Power of Letting Go even when you don’t know where you are going | John Giftah | Inspirational

0:01 Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world is a crazy

0:06 place and it just seems to get crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and

0:12 take a break. This is Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. We're

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0:39 Gifta International. Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. Are you

0:54 in a place in your life where you're saying, John, I don't know

0:57 what's going on in my life. I don't know where I am heading.

0:59 I don't know what's going to happen next. I don't know how things are

1:03 all going to fall in place. I know I trust God. I pray.

1:06 I've been asking God to show up and show out in every area of

1:07 my life. Maybe it could be with your finance, your calling, your

1:12 ministry, relationships or marriage. It could be carrier. It could be your

1:17 personal life or your family, or any situation that you're dealing with and you're

1:21 saying everything seems to be running just out of control. I'm not able to

1:26 understand how things are ever going to come to a place where I can say,

1:30 you know what, this is all making sense. I just don't understand.

1:34 Even if people ask what are you doing with your life? Where are

1:38 you heading? I don't have an answer. And sometimes people will tend to

1:42 put you down, say, hey, you're a person of faith. You

1:44 should know everything. You are connected with God, you know the Lord for

1:48 yourself, you should know everything. But can I tell you sometimes when you

1:53 go through these storms, it's not always going to be in a place where

1:57 God gives you all the details right. The important aspects you need to understand

2:00 is the power of letting go, trusting God to the fact where even if

2:06 you do not know where you're going, it's fine. You don't need to

2:08 know everything. I know people who have put me down when I've gone through

2:13 storms, and even now, in reality, I prayed, I've been asking

2:16 the Lord for direction and all of those things. But I know God has

2:20 shown me certain visions over the future. But when people ask me on plan

2:24 on paper, I cannot tell you anything because my plans have not worked out

2:30 the way I expected, but God showed up in ways I never even expected.

2:35 So I don't know how God is going to make all things happen,

2:37 but I just trust him. You know. That's the power of letting go,

2:39 where you don't need to know everything. People may put you down saying,

2:43 how can you not know everything? That's fine, normal people plan,

2:47 or when you look at in a little sense like motivation speakers, they say,

2:53 you know you need to plan. I understand there's a place for planning,

2:57 there's a place of you know, taking the legion steps. All of

3:00 that is true, but there's a place where things happened beyond your control,

3:05 where you can't control a stormb right, you can't control that, And what

3:09 do you do in such cases? And I want to share something with you

3:13 guys, from the Book of Acts, and it's so powerful. It really

3:16 caught my attention. First part. I've shared about this before, but I

3:20 just want to remind you again. It is found in a moment when there

3:23 was a storm, all right, not to mention the fact that you're the

3:27 post Paul. It clearly warned them saying don't go ahead, it's going to

3:30 be bad. But they disobeyed the wine instruction and they get into trouble.

3:34 So here's the point. Even if you hit a stormb because of your disobedience,

3:38 or even if you hit a stormb ignorantly, you know, when you

3:44 look up to the Lord, the Lord has, you know, mercy over

3:46 you. You know you will fulfill that will help you fulfill the plans he

3:52 has for you. But here's the thing. If you look at in this

3:54 case, the people disobeyed the wine instruction, but even Paul, who was

4:00 in the Lord who told them not to go, was also facing the same

4:03 storm. So you cannot just say that, you know, oh, if

4:06 you face the storm, that means you're bad or you've made something wrong.

4:09 No, sometimes you could face the storm because somebody else made the mistake.

4:13 You're right, it's not just in your hands. But here's the thing I

4:15 want to share, something very very powerful. So they hit a storm,

4:20 and the Bible says, and I'm reading from the NLT version, that the

4:25 sailors could not turn the ship into the wind, so they gave up and

4:29 let it run before the gale. In other words, they just let it

4:31 go. They couldn't control it anymore. See, if you are not able

4:34 to control the storm that's raging in your life. Just give it into the

4:39 hands of God. Just let it go. You're going to hurt yourself more

4:42 by trying to control it. And what really got my attention was they had

4:46 no idea where they were going, and verse twenty eight, they hit a

4:50 land, and this is what it says. Once they were safe on shore,

4:56 then we learned that we were on the island of Malta. This is

5:00 what the NLT version says, but allowed what the NIV version says for this

5:06 particular verse, that is Acts twenty eight, verse one. Once safely on

5:10 show, we found out that the island was called Malta. In other words,

5:15 what I want you guys to understand is today you don't know where you're

5:16 going, but once you come out of the storm, you are going to

5:21 find out where you are in right You don't need to know everything right away,

5:27 you know. But here's the amazing thing. Even when things went beyond

5:30 their control, when they just let it go, they went into Malta,

5:34 which was not even in the plan of Lying for Paul to preach the gospel.

5:39 But he ends up preaching the gospel there and what happens eventually people are

5:43 getting saved. See, God had a plan even though people couldn't see it.

5:46 They didn't know where they were heading, but God knew that they were

5:49 going to Malta and going to preach the gospel. I want you guys to

5:53 understand, even when things go beyond your control, trust God. He's in

5:57 control. Things may go beyond your control, they will never go beyond the

6:00 control of Almighty guard. So trust him. Let it go into the hands

6:03 of God, and say, God, you know what. This storm is

6:06 beyond me. I'm not able to control it. I'm not able to stop

6:10 it. I'm not able to engage anything. I'm not able to have any

6:13 control or access or information or any any kind of an idea of where I'm

6:17 heading to. And people are laughing, people are marking, people have ridden

6:21 me off. But learn to trust him and say, God, you know

6:25 what, just like you, even though they did not know where they were

6:28 going, they knew where they went after they reached a destination. I believe

6:32 by the end of the storm, I'm going to know where you have led

6:35 me, because you have led me to the praise where you want me to

6:40 step into the next level of my destiny. So that I can fulfill your

6:44 purpose for my life in the next season that you have for me. The

6:46 storm did not come to stop here. The storm did not come to destroy

6:50 you. The storm came to redirect you towards the next level or the next

6:56 season of your life. So I just want to pray over you guys now,

7:00 in the name of Jesus. For those who are facing a storm,

7:01 I pray that you'll give them the direction that they need if it's your will

7:06 at this time, but at the same time, give them the ability to

7:10 let go to trust you, give them the strength and the grace to know

7:14 that, beyond the shadow of a doubt, you're in control and you're going

7:16 to lead them into the next level. Once they reach that, they're going

7:20 to find out where you have led them, and you're going to lead them

7:24 into something beautiful and awesome in their life. In Jesus name, I pray

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