Walking in Love - Part 12: Love Does Not Envy | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:46 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with John gift of podcast, and I'm so grateful to guard it. You're doing the series on how to practically Walk in Love and we're going to look at various aspects from the love chapter for Squarreantian chapter thirteen. We've been looking at it and today I'm going to talk about one aspect I believe is so needed for us, especially in a time and age when everybody puts everything out there on social media. The minute you go on you see somebody else putting their highlights every time as a Christen single, you see, oh, somebody else gets engaged, or you're waiting for you know, like a child, and you see somebody else posting that they got a child, or they're getting blessed with another baby, or you're looking at somebody else on their vacation trips and you are struggling to meet your daily needs being met, and you're like, oh, my goodness, what is going on?

1:39 Speaker 2: And that's why you have to remember the Bible says in First Currentines thirteen was for that we already spoke about love is patient, love is kind. And today I'm going to talk about an important aspect, love does not envy. I want you to understand this important truth, guys. Love does not envy. And what does the word in me mean? In me means that you feel frustrated or anger towards the fact that somebody else is having what you would like to have. How do you feel when somebody else is walking in the very things you've been praying for?

2:11 Speaker 2: How do you feel when you are reading on God for a job you're looking at somebody else getting three job offers? How do you feel when you are reading on God to get married? But somebody else is getting the things that you would be like, oh my gosh, how did they get together? Why isn't God showing up in my life? Or you're looking at somebody else posting about their kid and you're like, I'm struggling to get a child for this many years. Or they got into this new home and I'm still being ranked in this home, or see, I wanted to understand something here right.

2:46 Speaker 2: God has promised that he would bless us. He has good plans for us when we continue to look up to him, walk in his guidance and his plans and his purposes, and walk in wisdom over the finance he has given us, and walk in with in the way he wants us to contact ourselves. What happens, no good thing? Believe with them that walk up brightly. God's timing is different. God's ways are different, and the way He leads each one of us is different. So today my question is are you in a place of envy when you look at somebody else?

3:16 Speaker 2: First thing, I want to let you know that everybody's starting point is different. You may be looking at someone else and feeling like they are ahead of you in life, but you do not know where they started. Maybe you were far behind, maybe there were hurdles that you had to endure, But it's not at a disadvantage. It's just that God's appointed time. He's going to help you get what He has planned for you, what He has prepared for you. When you think about Joseph in the Bible, you know, the comparer spent a lesser time in the prison than Joseph, but the promotion that Joseph God was bigger than what the comparer got.

3:54 Speaker 2: When the compara went back to the palace, he went back as a comparer. But when Joseph left the prison, he went to the second highest position in the whole kingdom as a prime minister. So I want you to understand that when you wait longer, it's not for you to be envious of somebody else who's getting a blessing in a quicker route. And again, when you say real quicker route, sometimes you do not really know what the other person is going through or has been through. Sometimes. The other day I was talking to this friend of mine, and she knows a lot about the struggles I've been through and retrunning the ministry in the midst of everything, And she said something she said, you know, very few people know about the depth of what I'm going through, And she said, you have actually carried out really well.

4:42 Speaker 2: And she said something very important. She said, a lot of people, you know envy you know somebody who's doing work like the way you do, but they do not know the kind of stuff you've been through or you're going through and still doing what you're doing. And that's why I don't like when people envy. She said this, and that held on to me because I believe that it's true. Right, like we envy someone else not knowing what do they go through, maybe you wouldn't even be able to handle a bit of the kind of challenges they've went through.

5:15 Speaker 2: You know, I've shared this so many times that over the years I've gone through so much of attacks, so much of opposition, so much of pain to endure. So many times I would cry in the bed and so much. I know it's being vulnerable and sharing this, but I've been put off, I've been discounted, I've been made fun of, I've been mocked, I've been ridiculed. I've gone through so much over the years, and the reason I still show up, the reason I still do what I do to do what God has called me to do, is like it's not because it's easy, but because I know that when it's all said and done, I'm blessing lives through this process and at the right appointed time, God will bless and show up in my life.

5:55 Speaker 2: But the three thing is that a lot of times I know this, like, you know, a lot of people would not be able to sustain or survive in the kind of environment or the attacks that I've been through. But you know, like so it makes no sense for somebody to actually be envious or how can you have a top ranking podcast? How can you be a best selling author? How can you travel to nations and preach? Will look at me? But you do not know the kind of attacks I've been through. You do not know how many discouragements I have endured.

6:26 Speaker 2: You do not know how many times I was put down, ridiculed, and mark You do not know like how I go through things behind the scenes and still show up. See, instead of being envious of somebody, think about what they've been through. You know. I love another statement someone said, they said a testimony can either irritate you or it can inspire you. You know, you can either affelate irritated why is God blessing them and not me? Or it can inspire you to say, if God bless them, he will definitely bless me.

6:59 Speaker 2: Because God is a good God. He's not a partial God. If you would stay in faide, he will show up in your life. If you would trust him, he will lead you through the best part He has designed for you. If something is not working in a certain direction, you're not getting what you want in a certain direction, maybe God wants to bless you in a different direction. You know, I want you to get to that place where you say, God, what is it that you want me to endo work on? What is the direction you want me to go?

7:27 Speaker 2: Instead of being envious of somebody else, help me to praise God for them and praise you in advance for what you're about to do in my life. So today I want to pray over each one of you. But if there are areas in your life where you feel envious about somebody or something, Maybe you are envious about someone out there on your social media feed, listen. There are some things you can do, Like if something is affecting your mind, you want to take a break, take a break and follow them for a while, or you want to take a break from social media, generally go ahead and do it.

8:02 Speaker 2: Or if some you know, like if you're feeling like, oh my gosh, why is this person being blessed? If you feel you know, going near them or being near that person is making those envious feeling feelings to rise even more, maybe take a break, take a step back, and pray that God works in your heart to make you deal with that envy and then come to that place of security in God, knowing that God asked you in the best place and he knows when to give you what you need, and then you can you know, reassociate with that person.

8:34 Speaker 2: At the same time, Also remember that the person that you are envious about me have gone through beyond what you can even imagine. So instead of being envious, I pray that we will walk in love and always walk in love and always be people who show that loud one to another. Amen, God bless you.

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