When Life Hits You Suddenly (You Won’t Always Get a Warning) | John Giftah | 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 Gifta.

0:46 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:48 Speaker 2: the Soul with John gift podcast. As you would have

0:51 Speaker 2: noticed from yesterday, we started this series of lessons that

0:55 Speaker 2: we can learn from the incident of Jesus coming to storm.

0:58 Speaker 2: There are so many things to un back and one

1:00 Speaker 2: of the things I was sharing with you yesterday was

1:03 Speaker 2: the understanding that you know, a lot of times we

1:05 Speaker 2: just say, oh my gosh, it's just a storm in

1:08 Speaker 2: a lake, what's the big deal about it? And we

1:10 Speaker 2: try to assume things without understanding the depth of the situation,

1:14 Speaker 2: the reality of the situation. I really challenge you to

1:16 Speaker 2: go back and study that, because I believe there's so

1:20 Speaker 2: much to learn about this lake. There's so much to

1:24 Speaker 2: learn because today, one of the things I want to

1:26 Speaker 2: remind you of, and I want to take this forward,

1:29 Speaker 2: is that when you look at the same incident, which

1:31 Speaker 2: is recorded across the gospels of Matthew Luke as well

1:35 Speaker 2: as in Mark, I mean Matthew eight, when you see

1:38 Speaker 2: verse twenty four, it says, suddenly a fierce storm struck

1:41 Speaker 2: the lake. Suddenly a fear storm struck the lake. Now today,

1:45 Speaker 2: one of the things I want to remind you is

1:46 Speaker 2: that when they started out, nothing was looking dangerous. Everything

1:52 Speaker 2: looked fine. Right. For instance, sometimes in life you feel like,

1:56 Speaker 2: oh my gosh, you know what, when I start the journey,

1:58 Speaker 2: everything looks good. You know, this is like a great

2:01 Speaker 2: thing to do. This is a great course that I

2:03 Speaker 2: always wanted to do, or this is a great person

2:05 Speaker 2: I wanted to marry and start my marriage or life

2:10 Speaker 2: or this relationship or or anything for that matter. When

2:13 Speaker 2: you start, it looks good. There's nothing scary about it.

2:17 Speaker 2: There's nothing like what you call us a red flag

2:20 Speaker 2: about it. And everything is fine right, And One of

2:23 Speaker 2: the things I shared with you yesterday was that how

2:26 Speaker 2: this Sea of Galley or the lake the lake is

2:28 Speaker 2: actually known as the Sea of Galiley. It's not a sea,

2:31 Speaker 2: but it's just this huge lake. And I spoke to

2:34 Speaker 2: you about the dimensions of the lake yesterday. But one

2:36 Speaker 2: of the things is that the topography or the geography

2:39 Speaker 2: of this lake was such that it was surrounded by

2:42 Speaker 2: these hills and mountains, because of which this charactery between

2:48 Speaker 2: the warm hair and the cold air, okay, used to

2:52 Speaker 2: cause sudden storms and fears hide Kane like situations. Okay.

2:58 Speaker 2: They used to be very, very scary, and they were devastating,

3:01 Speaker 2: all right, And they used to happen suddenly. They will

3:04 Speaker 2: come without any notice. And these fishermen where people who

3:08 Speaker 2: have been fishing here. They're professional people, they know all

3:11 Speaker 2: about it. But still they were scanned that they're going

3:14 Speaker 2: to be drowning because you see, understands something here. They

3:17 Speaker 2: knew the reality of the situation. They knew that this

3:19 Speaker 2: was not an ordinary thing. They knew that that this

3:22 Speaker 2: is going to kill them. Okay. But the best thing

3:25 Speaker 2: I wanted to understand is that in across every other

3:28 Speaker 2: situation of somebody crossing the lake and hitting the storm.

3:32 Speaker 2: The best case scenario was with these disciples that Jesus himself,

3:37 Speaker 2: the storm stopper, was with them in the storm. Okay,

3:43 Speaker 2: now just think I want to understand. I want you

3:45 Speaker 2: to remember the word suddenly a fear storm struck the lake. Now,

3:49 Speaker 2: what I want you to understand is a lot of

3:51 Speaker 2: times we think everything looks fine and we start going

3:54 Speaker 2: on autopilot, we start going by default mode. We're like,

3:57 Speaker 2: you know what, I can handle this, I can manage this.

4:00 Speaker 2: Need to depend on God more, you know what I mean,

4:02 Speaker 2: Like we we sometimes I mean, I'll be honest with you,

4:05 Speaker 2: I've made this mistake many times in my life and

4:07 Speaker 2: I keep going back. I need you to help me

4:09 Speaker 2: to depend on you because sometimes what happens is like, well,

4:13 Speaker 2: you know what one document Because I just want to

4:16 Speaker 2: let you know. Guys know right, I'm working as a

4:19 Speaker 2: as an engineer. I'm an aerospace engineer, so I work

4:23 Speaker 2: and I run the ministry. So when one document goes

4:27 Speaker 2: through and I'm like, oh, wow, I've done this job.

4:30 Speaker 2: You know. The second one, I start like, oh I

4:32 Speaker 2: can handle this, and then the Lord has to remind

4:34 Speaker 2: me or I have to come to that place like God,

4:36 Speaker 2: I need to depend on you again. I need you

4:39 Speaker 2: in every documented I write. I need you in every

4:42 Speaker 2: podcast episode that I record, you know, like, because these

4:45 Speaker 2: are sermons that I'm like, you know, I've been studying

4:47 Speaker 2: and I've been going and I'm like, God, Yes, these

4:50 Speaker 2: are powerful revelations. These are truths that have helped me,

4:53 Speaker 2: and I believe that they will help those who are listening.

4:55 Speaker 2: But help me to also be in a place where

4:58 Speaker 2: I'm dependent on you, that I'm not going into autopilot

5:01 Speaker 2: mode that you know what, Oh, I need to proveach

5:03 Speaker 2: a sermon and then that just takes something from my

5:05 Speaker 2: database of my you know, like fourteen years of ministry

5:09 Speaker 2: and just preach. No, I want to be dependent on you, Lord,

5:12 Speaker 2: I want powerful revelations that not only touched me, but

5:15 Speaker 2: will touch every single person listening. A challenge you to introspect.

5:21 Speaker 2: Are you on autopilot more? Or are you actually prepared

5:25 Speaker 2: for sudden storms in life? Because you never know when

5:28 Speaker 2: a psalm's going to come? You know, one of the

5:32 Speaker 2: things I keep telling about even Jesus, study what in

5:34 Speaker 2: in wine. If you see in John chapter two right,

5:38 Speaker 2: worse Tuesdays that Jesus and this disciples were invited to

5:42 Speaker 2: the wedding, and in verse three it says that the

5:44 Speaker 2: wine ran out. So when the wine ran out, they

5:48 Speaker 2: had a solution Jesus in the wedding. Like a lot

5:51 Speaker 2: of times, people think of God only after the wine

5:53 Speaker 2: runs out. They don't invite him before when everything is

5:57 Speaker 2: actually looking good. And here's the classic exact. The thing

6:01 Speaker 2: is this, here's the practical principle to remember. We never

6:04 Speaker 2: know when a storm is going to hit. You never

6:06 Speaker 2: know when you need a touch of a savior, the

6:10 Speaker 2: touch of the Master. You never know when you're going

6:13 Speaker 2: to hit a storm, when you're going to hit an

6:15 Speaker 2: iceberg in life, when you're going to need God to

6:19 Speaker 2: show up and show up. So my challenge to each

6:22 Speaker 2: one of you is be prepared. Be prepared because you

6:26 Speaker 2: never know when the storm, because it says it came

6:30 Speaker 2: in so suddenly. I want you to understand something here.

6:32 Speaker 2: You know, when you least expect it, suddenly things could

6:36 Speaker 2: go downhill and you need to be ready. You need

6:39 Speaker 2: to be prepared. You know, last year there was a

6:42 Speaker 2: moment I think I've shared this so many times, but

6:44 Speaker 2: I want to share a different perspective of this, when

6:47 Speaker 2: there was this master layer was happening across the organizations.

6:51 Speaker 2: And here's the thing, howbout you understand it. Everything looked

6:53 Speaker 2: fine in the organization that I was in, like to

6:56 Speaker 2: be honest with you, in fact, they gave us extra

6:59 Speaker 2: bonuses just two weeks before. Okay, they gave extra bonuses

7:04 Speaker 2: to everybody who's like, you know what, everything is so good,

7:07 Speaker 2: everything is so perfect, everything is like, there's no nothing

7:10 Speaker 2: to worry. And in two weeks everything went downhill in

7:15 Speaker 2: the chiffy. You know, everyone's like called in and said sorry,

7:20 Speaker 2: I mean, the organization is not doing well. Goodbye, you know,

7:24 Speaker 2: like it was a sudden joge, Like everything looked fine,

7:27 Speaker 2: but in a split second everything changed. You never know

7:31 Speaker 2: when suddenly everything would change, you know what I mean.

7:35 Speaker 2: Suddenly you would realize like, oh my gosh, this was

7:40 Speaker 2: my last Saturday year. Oh my goodness, like this this

7:44 Speaker 2: this person, when I met this person, this was my

7:46 Speaker 2: last goodbye. I didn't even realize that. You never know

7:49 Speaker 2: when a storm could hit. You never know how badly

7:53 Speaker 2: something could happen suddenly. I'm not I'm not asking you

7:56 Speaker 2: to live in fear, but I'm saying be prepared and

7:59 Speaker 2: for that you need to be in a place where

8:01 Speaker 2: you involve God and you're connected with Him all the time,

8:04 Speaker 2: and that's how you will be prepared to face every

8:07 Speaker 2: stormy life. Emmit, God, bless you guys.

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