Overcoming the 'What’s in it for me?' Attitude | John Giftah | Inspirational Christian Sermon

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0:42 Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. We live in a time and age where most people are living a very selfish life. It's all about what's in it for me. I'll get this done, or I'll help you if you'd help me back in return, if I can get some value out of this, if something will benefit me in some way, or I will help you because you help me last time, or I will help you so that you will help me when I'm in need. So we live in a time in age when everything is about ourselves. What's in it for me?

1:18 Will I gain anything? Otherwise? Let me just live my own life. I'm just going on peacefully. I don't want any more trouble. I don't want any more pain for myself. I don't want to get to in any unwanted trouble by referring somebody else or getting something to help somebody else, going the extra mile for somebody else, and then, you know, putting myself in a bad spot. So I just want to live for myself. This is the kind of a mindset that a lot of people are living in, and they're all buried in their own world, of their own stuff, the things that they're dealing with, their own day to day activities and things like that.

1:53 I just want to quickly share something with you guys, and I want to take this forward. And it is found in Genesis forty one, and it's part of the story of Joseph. Right, Joseph had interpreted the dream of the Cappara, and just as the Capara had heard from Joseph, his life came in accordance to the dream and the interpretation of the dream. And so there was a moment. The Bible says two full years later Pharaoh had the dream, and he gets this particular dream in the first verse of the forty first chapter of Genesis.

2:29 I encourage you to check this up if you do not know the exact specifics of the details. But I just want to get into the point that I want to share. And so again he gets another dream where the Pharaoh gets two dreams back to back, and VERSEID says, in the morning, his mind was troubled, so he sent for all the magicians and the wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told him his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him. Pharaoh told him of his dreams, and no one could interpret the dreams for him. So there's a moment where you see that Pharaoh gets these dreams and he's concerned about it, and he's he doesn't know what it is, and it's troubling his mind.

3:08 And at that point the worst nine says, then the chief Cambara said to Pharaoh today, I am reminded of my shortcomings. And he goes on to say, Pharaoh, you were angry with me once, and then you imprisoned me and the chief Baker. And there there was a man, Hebrew, who was able to interpret both of our dreams when we told him, and it happened exactly as he had interpreted so the rest is history. When Pharaoh calls Joseph to come and to interpret the dream, and you know, Joseph's life just turns around in a nutshell.

3:49 What I want you got to understand is you get the attitude or the mindset of the Cambara. Right. He didn't get any personal gain out of this. He could have just said, you know what, last time the Pharaoh got mad at me and he sent me into the prison. I don't want to have any trouble, unwanted trouble. You know what if I, you know, maybe refer this guy and then he's not able to interpret and Pharaoh gets more angry and he puts me back in jail. Lord, you know, any random thought he could have had, he had all the reasons.

4:19 You know, these are the typical kind of reasons people come up and say, Hey, why should I refer this person? Why should I help that person? You know what if they don't do a good job, or what if? You know, I landed more trouble because of this, So why I can just mind my own business and go This Pharaoh never asked him anything, but he himself came up and said, hey, Pharaoh, you know I remember there was a guy called Joseph. You know what I wanted to understand is he didn't do it because he was looking at what's in it for him.

4:46 He just did it with a good attitude. It's just that he had forgotten about Joseph for a long time and at the right time, the Lord reminded him about Joseph. And what today lesson I want you guys to take forward is you know, live with an attitude of you know, where you let go of this what's in it for me attitude. Don't just do anything so that you can gain something out of it, just so that you can get something for yourself, or with an attitude of you know, something that maybe a favor or a help that you can receive for yourself, but get just have a selfless attitude where you want to help somebody.

5:22 You just want to be a blessing to other people. Where you are like, even if I don't get anything out of this, it's fine, I just want to do it for greater good. You know, the scripture says if you know to do good and you don't do good, that's also sin, right, It's not sin only if you do something bad. Even if you know to do good and if you don't do it, still listen. So today I pray that let's get to that place where we can be a blessing to other people. Even if we are just going to be used and thrown or we're not even going to be in the picture.

5:47 We're not going to get the benefits. I mean, the Chief coup Barter do not get the kind of benefits that Joseph ended up having. Right, but he didn't mind all of that, or he just went and said, this is all that I can help. And this is what you did, the connection, and that is what changed so many things in favor. So that's what I want you, guys, to go to a place where you overcome the selfish attitude and just want to be a blessing to other people and with no strings attached. Emman, God bless you.

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