From my Heart to You | Birthday Sermon | John Giftah

0:01 Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world is a crazy

0:06 place and it just seems to get crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and

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0:39 Gifta International. Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John GIFTA. Hey,

0:53 guys, as you might have known, or if you've been following my content,

0:56 you know that today is my budd day. I think today is the

1:00 right word or the right day for me to actually see Psalms two, verse

1:04 seven from the Message version. It says, let me tell you what God

1:08 said. Next, he said, you're my son, and today is your

1:12 birthday. I think today is the best day for me to say this.

1:15 And he says, what do you want to name it? Nations as a

1:18 present, continents as a price. You can command them all to dance for

1:23 you, or throw them out with tomorrow's draft. I'll tell you honestly,

1:27 it's not been easy. I go for a full time job. I'm an

1:32 aerospace engineer in case you didn't know, I have a full time job,

1:34 and I'll run the ministry, the daily podcast you guys know about Fuel for

1:38 the Soul with John Gifta. Check them out if you're not doing so,

1:42 or the you know, content on social media, the YouTube channel, and

1:47 all of these things that I'm putting out. And I just want to thank

1:49 each and every one of you've been with me through this journey. You know,

1:53 as I step into the thirtieth birthday, I mean this is my thirtieth

1:57 birthday, so entering the thirty first year on planet third, I just want

2:00 you guys to understand. You know, God is being faithful. God has

2:05 been leading me step by step, and it's not been easy. It's not

2:08 been a perfect right, but God has been good and I'm grateful to God

2:13 for that. And I believe that, you know, even the areas that

2:15 he needs to perfect, I know that he'll perfect everything which concerns me.

2:20 He's going to mold me, teach me, equip me. He's going to

2:23 empower and he's going to bring in the growth to the ministry, bringing in

2:27 the right people, and I believe that God is going to do it.

2:30 And at the same time, I want you guys to continue to keep me

2:34 in your prayers, you know. And like I said, it's it's a

2:37 roll acrost the right. It's you know, a lot of on my plate

2:40 and a lot of things being praying about. But you know, I believe

2:44 that God is faithful and I just wanted to share this word to tell you

2:47 guys, you know, to continue to keep me in your prayers. And

2:52 if you don't want to know what ways you can pray or support the ministry,

2:58 it will you can just reach out to me as well. So that's

3:00 what I wanted to share. Thank you so much. Once again, for

3:04 those of you watch. If you don't watch, this is your moment.

3:07 But they gift you can watch if you're never subscribe to my YouTube channel,

3:12 but they gift for me is you can subscribe. So this kidding, but

3:16 I mean not kidding. Literally, I'm saying. You know, even with

3:19 disappointments, one of the things that people ask me is John you know,

3:22 I know people know that I have big vision for the ministry, growth for

3:27 the ministry international ministry. But it's not as much as I expected. And

3:31 I've been working on this for a long period of time, over eleven years

3:35 in the ministry. But you know, I always go back to the scripture.

3:39 It says in Corinthians that you know, stop wishing you as someplace else

3:44 or with somebody else. Where you are right now is God's plan and God's

3:47 will for you. And that's the word that I always taken. Maybe that's

3:51 a word to encourage you if you're dealing with like, oh my gosh,

3:53 I should have gotten further, I should have done this, I should have

3:55 done that, this should have happened, that should have happened. No,

3:59 I trust the goodness of God. If I'm where God wants me to be,

4:01 that's better than rushing ahead of God's timing. You know that that's my

4:05 heart, and I encourage you to have the same. And you know He

4:10 knows what is the right time to perfect everything which concerns you. He knows

4:14 the right time to establish you. Jesus was thirty years old when his ministry

4:17 took off, and I believe, you know, God could do the same

4:20 in my ministry and in the way God has been leading this ministry as well,

4:24 so and and the other thing I want to talk about quickly is a

4:29 lot of times people ask what is your motivation? Why do you do what

4:31 you do? Like people know that it's not easy running a full time ministry

4:36 with a full time job. Everything is daily. It's not like once a

4:41 week or once in a few days. Is every single day, daily podcast,

4:46 daily you, daily social media. How am I doing? Why am

4:48 I doing what I'm doing? It's not easy. Yes, it involves time,

4:51 money, sacrifice. The reason I do is it's very simple to preach

4:56 the gospel. In twenty ten is when I had my first glimpse of hell,

5:01 where God took me into, you know, like into hell to show

5:08 me a glimpse of hell. Not only not like a full tour of hell

5:11 like many people have done, but God showed me a glimpse of hell where

5:14 I saw people screaming and crying and in the fire. And I also met

5:20 somebody I know who was crying in Hell, a person of a different faith,

5:26 and she said, I wish i'd known about you, Jesus, I

5:29 wouldn't be here. And these people are in that place because they understood the

5:35 message of salvation. They're not given their life to Jesus, they're not got

5:40 the gospel. And that is my heartweat That was the first time, and

5:44 again in twenty twenty, the Lord showed me again two glimpses or visions of

5:48 hell, people in that place of death, crying, hoping that you will

5:56 get another chance, but they won't. Guys, today I want you to

5:59 understand this is my heart, this is the message, this is the motive,

6:04 very clear. We want souls to know that there's one way to heaven

6:08 that is to be Jesus. There's not a message of conversion, there's not

6:12 a message of changing religions. You know, it's a message of you know,

6:17 if you want to have eternal life, if you want to have that

6:20 awesome experience of heaven, to be with the Lord forever, where there's no

6:26 pain, there's no crying, there's no fiery furnace, you know, come

6:31 to Jesus because he wants you. He died on the cross and shed his

6:38 every drop of blood for you and we need to preach that. And today

6:42 I challenge you, guys, as my birthday gift. What I would tell

6:45 you, guys is, you know, step into your calling, go after

6:48 what God has called you, Go and shine the gospel, shine the light

6:54 for Jesus. Wherever God placed you. Maybe your call to do ministry or

6:58 business, or whatever way God wants you to do it. Go ahead,

7:01 step into your calling and build the Kingdom of God in in three your life.

7:05 So that's what I wanted to share with you. Guys. Thank you

7:09 so much once again, and thank you so much, and I will see

7:12 you back very soon. God bless you. You've been listening to Fuel for

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