Pitiful to Beautiful | Encouragement When You Feel Stuck in Life | Christian Sermon | John Giftah

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0:49 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

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1:01 Speaker 2: and bless that each one of you will be blessed, enriched.

1:05 Speaker 2: And I just have a powerful word to share with you,

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1:37 Speaker 2: of those things. So this is a very powerful word

1:40 Speaker 2: I want to share with you. If you're in a

1:41 Speaker 2: place in your life where you're saying, John, you know what,

1:44 Speaker 2: I'm in the midst of seeing other people walk in

1:46 Speaker 2: the very dreams that I've been dreaming about. But what

1:50 Speaker 2: is God doing in my life? Why isn't God even

1:53 Speaker 2: doing the simplest of things that I'm asking him for.

1:56 Speaker 2: Maybe you're feeling like that, let me give you a

1:58 Speaker 2: little bit of context. Maybe, for instance, if you're saying,

2:01 Speaker 2: you know what, I'm dreaming that I will meet the

2:03 Speaker 2: person of my dreams, get married, get settled, but you know,

2:06 Speaker 2: I'm seeing everybody else around me getting married and I'm

2:09 Speaker 2: not even able to go on a single date. You

2:12 Speaker 2: know what I mean, You're feeling like everybody else is

2:15 Speaker 2: going to a job and I'm not even able to

2:17 Speaker 2: get a single job opening for me. I am struggling.

2:21 Speaker 2: I'm working hard, I'm putting my best foot forward, but

2:24 Speaker 2: things are just not working out. Maybe you're saying everybody

2:27 Speaker 2: else is, you know, seeing their businesses flourishing, they're getting clients.

2:30 Speaker 2: And for me, even though I'm a person of integrity,

2:33 Speaker 2: I'm a person or with a spirit of excellence. But still, John,

2:37 Speaker 2: I don't understand why God is not a loving or

2:39 Speaker 2: blessing me with even a single client. Maybe you're feeling stuck,

2:43 Speaker 2: You're feeling stagnant, You're feeling broken in the midst of

2:47 Speaker 2: seeing everyone else walk out in a beautiful fashion, do

2:51 Speaker 2: you feel like that. I'm going to share a powerful

2:54 Speaker 2: word with you from Acts chapter three. This is a

2:56 Speaker 2: word that really caught my attention. Where I want you

2:58 Speaker 2: to go through the passage in detail later, but I

3:02 Speaker 2: want to go to a couple of important things. You know.

3:04 Speaker 2: Peter and John go to the temple that's the place

3:07 Speaker 2: of worship one afternoon for the service, the prayer service. Okay,

3:13 Speaker 2: that's a message altogether. Why did Peter and Jay, Peter

3:16 Speaker 2: and John go to the you know, the Jewish place

3:19 Speaker 2: of worship when you know now that Jesus died and

3:22 Speaker 2: ose they didn't go to a church service, they went

3:24 Speaker 2: to the Jewish place of worship. No, this is a

3:27 Speaker 2: side note to some of you. Right, some of you

3:29 Speaker 2: may feel like, you know, why is God leading me

3:32 Speaker 2: in a place that doesn't make sense because you know

3:34 Speaker 2: what they're suppose they the Jewish place of worship still

3:38 Speaker 2: does not acknowledge Jesus as the Lord and Savior. Why

3:41 Speaker 2: did Peter and John go to that prayer service? Well,

3:45 Speaker 2: you know they went there because that's where the people were.

3:48 Speaker 2: You know, sometimes you need to understand that. You know,

3:50 Speaker 2: sometimes people put this holier than our attitude. You know,

3:53 Speaker 2: I'm not going to be on social media because it's evil,

3:55 Speaker 2: but that's where people are. What if God is going

3:58 Speaker 2: to use you to be a blessed to people on

4:00 Speaker 2: social media because that's where people are. You care what

4:03 Speaker 2: I'm saying. That's the context here that I want to

4:05 Speaker 2: set for some of you. If you have that sense like, oh,

4:08 Speaker 2: why did Peter and John go to the place of

4:12 Speaker 2: worship to the Jewish place of worship when they have

4:15 Speaker 2: accepted Jesus as their personal Lord and savior. Are you

4:18 Speaker 2: getting the context here? You know, they went to the

4:20 Speaker 2: place where people were. You know, this is a message

4:22 Speaker 2: for some of you that, you know, what, if you're

4:24 Speaker 2: praying for a miracle, a breakthrough, first things first, you

4:27 Speaker 2: need to be in the right place. You cannot say,

4:30 Speaker 2: you know what, I'm going to just be an island.

4:32 Speaker 2: I'm going to be by myself. I'm going to do

4:34 Speaker 2: what I want to do. I feel like, or you know,

4:36 Speaker 2: hang out with the wrong crowd and then expect God

4:39 Speaker 2: to move. No, no, no, no no. You need to

4:41 Speaker 2: be in the place where God is going to orchestrate things. Now,

4:47 Speaker 2: let's go through this. In that place, there was a

4:49 Speaker 2: man who was crippled from birth, and it also says

4:55 Speaker 2: in Worse chapter four, verse twenty two that this man

5:00 Speaker 2: had been in the state for forty years. Okay, for

5:03 Speaker 2: forty years. This man had been in the state. Okay,

5:07 Speaker 2: so think about this. What caught my attention was that

5:10 Speaker 2: this man has been in the state where he was

5:14 Speaker 2: begging at the temple gate called beautiful. That's a message.

5:18 Speaker 2: That's what I'm going to go there. But here's the

5:20 Speaker 2: point that caught my attention was that he was in

5:24 Speaker 2: the state longer than when Jesus was born. Die rose again,

5:31 Speaker 2: which means that he lived through Jesus' ministry, and yet

5:36 Speaker 2: he did not get the miracle from Jesus. That caught

5:39 Speaker 2: my attention. Why did Jesus here Because Jesus was hanging

5:42 Speaker 2: around the place of worship. He drove the you know that,

5:46 Speaker 2: you know, like the den of thieves in the temple.

5:49 Speaker 2: You remember that incident, right, See, Jesus was around that vicinity.

5:53 Speaker 2: Yet this man missed this miracle from the creator of

5:56 Speaker 2: the universe. Do you feel like, oh my God, John,

6:00 Speaker 2: I don't understand what's happening with my life because I

6:04 Speaker 2: see other people are getting their miracles. I was so close,

6:07 Speaker 2: I mean, the same vicinity, yet I'm not getting my miracle.

6:11 Speaker 2: I don't know what is happening with my life. Did

6:15 Speaker 2: I miss my moment? Did God forget me? Is it

6:18 Speaker 2: that it's never meant for me? But this is a

6:21 Speaker 2: word to encourage you that you know what, even though

6:25 Speaker 2: you feel like you missed it, you have not missed it.

6:27 Speaker 2: And I'm going to tell you why I'm going to

6:30 Speaker 2: tell you why. Just because it has not happened does

6:32 Speaker 2: not mean it's not going to happen, because God still

6:35 Speaker 2: has a plan for your life. God still has a

6:37 Speaker 2: purpose for your life. And I'm going to tell you why,

6:40 Speaker 2: because here's the thing. I want to tell you that

6:43 Speaker 2: if Jesus had healed this man, what would have happened

6:48 Speaker 2: is that this man would have been one of the

6:50 Speaker 2: miracles that Jesus performed and would have been forgotten. Like

6:53 Speaker 2: in the sense that Jesus did amazing miracles. He fed

6:56 Speaker 2: the five thousand, he raised the dead, all of that

6:59 Speaker 2: is great, but now people have forgotten that Jesus lived

7:03 Speaker 2: or Jesus walked on earth, like many people, the common

7:06 Speaker 2: people forgot because after Jesus fed the five thousand, there

7:10 Speaker 2: was a moment where many people left Jesus because they

7:12 Speaker 2: were not getting what they wanted from Jesus. But yes,

7:16 Speaker 2: the thing I wanted to understand that because this miracle

7:21 Speaker 2: happened after Jesus died, rose and ascended, this was like

7:27 Speaker 2: the dawn of a new beginning. Because God had ordained

7:31 Speaker 2: for this miracle to happen through Peter and John, so

7:36 Speaker 2: this would spiral down to a point where because of

7:40 Speaker 2: this miracle, five thousand new souls were added to the

7:43 Speaker 2: Kingdom of God that day. Think about this. Jesus fed

7:47 Speaker 2: the five thousand, but that did not lead to lasting results.

7:52 Speaker 2: People forgot. But when this man's miracle happened, five thousand

7:58 Speaker 2: people got saved. What I I want you to understand

8:00 Speaker 2: is the delay is not because God forgot you. It's

8:04 Speaker 2: because God wants to do something new through you and

8:07 Speaker 2: your miracle, and your breakthrough is going to make more

8:11 Speaker 2: people come to know the Law through your life. I

8:15 Speaker 2: want you to put this in the common section if

8:16 Speaker 2: you're watching this on YouTube, if you're excited that God

8:19 Speaker 2: is going to do something extraordinary through your life, not

8:24 Speaker 2: just a miracle that people are going to forget about,

8:27 Speaker 2: but God is going to talk about it and more

8:30 Speaker 2: and more souls are going to be added to the

8:32 Speaker 2: Kingdom of God through the miracle happening in your life. Hallelujah, hallelujah.

8:37 Speaker 2: Think about how many people it says that five thousand

8:41 Speaker 2: people excluding women and children. Imagine how many people would

8:45 Speaker 2: have been impacted by this miracle. How many people would say,

8:48 Speaker 2: you know what, I'm a believer today, I am saved today.

8:51 Speaker 2: I am a Christian today because of that crippled man's miracle.

8:56 Speaker 2: Think about it. Can you believe what God is going

8:58 Speaker 2: to do? Guys? You know, maybe you're feeling like, you know,

9:01 Speaker 2: when everyone else got married, I did not get married.

9:03 Speaker 2: When God is going to do the miracle in your life,

9:09 Speaker 2: it's going to make some heads turn around. Other people

9:12 Speaker 2: are going to look at your life and say, what

9:15 Speaker 2: is happening? This is so unbelievable. This is out of

9:18 Speaker 2: the world. That's what God is going to do. When

9:22 Speaker 2: everybody else got a healing, God is going to do

9:24 Speaker 2: a miracle in such a way that you know, you're

9:26 Speaker 2: going to say, wow, look what the Lord has done.

9:28 Speaker 2: This is a miracle worth talking about. When everybody else

9:34 Speaker 2: got laid off, look at my life. Can I tell

9:38 Speaker 2: you something. When God is about to do a miracle,

9:42 Speaker 2: it's going to exceed expectations. It's going to make people's

9:45 Speaker 2: mind go wow, because this shook the whole place. This

9:50 Speaker 2: miracle shook the whole place. Can you imagine that when

9:55 Speaker 2: Jesus healed the man in John chapter five, a crippled

9:57 Speaker 2: man for thirty eight years. Yes, it was a miracle

10:00 Speaker 2: of its own and it has lessons to learn. But

10:03 Speaker 2: you look at this, this miracle where this man got

10:05 Speaker 2: healed after forty years, shoot the whole place. So if

10:11 Speaker 2: you are saying, you know what, that man got heal

10:13 Speaker 2: at the thirty eight and I'm still not here, maybe

10:16 Speaker 2: God is doing something even greater in and through your life.

10:22 Speaker 2: And I want to share this important word with you.

10:24 Speaker 2: It's so it feels like an irony. This man was

10:28 Speaker 2: in a place called beautiful, but his life was pitiful.

10:36 Speaker 2: This man was in a place called beautiful, but his

10:38 Speaker 2: life was beautiful. You may say, John, I'm surrounded by

10:41 Speaker 2: people who are living out in such a beautiful fashion.

10:45 Speaker 2: Their life is playing out in a beautiful way. But

10:48 Speaker 2: look at my life, you know, as a Christian single,

10:51 Speaker 2: I want to talk about this sometimes. You know, I

10:53 Speaker 2: feel like God, you know what is happening. I'm in

10:55 Speaker 2: a place where I go to church and I see

10:58 Speaker 2: pretty girls, beautiful girls. Go to you know, my office

11:02 Speaker 2: and I see beautiful girls. God. I go to the mall,

11:05 Speaker 2: I see beautiful girls, and I'm God, God, you know what.

11:07 Speaker 2: Everywhere I'm surrounded by beautiful but I'm not able to

11:11 Speaker 2: get one. You know, if you're a Christians singer, You'll

11:14 Speaker 2: understand what I'm talking about, right, you would totally understand

11:16 Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. I'm surrounded by beautiful, but my

11:19 Speaker 2: life seems prettiful because I'm Oh, God, you know, why

11:22 Speaker 2: am I not able to meet the right person? Why

11:24 Speaker 2: I into connecting me with the person that you are

11:27 Speaker 2: wading for my life? Why isn't this working out in

11:29 Speaker 2: this area? And you may be feeling like that. And

11:31 Speaker 2: the minute I felt felt like that this world was

11:34 Speaker 2: so powerful for me because I was feeling like, God,

11:37 Speaker 2: this is how I feel. You know, like this man

11:40 Speaker 2: was in a place called beautiful, he would be seeing

11:43 Speaker 2: everyone else walking out in beauty. Maybe he could feel like,

11:47 Speaker 2: oh my gosh. You know he was there for forty years.

11:49 Speaker 2: Maybe in his through his adolescence, he would be like, oh,

11:52 Speaker 2: look at this pretty girl walking by, and look at me.

11:55 Speaker 2: My life is broken. Look at these people going about

11:59 Speaker 2: their business. My life is broken. I'm still here. Imagine

12:04 Speaker 2: how this man would have felt. But I want to

12:06 Speaker 2: encourage you today. Even if you feel like your life

12:09 Speaker 2: is in a pitiful state, that is not how your

12:12 Speaker 2: life is going to be. God is going to bring

12:14 Speaker 2: beauty from these hashes, all these years of you begging

12:19 Speaker 2: or pleading or praying and fasting and depending on God,

12:23 Speaker 2: staying in faith. I want to tell you that God

12:25 Speaker 2: has not forgotten about you. God still has a plan

12:29 Speaker 2: for you. Maybe it was not meant that you would

12:31 Speaker 2: get your miracle through Jesus. Maybe it was meant that

12:34 Speaker 2: your miracle was supposed to come through Peter and John.

12:38 Speaker 2: Maybe it was meant that your miracle was not going

12:40 Speaker 2: to be just one of the accounts in Jesus the

12:43 Speaker 2: Gospel or gospels you know about Jesus. Maybe it was

12:47 Speaker 2: meant to stand out to make a greater impact. Today

12:50 Speaker 2: you may be saying, John, you know, for other people,

12:53 Speaker 2: it seems to be like happening in a jiffy, but

12:55 Speaker 2: in my life it's not happening. But can I tell

12:57 Speaker 2: you something that God is a god who can turn

13:01 Speaker 2: things around suddenly. And when he does it, it's going

13:04 Speaker 2: to shake nations, It's going to shake everything. It's going

13:09 Speaker 2: to shake principalities and foundations, and you know, it's it's

13:15 Speaker 2: going to shake institutions. The whole entire Jewish community was

13:19 Speaker 2: shaken when this happened. The leaders in the place of

13:23 Speaker 2: worship were shaken. They you know the council members will shay.

13:26 Speaker 2: Everybody was shaken when this miracle happened. I want to

13:29 Speaker 2: tell you something that what God is going to do

13:32 Speaker 2: is going to shake nations because you may be looking

13:35 Speaker 2: at your life and thinking that, you know what, I

13:37 Speaker 2: just need a miracle. I'm crippled. I want God to

13:41 Speaker 2: restore my health, restore my legs. I may be single.

13:46 Speaker 2: I'm praying that God will bring a relationship. I may

13:48 Speaker 2: be broken. I'm praying that God would heal and restore.

13:52 Speaker 2: I may be unemployed. I'm praying that God would bring

13:55 Speaker 2: the right employment opportunity. That God is my source, that

13:58 Speaker 2: he would open the right window of opportunity for me.

14:02 Speaker 2: Maybe I'm praying about you know, dryness in the in

14:05 Speaker 2: the ministry, but God would open the right doors. Maybe

14:08 Speaker 2: I'm praying about, you know, lack of clients in my business,

14:12 Speaker 2: business going down or slowing down. But I pray that

14:15 Speaker 2: God would do you know, Can I tell you something,

14:17 Speaker 2: No matter what, God is faithful. You are looking at

14:21 Speaker 2: it from your perspective of you getting a miracle for you.

14:25 Speaker 2: But understand that this man getting a miracle was not

14:28 Speaker 2: about this man getting a miracle, but it was about

14:30 Speaker 2: God using that miracle to bring thousands of souls added

14:35 Speaker 2: to the kingdom through that miracle. Maybe you are thinking

14:39 Speaker 2: just about yourself, what if when God does the miracle,

14:42 Speaker 2: it's going to make multitudes come to the law through

14:46 Speaker 2: that miracle. What if It's going to use your miracle

14:50 Speaker 2: to testify to bless to edify the church to make

14:56 Speaker 2: sure that multitudes, maybe multitude will get saved when God

15:02 Speaker 2: answers your prayer. Why didn't you believe that to be

15:06 Speaker 2: the case in your life? God, I pray for those

15:08 Speaker 2: who are feeling that their life is in a pitiful state,

15:11 Speaker 2: that they will know without a shadow for that that

15:14 Speaker 2: beauty is coming, that this is not the end of

15:17 Speaker 2: the story. That from pitiful they're going to see the

15:20 Speaker 2: beautiful in Jesus name. I pray, Amen, God bless you guys.

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