GOD's Favor: Your Spiritual Advantage Revealed | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

0:01 Speaker 1: 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.

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0:46 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta podcast. It's such a joy for me to join you guys today. Just want to let you know that along with the audio podcast which we've been doing, I also started out making video segments, which is also going to be available on YouTube. I really encourage you to share this with someone you know who loves to check out video segments as well. So just pray that the lot enables us to take this forward to reach new levels, new dimensions, because I'm so grateful because even over the weekend.

1:15 Speaker 2: One of the new stats that we receive is that this podcast has been growing, reaching new new audiences and it's among the top point six percent. Like last week, I announced that it's among the top one percent of all the podcasts in the world, but now we are at the top point six percent of all the podcasts in the world. I'm so grateful to God to see the way podcast is growing. So that's when I thought, you know what, if you're able to reach people through these daily segments, which I'm doing along with my work, I thought might as well give it a shot to make the video segments as well, so that it can reach a lot of people.

1:47 Speaker 2: So today, one of the things I want to start off without further do is that this week we want to talk about one important aspect that I want you guys to remember that you and I carry as children of the most highth God. You need to understand, yes, we believe in what Jesus did on the Cross. He finished a work for us so that we have the ability to not only have the gift of eternal life, but also the real life. If you look at John ten ten from the message version, if you look at the different translations it says you can have the life to the fullest, or in an amplified version, it says to enjoy your life, and so on and so forth.

2:21 Speaker 2: So God wants you to lived that Christian life. And I wanted to understand, we have so many things coming against us. We may have challenges, we may have opposition, you may have detaurs, you may have attacks from the enemy, you may face different things coming against you. But you and I have something that we have us an advantage which others do not have. Because you need to understand human think, like you know what, everybody talks about this problem. Everybody faces these challenges. Everybody faces these problems.

2:48 Speaker 2: Everybody has to go through this process. See, there is a place for process, there's a place for protocol, there's a place for strategies, there's a place for you know, going by the steps and the principles that the Lord us on. But I won'ted understand that you and I have a needed advantage that the people who do not know the Lord, people who are not aware of what they hold have. Can I tell you something. The Bible says something very powerful, and this is something that is so dear to my heart. It says in Psalm five, verse twelve.

3:18 Speaker 2: This is how it says that surely the Lord will bless the righteous. You and I are the righteous. Right we are because of the finished work of Christ. When we put our hope, trust and reliance and faith on him, what happens. He has given us the gift of righteousness. So we are the righteous. And it says this so powerfully. It says, God has surrounded you with is favor like a shield. You have God's favor upon you like a shield surround you.

3:48 Speaker 1: Know.

3:48 Speaker 2: In one of the translations, it says that the favor of God is going before you, behind you, besets you, and above you and beneath you. It's you're surrounded by the favor of God.

4:00 Speaker 1: Today.

4:00 Speaker 2: I want you to understand something here. Favor is like a It's like an advantage that you and I carry. Now one more words, I want to remind you, and then I want to git them thro this, it says in Psalm eighty four, verse eleven. For the Lord God is the Son and the shield, and the Lord best those favor and honor. No good thing be leave with all them that walk up rightly. I believe that the fact that you're listening to this. The fact that you're watching this, you are somebody who's saying, you know what, I want to walk up rightly.

4:31 Speaker 2: I want to walk a blameless life. I want to do the best of my ability honor God with my life. I want to live a life of godliness and holiness to give Him the glory, honor, and praise. Here's the thing about it. That is that when you do that, the Bible says, the Lord bestows favor. The Lord is surrounding you with this favor. You have an advantage which other people do not have. You have a benefit that other people do not have. You know what that is. That is the favor of God. It is the unmelted favor.

4:58 Speaker 2: You don't have to earn, you don't have to strive for it. You have something that goes with you wherever you go, and that is the favor of God. I want you to understand, everywhere you go you're not by yourself. You have an advantage, a favor available for you, a favor that's going to make things happen that you can't see happen by yourself, A favor that gives you a hidden advantage that other people cannot understand. How is it that you're getting this when I didn't get it? How is it that you've got this exactly the way you were expecting.

5:34 Speaker 2: Well, you know what I'm not saying. God is going to give you everything you want, but it's going to give you what you need to fulfill your God given purpose. You have that favor. You have that favor in anything that you're looking up to, whether with regard to a carrier, move, with regard to a relationship, with regard to a business strategy, with regard to your calling, your ministry, with regard to your future, in any area that you're looking for, maybe you're even thinking of purchasing a new house.

5:59 Speaker 2: You have to understand don't just think like, oh, you know what, everybody's facing these challenges. Everybody is going through this. No, don't, don't just think in the way everybody else in the world. Things you, as a child of God have an advantage, have a benefit, and that is that you have the favor of God. When you work with that awareness that you have that favor, When you work with that awareness that you have that even advantage for you, everything changes. The next couple of days, we're going to look at various aspects with regard to the favor of God.

6:29 Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about it. I want you to stay tuned, whether it's on YouTube or on the podcast platform, I want you to stay tuned because there's so much to unpack about the favor of God. Understand something. You're not by yourself, Guys, you're not making life on your own. You have God's favor. That's going to cost the right people to like you, the wrong people to shun you. It's going to cost the right doors to open at the right time. It's going to make the right people you know, you know, just step into your life in an unexpected way to make you be at the right place at the right time that you never thought like.

7:01 Speaker 2: This is a point, you know, we're going to unpack. We're going to look at different aspects. And I'm going to tell you this. When you know who you are, that you're a child of God, you will walk with your head high and not with arrogance, but with confidence, knowing that you are a child of the King. So you have that favor that surrounds you. You're not going to look and have an outlook of life from a negative perspective that oh everything is this You know scarcity lack, you know it's a struggle.

7:34 Speaker 2: Instead of having that mindset, you will walk with another mindset saying, you know what, Yes, there may be challenges. There will be challenges because the Bible says Jesus said this. You know in this world you will have trouble. There will be challenges, there will be opposition, there will be the schemes of the enemy thrown at you. But you have an advantage because the one who's for you is greater than the one who's against you. I want you to walk with that awareness. I want you to have that outlook of life, and then we will back to various aspects and various things that we can understand when we know that we have the favor of God upon ours.

8:07 Speaker 2: I want to close with this example, right. I think I've shared this before and I just want to share it again. That look, there was a season when I needed to look for a new job. Because if you guys don't know that, I work in a full time coporage shop and I'm running the ministry, right, I'm an aerospace engineer. So there was a time when, due to a job transition period, I had to get another job and I was praying God, I want you to open the door. Everybody said, you know what, just don't we choose He just the market is bad.

8:40 Speaker 2: There's so many layers happening everywhere. I mean, you just choose something that works. Just get it. You know you'd need a job more than anything. But I said, you know what, Yes, I know I need it. Not denying the problem, but I said, God, you know what, I don't want a job that's going to choke my calling. I don't want a job that's going to derail me from your purpose over my life. I have your favor, and I am aware that when I'm tapping into your favor, you're going to open a door that's not going to choke my calling.

9:12 Speaker 2: That's not gonna get me tied up into the situation on the system so much that you know, the ministry is affected, the podcast is affected, all of those things. I said, you know what, God, I need an opportunity that is going to be filled with your favor so that you know what, I will be able to balance work on ministry. I will be able to get that work club balance or the flexibility, and you know, so that I travel and minister on all of these things.

9:35 Speaker 1: I prayed.

9:36 Speaker 2: People said, you know what, this is the wrong time to pray like that. Don't be choosy, don't have such high standards. Just get a job. That's what we need. But you know what, as I said, I kept declaring, God, I have your favor, and I know that your favor is going to make the right people to like me. I went for hundreds of interviews and people were like rejecting left and right. It feels it felt very sad and scared. You know, when I stood my ground, my God will not let me down. And you know what, finally, after a period of seven months, I was able to land a job back.

10:12 Speaker 2: The person who was hiring was impressed by the fact that I'm doing content, the podcast, the books that I authored, so much so that what was like in this advantage for other organizations ended up being an organized and advantage for this organization. That I was able to land this opportunity and everything that I was praying that this su should not choke my calling in terms of the travel or the you know the nature of work and the work club balance and flexibility. The Lord answered it to the detail, Why am I sharing this is to encourage you?

10:44 Speaker 2: If the Lord did it for me, you will do it for you. The question is will you be bold enough to tap into that favor. Yes, it was not easy, standing firm on my conviction. It was not at all easy. You know, in listening to hurls from people saying, you know what, you've been too see or you're not understanding the situation. You should not have such standards. You should just get it, you know all those things. But I stood my ground saying, you know what, I have the favor of God. And that's the same principle that I want you to follow.

11:17 Speaker 2: That you have an aid advantage, a favor that you can't even comprehend, a favor that will cause the right people to like you, the right job to track you down, same way I believe you know, as a pristan single, I'm like praying that the Lord will bring the right person into my life, and I believe that, you know what, instead of me striving and hurling, I'm going to feel like, you know what, God, You're going to bring the right person into my life at the right appointed time. You're going to make the right connections come my way, the right opportunities that will track me down.

11:46 Speaker 2: I want you to work with that assurance. You're not at a disadvantage. You're a child of the King, so you have a favor that will cause the right people to like you, the right things to open for you, and the right things that will take you to way you need to go. Emmen I challenge you guys to stay tuned the next couple of days as we do the series on Favor. Let these sermons be a great blessing for the glory of God.

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