Your Time for a Miracle Will Come | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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 and Christian discussions and interviews. You'll be inspired to live the life that you were created for. Your host is a top ranking podcaster, bestselling 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.

0:46 Speaker 2: Hey are you in a place in your life where you're looking at your life and you're feeling like oh my goodness john i feel like i'm very stuck i'm not able to move ahead i feel like i'm not able to take any step no matter what i do nothing is working out i feel like i'm in the same place for so many days weeks months or even years for that matter and you're saying in some area of your life you're not able to see the progress despite praying despite taking the steps of faith you despite looking up to god for godly wisdom and counsel and taking the right steps that you know that you need to take But no matter what you do, nothing is working.

1:18 Speaker 2: You're feeling like, oh my gosh, is this my lot in life that I'm always going to see this issue with regard to my finance always being in a very bad shape or my relationship status never changing or looking at the condition of my marriage is never turning around or my family member who's not saved. Never get saved. It feels like this is something that is like a lot in life. Like, oh, I'm never going to get a child. Never going to get married. I'm never going to see good days in my life. Do you feel like that?

1:48 Speaker 2: Maybe for a long time you've been hoping. Maybe there were times you listened to good sermons that inspired you, encouraged you. You stood on the word of God, the promises of God. But now you're feeling like, oh my gosh, maybe it was never meant for me. Maybe those sermons were all meant in a certain area of my life. But for me, maybe God is not going to do it. But I want to just remind you today, right? I want to talk to you from one of my favorite passages from God's word. And it is found in John chapter five, which is talking about a place called the pool of Bethesda, where there are so many sick people who are waiting.

2:22 Speaker 2: So what actually happens here is that in this huge pool called the pool of Bethesda, so many sick people lay there and every now and then the angel of the Lord would come and stir the waters and whoever jumped in first would get healed. This is what that used to happen at the pool of Bethesda. And there in that pool, If you look at verse 5, it says, there was a man who had been sick for 38 years. Now, I want you to just think about this. Almost 40 years, this man was a crippled man who was lying there.

2:52 Speaker 2: And if you see, even in the book of Acts, there's a moment where by the gate called Beautiful in the place of worship, there was a man who had been lame and crippled for 40 years. Now, I want you to just think about this. When you look at it in a literal sense, These men have been in the same state for not one year, not two years, not for 10 days, not for a decade, but for almost four decades. This has been their life. They saw everybody else, you know, progressing in life. They're moving ahead in life.

3:25 Speaker 2: They feel like, oh my gosh, I'm missing out on so much. Even if you look at the man in the book of facts, you know, like for the first 40 years of his life, he was like this. Now imagine growing up as a kid, watching other kids play around, running around, and he can't do any of that because he's a cripple. Or he's looking at other young people getting married and now when he grows young, and he's looking at everybody else getting all of those benefits but he's stuck he's not able to get ahead in life and he feels like oh my gosh this is my lot in life but today this is a word i want to encourage you that if you feel like oh my gosh john my life seems like nothing is changing nothing is moving and i need to accept that this is my lot in life no i want you to cancel that out because you never know when god is going to show up when god is going to suddenly turn things around one sudden moment when jesus stepped into the pool of bethesda this man got his miracle instantaneously and he was able to walk again.

4:23 Speaker 2: If you look at the incident in the book of Acts 3 as well, it says that the minute that man got his miracle, The Lord used Peter and John and instantly they touched him and he was able to receive his miracle and he started running around, jumping around, excited and praising the Lord. See, I want you to understand, no matter how long it's been, you never know when is that one divine moment when suddenly everything is going to turn around. Suddenly everything is going to shift. Everything is going to make amends like never before.

4:57 Speaker 2: See, I'm not sharing this from a place where I'm feeling like, oh, you know what? I'm just giving you empty promises. I'm just giving you empty word of assurances and saying everything is great in my life. And I just want you guys to just be happy. That's not what my intention is. Like, to be honest, just a while ago, I was just, you know, crying to the Lord. I was looking at the condition of my YouTube channel. I was talking to someone the other day. I was like, you know, I've been working on YouTube consistently for the past 10 years.

5:24 Speaker 2: You know, I've been running the ministry for the past 14 years. On YouTube, I've been consistent with high quality videos from studios, recordings and all of these things, collaborations, all that I've been doing for the last 10 years, 10 days, 10 years, one decade. right a lot of people give up in one year two years but after 10 years and i was just you know crying to the lord and i was like god you know after 10 years of being on youtube the response i get is not as nowhere near the kind of response i should be hoping to get after working on youtube for 10 years you know what i mean i was looking at it and i was like lord i What is happening?

6:00 Speaker 2: What is going on? You know, and again, I was just, you know, when I was just crying about it and praying about it and all of that, you know, the one thought that was like the same way, just because nothing is happening for a long time doesn't mean nothing is going to work. you never know when is that divine moment one video going viral one video reaching the right person and being an impact to the right people you know and blessing lives in a way that you can't even imagine all it takes is one touch of god's favor one moment for everything to turn around you know it's like a domino effect and one video starts doing well and the lord just uses that to bless multitudes across the globe all the efforts i put all the money invested all the All of my heart put into this for so many years.

6:46 Speaker 2: You know, there were times I put in more. I was talking to someone and said, I put in more effort to, you know, these videos in this ministry for the past 14 years in terms of finance, in some cases, more into it than what I'm investing in myself. In a sense like that, I'm telling you, the Lord is. is faithful that's the hope i have and i challenge you to have the same hope because even though you don't find the result even though you feel like you're stuck even though you feel it feels like everybody else is progressing and you're stuck in the same place i want you to believe just like i'm believing in the midst of everything that at the right moment Yes, God will honor the efforts I put into the YouTube channel.

7:31 Speaker 2: The same way God will honor the efforts you put in in whichever area you've been praying for. If you've been praying for a miracle in the area of finance, I speak it over your life right now in Jesus name that you will step into your divine moment. If you're praying for a miracle in a relationship, you know, as a Christian single, I know exactly how that feels. You're taking steps, you're praying, you're hoping, you're trying out. and you know you're still single and you're like oh my gosh god what is going on you may be feeling like that i can understand that you you maybe in that season yourself.

8:01 Speaker 2: And I pray that God will give you the strength, the grace you need to believe that the right appointed time, the right thing will happen, the right connection, the divine moment when everything is going to fall in place. I speak it over your life in the name of Jesus. Whatever area, miracle, breakthrough that you're hoping for, let it happen. And it will happen for the glory of God. Amen. God bless you.

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