Why are you being Specifically Targeted? | John Giftah | Inspirational Christian Sermon

0:01 Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world is a crazy

0:06 place and it just seems to get crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and

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0:39 Gifta International. Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. Do you

0:53 feel like you're being targeted? Are you wondering why you feel like you're being

0:57 weaponized? You're always being targeted. You're you're getting the shorthand of the stick.

1:03 You're you're always the one on the receiving hand in any negative thing,

1:07 you know, the blame is on you, or You're you're the one who's

1:11 always you know, being put down, and you you feel like, oh

1:14 my gosh, why is it that, no matter what you know, I'm

1:17 the one is always feeling like I'm being targeted? Is that what you feel?

1:23 Why? Why are all these weapons always being formed against me? Why?

1:26 Why? Why? And I want to share a scripture within I want

1:29 to take this forward, um, and it is a very familiar scripture,

1:33 but I want to share this revelation that the Lord is put in my heart.

1:36 I feel this is so powerful and you guys will be encouraged and blessed

1:40 by this. And it is found in Isaiah fifty four. You know this

1:45 words which most of you know by heart. I guess it is no weapon

1:49 formed against you will prosper. In verse seventeen, no weapon formed against you

1:53 will prosper. Now it's a very familiar words, but the Lords just reminding

1:57 me of this. It says no way formed against you will prosper. The

2:05 Bible does not just say no weapon will prosper or no weapon formed will prosper.

2:12 It says no weapon formed against you will prosper, Which means that I

2:20 want you to understand there will be specific weapons that will be formed against you,

2:27 not against the whole world, not generalized weapons. I hope you're getting

2:30 what I'm saying. It's not a general statement of weapons being formed. It's

2:35 not a general statement that everybody goes to trouble. Everybody goes through persecution.

2:38 Everybody goes through hardships and turmoils. You know, that's not the point here.

2:44 It says that there will be specific weapons that will be formed specifically against

2:50 you. Also, I want you to understand when you read through these entire

2:55 chapter, Okay, you have to understand that this is not just an ordin

3:00 very You know, one verse that you take out of and say, you

3:02 know what this is for me or whatever? You know, if you read

3:05 through, for example, one of these verses I want to remind you is

3:08 if you look at Worse, then it says where God is saying, my

3:12 covenant of blessing will never be broken, and you know God is giving certain

3:15 things. Even before that, he was saying, I swear and I make

3:19 a covenant. You know, as I swore in the time of Noah that

3:23 I will never let a flood cover the earth. Now I swear you know

3:29 I will never be angry or punish you. And you know God gives it

3:31 like a covenant. Okay, So what I want you to understand year is

3:35 this particular worse when you look at it, when you look at the word

3:38 you, it is it is talking about those in particular who are inside the

3:44 covenant that God has. Are you getting what I'm saying? It's it's like,

3:47 if you've accepted the free gift of salvation, if you've accepted Jesus as

3:52 the Lord and savior of your life, when you're living, you know,

3:54 in line and in accordance to God's will and God's plant for your life,

4:00 you are under that covenant of God. Then for you, you need to

4:03 understand, because you've made the choice to follow Christ, there will be some

4:10 weapons formed against you. You know, I want you to understand the reason

4:15 you're being weaponized. The reason why you're being targeted is because you're under that

4:21 covenant. And when you feel like you're being targeted, because you're under that

4:29 covenant, because you're doing what God wants you to do. You're in line

4:31 with this will and his plan and this purpose for your life with you who

4:34 have given your life into the Lord's hands, and you're you know, in

4:39 the plan of salvation. I want you to understand, when you're under that

4:42 covenant, there will be some weapons that are formed specifically against you. You

4:48 feel like you're being targeted, you feel like you're being ostracized, you feel

4:53 like it's all coming against you you feel like you're being blamed all the time.

4:57 I want you to understand those weapons are not formed against everybody. They're

5:00 formed against those under that covenant. But the good news years, those weapons

5:08 will not succeed, Those weapons will not prevail, those weapons will not be

5:15 able to do its job. That's the hope. So today I want you

5:21 to understand the reason you've being targeted, the reason you feel that you know

5:26 you're being blamed all the time, or you're always the constant end of receiving

5:30 the negative things, is not because there's something wrong with you. It's not

5:34 because you're you're you're done something wrong. Sometimes, you know, sometimes it's

5:39 just because you're a child of God. Just because you're under the covenant of

5:43 God, the enemy cannot tolerate you being a blessing to other people. You

5:47 know, That's what Jesus said, right like you know, um, when

5:50 you when you say yes to God's God, I want you to understand,

5:54 remind you of this. You know, you're not going to live a life

5:57 where you're not going to have any challenge. You're not going to have any

6:00 weapons formed against you, you will not have any persecution, you not have

6:02 any troubles. That's not the Christian life that Jesus promised. He said,

6:08 in this world you will have troubles. And he also specifically said, you

6:13 will be hated for my name. You will be hated because of Me,

6:16 for righteousness sake. You will be hated because you choose to follow God.

6:23 You will be hated. You will be targeted by the good news is that

6:29 weapon formed against you will not prosper today. I want you guys to be

6:33 encouraged. If you feel down and discouraged wondering why are being targeted, this

6:40 is a word for you today. Those weapons that are formed against you will

6:45 definitely will not prevail against you a man. God bless you. You've been

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