Reviewing the First Half of 2023 | John Giftah

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0:43 Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. I'm sure you might have hood or seen or known by now that we have stepped into the second off of the year of twenty twenty three. One half of this year is done, six months done, and I'm not sure where you are staying or standing in your life at this point of time. Maybe you had a really good first half of this year and you're grateful to God, you're thanking him. I just encourage you right now, you know, take a humanus and just say Lord, I thank you for all the blessings upon my life.

1:23 Thank you for the blessings that You're bestowed upon me, your favor upon my life. Thank you for giving me strength, giving me health, giving me family, giving me cover, giving me of the finance that I need, the provisions I need, the resources I need, the job I have. Thank Him for every blessing you can see and the blessings that you cannot see, the connections, the protection from wrong doors where God led you and protected you from that wrong or bad accident that could have happened, you know, whatever it is, you know, getting to the place where you're like, oh, you know what, God, Yes, I'm grateful.

2:00 I'm thankful to you, and I just take this time to just thank you. You know. I just want you to start off from the place where you have that attitude of gratitude. Yes, you may not have everything you want, or you actually went through something bad, I still want you to be grateful today. Just say, God, this is the day that you have made, and I'm going to choose to rejoice and be glad in it. That's what the Samas was saying, and that's what you know. It's a familiar song, but it should be the rhythm of a heart, melody of a heart.

2:25 Way we say God, this is the day you have made. This is the month you have made, This is the second half of the year that you have made. And you know so many people could not make it to this point, but you have led me. And I'm just taking this time to say, thank you, Lord, thank you Jesus, thank you Lord. You know from that place, you may be in a place where you're saying, but John, there are things that I've been praying about, but things didn't work out the way I expected. You know, I lost my job, I lost a loud one.

2:52 Thing didn't really seem as good as you sound. The first half of this year. I had so many promises, so many hopes and expectation. Things didn't work out the way I expected. Things just fell out of place. Or maybe you were hoping for a job but you'd still haven't got one, you were hoping to meet the right person, still haven't found out, or certain things that you've been wishing and hoping, maybe for a change, maybe for some kind of a miracle or breakthrough, and you're saying, six months over and I don't see anything happen.

3:22 John. You know, like I said before, reminding again, you know the scripture says in the Book of their Selonians five. You know, in everything give thanks. Don't just give thanks when things work out well, but in everything give thanks. So just come to the place where you're saying God, I want to have that attitude of gratitude. But I'm saying God, I choose to trust you, I choose to depend on you. I choose to look up to you. I choose to believe that you have the best in store for me. Yes, it may not have worked out in the first half of the year, but your promises are still yes and Amen in Christ, Jesus God, I choose to believe that you know what you led me thus far.

3:55 You protected me, you watched over me, and I believe you're going to take over and take control of me even in through the next part of this year as well. So getting to the place of review and be you're grateful to God, that's the first part I wanted to talk about. You know, whether you had a good part or a negative aspect of twenty twenty three so far, I believe that you know, getting to the place of attitude and gratitude and getting to the place where you're connected with God and saying, God, lead me through the next part of my life, you know, just like Moses was saying, you know, I'm not going to move forward because you know, you've done amazing things in the past.

4:31 I'm going to move forward only when your presence comes with me. And I'm going to make that my wow that I'm saying, God, I want your presence to lead me. I want to be led by the Holy Spirit of God. You know, personally, one of my things that I'm praying earnestly and the Lord has been leading me and stirring in my spirit, is to lean on God more, to be led by the Spirit more. And I guess for the last couple of months, it's been more mechanical for me. And my life has been so ectic with the full time job and the ministry, the daily podcast, the YouTube channel, and in social media and other aspects of the ministry and personal life, everything couples together.

5:08 It's been more mechanical, like, oh, I need to get this done. I need to get this done. It's been that way for the last you know, a couple of months. And alongside battling you know, my own personal issues, you know, like depression that attacks me every other time, and you know, so many other things that you know. The reason I want to be open is to tell you, guys, you know, the one speaking to you is as real as you are. You know that's what I want to be. I want to be as real to you. I don't want to put myself in a high pedestal saying hey, listen, you know I'm so great.

5:40 You know you have to listen to me. I'm not speaking from that place. I'm speaking from a place of humility where I'm saying God, guys, listen. You know I go through struggles and God has led me, and this is what I am making as my personal thing. When i'm God, help me to look heal to your Holy Spirit even more in the next part of the year. You know, every message, let it come from a place with the Holy Spirit ministers to every single person listening, watching, how many of our people are watching or listening, it doesn't matter.

6:06 Let lives be touched on her. So that's that's my prayer. When I come from a place. I don't do it mechanical, but I'm doing it from a place where I depend on God more and on on a personal life. I want you guys to also introspect. What are some changes you need to make. Maybe you made a vow to maybe get into fitness or you know, a lot of people do that right at the start of the year, maybe on a diet or go to the gym, taking care of the physical body. But maybe your lifestyle just went bad. You know, maybe this is like a wakeup call for you to say, let me review my year and half of the year and then so that I can make amends, so that at least I finished this year in a better half way than I was in the middle of the year.

6:50 Right, you get what I'm saying. So I encourage you guys to get to that place where maybe physically or maybe your walk with the Lord is not at its best and you need to, you know, grow consistently in the Lord, spending time at this feed and feed on his word, whatever be it. I pray that you get to the place where you depend on him more, when you look up to the Lord more right and or even emotionally or financially, or maybe you need to take your work more seriously, be a person of integrity and excellence, whatever it is, I pray that you introspect yourself and say, you know what, this is the ideal line own?

7:30 I know we're not. You're all human beings, weak, fall and all of that stuff. But where are areas? Ask the lot to show you areas where you need to improve, where you're deviated to a greater degree that can need to a lot of challenges. So get to that place. Maybe it's your finance you're spending habits, or maybe it's your relationships the way you treat people, or maybe it's your time. How do you spend your time? Whatever it is, Let this episode remind you guys to get to the place where you depend on Him and say, God, show me areas I want to improve and so that I will get back on track.

8:05 So today I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, for those who are listening from anywhere you're listening from, I want to pray that then the rest of twenty twenty three will be the best of twenty twenty three. Whatever happened you know, whether it was good or bad in the first part of this year, thank the Lord and move forward into the next part of this year believing in Him, trusting in Him being the best that you can be with this help and depending on Him, and I believe that God will show up and every promise He promised over you, over this here is going to come to pass in your life.

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