Stop Saying “It’s Not a Big Deal” (You Don’t Know Their Storm) | John Giftah

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

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

0:46 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:48 Speaker 2: the Soul with John Gifta Podcast.

0:50 Speaker 3: Today.

0:51 Speaker 2: In the next couple of days, we're going to learn

0:52 Speaker 2: various things that we can take away from the incident

0:55 Speaker 2: of Jesus coming the storm. Okay, this is an incident

0:59 Speaker 2: recorded in various gospels, in Matthew chapter eight, Looke chapter eight,

1:03 Speaker 2: as well as in my Mark chapter four. And we're

1:06 Speaker 2: going to look at various things because I always go

1:08 Speaker 2: back to the Lord and I say God. I don't

1:09 Speaker 2: want to preach the same typical cliche sermons and for me,

1:13 Speaker 2: even in my walk with the Lord, I don't want

1:15 Speaker 2: the same cliche things like oh, you know what, this

1:18 Speaker 2: is it, this is it? You know, like sometimes it

1:20 Speaker 2: becomes very cliche. Sometimes it becomes very structured, and it's like, oh,

1:23 Speaker 2: I already know this. I always go back to the

1:25 Speaker 2: scripture and say, Lord, I want something new, well in spirit,

1:28 Speaker 2: I want you to speak to me, a minister to

1:30 Speaker 2: me in a personal way. And these revelations are both

1:32 Speaker 2: out of that. And I really believe and encourage you

1:35 Speaker 2: to pursue the Word of God in a similar fashion,

1:37 Speaker 2: so that the Lord will speak to you when you

1:40 Speaker 2: turn the pages of the scripture as well. So today

1:43 Speaker 2: we're going to look at one of the aspects that

1:45 Speaker 2: we can take away from this incident of Jesus calming

1:49 Speaker 2: the storm. First things first, is that the Bible says say,

1:51 Speaker 2: if you look at math Tu chapter eight, verse twenty three,

1:54 Speaker 2: then Jesus got into the boat and started across the

1:57 Speaker 2: lake with his disciples. Suddenly a fear storm struck the lake,

2:01 Speaker 2: with waves breaking into the boat. Now, first things first,

2:04 Speaker 2: I want to tell you sometimes I've heard people say this, John,

2:08 Speaker 2: what's the big deal about a storm?

2:10 Speaker 3: In a lake. I mean, it's it's a lake.

2:12 Speaker 2: After all, we just look at it as oh, it's

2:16 Speaker 2: just a lake, right, like, I mean, how big would

2:18 Speaker 2: it be? I want to just give you guys a

2:20 Speaker 2: little bit of context here, right, this is not an

2:23 Speaker 2: ordinary lake. This is this lake was also the Sea

2:25 Speaker 2: of Galilee, okay, and mind you, it's not a sea.

2:29 Speaker 2: But then it was a huge lake. It was the

2:32 Speaker 2: length of it was around twenty one kilometers, which is

2:35 Speaker 2: around thirteen miles, and with this around thirteen kilometers or

2:39 Speaker 2: eight miles. So it's not like a small pond or

2:42 Speaker 2: it's not like a you know, like it's something small.

2:45 Speaker 3: Is it is huge okay?

2:48 Speaker 2: And so a typical boat ride could take you from

2:51 Speaker 2: one to three hours, okay, one hour to up to

2:55 Speaker 2: three hours, depending on the wind, the rowing versus the

2:59 Speaker 2: sail and the directtion. So understand, like it's not something small.

3:03 Speaker 2: It's not like a small boat ride, okay. And it

3:07 Speaker 2: was not something shallow as well. It was deep, you know,

3:10 Speaker 2: like the average depth was around twenty five meters or

3:14 Speaker 2: eighty feet, and the maximum depth was around forty three

3:17 Speaker 2: meters or one forty feet. So it's not something like

3:21 Speaker 2: they could just jump and you know, figure things out.

3:24 Speaker 2: These guys were trained fishermen, trained in this. They knew

3:27 Speaker 2: about the region, they knew about the dangers, they knew

3:29 Speaker 2: about everything, and so this was not an.

3:32 Speaker 3: Ordinary deal, all right. So now one more point took this.

3:36 Speaker 2: Okay, Now understand that the Sea of Galilee or this

3:40 Speaker 2: lake sits about two hundred meters above the mean sea level, okay,

3:45 Speaker 2: and it is surrounded by hills and mountains. And because

3:48 Speaker 2: of this, what used to happened was the lot of

3:51 Speaker 2: cold air from above would rush down and collide with

3:54 Speaker 2: the warm air from the lake, and this resulted in sudden,

3:59 Speaker 2: violent stock. So this was not an exaggeration. This was

4:03 Speaker 2: not something like made up. It was not like they

4:05 Speaker 2: were just exaggerating the situation. This was a real serious

4:09 Speaker 2: problem because of the topography or the geography of the place.

4:14 Speaker 2: This was a real serious problem. And so when somebody

4:18 Speaker 2: just generalizes and says, come on, what's the big deal,

4:20 Speaker 2: It's just a storm in a lake. Why are you

4:23 Speaker 2: making a big deal of it? Why can't you just

4:25 Speaker 2: come I understand the seriousness of this. This was a

4:28 Speaker 2: one to three hour journey depending on this situation. Of course,

4:31 Speaker 2: this was like the winds would have already been bad

4:34 Speaker 2: and understand that this was already in the evening, because

4:37 Speaker 2: one of the translations, I think in Mark chapter four,

4:40 Speaker 2: it says by evening they were going, so you know,

4:43 Speaker 2: generally water bodies and evenings and nights they're.

4:46 Speaker 3: Drift generally rougher.

4:47 Speaker 2: And on top of that, there's also one more translation

4:51 Speaker 2: not translation sorry, in one of the uh you know,

4:55 Speaker 2: in one of the Gospels, it says that once they

4:57 Speaker 2: got into the boat, Jesus that sleeping because very soon,

5:03 Speaker 2: you know, the storm came. It says in verse thirty

5:06 Speaker 2: seven of Mark chapter four, but soon a fear storm came.

5:10 Speaker 3: You know. It's not like the storm came after a while.

5:13 Speaker 3: Soon the storm came.

5:14 Speaker 2: If you see, even in the Book of Matthew, chapter eight,

5:18 Speaker 2: they get into the boat, it says in verse twenty three,

5:21 Speaker 2: but soon a storm came. It's not something like after

5:25 Speaker 2: a while it came. You know, very soon the storm came.

5:28 Speaker 2: So think about this situation here, right, they have a

5:30 Speaker 2: long journey ahead, and they're in the middle of nowhere,

5:34 Speaker 2: and it's in the evening. It's probably very dark, and

5:37 Speaker 2: in the midst of this, right, they know the danger

5:41 Speaker 2: of the place.

5:41 Speaker 3: The storms are very bad.

5:44 Speaker 2: Okay, So what I'm trying to say is sometimes in

5:47 Speaker 2: life we try to generalize a problem. We say it's

5:51 Speaker 2: just it's just, you know, a small thing, Like everybody

5:55 Speaker 2: goes through a storm, everybody goes through this trouble, everybody

5:58 Speaker 2: goes through some bad breaks, what's the big deal? But here,

6:03 Speaker 2: this was a deadly situation. This was not a general

6:06 Speaker 2: storm in a lake. I want you guys to understand

6:09 Speaker 2: the reality of the situation. This was serious. This was different.

6:13 Speaker 2: This was not like a typical storm. This was a

6:16 Speaker 2: dangerous storm. This is not like a typical lake. This

6:20 Speaker 2: was the Sea of Galery, a very dangerous place to

6:23 Speaker 2: be at this moment. So what I'm trying to say

6:26 Speaker 2: here is sometimes in life we try to solve a

6:28 Speaker 2: problem by just generalizing. Or somebody else solved this problem

6:33 Speaker 2: by this method. Somebody went through this breakup, they went

6:35 Speaker 2: through some therapy. This helped for them, and it helped them,

6:38 Speaker 2: so it should help you. Or you say that you know,

6:42 Speaker 2: you went through this financial or lass or something and

6:47 Speaker 2: you just, you know, do these ABC steps and it

6:49 Speaker 2: should work for you. No, what worked for somebody else

6:51 Speaker 2: may not work for you. Because you see, general things

6:55 Speaker 2: will not work in this situation. This was a serious thing.

6:58 Speaker 2: So when somebody just says, you know what, everybody goes

7:01 Speaker 2: through this problem. Everybody goes through you know, the season

7:04 Speaker 2: of layoff. Everybody goes through the season of you know,

7:08 Speaker 2: singles word waiting for the right person to step into

7:10 Speaker 2: your life. Everybody goes through this. Everybody goes through that.

7:12 Speaker 2: You can't generalize things, you know why, because what you,

7:16 Speaker 2: as an individual may be going through is specific. Everybody

7:20 Speaker 2: else may be going through a storm in a lake,

7:22 Speaker 2: but they're in a small league. You are going through

7:24 Speaker 2: a serious league because this is the sea of gality.

7:28 Speaker 2: Everybody else may be going through some sudden storm in life,

7:31 Speaker 2: but you are in a fear storm which came out

7:34 Speaker 2: of nowhere that you could even prepare for. Are you

7:38 Speaker 2: getting what I'm saying? This was a deadly place to be.

7:40 Speaker 2: Even professional fishermen found it deadly. Then think about the situation, guys.

7:48 Speaker 2: So what I'm trying to help you understand here is

7:51 Speaker 2: in life, you know, never think that you know what,

7:54 Speaker 2: let's generalize the problem. Okay, everybody else solve this this way,

7:58 Speaker 2: or you know what, somebody solve this. So why is

8:01 Speaker 2: this person making a big deal. You have no idea

8:04 Speaker 2: the pain this person is going through. Recently, when I

8:08 Speaker 2: always shared this last year was one of the hardest

8:10 Speaker 2: years that I went through. You know a lot of

8:12 Speaker 2: bad breaks in terms of you know, a huge financial

8:15 Speaker 2: laws and then you know, a job layoff that happened,

8:18 Speaker 2: and then you know, an attack on my health and

8:21 Speaker 2: all of these things. You know, people would come and

8:23 Speaker 2: give me sermons you know, oh you should trust God.

8:26 Speaker 2: I mean, like, come on, is it that I don't

8:28 Speaker 2: trust Gord? You know? Or you know you should pray

8:32 Speaker 2: like this you would get a job in one week.

8:33 Speaker 2: I mean, come on, guys, if you were in my situation,

8:37 Speaker 2: Like for example, one of the health issues that happened

8:41 Speaker 2: was because of you know, the doctor immediance it said,

8:44 Speaker 2: this is because of too much of stress on you.

8:46 Speaker 2: And people started attacking me saying, if you're a preacher,

8:49 Speaker 2: how can you have stress? How you're not trusting God,

8:52 Speaker 2: You're not praying hard enough. I mean, come on, if

8:55 Speaker 2: you knew what I was going through, if you knew

8:58 Speaker 2: the attack after the attack after attack I was going

9:01 Speaker 2: through last year like it was one after another attack,

9:04 Speaker 2: not not just the job laws, or the or the

9:08 Speaker 2: financial laws, or but even the attack from you know,

9:11 Speaker 2: close ones who are you know, attacking on you know,

9:14 Speaker 2: my stand for the Gospel, stand for the calling, stand

9:17 Speaker 2: for the ministry, and all of that.

9:18 Speaker 3: It was not easy.

9:19 Speaker 2: It's easy to preach to someone when you're not in

9:23 Speaker 2: what they're going through.

9:24 Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

9:25 Speaker 2: That's what I'm trying to tell you. You know, this is

9:27 Speaker 2: what I'm trying to tell you. Don't generalize because only

9:31 Speaker 2: the person who's in that moment will know the depth

9:34 Speaker 2: of what they're going through. Because outside you can just

9:37 Speaker 2: think of, you know, do these five steps you should

9:39 Speaker 2: solve a problem. It doesn't work that way.

9:41 Speaker 3: Guys.

9:42 Speaker 2: Certain things like oh, you know what, they're in the lake.

9:45 Speaker 2: They let them just come out of the lake, Like

9:47 Speaker 2: this is a huge lake. Guys, Oh it's just a storm.

9:49 Speaker 2: Let them just be calm in the storm. I mean,

9:51 Speaker 2: this is a fierce, deadly storm.

9:53 Speaker 3: Guys.

9:54 Speaker 2: So try to understand. Don't try to generalize situations. Try

9:59 Speaker 2: to understand the of the situation. Try to understand the reality,

10:04 Speaker 2: because only then you will be able to understand.

10:08 Speaker 3: What somebody else is going through.

10:09 Speaker 2: And also you'll be able to understand what you are

10:13 Speaker 2: going through and why what somebody else is saying from

10:17 Speaker 2: the outside may not work for you because they are

10:20 Speaker 2: generalizing things. But you are going through something so much

10:24 Speaker 2: more deeper and harder. So I really pray that this message,

10:29 Speaker 2: you know, open your eyes to understand the reality, so

10:32 Speaker 2: that you know even as we go and delve into

10:34 Speaker 2: this passage more in the next coming days, I pray

10:37 Speaker 2: that these sermons and this world will bless you, guys,

10:40 Speaker 2: because I pray in the name of Jesus Christ. If

10:43 Speaker 2: you are going through a storm and no one else

10:45 Speaker 2: is I be able to understand, I pray that today

10:47 Speaker 2: is going to be the day that somebody is going

10:49 Speaker 2: to understand that you know that God understands and I'm

10:52 Speaker 2: able to understand what you're going through.

10:53 Speaker 3: If you want to reach out and share so that

10:55 Speaker 3: you want me.

10:56 Speaker 2: To pray for you in some area of your life,

10:58 Speaker 2: you can reach out through social media or any other

11:00 Speaker 2: means that you are able to find on YouTube and

11:03 Speaker 2: all of that.

11:04 Speaker 3: Do it. I'm therefore you praying for you, rooting for you.

11:06 Speaker 2: Let's you know, across to the other side with the

11:11 Speaker 2: grace of God. Emen, God bless you.

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