but you will be secured and you will be a great testimony and an example what would be like when you have to deal with jealousy in your life. Because these spirits will come, these thoughts will come. The conrono me from it, but you can overcome them when you're secured in who God wants you to be in Jesus name, I pray Emen, God pless you.

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