Interviewing Annie Mayfield - Excerpt - Just For You | John Giftah

0:00 Speaker 1: Like even Jesus, like he the you know, the good shepherd, he leaves the ninety nine for the one. And I think, you know, all throughout scripture, you see Jesus he he he bounces between crowds of people he's preaching to and then little groups of people or just one person. He even tells like, don't go tell people about what I did. And so I think it's like you see this dance between like being faithful to the one being faithful behind the closed doors. Like when he healed Peter's mother right or mother in law and she was sick, Like that was behind closed doors.

0:33 Speaker 1: And that was right after we came back from the wilderness and was preaching in Galilee and like in the hYP like he was getting so hype. And I think if that was us, we would be like, this is the worst time to go do miracles behind closed doors. I need to capitalized on this momentum. I need to capitalize on this. But but Jesus knew. It's like it is a dance between yes, like I have a mission to feed the world, to feed lots of people, but that includes making sure people know I didn't just come to feed the masses.

1:00 Speaker 1: I came to feed the one like I don't like I think some of us sometimes we look at God's love for us as a group insurance policy. It's like Jesus's blood, it covers all, but he doesn't like He's like the host of a party that he invited you to, but he doesn't really want to get to know you. He just wants you in the house having fun. No, God wants to sit with you. He wants to know you. He wants to know John, he wants to know Annie. And I think, like, how beautiful. I mean, I could just cry, like when I talk about, like how beautiful of a savior that he came to die for everyone, but also just for me, just for you.

1:35 Speaker 1: It's just so I mean, you can't It's just you can't even wrap your head around it. Sometimes.

1:40 Speaker 2: You know, this is actually a one of my chapters in one of my books that oh Am I The title of the chapter is just for You, where it actually Yeah, the fact I read someone saying is that you know, if you were the only person on the planet thought Jesus would have still come down and lived his life, died and rose again just for you. And I also go on to share about how In Second King, chapter twenty, one of my favorite incidents, it says that God made the Son to go back just for the sake of one man called Hessekiah.

2:10 Speaker 2: He didn't do it for the sake of the whole world. He didn't do it for everybody. He didn't do it for the whole nation of Israel. He did it for the sake of one man and his faith. And that really shook me, like, wow, you know, just for one man, he made the Son to go back, Like to what extent, to what magnitude God wants to do in and through our life, right, like sometimes we just limit God like and that gave me the faith. There was a time when two times I've called and God brought on rain. There was one incident where it hadn't rained for almost three months, and I got a I got just like Asakah said, you know, if this word is true that I'm going to live for fifteen more years, let it let the sun go back.

2:49 Speaker 2: I said, God, if this word is true, make it rain today. And that day it rained, and again did it rain for the next three weeks. So in a period of three and a half months, the only day it rained was the day rain when I ask God to bring it, bring down rain and confirm, just like he did it for Zachiah. And listening to my sermon, somebody else in another country, in one of the Middle Eastern countries, he wanted a confirmation of a word from God and said, God, this is not the rainy season. Can you make it rain to confirm this world?

3:17 Speaker 2: And he asked God and it rained that day and he was shocked. So what I'm saying is it's not just about the rain or the sun, but look at the fact that God wants to do great things just for you.