Run in Such a Way That You Win! 🏃‍♂️🏆 Spirit of Excellence | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

0:01 Speaker 1: Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world

0:05 Speaker 1: is a crazy place and it just seems to get

0:08 Speaker 1: crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and take a break.

0:13 Speaker 1: This is Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. We're

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0:27 Speaker 1: the life that you were created for. Your host is

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0:35 Speaker 1: aerospace engineer, life coach, evangelist, and founder of John Gifta International.

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

0:46 Speaker 2: Today. I want to add this a very important question

0:49 Speaker 2: that a lot of people ask. They say, John, I've

0:51 Speaker 2: been working really hard. I've been believing, stunning on the

0:55 Speaker 2: word that God has shown me the promises He has

0:58 Speaker 2: given me. I've been taking this steps of faith. I've

1:01 Speaker 2: been going the extra mile having the spirit of excellence.

1:04 Speaker 2: I've been taking courses. I've been really putting myself into it.

1:08 Speaker 2: I've been really praying that I would really see the miracle,

1:11 Speaker 2: the growth, the promotion, the elevation and helping me come

1:15 Speaker 2: out of the season of hiddenness into proximity, and no

1:20 Speaker 2: matter what I do, I just feel like I'm just

1:23 Speaker 2: hitting a wall. Nothing is working well. I want you

1:26 Speaker 2: to just hold your horses, because I'm going to talk

1:28 Speaker 2: about an important aspect. When you look at Loop chapter one,

1:32 Speaker 2: this is something many people neglect, but this has got

1:35 Speaker 2: my attention. It says in verse one on ards. Many

1:37 Speaker 2: people set out to write accounts about the events that

1:42 Speaker 2: I have been fulfilled among us. They use the high

1:46 Speaker 2: witness reports circulating among us from the early disciples and

1:52 Speaker 2: carefully investigating everything from the beginning. I also decided to

1:57 Speaker 2: write an accurate account for you, you own honorable tearf list.

2:02 Speaker 2: Now I want you to pay attention to this. This

2:04 Speaker 2: may feel like a very random passage I'm just reading,

2:08 Speaker 2: or a random verse, but I want you to understand

2:11 Speaker 2: what Luke is saying. He's saying many people set out

2:15 Speaker 2: to write the accounts or whatever happened. They noticed that

2:20 Speaker 2: something significant was happening. The son of the Living God,

2:24 Speaker 2: Jesus Christ died rose again. Some people believed in it,

2:28 Speaker 2: some people did not, because you see, even historians during

2:32 Speaker 2: the time mentioned about Jesus. So it was something notable, right,

2:37 Speaker 2: It was something that was credible and it was not

2:39 Speaker 2: something arbitrary, and so many people started writing accounts. And

2:45 Speaker 2: Luke is saying, even I decided to write after investigating carefully,

2:50 Speaker 2: I started writing from the beginning. Now this may feel

2:53 Speaker 2: like a random word from the Word of God, but

2:56 Speaker 2: I want you to pay attention to this. Right, like

2:59 Speaker 2: when we see in the Bible, we have the main

3:02 Speaker 2: four gospels, the Gospel according to Matthew, the Gospel according

3:07 Speaker 2: to Mark, the Gospel according to Luke, and the Gospel

3:10 Speaker 2: according to John, not John, if that's John, right, So

3:13 Speaker 2: there were four gospels that were recorded or canonized in

3:17 Speaker 2: the world of God. But here's the thing I out

3:20 Speaker 2: did to understand. If you go back in history, if

3:22 Speaker 2: you look at the accounts, there were so many gospels

3:26 Speaker 2: available about the life of Jesus. There were many gnostic

3:30 Speaker 2: gospels if you see, I think some records say around

3:33 Speaker 2: seventy two gospels where the Gospel according to Thomas, Gospel

3:37 Speaker 2: according to even Juda's Gospel according to Mary, and so

3:40 Speaker 2: on and so forth. It's just that when the Church

3:43 Speaker 2: council sat together and canonized the Bible, they chose only

3:48 Speaker 2: these four gospels. Okay, so these four were selected among

3:53 Speaker 2: the so many gospels that were available. Now, what is

3:56 Speaker 2: my point? My point is very simple. If you see

3:59 Speaker 2: the script says in First Corinthians, chapter nine, verse twenty four,

4:04 Speaker 2: don't you know that many runners run in a race,

4:08 Speaker 2: but only one gets the price. Run in such a

4:11 Speaker 2: way that you win. See, many people wrote, but Luke

4:16 Speaker 2: wrote in such a way that he was selected. Many

4:19 Speaker 2: people run, but only the one who runs in such

4:22 Speaker 2: a way that they win will end up getting a price. See.

4:26 Speaker 2: I've seen this in my own life, where there are

4:29 Speaker 2: so many podcasts out there. I don't know if you

4:32 Speaker 2: know this. I don't like to say this from a

4:34 Speaker 2: place of pride or something. I just shared it from

4:37 Speaker 2: a place of gratefulness and feeling hoverwhelmed by what the

4:40 Speaker 2: lot has been doing. Out of four million podcasts in

4:44 Speaker 2: the world, this podcast is among the top point four

4:48 Speaker 2: percent of all the podcasts. Right this podcast, Feel for

4:51 Speaker 2: the Soul with John Gifta has topped the charts, has

4:54 Speaker 2: been ranking regularly among different countries, among different platforms are

5:00 Speaker 2: around the world and especially even in India. It's been

5:03 Speaker 2: ranking consistently at number one spot on multiple platforms. Y's

5:07 Speaker 2: the thing I wanted to pay attention to right like,

5:09 Speaker 2: especially on the audio format. This has been ranking for

5:13 Speaker 2: several years. Now. Now here's the thing I want you

5:15 Speaker 2: to pay attention to. There are so many podcasts, over

5:20 Speaker 2: four million podcasts. But it's not just me saying like, okay,

5:25 Speaker 2: you know what, I just do whatever comes my way.

5:27 Speaker 2: I'll just you know, just be casual about the podcast

5:31 Speaker 2: and expect it to grow. No, the minute the podcast

5:35 Speaker 2: is something that I see the Lord is leading me to,

5:39 Speaker 2: I go the extra mile. I have the spirit of excellence.

5:42 Speaker 2: I keep praying, and I keep getting myself better and

5:46 Speaker 2: getting myself more polished, getting myself to the place where

5:50 Speaker 2: I say, God, I want to do this better than

5:52 Speaker 2: I did yesterday. I want to do each episode better

5:56 Speaker 2: than the previous one. And you know what happens. The

6:00 Speaker 2: Lord honors. And when you run in such a way

6:03 Speaker 2: that you win, what happens You start winning, You start

6:07 Speaker 2: winning the price, you start hitting the number one spot.

6:10 Speaker 2: The same thing with my books, especially my debut book

6:13 Speaker 2: that you can see over year Unreally Your Purpose, which

6:16 Speaker 2: became a number one best seller on Amazon. How do

6:18 Speaker 2: you hit the number one spot? You can't do that

6:21 Speaker 2: by just writing randomly. You got to be in a

6:23 Speaker 2: place where you say you write in such a way

6:26 Speaker 2: that you hit the number one. Luke wrote in such

6:29 Speaker 2: a way that among seventy two different gospels he was selected.

6:34 Speaker 2: So I'm asking you this question. You're praying for that miracle,

6:38 Speaker 2: you're praying for that breakthrough, You're praying for God to

6:40 Speaker 2: show up, You're praying for that thing to turn around

6:44 Speaker 2: in your life. But my question is are you taking

6:46 Speaker 2: the step to be prepared? Are you taking that step

6:49 Speaker 2: to say, you know what, I'm sure that I'm standing

6:52 Speaker 2: out from the rest of the people. I'm sure that

6:54 Speaker 2: I'm going the extra mile. I'm walking in my unique

6:57 Speaker 2: calling and purpose, putting myself in that space, in a

7:01 Speaker 2: place of advantage compack to other people. I'm not asking

7:04 Speaker 2: you to manipulate. I'm not asking you to take shortcuts.

7:08 Speaker 2: I'm not asking you to be obsessed forgetting the result. No,

7:12 Speaker 2: you be your best. Just say God, I want to

7:15 Speaker 2: honor you with this. I want to go the extra mile.

7:18 Speaker 2: I want to bless you with whatever you were placed

7:20 Speaker 2: in me. And when you do that, what happens is eventually,

7:24 Speaker 2: just like Luke was selected among so many gospels, the

7:27 Speaker 2: same way the Bible says that the one who ran

7:30 Speaker 2: in such a way that the one eventually got the

7:33 Speaker 2: price the same way among so many books, my book

7:36 Speaker 2: became our number one best seller. I want to tell

7:38 Speaker 2: you something, guys. The Lord can enable you to stand out.

7:42 Speaker 2: The Lord can enable you to go the extra mile.

7:45 Speaker 2: The Lord will bless you, he will honor you, and

7:48 Speaker 2: at the right time, you will say, look what the

7:51 Speaker 2: Lord has done. He turned things around, he shifted people across,

7:56 Speaker 2: and he helped me to step into the next level

7:59 Speaker 2: of my desk. I really challenge you to share this

8:02 Speaker 2: with someone and I will see you back very soon.

8:04 Speaker 2: God bless you.

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