Walking by Faith When Life Feels Unclear | Mount Everest Faith Lessons | John Giftah | Christian Sermon 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, and 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 Gifta.

0:45 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta podcast. If you've been checking out our episodes. For this week, we're doing various lessons from God's Word based on climbing Mount Everest and how to apply that to climbing the mountains that God has in store for us with regard to our calling and our purpose as well. So today, one of the things I wanted to understand is that when you talk about Mount Everest, right, it is at over eighty eight hundred meters above mean sea level and about seven nine hundred meters above mean sea level.

1:15 Speaker 2: It is known as something called as the death zone. I don't know if you've heard of it, but it's called death zone because the oxygen level is only one third of what it is over here, and your body literally starts dying because you can't think properly. You can't the logical reasoning out there. You will not be able to make any good decisions, and your physical body literally starts dying. You can't see properly. You have to completely rely on the information and data that you received while you are still below the death zone.

1:47 Speaker 2: So this is a moment where people push right in the last moment where it's so strenguing and like they can't really focus, but they have to get it done. So from Camp four they go to the summit and they come back and they have to rely on whatever they've learned so far. They have to rely and just go by what people call us fate, a fate because it's like whatever happens happens, because the weather can change suddenly, there can be some disruption, or you could lose your life anything, they call it fate.

2:18 Speaker 2: So they literally call it at the dead zone. But today I wanted to understand, as we are something the calling over our life, the mountain of calling, the mountain of purpose over our life. In little sense, we would be going to a zone that can be called as the dead zone by normal people, but it will be known as the faith zone. That's what I want you to understand, because you see the similarity here. This is a zone where you can't go by what you see because your eyesight is actually affected. And the Bible says in Second Corinthians five or seven that you and I need to go by not by what you see, but what you can't go by what you see, but you have to go by faith.

2:59 Speaker 2: Right. I want you to understand this is a moment where if you're saying I want to fulfill my God given calling and summit the mountain that God has in store for me, you cannot go by what you see. You have to go by faith. This is no one has the faith zone for a reason. That's why I call it the faith zone. And you can't go by logical reasoning. Oh, this is how I reason things out. This is my rational way of thinking, my logical explanation over this situation. No, you can't do that when you are summitting the hill of the Lord, something, the calling over your life, something, the mountain of purpose over your life.

3:36 Speaker 2: See. It also reminds me of the Scripture. It says in Proverbs chapter three was five and six. When you look at it, it says, trust in the Lord, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways. Acknowledge Him, and he will direct your steps. It says something very profound, lean not on your own understanding. Right, if you're really serious about something, the hill of the Lord, something, the mounted or purpose that God has in store for you, you cannot go by what you see. You cannot go by your own thinking.

4:10 Speaker 2: You have to be completely dependent on the Lord. You have to be in a place where you're saying, you know what, it doesn't make sense. In the natural. People may laugh at you, people may market you, people may say, what are you doing with your life? It doesn't make sense. It may not make sense to them, But that is the calling that God has over you. So you need to be accountable to God and start walking in it. And for you to walk in towards the summit of purpose that God has for you, you had to understand that you can't do that by yourself.

4:41 Speaker 2: You can't do that by your own like, oh, this is the logical way of looking at it. This is the way I do it by you know, seeing. Say, one of the things not many people know is that I'm actually an aerospace engineer, okay, and I love aeroplanes. And here's the thing I wanted to understand. When you look at aeroplanes when they're flying in this the pilot doesn't look there and be like, okay, you know what, I think this is a place where we need to go left or we need to go right. Like, the pilot cannot make decisions by what he sees, especially if you see the aeroplane, especially when it's flying in the night, you can't see anything.

5:19 Speaker 2: Okay. Sometimes when a pilot wants to land the plane, okay, they may be able to get certain things by visually looking at where the runway is and all of that. But when they're flying, they can't just go by what they see. When they are in that altitude, right, Mount Everest is an altitude like how the aeroplanes are flying in the high altitude right, so you can't go by what you see. The pilot doesn't go by what he sees. The pilot cannot make logical, rational thinking when he's up there. He has to look at the readings on the parameters that are in front of him.

5:58 Speaker 2: You and I need to look into our readings, and that is God's word. And the pilot listens to the voice from the atc or he listens to the voice that he receives as communications come from the various towers. And I want you to think about this. You need to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit guiding you. I'm going to talk more about it than the next segment, but today I want you to think about this. Are you in a place where you're willing to go by faith to a place where you're saying it doesn't make sense in the natural, I'm not able to see away.

6:32 Speaker 2: I'm not able to make rational decisions by looking at it. I'm not in a position to do that. I'm just going by faith. I'm just allowing God to lead me, and I know that He will enable me to land safely. He will lead me to the summit that God has for me. Say, I want to just close with this example from my life. Right there was a season I was sharing about it even in one of the episodes recently that life just took a toe like I had a huge financial loss. Three months later, I had a job loss. Two months later, my help took on a toll.

7:07 Speaker 2: It was one after another. It didn't make sense. People were like, what's going on, what's happening with your life? Maybe you did something wrong. God is punishing you. People said all sort sustinct. But I knew my relationship with God was at the pets and I said, God, you know what. I don't understand it. I can't see it. I can't see anything. I can't make a rational decision because nothing makes sense in the natural. But I just trust you. I just go by faith. I believe this is the season as part of your plan over my life.

7:37 Speaker 2: I went by faith in this season, this is what is available. I focused on what was available in front of me, the courses I could do, the production quality that I was able to develop over the ministry, the podcast, the content, everything that I could do. I focused. People said, oh, you should focus on the things that matter. How you're not getting a job, You need this, you need that. But can I tell you something. I went by faith. It doesn't make sense. I can't make logical thinking and reasoning out of this situation.

8:10 Speaker 2: I'm not able to see away, but I just trust God. I don't go by what I see. I go by what the Lord says. I go by what he's showing me through his word. And I challenge you it's not an easy journey, but that's a part and parcel of our journey towards the calling that God has for us. And I challenge each one of you to be willing to step into that journey, to go by faith into the death zone, because I'm telling you, if you don't have faith, it's a little death zone. But when you go by faith and not by sight, you will be able to fulfill the purpose that God has since store for you.

8:49 Speaker 2: I encourage you to stay tuned for the next episode because that's so important in the series. And I challenge you to leave a comment if you're checking this out on YouTube or Facebook, and also chat us with someone.

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