Waiting for Your Miracle? Be Ready Like David Was for Goliath! Christian Sermon | John Giftah

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

0:49 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:51 Speaker 2: the Soul with John gift of podcast. But I want

0:53 Speaker 2: to ask you this question, are you really ready? I

0:57 Speaker 2: want you to understand that maybe in some way area

1:00 Speaker 2: of your life, you've been praying for a miracle, praying

1:02 Speaker 2: for a change, praying for a breakthrough, praying for God

1:04 Speaker 2: to show up and show out in your life. Maybe

1:07 Speaker 2: you want an opportunity that's going to be life changing.

1:10 Speaker 2: Maybe you've been praying that God will bring the right

1:12 Speaker 2: person across your path. Maybe you're praying that God will

1:16 Speaker 2: you know trust you to new levels. Maybe you will

1:18 Speaker 2: be suddenly put on the spot and you want to

1:20 Speaker 2: get into this dream job opportunity, dream opportunity that's going

1:25 Speaker 2: to change the rejectory of your life. Or maybe vit

1:28 Speaker 2: reguard to a course, or maybe you know you're praying

1:31 Speaker 2: with regard to your calling, your business, your ministry, or

1:35 Speaker 2: your presence online or anything for that matter. My question

1:39 Speaker 2: is you're praying for the miracle, but are you really

1:41 Speaker 2: ready for the miracle? Are you really prepared enough? Are

1:44 Speaker 2: you in a position where if the miracle comes to

1:47 Speaker 2: you right now you'll be able to take it up?

1:50 Speaker 2: You know, for example, if you're saying I want to

1:52 Speaker 2: be in this kind of a cad or I want

1:54 Speaker 2: to be on if you're into singing, for example, you're saying,

1:58 Speaker 2: you know what, I want to get to the level

1:59 Speaker 2: of American Idol or Indian Idol, or you're saying, you

2:02 Speaker 2: know what, I want my talents to go on, you know,

2:05 Speaker 2: something like big as God Talent, Or you're saying I'm

2:08 Speaker 2: a good speaker, I want to get into something like

2:10 Speaker 2: ted X And yes, the thing I wanted to understand right,

2:13 Speaker 2: you're praying for the miracle, but if the opportunity came

2:17 Speaker 2: your way this minute, are you ready for it? Can

2:20 Speaker 2: you take it up? Can you say, you know what, sure,

2:23 Speaker 2: I can audition for this right now, even though I'm

2:25 Speaker 2: not practiced, I'm ready for it. Can you get to

2:28 Speaker 2: that place? That's what I want to challenge. You. See,

2:30 Speaker 2: when you think about the story of David, you know,

2:33 Speaker 2: we look at how wow, David was able to defeat Goliath.

2:37 Speaker 2: But the opportunity came to him suddenly out of the blue.

2:40 Speaker 2: He had no clue it was coming his way. He

2:42 Speaker 2: in fact went just to meet with his brothers. But

2:45 Speaker 2: here's the thing. Amazingly, it just got my attention how

2:48 Speaker 2: he goes all the way to give food to his brothers,

2:51 Speaker 2: just a menial task. You know, he could have just

2:54 Speaker 2: taken the bag and gone and given his brothers what

2:58 Speaker 2: even needed and come back. But what really caught my

3:02 Speaker 2: attention was he goes there and then he comes to

3:05 Speaker 2: know that there's this philistine Goliath too, staunting the people

3:09 Speaker 2: of God. And he says, you know what, let me go,

3:12 Speaker 2: And the Lord gives him the baldness, the courage, and

3:15 Speaker 2: he says, let me go and defeat this Goliath. Here's

3:19 Speaker 2: the thing that really caught my attention. Right when you

3:21 Speaker 2: look at verse forty, and I'm reading from the Nalty version,

3:25 Speaker 2: this is what it says. Then he took his staff

3:28 Speaker 2: in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream,

3:33 Speaker 2: put them in the pouch of his shepherd's bag, and

3:36 Speaker 2: with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine. Here's

3:39 Speaker 2: the thing I wanted to understand. With his sling in

3:44 Speaker 2: his hand. He didn't go there for this for fighting.

3:49 Speaker 2: He went to just give food to his brothers. But

3:52 Speaker 2: even there he was ready with a sling. Imagine he

3:55 Speaker 2: went there and he was like, oh my goodness, maybe

3:57 Speaker 2: I should have brought my sling. Maybe I should have

4:00 Speaker 2: brought you know, some some things that could be ready

4:04 Speaker 2: for this. You know, like he didn't do that. He

4:07 Speaker 2: was ready. Right. What I'm saying is, if you're praying,

4:11 Speaker 2: you know I need to go to a certain place,

4:14 Speaker 2: have you at least taken your passport? You know, the

4:16 Speaker 2: other day I was coming across somebody's statement. You know

4:20 Speaker 2: that somebody was saying, oh, I want to travel to

4:22 Speaker 2: the nations. And when you ask them, like, did you

4:25 Speaker 2: at least have your passport ready? No? I don't have it.

4:28 Speaker 2: You know, that's what is the element that I'm trying

4:31 Speaker 2: to say. If you're praying for a miracle, you need

4:33 Speaker 2: to get things ready, You need to do what you

4:37 Speaker 2: need to do. Then God will do what only God

4:39 Speaker 2: can do right when the opportunity comes. That is not

4:42 Speaker 2: the moment for you to say, oh, let me go

4:44 Speaker 2: try and apply for a passport, apply for a visa. No,

4:48 Speaker 2: you get ready. God will open the right door for you.

4:51 Speaker 2: That's the word for some of you right now that

4:53 Speaker 2: you know what. If you're praying for a miracle, you

4:55 Speaker 2: can't like David. David couldn't say, let me go back

4:58 Speaker 2: to my hometown and get my selling shot and then't

5:01 Speaker 2: come back. No. He he had to be ready when

5:03 Speaker 2: the opportunity came, you know. He couldn't say, give me

5:06 Speaker 2: five days let me practice my selling shot, like give

5:08 Speaker 2: me give me some time. I didn't want to fast

5:10 Speaker 2: and pray. Then I will come. No, Goliath will not

5:13 Speaker 2: be there. Right you, You you have to understand something

5:16 Speaker 2: very important. Right if you are praying for a miracle,

5:19 Speaker 2: praying for a breakthrough, be ready, be absolutely ready, because

5:25 Speaker 2: you never know when the opportunity is going to come.

5:27 Speaker 1: Away.

5:28 Speaker 2: Many times in my life. I've seen this as a preacher,

5:32 Speaker 2: when at least expected I would get somebody calling me

5:35 Speaker 2: and saying, I want you to preach today. I want

5:37 Speaker 2: you to preach in the next ten minutes. It just

5:39 Speaker 2: happened to me, you know, I would be walking towards

5:44 Speaker 2: something and then somebody would just call me and say,

5:46 Speaker 2: can you come in ten minutes and preach you you

5:48 Speaker 2: know it's it's It's literally happened so many times. If

5:51 Speaker 2: I said, no, I need I need to fast and

5:54 Speaker 2: pray for three days and then I'm going to come

5:55 Speaker 2: and prey. Sure, I need to you know, practice or

5:59 Speaker 2: prepare and I'm going to preach. No, I can't be

6:02 Speaker 2: so what I do even when I don't get an opportunity,

6:04 Speaker 2: I'm always in the presence of the Lord. I always

6:06 Speaker 2: have the relationship with God and prepare myself because when

6:10 Speaker 2: the opportunity comes, I will just take it up. And

6:13 Speaker 2: that's the way I want you to approach every area

6:17 Speaker 2: that you'll praying for a miracle in your life. Amen,

6:20 Speaker 2: God bless you.

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