GOD will change what they hear about you | 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

0:12 take a break. This is Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. We're

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0:39 Gifta International. Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. Sometimes in

0:55 our everyday life and we look at ourselves, sweeten to write ourselves off,

0:58 and we think that, what, there's nothing great about me, and it's

1:02 just me for a little me. You know, nothing great. I'm not

1:04 influential world right out the person, or I'm not making a great impact or

1:10 anything of that sort. I'm just a normal me. You know, we

1:14 tend to look at ourselves and sometimes tend to discount or you know, like

1:19 think that what nothing great can come out of me? You know, I'm

1:23 just just the same old normal me. But what I wanted to understand is

1:26 you have no idea what God can cause you to be like in the sight

1:32 of people. Sometimes we tend to look at our enemies, we look at

1:34 other people and we think, like, what when they look at me,

1:38 I think they're just thinking that I'm just a stupid guy. I have nothing

1:41 great to offer. It's just me, normal me. But what I wanted

1:45 to understand is you have no idea what God is working behind the scene,

1:49 what God is causing the other people to think about you, or causing other

1:53 people to hear about you, causing other people to know about you, or

1:57 you have no idea how those people are seeing you. What I mean,

2:01 I want to start up by sharing passage or scripture with you, and I

2:05 want to take this forward kids. Found in Second Kings chapter seven, there's

2:08 a moment when you know there are just four lepers or are in the outskirts

2:14 of the city. They're written off, and lepers of those times were not

2:16 reated right. They were like outcasts, and they were like the untouchables,

2:22 and they were out on the outskirts of the city, and the city was

2:25 in a big famine, you know, and it was in a very terrible

2:29 shape. And then just the thing. They talk to each other, and

2:32 then they say, you know, if you stay here, we're gonna die.

2:36 If you go into the city, if you're gonna die, why don't

2:38 we just take a chance and move towards the enemy's camp and see what's happening.

2:43 If they let us live, we will live. Otherwise we will die.

2:46 At least we know that we've taken a chance. So this is the

2:50 decision they make, and they move towards their enemies place. And what I

2:53 wanted to understand is the scripture says in verse five and so at twilight they

3:00 set out for the camp of the Armenians. But when they came to the

3:05 edge of the camp, no one was there. For the Lord had caused

3:08 the Armenian army to hear the clatter of speeding chariots and the galloping of horses,

3:15 and the sounds of great army approaching. The Lord caused the enemy to

3:22 hear something that they didn't have. What I mean, you know, they

3:25 were just four normal lepers, but the Lord caused the enemy to hear as

3:32 if a mighty army was coming. What I want you guys to understand is

3:37 today you're underestimating yourself. Today You're just looking at the normal you. You're

3:42 just looking at the fact that what you have, all these limitations, these

3:45 restrictions, nothing great about you. You're just the normal you. You don't

3:49 have what it takes. You don't have anything big, you don't have any

3:51 big achievements, you don't have anything in your plate, you don't have anything

3:54 big to offer. And you're saying, John, it is just me,

3:57 the normal me. But what I wanted on the stand is you have no

4:00 idea what the Lord is going to cause your enemy or other people to hear

4:05 about you, because you have a supernatural benefit that the world doesn't help.

4:12 You have a supernatural favor that other people do not have. You have the

4:16 almighty God on your side. Do you have all of Heaven backing you up?

4:20 You have the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords taking a stand

4:24 for you, which means that you may think that you're just the normal you,

4:28 but the other people may hear as a mighty army. You may think

4:30 of yourself and say, I'm just like a grasshopper. You know, That's

4:33 how the children of hsitors saw themselves. They thought of themselves as grasshoppers in

4:38 the sight of their enemies. But what the scripture talks about how the enemies

4:42 were actually afraid of the Israelites. They were afraid because they heard what the

4:47 Lord had been working in the favor of the children of Israel. You see,

4:53 you have no idea what other people are hearing about you. You have

4:56 no idea what other people have perceived about you. You may look at the

5:00 normal you, You may look at yourself in the mirror and think nothing great,

5:03 nothing so significant about you, But you have no idea of what other

5:08 people have heard about you. You have no idea what other people are thinking

5:11 about you. You have no idea how they're actually scared of you, and

5:16 they see the favor of God upon you, they're seeing the hand of God

5:19 upon you. You have no idea how they see you today. I pray

5:27 if you're in a place where you're given up, or you've just been thinking

5:31 or looking at yourself in a negative way, I pray that today will be

5:35 a wake up call for you, that you will understand that you have an

5:39 advantage, that you have supernatural power, supernatural favor, supernatural anointing, supernatural

5:46 ability where people are going to see her and perceive about you ways that you

5:56 don't even have any idea about in the natural. You may be just ordinary,

6:01 but you and I are not natural. We have the supernatural God living

6:05 in us, helping us live a supernatural life. And then, you know,

6:11 I just want to close with this example from my life. You know,

6:13 so many times, you know, a lot of people put me down

6:15 because of the way I look. People have, you know, written me

6:17 off. People have actually said things like, you know, when you came

6:20 to speak, I was thinking, you know, what is this guy going

6:24 to speak, you know, and then the Lord convicted me of how he's

6:29 speaking. And then they literally said these kinds of things, you know,

6:31 coming to me and say. You know, sometimes people may write you off,

6:35 and sometimes people may just saying something negative and you may be thinking like

6:41 that about you, like, you know, okay, it's just me,

6:44 normal me. What will other people think? They will not thinking think great.

6:46 But sometimes you know, when the Lord works through you. You know,

6:50 I've heard testimonies from people say, you know, the way they see

6:55 me is not the way I see myself. Sometimes, you know, they

6:59 see the hand of God upon my life. They see me in a way

7:01 that I'm not putting myself in a high perdical, but they see that honor

7:06 and the glory, you know, and I think you know that's the way

7:11 we need to pray that instead of looking down on ourselves, well, let

7:15 us be people who see that, you know, we have the king of

7:17 kings and the load of floats on our side, and so that we see

7:19 us have the right way, so that we walk with the confidence and the

7:23 boldness to fulfill the purpose that God has for us. I mean, God,

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