Finding GOD's Will Sermon Series Part 2 - The COMMITMENT | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John GIFTA. Hey, everybody, it's such a joy for me to be with all of you today. I'm currently doing a CDs on the aspect of knowing God's will, and as children of God, many of us want to know God's will. Some of us are like, you know what, I do not know if I'm actually walking in God's will. And we want to often question or introspect ourselves and to understand if you're actually in the center of God's will or are we running away from what God has in store for us and things like that.

So as I'm doing that in my previous episode, I spoke about the first aspect of knowing God's will. It is to have that desire to know God's will. I encourage you to check it out because I share a couple of things. I believe it very important for you to check yourself and introspect and know for a share of a doubt that you have the right intention and you have the right desire towards you knowing God's will. And now when we talk about the second aspect, is to have that strong commitment to know God's will and to say you know what, God, I want to know your will.

But at the same time, I want to tell you for a fact that when you tell me, whether it makes sense or doesn't make sense, whether it is comfortable for me or not comfortable for me, whether it is in line with what I want or not, I'm still willing to do it. You know, it's a place where you are in a total surrender to God and say God, yes, I have these desires, Yes I have these passions and goals and aspirations, and these are the things that I really wish would happen in my life. But still I come to a place where I'm saying God, I don't care even if you know those desires or those gifts or those talents are not coming to manifestation, or those dreams are not going to happen.

I don't care even if that does not happen. But I come to a place where I'm saying God, I'm committed to do whatever it takes to do what you have called me to do. That is a place that God expects us to go to a place where, without a shadow of a doubt, you're saying God, I don't care even if it is exactly the opposite of what I'm praying for. But if that is what you want, I'm willing to do it. That is the kind of a commitment God is looking for. Because it's one thing to say God, I want to know your will, But it's another thing.

What if when God tells you what is you know his will for you, and you would not go in that way? Right? So God wants to be sure that when he tells you what is his will, you would walk by it, right. So it comes to a place where you realize that you are making that commitment and you're surrendering every aspect of your life, whether it's your dreams, your visions, your aspirations and your plans and everything, and you give it and lay it at the feet of the Lord and say God, not my will, but y'all will be done.

And then through my life. I want to share two scriptures with you, all right. The first thing is again, these two scriptures are very familiar, but still I want to just bring it into the light of today's message. One is Luke twenty two forty two, where Jesus is saying, Father, if you are willing take this cup from me, because Jesus does not want that cup, right, He's like, if you can please take this cup from me, it would be really good, but bad bad, but yet not my will. But let y'all will be done.

Not my will, but let your will be done. I want your will to be done and not mine. Jesus was making a commitment, and he was dealing without a shadow of it doubt. I really don't want this, but I'm committed to doing what you want, even if it's not what I want. He was having that complete commitment to do God's will even when it was uncomfortable, even when it was not what he wanted. Now, another example of another person who did a very similar thing was in Luke Chapter one was Study eight when we talk about the time when the word of the Lord is given to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and the word of the Lord is talking about how she's going to bear the son of the Living God.

You have to understand Mary is saying, I am the Lord's servant. May your word be fulfilled to me? Or different translations say different things. And if you say, may everything you have said about me come true? Another the translation said, let it be done according to your word, or you know, in this case you say it's it's talking about the world. The world that was given was what was God's will for her, So it was saying, you know what, let In other words, what she was saying is whatever is God's will for me, let it be done according to it.

May everything that is spoken about and said, this is what is God's will for me, Let it be done. And I'm an open book saying let it be done. I wanted to understand when she said yes to God's will, it was not easy for her when she was going to bear a child without knowing a man. Think about how many people would call it as a controversy. Think about all the complications that you or she would have endured. Look at the society now, even today's context. If you see, the society can be really detrimental.

The society can talk behind you, they can push you, they can crush you. You know, in a skids situation like this. Now think about this two thousand years ago, how the society would have handled it and how you know, it could have been in a very bad shape. But she was willing to endure all of that because she said, you know what, I'm not going to compromise on doing what God has ordained for my life. I don't care if other people understand or not. I don't care if it is in line with what society expects of me or not.

I don't care if it is what is kosher or not. If I don't care if it is comfortable or not. I don't care if it puts me in a bad spot or it puts me on the spotlight. I don't care, because by the end of the day, I want to do the will of Him who sent me.

Can you make a commitment today? Can you do that? I'll just close with this example from my life. Some of you know this that you know because of certain reasons I am in though I've been praying, you know, my personal desire and vicious. You know, you know that I would be in you know, full time ministry or not just ministry. Wouldn't just call it ministry. But you know, the ministry is one part. But I do have certain other dreams and aspirations that I would see you know, you know, income in different ways and so that I would be able to sustain at the same time, you know, run the ministry and all of those things.

But somehow, you know, you know, I still work in a in a job and then I run the ministry. So for me, I was really praying, I've been praying for many many years. You know that God will help me, you know, walk in the fullness of what He has for me. You know, I had my personal desires was that you know, the ministry would get established, or you know, things would happen like I would get support from family or you know, something like that. I keep praying that God would do that and things like that.

But at the same time, by the end of the day, I would always come down and say, God, that is what I really wish would happen. That is what I really want should happen, but I would always come back and say, yet, not my will, but your will be done. Even recently I had to make a transition to a new job and all of that. For me personally, I was kind of like not in the right mood, right, you know, I was kind of disappointed because I was hoping, you know, maybe God will do a miracle in the ministry or you know, the I will get financially stabilized in the different things I do and you know that could help me and things like that.

And I was disappointed because I didn't see, you know, that happened. But I had to come down to this place where I had to say God, you know, by the end of the day, I did my best, whether it's the ministry or the podcast or my YouTube or you know, everything, I did my best to the best of my ability. At the same time, I had the faith that God could do it. At the same time, I also, you know, I believed that, you know, God was showing me that there was going to be a transition and all of that. But in all of that, I told God, not my will, but your will be done.

And God reminded me of that and said, didn't you pray that and say, God, not my will, but your will be done. So when this is where you are and you're not able to change where you are, why did you accept that this is what is my will? And I mean where I am it is not my permanent residence. It's it's a temporary phase by the end of the day. But I had to do what I'm asking you guys to do, to accept and say, Okay, God, this is what I want. But by the end of the day, what I want ultimately is your will to be done in and through my life, even though it makes me uncomfortable, even though I really wish this was not my case, even though I really wish I was in a different position or place, or you know, maybe I would be in on a different level or whatever.

Even though I wish for this and that, I prayed and I did all sorts of staff. I worked my best, but things didn't happen. I had to do what I'm asking you to do to come to a place where I said, yes, God, let it be done according to your will, because I can't force it, and I don't want anything that does not belong to me. I don't want anything that is not from the Lord for me, so I just take it. Okay. I did my best, but this is where God has placed me for now. So I learned to accept and say, this is God's will for me for this season.

You get what I'm saying. So you had to come to that place, even if that's not what you want. You had to accept and give yourself into the hands of Almighty God and say, God, I said, ender myself to you. I said ender my will to you. I said ender my dreams, my desires and everything into your hands. You take complete control. And when you commit yourself to that place where you say, even if it is not what I want, it's okay. Even if that's not what I dreamt of, it's okay. Even if that's not what I wish for, it's okay.

Even if that makes me cry and be uncomfortable, that's okay. If that's what you have for me, I know by the end of the day, you know what's best for me, and I trust you, And that's the place I encourage you to go to. When you have that place, I want to talk about the next aspect of knowing God's will in tomorrow section 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 interruptloads of sermons, skits, interviews and more.

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