"GOD, take me Seriously and Don’t Procrastinate" | A Word of Encouragement | 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,

0:54 guys, it's such a joy for me to be with all of you today.

0:56 And guess what. We are just touching four under day ninety first episode

1:00 mark on this daily podcast. And I'm so grateful because you're just hardly ten

1:07 days away from touching the final episode mark, and I'm really praying that I

1:11 would be able to do something nice for the final episode. I'm encourage you

1:15 guys to also continue praying, and if you have any ideas you want to

1:21 connect with me, I would love to hear from you. And I also

1:23 really want you guys to pray for me because the last couple of days have

1:26 been really, really, really bad for me. And I'm just clicking onto

1:32 the Lord and I'm just going to be sharing something that the Lord encouraged me

1:37 from his word, and I thought it would encourage you guys for today's episode.

1:41 But I really need your press because it's really over the cliff right now.

1:47 So I want to just start off by sharing this from the Message version

1:49 Psalm thirty one, and I'm just going to read out to you where it

1:53 says disarmist is saying, I run to you, Lord, I run for

1:57 dear life. Don't let me down. Take me seriously this time. I

2:00 mean like when I saw the choice of words, Take me seriously this time.

2:05 It's like, you know, every time, I want you to take

2:07 me seriously. God. Every prayer is important, but sometimes you know,

2:10 and we just pray. God. You know, I wish you would change

2:13 my circumstance, You would change my situation, you change things around in my

2:16 life. That that's a different thing. But sometimes we are in the club

2:20 desperador. We need a touch from God. We need God to make a

2:23 move, we need God to do something. And the other was the Psalmist

2:27 who's hoping and hoping up and pouring out his heart to the Lord. And

2:31 today, if you want to do the same, I want you to just

2:34 do the same. God, take me seriously. I'm not kidding here.

2:38 I need a touch from you. I need you to show up in my

2:40 life. I need you to change the trajectory of my life. I need

2:45 you to do something. I want an intervention because this is a place where

2:50 without you I cannot do anything. Do you understand what I'm talking about?

2:55 This is the place he was saying, And then he says, get down

3:00 on my level and listen, and please, no procrastination. I don't know

3:04 who this world is for, but some of us are in a place where

3:07 we want God to do something and we want God to do it now,

3:10 no procrastination. See, when we think about there is an aspect of you

3:15 know, God's timing which is the best, and we should wait upon God

3:17 for his timing. And all of those things are true because God has the

3:22 right appointed time to show himself up and in his time he will make all

3:24 things beautiful. All those things are true. But at the same time,

3:28 when we look at John chapter two in case of you know the wine running

3:31 out at wedding. Right when maybe he comes and tells Jesus, Jesus says,

3:38 women, my time is not yet come. But then the next minute,

3:42 you see, he just goes and he turns water into wine. Right,

3:46 was he waiting like, okay, fine, you know die di dic

3:50 two. Yes, my time came. And then he ran no, it's

3:53 not because the time had come. You know that Jesus waited to turn the

3:58 water into wine. But he was moved by the faith. He was moved

4:01 by the fact that, you know what, if I don't act now,

4:03 there's no point in me turning what it into I and after ten days or

4:08 after you know, one year or something, because now is the time I

4:12 need to act. So you know, sometimes we need to ask God to

4:15 act at that moment because you can't expect I mean, and he's also expecting

4:20 us to have the faith to believe that he would act. And say,

4:26 you know what, God, I don't want any procrastination. Now I want

4:28 you to act, and I want you to act now. Today's the day.

4:31 This is the moment, and I want you to do it right.

4:34 So there are miracles that happened, you have to wait and all that,

4:38 but there are things that will happen suddenly, quickly, shiftly when you just

4:43 believe that God is not a god who's going to procrastinate, but he's going

4:46 to act right now. But he's going to act depending on you going to

4:51 him with boldness, sensaying I need you to intervene right Maybe had the courage

4:57 to go and say, Jesus, this is the problem, and she the

5:00 courage to after jesus Is comment, she had the courage to go to the

5:02 people and say whatever he says to do, do it. She didn't say,

5:06 oh, finely, I think Jesus is not going to do it.

5:08 And she didn't keep him out shut. She showed with the faith, with

5:12 the words, with our actions, that she had the faith that, you

5:15 know what, even if this is not the time yet for Jesus to show

5:17 himself up, but I know that he will do something. Can you have

5:21 that kind of faith? And I just want to let you know versefy,

5:26 He says, I put my hand, my life in your hands. You

5:30 won't drop me and you will never let me down. Today we have that

5:32 assurance that we even when you don't have anything else to hold on too,

5:38 if you can put your whole life in the hands of God. He will

5:42 never leave you, nor forsake you. He will not drop us, and

5:45 he will never let us down. He will not abandon us, even not

5:46 forsake us. And that's the hope that you and I have. And today,

5:50 guys, I don't know what you guys are facing. I don't know

5:54 what challenges are there in your life. You may have things that are not

5:59 going out the way you wanted. But you know what we have that hope

6:02 that no matter how things maybe beyond your control, but they will never go

6:06 beyond the control of Almighty God. God is still on your side. God

6:10 is a good God, a loving father. Yes, sometimes we make mistakes,

6:13 we are humans, and we fail, we ask God for forgiveness,

6:15 we get up and we continue to you know, walk in that mercy and

6:20 grace from the Lord. But then you know, at the end of the

6:24 day when we go God is a good God, He's a dad, and

6:29 He's going to ensure that he will not leave us of forsake us, or

6:33 drop us, or abandon ourself forsake us. And that's the assurance that we

6:39 have. And today, if you guys are going through a hard time in

6:43 your life, I just want to pray in Jesus Name, Lord, that

6:46 every single person listening, let them experience your touch, Let them experience your

6:49 goodness, let them experience your hand upon their life. Lord, show yourself

6:54 up like the way even though you said this is not my time, but

6:57 still you changed your mind and went and turned the war into wine. We

7:00 believe you're not God who's going to protestinate because you know what is the right

7:03 time to show up. You know the right time to show up in our

7:08 life when we need it. Absolutely, we need a touch from you.

7:11 We pray that you will show yourself up and we believe, we decree,

7:15 we declare that you're going to do something spectacular, something amazing, and your

7:19 name will be lifted and glorified in and through our life. In Jesus Name,

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8:24 Fuel for the Soul with John Gift. Do God bless you If your heart

8:33 stops beating? Now, do you know where you're going? If you can

8:37 face to face with death? Now, do you know where you're going?

8:41 And this is not a message of condemnation. This is a message of hope.

8:46 That is a God who loves you so much he sent his only son,

8:52 Jesus Christ to come down and pay a heavy price by sharing every drop

8:58 of his blood on the cross. Tak thank you for dying for my sins.

9:01 When you believe in him, you have free gift or salvation for you

9:07 that it shows us that we will go to Heaven when we die instead of

9:11 suffering in Him forever. I just encourage you today to make the simple step

9:16 of faith and say, Jesus, I thank you for what you did on

9:18 the cross. Thank you for giving me this gift of eternal life.