When Freedom Doesn’t Feel Like Freedom | Prophetic Word for Breaking Out | John Giftah

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.

0:49 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with John gift podcast. And it's such a joy and honor for me to be with all of you today, especially if you're watching or listening to this from India. I just want to wish you and your family a very meaningful and a blessed holiday as we celebrate Independence Day. And when you talk about Independence Day, you know you may have a variety of reasons why you may not be happy about certain things that are happening in the nation. You may be saying, John, you know I have this issue or that issue, or I'm not happy about the government, I'm not happy about this.

1:20 Speaker 2: But can I tell you something, you know, I want you to stir up an attitude of gratitude and say, God, I thank you for the blessings that I can see and I cannot see the fact that you're able to access this content, the fact that you're able to listen or worship freely. There may be persecutions happening here and there, but then you know the fact that you are able to watch this or listen to this. You know, there are many nations, you know, even Christian content is completely banned, but you're able to watch and listen freely without being questioned.

1:49 Speaker 2: You're able to still, you know, access the freedom of attending church services. You know, there are so many reasons why you can be grateful. And at the same time, when you see there are challenges and issues that happening and you want to pray, I really recommend you to pray for the nation as well. So I just want to put that out there, and I want to quickly dive into this topic that we have for today, and I want to talk about how sometimes you may say yes, we are called to live in freedom because you know, independency is all about freedom.

2:16 Speaker 2: I want to talk about freedom. We're called to live in freedom, but sometimes freedom doesn't look like it's freedom. You may think like, oh, my goodness, I thought this is free. I thought this is a free country, but there is a restriction on how I should behave or you know, like how sometimes I can say something and get into trouble, or you know, I thought I was free. I thought things were free. You know, I thought, you know, when I give my life to Christ, the Bible says whom the sun sets free is free.

2:44 Speaker 2: Indeed that Christ has given us an element of a lifestyle of freedom. But somehow I'm not free anymore, or I'm not free fully. Are you getting what I'm saying? You may feel like, why is it that freedom doesn't actually look like freedom? Do you feel like that? Then if you're feeling like that, I want you to just hold on because this is a very powerful word I want to share with you because this is a word that just caught my attention. This is a revelation that just caught my attention. When you look at Exodus fourteen, right, I want to talk about how the children of Israel receive freedom from their process.

3:21 Speaker 2: The Egyptians. Okay, they are fighting for the freedom especially you know, Moses and Aaron are speaking up and the Lord is in control. He's fighting for the freedom of this the oppressed people that the Israelies. And here's the thing I want to understand. They receive that freedom. Eventually the Pharaoh says, okay, you can go. But the thing is this, they are actually free from Egypt, and they're moving out of that place. But very soon the Egyptians start chasing after them. The Pharaoh changes his mind and they are chasing.

3:54 Speaker 2: Don't think about this. In a sense, they are still free now, but then the Egyptians there, the past oppressors are chasing after them, coming after them. I don't know who needs to hear this. Some of you are saying, John, in a sense, I'm free, Yes, I gave my life to Christ, so I'm I have experienced that newness or the new life, or the freedom and Christ in a sense. But in some ways I'm still seeing the past catching upon me. I don't experience complete freedom like I'm supposed to. The Bible says whom the sun sits free is free indeed, But I'm not free.

4:30 Speaker 2: Indeed, I feel like this, this, this is something that's holding me back. Maybe past experiences, maybe past hurts, maybe past wounds, or maybe past mistakes. They're just catching upon me. Do you feel like that, Well, if that describes you, I wanted to understand think about this, that the children of Israel were in a place in a sense, they were in a place of freedom, but they were still being in a place of you know, like they're being chased. They're not completely free. But I wanted to understand in that moment, God supernaturally drowns the Egyptians who were chasing after them.

5:13 Speaker 2: In the sense, I wanted to understand that that, you know, there is a moment where even if you don't feel free right away, I wanted to keep going. I wanted to keep going because you know, sometimes we think that, oh, you know what, I need to have the supernatural experience where I'm completely free, free of all trouble, free of all past, free of all the oppression, free of everything, and then I will move ahead. No, the only thing that they could do at that moment was trust God and ask God parted the Red Sea.

5:43 Speaker 2: They moved forward. They did what they could do in accordance to the supernatural acts that God was doing. And then what happened. Eventually God drowned all the enemies who were chasing after them, and the promise that was given to it was so powerful. These enemies or these you see, you will not see them anymore. I want you to understand that even if you feel like John, I'm not experiencing the fullness of the freedom. Freedom doesn't look like freedom in my life. I want you to understand. Keep going, keep trusting God, keep going in the direction that God is opening up for you, and at the right moment, you will see that those things that were trying to hold you back are drowning in front of your own eyes.

6:28 Speaker 2: And here's the thing. Sometimes people say, oh you know what, John, I have all these problems. I have all these issues. Let them get resolved and then I will be more free. Okay. I want you to understand something, guys. I want you to understand something. I love the scripture. It says in Ecclesiasis that you know, a farmer who waits for the perfect weather will never plant. In other words, if you're waiting for complete freedom and then move forward, you know the Egyptians might kill you if they if they said, you know what, you know, let the Egyptians die, or you know, if they said, I'm scared to move forward.

7:01 Speaker 2: You know what if the red sea just gives way or something like that. If they didn't trust God and moved ahead, the Egyptians would have caught up with them and killed them. But that's where I wanted you to trust God and go ahead. Like the Bible says, the farmer who plants, who waits for everything to be perfect and then take a step, will never be able to take a step. You cannot wait for everything to settle and then take a step. You can't wait for a complete freedom and then move ahead. No, keep going, keep growing.

7:33 Speaker 2: No, there was this prophetic vision that the Law showed me, you know, two three days ago, and I wanted to just release this because the Lord was constantly reminding me of this where he said, you know, I saw myself stuck or inside a huge container, a huge vessel like thing, and you know, it gets it's getting very very suffocating. I want to move out. I want to press in and you know, explore the greatness or you know, at least a full potential that God has for me and I'm just walking inside and you know, and just trying to come and eventually what happens is at the moment when you know I've grown enough, I'm able to break out of it, and how do I say this?

8:18 Speaker 2: Just expand or you know, just just you know, like how you would have seen those movies or something right, like the how the superhero just breaks out of the chains, breaks out of the things. How or if you're into plants right like I've seen this, especially at home a lot of times when mom my mom has a lot of plants at home, and what she does is the minute you know, a plant is kept in a part, and the minute the plant outgrows the part, you have to put it in a bigger part. And that's the word that the Lord was showing me so powerfully.

8:48 Speaker 2: He said, you know, the only way you can break out and experience complete freedom or the next level of freedom in your life is for you to grow in that place. You know how a plant if it says you know what I want the big part and then I will start growing, it will never happen. It has to grow to a place where it outgrows in that small part, and then you realize that this is not enough, and then you move it to a bigger part. That's the lesson for some of you. If you're saying I want complete freedom, that point is in this season, be your best, grow, keep growing, keep trusting God, keep growing in your faith, keep developing your skills and your gifts that God has given you.

9:29 Speaker 2: In the season, and with the restrictions in hand, you continue to do your best, and then what happens, you will break out like I saw in the vision of breaking out of the limitation, breaking out of the chains, breaking out of the boundaries. I want to release this word over you, this vision over you, that you're going to break out of things as you continue to keep growing. You will not break out if you don't grow, Guys, and growing is not just growing with knowledge. Growing is growing in your faith, growing in your exp experience, growing in your walk with God, growing in every detail of your life.

10:05 Speaker 2: Only when you grow, what happens you will be able to be so huge or so you know, uncontainable that you end up breaking out of the container. That's what God wants to do in your life. And I want to release this word. Sometimes you say, oh, John, but you don't understand. I have these actual chains in my life, these limitations in my life, the past, the experiences, these issues at home, these these complications. Can I tell you something, like I said, if you're waiting for everything to be perfect and then start working or growing, it's not going to happen.

10:36 Speaker 2: And I want to tell you something. You know, sometimes I've read this or come across this statement where people say, you know, you can be in prison and still be the most influential person ever, if you continue to understand that you know what your chains are, not the ones limiting you, you can do what you need to do even in the midst of that. Like let me give you a best example for that. The New Testament was predominantly written by the Apostle Paul, and for the most part, he wrote it while he was in prison.

11:11 Speaker 2: You see the chains, the prison, the experience, the prison walls, the prison guards, the rules, that regulations, the limitations could not stop the Apostle Paul from making an impact that is still seen today. Can you imagine that more than half of the New Testament was written by a man who was in the prison, who was in chains, who was in so many limitations. I'm not running the ministry because I have everything working out well in my life. I have so many challenges. I have opposition. I have faced a lot of trials since I had to go through so much of turmoil.

11:47 Speaker 2: I have hired to pay a huge price and sacrifice so much to do what I'm doing. It's not because it's easy for me. I'm not doing that. What I'm challenging each one of you is the same thing. In the midst of the challenge, in the midst of the chain, in the midst of not experiencing full freedom, continue to do what you can do. The appostle Paul was in chain, or he was in prison. In the midst of that, he did what he could do. He wrote, let us. He was giving encouragement to the church. He was prophesying, he was sharing visions, he was doing what he could do.

12:24 Speaker 2: In the midst of that, there was a moment he was taken as a prisoner to the place where he ends up in Malta because of the shipwreck. And even as a prisoner, he was giving encouragement to people when they were facing the storm. And when he goes to Malta, he's healing people, he's making he's connecting like a healing service in Malta and bringing souls to the Kingdom of God in that place while he was still officially a prisoner. Are you getting what I'm saying your current situation or status, that you are not completely free, that you still have change in you, does not mean that God cannot use you.

13:02 Speaker 2: God can still use you in unusual ways. And only when you keep doing what you can do or you can do in your or Lord is leading you to do. Then through that process you'll be able to break out of your chains. Through that process, you'll be able to break out of limitations, break out of the containers, break out of the boundaries, and step into newer levels of freedom in your life. Are you getting what I'm saying? I want to release this word over you if you're praying for freedom in some area, maybe freedom from complete deliverance from a sickness or an addiction.

13:37 Speaker 2: Maybe freedom from you know, maybe something that's like holding you back as a bondage, maybe a thought process that is affecting you, maybe low self esteem, or maybe you know, some rewiring that needs to happen in your mind, whatever it has, I want to speak in the name of Jesus Christ, that you will experience the complete freedom. And I want to tell you something as if you're saying, what can I do? How can I first thing? Like I said, keep growing in your walk with the Lord. You know, some of the things I want to share as quick pointers that I can think of from the top of my mind in terms of how you can, you know, keep growing and how can you can eventually step into fullness of your freedom?

14:16 Speaker 2: Number one I can just tell you is you know the Scripture talks about the importance of renewing your mind. How do you renew your mind? You can feed on the word of God. Feed on the word of God. And when I say feed on the word of God, it can be in any format, whether it reading format or audio format, video format, or any format that works for you. Feed on the word of God. Or you can speak in tongues. For me, that's one of my major or favorite go tos speaking in tongues. The Bible says he speaks in tongues, edifies himself.

14:50 Speaker 2: You know, you have no idea, and the word edifying the actual translation, if you see, it's actually means to rebuild, rewire, to repair what it needs to happen. Repair in your mind because I'll tell you what. Like I said, the Apostle Paul was in prison and he was able to, you know, do more than many people who are actually walking free on the road. Why Because the Apostle Paul, his mind was repaired, his mind was renewed, his mind was free, even though in the physical he was in chains. But there's a lot of people today.

15:25 Speaker 2: Physically they're free, but in their mind, their emotions, their attitudes, and their behavior, they're in chains. And today that is the place I want to speak deliverance over you that will come only when you continue to feed on God's word, continue to allow the word to renew your mind, continue to speak in tongues and allow that you know to edify you, to rebuild you, to repair the wrong wirings in your brain or your in your thought process. And keep praying and looking up to the Lord, and keep taking the step that you can.

16:01 Speaker 2: Like I said, you know how a plan continues to grow even though it's in a restricting environment, and then it breaks out of their part. Like I said, I continue to grow and then break out of that container. I want to speak over you that as you continue to trust God and move ahead, you'll break out of the chains and limitations over your life and experience complete freedom. In Jesus' name. Amen, Lord, I speak freedom over those who are watching listening across the globe, that they will experience that deliverance in every area.

16:33 Speaker 2: Even if they feel like freedom doesn't look like freedom in their life, they will experience full freedom as they continue to trust you, depend on you, look up to you, and keep moving forward. In Jesus name, I pray, amen and Amen. Thank you so much guys, and I will you know, encourage you to like this video, comment on this video, share this around, let it continue to be a blessing to people. That's my heart, that's my prayer, and I will catch up with you very soon. God bless you.

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