Surviving the Impossible: GOD's Protection Behind the Scenes | John Giftah | Bible Study Podcast

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.

0:44 Speaker 2: Gift this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with John GIFTA podcast. I just want to take this time to let you know that this old week, we're looking at various lessons that we can take away from the life of Moses, especially looking at Extradus chapter two. One of the things I want you to understand is that in your life, you may be looking at it as a sense of like, oh, my goodness, John, there's so much happening, and I'm really scared. There are people getting laid off, there are people getting sicknesses, there are people losing their loud ones, there are people losing their life in most unexpected ways, or there are a lot of things happening that you can't even imagine, like, oh my gosh, what is happening.

1:21 Speaker 2: Their crime rates are is mind boggling, and the way people are behaving, it just makes me get so scared, John, I do not know how I'm going to face my future. Maybe today you have the fear of the future, Maybe you have the fear of how you're going to handle things in your life, or maybe it's regard to a loud one you're saying, my kid, how is she going to make it through life? How is he going to make it through life? Or whatever it is today. I want you to understand this is a word I want to encourage you because when you look at the life of Moses, Moses was born at a time where all the male babies were ordered to be killed.

1:54 Speaker 2: Okay, it was a very scary place to be. And it was not just an order that came from a council member or it came from the governor or someone. It came from the pharaoh. And understand, this was at a time when Egypt was the most powerful nation in the world of that time, which means he was the most powerful man in the old world. An order from the most powerful man in the Old world to kill all the male babies. So it was not an easy thing. So think about this how it would have been at such a time when Moses is being born.

2:27 Speaker 2: It feels like Moses was born at an unlucky time or something. That's how we would look at if we do not have faith in what the Lord was doing. But I wanted to understand something very important here. Even in the midst of that when many babies were killed, so many babies were killed, there was something you need to understand that Moses's mom saw that he was a fine child. She hid him for three months. Understand something here. When you have a destiny to fulfill, nobody can stop what God has in store for you.

3:01 Speaker 2: God will make the right people to take risks for you. When there were so many other mothers who loved their babies as much as Moses' mom, they did not take the risk that Moses' mom took. They did not take that risk, or maybe they tried to take the risk, but it didn't work. Today, I want you to understand the fact that you have seen that somebody took the risk for you. The fact that you saw that somebody went the extra mile for you, the fact that you saw that somebody else we're willing to sacrifice their life for you, shows that you know what you're not ordinary.

3:39 Speaker 2: God has a plan for your life. God has a purpose for your life. Today, I want you to understand something here. You know, God protected you. Maybe there's some area in your life you can look back and say, many many years ago, maybe when you were a kid, maybe when you were like twenty years old, or maybe twenty years ago, forty years ago, there was somebody who took a step to protect you. Remember that Moses experienced this. And what I wanted to understand is the Bible station was three. When she could no longer hide him, she got a ty papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch.

4:24 Speaker 2: Okay, she protected Moses in this. Okay, she didn't just do an upposide manner like, she didn't just took some basket. She didn't just take something out there. No, no, no, she took steps, all right, and then she placed him in it and put him among the reeds along the bank of the river, and his sister stood at a distance to see what happened. I wanted to see the hand of God in this.

4:51 Speaker 1: I wanted to.

4:52 Speaker 2: See because you see, when so many babies were getting killed, many mothers they would have loved their kids as much as Moses is. But maybe they were not willing to take the risk, or maybe they took Christs and still failed. But I wanted to understand when moses mom took the step, she was intentional. She she didn't just be like, okay, fine, you know what, I hate him for three months, let him just something, let it just let me just it's it's not in my hands. She could have just anyway. She she may not have the guarantee of ever meeting him again, so she could have just put him in a normal basket and sent But you see, she took the step to quot it with tar and pitch.

5:35 Speaker 2: I wanted to understand there's a reason why. Because when she put Moses in the Nile River, we we don't realize this because most people just read the Bible stories in a very uhficial manner or surface level. I wanted to understand the Nile River had a very dangerous species of crocodiles, okay. And the name of that crocodile is according to the original thing, it's called the crocodile is Nilo tickus. Okay. I'm very bad with names, right. I wanted to get this because I wanted to understand. I'm not making this up right.

6:13 Speaker 2: It's called the crocodile Nilo tickets. So this is a very large native crocodile. And one of the things about this crocodile is this, okay. These are one of the very few species that view humans as their source of food rather than a threat, which means that these crocodiles not only look at humans as a threat, they look at humans as a source of food. This was dangerous territory that Moses was going into. See, I want you to understand. God never said your life will be easy. God never said that when you accept Me as your personal Lord and savior, that you're going to have the enemy giving you a red carpet to go and fulfill your purpose.

6:56 Speaker 2: No, He's going to throw in troubles. And here you see, the crocodiles that Moses faced were not ordinary. They were one of the most dangerous crocodiles. And yet God was protecting Moses see, here's the same thing. You see, Moses's mother took the step to make sure that she didn't just put him in a basket and send him. She made sure that the basket was the best that she could She she had the spirit of excellence. See, God will cause the right people to show that kindness and the and the spirit of excellence and the and and the bright thought.

7:37 Speaker 2: Maybe other mothers did not think that way, but Moses his mother thought that way. And the other thing you see is that not only you see God's hand, you know, convicting Moses' mother to do things in a certain way, but God also protected Moses from one of the deadliest species in that region, these crocodiles. We read the story like, oh, you know, Moses was put in the Nile River, but most people don't realize the depth of the incident because we think of it like a story, not realizing the reality of this story.

8:14 Speaker 2: Because you see, these crocodiles were dangerous and the currents, also depending on the weather, were dangerous. Sometimes they were not that dangerous in the Egyptian region, but sometimes they were pretty dangerous. So Moses was going into very dangerous territory. And the thing you need to understand is Moses had no control of it. That's another message altogether. But I want to tell you something. He had no control. But God was protecting Moses even when nothing was in control, nothing was in his control.

8:47 Speaker 2: Today. That's the word I want to tell you that you may be saying, John, I'm really scared. I don't know what's happening with my life. I do not know what other dangers are in front of me. Like how Moses did not know about the dangers he was going through because he was just three months old. He did not know that he was in a basket. He did not know he was surrounded by dangerous crocodiles. Moses did not know that. But God was protecting Moses. And I want to tell you something. God is protecting you from dangers that you do not know about.

9:19 Speaker 2: God is watching after you. That is where I want you to trust him and say, God, I do not know what are the dangers or I may know certain dangers in front of me, But I pray in Jesus' name that God will give you the strength and the comfort to know that He will protect you. He will watch over you, he will lead you, and he will direct you to where you need to go if you're worried, like, oh my gosh, John, but that's a very scary place to be to leave, lose control and to actually let go and go. Well, I want you to hold on because tomorrow I'm going to share an important word with regard to that, and I will see you back very soon.

9:55 Speaker 2: I challenge you to leave a comment if you're checking this on YouTube or Facebook, and also shout us with someone whom you know needs to hear this word and be encouraged in their walk as well.

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