GOD will change what they hear about you | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

0:01 Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world is a crazy place and it just seems to get crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and take a break. This is Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. We're a hub for inspirational Christian sermons, practical keys for Christian living, and Christian discussions and interviews. You'll be inspired to live the life that you were created for. Your host is a top ranking podcaster, best selling author, world record holder, aerospace engineer, life coach, evangelist, and founder of John Gifta International.

0:43 Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. Sometimes in our everyday life and we look at ourselves, sweetened to write ourselves off, and we think that what there's something great about me and it's just me for a little me. You know, nothing great. I'm not influential world right now, the person, or I'm not making a great impact or anything of that sort. I'm just a normal me. You know, we tend to look at ourselves and sometimes tend to discount or you know, like I think that what nothing great can come out of me.

1:22 You know, I'm just just say moll normal me. But what I wanted to understand is you have no idea what God can cause you to be like in the sight of people. Sometimes we tend to look at our enemies, we look at other people and we think, like, what when they look at me, I think they're just thinking that I'm just a stupid guy. I have nothing great to offer. It's just me, normal me. But what I wanted to understand is you have no idea what God is working behind the scene, what God is causing the other people to think about you, or causing other people to hear about you, causing other people to know about you, or you have no idea how those people are seeing you.

2:00 What I mean, I want to start up by sharing passage or scripture with you, and I want to take this forward. Kids found in Second King chapter seven, there's a moment when you know there are just four leapers who are in the outskirts of the city. They're written off, and leapers of those times were not reated right. They were like outcasts, and they were like the untouchables, and they were out on the outskirts of the city. And the city was in a big famine, you know, and it was in a very terrible shape.

2:30 And then just the thing. They talk to each other, and then they say, you know, if you stay here, we're gonna die. If you go into the city, If we're gonna die, why don't we just take a chance and move towards the enemies camp and see what's happening. If they let us live, we will live. Otherwise we will die. At least we know that we've taken a chance. So this is the decision they make, and they move towards their enemies play. And what I wanted to understand is the scripture says inverse five and so at twilight they set out for the camp of the Armenians.

3:02 But when they came to the edge of the camp, no one was there. For the Lord had caused the Armenian army to hear the clatter of speeding chariots and the galloping of horses, and the sounds of great army approaching. The Lord caused the enemy to hear something that they didn't have. What I mean, you know, they were just four normal lepers, but the Lord caused the enemy to hear as if a mighty army was coming. What I want you guys to understand is today you're underestimating yourself. Today You're just looking at the normal you.

3:41 You're just looking at the fact that what you have, all these limitations, these restrictions, nothing great about you. You're just the normal you. You don't have what it takes. You don't have anything big, you don't have any big achievements, you don't have anything in your plate, you don't have anything big to offer. And you're saying, John, it is just me, the normal me. But what I wanted in the stand is you have no idea what the Lord is going to cause your enemy or other people to hear about you,

4:08 because you have a supernatural benefit that the world doesn't help. You have a supernatural favor that other people do not have. You have the almighty God on your side. Do you have all of Heaven backing you up? You have the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords taking a stand for you, which means that you may think that you're just a normal you, but the other people may hear as a mighty army. You may think of yourself and say, I'm just like a grasshopper. You know, That's how the children of Hissitor saw themselves.

4:36 They thought of themselves as grasshoppers in the sight of their enemies. But what the scripture talks about how the enemies were actually afraid of the Israelites. They were afraid because they heard what the Lord had been working in the favor of the children of Israel. You see, you have no idea what other people are hearing about you. You have no idea what how the people have perceived about you. You may look at the normal you. You may look at yourself in the mirror and think nothing great, nothing so significant about you, But you have no idea of what other people have heard about you.

5:09 You have no idea what other people are thinking about you. You have no idea how they're actually scared of you, and they see the favor of God upon you, they're seeing the hand of God upon you. You have no idea how they see you today. I pray if you're in a place where you're given up, or you've just been thinking or looking at yourself in a negative way, I pray that today will be a wake up call for you, that you will understand that you have an advantage, that you have supernatural power, supernatural favor, supernatural anointing, supernatural ability where people are going to see her and perceive about you ways that you don't even have any idea about in the natural.

5:59 You may be just ordinary, but you and I are not natural. We have the supernatural God living in us, helping us live a supernatural life. And then, you know, I just want to close with this example from my life. You know, so many times, you know, a lot of people put me down because of the way I look. People have you know, written me off. People have actually said things like, you know, when you came to speak, I was thinking, you know, what is this guy going to speak, you know, and then the Lord convicted me of how he's speaking.

6:29 And then they literally said these kinds of things, you know, coming to me and say. You know, sometimes people may write you off, and sometimes people may just saying something negative and you may be thinking like that about you, like, you know, okay, it's just me, normal me. What will other people think? They were not thinking, think great? But sometimes you know, when the Lord works through you. You know, I've heard testimonies from people say, you know, the way they see me is not the way I see myself.

6:57 Sometimes, you know, they see the hand of God upon my life. They see me in a way that I'm not putting myself in hyperdesal but they see that honor and the glory, you know, and I think you know that's the way we need to pray to that instead of looking down on ourselves. Well, let us be people who see that, you know, we have the king of kings and the load of floats on our side, and so that we see us have the right way, so that we walk with our confidence and the boldness to fulfill the purpose that God has for us.

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8:40 And this is not a message of condemnation. This is a message of whop. That is a God who loves you so much he sent his only son, Jesus Christ to come down and pay a heavy price by shading every drop of his blood on the cross. Thank you for dying for my sins. When you believe in Him, you have free gift or salvation for you that it shows us that we will go to heaven when we die instead of suffering in hell forever. I'll just encourage you today to make the simple step of faith and say, Jesus, I thank you for what you did on the cross.

9:21 Thank you for giving me this gift of eternal life.