Stop Putting Your Ultimate Confidence on Past Success | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:43 Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. One of the things I've seen in a lot of people is when they had about to take up opportunities, when they had about to make a move, when they had about to take up step maybe in any area of their life, they always go by a past experience. You see, there is a place for self confidence. There is a place where you say, yes, you know what I can do all things through Christ to excuse me, strength, where you say you know what, I'm not dumb, I'm not stupid, I'm not a mistake.

1:16 I am made in the image of God, a masterpiece of God. You have a place for identity in Christ that you find and the place for self confidence because there's so much of identity crisis that's prevalent all over the world. But there is also a place where you need to understand this important truth that you don't put your confidence, you don't put your reliance, you don't put your trust just based on the fact that you were successful in the past. You should not put your trust, reliance, and confidence upon your past experiences, past successes, past things that worked out well in your life.

1:48 But you need to put your ultimate hope and trust and reliance upon the Lord. I want to share a scripture with you and I want to take this forward and it is found in Genesis forty one was sixteen to give you a little backdrop about what is happening. You know the story of Joseph, who started out as a guy whom who was who had the gift of interpretation of dreams. He had a dream when he was a little boy. But as he started interpreting, people were jealous. His own family members could not take it and they could not accept the anointing and favor upon Joseph's life.

2:21 And then what happens Joseph gets into a lot of trouble. He ends up in the fit, he ends up as a slave in Party four's house. He's wrongly accused, he's put in the prison. He's wrongly accused. And here he is in the prison for no fault of his And in the prison he interprets the dream of the cup bearer and it becomes a success. You know, what he does succeeds. What he interprets is what comes to pass. And eventually there's a moment when the fan who has some dis been dreams and he wants somebody to come and interpret the dream, and there's no one to do it.

3:05 All the wise men in the kingdom could not do it. And that that moment, the Lord reminded the cup bara and the bearer. The butler remembered that there was this guy called Joseph, and he says, you know, you can call him. The annoyting of God is upon him. He can interpret your dream. And eventually Joseph is brought to the Pharaoh. And I can imagine where at the moment when you look at was fifteen, for example, let's start with was fifteen, right, there's a moment when Pharaoh says to Joseph, I had a dream and no one can interpret it.

3:44 But I heard it said of you that when you hear a dream, you can interpret it. This is what the pharaoh is saying. Now. If you are talking to the pharaoh, Pharaoh was the most powerful man in the world of that time. He was like the president the United States today. Okay, Egypt was the most powerful nation at that point of time. So Pharaoh was the most powerful man. And if you're going to talk to the most powerful man, you would say, yes, you're right now, even though they're wrong, because you want to give God the glory the credit.

4:16 You would be like, you know, I understand with how can I tell the Pharaoh that you know that he's wrong? You know what I mean? It's not that I can interpret what what will the Pharaoh think? But look at was sixteen. Joseph says, I cannot do it. Joseph replied to Pharaoh, but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires. And I'm reading from the NIV version. Okay, he says, I cannot do it, but God will do this. What you understand from this is that Joseph did not rely on his past success. He did not rely or put his hope, trust and confidence on the things that worked out in the past.

4:54 He said, yes, in the past, God did it, but it's not me, it's God. Even now it's not me, it's God. And he's actually saying this, and he's saying, you know what, I cannot do this, but only God. So he gets to that place where he's redirecting and showing us this important truth that you and I need to put into our everyday life. That you know what you no matter how many times you've seen success in the past, it's not because of you. But every single time you need you can come to the place where you say, God, I can do nothing without you.

5:24 Apart from you, I can do nothing, But with you I can do all things. Who gives me strength. Today, I want you to come to the place of humility, the place where you'd say, God, I rely on you.

5:38 Even though you've done this a million times, can you still trust him? Sometimes? You know, as a preacher, I'll tell you honestly, sometimes you know that that sense of like, oh, I've done this so many times, you know, kind of kicks and even when some opportunity comes, I'm like, oh, you know, I have preached so many times. You know all of that, But I always go back to the place where I'm God, God, God. I don't want to just take the slightly. I don't want this opportunity to be you know where. I'm just going to showcase my past experiences, my knowledge that I incurred in the past so many years of doing ministry.

6:13 God, I want to depend on you as if this is the first time I'm preaching. That's the way I look up to the Lord, That's the way I go to the feet of the Lord. And I'm telling you, guys, you know me right. With the podcast in itself, we are hitting across nine to fifty episodes on this daily podcast, and then there's the YouTube channel I've been ministering the last couple of days. Ago, we celebrated eleven years in the ministry. Eleven years. But here's the thing I want you guys understand that every time I go back to that place, I say, God, even though you have helped me in the past, I'm not putting my trust, confidence and reliance on the fact that I was successful in the past.

6:56 I put my trust, reliance and confidence upon you because it is you who will help me succeed today. It is you who will let me succeed tomorrow. It is you who will let me succeed in the next opportunity. Today, I pray in the name of Jesus that you'll come to the place where you realize that it's not about you. It's not about your past experiences, but you can come to the police of humility. In saying God to day, I need you afresh. I depend on you, and I need you to help me through. In Jesus name, I pray a man, God bless you.

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