Nursing Hatred in Your Hearts? | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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Gifta International. Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. I want

to ask you this question today. See as much as we all say we

are professing believers and we need to walk in loud, and we need to

show that loud to even people who are no way connected to us. We

have to show loud to our enemies, we have to show loud to our

coworkers. We need to show and walk in that love and compassion and demonstrate

God's love in and through our lives and all of that stuff. But one

of the most difficult aspects or areas where we need to show love is to

people close to us. Right, because to a stranger on the street,

to show loud, to show compassion, to you know, go out of

the way one time is considerably easy because it's just a one time thing.

It's a somebody who just meet maybe for just a while, or just for

some time, or just for a short duration, or maybe you just are

you know, maybe bonding with somebody for a short period of time till the

project gets done, and then after that you go on separate ways. Maybe

if things get worse, you can always quit your job or change your job,

or change your boss or whatever. You know. In all those areas

there are things that you can change. But there's one aspect where you can't

change, and that is the fact that you know the people who are living

with maybe to put it in simple words, your family, your relatives,

people who are living and seeing them time and them again. They may be

good people, but there could be things that can always I mean, nobody

is perfect, right, Like, no two people can live forever without any

fight or whatsoever, without any disagreement whatsoever. That will always be differences of

opinions, expectations may be different, or you know, nobody can you meet

the other person's hundred percent of needs and we're all in the fallen nature of

man, so that it can be things that can hinder or you know,

that can come along the way that can rub the relationships. So what do

you do in such cases? Because the problem in such cases is that you

keep seeing those people. It's not something like you know, like maybe I

go to a project work which is just for two us and that person is

rude. Also you don't mind because you need to get the job done just

to us. Just bite your teeth, get it done, come back.

But you're living with these people, You're living with them, You're living with

those close ones. You're living with your family or even if not living with

them directly sometimes or somewhere or the other. You know, family does play

a role right like you do. You're not just called to be an island.

You you meet them in weddings or there are choices and decisions you make

that involve them. So what do you do in such cases when there's a

rubbing in the relationship, when there's a constant difference of opinions, there's a

constant change of things. So I want to share an important descripture with you,

and I want to take this forward and it's found in Leviticus, chapter

nineteen, verse seventeen. And this is what it says. Do not nurse

hatred in your heart for any of your relatives. Confront people directly so that

you will not be held guilty for their sin. Do not nurse hatred in

your heart towards any of your relatives. Remember I always say this, and

I say it again. Your heart is the soil, it's the breathing ground.

If your heart is in the right place, that's when your life will

be in the right place. The reason you need to guard your heart is

because out of your heart flows the issues of life. And you need to

ensure that your heart is set right before you take anything forward. So you

have to remember that the Bible is saying, do not nurse hatred in your

heart so towards any of your relatives, which means relatives who are far your

cousins, those uncles and aunts, or it could be even your close family

members, your parents, your grandparents, or your your siblings, or your

spouse or anybody close to you. Think about it. The Bible is saying,

do not nurse hatred towards any of your relatives. And and what I

want you to understand youre is this the you know, I was just quickly

checking up to confirm what I thought was right about the word nursing. You

know, when you look at the word nursing, it's like a mother nurses

you know, a child, right that that that's an example like to help

the child are be filled with the nourishing food and all of that stuff.

What I wanted to understand here is this important thing. When you see nursing,

it's like basically feeding. Right. So the thing is this when when

you're taking a seed and you're putting in the soil, You're you're nursing for

that. You're you're feeding your You're taking so much of effort towards it,

and it's it's like giving a lot of attention to to taking care of it,

to helping it to get better. So the Bible is basically saying that

don't feed hatred in your hearts. Don't feed How do you feed hatred in

your hearts? How do you do that? Here's the thing. So what

happens is I'll just share it from my life. Okay, Like I've shared

many times before, I faced immense opposition from my family towards the ministry.

It was hard and you know, constantly hearing it constantly, you know,

subjected to so much I went through because of my choice and obeying the voice

of God. It was hard. There were times, I mean like I

was so saturated, and I'm telling you honestly, I'm not perfect. I

made mistakes, but I tried my best to do what I knew God was

calling me every step along the way, depending on God and helping him,

asking him to help me navigate those seasons in the proper way and to the

best of my ability. I believe, I you know, trusted in the

law, taking steps as God led me. But I faced so much so

there were times when I was so saturated with all that what's going on.

It's like a constant atmosphere or an environment where you're constantly hearing those abusal comments,

or you know, people trying different things to try to stop me from

the ministry, to you know, put as much obstacles as possible to stop

the ministry, or to discourage and to you know make me, you know,

like stop doing the ministry and all of this stuff. But can I

tell you something, guys, during that time, like the scripture says,

don't know us hated. You know, these things started developing in me.

Like I used to get to a place like I wake up in the morning

and I would only think of all the wrongs they were doing, and I

would only think about like, oh, my goodness, O, why are

they doing this to me? Why can't they support my inmosion or at least

let me do what I need to do peacefully, or I would go for

a walk. I would keep thinking about it. That is what is called

nursing, you know, hatred in your bomb, in your heart. That

is what it is. Like it was. It was not something like I

because it was constantly happening. I would be like, Okay, finally,

in the name of Jesus, I let go of this. I'm not going

to allow them to do anything. I mean, allow this to make me

get any hated towards them. And I would do I would pray like that,

ask God to help me, and the next minute they would do something

else that would make me get back to that place like, oh my gosh,

God, this is getting so hard for me. Are you getting what

I'm saying? It used to be hard, And I'm telling you that's when

you constantly train and ask God to help you. And I've been to a

place where I said, God, I'm done with nursing this kind of hatred

in me because of all this. I'm done with that. It's not going

to help me. It's not going to help them in any way. Help

me to show lou, help me to show loud. It's not been easy.

But what I'm saying is when you take this step and say God help

me, God is going to help you. God will help you. And

here's the principle the pople is going on and saying. In the same scripture,

it says confront, confront, and this is what it says, Confront

people directly so that you will not be held guilty for this. And you

know, confront just you know, if you're in a place where you can

open up and just said, this is what I'm feeling, this is what

I'm thinking about, this is what I am taking as my stand. And

I had to do that. I had to say, you know what,

you can say all you want, but I'm not going to stop the ministry.

No matter what. I'm not going to stop what God has called me

to do. I'm not going to disobey God. I had to stand my

ground. I had to say this is what it is. And I want

to tell you guys today that you have to get to a place instead of

just keeping it to yourself and nursing the hatred in your heart, confront speak

your mind, share it around and that will help in seeing a different result

in your life. Amen, Lord, I pray for those who are dealing

with people who are constantly troubling them or causing a walk in their lives,

playing it playing against them. In Jesus Name, give them the wisdom and

the strength to rather than you know, noticing the hatred, let them demonstrate

you allow, let them come front directly and let them speak their mind and

share and let them have better relationships. In Jesus Name, I pray you've

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If your heart stops beating, now, do you know where you're going?

If you can face to face with death? Now, do you know where

you're going? And this is not a message of condemnation. This is a

message of hope. 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

shedding every drop of his blood on the cross. Thank you for dying for

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