Finding GOD's Will Sermon Series Part 13 - GOD's Will and Closed Doors | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:42 Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. As we're talking about the radious aspects in knowing and finding for our life today, I'm going to talk about another important aspect that many of us fail to look at, the aspect and the importance of closed doors. Yes, we've given so much of waitage for the aspect of open doors, and we wait upon the Lord to open doors. No man can shut We wait upon the Lord to connect us and bring the right people across a part. We bait upon the Lord for new levels and new seasons and new opportunities to spring up and open up for our life.

1:31 Yes, there's an important aspect on opening of doors in our life. But I have to let you know that closed doors are also very essential and play a vital role in and through our life. And today we're going to talk about the same. You know, sometimes when we're going, especially in India, this is what happens, especially when we have to board a train in the night or in the middle of the night. Sometimes you know, the doors of some of the compartments will be shut. So what we immediately do is we don't stay there and try to open that door.

2:10 We don't stay there and you know, waste our time, you know, trying to do something to get it open. What we do is we run to the next open door and step into the train. Why because we don't know when the train is going to move, so we have to get in as soon as possible. So what we have to understand from this example is this closed door was a wave to prevent you from getting into that particular place. And so when there's a closed door, you don't waste your time on the closed door. What do you do. You know that the train might leave anytimes, so you run to the next open door and you get into the train.

2:50 I want you to understand in your life. Sometimes, you know, God closes some doors so that he would direct you to the next open door. If this door hadn't been closed, you might be wasting your time over there, you might be trying to get in in the wrong compartment. That's why sometimes God has to close the wrong doors so that you will keep moving forward, you will keep taking the next step, so that you will step into the next open door that God has for you. Now. For example, there was an incident when as a family, we were traveling to a hill station and we reached a particular intersection where the GPS told us to take a ride, whereas the road seemed right to go straight, so we were kind of confused.

3:50 But because there was no board which said go straight or go right, we follow the GPS and went and you know what happened. It led us into a very bad place. Right. We

4:08 found it very hard to get back to the position because we were in kind of like trouble on the road. So what I'm trying to say is, you know, if there was a closed door, if this road had been blocked and said this is closed, it would have been a better thing for us. We wouldn't have got into the trouble that we got into because that door was still open that road or had not been blocked. That road was still open. So you have to be grateful when got closest doors, because a closed door is better than a wrong open door.

4:48 Think about it. I know it's not easy. The rejection is not easy. The people walking out of your life is not easy. You leaving that organization or you're being sent out of that organization is not easy. You applied in so many places, but you've still not got the opportunity. It's not easy. Closed doors are not easy. But you have to understand that if you're encountering closed doors, it's probably because God is shutting that route for you, because He has a different route in your life. When we think about in the scripture, one of the best examples I can think of was Joseph.

5:30 When Joseph was helping or investing in the dream of the cup Bearer, he tells him, when you get out, put in a word to the fair road that I'm wrongly accused, and I'm here so that I can be a free man. I can go back to my own life. But that man, when he stepped out he forgot about Joseph for two years, another closed door in Joseph's life. It seemed unfair, it seemed bad. But when you look at the big picture, two years later, when the Pharaoh had a disturbing dream, exactly at that moment, the cup bearer remembered Joseph, and he connected the dogs for Joseph and the Pharaoh, and eventually Joseph gets to become the prime minister equivalent of Egypt at the time, and Egypt is the most powerful nation in the world of that time.

6:27 Now, all of that would have not happened if this cup bearer had remembered Joseph and had set him free when he just came out. So what you realized was that that closed door in itself was a blessing. If the closed door was not there, Joseph would have just gone back as an ordinary man. Today, I want you to be glad, be grateful for some closed doors. Be grateful that somebody forgot about you so long. Be grateful that those people stepped out of your life. Be grateful that that organization send you out.

7:05 Be grateful for some closetores. Because when you are grateful for those closed doors and that's when you are about to get yourself ready for the next open door in your life. And that open door that God has for you is going to super exceed your imagination. It's going to exceed your expectation, and it's going to be beyond your wildest dreams. Think about it. I want to close with another example. When you think about the children of Israel when they were moving towards the Promised Land, at one point, God pasts the Red Sea for them so that they walk through on dry ground.

7:51 When I am traveling from Egypt towards their promised land, so they go to the other side of the Red Sea, and what happens. The Red Sea, which was parted, close its back again. So long they would constantly complain, they would constantly grumble, They would constantly say, we want to get back to Egypt, we want to get back to Egypt. But here's the thing. As long as they were on the other side, if they really wanted to get back to Egypt, they could get back to Egypt. But once the Red Sea parted and they got to the other side and the Red Sea closed in again, even if they want to, the Red Sea would not part again.

8:46 So sometimes God would close, some doors would close. And see, here's the thing I want to understand. The same God who parts the red seas will also close red seas. You have to remember that, Yes, God makes a way so that you will step into the next level, the new season, the new door or opportunity that God has for you. But the same God who parts that it sees, is the same God who also closes them. So today, stop fighting the closed doors. Stop looking back at Egypt when you're crossed over to the other side of the Red Sea and it's it's not going to part again anymore.

9:31 It's not going to part again. Got closed that door so that you can move forward. Got closed that door for you to look forward for the next big door He has in store for you. Amen, think about it instead of crying about your closed doors, be excited and be grateful. Like I said, with my example, we got into more trouble because of a wrong open door. And that's one of the reasons you can be really glad that God uses some closed doors in our life so that even if you want to be can't. So we keep moving forward and we step into the right door that God hasn't for us.

10:22 That's one of the ways God uses to guide us into the things that He hasn't store for us. I will see you again in the next episode tomorrow. 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 gifted 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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