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

0:01 Speaker 1: Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world

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0:08 Speaker 1: crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and take a break.

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0:41 Speaker 1: Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John GIFTA.

0:46 Speaker 2: Hey God, Rishel listench a joy for me to be

0:47 Speaker 2: with all of you today on this segment of the

0:49 Speaker 2: Fuel for the Soul with John Gifter podcast. And this

0:52 Speaker 2: week we've been talking about various lessons that we can

0:54 Speaker 2: learn from Daniel chapter one, and I'm going to talk

0:58 Speaker 2: to you today on a very important aspect that you

1:00 Speaker 2: can see where Daniel is making a resolve that he

1:04 Speaker 2: would not defile himself with the royal food and wine.

1:07 Speaker 2: And he says that you know, please help inst giving this,

1:12 Speaker 2: give us vegetables and water and this is what the

1:16 Speaker 2: person the official was in charge, said, but I'm afraid

1:19 Speaker 2: that if you're looking worse than the other men, it

1:23 Speaker 2: will not be good for me. And worse leven is

1:26 Speaker 2: what I wanted to understand, very very important. Not worse leven.

1:30 Speaker 2: Actually verse leven and verse twelve. Verse leven is when

1:33 Speaker 2: Daniel speaks to the guard, to whom the chief official

1:36 Speaker 2: had appointed over Daniels shadrack mischief and I am at nego,

1:41 Speaker 2: And he says, please test your servants for ten days,

1:46 Speaker 2: give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink.

1:51 Speaker 2: Then compare our appearance with those of the with that

1:55 Speaker 2: of the young men who eat the royal food, and

1:57 Speaker 2: treat your servants in accordance with what you see. So

2:00 Speaker 2: he agreed to this, and tested them for ten days,

2:04 Speaker 2: and verse fifteen days. At the end of the ten days,

2:06 Speaker 2: they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the

2:09 Speaker 2: young men who ate the royal food. Now I want

2:12 Speaker 2: you to understand something, heah. Sometimes when we are firm

2:15 Speaker 2: on saying you know what, I'm standing firm on my convictions.

2:17 Speaker 2: When I'm going to do what God wants me to do,

2:20 Speaker 2: or this is what I need to do, I cannot

2:22 Speaker 2: compromise on this, or I need to do it in

2:25 Speaker 2: a certain way. This is my conviction, and all of

2:27 Speaker 2: these things. What happens is sometimes we go into the

2:30 Speaker 2: element of being, you know, in this radical faith or

2:35 Speaker 2: in a place of sounding very spiritual and religious, that

2:39 Speaker 2: we are forgetting the importance or the aspect of being practical.

2:45 Speaker 2: Are you getting what I'm saying. Daniel did not just say, oh,

2:48 Speaker 2: you have to trust us, you have to believe in us.

2:50 Speaker 2: You know it's going to be fine, don't worry. No,

2:53 Speaker 2: what did Daniel say, give us ten days? He was willing,

2:56 Speaker 2: He was bold enough to say, let's test this for

2:59 Speaker 2: ten days. He gave a practical timeline, he said. He

3:02 Speaker 2: didn't say, let's press test this for the next three

3:04 Speaker 2: years or a one year. He said, let's test this

3:07 Speaker 2: for ten days. You will see the difference. See, sometimes

3:11 Speaker 2: you have to understand when you're standing for one your

3:13 Speaker 2: convictions and you are digging your heels in and you're saying,

3:16 Speaker 2: you know what this is what it is. Sometimes it's

3:18 Speaker 2: difficult to convince other people who don't have the same faith.

3:22 Speaker 2: You don't have the same conviction. So sometimes we just

3:25 Speaker 2: go with the empty theoretical words saying you know what,

3:28 Speaker 2: no do you should trust us because we are trusting

3:30 Speaker 2: in the Lord, the Living God, God will honor us.

3:33 Speaker 2: You know, all those words will fall flat if you

3:36 Speaker 2: don't show them visible results, visible fruit. And so Daniel

3:41 Speaker 2: was like, listen, you don't have to take a far

3:44 Speaker 2: fetched risk on us. Just try and test this for

3:47 Speaker 2: ten days and then you can decide if you feel

3:50 Speaker 2: that or if you see that you know we are

3:52 Speaker 2: not doing better than the others, well, very well, listen

3:57 Speaker 2: to you and we will eat the royal food that

3:59 Speaker 2: you want us to eat. So Daniel was very practical

4:03 Speaker 2: in his approach. He was not over spiritual, like how

4:08 Speaker 2: sometimes you know, you see some people they're like over spiritual,

4:11 Speaker 2: where they forget the practicality, they forget the protocol, they

4:15 Speaker 2: forget the responsibility, they forget you know, certain elements that

4:19 Speaker 2: are expected of them, the standards that are expected of them,

4:22 Speaker 2: the visible results. Now, for example, if I say, for instance,

4:26 Speaker 2: in ministry, right, if I just say, oh, I've been

4:29 Speaker 2: doing ministry, like some of you might know this, I've

4:31 Speaker 2: been running the ministry for over fourteen years, started off

4:35 Speaker 2: from my university days. So I've been doing this for

4:38 Speaker 2: fourteen years. If I say I've been doing this for

4:40 Speaker 2: fourteen years. But you know, if I just say so

4:44 Speaker 2: because I've been doing this for fourteen years, I need

4:46 Speaker 2: you know, you to understand that either has reached a

4:50 Speaker 2: certain level of standard or expectation. I can't. You'll question

4:55 Speaker 2: me on that, you know what I mean, Like you say,

4:57 Speaker 2: give me proof. So it's not about the launch doing.

5:00 Speaker 2: It's about like, how can I see that? How can

5:04 Speaker 2: I see the impact? How can I see the numbers?

5:06 Speaker 2: How can I see a visible difference? How can I

5:09 Speaker 2: see a visible growth? You get what I'm saying. So

5:14 Speaker 2: Daniel was not just saying, you know, just by faith

5:17 Speaker 2: trust us, or he was not saying this because God

5:21 Speaker 2: will take care and all of those spiritual reasons. He

5:23 Speaker 2: didn't just do that. He just said, listen, let's test

5:26 Speaker 2: this out in the physical realm for ten days and

5:30 Speaker 2: then we will decide. This is a word for some

5:34 Speaker 2: of you don't be over spiritual, or sometimes you may

5:39 Speaker 2: end up pushing away certain people, or you may not

5:42 Speaker 2: get some recognition or opportunities in your workplace, or maybe

5:46 Speaker 2: there are certain things that you're waiting away because you're

5:49 Speaker 2: trying to be over spiritual instead of being practical. Sometimes

5:53 Speaker 2: sometimes you have to understand the system in which the

5:56 Speaker 2: world works is different from the system in which the

5:58 Speaker 2: word works. And that's why you need to know how

6:01 Speaker 2: to balance, how to be practical, how to come back

6:04 Speaker 2: and say yes, I trust in God. I know God

6:07 Speaker 2: can do this and do that. But for people who

6:10 Speaker 2: are in the world, we need some visible proof. So

6:13 Speaker 2: let's test this out for ten days. So I challenge

6:16 Speaker 2: you today just like Daniel was willing to do this,

6:19 Speaker 2: where he said, you know what, let's test this out

6:21 Speaker 2: for ten days. Can you be in that position where

6:23 Speaker 2: you're practical enough to understand then needs, the expectations, the requirements,

6:28 Speaker 2: and be willing to trust in the Lord and test

6:32 Speaker 2: things out and be willing to a point where you're

6:35 Speaker 2: saying yes, yes, the proof of me trusting God or

6:41 Speaker 2: standing from my convictions. This is why I'm telling you

6:46 Speaker 2: you can trust me in the other areas of my convictions.

6:50 Speaker 2: Can that be your prayer that you would be practical

6:53 Speaker 2: and vice like Daniel and not sound over spiritual and

6:57 Speaker 2: where the wrong people away from your life? God bless you.

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