Feeding on GOD's Word: The Key to Spiritual Growth | John Giftah | Biblical Teaching

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

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0:40 Speaker 1: International Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John.

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0:46 Speaker 2: Gift the podcast. Although this week we're looking at various

0:49 Speaker 2: aspects with regard to the Word of God, and one

0:52 Speaker 2: of the things I want you to understand is how

0:55 Speaker 2: the Word of God is what will sustain us. See,

0:58 Speaker 2: we're looking at a time when we're living in constant

1:02 Speaker 2: stress mode. There's life happening, there's constant pressure from society

1:07 Speaker 2: and you have to keep up your job or your

1:10 Speaker 2: career is in mistake, or you need to keep keeping

1:12 Speaker 2: up with what's happening on social media. You have so

1:15 Speaker 2: many things that are just it's like being on that

1:18 Speaker 2: hamster wheel of life. You know, it's so much a pressure,

1:21 Speaker 2: so many things that's just coming in coming out, and

1:23 Speaker 2: you're wondering, like, oh my gosh, how do I have

1:26 Speaker 2: the strength to go on? I feel like there's so

1:28 Speaker 2: much for me John, so many commitments, so many family challenges,

1:32 Speaker 2: there are so many misunderstandings, the issues of life, relationships,

1:36 Speaker 2: keeping up with the expectation at work, keeping up with

1:39 Speaker 2: the financial commitments, keeping up with I mean, at this rate,

1:44 Speaker 2: I've already buried my dreams and my God given calling

1:48 Speaker 2: over my life.

1:48 Speaker 3: Like, I just don't know what to do. But can

1:51 Speaker 3: I tell you something.

1:53 Speaker 2: I'm not saying that I know the answers to every

1:56 Speaker 2: problem that you face, but I know that God has

2:00 Speaker 2: a way for you.

2:01 Speaker 3: Right.

2:01 Speaker 2: God will not allow you to go through beyond what

2:03 Speaker 2: you can bear. And the thing I want you to

2:05 Speaker 2: understand is sometimes people don't realize this. I keep sharing

2:08 Speaker 2: certain aspects of my life because I want people to

2:11 Speaker 2: understand the weight of what I do.

2:13 Speaker 3: Right.

2:13 Speaker 2: I'm not saying this to put myself on a high pedestal,

2:16 Speaker 2: but I say this to say that if God is

2:19 Speaker 2: giving me the grace to do it. God will give

2:21 Speaker 2: you the grace to do it. That's what I would say.

2:24 Speaker 2: I always tell I hear from people saying, John, maybe

2:27 Speaker 2: it's easy for you. You don't understand I have a

2:31 Speaker 2: full time corporate job, And I say, well, I also

2:33 Speaker 2: have a full time corporate job, right, so I understand

2:37 Speaker 2: the stress that comes with it.

2:39 Speaker 3: I understand the expectations.

2:40 Speaker 2: I understand what happens in the you know, the lifestyle

2:45 Speaker 2: when you have a corporate job, or with regard to finance,

2:48 Speaker 2: the whole inflation and everything, like all the rates are increasing,

2:54 Speaker 2: the value of money is just something like, oh my gosh,

2:58 Speaker 2: it's not the same as it used to be. And

3:00 Speaker 2: you're like, oh my gosh, how do will I manage? Right, So,

3:03 Speaker 2: the financial pressure or or you're saying about, you know,

3:07 Speaker 2: managing the expectations at home and all of this, it's

3:10 Speaker 2: not easy working a full time comporage job. Often that

3:13 Speaker 2: people it's like me doing that and running the ministries,

3:16 Speaker 2: like literally doing two jobs. But I want you to

3:18 Speaker 2: understand how am I able to handle this? How is

3:22 Speaker 2: it that I'm able to go through? It's not because

3:25 Speaker 2: I am great, It's not because I figure everything out right,

3:30 Speaker 2: But I always go back to the scripture. It says

3:32 Speaker 2: in Jeremiah fifteen sixteen that the word of God sustains us.

3:38 Speaker 2: In fact, in one of the translations, he says that

3:41 Speaker 2: I ate your word. I not had most of us

3:45 Speaker 2: shade the word of Gord, like oh gosh, it's so boring,

3:48 Speaker 2: or it's it doesn't make sense, we are not reading

3:51 Speaker 2: the word properly, or all of this stuff.

3:53 Speaker 3: But he says, I ate ate.

3:56 Speaker 2: Jeremiah says, I ate your word because I'm sustained by word.

4:01 Speaker 2: I want you to understand that the way you see

4:04 Speaker 2: this pop culture reference of bugs funny always eating carrots.

4:09 Speaker 2: Have you seen that rabbits always eat carrots? Bugs funny

4:12 Speaker 2: always eating carrot? You see, you will be sustained by

4:17 Speaker 2: the word of God the same way the carrot is

4:21 Speaker 2: the thing sustaining a rabbit. The word of God is

4:26 Speaker 2: the thing that will sustain us. You may have like

4:30 Speaker 2: too many things on your plate. The Bible says in

4:33 Speaker 2: Deuteronomy thirty two twenty five, as your days are social strength,

4:37 Speaker 2: we see you need the strength, You need the grace

4:41 Speaker 2: for the days that you are facing.

4:44 Speaker 3: And how do you do that? God?

4:46 Speaker 2: Will give you the strength. And how do you get

4:48 Speaker 2: that strength through the word? It's through the world. See,

4:52 Speaker 2: even through the tough times, what do we do? We

4:54 Speaker 2: never neglect having a meal, neglect certain things that we

4:59 Speaker 2: are supposed to do. Nobody says like, oh, you know what,

5:01 Speaker 2: I have a lot to do today, let me avoid

5:04 Speaker 2: brushing my teeth. You wouldn't do that, right, you would

5:07 Speaker 2: do that the first thing you would do. You wake

5:09 Speaker 2: up because you're like, you know.

5:10 Speaker 3: What, I have a lot to do.

5:12 Speaker 2: If you would do that, how much more you and

5:14 Speaker 2: I need to know that the word of God is

5:18 Speaker 2: so important. You need to draw strength from the word.

5:23 Speaker 2: And I challenge you to understand that only from God's

5:26 Speaker 2: word you will get that strength. Only from God's word,

5:30 Speaker 2: you will get the direction you need. Only from God's

5:33 Speaker 2: word you will get the ability to have enough. Like

5:37 Speaker 2: how you see Popeye right? Another pop culture reference. You

5:40 Speaker 2: see Popeye? How does he handle the opposition or brutus?

5:46 Speaker 2: What does he do? He takes the spinach right? So

5:50 Speaker 2: the same way, our spinach is God's word. You know,

5:53 Speaker 2: the more we feed on the word, we are strengthen

5:57 Speaker 2: by the word. Our spinach is God's word. I wanted

5:59 Speaker 2: to if you're checking this out on YouTube or face

6:02 Speaker 2: for neocomments saying my spinach is God's Word and one

6:09 Speaker 2: more thing, right, like in anything you do, like how

6:13 Speaker 2: the Word of God is what sustains you? Is it

6:18 Speaker 2: shows up in like for example, how to put this right?

6:21 Speaker 2: Like this is how it is? Like how when you

6:24 Speaker 2: say certain things you feed on, right, you keep feeding

6:27 Speaker 2: on certain things, it starts giving you an output in

6:29 Speaker 2: a certain direction. Same way, when you start feeding on

6:33 Speaker 2: the Word, you will see the nutrients.

6:36 Speaker 3: That you know.

6:37 Speaker 2: Like if you feed on let me put it this way, right,

6:42 Speaker 2: Like if you feed on junk food, right, your body

6:45 Speaker 2: will start showcasing the fact that you've been eating a

6:49 Speaker 2: lot of junk food. Right, same way, if you are

6:52 Speaker 2: feeding on healthy, nutritious diet, what happens. It will be

6:57 Speaker 2: seen in your body. Same way when you feed on

7:01 Speaker 2: the Word, it will be seen in your life that

7:05 Speaker 2: you have been feeding on God's word. That is the

7:09 Speaker 2: evidence that the world will produce in and through your life.

7:13 Speaker 2: Because the Vible says in someone how you know those

7:16 Speaker 2: who meditate on the Word by day and by night,

7:19 Speaker 2: what happens to them? They will be like a tree

7:22 Speaker 2: planted by the stream and will bear fruit in a

7:25 Speaker 2: season they least will not be her So there are

7:29 Speaker 2: characteristics of that tree that will be seen when you

7:33 Speaker 2: meditate on the Word by day and by night.

7:37 Speaker 3: Amen.

7:37 Speaker 2: I'll talk more about how to meditate, how to read,

7:39 Speaker 2: how to handle the word and all of that in

7:42 Speaker 2: a different series. But I want you to understand the

7:45 Speaker 2: importance of these things because a lot of people do

7:48 Speaker 2: not realize what they carry. There's so much power they

7:52 Speaker 2: carry in the world that they carry. Amen, I challenge

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