What GOD Taught Me After Losing My Job | Christian Encouragement During Layoffs | John Giftah

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0:45 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, I just want to quickly address something that

0:49 Speaker 2: I believe is so important because we're living in a

0:51 Speaker 2: time and age when so many people are losing their jobs.

0:55 Speaker 2: Or maybe you're looking at people who are losing jobs

0:58 Speaker 2: in your own organization or in your neighborhood, or maybe

1:01 Speaker 2: you're someone who lost the job and you're searching for

1:04 Speaker 2: another organization or an opportunity. I just want you to

1:07 Speaker 2: stay tuned because I believe that I want to share

1:10 Speaker 2: certain experiences as well as words from the Word of God,

1:14 Speaker 2: because I believe these were things that the Lord shared

1:17 Speaker 2: with me and encouraged me through that season, because I

1:20 Speaker 2: want you to understand that as much as people just say, oh,

1:22 Speaker 2: you know what, Oh you lost the job, don't worry,

1:24 Speaker 2: You'll get another one. They just give you these. Don't

1:27 Speaker 2: worry about it. You trust God. You should work hard more,

1:30 Speaker 2: you should try. You know all of these statements people give,

1:32 Speaker 2: and sometimes when you're actually going through that, it doesn't

1:36 Speaker 2: really make sense. It actually makes your questions be more

1:41 Speaker 2: and it makes you feel more angry and frustrated. And

1:45 Speaker 2: because only a person who's going through it will understand

1:48 Speaker 2: the depth of the pain that they are going through.

1:50 Speaker 2: So I just wanted to share from that perspective. First thing,

1:53 Speaker 2: I want to let you know that just because you

1:57 Speaker 2: lost your job does not mean lost your life. Does

2:01 Speaker 2: not mean you lost God's plan away your life. I

2:05 Speaker 2: want you to get this. The Lord we serve, he

2:08 Speaker 2: knows how to keep you at the right place, to

2:10 Speaker 2: keep that as the source for you for a season,

2:13 Speaker 2: and once that job is done, once that assignment is done,

2:16 Speaker 2: once that season is over, he's the one who will

2:20 Speaker 2: lead you out. So just because you lost the job

2:23 Speaker 2: doesn't mean that you've lost it it life. You're not

2:27 Speaker 2: a failure. Just because what you did did not work

2:30 Speaker 2: out does not make you a failure. God never makes

2:35 Speaker 2: anybody a failure. Just because Peter fished all night caught nothing,

2:41 Speaker 2: it didn't make Peter a failure. It just meant that

2:45 Speaker 2: what he did failed at that point of time, but

2:48 Speaker 2: at God's appoint in time, he was able to get

2:52 Speaker 2: ned breaking load of fish. So get this, Sometimes what

2:57 Speaker 2: you did failed, you did your best, you at the

3:00 Speaker 2: spirit of excellence, you went the extra mile, but still

3:03 Speaker 2: you lost a job. But I want you to understand that

3:06 Speaker 2: doesn't make you a failure. Don't allow that job loss

3:12 Speaker 2: caused you to have a dent in your identity. Don't

3:15 Speaker 2: think like, oh my gosh, what am I. I'm a nobody.

3:19 Speaker 2: I don't even have the ability to keep a job,

3:21 Speaker 2: because I still remember the day it happened for me,

3:25 Speaker 2: and I'm walking out, and I'll be honest with you

3:28 Speaker 2: sharing these things. Okay, I remember walking out and as

3:32 Speaker 2: a Christian single, I'm just looking at somebody on the

3:35 Speaker 2: other side, and they immediately say, you don't even have

3:38 Speaker 2: a job, and how dare you look at this person?

3:40 Speaker 2: I was like, just being honest with you. You know,

3:43 Speaker 2: the enemy will immediately put you feel like like even

3:47 Speaker 2: when I would go to the malls, I would feel

3:50 Speaker 2: so embarrassed and a shamed like everybody else has a

3:53 Speaker 2: job and you don't, and it's like the pain and

3:57 Speaker 2: the embarrassment and the shame associated with it can be

4:00 Speaker 2: really really bad. Right. But I want you to understand

4:04 Speaker 2: that that's a way where you can say, God, help

4:08 Speaker 2: me to place my identity not on my job, but

4:11 Speaker 2: on who you made me to be. I might not

4:14 Speaker 2: have an assignment right now, I may not have a

4:16 Speaker 2: job right now, but that doesn't mean that I'm useless.

4:20 Speaker 2: That doesn't mean that I'm worthless, because my worth does

4:24 Speaker 2: not come from my job. It comes from being a

4:28 Speaker 2: child of the King. Okay, that's the first thing I

4:30 Speaker 2: want to say. The second thing I want you to

4:32 Speaker 2: understand is when you look at Elijah from First King,

4:36 Speaker 2: chapter seventeen, Right, there was a moment when God was

4:40 Speaker 2: feeding Elijah through the ravens by a brook. Okay, but

4:46 Speaker 2: I want you to understand when you look at verse

4:48 Speaker 2: seven essays but after a while the brook dried up

4:51 Speaker 2: because there was no rain in the land. So there's

4:54 Speaker 2: a moment when he's being fed by ravens and he's

4:58 Speaker 2: drinking the water by the brook, and what happens the

5:02 Speaker 2: brook dries up. Okay, there are so many revelations we

5:06 Speaker 2: can learn from this. I will talk about it in

5:08 Speaker 2: other podcast segments and all of that. But this is

5:11 Speaker 2: a powerful revelation that the Lot showed me that. When

5:14 Speaker 2: you look at verse eight, then the word of the

5:16 Speaker 2: Lord came to him and said, a rise, go to

5:19 Speaker 2: Zerah Fair, which belongs to sed On, andwell there I

5:22 Speaker 2: have commanded a widow there to feed you. So think

5:26 Speaker 2: about this. When the brook dried for Elijah, he didn't

5:31 Speaker 2: go searching for another brook. He was there un till

5:36 Speaker 2: God gave him another word saying, I would want you

5:39 Speaker 2: to go to this place where I have commanded a

5:43 Speaker 2: widow to feed you. I wanted to think about this.

5:46 Speaker 2: See the minute you lose a job, sometimes we're like, oh,

5:49 Speaker 2: I lost a job. Let me frantically search for another job.

5:52 Speaker 2: I don't care what is the culture, I don't care

5:54 Speaker 2: what the situation is. I don't care the package, I

5:58 Speaker 2: don't care the location. I need a job. So sometimes

6:01 Speaker 2: we walk out under desperation. Prove drying could have been

6:06 Speaker 2: a place where Eleja could have said, oh my goodness,

6:09 Speaker 2: this brook is right. Let me immediately go search for

6:11 Speaker 2: another brook before I don't have any water. What will

6:14 Speaker 2: I do? But he did not operate by what he saw.

6:19 Speaker 2: He operated by what he heard from the voice of God.

6:23 Speaker 2: This is a message for some of you at the

6:25 Speaker 2: moment when you lost a job, or you're about to

6:27 Speaker 2: lose a job, maybe there's a sign that you might

6:31 Speaker 2: lose your job, don't operate under desperation. This is a

6:35 Speaker 2: moment for you to say, you know what, God, what

6:39 Speaker 2: do you want me to do? What do you want

6:42 Speaker 2: me to do in this season? What do you want

6:45 Speaker 2: me to take as a step, Maybe take up some

6:48 Speaker 2: course that the Lord is leading you to, maybe change

6:51 Speaker 2: your domain, maybe change your direction altogether. Maybe the Lord

6:56 Speaker 2: is calling in a totally different direction. Maybe if you're

6:59 Speaker 2: in the nine to five, maybe the Lord is asking

7:00 Speaker 2: you to take a step towards a business that he's

7:03 Speaker 2: been asking you to start for a long time. Or

7:05 Speaker 2: sometimes it may not be like that. It can be

7:08 Speaker 2: God is saying, okay, you know what, you've been in

7:10 Speaker 2: the technical domain for so long. Maybe I'm leading you

7:13 Speaker 2: to go in the hr domain, just giving you an example.

7:17 Speaker 2: Or maybe the Lord is saying, maybe this is the season.

7:19 Speaker 2: I want you to just sit and go through these courses,

7:24 Speaker 2: be prepared and be equipped, learn to trust me. In

7:27 Speaker 2: the season, I'm going to feed you, and at the

7:30 Speaker 2: right time, I will open that next door for you.

7:33 Speaker 2: Maybe the Lord is going to say that because even

7:36 Speaker 2: in this case, Elijah was still not in a place

7:40 Speaker 2: where he could be independent. He had to be dependent.

7:43 Speaker 2: What happened, God fed through the ravens now is saying,

7:47 Speaker 2: you know what, I'm not asking you to be independent now.

7:50 Speaker 2: I want you to be fed by this widow. So

7:54 Speaker 2: get to that place. Even if you lost your job.

7:57 Speaker 2: Maybe this is a beautiful time for you to say, Lord,

8:00 Speaker 2: help me to not waste this time. Just help me

8:03 Speaker 2: to put my best foot forward and getting the best

8:06 Speaker 2: rec you may or getting the best preparation done, that's

8:09 Speaker 2: another part. But help me to also use this time

8:14 Speaker 2: to grow closer to you, to hear your voice closely,

8:18 Speaker 2: so that I will be able to discern your voice

8:20 Speaker 2: in the midst of the noise. And after that I

8:24 Speaker 2: want you to understand is that you go to that

8:27 Speaker 2: place of preparation, you balance, Like I remember when I

8:31 Speaker 2: went through the season, I said God, I don't want

8:33 Speaker 2: to waste this time. I want to take care of

8:35 Speaker 2: my physical body. I want to take care of my

8:37 Speaker 2: mental body. I want to take care of my spiritual body.

8:40 Speaker 2: I spend quality time with the Lord, went deep on

8:42 Speaker 2: my walk with him, learned the scriptures in a deep way,

8:47 Speaker 2: and develop my walk with him. And what else did

8:50 Speaker 2: I do? You know? I was preparing every interview. I

8:55 Speaker 2: made sure that if this was the organization God had

8:58 Speaker 2: for me, I would put my best foot for go

9:01 Speaker 2: with the spirit of excellence, pray in tongues, and even

9:05 Speaker 2: through the interviews, I would just speak and said, God,

9:08 Speaker 2: if this is not of you, close the door. Even

9:11 Speaker 2: if ninety nine jobs close, it's okay. Let the right

9:14 Speaker 2: one open for me. I don't want to waste time

9:16 Speaker 2: on the ninety nine that's not meant for me. I

9:19 Speaker 2: didn't bother. I stood my ground on the convictions. I said, God,

9:23 Speaker 2: I don't want a job that will choke my calling.

9:25 Speaker 2: I want a job that will help me push me

9:28 Speaker 2: towards my purpose. That's a lesson I want you to have.

9:32 Speaker 2: Instead of just moving in desperation, moving out of pressure,

9:36 Speaker 2: moving out of you know that panic mode, go to

9:40 Speaker 2: that place where you allow the spirit of God to

9:43 Speaker 2: lead you, to guide you. Okay, Like I said with Elijah,

9:48 Speaker 2: he didn't operate in that panic mode searching for another brook.

9:52 Speaker 2: He went to that place where he was led by

9:55 Speaker 2: the spirit of God. And that's a beautiful place. I

9:58 Speaker 2: challenge you to go. And after that, I want you

10:02 Speaker 2: to be encouraged that. You may say, John, but there

10:06 Speaker 2: are so many people losing their jobs. How can I

10:08 Speaker 2: be toosy? How can I be in a place where

10:10 Speaker 2: I will stand my conviction I need some job? But

10:14 Speaker 2: can I tell you something, When you wait at the

10:17 Speaker 2: right appointed time, God will open the right doors for you.

10:21 Speaker 2: See when you think about Joseph in the Bible, right

10:27 Speaker 2: there was no position in that time as the prime

10:30 Speaker 2: minister equivalent of Egypt. There was no position like that.

10:33 Speaker 2: But just for Joseph, God prepared a position for him

10:37 Speaker 2: in the palace. See, I want you to understand that's

10:41 Speaker 2: the God be sir. Just for one man, God prepared

10:46 Speaker 2: the second highest position in the most powerful nation in

10:51 Speaker 2: the world of that time, Egypt. You can't make that happen,

10:55 Speaker 2: but God can. What I'm saying is when you trust Him,

10:59 Speaker 2: when you are being you know in the place where

11:02 Speaker 2: you trust the Lord, doing your best, having the spirit

11:04 Speaker 2: of excellence and trusting him and just waiting it out.

11:09 Speaker 2: I want you to understand it's worth the wait, because

11:11 Speaker 2: when God blesses you, he will open a door no

11:14 Speaker 2: man can shut. He will convince the right person to

11:17 Speaker 2: hire you. How did the Pharaoh believe in Joseph enough

11:21 Speaker 2: to say, even though Joseph was only a convict from

11:24 Speaker 2: the prison at that point of time, How did the

11:26 Speaker 2: Pharaoh believe in Joseph so much that he said, you

11:28 Speaker 2: know what, I'm going to make you in charge of

11:33 Speaker 2: everything in the kingdom. How did he trust him? That's

11:38 Speaker 2: God same way the right manager or the right boss,

11:43 Speaker 2: or the right hiring individual is going to trust you

11:48 Speaker 2: and believe in you and be convinced enough to say

11:51 Speaker 2: you're the one for the job. You're the man for

11:54 Speaker 2: the job. God will do that. You don't have to

11:59 Speaker 2: you know, like work or strive without strife. You know,

12:02 Speaker 2: like a lot of people are just striving now. You

12:05 Speaker 2: just be your best. You just be your best. See

12:08 Speaker 2: when you think about even David, when he got the

12:12 Speaker 2: opportunity to defeat Goliath, he didn't have to prove himself

12:17 Speaker 2: to the King Saul and say, hey, please give me

12:21 Speaker 2: the chance. What did he He just gave in his credentials.

12:24 Speaker 2: You know what, I have defeated the lion and the pair.

12:27 Speaker 2: If you are strong on your credentials, you don't have

12:29 Speaker 2: to worry. If you worked hard in the previous organization

12:32 Speaker 2: instead of playing the fool, you don't have to worry.

12:34 Speaker 2: You just asked the Lord to give you the wisdom

12:37 Speaker 2: to share the knowledge or put out the information. He

12:40 Speaker 2: shared the strategy he used in defeating the lion and

12:43 Speaker 2: the back. He said, if the animal came behind, I

12:47 Speaker 2: know how to tackle. He gave the strategy. He was

12:50 Speaker 2: not just blindly saying, oh you know what, I trust God.

12:53 Speaker 2: He knew what he was talking about. See if you

12:56 Speaker 2: know what you're talking about. When you know that you're

12:59 Speaker 2: done your best, you don't have to worry. You keep

13:03 Speaker 2: putting yourself out there, be your best, sharpen your skills.

13:07 Speaker 2: At the right op time, God will open the right door.

13:11 Speaker 2: He will make sure that he will give you the

13:14 Speaker 2: job or the client or the opportunity that will enable

13:18 Speaker 2: you to not just get a job, so that you

13:21 Speaker 2: will be like, oh, thank God, I have a job,

13:23 Speaker 2: and then read the job for the rest of your life. No,

13:26 Speaker 2: he'll give you a job that you will look back

13:28 Speaker 2: and say, Lord, I thank you for this job. It

13:31 Speaker 2: was just I got this. I'm like thanking him every day,

13:35 Speaker 2: multiple times. Lord, I thank you for this manager, Thank

13:38 Speaker 2: you for the job, Thank you for this. Because you

13:40 Speaker 2: know what, when God blesses you, the Bible says that

13:43 Speaker 2: the blessings of the Lord will add no sorty to it.

13:46 Speaker 2: It's like something that you look at. I'm not saying

13:48 Speaker 2: you want have problems, by the way. What I'm saying

13:51 Speaker 2: is the Lord knows how to bless you with the best,

13:54 Speaker 2: and he will do it for you. I really challenge

13:57 Speaker 2: you to think about this, and I'm going to pray

14:01 Speaker 2: for you. If you're searching for a job, or if

14:03 Speaker 2: there's a loud one who's searching for a job, I

14:05 Speaker 2: really challenge you to share this with someone. Make sure

14:08 Speaker 2: you share this with someone who needs this encouragement, because

14:11 Speaker 2: I believe this is so important for such a time

14:13 Speaker 2: as this, God, I want to pray over those who

14:15 Speaker 2: are watching listening from around the world, if they have

14:18 Speaker 2: lost their job, or they're having that fear of losing

14:20 Speaker 2: their job, or if they're in the place where they

14:23 Speaker 2: have a loved one who's looking for a job and

14:24 Speaker 2: they do not know what to do. I pray that

14:26 Speaker 2: this word will encourage them, that these revelations that challenged

14:30 Speaker 2: me and encouraged me through that tough season will challenge

14:34 Speaker 2: and encourage those people through their tough times. And I

14:37 Speaker 2: speak it over them in the name of Jesus Christ,

14:40 Speaker 2: that the Lord who opened the door just for Joseph,

14:43 Speaker 2: the Lord who opened the door just for me, will

14:45 Speaker 2: open a door just for them, in the name of

14:48 Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. That they will not just say, oh, I

14:50 Speaker 2: got a job and I'm happy. They'll say, look what

14:52 Speaker 2: the Lord is done. When I waited against all arts,

14:55 Speaker 2: stood my ground on my convictions, the Lord opened the

14:58 Speaker 2: door exactly the way I was praying, and he made

15:02 Speaker 2: sure that I would step into it and fulfill the

15:05 Speaker 2: purpose that He has since so for meet it. In

15:07 Speaker 2: the name of Jesus, I pray, Amen and Amen, I

15:10 Speaker 2: really can't wait to hear the testimonies that you will

15:14 Speaker 2: share it.

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