Feeling like You're Not doing anything Significant with your Life? | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

0:01 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, and 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.

0:43 Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. One of the things is when we look at a life today, right when we look at the world, for example, we have this idea that you know, what we do consistently, or what we do as a living, or what we do you know, on a regular basis or something like that. You know, we think that that defines our calling, that defines you know, our destiny. You know that God has or the purpose that God has for us and all of that. And sometimes we think that, oh my goodness, you know, oh John, I I don't feel I'm doing anything significant, you know what I mean?

1:31 You feel like you're just playing a role. Like maybe you know, you're in a company, you're you're you're in the school, you're you're you know, in college, or or maybe of course when you're in school or college, you feel like, Okay, maybe someday I'm going to do some work. But you feel like, I don't know if I'm playing a significant role in this world, you know what I mean? Sometimes if you feel like that, I want to just share this from my heart, guys, like you know, and the lot was just putting this in my heart.

1:58 Like when you think about Esther for example, right Esther was crowned and she's become the queen right now, it's it's it's an awesome opportunities. Now she's the queen of this big kingdom. It's it's a very amazing opportunity. Now if if I give the opportunity to any of you guys, you know you can become the king or the queen, I'm sure you all would say yes, that would be awesome. Uh. And and Esther was the queen, you know, she was the queen. And but but the thing is this, you know, when you look at it in a sense of like you know what is the spiritual significance of it.

2:37 Like, you know, when you look at the spiritual significance. Of course, we learned so many things from esther, how God enabled her to find favor, and you know, all of those things are there in su chapter two, and of out of so many women she was selected. All of those things are true. But then, you know, it just reminded me of something very very important that I want. I thought, you know, we should share that that. You know, if you look at the whole story of Testa, like, of course, there are many many things happening, but one of the key things we see is when they know the Jews are all going to be killed, right, you know, she's kind of like in a position where only she can speak up to the king.

3:16 You know, even though it means that she's risking a life, it means that there's a lot at stake. It's not an easy choice for her to make. But in spite of all of that stuff, you know, Mordecai convinces her and she ends up speaking to the king, and you know, and the rest is history. So to save the people of God, to save the Jews basically from the evil trap. And you know, if you look at this whole thing, right, it seems like, you know, the majority of significance in Esther's life, like if you look at the quantity of a life, like if she lived like for example, maybe like I don't know how many years she lived, maybe you know, so many dead she lived on planet third, but maybe one decision that she took.

4:03 Maybe it was happening over a period of like you know, a week or a month. You know, like I'm saying, the whole old process and all of these things. Maybe it's like when when Mordica is saying, maybe you're created only or to account to become the queen, maybe just for such a time as this. Now think about this, Maybe she was queen for so many years, so many decades, but or significant moment was only maybe a couple of weeks or a month. Like I'm just thinking, I'm just helping you understand you like you look at it in this way, which means that you know, like sometimes you feel like for the most part, I'm just living a normal life.

4:49 For the most part, nothing exciting in my life. John, I'm not doing anything significant. I'm not I don't see anything great happening, all right, they were different things happening in Esther's life throughout, but then this was one of those most significant moments that you know that came out of Esther's life, that the blessings of her life, you know what I mean, which which saved so many thousands of Jews because of one thing that she said. It was a significant thing. Right now, even when you think about Joseph, you know, he went through so many years and years of so many different things that he endured for that one moment when he got to meet with the Pharaoh and a life changed.

5:32 You see. It's what I want to guess understand, It's not about you know, uh, you know how he's being on cloud nine. I hope you're getting what I'm saying right. Your Your significance does not come on how many great feats you do, you know what I mean. But sometimes it can be like Esther's case, where in your entire life it's just one case that you do that is blown out of proportion to a extent, but it makes history. Like are you getting what I'm saying? Right? A lot of times you may feel like, hey, John, you know, fifteen years I've been working nothing significant in my life, nothing I've not made any significant thing, you know, like that that you can say as a worthwhile achievement or accomplishment or something for God's kingdom.

6:22 But what if maybe you are created just like Esther out of your entire lifespan, or your entire career or your entire you know, time on earth. Maybe you are created to do something just for one day, you know, but that one decision or that one thing you do that one day is going to have a rippling effect in a positive way for years to come. Have you ever thought about it that way? When you think about it that way, it lifts off the weight. You don't have to keep feeling like, you know, what is my significant And I don't feel any doing anything I'm not.

7:01 I don't feel like I'm doing anything significant today. John, I feel like, you know, I'm just going by the day. I'm not. I don't think I'm I'm bringing in anything good to the table today, or I just feel like I'm just occupying space. I just feel like, you know, days and weeks and months and years are going by, but I'm not doing anything you know, like noteworthy or whatever. But for today, I want you to have this perspective that maybe God created you. Maybe someday one day you may do one act, but that will be spoken off for years and years together even after you're God, are you getting this?

7:43 So you don't have to have that pressure to live like you know, I need to bring something or significance every day or every month or every week or whatever. You just keep being your best, do what God wants you to do. See different people, God's plan is different for different people. When you think about people like uh, you know Elijah and for example, you know Mighty Prophet, everybody says, oh, I want to have the spirit of Elijah, I want to be like Elijah and all of this. But if you see even Elijah, there were moment surviving says the Lord just led him for this many years, he disappeared, all these all these prophets you read.

8:18 You see, they just showed up when the Lord led them to and they gave the word, They did mighty deeds, and then they disappear. You know what I mean. It's not like that was the designation that that's what they were doing, you know, every single day, like the rest of their life or something like that. You know, there were there were seasons, there were there were ways god like, and that's the thing I want you to understand. Someday, like Elijah, you may be just sleeping, but that's also part of God's blind But someday you may be calling down rain from heaven or fire from heaven.

8:52 You know that's also part of God's bland. And every day is not going to be a day you're bringing down. Some days maybe just days who sleep, but that doesn't degrade your significance. 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. Make sure to subscribe to the John Gifta YouTube channel for regular uploads of sermons, skits, interviews, and more. Follow John Gifta on Instagram for regular inspirational posts, and don't forget to check out the best selling books written by John Gifta, Who Am I which will help you understand your identity and the latest number one bestseller Unveil your Purpose, helping you discover your purpose and to start walking in it.

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