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 is a crazy place and it just seems to get crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and take a break. This is Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. We're a hub for inspirational Christian sermons, practical keys for Christian living, and Christian discussions and interviews. You'll be inspired to live the life that you were created for. Your host is a top ranking podcaster, best selling author, world record holder, 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 that a lot of people ask. They say, John, I've been working really hard. I've been believing, stunning on the word that God has shown me the promises He has given me. I've been taking this steps of faith. I've been going the extra mile having the spirit of excellence. I've been taking courses. I've been really putting myself into it. I've been really praying that I would really see the miracle, the growth, the promotion, the elevation and helping me come out of the season of hiddenness into proximity, and no matter what I do, I just feel like I'm just hitting a wall.

1:24 Speaker 2: Nothing is working well. I want you to just hold your horses, because I'm going to talk about an important aspect. When you look at Loop chapter one, this is something many people neglect, but this has got my attention. It says in verse one on ards. Many people set out to write accounts about the events that I have been fulfilled among us. They use the high witness reports circulating among us from the early disciples and carefully investigating everything from the beginning. I also decided to 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 may feel like a very random passage I'm just reading, or a random verse, but I want you to understand what Luke is saying. He's saying many people set out to write the accounts or whatever happened. They noticed that something significant was happening. The son of the Living God, Jesus Christ died rose again. Some people believed in it, some people did not, because you see, even historians during the time mentioned about Jesus. So it was something notable, right, It was something that was credible and it was not something arbitrary, and so many people started writing accounts.

2:44 Speaker 2: And Luke is saying, even I decided to write after investigating carefully, I started writing from the beginning. Now this may feel like a random word from the Word of God, but I want you to pay attention to this. Right, like when we see in the Bible, we have the main four gospels, the Gospel according to Matthew, the Gospel according to Mark, the Gospel according to Luke, and the Gospel according to John, not John, if that's John, right, So there were four gospels that were recorded or canonized in the world of God.

3:18 Speaker 2: But here's the thing I out did to understand. If you go back in history, if you look at the accounts, there were so many gospels available about the life of Jesus. There were many gnostic gospels if you see, I think some records say around seventy two gospels where the Gospel according to Thomas, Gospel according to even Juda's Gospel according to Mary, and so on and so forth. It's just that when the Church council sat together and canonized the Bible, they chose only these four gospels. Okay, so these four were selected among the so many gospels that were available.

3:55 Speaker 2: Now, what is my point? My point is very simple. If you see the script says in First Corinthians, chapter nine, verse twenty four, don't you know that many runners run in a race, but only one gets the price. Run in such a way that you win. See, many people wrote, but Luke wrote in such a way that he was selected. Many people run, but only the one who runs in such a way that they win will end up getting a price. See. I've seen this in my own life, where there are so many podcasts out there. I don't know if you know this.

4:32 Speaker 2: I don't like to say this from a place of pride or something. I just shared it from a place of gratefulness and feeling hoverwhelmed by what the lot has been doing. Out of four million podcasts in the world, this podcast is among the top point four percent of all the podcasts. Right this podcast, Feel for the Soul with John Gifta has topped the charts, has been ranking regularly among different countries, among different platforms are around the world and especially even in India. It's been ranking consistently at number one spot on multiple platforms.

5:07 Speaker 2: Y's the thing I wanted to pay attention to right like, especially on the audio format. This has been ranking for several years. Now. Now here's the thing I want you to pay attention to. There are so many podcasts, over four million podcasts. But it's not just me saying like, okay, you know what, I just do whatever comes my way. I'll just you know, just be casual about the podcast and expect it to grow. No, the minute the podcast is something that I see the Lord is leading me to, I go the extra mile.

5:40 Speaker 2: I have the spirit of excellence. I keep praying, and I keep getting myself better and getting myself more polished, getting myself to the place where I say, God, I want to do this better than I did yesterday. I want to do each episode better than the previous one. And you know what happens. The Lord honors. And when you run in such a way that you win, what happens You start winning, You start winning the price, you start hitting the number one spot. The same thing with my books, especially my debut book that you can see over year Unreally Your Purpose, which became a number one best seller on Amazon.

6:17 Speaker 2: How do you hit the number one spot? You can't do that by just writing randomly. You got to be in a place where you say you write in such a way that you hit the number one. Luke wrote in such a way that among seventy two different gospels he was selected. So I'm asking you this question. You're praying for that miracle, you're praying for that breakthrough, You're praying for God to show up, You're praying for that thing to turn around in your life. But my question is are you taking the step to be prepared?

6:48 Speaker 2: Are you taking that step to say, you know what, I'm sure that I'm standing out from the rest of the people. I'm sure that I'm going the extra mile. I'm walking in my unique calling and purpose, putting myself in that space, in a place of advantage compack to other people. I'm not asking you to manipulate. I'm not asking you to take shortcuts. I'm not asking you to be obsessed forgetting the result. No, you be your best. Just say God, I want to honor you with this. I want to go the extra mile. I want to bless you with whatever you were placed in me.

7:21 Speaker 2: And when you do that, what happens is eventually, just like Luke was selected among so many gospels, the same way the Bible says that the one who ran in such a way that the one eventually got the price the same way among so many books, my book became our number one best seller. I want to tell you something, guys. The Lord can enable you to stand out. The Lord can enable you to go the extra mile. The Lord will bless you, he will honor you, and at the right time, you will say, look what the Lord has done.

7:52 Speaker 2: He turned things around, he shifted people across, and he helped me to step into the next level of my desk. I really challenge you to share this with someone and I will see you back very soon. God bless you.

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