Don’t Waste the Season You Didn’t Choose | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:47 Speaker 2: Hey, God, risheld Li sach A joy for me to be with you today on this segment of the Fuel for the Soul with John Gift of podcast. Since yesterday we've been doing a little bit of learning from the Life of Daniel Daniel chapter one, and today I'm going to talk another important aspect because yesterday I told you that even when they did not expect they were taken as captive, they were from the royal family, the royal circles and nobility. And from there Daniel and his friends and a lot of men from that age group that from that background were taken as captive and taken into Babylon.

1:24 Speaker 2: And yes, the thing I told you that they did not have like a bad attitude, especially when you look at Daniel and his friends. They had all the reasons to have a bad attitude, to have self pity, to not go their extra mile, to you know, have this spirit of like, you know, why should I do this? You know, I just want to get back. Or they could have had the complaining spirit, they could have walked with a chip on their shoulder. But if you see Daniel and his friends Shadrack Michigan habitat or they had the spirit of excellence.

1:54 Speaker 2: They walked with integrity. They were ten times better than the rest of the young men when they were taken in after three years of the training. And today I want to talk about one aspect of it might sound like a repetition in one way when I'm talking about it. That's the reason I want to remind you, and I want to take it forward in case you mistested his segment. But I want to talk to let you know that, oh, they did not choose this by their choice. It was pushed on them, you know what I mean. And they had all the reason not to put in their best effort, and they had all the reason to, you know, maybe just be complacent, not go the extra mile, have a bad attitude.

2:34 Speaker 2: Maybe they were in depression, they were missing their family. All of these things could be true. Here's the thing. The Bible says, if you look at Daniel sapter one was five, that they were to be trained for three years and then they would enter the king service. And I was thinking to think about this, like, there could have been so many young men, okay, who were trained for the three years, and in that process, there could have been many of them who did not put in their best step or two were always complaining.

3:01 Speaker 2: Maybe they were depressed, they didn't do their job well, they did not go through that training properly, and maybe at the end of three years, they you know, like just blew it. Or they were not chosen by the king. Maybe they did not perform well in front of the king, or the king did not, you know, choose them to serve him in any capacity or whatever. So think about this, they did not choose this, right Like, in a similar way in your life, there may be areas that you do not choose. You're saying, I didn't ask for this, you know, I didn't choose this course.

3:38 Speaker 2: I didn't want to do this course. I didn't want to do this. I didn't want to be involved in this, but it was pushed on me, this relationship. I didn't want for this, but then somehow the family convinced me into this, and somehow things just fell in place. Or maybe this course or maybe this job, whatever it is, you're pushed into something that you're not actually, you know, you put your thought intowards something that you decided because you would have allowed to do it. You would have chosen something else if it was in your hands.

4:09 Speaker 2: But like Daniel and his friends, maybe you were pushed into something that you did not want. A season of training, a season of hardship, a season where things were bleakue, maybe you had to let go of your loud ones, maybe be in an area or a season of training and whatever. Daniel was in a season of training his friends, but in a season where they were trained away from their family. So think about all of this they were emotionally they could have felt a lot like I do not know if I will ever get to see my family again.

4:37 Speaker 2: Or they would have because they were young men, they grew up with their family, you know what I mean, They will have fresh memories and crying and pain because I remember when I had to go to boarding for my aerospace engineering program. I grew up with my family, my entire life. So when I go, when I went for those four years of the engineering program, what happened every time? I used to cry because I missed my family because I may not be able to spend as much as time as I would. And guess what, Daniel and his friends did not even have the assurance of ever meeting their family again.

5:11 Speaker 2: You know, they were away, they did not have any contact. They were totally different, in a different kingdom. Altogether, everything was like so difficult for them. But even in the midst of all that, they had a split of excellence. They went the extramal They did not waste the training years and that's why they were promoted. They kept going higher and higher. If you see Daniel and his friends throughout this chapter, they constantly promoted and they kept going higher and serving on a different case.

5:40 Speaker 2: So what's my message to you is this, you can look at your area that you're pushed into and complain and have a bad attitude and waste those training years and come out as nothing, or you can use this to push you into yours, to propel you into new levels of your destiny.

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