Run Every Step with Purpose | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:44 Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. I'm going to talk to you today about running in every step. The key verse I want to share with you, and then I want to go to the message that I want to share is First Corinthians, separent nine, verse twenty six, where the apostle Paul is talking about and he says, so I run with purpose in every step. So I run with purpose in every step. Now, what I want to tell you is you guys will have been listening to me on a regular basis, you would know one thing that I have a heartbeat for the topic of walking in a God given purpose, right, because my latest book, unwil Your Purpose is all about that.

1:35 Like, because everywhere I go, I trive my best to talk to people, mobilize them to not just live a complacent life, not just live the life they want to live, but live the life for God, live the purpose of their life so that they will make an impact for the Kingdom of God. That's my heartbeat. And it's one thing to talk about purpose on a grand scheme, to say, you know what, you're here for a purpose. Just go fulfill a purpose, do something, and all the different things that we say. But I want to share something very important here where the apostle policy saying I run with purpose, not just like I live a purposeful life like throughout my life, but he's saying I run with purpose in every step.

2:23 See, this is where many Christians, and many of us tend to make the mistake. We think that you know what, okay, fine, just example, okay, if your God given purpose is to be a preacher, just example. Okay, So you're saying, you know what, fine, I obeyed the purpose of God over my life, the call of God over my life, and I'm a preacher. Right, That's not enough. That's not enough. What the apostle policying is in every step I walk with purpose every step. Like everything that we do we have to do it for the glory of God.

2:57 We have to do it did term in in the direction of a God given purpose. That is what I want to challenge every one of us today. Right, here's the thing I'm anything like. I gave you the example of being a preacher. Right on a similar note, if your purpose is to be in politics, if your purpose or God given assignment is in the area of academics, or maybe to become a social worker, or maybe to be in the corporate and just run a business or anything of the sort, to fund other ministries and Christian organizations or whatever, the call of guard over your life is that that may be the main thing that your call to do.

3:37 But what I'm challenging you to do is run with purpose. Not just during such times, run with purpose all the time. Every step that you take, take it with your purpose in mind. Every step. See now, for example, if I want to drive from a destination A to destination B. Right, just example, I can't say, you know what, whenever I feel like I will take the road that the map is suggesting. Other times I'm going to take the opposite road because it looks nice. Other times I'm going to go in some other road.

4:17 Now it makes no sense, right like, I will never reach my final destination because if I need to go from destination, you know, the point A to point B, I need to follow the road. I need to follow the route. I can't go in the opposite direction and expect to see me reach my final destination throughout the journey from point A to point B. I need to follow the route. If I need to reach my final destination. Are you getting what I'm saying? This is the same thing in our life. You want to reach your final destination that God has is signed for you.

4:56 If you want to run your life with purpose, and you want to come to the end of your life and say, well, I have done what I'm called to do, and I've done it well, and I'm ready to receive from the Lord to say that I've been a well done, good and faithful. Say when you have to walk in purpose every step along the way, every step along the way. See now, if you're to look at Joseph reaching the palace, right like, if you're just focusing on Okay, Joseph reached the palace, but he was determined to walk in his purpose every step and that is what unultimately led him to the palace.

5:33 If he wasn't having a good mode, if he hadn't gone to help the cup bearer in interpreting the dream of the cup bearer out of the way, the cup bearer never came to him. He saw the need, he went and he fulfilled his God given purpose in that moment, and that is what played the role for him to reach the palace. Everybody wants the end result. Everybody wants the moment you go to the palace. You want to go to the ultimate destiny that God has for you. That's good, But to go there you need to walk in purpose, run in purpose every step along the way.

6:09 And that is what the apostle Paul did, and that is what the scripture says that you and I need to do. That's what my challenge to you is. See now today, Okay, the podcast is here, the radio program is there. But let's take for example, the radio right. If I was just sitting out there and expecting God, you know, someday, let a radio station contact me to start a radio program. God only knows if that would have happened. I ran with purpose every step along the way. But what was in my hand? I had a phone, I started a podcast.

6:42 As time went by, I started working, I got some money. I started going to the studio to record sermons, got opportunities on TV, and you know different things that came. Every step that came along the way came in connection to the first step that I took. If I was just waiting for the last step, it wouldn't happen, guys, it won't. That's why you and I need to be in a place where you're saying, I want to stry to walk in my purpose every step along the way. And when you walk with that every step along the way, they will all connect the dots and you will eventually lead to the final destination that God has for you, right, the final destiny that God has so that we can make the great impact for the Kingdom of God.

7:26 The time is up. It's not the time for us to wait around, just live a complacent life, just lazing around. That's this is not the power for that. We need to rise up and we need to walk with purpose every step along the way so that we will make the best impact we can make for the Kingdom of God. A man, God bless you. You've been listening to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. We hope you were blessed and byre to live the life that God has for you. Make sure to subscribe to the John Gifta YouTube channel for regular uploads of sermons, skits, interviews and more.

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8:45 See you on the next episode of the Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. God bless you. If your heart stops beating now do you know where you're going if you can face to face with death, now do you know where you're going? And this is not a message of condemnation. This is a message of hope. There is a God who loves you so much he sent his only son, Jesus Christ to come down and pay a heavy price by shedding every drop of his blood on the cross. Thank you for dying for my sins. When you believe in him, you have free gift or salvation for you that it shows us that we will go to heaven when we die instead of suffering in hell forever.

9:45 I'll just encourage you today to make the simple step of faith and say, Jesus, I thank you for what you did on the cross. Thank you for giving me this gift of eternal life.