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

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0:49 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:51 Speaker 2: the Soul with John gift podcast. And it's such a

0:53 Speaker 2: joy and honor for me to be with all of

0:55 Speaker 2: you today, especially if you're watching or listening to this

0:58 Speaker 2: from India. I just want to wish you and your

1:00 Speaker 2: family a very meaningful and a blessed holiday as we

1:05 Speaker 2: celebrate Independence Day. And when you talk about Independence Day,

1:09 Speaker 2: you know you may have a variety of reasons why

1:11 Speaker 2: you may not be happy about certain things that are

1:13 Speaker 2: happening in the nation. You may be saying, John, you

1:16 Speaker 2: know I have this issue or that issue, or I'm

1:18 Speaker 2: 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

1:22 Speaker 2: you to stir up an attitude of gratitude and say, God,

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1:33 Speaker 2: or worship freely. There may be persecutions happening here and there,

1:37 Speaker 2: but then you know the fact that you are able

1:39 Speaker 2: to watch this or listen to this. You know, there

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1:45 Speaker 2: 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

1:52 Speaker 2: attending church services. You know, there are so many reasons

1:55 Speaker 2: why you can be grateful. And at the same time,

1:57 Speaker 2: when you see there are challenges and issues that happening

2:00 Speaker 2: and you want to pray, I really recommend you to

2:03 Speaker 2: pray for the nation as well. So I just want

2:05 Speaker 2: to put that out there, and I want to quickly

2:07 Speaker 2: dive into this topic that we have for today, and

2:10 Speaker 2: I want to talk about how sometimes you may say yes,

2:13 Speaker 2: we are called to live in freedom because you know,

2:15 Speaker 2: independency is all about freedom. I want to talk about freedom.

2:18 Speaker 2: We're called to live in freedom, but sometimes freedom doesn't

2:21 Speaker 2: look like it's freedom. You may think like, oh, my goodness,

2:25 Speaker 2: I thought this is free. I thought this is a

2:27 Speaker 2: free country, but there is a restriction on how I

2:30 Speaker 2: should behave or you know, like how sometimes I can

2:34 Speaker 2: say something and get into trouble, or you know, I

2:36 Speaker 2: thought I was free. I thought things were free. You know,

2:40 Speaker 2: I thought, you know, when I give my life to Christ,

2:42 Speaker 2: the Bible says whom the sun sets free is free.

2:44 Speaker 2: Indeed that Christ has given us an element of a

2:47 Speaker 2: lifestyle of freedom. But somehow I'm not free anymore, or

2:52 Speaker 2: I'm not free fully. Are you getting what I'm saying?

2:55 Speaker 2: You may feel like, why is it that freedom doesn't

2:58 Speaker 2: actually look like freedom? Do you feel like that? Then

3:03 Speaker 2: if you're feeling like that, I want you to just

3:05 Speaker 2: hold on because this is a very powerful word I

3:07 Speaker 2: want to share with you because this is a word

3:09 Speaker 2: that just caught my attention. This is a revelation that

3:11 Speaker 2: just caught my attention. When you look at Exodus fourteen, right,

3:15 Speaker 2: I want to talk about how the children of Israel

3:17 Speaker 2: receive freedom from their process. The Egyptians. Okay, they are

3:24 Speaker 2: fighting for the freedom especially you know, Moses and Aaron

3:26 Speaker 2: are speaking up and the Lord is in control. He's

3:29 Speaker 2: fighting for the freedom of this the oppressed people that

3:32 Speaker 2: the Israelies. And here's the thing I want to understand.

3:35 Speaker 2: They receive that freedom. Eventually the Pharaoh says, okay, you

3:38 Speaker 2: can go. But the thing is this, they are actually

3:43 Speaker 2: free from Egypt, and they're moving out of that place.

3:47 Speaker 2: But very soon the Egyptians start chasing after them. The

3:52 Speaker 2: Pharaoh changes his mind and they are chasing. Don't think

3:54 Speaker 2: about this. In a sense, they are still free now,

3:58 Speaker 2: but then the Egyptians there, the past oppressors are chasing

4:03 Speaker 2: after them, coming after them. I don't know who needs

4:05 Speaker 2: to hear this. Some of you are saying, John, in

4:07 Speaker 2: a sense, I'm free, Yes, I gave my life to Christ,

4:10 Speaker 2: so I'm I have experienced that newness or the new life,

4:14 Speaker 2: or the freedom and Christ in a sense. But in

4:17 Speaker 2: some ways I'm still seeing the past catching upon me.

4:22 Speaker 2: I don't experience complete freedom like I'm supposed to. The

4:27 Speaker 2: Bible says whom the sun sits free is free indeed,

4:29 Speaker 2: But I'm not free. Indeed, I feel like this, this,

4:33 Speaker 2: this is something that's holding me back. Maybe past experiences,

4:37 Speaker 2: maybe past hurts, maybe past wounds, or maybe past mistakes.

4:43 Speaker 2: They're just catching upon me. Do you feel like that, Well,

4:47 Speaker 2: if that describes you, I wanted to understand think about this,

4:50 Speaker 2: that the children of Israel were in a place in

4:53 Speaker 2: a sense, they were in a place of freedom, but

4:56 Speaker 2: they were still being in a place of you know,

5:00 Speaker 2: like they're being chased. They're not completely free. But I

5:05 Speaker 2: wanted to understand in that moment, God supernaturally drowns the

5:11 Speaker 2: Egyptians who were chasing after them. In the sense, I

5:14 Speaker 2: wanted to understand that that, you know, there is a

5:18 Speaker 2: moment where even if you don't feel free right away,

5:21 Speaker 2: I wanted to keep going. I wanted to keep going

5:24 Speaker 2: because you know, sometimes we think that, oh, you know what,

5:27 Speaker 2: I need to have the supernatural experience where I'm completely free,

5:30 Speaker 2: free of all trouble, free of all past, free of

5:32 Speaker 2: all the oppression, free of everything, and then I will

5:35 Speaker 2: move ahead. No, the only thing that they could do

5:39 Speaker 2: at that moment was trust God and ask God parted

5:42 Speaker 2: the Red Sea. They moved forward. They did what they

5:44 Speaker 2: could do in accordance to the supernatural acts that God

5:48 Speaker 2: was doing. And then what happened. Eventually God drowned all

5:52 Speaker 2: the enemies who were chasing after them, and the promise

5:56 Speaker 2: that was given to it was so powerful. These enemies

5:59 Speaker 2: or these you see, you will not see them anymore.

6:02 Speaker 2: I want you to understand that even if you feel

6:04 Speaker 2: like John, I'm not experiencing the fullness of the freedom.

6:07 Speaker 2: Freedom doesn't look like freedom in my life. I want

6:11 Speaker 2: you to understand. Keep going, keep trusting God, keep going

6:17 Speaker 2: in the direction that God is opening up for you,

6:20 Speaker 2: and at the right moment, you will see that those

6:23 Speaker 2: things that were trying to hold you back are drowning

6:27 Speaker 2: in front of your own eyes. And here's the thing.

6:29 Speaker 2: Sometimes people say, oh you know what, John, I have

6:31 Speaker 2: all these problems. I have all these issues. Let them

6:33 Speaker 2: get resolved and then I will be more free. Okay.

6:38 Speaker 2: I want you to understand something, guys. I want you

6:39 Speaker 2: to understand something. I love the scripture. It says in

6:42 Speaker 2: Ecclesiasis that you know, a farmer who waits for the

6:46 Speaker 2: perfect weather will never plant. In other words, if you're

6:49 Speaker 2: waiting for complete freedom and then move forward, you know

6:52 Speaker 2: the Egyptians might kill you if they if they said,

6:56 Speaker 2: you know what, you know, let the Egyptians die, or

6:58 Speaker 2: 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

7:04 Speaker 2: or something like that. If they didn't trust God and

7:05 Speaker 2: moved ahead, the Egyptians would have caught up with them

7:09 Speaker 2: and killed them. But that's where I wanted you to

7:13 Speaker 2: trust God and go ahead. Like the Bible says, the

7:17 Speaker 2: farmer who plants, who waits for everything to be perfect

7:20 Speaker 2: and then take a step, will never be able to

7:21 Speaker 2: take a step. You cannot wait for everything to settle

7:25 Speaker 2: and then take a step. You can't wait for a

7:27 Speaker 2: complete freedom and then move ahead. No, keep going, keep growing. No,

7:34 Speaker 2: there was this prophetic vision that the Law showed me,

7:37 Speaker 2: you know, two three days ago, and I wanted to

7:39 Speaker 2: just release this because the Lord was constantly reminding me

7:41 Speaker 2: of this where he said, you know, I saw myself

7:44 Speaker 2: stuck or inside a huge container, a huge vessel like thing,

7:49 Speaker 2: and you know, it gets it's getting very very suffocating.

7:55 Speaker 2: I want to move out. I want to press in

7:57 Speaker 2: and you know, explore the greatness or you know, at

8:00 Speaker 2: least a full potential that God has for me and

8:03 Speaker 2: I'm just walking inside and you know, and just trying

8:06 Speaker 2: to come and eventually what happens is at the moment

8:09 Speaker 2: when you know I've grown enough, I'm able to break

8:12 Speaker 2: out of it, and how do I say this? Just

8:19 Speaker 2: expand or you know, just just you know, like how

8:22 Speaker 2: you would have seen those movies or something right, like

8:24 Speaker 2: the how the superhero just breaks out of the chains,

8:28 Speaker 2: breaks out of the things. How or if you're into

8:30 Speaker 2: plants right like I've seen this, especially at home a

8:33 Speaker 2: lot of times when mom my mom has a lot

8:35 Speaker 2: of plants at home, and what she does is the

8:37 Speaker 2: minute you know, a plant is kept in a part,

8:40 Speaker 2: and the minute the plant outgrows the part, you have

8:43 Speaker 2: to put it in a bigger part. And that's the

8:46 Speaker 2: word that the Lord was showing me so powerfully. He said,

8:49 Speaker 2: you know, the only way you can break out and

8:51 Speaker 2: experience complete freedom or the next level of freedom in

8:54 Speaker 2: your life is for you to grow in that place.

8:57 Speaker 2: You know how a plant if it says you know

9:00 Speaker 2: what I want the big part and then I will

9:02 Speaker 2: start growing, it will never happen. It has to grow

9:06 Speaker 2: to a place where it outgrows in that small part,

9:09 Speaker 2: and then you realize that this is not enough, and

9:11 Speaker 2: then you move it to a bigger part. That's the

9:14 Speaker 2: lesson for some of you. If you're saying I want

9:16 Speaker 2: complete freedom, that point is in this season, be your best, grow,

9:22 Speaker 2: keep growing, keep trusting God, keep growing in your faith,

9:25 Speaker 2: keep developing your skills and your gifts that God has

9:28 Speaker 2: given you. In the season, and with the restrictions in hand,

9:32 Speaker 2: you continue to do your best, and then what happens,

9:36 Speaker 2: you will break out like I saw in the vision

9:39 Speaker 2: of breaking out of the limitation, breaking out of the chains,

9:43 Speaker 2: breaking out of the boundaries. I want to release this

9:45 Speaker 2: word over you, this vision over you, that you're going

9:47 Speaker 2: to break out of things as you continue to keep growing.

9:52 Speaker 2: You will not break out if you don't grow, Guys,

9:55 Speaker 2: and growing is not just growing with knowledge. Growing is

9:58 Speaker 2: growing in your faith, growing in your exp experience, growing

10:00 Speaker 2: in your walk with God, growing in every detail of

10:04 Speaker 2: your life. Only when you grow, what happens you will

10:08 Speaker 2: be able to be so huge or so you know,

10:12 Speaker 2: uncontainable that you end up breaking out of the container.

10:16 Speaker 2: That's what God wants to do in your life. And

10:18 Speaker 2: I want to release this word. Sometimes you say, oh, John,

10:21 Speaker 2: but you don't understand. I have these actual chains in

10:23 Speaker 2: my life, these limitations in my life, the past, the experiences,

10:27 Speaker 2: these issues at home, these these complications. Can I tell

10:30 Speaker 2: you something, like I said, if you're waiting for everything

10:33 Speaker 2: to be perfect and then start working or growing, it's

10:36 Speaker 2: not going to happen. And I want to tell you something.

10:38 Speaker 2: You know, sometimes I've read this or come across this

10:42 Speaker 2: statement where people say, you know, you can be in

10:45 Speaker 2: prison and still be the most influential person ever, if

10:53 Speaker 2: you continue to understand that you know what your chains are,

10:56 Speaker 2: not the ones limiting you, you can do what you

10:59 Speaker 2: need to do even in the midst of that. Like

11:01 Speaker 2: let me give you a best example for that. The

11:04 Speaker 2: New Testament was predominantly written by the Apostle Paul, and

11:08 Speaker 2: for the most part, he wrote it while he was

11:10 Speaker 2: in prison. You see the chains, the prison, the experience,

11:15 Speaker 2: the prison walls, the prison guards, the rules, that regulations,

11:19 Speaker 2: the limitations could not stop the Apostle Paul from making

11:23 Speaker 2: an impact that is still seen today. Can you imagine

11:28 Speaker 2: that more than half of the New Testament was written

11:30 Speaker 2: by a man who was in the prison, who was

11:32 Speaker 2: in chains, who was in so many limitations. I'm not

11:36 Speaker 2: running the ministry because I have everything working out well

11:39 Speaker 2: in my life. I have so many challenges. I have opposition.

11:42 Speaker 2: I have faced a lot of trials since I had

11:45 Speaker 2: to go through so much of turmoil. I have hired

11:48 Speaker 2: to pay a huge price and sacrifice so much to

11:52 Speaker 2: do what I'm doing. It's not because it's easy for me.

11:55 Speaker 2: I'm not doing that. What I'm challenging each one of

11:58 Speaker 2: you is the same thing. In the midst of the challenge,

12:01 Speaker 2: in the midst of the chain, in the midst of

12:04 Speaker 2: not experiencing full freedom, continue to do what you can do.

12:08 Speaker 2: The appostle Paul was in chain, or he was in prison.

12:11 Speaker 2: In the midst of that, he did what he could do.

12:14 Speaker 2: He wrote, let us. He was giving encouragement to the church.

12:20 Speaker 2: He was prophesying, he was sharing visions, he was doing

12:23 Speaker 2: what he could do. In the midst of that, there

12:26 Speaker 2: was a moment he was taken as a prisoner to

12:29 Speaker 2: the place where he ends up in Malta because of

12:32 Speaker 2: the shipwreck. And even as a prisoner, he was giving

12:36 Speaker 2: encouragement to people when they were facing the storm. And

12:39 Speaker 2: when he goes to Malta, he's healing people, he's making

12:42 Speaker 2: he's connecting like a healing service in Malta and bringing

12:46 Speaker 2: souls to the Kingdom of God in that place while

12:49 Speaker 2: he was still officially a prisoner. Are you getting what

12:53 Speaker 2: I'm saying your current situation or status, that you are

12:57 Speaker 2: not completely free, that you still have change in you,

13:00 Speaker 2: does not mean that God cannot use you. God can

13:03 Speaker 2: still use you in unusual ways. And only when you

13:06 Speaker 2: keep doing what you can do or you can do

13:09 Speaker 2: in your or Lord is leading you to do. Then

13:13 Speaker 2: through that process you'll be able to break out of

13:16 Speaker 2: your chains. Through that process, you'll be able to break

13:19 Speaker 2: out of limitations, break out of the containers, break out

13:22 Speaker 2: of the boundaries, and step into newer levels of freedom

13:25 Speaker 2: in your life. Are you getting what I'm saying? I

13:28 Speaker 2: want to release this word over you if you're praying

13:31 Speaker 2: for freedom in some area, maybe freedom from complete deliverance

13:34 Speaker 2: from a sickness or an addiction. Maybe freedom from you know,

13:40 Speaker 2: maybe something that's like holding you back as a bondage,

13:42 Speaker 2: maybe a thought process that is affecting you, maybe low

13:46 Speaker 2: self esteem, or maybe you know, some rewiring that needs

13:49 Speaker 2: to happen in your mind, whatever it has, I want

13:53 Speaker 2: to speak in the name of Jesus Christ, that you

13:55 Speaker 2: will experience the complete freedom. And I want to tell

13:58 Speaker 2: you something as if you're saying, what can I do?

14:00 Speaker 2: How can I first thing? Like I said, keep growing

14:03 Speaker 2: in your walk with the Lord. You know, some of

14:06 Speaker 2: the things I want to share as quick pointers that

14:08 Speaker 2: I can think of from the top of my mind

14:10 Speaker 2: in terms of how you can, you know, keep growing

14:13 Speaker 2: and how can you can eventually step into fullness of

14:15 Speaker 2: your freedom? Number one I can just tell you is

14:17 Speaker 2: you know the Scripture talks about the importance of renewing

14:20 Speaker 2: your mind. How do you renew your mind? You can

14:22 Speaker 2: feed on the word of God. Feed on the word

14:26 Speaker 2: of God. And when I say feed on the word

14:30 Speaker 2: of God, it can be in any format, whether it

14:32 Speaker 2: reading format or audio format, video format, or any format

14:36 Speaker 2: that works for you. Feed on the word of God.

14:39 Speaker 2: Or you can speak in tongues. For me, that's one

14:42 Speaker 2: of my major or favorite go tos speaking in tongues.

14:46 Speaker 2: The Bible says he speaks in tongues, edifies himself. You know,

14:50 Speaker 2: you have no idea, and the word edifying the actual translation,

14:53 Speaker 2: if you see, it's actually means to rebuild, rewire, to

14:57 Speaker 2: repair what it needs to happen. Repair in your mind

15:03 Speaker 2: because I'll tell you what. Like I said, the Apostle

15:06 Speaker 2: Paul was in prison and he was able to, you know,

15:10 Speaker 2: do more than many people who are actually walking free

15:12 Speaker 2: on the road. Why Because the Apostle Paul, his mind

15:17 Speaker 2: was repaired, his mind was renewed, his mind was free,

15:20 Speaker 2: even though in the physical he was in chains. But

15:24 Speaker 2: there's a lot of people today. Physically they're free, but

15:27 Speaker 2: in their mind, their emotions, their attitudes, and their behavior,

15:31 Speaker 2: they're in chains. And today that is the place I

15:34 Speaker 2: want to speak deliverance over you that will come only

15:37 Speaker 2: when you continue to feed on God's word, continue to

15:40 Speaker 2: allow the word to renew your mind, continue to speak

15:43 Speaker 2: in tongues and allow that you know to edify you,

15:47 Speaker 2: to rebuild you, to repair the wrong wirings in your

15:52 Speaker 2: brain or your in your thought process. And keep praying

15:57 Speaker 2: and looking up to the Lord, and keep taking the

16:00 Speaker 2: step that you can. Like I said, you know how

16:04 Speaker 2: a plan continues to grow even though it's in a

16:06 Speaker 2: restricting environment, and then it breaks out of their part.

16:10 Speaker 2: Like I said, I continue to grow and then break

16:14 Speaker 2: out of that container. I want to speak over you

16:17 Speaker 2: that as you continue to trust God and move ahead,

16:20 Speaker 2: you'll break out of the chains and limitations over your

16:22 Speaker 2: life and experience complete freedom. In Jesus' name. Amen, Lord,

16:27 Speaker 2: I speak freedom over those who are watching listening across

16:29 Speaker 2: 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

16:36 Speaker 2: in their life, they will experience full freedom as they

16:39 Speaker 2: continue to trust you, depend on you, look up to you,

16:42 Speaker 2: and keep moving forward. In Jesus name, I pray, amen

16:46 Speaker 2: and Amen. Thank you so much guys, and I will

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16:56 Speaker 2: a blessing to people. That's my heart, that's my prayer,

16:59 Speaker 2: and I will catch up with you very soon. God

17:01 Speaker 2: bless you.

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