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

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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

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