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

0:01 Speaker 1: Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world is a crazy place and it just seems to get crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and take a break. This is Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. We're a hub for inspirational Christian sermons, practical keys for Christian living, and Christian discussions and interviews. You'll be inspired to live the life that you were created for. Your host is a top ranking podcaster, best selling author, world record holder, aerospace engineer, life coach, evangelist and founder of John Gifta International.

0:41 Speaker 1: Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta.

0:49 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta podcast. And I'm so grateful to God that each of you are tuned in whether you're watching this on YouTube or listening to this on any of the podcasts platforms. I really want to pray and bless that each one of you will be blessed, enriched. And I just have a powerful word to share with you, and I really believe that it's going to make a great impact in your life. If you're watching this on YouTube, like the video, share this around with friends and loud ones and subscribe to the channel if you're not done.

1:18 Speaker 2: So I really want to see If you guys didn't know this, that August the twelfth is my birthday and this is a week before my birthday, and I really want to see good resulting in the YouTube channel and at the same time on the podcast platforms and say it's grateful to see all the results. You know, it's among the top in the country of India and trending in many nations. And I'm grateful to God for all of those things. So this is a very powerful word I want to share with you. If you're in a place in your life where you're saying, John, you know what, I'm in the midst of seeing other people walk in the very dreams that I've been dreaming about.

1:49 Speaker 2: But what is God doing in my life? Why isn't God even doing the simplest of things that I'm asking him for. Maybe you're feeling like that, let me give you a little bit of context. Maybe, for instance, if you're saying, you know what, I'm dreaming that I will meet the person of my dreams, get married, get settled, but you know, I'm seeing everybody else around me getting married and I'm not even able to go on a single date. You know what I mean, You're feeling like everybody else is going to a job and I'm not even able to get a single job opening for me.

2:19 Speaker 2: I am struggling. I'm working hard, I'm putting my best foot forward, but things are just not working out. Maybe you're saying everybody else is, you know, seeing their businesses flourishing, they're getting clients. And for me, even though I'm a person of integrity, I'm a person or with a spirit of excellence. But still, John, I don't understand why God is not a loving or blessing me with even a single client. Maybe you're feeling stuck, You're feeling stagnant, You're feeling broken in the midst of seeing everyone else walk out in a beautiful fashion, do you feel like that.

2:52 Speaker 2: I'm going to share a powerful word with you from Acts chapter three. This is a word that really caught my attention. Where I want you to go through the passage in detail later, but I want to go to a couple of important things. You know. Peter and John go to the temple that's the place of worship one afternoon for the service, the prayer service. Okay, that's a message altogether. Why did Peter and Jay, Peter and John go to the you know, the Jewish place of worship when you know now that Jesus died and ose they didn't go to a church service, they went to the Jewish place of worship.

3:26 Speaker 2: No, this is a side note to some of you. Right, some of you may feel like, you know, why is God leading me in a place that doesn't make sense because you know what they're suppose they the Jewish place of worship still does not acknowledge Jesus as the Lord and Savior. Why did Peter and John go to that prayer service? Well, you know they went there because that's where the people were. You know, sometimes you need to understand that. You know, sometimes people put this holier than our attitude. You know, I'm not going to be on social media because it's evil, but that's where people are.

3:57 Speaker 2: What if God is going to use you to be a blessed to people on social media because that's where people are. You care what I'm saying. That's the context here that I want to set for some of you. If you have that sense like, oh, why did Peter and John go to the place of worship to the Jewish place of worship when they have accepted Jesus as their personal Lord and savior. Are you getting the context here? You know, they went to the place where people were. You know, this is a message for some of you that, you know, what, if you're praying for a miracle, a breakthrough, first things first, you need to be in the right place.

4:29 Speaker 2: You cannot say, you know what, I'm going to just be an island. I'm going to be by myself. I'm going to do what I want to do. I feel like, or you know, hang out with the wrong crowd and then expect God to move. No, no, no, no no. You need to be in the place where God is going to orchestrate things. Now, let's go through this. In that place, there was a man who was crippled from birth, and it also says in Worse chapter four, verse twenty two that this man had been in the state for forty years. Okay, for forty years.

5:04 Speaker 2: This man had been in the state. Okay, so think about this. What caught my attention was that this man has been in the state where he was begging at the temple gate called beautiful. That's a message. That's what I'm going to go there. But here's the point that caught my attention was that he was in the state longer than when Jesus was born. Die rose again, which means that he lived through Jesus' ministry, and yet he did not get the miracle from Jesus. That caught my attention. Why did Jesus here Because Jesus was hanging around the place of worship.

5:44 Speaker 2: He drove the you know that, you know, like the den of thieves in the temple. You remember that incident, right, See, Jesus was around that vicinity. Yet this man missed this miracle from the creator of the universe. Do you feel like, oh my God, John, I don't understand what's happening with my life because I see other people are getting their miracles. I was so close, I mean, the same vicinity, yet I'm not getting my miracle. I don't know what is happening with my life. Did I miss my moment? Did God forget me?

6:18 Speaker 2: Is it that it's never meant for me? But this is a word to encourage you that you know what, even though you feel like you missed it, you have not missed it. And I'm going to tell you why I'm going to tell you why. Just because it has not happened does not mean it's not going to happen, because God still has a plan for your life. God still has a purpose for your life. And I'm going to tell you why, because here's the thing. I want to tell you that if Jesus had healed this man, what would have happened is that this man would have been one of the miracles that Jesus performed and would have been forgotten.

6:53 Speaker 2: Like in the sense that Jesus did amazing miracles. He fed the five thousand, he raised the dead, all of that is great, but now people have forgotten that Jesus lived or Jesus walked on earth, like many people, the common people forgot because after Jesus fed the five thousand, there was a moment where many people left Jesus because they were not getting what they wanted from Jesus. But yes, the thing I wanted to understand that because this miracle happened after Jesus died, rose and ascended, this was like the dawn of a new beginning.

7:29 Speaker 2: Because God had ordained for this miracle to happen through Peter and John, so this would spiral down to a point where because of this miracle, five thousand new souls were added to the Kingdom of God that day. Think about this. Jesus fed the five thousand, but that did not lead to lasting results. People forgot. But when this man's miracle happened, five thousand people got saved. What I I want you to understand is the delay is not because God forgot you. It's because God wants to do something new through you and your miracle, and your breakthrough is going to make more people come to know the Law through your life.

8:14 Speaker 2: I want you to put this in the common section if you're watching this on YouTube, if you're excited that God is going to do something extraordinary through your life, not just a miracle that people are going to forget about, but God is going to talk about it and more and more souls are going to be added to the Kingdom of God through the miracle happening in your life. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Think about how many people it says that five thousand people excluding women and children. Imagine how many people would have been impacted by this miracle.

8:46 Speaker 2: How many people would say, you know what, I'm a believer today, I am saved today. I am a Christian today because of that crippled man's miracle. Think about it. Can you believe what God is going to do? Guys? You know, maybe you're feeling like, you know, when everyone else got married, I did not get married. When God is going to do the miracle in your life, it's going to make some heads turn around. Other people are going to look at your life and say, what is happening? This is so unbelievable. This is out of the world.

9:19 Speaker 2: That's what God is going to do. When everybody else got a healing, God is going to do a miracle in such a way that you know, you're going to say, wow, look what the Lord has done. This is a miracle worth talking about. When everybody else got laid off, look at my life. Can I tell you something. When God is about to do a miracle, it's going to exceed expectations. It's going to make people's mind go wow, because this shook the whole place. This miracle shook the whole place. Can you imagine that when Jesus healed the man in John chapter five, a crippled man for thirty eight years.

9:59 Speaker 2: Yes, it was a miracle of its own and it has lessons to learn. But you look at this, this miracle where this man got healed after forty years, shoot the whole place. So if you are saying, you know what, that man got heal at the thirty eight and I'm still not here, maybe God is doing something even greater in and through your life. And I want to share this important word with you. It's so it feels like an irony. This man was in a place called beautiful, but his life was pitiful. This man was in a place called beautiful, but his life was beautiful.

10:39 Speaker 2: You may say, John, I'm surrounded by people who are living out in such a beautiful fashion. Their life is playing out in a beautiful way. But look at my life, you know, as a Christian single, I want to talk about this sometimes. You know, I feel like God, you know what is happening. I'm in a place where I go to church and I see pretty girls, beautiful girls. Go to you know, my office and I see beautiful girls. God. I go to the mall, I see beautiful girls, and I'm God, God, you know what. Everywhere I'm surrounded by beautiful but I'm not able to get one.

11:12 Speaker 2: You know, if you're a Christians singer, You'll understand what I'm talking about, right, you would totally understand what I'm talking about. I'm surrounded by beautiful, but my life seems prettiful because I'm Oh, God, you know, why am I not able to meet the right person? Why I into connecting me with the person that you are wading for my life? Why isn't this working out in this area? And you may be feeling like that. And the minute I felt felt like that this world was so powerful for me because I was feeling like, God, this is how I feel.

11:39 Speaker 2: You know, like this man was in a place called beautiful, he would be seeing everyone else walking out in beauty. Maybe he could feel like, oh my gosh. You know he was there for forty years. Maybe in his through his adolescence, he would be like, oh, look at this pretty girl walking by, and look at me. My life is broken. Look at these people going about their business. My life is broken. I'm still here. Imagine how this man would have felt. But I want to encourage you today. Even if you feel like your life is in a pitiful state, that is not how your life is going to be.

12:13 Speaker 2: God is going to bring beauty from these hashes, all these years of you begging or pleading or praying and fasting and depending on God, staying in faith. I want to tell you that God has not forgotten about you. God still has a plan for you. Maybe it was not meant that you would get your miracle through Jesus. Maybe it was meant that your miracle was supposed to come through Peter and John. Maybe it was meant that your miracle was not going to be just one of the accounts in Jesus the Gospel or gospels you know about Jesus.

12:45 Speaker 2: Maybe it was meant to stand out to make a greater impact. Today you may be saying, John, you know, for other people, it seems to be like happening in a jiffy, but in my life it's not happening. But can I tell you something that God is a god who can turn things around suddenly. And when he does it, it's going to shake nations, It's going to shake everything. It's going to shake principalities and foundations, and you know, it's it's going to shake institutions. The whole entire Jewish community was shaken when this happened.

13:21 Speaker 2: The leaders in the place of worship were shaken. They you know the council members will shay. Everybody was shaken when this miracle happened. I want to tell you something that what God is going to do is going to shake nations because you may be looking at your life and thinking that, you know what, I just need a miracle. I'm crippled. I want God to restore my health, restore my legs. I may be single. I'm praying that God will bring a relationship. I may 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 the right employment opportunity. That God is my source, that he would open the right window of opportunity for me. Maybe I'm praying about you know, dryness in the in the ministry, but God would open the right doors. Maybe I'm praying about, you know, lack of clients in my business, business going down or slowing down. But I pray that God would do you know, Can I tell you something, No matter what, God is faithful. You are looking at 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 about this man getting a miracle, but it was about God using that miracle to bring thousands of souls added to the kingdom through that miracle. Maybe you are thinking just about yourself, what if when God does the miracle, it's going to make multitudes come to the law through that miracle. What if It's going to use your miracle to testify to bless to edify the church to make sure that multitudes, maybe multitude will get saved when God answers your prayer.

15:03 Speaker 2: Why didn't you believe that to be the case in your life? God, I pray for those who are feeling that their life is in a pitiful state, that they will know without a shadow for that that beauty is coming, that this is not the end of the story. That from pitiful they're going to see the beautiful in Jesus name. I pray, Amen, God bless you guys. I once again want to say that if you're watching this on YouTube, do leave a comment like this video, share this around, and subscribe to the channel if you're not done so, if you're listening to this on a podcast platform, I recommend that you would leave a rating on the podcast platform and share this around with your friends and loud ones.

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