Finding GOD's Will Sermon Series Part 12 - GOD's Will through Storms in Life | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. As we're talking about the radious aspects which regard to finding goods will or to know God's will in and through a life, or to make decisions in your life where you want to know what you need to do or the step that you need to take or the move that you need to make. Today, I'm going to talk about another aspect which you can say in its own way that many people actually find this as one of the easiest ways to move towards their destiny or to take a step in their life.

And I think this is something you should consider when you're making a decision, and that is when you're going through seasons in your life or moments in your life without a doubt. You may go through storms in your life, and sometimes storms may not make sense. You may not understand why am I going through the storm? Right. I'll talk more about the aspect of storms in a different episode. I think I have spoken you're in the head in some of the episodes, but today I'm going to just focus on this.

Sometimes we have these storms that we face in our everyday life. Now here's the thing I want you to understand. We do believe that, right there is an aspect for spiritual warfare, that we need to fight against things, and we know that we're gonna come out swearing high like an eagle, and all those things are true, all right, But the thing you need to remember is that sometimes we need to go through these storms. These storms actually redirect us towards our destiny. I want to start off ma giving you an example from the Word of governing.

All right, there was this incident in Acts up to twenty seven and twenty eight. If you see when the apostle Paul has been taken as a prisoner towards room in a ship and on the way, the ship gets shipped right because of a bad weather and all of that, and that's how they end up landing in the island of Malta. And in the island of Malta, the Apostle Paul, you know, he's written by a snake, so everybody's expecting him to die, but he actually just survives, and so they're amazed and they think he's God.

And that opens the avenue for him to minister to the people in Malta where so many people are getting healed. And then you know, the Kingdom of God is brought over and the message is preached to the people in Malta. Now, what I wanted to understand is this, the island of Malta was never in the preaching schedule for Apostle Paul. It was It was not in their plan. It was not something he was like, you know what, I'm going to go and preach in Malta and things like that. It was not in his plan. It was not a part of his schedule.

But it was because of the storm he actually got an opportunities to reach Malta and to preach and to showcase the power of God in the silence of Mahta. So what you realize is the storm in his life did not come to destroy him. The storm in his life came to direct him towards his destiny. So sometimes some storms that you face in your life that could have caused a lot of devastation. It could have affected you in so many ways. Yes, I'm not asking you to forget about the pain. I'm not saying, you know, just soft pedal on it or downplay it all and just say it's okay, just shake it off and more.

I'm not saying that. But what I'm saying is when you commit your pain to the Lord, when you commit the storm into the hands of Oh Many God, he can bring beauty from those ashes. He's a god who can give you double for every trouble. He's a god who can help you come soaring her like an eagle when you go through a storm. He's a god who can turn what was meant for harm for your good. He's a god who can turn the fiery furnace into a place where you come out even without the smell of smoke. Now, when you think about eight and you're nineteen eighty, there was a lady called Candice who lost a thirteen year old daughter called Carrie because of someone who drove under the influence of substance or alcohol.

And she was devastated and she was crying about this. But at one point, as she was sitting in her daughter's bedroom, she started an organization called Mad Mother's Against Drunken Driving. And at a time when more people died because of drunken driving and driving under the influence of substance than the umber of people who die because of war, because of this organization, they were able to reduce the number of deaths because of drunken driving by off and this organization is the largest of its kind in all of North America.

Now, I want you to think about this. I'm not saying that God caused that girl to die. No, that's not what I'm saying. In this world we will have trouble. In this world. Life happens because of the fallen nature of man. Things do happen. But the thing I want you to understand is that, yes, you have the pain, Yes you've gone through a storm. Yes things are not going good, But you can either sit there and give up on your life and just forget about anything good coming out of it and live the rest of your life as something like no point in living, or you can say, I'm going to ensure that I give my life into the hands of all my God.

I give my pain into the hands of for my God. I give and surrender my life into the hand of my God, and say, God, you take care of this, and you bring something good out of this. When you do that, the rest of your life will be the best of your life. In what I mean to say is from those very things that were there to stop you, God can bring out something that can catapult you to new levels of your destiny. That's exactly what happened. The storm did not come to destroy Apostle Paul. The storm came to direct him towards its destiny.

When you talk about Candice, if her daughter hadn't died, I'm sure she wouldn't have thought of starting mad. And think about it, if not for mad, the number of deaths that were reduced by half would not have actually happened. And it all came down to that place where she used her pain. She used a storm as a stepping stone to find that purpose, to find what God had in store for her, and use that to start the new direction in her life.

See, that's what I want to do, understand today, Instead of just crying giving up on your life because of the storms, why don't you give it into the hands of God. In God, this is what I've gone through, and this is what I've been going through. These are the things that I've gone through in the past. I commit it into your hands. You bring some beauty from these ashes. God, I know that you're my vindicator. God, help me to see your goodness in the land of the Living. God, show yourself up in my life when you say, God, you use this pain to probably wipe away the tears of somebody else us.

This mean for the extension of your kingdom. When you make that commitment in your life, I'm sure that the very thing that came to stop you, the very thing that came to hurt you, the very thing that came to sabbantage your life, you can use as a stepping stone to get into the new levels that God has for you. Now in my own life, I want to close with this. Ever since I was young, I think i've Schedis you know, has struggled with identity issues because of a lot of abuse, wrong comments from people or derogatory things people said, the way they treated all of that.

I can use all of that as a reason to say, this is how my life is always going to be, and I'm going to give up on life, and I don't want to take any steps to get better at But that's not what I do. I say God, I'm going through disappointments. I want to encourage people who are going through disappointments. I've gone through pain. I want to help people who are going through the pain. I've gone through so much of rejection. I want to help people who are going through that. So that is one of the reasons I'm using the very pain as a platform to help those who are going through the pain.

Why do you give yourself into the dance of God and see what God can use every aspect of your life for the extension of your skindom And you will definitely most likely see that your purpose, the will that God has for your life, will have any element where you will see your experiences, your pain, your struggles, your storms, all of them. Please a major rule in helping you in that direction. I'll see you tomorrow the next episode. God bless you. You've been listening to fuel for the Soul with John Gifta.

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And this is not a message of condemnation. This is a message of hope. But there is a God who loves you so much he sent his only son, Jesus Christ, to come down and pay a heavy price by sharing every drop of his blood on the cross. Thank you for dying for my sins. When you believe in Him, you have free gift or salvation for you that it shows us between will go to heaven when we die instead of suffering in Him forever. I just encourage you today to make the simple step of faith and say, Jesus, I thank you for what you do on the cross.

Thank you for giving me this gift of eternal life.

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