Preparing for your Rain | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:43 Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John GIFTA. One of the things that I've been drinking in my heart that I thought I should remind you guys today is Yes, you may be praying for a miracle and a breakthrough. You've been praying that God will show up in your life, maybe for a promotion and elevation. Maybe you've been waiting on the Lord and asking him Lord, when will you give me this dream job opportunity, or meet the person of my dreams, or maybe the ministry is going to take off, and so on and so forth, and you're just praying and asking the Law to you know, make your videos go viral.

1:21 If you're on a YouTuber or any area of your life that you've been praying about that miracle or that opportunity that will be life changing for you. I just want to remind you of something. Guys. You know, one of the things many times I've seen people do or say is will let the miracle come and let me see, let the dream opportunity come, and then let me see. And you know, I was just getting this analogy that when you think about the rain, right, we don't wait for the rainy season and then go hunting for an umbrella or for you know, raincoat.

1:57 We prepare ourselves the minute you know that rainy season is about to come, we go get an umbrella or a rain court whatever, right, or even in other words, like it's not like after the rain comes and then you go door to door looking for an umbrella, shop to shop trying to buy a rain court, you don't do that. You prepare yourself before the rain. Right. You need to get to that place where you understand that if you're praying for rain, you need to prepare yourself in advance for the rain. If you're praying for the miracle, the breakthrough.

2:30 You need to prepare yourself in advance for the miracle and the breakthrough, because you don't know when the opportunity is going to come. You don't know when the rain is going to come, the rain of God's favor, the rain of God's goodness. You don't know when it's going to happen. See when you think about even in the incident when no the Bible says in the Book of Hebrews that he was a preacher of righteousness, which means that he was constantly preaching to the generation of that time, the people on the earth of that time, trying to preach to them the message of righteousness.

3:00 But nobody repented. But after the rain came and the heart had already moved ahead, with the door being shut by God, it was too late for them to repent. It was too late for them to get into the ark. Likewise, if you think about David and the Bible, when the opportunity to defeat Goliath came, it was a sudden opportunity. He didn't expect it. That morning when he woke up, he thought he was just going to be a food delivery boy. He was just going to deliver the food to his brothers that he didn't realize that that day was going to be a life changing opportunity for him.

3:35 He hears about this Goliath who was stunting everybody, and you see something near Saints of God. At that moment, he could not say, hey, give me five days, let me practice wrestling shot, let me go and prepare myself, let me go for a fasting prayer, or call on all the profits to come and pray. No, he couldn't do that. When the opportunity came. He had to be ready to take it up. When the opportunity came, he had to be prepared for a ten in advance. Today, I'm asking you. You're praying for the miracle, you're praying for the rain, you're praying for the opportunity, you're praying for the elevation, you're praying for the breakthrough.

4:15 But my question is are you preparing yourself for it? I know I've asked this question long, long time ago. A couple of times the Lord led me to share this, But but do they Again? The Lord was reminding me of this, and I thought, you know, it's such a powerful reminder for all of us if we get to that place where we introspect. You're saying, John, I'm ready for the miracle. Are you really ready for the miracle? Are you really ready for the breakthrough? Are you really prepared? If today your dream opportunity came, would you be able to take it up?

4:47 See, even in my ministry or in my life as a whole, as a minister, so many opportunity came, opportunities came suddenly. I would just go to a meeting as as an attendee, and suddenly they would say, oh, John, is you'll ask him to preach on the spot. Just walk in and directly as to go and preach. I had moments like that. There have been opportunities when you know, I would just be having dinner and suddenly somebody would call, you know, such and such thing happened. Can can you replace this minister and speak in this online even within five to ten minutes?

5:27 And I would go immediately and preach for an hour, you know, for the whatever time allotted to me, or so many times opportunities to minister in different churches or wherever, many opportunities came suddenly. If I were to say, you know what, I need time to prepare myself. If I need you know. See, the thing is this because I'm constantly preparing myself in the presence of the law all the time. God prepares you when the opportunity comes. David would already practiced the sling shot when he was all alone.

5:58 We were just in the press of God as he were shepherding his flock, so when the opportunity came, he was ready to tackle. See you, guys, prepare yourself, have that fellowship with God, and ask God to teach you. What are the things you need to prepare. What are the things you need to learn, What are the things you need to unlearn, What are the attitudes you need to change, the perspectives you need to modify. And prepare yourself so when the opportunity comes, you don't have to think twice. When the opportunity comes, you will not miss it.

6:27 When the opportunity comes, you will not underperform, but you will outperform to an extent that you know what. You are the right person to take up that opportunity, and you will be promoted or elevated, or you'll get the right opportunity that will trust you and change the trajectory of your life. Today, I pray in the name of Jesus, that you'll come to that place of feace and trust for the Lord and follow his leading to prepare yourself for the miracle. The opportunity is the breakthroughs that you've been praying about in your life.

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