Season 4 - Episode 100: Empowered by the HOLY SPIRIT | 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, in 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: Hey, everyone, is such a joy for me to join you today on this segment of the Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta podcast. If you've been checking out our regular segments this whole week, we've been talking about the importance of the Holy Spirit in our lives to live the kind of life that God wants us to live. Sometimes the Holy Spirit becomes more of a theoretical aspect that we think about or just involve him in accordance with the scripture. But the truth of the method is the Holy Spirit is a real person and you need to develop your relationship with the Holy Spirit so that you can actually live out the Christian life that God wants you to live.

1:20 Speaker 2: So today, before I continue, I just want to share something exciting with you guys that this particular episode, especially on this particular series that I'm doing. This is the fourth season of this podcast, and we're completing one hundred episodes of this podcast in the series, with over almost thousand and three hundred total episodes on the podcast right. I've been doing this consistently for a long time, and I just thought it was in accordance with what I wanted to share with you guys today on this segment of this podcast, because I wanted to understand a lot of people who might have listened to me regularly, but at the same time, many of you are listening to me regularly or especially you found me recently.

2:05 Speaker 2: Especially a big shout out to those or listening to me on cast bocks, because we suddenly saw a surge in the subscribership and growth on cast box, and I really want to thank you and appreciate you guys for doing this connect with me through the social media. I would love to hear from you guys on how this podcast has been a blessing to you guys, and do share this with your friends and a lot of ones. It would really mean a lot if you can leave a rating, especially if you're listening to this on Spotify or any of the Apple podcasts or any of those platforms.

2:35 Speaker 2: Ratings and reviews will really go a long way as well. So really really grateful to God because over the years you might have known this, heard about this by this podcast ranking in multiple platforms, on multiple categories, on multiple countries. And I'm so grateful to God for all of these things. And I don't do this for those things, you know. I don't do this for the ranking and in chase the ranking. I just want to do is because the Lord has empowered me and is enabling me to do this despite the fact that I'm working in a full time corporate job.

3:06 Speaker 2: I'm running the daily, the ministry, the podcast, YouTube channel, social media ministry, as well as traveling and ministrying and authoring books. It's not an easy thing. People often ask me, how do you manage to do so many things? I find it hard and not only manage to do so many things, but also to be consistent at it, you know, Like the reason I'm talking about all of these numbers. Is not too bos to see how I've done this. I was talking to someone the other day. I think, you know, like in total life, like so many thousands of sermons I've preached in the last so many years, right, I've been running the ministry for this is the fourteenth year, and I'm like, oh my gosh, like so many sermons, TV clips, TV sermons, podcasts, YouTube, social media, like so many things, and even on YouTube, I'm finishing ten years on the YouTube channel, you know, posting consistently from a studio like for the past ten years.

4:01 Speaker 2: Why am I sharing this is that people after asking how do you manage to do so many things? And I think the answer is what I want to share. The Bible says in Acts ten was thirty eight. It says how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth. This is referencing to the fact that Jesus walked in earth as a man, and it says with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went about doing good and healing all those under the power of the devil because God was with him. See, I wanted to understand her, right, reminding you of this importance again that, you know, the reason why Jesus was able to handle so much do so much in the short span of three and a half years of ministry, he was able to be more effective than most people who would ever be effective in the long span of doing ministry for you know, like maybe three decades of ministry.

4:50 Speaker 2: Why was Jesus so effective? Why is it that even though he did ministry for three and a half years, but we are still speaking about what he did, you know, two thousand years later. It's because he didn't do this by himself. He didn't just logically do this. He didn't just manually mechanically do this. What did he do? He operated by the anoying of the Holy Spirit. Today, if there's one thing I want to remind each one of you under the sound of my voices, Yes you may have distractions. Yes you may have things coming against you.

5:19 Speaker 2: Yes you may have a lot of things, because life happens to all of us. I think I shared this with you that even this week, you know, my close family members in the hospital and I'm managing work, I'm managing the podcast, the ministry as well as you know, like running around for you know, all those household stuff I'm telling you it's not an easy thing. But the reason I'm able to handle so much is not because of me being great, but it's because the Lord is empowering me through the Holy Spirit. The more I depend on the Holy Spirit, the more the more I look up to Him and developed my relationship with the Holy Spirit and heal to the Holy Spirit.

5:58 Speaker 2: That is how I will be able to do what God wants me to do. See today, I want to tell you something, guys. You know a lot of people just try things by themselves and wonder why I'm not able to be consistent? Why am I not able to do this on a consistent basis for a longer period of time? And I'm telling you the key to be consistent. I mean, there are so many things we can look at, but one of the things is, you know, you need to operate from the power of the Holy Spirit, the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, because that is what will help you to continue for the long call.

6:30 Speaker 2: Are you getting what I'm saying these sermons? Like I mean, like I said, you know, I have handsful, right, I have so much happening, and in the midst of that, the Lord is enabling me to do this and you guys are listening and you're being blessed. I'm grateful for that. But here's the thing. How is that happening because of the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. See if Jesus, the son of the Living God, when he walked on earth as a man, If Jesus had to be anointed by the Holy Spirit and he was able to do all those good works because he was anointed by the Holy Spirit.

7:04 Speaker 2: Right, That's what acts Tentary had says. Right, I wanted to remember. If Jesus had to be anointed and he needed the power of the Holy Spirit to operate in ministry, to live, to do good works, and to do what he had been assigned to do, how much more you and I need to, you know, walk in that empowerment of the Holy Spirit, so that we will be able to share the good news. To be the light in the darkness, to complete our assignment on planet Ar, to do, you know, to be the light in the darkness even in your workplace.

7:39 Speaker 2: To shine in your studies, in your course, in your school, your college, your neighborhood, in your community. To make sure that your business is successful, so that you can build the kingdom of God through finance. I mean, whichever area of the law has been leading you, whether it's politics or entertainment or whatever. You need the Holy Spirit. You need the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. And only with his help you can be consistent. Only with his help you can continue to do good. The Bible says he went around doing good.

8:10 Speaker 2: He didn't do good once and slept for the next few days. No, No, he continued to do good. If you look at jesus schedule, he was so busy from early in the morning till late in the night. He was so busy ministering, ministering, I mean, if you minister like sometimes you know when I'm doing multiple ministry opportunities, Like even last Good Friday, I was ministering in two churches. In between I had a TV shoot and on top of that, my grandma was sick. A lot of things happening. How did I manage? How could I manage?

8:40 Speaker 2: Like with all the different expectations laid out it, how do you do that? It's because of the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. You depend on the Holy Spirit, you will walk in accordance with that, and then you will be able to accel and fulfill the purpose that God has for you. So today, my challenge to each one of you is that you will continue to depend on the Holy Spirit, continue to live out in that place where you're aware of His presence, and continue to be filled with the Spirit and walk in the Spirit.

9:08 Speaker 2: And that is how you will fulfill the purpose that God has in store for you. Immen, God bless you.

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