Is your Heart Sick in Hoplessness? | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:43 Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. I want to ask you this question today. Is your heart sick? Are you in a place in your life where you're just sunk with a place of hopelessness where you're saying, John, I put so much of hope, trust and reliance upon the Lord and this word the promises. I thought God would do this at this point of time in my life. I thought I would have got settled by this time. I thought I would have met a person of my dreams. I thought my business would have taken off, or my ministry would have taken off, or my career would have taken off.

1:22 But John, I just don't know why. Nothing seems to be working, and I'm just so sick to my stomach. I don't know what is going on. I don't know where well I ever be able to stand or there is no element of hope for me. There is nothing that I can stand on at this point of time. Maybe you are saying, John, Yes, listening to these messages encouraged me and remind me to stay on track. But then, John, in reality, when I just go back to my life, I'm in a place of hopelessness. John, I'm just so sick and I don't know what to do.

1:58 I want to share a scripture with you, and I'm want to take this forward because you know, when I was just praying, the Lord was constantly reminding me of the scripture. And this is what the Bible says in Proverbs thirteen, verse twelve, Hope deferred makes the heart sick. Hope deferred makes the heart sick. I just wanted to check exact meaning of the word deferred. It actually means like hope being put off to a later date, like put off, okay, not for now, some other time. That's why if you see some other translations, they actually say it like delayed hope makes the heart sick.

2:35 This a place where you understand like, oh my goodness, I thought this, this should have happened, but it's still not happening. Another translation says, hope prolonged makes the heart sick. So in other words, you know, it says that if you're feeling sick, it's scriptural. Okay, this is what the Bible says. Because that thing that you're waiting on, that thing that you're hoping on, and it doesn't happened, and it has prolonged, it has differred, it has delayed. And another translation says good news.

3:06 It says, when hope is crushed, the heart is crushed, right because you thought, you know, by this time, this would have happened. By now, this should have happened. John, I don't know why things are not happening. I don't know why I've been just being like a fool, standing on God's promises a day and a day or people laughing, people are marking a sense of embarrassment and shame and ridicule and mockery has come over me. And I really don't know how long it can just hold on. I don't know if this is never meant to me, that you know, God's blessings will come upon my life.

3:38 But I want to just share this word of encouragement with you. If you're in a place like that where whatever you put your hope and you were waiting on to happen or things to turn around, and you're in a place where your heart is sick, I pray in Jesus name that Jesus will heal your heart. Jesus will heal your heart or shakarada, Lord, I release your anointing upon those who are listening in the name of Jesus Christ. If they are in this element of a place where their hope was deferred, their hope God delayed because of a prolonged hope.

4:14 You know they're in a state where the hope is crushed and their heart is crushed. To God, I pray that this word will go forth in the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ, Lord, let them be healed, Let them be restored with the new hope that comes in knowing that, yes, heaven and Art may fear away, but God's world will remain forever. God is faithful, the one who has called you. Is faithful God who put the dreams, the desires, the promises, the visions he gave you. He is faithful. Yes, it may seem like a delay, but the delay is not a denial.

4:51 God is going to show up. God is going to turn the tables around. You know. The scripture goes on the same but the longing fulfilled is a tree of life. The same words. It says, there were the longing fulfilled. Another translation, but the dream fulfilled is a tree of life. Desire fulfilled is a tree of life. So I want you to understand this important truth. I love these other translations says, but a wish that comes true is a life giving tree. And I also want to share another scripture with you, and I want to remind you of this Isaiah forty thirty one.

5:26 This is something that most of you may know by heart. But it says, but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Today, I want you guys to introspect yourself. Maybe if your heart is sick, what's it? Because you put your hope on hope. You put your hope on circumstance. You put your hope on maybe this will work out, this will turn around. Maybe you put your hope on time without you know by this time it will happen.

5:56 You put your hope on somebody and they disappointed you, they forgot what, they walked away. You put your hope on something, but he didn't work out. You put your hope on the stock market, but the economy crashed. You put your hope on the job, but you lost your job. Whatever it is, you may be in a place where your heart is sick. I am challenging you to put your hope on the Lord. Put it on the Lord. Say God, you know what. I'm putting the ball on your coat. God, I'm doing what i need to do. I'm doing my part.

6:29 I'm not being complacent and lazy. But at the same time, God, I really need you to show up. I really need you to do what only you can do. Give me your grace, give me your strength. And the Bible says and when you put your hope on the Lord, he will renew your strength. Your strength will be renewed even if your heart is sick. Today, I pray that as you put your hope on the Lord again. God is going to renew your strength and He's going to give you the grace to sew on wings like eagles, and you will start afresh.

6:58 And I pray in the name of Jesus once again, O God, for those who are going through that season where they're completely crushed and broken in the spirit, broken in their heart. I pray in the name of Jesus, that this word will strengthen them. What Spirit do, What only you can do. God, My words cannot comfort them. Only you can comfort them. Only you can strengthen them. Only you can do the work in them. Oh God, do what only you can do, Jesus. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen. God bless you. You've been listening to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta.

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