What Looked Random… Was GOD | John Giftah | Encouraging Christian Sermon

0:01 Speaker 1: Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world

0:05 Speaker 1: is a crazy place and it just seems to get

0:08 Speaker 1: crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and take a break.

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

0:44 Speaker 2: Gifta, helloud one, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel

0:46 Speaker 2: for the Soul with John Gifta podcast. Is such a

0:48 Speaker 2: joy for me to join you guys today. As through

0:51 Speaker 2: this week, we've been looking at various lessons that you

0:53 Speaker 2: can take away from the incident recorded in Acts Chapter

0:56 Speaker 2: twelve versus one to five. Okay, today, one of the

0:59 Speaker 2: things I want to really help you understand or look

1:02 Speaker 2: at is the fact that King Herod just killed the

1:06 Speaker 2: Apostle James. And now what happened is that he saw

1:10 Speaker 2: that this was pleasing to the Jewish people, so he

1:14 Speaker 2: also arrested Peter. If you look at verse three, it

1:17 Speaker 2: says this took place during the passover celebration, So during

1:21 Speaker 2: that time he did not want to do this and

1:24 Speaker 2: create more ruckus. So what did he do. He imprisoned Peter,

1:28 Speaker 2: placing him under the guard of sixteen soldiers and listened

1:32 Speaker 2: to the scaffoley. Herod intended to bring Peter out for

1:35 Speaker 2: public trial after the passover, and while Peter was in prison,

1:41 Speaker 2: the church prayed for him earnestly. Now I want you

1:44 Speaker 2: to understand something here. Right, James was killed and now

1:48 Speaker 2: Peter is on a similar boat. But yes, the thing,

1:51 Speaker 2: it so happened that when Peter was arrested by King Herod,

1:58 Speaker 2: it was during the passover time, and because of that,

2:02 Speaker 2: it helped him buy some time during which the church

2:05 Speaker 2: prayed for Peter, and the output was different for Peter

2:09 Speaker 2: when he was supernaturally released. So I wanted to think

2:12 Speaker 2: about this. What looked like a random incident or it's

2:16 Speaker 2: just a random thing. Oh, after Apostle James, he arrested

2:20 Speaker 2: Apostle Peter. It looked like a random incident. But even

2:23 Speaker 2: in that random incident, it looked like, oh you know what,

2:27 Speaker 2: So happened that Peter was arrested during passover time. So

2:30 Speaker 2: Peter had to buy some time. I mean, he had

2:32 Speaker 2: to get some time in the prison by the time

2:35 Speaker 2: he will be killed. But here's the thing. Even a

2:38 Speaker 2: random incident was divinely orchestrated or divinely timed. Can you

2:43 Speaker 2: think about that part. Because it happened during the passover time,

2:49 Speaker 2: Peter was able to get some time during which the

2:51 Speaker 2: church prayed for him earnestly and the output changed for Peter.

2:55 Speaker 2: If this was also before the passover, if it was

2:58 Speaker 2: not during the past over time, then Peter also could

3:00 Speaker 2: have been immediately been killed like the apostle James. Think

3:04 Speaker 2: about it. So even a random thing was actually divinely orchestrated.

3:09 Speaker 2: What I want you to understand is when you least expected,

3:12 Speaker 2: God knows how to randomly orchestrate things in your life.

3:16 Speaker 2: You may think it's just by chance, it's just by coincidence,

3:19 Speaker 2: it just randomly happened. No, nothing happens randomly. God is

3:24 Speaker 2: divinely orchestrating things. See, there was a time when I

3:28 Speaker 2: was actually praying that I wanted to migrate these podcasts

3:31 Speaker 2: from the daily podcast being only audio to become video okay.

3:36 Speaker 2: So I randomly checked out different options that were available,

3:40 Speaker 2: different things. Nothing was working out, and I was like,

3:42 Speaker 2: oh my gosh, this doesn't make sense. And randomly I

3:46 Speaker 2: happened to meet someone in a conference a couple of

3:49 Speaker 2: months ago, and we never exchanged any conversation after that,

3:54 Speaker 2: to be honest, and it so happened just about two

3:57 Speaker 2: or three weeks ago. She connected me with me saying,

4:00 Speaker 2: a John, I really like a content that you post.

4:02 Speaker 2: Can you help me connect me with the studio? And

4:05 Speaker 2: I looked at different options that were available, which was

4:08 Speaker 2: not exactly working out for me. I said, why don't

4:10 Speaker 2: you try this or try that? And in that process

4:13 Speaker 2: she happened to stumble upon a studio from where I'm

4:17 Speaker 2: recording right now, okay, And we got connected and here

4:21 Speaker 2: I am able to record this. See it looks like

4:24 Speaker 2: a random event, like randomly meeting someone, random conversation with

4:29 Speaker 2: someone asking me about his studio, and here I am.

4:32 Speaker 2: And the podcast has now been on video format along

4:35 Speaker 2: with audio format since this week, and it's going to

4:38 Speaker 2: continue for the next I mean, as long as the

4:41 Speaker 2: lot allows right to think about this. What looked random

4:44 Speaker 2: was actually part of divine timing. It didn't happen before,

4:48 Speaker 2: it didn't happen later, It happened when God ordained. See

4:51 Speaker 2: same thing with Peter. How did God ordain for Peter

4:56 Speaker 2: to be arrested exactly during passover so that he can

5:00 Speaker 2: sometime when the supernatural miracle can happen? See think about this.

5:04 Speaker 2: Even a simple thing like that is part of God's design,

5:07 Speaker 2: God's plan. You may think, why isn't this working out?

5:10 Speaker 2: Why isn't that happening. Maybe God is orchestrating something behind

5:13 Speaker 2: the scenes. Why isn't this working out the way I

5:16 Speaker 2: thought it would. Maybe God is allowing you to go

5:20 Speaker 2: through this situation so that you can be coming out

5:23 Speaker 2: with a better testimony for His glory. Maybe you're looking

5:26 Speaker 2: at your situation and thinking this.

5:27 Speaker 1: This is random.

5:28 Speaker 2: No, what if that random conversation with that person is

5:31 Speaker 2: going to change the trajectory of your life. What if

5:33 Speaker 2: that random encounter is going to make a turnaround in

5:38 Speaker 2: your life. So today I want to challenge you guys,

5:41 Speaker 2: even as we are coming to the end of this week,

5:43 Speaker 2: just think about this. Areas in your life where you're

5:46 Speaker 2: feeling like John. There's so much to take away, There's

5:49 Speaker 2: so much of things happening. Why didn't you just say, God, Lord,

5:52 Speaker 2: I trust you. I believe that you have good plans

5:55 Speaker 2: for me, even when I don't understand it. I believe

5:57 Speaker 2: that You're in control. See in the negative thing like

6:01 Speaker 2: the apostle Peter being in prisoned, there was the sign

6:05 Speaker 2: where God was in control by arresting him during the

6:09 Speaker 2: past over. So even in random things, God is in control.

6:12 Speaker 2: Even in the random things of your life, God will

6:15 Speaker 2: be in control. And God is in control. And when

6:18 Speaker 2: you trust that, you will be in a place of peace, trust, rest,

6:22 Speaker 2: and you can relax and say you know what, God,

6:25 Speaker 2: You're in control, and I can choose to trust you

6:28 Speaker 2: with all my heart. I really challenge you to share

6:30 Speaker 2: this with someone to encourage them. Neighbor comment if you're

6:33 Speaker 2: checking this on.

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