Go With the Koach You Have | Judges 6:14 | Inspirational Christian Sermon | John Giftah

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0:49 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:51 Speaker 2: the Soul with John gift of podcast. It's such a

0:53 Speaker 2: joint honor for me to be with all of you today,

0:55 Speaker 2: and I just pray that the Lord will continue to

0:58 Speaker 2: lead you, guide you, and instruct you in the way

1:01 Speaker 2: that you need to go as well. You know, I

1:03 Speaker 2: want you to understand something here. In my previous sermon

1:07 Speaker 2: that I released or the podcast episode that I released,

1:10 Speaker 2: I was challenging each one of us to, you know,

1:13 Speaker 2: stop being timid and shy and being the place of

1:18 Speaker 2: fear and comfort, but rather be in the place where

1:21 Speaker 2: we are bold to go out and proclaim the gospel,

1:24 Speaker 2: bold to go and win souls, Go and be the

1:27 Speaker 2: light in the darkness, Go and build the Kingdom of

1:30 Speaker 2: God in whatever manner God has called us and created

1:33 Speaker 2: us for. That's what I challenged you to do. But

1:36 Speaker 2: I want you to understand something here. A lot of

1:38 Speaker 2: times people just put themselves in this mold when they

1:42 Speaker 2: look at other people and say, watch, John, look at them.

1:46 Speaker 2: They are talented to preach. I cannot even say a word, John.

1:51 Speaker 2: You're gifted in being on stage, or gifted in media,

1:56 Speaker 2: in speaking. But John, I stammer, I'm not able to

2:00 Speaker 2: do this. I can't do ministry because the typical idea

2:04 Speaker 2: of ministry is either you need to be a preacher

2:07 Speaker 2: or a singer, or you should be in a position

2:10 Speaker 2: where you can have enough money to start an orphanage

2:13 Speaker 2: or you know, build something. You know, that's the idea

2:16 Speaker 2: a lot of people have. And today I want to

2:18 Speaker 2: talk to you on a very very important thing. I'm

2:21 Speaker 2: going to talk to you on a very important thing. See,

2:24 Speaker 2: we just came out of this important aspect. We have

2:27 Speaker 2: not come out of it still, but the shock is

2:29 Speaker 2: still there, and rebervations are still there, and there's so

2:32 Speaker 2: much I can talk about. You know, what just happened

2:34 Speaker 2: with the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the birth of

2:38 Speaker 2: you know, a huge revival, And I'm going to talk

2:41 Speaker 2: to you a lot about the different encounters that I had.

2:43 Speaker 2: I wanted to check out the previous episode because I

2:45 Speaker 2: shared with you a powerful encounter. I had the very

2:48 Speaker 2: minuity past even though I was in the United I

2:51 Speaker 2: was in India, and this was happening in the United

2:54 Speaker 2: States of America. There was something significant, and even the

2:57 Speaker 2: last couple of days, there's something significant the Lord is doing.

3:01 Speaker 2: And I'm going to talk about these things as the

3:03 Speaker 2: Lord leads and you know allows me to share that

3:06 Speaker 2: with you. But I want to tell you something very

3:08 Speaker 2: very important. Guys that you know what you and I

3:11 Speaker 2: whether you like it or not, whether you realize it

3:13 Speaker 2: or not, God didn't save you for you to just say,

3:16 Speaker 2: you know what I am said, and I'm going to

3:18 Speaker 2: go to heaven. As for me and my household, we

3:20 Speaker 2: are serving the Lord. We are in a good place,

3:22 Speaker 2: and I am fine. That is not why God saved

3:25 Speaker 2: you at all. I mean in the sense Yes, God

3:27 Speaker 2: saved you because Jesus saved you, and anybody who believes

3:30 Speaker 2: in the Lord Jesus Christ and confesses with your mouth

3:32 Speaker 2: you are saved. We are saved. I understand that we

3:35 Speaker 2: are having the assurance of eternal life. But the other

3:38 Speaker 2: aspect you need to understand is God didn't want you

3:40 Speaker 2: to just be a passive believer. God wants each one

3:43 Speaker 2: of us to be radical believers who will go out

3:47 Speaker 2: and share the Gospel with other people, who will be

3:50 Speaker 2: in a position. They're willing to go out and preach

3:53 Speaker 2: the Word, willing to expand the Kingdom of God, willing

3:57 Speaker 2: to do whatever it takes, whatever they're called to do,

4:00 Speaker 2: to go out and be the light in the darkness,

4:03 Speaker 2: and through that process they will bring as many as

4:06 Speaker 2: possible through the knowledge of Jesus Christ. That's what we're

4:10 Speaker 2: called to do. That's what every one of us are

4:13 Speaker 2: called to do. I want you to understand. You know,

4:16 Speaker 2: the calling is not only for somebody with a microphone.

4:19 Speaker 2: It's not just for somebody who has the platform like this,

4:22 Speaker 2: not just for somebody on the pulpit. It's not just

4:24 Speaker 2: for a mega church minister. It's not just for a

4:27 Speaker 2: telling evangelist. This calling is for every single believer because

4:33 Speaker 2: you can reach people that I cannot reach, and I

4:36 Speaker 2: can reach people that you cannot reach. Understand that, Now

4:41 Speaker 2: listen to this carefully. You know, when you talk about

4:44 Speaker 2: the aspect of you know, being a believer, being a preacher,

4:48 Speaker 2: you know, the minute we think about, you know, our

4:50 Speaker 2: assignment from heaven. If we think about, you know what, oh,

4:52 Speaker 2: I should be able to preach, I should be able

4:54 Speaker 2: to you know, worship God and you know things like that.

4:56 Speaker 2: Can I tell you something that's not what it means?

4:59 Speaker 2: Because every single one of us have a specific calling.

5:03 Speaker 2: I have a specific set of strengths and abilities that

5:07 Speaker 2: God has given us, and he wants us to use

5:10 Speaker 2: those things for the fulfillment of God's purpose over our life. Okay,

5:16 Speaker 2: I'm going to talk to you about a very important

5:18 Speaker 2: aspect all right, that the Lord has been studying invespirit.

5:21 Speaker 2: And I'm going to talk to you from the life

5:23 Speaker 2: of Gideon. Okay, when you look at Judges chapter six,

5:26 Speaker 2: there's a moment when the Israelites did evil in the

5:28 Speaker 2: sight of the Lord again, and the Lord handed them

5:31 Speaker 2: over to the Medianites for seven years. Okay, So the

5:35 Speaker 2: Medianites were so cruel they kept on attacking, and whenever

5:40 Speaker 2: the Israelites planted their crops, these all of these enemies

5:44 Speaker 2: would just attack Israel and destroy the crops. Okay, this

5:48 Speaker 2: is what is going on. Okay, just to give you context.

5:52 Speaker 2: And verse seven, when they cried to the Lord because

5:55 Speaker 2: of the median the Lord sent a profit to the Israelites. Okay.

5:59 Speaker 2: And this is where it is going. And I want

6:03 Speaker 2: to quickly jump to the point that I want to

6:05 Speaker 2: share with you. The Angel of the Lord came. Okay,

6:08 Speaker 2: in verse eleven, it talks about the Angel of the Lord.

6:10 Speaker 2: I want you to understand. In the Old Testament, every

6:12 Speaker 2: time there's a reference to the Angel of the Lord,

6:15 Speaker 2: it refers to Jesus. All right, I'm not going to

6:17 Speaker 2: go in them to explain why and how it is,

6:20 Speaker 2: but in this segment, but I want you to understand,

6:22 Speaker 2: it refers to Jesus. So Jesus appears. The Angel of

6:26 Speaker 2: the Lord appeared to Gideon and says, mighty Hero, the

6:30 Speaker 2: Lord is with you. All right, mighty Hero, the Lord

6:33 Speaker 2: is with you. And Gideon is saying, sir, if the

6:37 Speaker 2: Lord is really with us, why has all this happen,

6:39 Speaker 2: and where are all the miracles our ancestors told us about?

6:42 Speaker 2: Didn't they say that the Lord brought us out of Egypt?

6:46 Speaker 2: Now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over

6:48 Speaker 2: to the media nights How this looks like a typical

6:51 Speaker 2: statement that many of us make. No, I mean, I

6:53 Speaker 2: was reading it. I was feeling like in the in

6:55 Speaker 2: the in the past season, things have been so hard,

6:58 Speaker 2: and you know, it's it's it's been such a turmoil

7:01 Speaker 2: in my life, and so many times I've asked the

7:03 Speaker 2: Lord this question, God, if you're really there, who cares?

7:07 Speaker 2: And if you really care for me? Why you allowing

7:10 Speaker 2: this to happen? Why an't you showing up? Whyn't you

7:13 Speaker 2: doing this? Why an't you doing that? Okay, that's a

7:15 Speaker 2: different sermon segment, and I'm going to talk about it

7:18 Speaker 2: in another segment because I have a powerful word for

7:21 Speaker 2: that as well. Okay, I'm going to talk about it

7:23 Speaker 2: in the coming days, But right now, I want to

7:25 Speaker 2: understand he's saying, you know, where are the miracles? Because

7:28 Speaker 2: you are a God of miracles, You've done amazing things.

7:31 Speaker 2: Where are those things? Okay? And I want you to

7:33 Speaker 2: understand that. In verse fourteen. This is the Connerstone verse.

7:38 Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about. Okay. Then the

7:39 Speaker 2: Law turned to him and said, go with the strength

7:43 Speaker 2: you have and rescue Israel from the media nites. And

7:47 Speaker 2: I'm sending you that's the word for us. Go with

7:52 Speaker 2: the strength you have. Now in the superficial level, you

7:55 Speaker 2: may say, John, with my strength, what would I do

8:00 Speaker 2: like with my strength? Okay, I'm not you know, a

8:05 Speaker 2: wrestler or WWE champ, you know, or something John. And

8:10 Speaker 2: definitely I'm not Pop Eye. Okay, I don't have spinach

8:14 Speaker 2: and all of that. But but but listen to this, Caffrey.

8:16 Speaker 2: This is so important. Okay. I wanted to understand because

8:18 Speaker 2: a lot of times we read the scripture only in

8:20 Speaker 2: a superficial level. Oh, with a strength from God. I

8:23 Speaker 2: need to do this. I need to do this with

8:25 Speaker 2: a strength from God. But listen to this, Kafley. The

8:28 Speaker 2: word strength used here in the original translation Hebrew is

8:33 Speaker 2: a word called coach or koah. All right, So this

8:37 Speaker 2: word is not just saying, you know, physical strength, go

8:40 Speaker 2: with the physical strength that you have. But God is

8:43 Speaker 2: saying is that you know what this involves, you know,

8:48 Speaker 2: an aspect of everything that you have as a strength

8:53 Speaker 2: or in other words, it can be even the things

8:55 Speaker 2: that look insignificant, but it is what you have. Even

8:58 Speaker 2: that is some thing that you can use for God.

9:02 Speaker 2: It is the ability or its It's not just physical strength.

9:07 Speaker 2: I help. I want you to understand this, Okay, it

9:10 Speaker 2: goes beyond the aspect of just physical strength. It is strength,

9:15 Speaker 2: it is power, it is might. It is the ability

9:19 Speaker 2: for you to do something. And I want you to

9:21 Speaker 2: understand this important truth that this is so powerful because

9:25 Speaker 2: you day today you may be saying, John, I don't

9:28 Speaker 2: have the physical strength, but maybe you have something else. Okay,

9:33 Speaker 2: maybe you have a good uh sense of you know analysis, analysis, right,

9:41 Speaker 2: you can analyze things easily. Maybe you have a very

9:45 Speaker 2: good gift of you know fire, you know, an eye

9:49 Speaker 2: for detail. Maybe you have an ability to uh, you know,

9:54 Speaker 2: organize something that somebody else would find it really hard.

9:57 Speaker 2: Maybe you have the gift of you know, maybe sense

10:00 Speaker 2: of direction. I'm saying anything out there right, Like, maybe

10:03 Speaker 2: you have a gift that you know other people may

10:05 Speaker 2: not even look at, or the world may may not

10:07 Speaker 2: even look at as something great. But that is something

10:10 Speaker 2: unique about you, that is something different about you, that

10:13 Speaker 2: is something that looks insignificant, but I wanted to understand

10:17 Speaker 2: even something that is insignificant, or a contact that you

10:21 Speaker 2: feel like, you know, may not matter much, or a

10:24 Speaker 2: resource that you think that you know what, this is

10:26 Speaker 2: just something out there. But God is saying this and

10:29 Speaker 2: is a reminder for you that you know what, you

10:31 Speaker 2: need to use everything that you have and God will

10:36 Speaker 2: help you anything and everything that God has given you

10:39 Speaker 2: is for a reason.

10:41 Speaker 1: You know.

10:41 Speaker 2: Just today, I was just thinking about this, right. My

10:45 Speaker 2: heart and my calling is directly in proclaiming the word

10:50 Speaker 2: in preaching to create an impact to you know, build

10:54 Speaker 2: the Kingdom of God. You know that that's my heart. Okay.

10:58 Speaker 2: But at the same time, I'm an aerospace engineer. Okay,

11:02 Speaker 2: I'm an aerospace engineer, and I was just you know,

11:05 Speaker 2: looking at my engineering certificate a while ago, you know,

11:09 Speaker 2: for some reason, I need to I had to go,

11:12 Speaker 2: you know, get some of those documents prepared for something,

11:14 Speaker 2: and I was just looking at all the you know,

11:17 Speaker 2: things that I had studied through my aerospace program engineering program,

11:21 Speaker 2: and I was looking at all of those things, and

11:23 Speaker 2: I was just saying, thinking that, you know what, even

11:26 Speaker 2: the things that seemed insignificant are now mattering so much.

11:31 Speaker 2: You know, as I take this particular step where I

11:33 Speaker 2: needed those credentials, and I was just looking at Oh,

11:37 Speaker 2: you know what, it didn't make sense. Why was I

11:38 Speaker 2: studying this? Or it didn't make sense why was I,

11:41 Speaker 2: you know, involved in this? I you know, I was

11:43 Speaker 2: in the editorial team while I was in the university,

11:48 Speaker 2: and I was thinking, you know what. I was in

11:50 Speaker 2: the editorial team and I was just you know, thinking

11:53 Speaker 2: like I was playing a small role. But you know what,

11:56 Speaker 2: all of that shaped me to become this best selling

12:00 Speaker 2: author that I am today. Authored multiple books which became

12:03 Speaker 2: best sellers, and I'm like, God, you see everything, every

12:08 Speaker 2: detail of my life. You used it for a purpose.

12:11 Speaker 2: You you when I committed every aspect of my life

12:16 Speaker 2: to God, he can use anything and everything for the

12:19 Speaker 2: Kingdom's growth. You know. Another example I want to share

12:25 Speaker 2: is in line with what just happened with Charlie Kirk.

12:28 Speaker 2: And I was looking at the memorial service, okay, and

12:31 Speaker 2: I was I was thinking about this. See listen, you

12:33 Speaker 2: can have your own political views, and I don't want

12:36 Speaker 2: to debate that on the segment at this point, but

12:39 Speaker 2: I want to talk about this aspect as a preacher

12:41 Speaker 2: on a minister, on a man of God point of view.

12:44 Speaker 2: I was just looking at this that, you know, listen

12:47 Speaker 2: to this carefully. This is so so important. I was thinking,

12:50 Speaker 2: you know, when he left, the mark he left was

12:54 Speaker 2: not just in a typical ministry scenario, you know, like

12:58 Speaker 2: for instance, my dad was watching the funeral, sorry, the

13:03 Speaker 2: memorial service, and he said, what is this like, he's

13:06 Speaker 2: a preacher, who's a famous preacher, is a preacher, you know,

13:12 Speaker 2: and even the President and the vise manat the President

13:15 Speaker 2: all big, big people, even in the political space, are

13:18 Speaker 2: coming and honoring him. What an impact he made in

13:23 Speaker 2: preaching as well as in politics. You know that. You know,

13:27 Speaker 2: he was sharing this and I was thinking, I'll be

13:30 Speaker 2: honest with you that in the beginning, you know, people said,

13:34 Speaker 2: you know, put away politics, don't involve politics in ministry.

13:37 Speaker 2: Just stay away from it, stay away from this, just

13:40 Speaker 2: play it and say play nice. But somehow, you know,

13:45 Speaker 2: there is such a stirring in me where I just

13:47 Speaker 2: can't keep politics out, you know, like you put politics in,

13:51 Speaker 2: you know, like I because I have that heart for it.

13:55 Speaker 2: You know, it may not be right now, right now

13:57 Speaker 2: or right away in the place of you know, going

13:59 Speaker 2: out and standing for an election or going out canvassing

14:03 Speaker 2: on the streets. That's not what I'm called for. But

14:05 Speaker 2: for political intercession. Yes, a lot. I've shared about a

14:08 Speaker 2: lot of my experiences in the past. Maybe at the

14:11 Speaker 2: right of point in time, I will share them with

14:13 Speaker 2: you again. But I want you to understand something very

14:15 Speaker 2: important here. You know, it is an aspect of me

14:18 Speaker 2: which I just could not keep it down no matter

14:22 Speaker 2: how much I tried. People will say, play it safe,

14:25 Speaker 2: just be a nominal preacher, just preach the word of

14:28 Speaker 2: God and shut them out. But can I tell you something,

14:30 Speaker 2: When God has put that in me, I cannot keep

14:33 Speaker 2: it to myself. I could not, And many times being

14:37 Speaker 2: vocal about the things that God put in me is

14:40 Speaker 2: also part of the calling that God has for me.

14:43 Speaker 2: Maybe somebody else is not called to talk about certain things,

14:46 Speaker 2: especially politics, but maybe God has put that heart in

14:50 Speaker 2: me to pray for leaders. Put that in my heart

14:53 Speaker 2: to raise intercessors, to pray for nations and pray for

14:58 Speaker 2: godly leadership in posicians, and to have that compassion for

15:03 Speaker 2: leaders that the world despises. I want to pray for

15:07 Speaker 2: those people, even if they're wicked even if they're evil,

15:10 Speaker 2: I want them to be in heaven by the end

15:13 Speaker 2: of the day. That's my heart. The compassion is hard,

15:16 Speaker 2: and today I want you to get to that place

15:18 Speaker 2: where even if somebody says, you know what, you just

15:21 Speaker 2: be a preacher, be safe, or you just do this,

15:23 Speaker 2: be safe, Just go to your job and come back

15:26 Speaker 2: and in church, and you will be safe and you

15:28 Speaker 2: will have a long, long life. You see. You know

15:32 Speaker 2: one of the things I want to tell you, Charlie

15:34 Speaker 2: Kirk had a short life, but he made greater impact

15:37 Speaker 2: than when many people who had long lives. You know,

15:40 Speaker 2: the question is not how long you live. The question

15:43 Speaker 2: is you know how well you live to fulfill the

15:46 Speaker 2: purpose that God has for you. And today this is

15:48 Speaker 2: a wake up call for you that you know what

15:51 Speaker 2: the Bible says, Go with the strength you have, Go

15:54 Speaker 2: with the coach you have, go with everything that you have.

15:57 Speaker 2: You know, That's why I am unapologetical when I talk

16:00 Speaker 2: about politics. If the Lord leads me, I don't care

16:03 Speaker 2: if somebody is offended because I'm using Scooby Doo in

16:06 Speaker 2: my sermons, because I'm using creative means to share the gospel.

16:10 Speaker 2: Being the quote unquote Scooby Doo pastor. I don't I'm

16:14 Speaker 2: not really worried if if people are saying, you know what, oh,

16:17 Speaker 2: I don't believe in you know, uh, you know, the

16:19 Speaker 2: prophetic or the visions. But I'm going to be, you know,

16:23 Speaker 2: in a place where i want to share about all

16:25 Speaker 2: of these things because God has used or put all

16:28 Speaker 2: of this in me and I'm going to use all

16:30 Speaker 2: of that for the extension of God's KINDO. And today

16:32 Speaker 2: that is the word I want to leave with you

16:34 Speaker 2: guys that you know what, don't just box God what

16:36 Speaker 2: God wants to do in your life saying you know what,

16:38 Speaker 2: I'm just a preacher, or I'm just you know, a politician,

16:42 Speaker 2: or I'm just an engineer. I'm just a teacher, I

16:45 Speaker 2: am just a doctor. No no, no, no, no, no no. What

16:48 Speaker 2: if God has something more like Charlie Kirk was a preacher,

16:52 Speaker 2: come politician, a political influenza. John Gift is an engineer,

16:57 Speaker 2: best selling author, media personality, and minister of the gospel.

17:03 Speaker 2: You see, it's not one thing. Let's be people who

17:07 Speaker 2: are going to be unique in creating unique spaces, who

17:12 Speaker 2: like the other aspect is to Scooby to pasta part right,

17:16 Speaker 2: you know Scooby and pastor who even thinks of connecting

17:19 Speaker 2: the two. But that's a very unique space again, right,

17:23 Speaker 2: So I want you to get to that place where

17:26 Speaker 2: you're bold enough to use everything that you have, everything

17:30 Speaker 2: that you have, go with the coach that you have,

17:35 Speaker 2: so that you will fulfill the purpose that God has

17:37 Speaker 2: for you. Amen, God bless you.

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