GOD Knows Your Helplessness | John Giftah | Inspirational Christian Sermon

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. A load

0:53 of times you may be going through some kind of struggle in your life.

0:57 Maybe there are things that you can openly talk about. Maybe you're praying for

1:00 a job, praying for the right person, praying for and break through financial

1:04 miracle, or there are certain things that you can talk about. But there

1:07 could be things that you're struggling where you can't even share it with the ones

1:14 closest to you. You can't share it with others. But it's something that's

1:17 eating you up and you're feeling really helpless. You're feeling like you're stuck there's

1:22 nobody to help you, there's nothing that's working out in your favor, and

1:25 you're maybe saying this is how your life has been for a long period of

1:29 time. Well, I want to share something with you, guys, and

1:32 I'm reading to you from John chapter five, one of my favorite incidents recorded

1:36 in the Word of God, where Jesus goes to the pool of Betesta.

1:41 To give you a little bit of backstory, Betesta is a pool where there

1:44 were multitudes of sick folks, all kinds of you know, the blind,

1:49 the lame, the cripple, and all of them who are reading and praying

1:53 for a miracle. And every now and then the Angel of the Lord will

1:56 come and stir up the water, and whoever jumped in first would get healed.

2:00 So this is why they were all reading the waiting for their turn,

2:04 or hoping someday they would be able to have this miracle that they've been hoping

2:09 and praying about. And there was this man there who was a cripple for

2:14 thirty eight years. Think about this, not one year, not two years,

2:17 thirty eight years. For the most part, we could be in a

2:21 place. Oh my goodness, you know what I'm praying about this for so

2:23 many months, so many years, and maybe in some cases a few decades.

2:30 But here was a guy who for almost four decades he was in this

2:35 state crippled. And you may be feeling that nobody notices, nobody knows what

2:39 you're going through. But here's the thing. Allow I'm reading from the amplified

2:44 version, okay, John chapter five or six, and it says, this

2:47 is the classic edition of amplified version says when Jesus noticed him lying there helpless.

2:54 See the Bible is very clear Jesus noticed him lying their help, knowing

3:00 that he had already been a long time in that condition. He said,

3:05 do you want to become well? Are you really in earnest about getting well?

3:12 Something's to note here. Jesus noticed the man lying there helpless, and

3:16 he knew that he had been in that condition for a long time. I

3:21 want you to understand that even if other people do not know, God is

3:24 noticing, and he knows how long you've been battling. On the outside,

3:29 it may look like just somebody who walked with Jesus at that point, maybe

3:34 knowing or seeing the man for the first time in their life. But Jesus

3:38 knew like this man had been here in a for a long long time,

3:44 thirty eight years. I want you to is to understand that other people may

3:49 not know how long you've suffered. Other people may not notice the depth of

3:52 your problem. Other people may think that you're just exaggerating. Other people may

3:55 not understand you from where you come from. Other people will may not understand

4:00 your feelings, even if they do feel pity over you, but they can't

4:04 understand the depth of what you're going through. But I mere to tell you

4:09 there is a God who notices what you're going through. And just because things

4:13 have not changed for a long time doesn't mean it's not going to change.

4:16 This man was in the state for almost four decades, but one glorious day

4:21 is life turned around. I want you guys to understand today that even if

4:27 your life is not changed for a long time, if you've been praying for

4:30 a miracle, reading on the Lord, maybe we'd regard to your dreams you're

4:33 calling, your purpose, your career. Maybe we'd regard to your relationship that

4:36 you're praying about. Maybe we'd regard to God showing up and showing out in

4:41 some area of your life. I want you to understand that the God we

4:45 serve is faithful. Just because there is a delay, it does not mean

4:48 that you're denied of the blessings from God. It does not mean that God

4:53 has forgotten about you. It does not mean that God is written you off.

4:58 God still has a plan and one day, when you'd least expect it,

5:02 God is going to show up in your life. Today. I want

5:05 to pray over you, guys that if you're feeling discouraged, if you're feeling

5:10 helpless, God, I pray that you will intervene in the lives of your

5:13 people, that you will show up in their life of God, show out

5:16 in our life of God. We want your hand, We want your intervention

5:20 the same way we believe that this man was noticed by you. We believe

5:26 that you're noticing us. We believe that you know what you're going through,

5:30 the depth of our problem, how long we have endured it. And we

5:33 believe that you're coming with a reward. You're coming with the miracle, We're

5:38 coming with the answer, You're coming with the breakthrough. In Jesus name,

5:43 I pray, Amen, God bless you. You've been listening to Fuel for

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