Experiencing GOD's Favor and Living Sacrifice | John Giftah

0:02 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, in 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.

0:44 Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John GIFTA. Hey, are you in the place and in life where you're saying, John, I'm praying, I'm believing, But I'm not able to see the favorite of God upon my life. I'm not able to see the power of God. I'm not able to walk in the miracles, the power of the supernancial. I'm not able to experience the fullness of the Christian left that I'm supposed to have? Is there something that could be wrong in my life? See that are a lot of things that we can learn. We can introspect wherein a journey God understands that we're going through a lot of things.

1:20 But there's something that the Lord was speaking to me about and I thought I would share this with you, and I want to take it forward by sharing this scripture. And I want to take this forward Romance twelve, verse one, and it says, therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice only and pleasing to God. This is your true and proper worship. Now when you look at the Nulty version, it says in a very similar line, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all He has done for you.

1:52 Let them be a living and holy sacrifice, the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship Him. Now, I want to tell you something. The scripture is talking about offering ourselves, offering every element about us. Maybe it's your physical aspect of life, your time, your money, your resources, your gifts, your emotions, your mental you know ability and the strength and all of that, everything as a whole that makes you you. You're called to give to the Lord as a living sacrifice, not after you die, but as a living sacrifice unto the Lord, so that you glorify God with your life.

2:38 We praise him with our life. We live our life for him. It's no longer we that live, but it is Christ to live through us, to fulfill his plan that he has for us. Right. And so now a lot of Christians take this face value and say, yes, you know what, I'm worshiping the Lord. They sing songs or praise and worship and they think that's worship. Now it your is a scripture. It clearly says offering yourself as a living sacrifice. Where you say, I'm denying my own self. I'm denying or bringing death to my own self, and I'm saying, let God's will be done over my life.

3:14 I'm giving myself into his hands and giving myself as the living sacrifice for him to use me whatever way he wants. So it's not about what I want, but it's about what He wants. And that's what is true and proper worship. That's what the Bible says right now in line with there's someone who share the scripture with you, and I want to take this forward, and it is found in Malachai chapter one, and I'm reading to you from words number seven and I'm reading from the Alti version, and it's what says you defile them by saying, the altar of the Lord deserves no respect when you give blind animals as sacrifices.

3:55 Isn't that wrong? And it is the wrong to offer animals that crippled and deceased. Trying giving gifts like this to the governor, and see how pleased he is, says the Lord of Heaven's armies. Go ahead, beg God to be merciful to you. But when you bring that kind of an offering, why should he show you any favor at all? As the Lord of Heaven's armies, he's saying this.

4:25 There are people who don't properly give the proper kind of sacrifice. And they're not offering the right sacrifice. They're not doing it properly. They're doing it complacently. They're doing evil. You know, they're thinking, like, you know, what, I do the best for something else, Like you know, in a literal sense, let's say this. You know a lot of people, Oh, you know what, I need to put my best foot forward because this is for my job. But if it's for charge, he'll be like, you know, this much is enough?

4:53 You get what I'm saying. A lot of people have this complacent attitude, yeah, thinking that you know what, you know this and how I need to impress my boss. I need to do this because you know it's going to give me a better platform or an influence, and you know I need to do this for this person. But when it comes to the Lord, you're like, you know what, God will understand. I don't need to go that level of quality. This much is enough? Can I get your attention with this? Because this is so true. I've seen a lot of people.

5:21 They go the extra mile, they do so much, they have a spirit of excellence when it comes to what they call a secular stuff. But when it comes to the Lord, they think God understands. Let me just give whatever I can and whatever I want, whatever I feel like, and even if it's low quality, second class, it's fine because God will understand. And here is a scripture would say is very classic way God is saying, you know, if you were to give this to a governor, would he accept it? If you were to give a very bad condition of an offering to you know, somebody else in your vicinity, would he accept it?

5:59 No? Then what makes you think that you can play up with God. I'll tell you honestly, you know, many times I've been in the treasury groups right when we collect or count the offering that comes from church services and all of that. And I'll tell you sometimes I've been in setups where there are really rich people, and I'll tell you honestly, sometimes the offerings that come there will be like very tone notes that you know that people won't accept it on I mean this is in India, okay, for those who do not know.

6:33 In some countries, whatever the condition of the currencies, they will accept it. But in India, if it's tone, if it's in a damaged place, you know, they won't accept. In shops, they won't accept in a lot of places. So you need to go to the bank and change it. That's what it is to be done. But they would put such notes into the offering box, or sometimes coins that are not even acceptable, like you know, certain kind of outdated coins that are no longer uptable in the currency of the system would be in the offering box.

7:03 I've seen that, right, And I'm telling you honestly, if you are going to do that for you know, maybe paying your tax or maybe for your King. Maybe in your workplace, you might get fired, you might get sued, you might be put in jail. But why would you think God lightly? That is what I'm trying to say here, and God is going on to say this. You know, if you bring such offerings, how can you expect to see My favor? And that is the question I want to leave with you. If you are saying you want to experience God's favor, you want to experience God's power, you want to live the Christian life God has for you, then how can you bring such bad offerings to the Lord when you are not offering yourself willfully, fully in every area of your life, whether it's your physical in every area including your interests, your desires, your passions, your goals, your careers, your relationships, and every other detail.

7:55 If you're not offering yourself properly, if you're not giving the proper of the Lord, how can you expect to live the life that He has for you? Today, I pray and I challenge every one of you that you will make amends in your offering, that you will offer yourself as a living sacrifice to the Lord in every detail, not partially, not in some areas but completely so that it will please the Lord and you will walk in the fullness of what He has in store for you. Amen, God bless you. You've been listening to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta, we hope you were blessed and inspired to live the life that God has for you.

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