Used by GOD Despite Limitations (Galatians 4:13-14) | Christian Sermon | 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.

0:48 Speaker 2: But I want to quickly start by sharing a verse

0:51 Speaker 2: with you, and I want to take this forward because

0:53 Speaker 2: I believe that this is something that really spoke to me,

0:55 Speaker 2: stood out to me when I was going through the

0:57 Speaker 2: scriptures this morning, and it is found in Galatians chapter four.

1:02 Speaker 2: If you just go down this passage, there's a moment

1:06 Speaker 2: when the apostle Paul says this as he addresses them.

1:09 Speaker 2: He says this in verse thirteen. Surely you remember that

1:13 Speaker 2: I was sick when I first brought you the good news.

1:17 Speaker 2: But even though my condition tempted you to reject me.

1:21 Speaker 2: You did not despise me or turn me away. No,

1:25 Speaker 2: you took me in and cared for me. As so

1:29 Speaker 2: I'm an angel from God or even Christ Jesus himself.

1:33 Speaker 2: I know this seems like an arbitrary passage that I

1:36 Speaker 2: just took you through a very random place, but it

1:41 Speaker 2: really caught up and spoke to me, because you know,

1:44 Speaker 2: sometimes we look at the condition that we're in, We

1:46 Speaker 2: look at the struggles we are in the season that

1:49 Speaker 2: you were in, We look at all the limitations. Maybe

1:52 Speaker 2: you're in chains, Maybe there are addictions that are secret

1:55 Speaker 2: since you're dealing with, or maybe you have a health condition.

1:58 Speaker 2: Maybe you are d with some area where you know

2:02 Speaker 2: that it's not the best. You want got to show

2:04 Speaker 2: up and show out. You want God to heal you,

2:07 Speaker 2: deliver you, set you free. You want God to help

2:11 Speaker 2: you walk in the wholeness and the and and the

2:13 Speaker 2: fullness of what He has in store for you. But

2:16 Speaker 2: but you're still having this struggle. You're still having this

2:20 Speaker 2: this pain, You're going through this turmoil. You're going through

2:22 Speaker 2: this chain that is limiting you, chaining you and and

2:26 Speaker 2: and and causing you to you know, and not experience

2:29 Speaker 2: the fullness of the freedom that you are preaching to

2:32 Speaker 2: others about. You may be in a position like that.

2:35 Speaker 2: You're saying, maybe I'm not fit to preach, I'm not

2:37 Speaker 2: fit to minister. Maybe God cannot use me because I

2:40 Speaker 2: have all these issues that I'm dealing with myself. The

2:43 Speaker 2: apostle pole is saying, I was sick when I preached

2:45 Speaker 2: to you, but still you accepted me, and you accepted

2:49 Speaker 2: me as so I was an angel or you know

2:51 Speaker 2: that the Lord himself sent me, or Jesus send me.

2:55 Speaker 2: You know you are so kind, and you know that

2:57 Speaker 2: really caught my attention because you know, even Yester, I

3:00 Speaker 2: felt like I was so unworthy to be a minister.

3:03 Speaker 2: I felt like, oh my gosh, I have all these

3:04 Speaker 2: areas where I'm not perfect. I have all these areas

3:08 Speaker 2: that I'm still dealing with. I felt like, oh my goodness,

3:10 Speaker 2: you know I'm not perfect. As much as I want

3:13 Speaker 2: to be, I want to acknowledge God in all my ways.

3:16 Speaker 2: This is something I was preaching to you about just

3:18 Speaker 2: last week. But there are areas I'm still struggling where

3:20 Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm not able to literally,

3:25 Speaker 2: you know, experience the fullness of it in my own life.

3:28 Speaker 2: You know, I'm just being authentic. I'm just being myself

3:30 Speaker 2: and sharing this with you. And at that point of time,

3:33 Speaker 2: the Lord was giving me this word to say, yes,

3:35 Speaker 2: you may be having areas that you are not still

3:38 Speaker 2: seeing the fullness of what God has for you. Maybe

3:40 Speaker 2: the fullness of the freedom, the fullness of the wholeness,

3:44 Speaker 2: the fullness of the kind of life, the abundant life,

3:47 Speaker 2: the fullness of life that God came to give you.

3:49 Speaker 2: And Jesus said in John ten ten, you know, in

3:52 Speaker 2: spite of that, I can still use you. In spite

3:55 Speaker 2: of that, I'm still using you. You know, yesterday while

3:58 Speaker 2: I was feeling low, you know, the Lord led me

4:01 Speaker 2: and I happened to minister to somebody and it was

4:03 Speaker 2: so astonishing because as I preached and I gave a word,

4:07 Speaker 2: you know that you know that the person is experience.

4:09 Speaker 2: I was just praying over the telephone and I said,

4:12 Speaker 2: you know what, I see a vision of the you

4:15 Speaker 2: knowing of God coming on you like electricity. And this

4:17 Speaker 2: other person said that while I was sharing that, she

4:21 Speaker 2: was experiencing like electricity coming through her through the telephone.

4:25 Speaker 2: You're like all over our body at that moment, I

4:28 Speaker 2: realized that, yes I may not be perfect. Yes I

4:30 Speaker 2: may have areas that I'm still praying and asking God

4:33 Speaker 2: to change. I'm asking God to intervene. I'm asking God

4:36 Speaker 2: to perfect in some areas of my life. But in

4:39 Speaker 2: spite of my imperfections, in spite of my struggles, in

4:42 Speaker 2: spite of my weaknesses, in spite of you know, the

4:45 Speaker 2: challenges that I'm facing, the limitations and the change that

4:48 Speaker 2: I'm holding on that I'm trying to break out of.

4:51 Speaker 2: I want you to understand it was It was like

4:53 Speaker 2: God was saying, you know what. The apostle Paul had

4:55 Speaker 2: his own chain at that moment. He had his own

4:57 Speaker 2: sickness at that moment, but God did not allow that

5:02 Speaker 2: to stop him from being a blessing to those people.

5:06 Speaker 2: And that same thing happened to me. God did not

5:10 Speaker 2: allow my limitations or the change to limit me from

5:14 Speaker 2: being a blessing to somebody else. I want you to

5:16 Speaker 2: understand that, you know, God can use you in spite

5:19 Speaker 2: of your change. God can use you to be a

5:21 Speaker 2: light in the darkness. God can use you in your workplace.

5:25 Speaker 2: God can use you in your schools and colleges. God

5:27 Speaker 2: can use you whenever He has placed you, in your neighborhood,

5:30 Speaker 2: in your community, wherever God has placed you. Stop looking

5:34 Speaker 2: at your limitations, stop looking at your change, Stop looking

5:37 Speaker 2: and focusing on the on the sickness or the health condition,

5:42 Speaker 2: or the mental health condition, or whatever you're dealing with today,

5:47 Speaker 2: even emotionally. I want you to understand, if you committed

5:50 Speaker 2: to God, God can still use you. In the name

5:53 Speaker 2: of Jesus, I pray God is going to use you.

5:57 Speaker 2: Receive it in the name of Jesus. God, bless you.

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