What If You're Not As Ordinary As You Think? | John Giftah | Your Identity as GOD's Child | Biblical Teaching

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, in 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.

0:47 Speaker 2: Hello, remind Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta podcast. All through this week, we are looking at various aspects that we can look at or understand about God as a heavenly Father. If you did not know about this, I know I've spoken a lot about my debut book and Bail a Purpose, which talks about finding a purpose, which became a number one best seller on Amazon, which is where I emphasize and focus a lot on. But I've authored multiple books and the very first book that I ever wrote was the book called who am I called?

1:19 Speaker 2: Which is all about our identity in Christ. And I want you to understand that a lot of Christians are walking in this place where they struggle to accept who God actually made them to be. They're just feeling like, look at the world, like everything looks like, oh my gosh. You know, you see these picture perfect images on social media. You look at these people who have flawless glasses of skin, and there's all of this pressure because if you notice, on my podcast, I've got the chance to interview even run out Olive Wood actresses, including someone who was an Ammy Award winning Alliwood actress and New York top model and all of that.

2:02 Speaker 2: See, I want you to understand, like when I've got to interview or rough shoulders with them, one of the things I noticed is that even in such spaces that we look up and say, oh my gosh, this person has that beautiful, you know figure, or this this attractiveness that is attached, or they have the standard of beauty, standard of attraction, or standard of who the person is as a model, but even they have shared half how people over there or even in those surrounding circles, there is this figure of oh I'm not good enough.

2:40 Speaker 2: There's something that's like I'm not at par with the standard, or that that feeling of not good enough, because that's one thing that has been unsettling for a lot of people. And maybe today you are in that place yourself. You're feeling like John. I know the Bible says things like in first Feter two ninas is, you're a chosen generation, you're a royal priesthood. And you're saying, I don't feel like I'm from the royal priesthood. I don't feel royalty because the Bible says that we are children of God, and which means that God is the king of Kings, which means that we are children of the King of Kings and the lot of lords.

3:19 Speaker 2: And that puts us in a place of royalty. And you may say, I don't feel anything like I'm of the royal origin. I don't feel anything that puts me in that place. See, and you look at first John three, verse one, it says, behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God? Okay, so the law of God is that he has adopted us. I've shared these scriptures with you, like if you see through the Book of Romans, chapter eight, verse fifteen and sixteen, and even if you look at the Bible in Ephesians two nineteen, it says we are members of the household of God.

3:59 Speaker 2: I wanted to understand something very important here, like we're from the family of the King of kings and a lot of us. That puts us in that place of royalty. Whether you feel like it or not, whether you understand it or not, You're not ordinary. You're not how the world defines who you are. You are what the Word of God defines who you are. You get what I'm saying. See, this is where I really recommend you to be rooted in who God made you to be. See. I remember a moment when there was a big program happening and there were different personalities attending this event.

4:35 Speaker 2: There were all the top actresses and models and those in the entertainment industry, producers and authors and people who accomplished great feats. And along with all of that was also a member of a royal family. And what I noticed was this person in the royal family was not quote unquote the most attractive, the most talented, the most oppressive, the most educated, or the most accomplished person or anything of that sort. They always had somebody who is better at all of these things. But this person carried herself like, oh my gosh, you know what, I know who I am.

5:21 Speaker 2: I'm a person who's royal. I am of the royal lineage. I am not ordinary. So she had that unusual boldness about herself, unusual knowing like, you know what, Yes, you may be more talented, but I know who I am. I am from the royal lineage. You may be more educated, but I'm from the royal lineage. So she walked with that. See, this is the place of security that I want you and I to walk in, a place where we are like, you know what, so confident in the fact that I am from the royal lineage, from the lineage of the King of kings and a lot of loads, which means that people can be more talented than me, more attractive than me, more accomplished than me, than whatever it is.

6:10 Speaker 2: That doesn't affect me, that doesn't stir jealousy in me, that doesn't make me feel insecure or less than because you know what I know I am. I am a child of the King of Kings and a lot of lots. I know who I am, that I am from the royal liniage, and I know that as a child of the King of Kings and a lot of lots, I can walk with that boldness. I can walk with that courage knowing that if God is on my side, if God is leading me, if God is directing my steps, I don't have to worry about anything. See today, I want you to think about this, even as we are in the week where we remember Father's Day coming up, one of the things I want you to think about is that you can walk with that boldness and that con not from a place of arrogance, but from a place of just being confident in yourself.

7:06 Speaker 2: Instead of allowing the pressures of the world, instead of allowing social media, the entertainment industry, or Hollywood or Bollywood define who you are. Get to that place where the one who died for you on a piece of wood defines who you are. That's Jesus Christ, because he's saying, you know what, You're valuable, because you are valuable because I wanted you to be in my royal lineage. I was willing to sacrifice myself on the cross for you. And today when you walk with that awareness that you're from the royal lineage.

7:39 Speaker 2: You will not walk from a place where you feel like, Oh, I have to just make it through life. I have to just get through life. I have to just do this. I just have to do that. No, you will know without a shadow of a doubt, your identity is rooted in who God made you to be, and when you walk with that, you will have that peace, the joy, the lead like never before in your life. And you may say, John, all this sounds nice, but I don't feel like I'm from the royal family. I don't feel like that, John.

8:10 Speaker 2: My life is in a very despicable place. My finances are in a very bad place. I cannot say that I'm from the royal lineage or my life is in a mess. I just want to share an example and close. There was a moment where we had a royal wedding happening in the state of Karnataka in India a couple of years ago, and this friend of me and this friend of mine called me up and said, Hey, John, do you know that this princess who's getting married happened to be my college mate? And I didn't even know that she was from the royal lineage.

8:49 Speaker 2: She looked ordinary, she was just pursuing a course, just like everybody else. She looked like she was just another girl in the university. Nobody thought that she was anybody having any connection to royalty. But now when she's in the news, when everybody's seeing that she's getting married, and she got married to the prince and now she's unquote the queen of this particular region, she said, you know what, nobody even expected that this girl who was just another girl in the university was actually from the royal lineage.

9:26 Speaker 2: See what I wanted to understand is just because no one noticed does not mean that she was not from the royal lineage. She walked in normally, her life looked normal. But at the right appointed time, everybody got to know that she's from the royal lineage. The news, the information, and you know, everything just spread out. See that's what I wanted to understand. Sometimes your life may feel like you're not from the royal lineage. Your life may feel like you're just ordinary, nothing special about you, nothing great about you.

9:58 Speaker 2: But I want you to hold because the same way, suddenly everybody got to know who she really was. At the right time when God elevates you, promotes you and his favor trusts you to new levels. That time, people will look back and say, this person believed in that royal thing that he or she was a child of the King of Kings. Look at the levels he's gone to, look at the places she's going, and they will be amazed to see. Look what the Lord can do when you know that you're from the royal lineage of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lots.

10:36 Speaker 2: I really hope this message encouraged and blessed you. I really challenge you to leave a comment and share this with somebody and I will see you back.

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