Faith Doesn’t Mean Being Unrealistic | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:46 Speaker 2: Hey God, Rishel listench a joy for me to be with all of you today on this segment of the Fuel for the Soul with John Gifter podcast. And this week we've been talking about various lessons that we can learn from Daniel chapter one, and I'm going to talk to you today on a very important aspect that you can see where Daniel is making a resolve that he would not defile himself with the royal food and wine. And he says that you know, please help inst giving this, give us vegetables and water and this is what the person the official was in charge, said, but I'm afraid that if you're looking worse than the other men, it will not be good for me.

1:25 Speaker 2: And worse leven is what I wanted to understand, very very important. Not worse leven. Actually verse leven and verse twelve. Verse leven is when Daniel speaks to the guard, to whom the chief official had appointed over Daniels shadrack mischief and I am at nego, And he says, please test your servants for ten days, give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then compare our appearance with those of the with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.

2:00 Speaker 2: So he agreed to this, and tested them for ten days, and verse fifteen days. At the end of the ten days, they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. Now I want you to understand something, heah. Sometimes when we are firm on saying you know what, I'm standing firm on my convictions. When I'm going to do what God wants me to do, or this is what I need to do, I cannot compromise on this, or I need to do it in a certain way. This is my conviction, and all of these things.

2:28 Speaker 2: What happens is sometimes we go into the element of being, you know, in this radical faith or in a place of sounding very spiritual and religious, that we are forgetting the importance or the aspect of being practical. Are you getting what I'm saying. Daniel did not just say, oh, you have to trust us, you have to believe in us. You know it's going to be fine, don't worry. No, what did Daniel say, give us ten days? He was willing, He was bold enough to say, let's test this for ten days. He gave a practical timeline, he said.

3:02 Speaker 2: He didn't say, let's press test this for the next three years or a one year. He said, let's test this for ten days. You will see the difference. See, sometimes you have to understand when you're standing for one your convictions and you are digging your heels in and you're saying, you know what this is what it is. Sometimes it's difficult to convince other people who don't have the same faith. You don't have the same conviction. So sometimes we just go with the empty theoretical words saying you know what, no do you should trust us because we are trusting in the Lord, the Living God, God will honor us.

3:33 Speaker 2: You know, all those words will fall flat if you don't show them visible results, visible fruit. And so Daniel was like, listen, you don't have to take a far fetched risk on us. Just try and test this for ten days and then you can decide if you feel that or if you see that you know we are not doing better than the others, well, very well, listen to you and we will eat the royal food that you want us to eat. So Daniel was very practical in his approach. He was not over spiritual, like how sometimes you know, you see some people they're like over spiritual, where they forget the practicality, they forget the protocol, they forget the responsibility, they forget you know, certain elements that are expected of them, the standards that are expected of them, the visible results.

4:23 Speaker 2: Now, for example, if I say, for instance, in ministry, right, if I just say, oh, I've been doing ministry, like some of you might know this, I've been running the ministry for over fourteen years, started off from my university days. So I've been doing this for fourteen years. If I say I've been doing this for fourteen years. But you know, if I just say so because I've been doing this for fourteen years, I need you know, you to understand that either has reached a certain level of standard or expectation.

4:53 Speaker 2: I can't. You'll question me on that, you know what I mean, Like you say, give me proof. So it's not about the launch doing. It's about like, how can I see that? How can I see the impact? How can I see the numbers? How can I see a visible difference? How can I see a visible growth? You get what I'm saying. So Daniel was not just saying, you know, just by faith trust us, or he was not saying this because God will take care and all of those spiritual reasons. He didn't just do that. He just said, listen, let's test this out in the physical realm for ten days and then we will decide.

5:32 Speaker 2: This is a word for some of you don't be over spiritual, or sometimes you may end up pushing away certain people, or you may not get some recognition or opportunities in your workplace, or maybe there are certain things that you're waiting away because you're trying to be over spiritual instead of being practical. Sometimes sometimes you have to understand the system in which the world works is different from the system in which the word works. And that's why you need to know how to balance, how to be practical, how to come back and say yes, I trust in God.

6:06 Speaker 2: I know God can do this and do that. But for people who are in the world, we need some visible proof. So let's test this out for ten days. So I challenge you today just like Daniel was willing to do this, where he said, you know what, let's test this out for ten days. Can you be in that position where you're practical enough to understand then needs, the expectations, the requirements, and be willing to trust in the Lord and test things out and be willing to a point where you're saying yes, yes, the proof of me trusting God or standing from my convictions.

6:43 Speaker 2: This is why I'm telling you you can trust me in the other areas of my convictions. Can that be your prayer that you would be practical and vice like Daniel and not sound over spiritual and where the wrong people away from your life? God bless you.

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8:11 Speaker 2: Hmm.