Scared of Spiritual Warfare and Satan? | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

0:01 Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world is a crazy

0:06 place and it just seems to get crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and

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0:39 Gifta International. Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. A lot

0:52 of people today are living under this pretext of fear, fear of Satan,

0:58 fear of spiritual warfare. They're so scared, Oh my goodness, what if

1:03 you know, the enemy attacks me. What if I go through this attack

1:07 or this spiritual attack, and what if my life gets into a very messy

1:11 state because the devil brings in all these things into my life. And you

1:15 know, they're constantly living in that fear of the devil, you know what

1:18 I mean. They don't have the fear of God, but they have the

1:19 fear of the devil and the Lord was reminding me of this. You know,

1:25 the other day, I was ministering to people of different uh you know,

1:29 sicknesses. There were some people who are getting healed, and there was

1:32 one particular case which was also having a demonic aspect to it. And you

1:38 know, immediately that that fear just s popped in, you know what I

1:42 mean. You know, I prayed, I waited upon the Lord, and

1:46 I was, you know, operating with the you know from the place where

1:49 it was. It was the anointing of the Lord and all of these things.

1:52 But that fear suddenly came. You know, if you're trying to chase

1:56 this devil, if you're praying over this, what if this devil comes,

2:00 I can attacks you know, you and your family and you know stuff like

2:02 that. So there's always this sense of that fear. The enemy wants to

2:07 put you through so that you won't go and attack him, you know what

2:10 I mean. He doesn't want you to, you know, be a threat

2:15 to his kingdom. He wants you to just live a nominal, normal Christian

2:19 life, a mediocre life. And I want to share a scripture with you,

2:23 and I want to take this forward. It is a moment in job

2:27 there's a moment where, you know, the scripture starts off by sharing in

2:31 chapter one of and verse one that this man was blameless and upright. This

2:37 is from the n IVY version. Okay, that this man job was blameless

2:40 and a pride, he feared God and shunned evil. You may be somebody

2:45 who loves the Lord. You are blameless, You're you're upright. You you

2:49 you fear the Lord. You're you're doing whatever you need to do. You're

2:53 walking in accordance to his standard, of his word, his will and all

2:57 of these things. And there's a moment when you know, the enemy comes

3:00 the same Satan comes to you know, the assembly in heaven, and he's

3:06 challenging heart and say, because he's blessed, because he's having everything, uh,

3:10 you know, accordingce to you know, the best way possible, the

3:15 blessings of yours. That's why he's doing whatever. I mean, he's still

3:20 you know, standing up to you, he's still you know, faithful to

3:24 you. But the minute you know all of that is taken, he's going

3:28 to curse you. He's going to just be like anybody else. But but

3:32 this is a moment when the Bible is so clear, uh, God is

3:38 speaking to uh, you know, Satan, and he says, very well,

3:44 then everything he has in your is in your power, but on the

3:49 man himself, do not lay a finger. This is in verse twelve.

3:52 Okay. So Satan went out and took out on Job's family, took out

3:59 on Joe, you know, all of his live stock and everything. And

4:05 again, you know, he a little later he loses everything. And again

4:11 this time that the enemy comes back and he says, well, you know

4:15 what, because he has good health, maybe things are fine, and that's

4:18 the reason he's still holding on to you. You know, he's still faithful

4:26 to you. And again, you know, the scripture is very clear where

4:29 the Lord said to say it in chapter two, verse two. Very well,

4:32 then he is in your hands, but you must spare his life.

4:35 Okay, So what you understand here is I'm just sticking to this verse to

4:41 help you understand that whatever power the enemy had over Joe came from ultimately God's

4:49 giving him the permission. What I wanted to understand this, no matter how

4:54 much the enemy tries to attack you, no matter how many times the enemy

4:58 tries to do different things to you know, make you go through hardships,

5:02 you see, Christian life is not come to Jesus and you won't have any

5:05 problems. Okay, Christian life has come to Jesus and he will help you

5:10 deal with your problems. Okay. You need to understand that if anybody preaches

5:14 the gospel where they say you're not going to have any problems, I'm sorry,

5:16 that's not real gospel. Jesus was very clear when he said, in

5:19 this world you will have troubles. Right and because we are in the fallen

5:26 world, the enemy is real, the spiritual warfare is real. But you

5:30 don't have to get scared of it. You don't have to walk in that

5:33 fear because you need to understand this important truth that when as a child of

5:39 God, when you are operating from that realm where you understand that you have

5:43 that power that race Christ from the dead, you don't have to fear the

5:46 enemy because you have to understand even though he attacks you, he can never

5:53 attack you beyond what God has ordained for him to. Anything that he attacks

5:58 is within the permise limits of God. Today, I want you to be

6:02 rest assured that you know whatever you go through or gone through, it's all

6:06 within the permissible limits of God. God is in control of your life.

6:12 It is not gone beyond God's control. It will never go outside of God's

6:16 control. God is still keeping things in his control even though the enemy is

6:23 attacking. Even though this is something in like a challenge or a test,

6:27 even though it's really hard and you feel like giving up. I want you

6:30 to understand this truth that you know what, You're still in the palm of

6:33 God's sends. You're still his precious child. You may go through some tough

6:39 times, you may go through some challenging moments because of the spiritual warfare,

6:44 but keep fighting the good fight of faith, Keep trusting in the Lord,

6:47 Keep looking up to the Lord, and say, God, you know what

6:49 through you, I'm going to come out victorious because I know I'm more than

6:54 a conqueror. I'm a victor and not a victim, and I know that

7:00 I'm an overcomer in Jesus Mighty name, Amen God. I pray for those

7:04 who are going through spiritual warfare in their life. They're going through tough times,

7:09 and I pray in the name of Jesus Christ that this word will encourage

7:12 them. We will give them the courage to move forward, will give them

7:15 the ability to trust you and keep going towards the fullness of what you have

7:20 for them. In Jesus name, I pray Amen, God bless you.

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