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

0:49 Speaker 2: be with you today on this segment of the Fuel

0:50 Speaker 2: for the Soul with John Gift of podcast. Since yesterday

0:53 Speaker 2: we've been doing a little bit of learning from the

0:56 Speaker 2: Life of Daniel Daniel chapter one, and today I'm going

0:59 Speaker 2: to talk another important aspect because yesterday I told you

1:02 Speaker 2: that even when they did not expect they were taken

1:07 Speaker 2: as captive, they were from the royal family, the royal

1:11 Speaker 2: circles and nobility. And from there Daniel and his friends

1:15 Speaker 2: and a lot of men from that age group that

1:19 Speaker 2: 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

1:26 Speaker 2: not have like a bad attitude, especially when you look

1:30 Speaker 2: at Daniel and his friends. They had all the reasons

1:32 Speaker 2: to have a bad attitude, to have self pity, to

1:36 Speaker 2: not go their extra mile, to you know, have this

1:39 Speaker 2: spirit of like, you know, why should I do this?

1:42 Speaker 2: You know, I just want to get back. Or they

1:44 Speaker 2: could have had the complaining spirit, they could have walked

1:47 Speaker 2: with a chip on their shoulder. But if you see

1:49 Speaker 2: Daniel and his friends Shadrack Michigan habitat or they had

1:53 Speaker 2: the spirit of excellence. They walked with integrity. They were

1:56 Speaker 2: ten times better than the rest of the young men

1:59 Speaker 2: when they were taken in after three years of the training.

2:03 Speaker 2: And today I want to talk about one aspect of

2:06 Speaker 2: it might sound like a repetition in one way when

2:09 Speaker 2: I'm talking about it. That's the reason I want to

2:11 Speaker 2: remind you, and I want to take it forward in

2:13 Speaker 2: case you mistested his segment. But I want to talk

2:15 Speaker 2: to let you know that, oh, they did not choose

2:18 Speaker 2: this by their choice. It was pushed on them, you

2:22 Speaker 2: know what I mean. And they had all the reason

2:23 Speaker 2: not to put in their best effort, and they had

2:26 Speaker 2: all the reason to, you know, maybe just be complacent,

2:31 Speaker 2: not go the extra mile, have a bad attitude. Maybe

2:34 Speaker 2: they were in depression, they were missing their family. All

2:37 Speaker 2: of these things could be true. Here's the thing. The

2:39 Speaker 2: Bible says, if you look at Daniel sapter one was five,

2:44 Speaker 2: that they were to be trained for three years and

2:46 Speaker 2: then they would enter the king service. And I was

2:48 Speaker 2: thinking to think about this, like, there could have been

2:51 Speaker 2: so many young men, okay, who were trained for the

2:54 Speaker 2: three years, and in that process, there could have been

2:57 Speaker 2: many of them who did not put in their best

3:00 Speaker 2: step or two were always complaining. Maybe they were depressed,

3:02 Speaker 2: they didn't do their job well, they did not go

3:05 Speaker 2: through that training properly, and maybe at the end of

3:08 Speaker 2: three years, they you know, like just blew it. Or

3:14 Speaker 2: they were not chosen by the king. Maybe they did

3:17 Speaker 2: not perform well in front of the king, or the

3:21 Speaker 2: king did not, you know, choose them to serve him

3:25 Speaker 2: in any capacity or whatever. So think about this, they

3:29 Speaker 2: did not choose this, right Like, in a similar way

3:32 Speaker 2: in your life, there may be areas that you do

3:34 Speaker 2: not choose. You're saying, I didn't ask for this, you know,

3:37 Speaker 2: I didn't choose this course. I didn't want to do

3:39 Speaker 2: this course. I didn't want to do this. I didn't

3:44 Speaker 2: want to be involved in this, but it was pushed

3:47 Speaker 2: on me, this relationship. I didn't want for this, but

3:51 Speaker 2: then somehow the family convinced me into this, and somehow

3:54 Speaker 2: things just fell in place. Or maybe this course or

3:57 Speaker 2: maybe this job, whatever it is, you're pushed into something

4:00 Speaker 2: that you're not actually, you know, you put your thought

4:03 Speaker 2: intowards something that you decided because you would have allowed

4:06 Speaker 2: to do it. You would have chosen something else if

4:08 Speaker 2: it was in your hands. But like Daniel and his friends,

4:11 Speaker 2: maybe you were pushed into something that you did not want.

4:14 Speaker 2: A season of training, a season of hardship, a season

4:17 Speaker 2: where things were bleakue, maybe you had to let go

4:20 Speaker 2: of your loud ones, maybe be in an area or

4:23 Speaker 2: a season of training and whatever. Daniel was in a

4:25 Speaker 2: season of training his friends, but in a season where

4:29 Speaker 2: they were trained away from their family. So think about

4:31 Speaker 2: all of this they were emotionally they could have felt

4:34 Speaker 2: a lot like I do not know if I will

4:36 Speaker 2: ever get to see my family again. Or they would

4:38 Speaker 2: have because they were young men, they grew up with

4:40 Speaker 2: their family, you know what I mean, They will have

4:43 Speaker 2: fresh memories and crying and pain because I remember when

4:46 Speaker 2: I had to go to boarding for my aerospace engineering program.

4:51 Speaker 2: I grew up with my family, my entire life. So

4:53 Speaker 2: when I go, when I went for those four years

4:55 Speaker 2: of the engineering program, what happened every time? I used

4:59 Speaker 2: to cry because I missed my family because I may

5:02 Speaker 2: not be able to spend as much as time as

5:05 Speaker 2: I would. And guess what, Daniel and his friends did

5:07 Speaker 2: 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.

5:14 Speaker 2: They were totally different, in a different kingdom. Altogether, everything

5:17 Speaker 2: was like so difficult for them. But even in the

5:20 Speaker 2: midst of all that, they had a split of excellence.

5:23 Speaker 2: They went the extramal They did not waste the training

5:27 Speaker 2: years and that's why they were promoted. They kept going

5:30 Speaker 2: higher and higher. If you see Daniel and his friends

5:33 Speaker 2: throughout this chapter, they constantly promoted and they kept going

5:38 Speaker 2: higher and serving on a different case. So what's my

5:40 Speaker 2: message to you is this, you can look at your

5:46 Speaker 2: area that you're pushed into and complain and have a

5:49 Speaker 2: bad attitude and waste those training years and come out

5:53 Speaker 2: as nothing, or you can use this to push you

5:59 Speaker 2: into yours, to propel you into new levels of your destiny.

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