You Don’t Understand It Now… But GOD Is Still Working (Even Today) John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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

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

0:44 Speaker 2: Hell Everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:46 Speaker 2: the Soul with John gift podcast. You may be in

0:49 Speaker 2: a place in your life where you're saying, John, you

0:51 Speaker 2: know what, four months of this year are done. I

0:53 Speaker 2: was spraying that this year would be my year. Maybe

0:56 Speaker 2: God would show up in an area of my life,

0:58 Speaker 2: a breakthrough, a miracle at Jinujo job, or maybe you've

1:00 Speaker 2: been praying that God will give you a job. Maybe

1:03 Speaker 2: you've been praying for a job for a long period

1:04 Speaker 2: of time, or maybe you're single for a long time

1:06 Speaker 2: and you've been praying that a lot will bring the

1:08 Speaker 2: right person into your life. But I want to tell

1:10 Speaker 2: you something here, right like, even if you feel like

1:13 Speaker 2: you have stepped into the new month and nothing seems

1:16 Speaker 2: to have changed, I want you to hold down. I

1:18 Speaker 2: want you to just never give up, because we serve

1:21 Speaker 2: a God who's a faithful god. He is a god

1:23 Speaker 2: of know like you know, like a god of miracles,

1:28 Speaker 2: who can show up in moments that you never expect

1:31 Speaker 2: at all. See. One of the things about this day

1:35 Speaker 2: in particular is that if you're like me who's politically driven,

1:39 Speaker 2: like allowed to check out or not just check out,

1:43 Speaker 2: or be involved in politics, but also you know, I

1:45 Speaker 2: have a heart that you know, we don't just complain

1:49 Speaker 2: about the common policies, but we have to be involved.

1:52 Speaker 2: We need to intercede, we need to pray, we need

1:54 Speaker 2: to do our part. And today, especially if you're in India,

1:57 Speaker 2: because a lot of you listen to me from India,

2:00 Speaker 2: today happened to be the results in many of the states.

2:03 Speaker 2: We had these state election results that came out high

2:07 Speaker 2: stakes and may of you listening, maybe some of you

2:11 Speaker 2: are happy about the results. You are happy and grateful

2:14 Speaker 2: the person that you are hoping for this got the

2:19 Speaker 2: you know the victory. You're happy about it. I'm rejoicing

2:22 Speaker 2: with you. But then maybe those who are listening and saying, John,

2:25 Speaker 2: you know what, I'm disappointed. I did not expect this output.

2:28 Speaker 2: I did not think God, would you know. I love

2:31 Speaker 2: this outcome to come out. But can I tell you

2:33 Speaker 2: something right? You may be disappointed, you may be hurt,

2:37 Speaker 2: and that this is a message I want to just

2:39 Speaker 2: share with you one of my scriptures that I keep

2:43 Speaker 2: going back to John, Chapter thirteen, verse seven. Jesus replied,

2:46 Speaker 2: and Jesus said, now, you don't realize it, but one

2:51 Speaker 2: day you will understand. I'm paraphrasing different translations. It says this,

2:55 Speaker 2: you do not realize now what I'm doing, but later

2:58 Speaker 2: you will understand. I tell you something. You may be

3:01 Speaker 2: in a season in your life and you're saying, John,

3:03 Speaker 2: I don't understand why we prayed, we fasted. I took

3:06 Speaker 2: the step, and you did not see the kind of

3:09 Speaker 2: results you were hoping for. I mean, it may not

3:11 Speaker 2: be elections directly, but maybe some other area. You've been

3:15 Speaker 2: praying that a lot will bring the right person into

3:17 Speaker 2: your life, but you're entering into scams of the scams

3:20 Speaker 2: or negative daily things or closed doors or people walking out,

3:24 Speaker 2: rejections and you know, heartbreaks. You're going through all of

3:27 Speaker 2: the negative things when and things are just not working out.

3:30 Speaker 2: This season of delay seems to like, oh my gosh,

3:32 Speaker 2: this is never ending. There seems to be no change

3:35 Speaker 2: in the outside. There's no change visible, and I'm not

3:38 Speaker 2: understand when God is going to show up in my life.

3:41 Speaker 2: You know, tell you something today, guys, even in the

3:43 Speaker 2: midst of this one more thing I was reminded today

3:45 Speaker 2: is you know, the fourth of me. And you know,

3:50 Speaker 2: those who check out this pop culture reference of star

3:54 Speaker 2: Wars or Star Wars, they people say, you know, may

3:57 Speaker 2: the Fourth be with you, May the Force be with you,

4:00 Speaker 2: or in other words, with the first Man and the

4:02 Speaker 2: fire be with you. You know what, you have to

4:05 Speaker 2: understand this important truth, guys, even though you're going through

4:08 Speaker 2: this stuff time, even though you don't understand why the

4:12 Speaker 2: miracle does not come through. You don't understand the delay,

4:15 Speaker 2: you don't understand the close to You don't understand the

4:18 Speaker 2: reason for the loss. You don't understand why. You know,

4:21 Speaker 2: despite all of the efforts, it feels like everything went

4:23 Speaker 2: to nothing. Can I tell you something in the midst

4:26 Speaker 2: of this. You're not by yourself. You're not alone. God

4:29 Speaker 2: is with you. God is in control. God is backing

4:33 Speaker 2: you up. And when you know that God is on

4:36 Speaker 2: your side, it doesn't matter who's against you, even if

4:39 Speaker 2: you're like, oh my God, John, I'm so scared because

4:41 Speaker 2: a government that is persecuting believers has come to power,

4:45 Speaker 2: and I know that the persecution might increase more. Can

4:48 Speaker 2: I tell you something in the midst of the persecution?

4:51 Speaker 2: The scripture talks about how the children of incident multiplied

4:54 Speaker 2: in the midst of persecution. I want to pray and

4:57 Speaker 2: release this over you, guys that if you're in the sea,

5:00 Speaker 2: or if you're in a place where you're governed by

5:03 Speaker 2: persecuting gangs, you're governed by leaders of persecution. Can I

5:07 Speaker 2: tell you something in the midst of the persecution, the

5:10 Speaker 2: Church will arise, in the midst of the negativity, God

5:14 Speaker 2: is going to show in the midst of darkness, light

5:17 Speaker 2: will prevail. And I want to release this over you,

5:20 Speaker 2: and I want you to remember that you're not by yourself,

5:23 Speaker 2: because the one who's going, you know, to be with

5:26 Speaker 2: you in the fire. He is the fourth man in

5:29 Speaker 2: the fire. And when you have him with you, you're

5:33 Speaker 2: going to come out victorious. In Jesus Martina. Today you

5:36 Speaker 2: are saying, I don't understand why all of this. I

5:39 Speaker 2: don't understand the results. I don't understand the troubles, I

5:42 Speaker 2: don't understand the heartbreak. Can I tell you something you

5:45 Speaker 2: may not understand now, but one day you'll look back

5:48 Speaker 2: and say, now I understand why God allow this to happen.

5:51 Speaker 2: Now I understand why this did not work out the

5:53 Speaker 2: way I expected. Can I tell you something I want

5:56 Speaker 2: to close with this. I know you might have heard

5:58 Speaker 2: the scripture so many times. Romans eight says that all

6:01 Speaker 2: things work together for good to them that love the Lord,

6:05 Speaker 2: and I called according to His purpose. When you are

6:08 Speaker 2: making that commitment to walk in accordance to your purpose

6:11 Speaker 2: that God has ordained for you, when you love the Lord,

6:14 Speaker 2: I want to tell you this, that all things, whether

6:17 Speaker 2: things look good or they don't look good, where things

6:20 Speaker 2: are fine or they're not fine, when things are the

6:22 Speaker 2: way it's supposed to be, or they're not the way

6:23 Speaker 2: it's supposed to be. But in the midst of all

6:25 Speaker 2: of that, in the midst of the fire, in the

6:28 Speaker 2: midst of the rain, in the midst of the storm,

6:30 Speaker 2: in the midst of the trouble, you can be assured

6:33 Speaker 2: that the God who has led you thus far, he

6:36 Speaker 2: is faithful. He is with you in the fire, and

6:40 Speaker 2: He's not only going to be with you in the fire,

6:42 Speaker 2: but it's going to help you come out better off

6:45 Speaker 2: than you were before. You're going to come out without

6:47 Speaker 2: the smell of smoke. And when you come out, you

6:49 Speaker 2: will look back and say, now I understand why God

6:53 Speaker 2: I love this to happen in my life. Now I

6:56 Speaker 2: look back and realize why God I love this. Even

6:59 Speaker 2: though it was heard, even though it was unfair, God

7:02 Speaker 2: allowed it for a purpose in my life. Think about it.

7:07 Speaker 2: I just want to close with this example. Because many

7:09 Speaker 2: of you checked out my content on a regular basis

7:12 Speaker 2: from different places, you might have heard this that last year.

7:17 Speaker 2: At one point there was a huge financial loss that

7:19 Speaker 2: I had to go through and it was very, very hard.

7:22 Speaker 2: And because of this reason, a few months later, I

7:28 Speaker 2: had plans of visiting different nations. I've shared this with

7:33 Speaker 2: you guys, that I traveled and ministered. That's my heart.

7:36 Speaker 2: I want to travel and preach the Word, and you

7:38 Speaker 2: know that's been my heart and everything came to a standstill.

7:41 Speaker 2: Despite getting the visa and all of that, I'm like,

7:43 Speaker 2: oh my gosh, everything just came to a standstill. And

7:47 Speaker 2: at that moment when I was like, oh my gosh,

7:49 Speaker 2: what is happening, I suddenly, you know, like there was

7:51 Speaker 2: a mass lay off that happened in the organization, and

7:54 Speaker 2: I was like, oh my gosh, so much of uncertainty.

7:56 Speaker 2: I didn't understand what was happening. God, Why one after another?

7:59 Speaker 2: It didn't make sense. But I was glad a little

8:03 Speaker 2: later that one of the main programs for which I

8:06 Speaker 2: had to attend, a program that I had to travel

8:10 Speaker 2: to another nation, you know, Like I was like, God,

8:16 Speaker 2: you know, and give me a sign that I should

8:18 Speaker 2: go or make this way so that I will be

8:20 Speaker 2: able to take a step of faith. And it just

8:22 Speaker 2: did not happen. I didn't understand why God did not

8:24 Speaker 2: allow that to happen. And can I tell you something.

8:28 Speaker 2: Two days before that conference or the main program that

8:32 Speaker 2: I was supposed to attend and then later Minister, that

8:36 Speaker 2: entire thing got canceled because of you know, a lot

8:40 Speaker 2: of political unders that happened in the country in the

8:44 Speaker 2: last minute. At that moment, I realized that, you know what,

8:47 Speaker 2: God closed these doors. God made sure that I didn't

8:51 Speaker 2: have enough finance. I didn't have enough I mean, I

8:53 Speaker 2: didn't have the job stability. I didn't have any of

8:55 Speaker 2: these things. Because if I had any of these, I

8:57 Speaker 2: would have gone and I would have got stranded in

8:59 Speaker 2: this country at a moment of chaos. But God protected

9:04 Speaker 2: me from everything because of his faithfulness. See like this,

9:09 Speaker 2: One day you look back and say, this is why

9:11 Speaker 2: God closed that door. This is why God allowed me

9:13 Speaker 2: to go through this. This is why God prepared me.

9:16 Speaker 2: Because I went through that financial loss, I was better

9:20 Speaker 2: prepared when the job loss happened because I was financially

9:25 Speaker 2: in a position where I had saved enough over the

9:28 Speaker 2: last couple of months before. Between the financial laws and

9:32 Speaker 2: the job loss. You get what I'm saying. Like that,

9:34 Speaker 2: God prepares you in the midst of undesirable trouble. You

9:40 Speaker 2: get know what I'm saying. You may not understand why

9:41 Speaker 2: this trouble, but if that hadn't happen, I wouldn't have

9:44 Speaker 2: been ready to handle this. If this hadn't happened, you

9:47 Speaker 2: would all missed something worse. You might have got stranded,

9:50 Speaker 2: something worse, could have happened. So today, instead of crying

9:54 Speaker 2: about what didn't happen or what happened, why didn't you

9:57 Speaker 2: trust and trust the Lord and say God, I choose

9:59 Speaker 2: to trust you in the mist. So this I know

10:01 Speaker 2: that You're going to make all things beautiful in my life. Emmen.

10:03 Speaker 2: God bless you. Guys.

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