You Never Stopped Being GOD's Child | Overcoming Orphan Spirit | John Giftah | Biblical Teaching

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, in 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.

0:45 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta podcasts All through this week. We're looking at various aspects that we can learn with regard to knowing God has a heavenly Father. See a lot of times we lived life from a perspective where we think like, oh my goodness, I need to figure this out. I need to make this happen. I need to just work hard and succeed and see, maybe you have a good heart where you say you know, yes, I go to church, I read the Bible, I pray I have a relationship with God to an extent, but I need to do my part of working things out.

1:16 Speaker 2: I need to figure things out. But I want to share something very important with you. See, there is this thin line of balance where yes, we can't just be lazing around being complacent and expect God to do everything and we just sit and sleep and expect God to do a miracle. And yes, we need to partner with God. And that's where the key is. That's another sermon altogether about healing to the Holy Spirit and doing what God has called us to do. But what I want you to understand is sometimes people have the relationship with God.

1:45 Speaker 2: They pray, they read the Word, and they go to church and all of those things. But beyond that, what happens is they think that it's all about them trying to make it through life. It's like, Oh, I need to keep the job, I need to get a job, I need to get married, I need to do this, I need to do this. It's it's like they're always operating in that pressure mode of accomplishing, or it's in the pressure mode of striving. It's in a pressure mode of like, oh I need to do this, I need to do that. But I want to share something very important with you, that you're another one driving your life like the way a lot of people think that.

2:18 Speaker 2: How for example, if you see little orphans, right, it's really sad to see underprivileged children and they've lost their families, they've lost their loud ones, they've lost their parents, and they're in a very despicable situation. Sometimes they don't have like a father figure in their life. Sometimes and many people today are living their life thinking that they're just an Often through life. Maybe they have their early father, but in a spiritual sense, they still don't understand that their heavenly Father is the father figure with them.

2:54 Speaker 2: They're not having that relationship with God or the understanding of God saying you know what, see like how my earthly father being with me gives me that confidence that, yes, you know what, my dad will take care of this, My dad will do this for me, my dad will support me and stand by me. You know that kind of an understanding many people are lacking with regard to their relationship with God as a father. That's where I'm trying to tell you. I still remember a moment where when I was learning to drive, I used to be so scared, and I'll be so cautious and conscious, like, oh my goodness, I should not make the mistake, I should not hit something.

3:30 Speaker 2: I would drive so carefully. And there was one particular instant where I'm driving and my Dad was following behind me in another car. So this time I don't know from where the boldness came. Hidris drove like I was ruling the world, you know what I mean. I drove without any fear. I didn't have any problem. Everything went well. I was just cautiously driving and peacefully driving with no fear at all. And then I realized, See the minute I know that my earthly day is just behind me, and I know that if anything goes wrong, He's there to take care of everything.

4:07 Speaker 2: I was at a place of peace. I didn't have to worry. I didn't have that fear of what if something goes wrong or how will I handle I didn't have anything because I knew my earthly Daddy was there. See, if you can be the place of rest, if you can be at the place of peace, if you can be at the place of security knowing that your earthly dad is with you, how much more you and I can be at the place of peace through life, and you can walk in that assurance and from a place of just rest and trust and joy, knowing that your eavenly daddy is backing you.

4:41 Speaker 2: Your evenly daddy is saying, you know what, you don't have to worry. You're not figuring life on your own. I am with you. I'm going to be with you. See when you look at the scripture, saints in Romans say at sixteen, the Spirit himself best witness with our spirit that we are children of God. See today, I want you to understand that when you give your left to Christ, the Holy Spirit came in you, and his spirit and your spirit the bear witness to the fact that we are children of the most hygard. And if you see my previous segment, I was sharing that when we understand God as a father, he's not just like a distant figure of God that we get so scared to even approach him, but rather he's like our daddy.

5:26 Speaker 2: He's like, hey, just talk to me. Hey, I'm just a call away. I'm there for you. See. One of the things I was thinking about the incident in Luke fifteen regarding the prodigal son. See, when you think about this. One of the things that caught my attention was this that at one point the prodigal son comes to senses and then he's like, okay, let me go back to my father and say let me at least be one of the servants. Right, here's the thing. He's eating the food that was meant for the orgs and is realizing that his life is in a very messy situation.

6:02 Speaker 2: And then he realizes that the only way forward would be to at least go back to his father's house. But here's the thing I wanted to understand. The son forgot who he was, but the father never forgot who he was. See, sometimes you might have gone astray. You may not have understood who your heavenly father is. Maybe you never understood or had that revelation of God as your daddy. Maybe you never walked in that kind of an understanding or revelation. But today can be that day where, just like that prodigal son, you can make that shift.

6:34 Speaker 2: Maybe we think of prodigal son as somebody who sinned and went away from God and then coming back to his father. That's another idea or a perspective. But today maybe the perspective for you is just that you know and in your mind you had a different view of God, and today you coming back to your senses is more like understanding God as your father. And even when he ran away from home, when he went and lived a life that was not the way he's supposed to be, the fact never changed that he was still a son of his father.

7:10 Speaker 2: See that's the thing I wanted to understand. You might have not understood God as a father before. You may have actually walked out of that kind of a relationship with God. You may have made some mistakes, but that did not cancel the fact that God still calls you his own child. And today that is the idea I want you to have. That is the perspective I want you to have. Then, what you have done, where you're gone, what you've been to, or even your understanding mentally, physically, emotionally or spiritually may not have been at parer with where it's supposed to be.

7:44 Speaker 2: But today, just like the prodigal son repented and you know, he came to his senses and decided to go back to the father SOS, you can make that change today and say let me go back. I don't want to live life like an orphan. I want to live life being a son of my father, and when you make that change, you know that God will lead you. When he returned to his father's house, the father didn't condemn him throw him away. He in fact ran to meet this son. In fact, the son felt he was worthless, but the father said, you are still my son.

8:23 Speaker 2: God still considers you as his own child, his own son, his own daughter. And when you walk with that awareness, that's how you will not live from a place of worry and anxiety, depression and fear, not knowing what's going to happen, but you will face everything knowing my heavenly Father is by my side, and I know that with him I can fulfill everything that He has set out for me. I really hope that this message was a blessing to you. I would like you to leave a comment and share this with someone and I will see you back very soon.

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