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

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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 lefe? You're

0:47 Speaker 2: looking at a lef and you're feeling like, oh my goodness, John,

0:50 Speaker 2: I feel like I'm very stuck. I'm not able to

0:53 Speaker 2: move ahead. I feel like I'm not able to take

0:55 Speaker 2: any step. No matter what I do, nothing is working out.

0:57 Speaker 2: I feel like I'm in the same place for so

1:00 Speaker 2: many days, weeks, months, or even years for that matter.

1:03 Speaker 2: And you're saying, in some area of your life, you're

1:05 Speaker 2: not able to see the progress despite praying, despite taking

1:08 Speaker 2: the steps of faith, despite looking up to God for

1:11 Speaker 2: godly wisdom and counsel and taking the right steps that

1:14 Speaker 2: you know that you need to take, but no matter

1:16 Speaker 2: what you do, nothing is working. You're feeling like, oh,

1:19 Speaker 2: my gosh, is this my lot in life that I'm

1:21 Speaker 2: always going to see this issue with regard to my

1:24 Speaker 2: finance always being in a very bad shame, or my

1:27 Speaker 2: relationship status never changing, or looking at the condition of

1:31 Speaker 2: my marriage it's never turning around. Or my family member

1:35 Speaker 2: who's not saved will never get saved. It feels like

1:38 Speaker 2: this is something that is like a lot in life, like, oh,

1:41 Speaker 2: I'm never going to get a child, we're going to

1:44 Speaker 2: get married, I'm never going to see good days in

1:46 Speaker 2: my life. Do you feel like that. Maybe for a

1:48 Speaker 2: long time you've been hoping. Maybe there were times you

1:51 Speaker 2: listen to good sermons that inspired you, encouraged you, you

1:54 Speaker 2: stood on the word of God, the promises of God.

1:56 Speaker 2: But now you're feeling like, oh my gosh, maybe it

1:58 Speaker 2: was never meant for me. Maybe those sermons were all

2:01 Speaker 2: meant in a certain area of my life, but for me,

2:04 Speaker 2: maybe God is not going to do it. But I

2:06 Speaker 2: want to just remind you today, right, I want to

2:08 Speaker 2: talk to you from the one of my favorite passages

2:12 Speaker 2: from God's Word, and it is found in John chapter five,

2:15 Speaker 2: which is talking about a place called the pool of Betesta,

2:19 Speaker 2: where there are so many sick people who are waiting.

2:23 Speaker 2: So what actually happens here is that in this huge

2:26 Speaker 2: pool called the pool of Betesta, so many sick people

2:29 Speaker 2: lay there, and every now and then the Angel of

2:31 Speaker 2: the Lord would come and stir the waters, and who

2:33 Speaker 2: over jumped in first would get healed. This is what

2:36 Speaker 2: that used to happen at the pool of Bethesta. And

2:38 Speaker 2: there in that pool, if you look at verse five,

2:42 Speaker 2: it says there was a man who had been sick

2:44 Speaker 2: for thirty eight years. Now I wanted to just think

2:46 Speaker 2: about this, almost forty years. This man was a crippled

2:50 Speaker 2: man who was lying there. And if you see even

2:53 Speaker 2: in the Book of Acts, there's a moment where by

2:57 Speaker 2: the gate called beautiful in the place of worship, there

3:01 Speaker 2: was a man who had been lame and crippled for

3:04 Speaker 2: forty years. Now, I wanted to just think about this.

3:07 Speaker 2: When you look at in a literal sense, these men

3:10 Speaker 2: have been in the same state for not one year,

3:13 Speaker 2: not two years, not for ten days, not for a decade,

3:17 Speaker 2: but for almost four decades. This has been their life.

3:20 Speaker 2: They saw everybody else, you know, progressing in life, they're

3:25 Speaker 2: moving ahead in life. They feel like, oh my gosh,

3:27 Speaker 2: I'm missing out on so much. Even if you look

3:30 Speaker 2: at the man in the Book of Facts, you know,

3:33 Speaker 2: like for the first forty years of his life he

3:35 Speaker 2: was like this. Now, imagine growing up as a kid

3:38 Speaker 2: watching other kids play around, running around, and he can't

3:42 Speaker 2: do any of that because he's a cripple. Or he's

3:44 Speaker 2: looking at other young people getting married. And now when

3:48 Speaker 2: he grows young and he's looking at everybody else getting

3:51 Speaker 2: all of those benefits, but he's stuck. He's not able

3:53 Speaker 2: to get ahead in life, and he feels like, oh

3:56 Speaker 2: my gosh, this is my lot in life. But today,

3:58 Speaker 2: this is a word. I want to encourage you that

4:00 Speaker 2: if you feel like, oh my gosh, John, my life

4:03 Speaker 2: seems like nothing is changing, nothing is moving, and I

4:05 Speaker 2: need to accept that this is my lot in life. No,

4:07 Speaker 2: I want you to cancel that doubt, because you never

4:10 Speaker 2: know when God is going to show up, when God

4:13 Speaker 2: is going to suddenny turn things around. One sudden moment,

4:16 Speaker 2: when Jesus stepped into the pool of Patista, this man

4:19 Speaker 2: 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

4:26 Speaker 2: Acts three as well, it says that the minute that

4:28 Speaker 2: man got his miracle, the Lord used Peter and John

4:34 Speaker 2: and instantly they got they touched him, and he was

4:37 Speaker 2: able to receive his miracle, and he started running around,

4:40 Speaker 2: jumping around, excited and praising the Lord. See, I want

4:43 Speaker 2: you to understand, no matter how long it's been, you

4:46 Speaker 2: never know when is that one divine moment when suddenly

4:50 Speaker 2: everything is going to turn around. Suddenly everything is going

4:53 Speaker 2: to shift, everything is going to make amends like never before. See,

4:57 Speaker 2: I'm not sharing this from a place when I'm feeling like, oh,

5:00 Speaker 2: you know what, I'm just giving you empty promises. I'm

5:02 Speaker 2: just giving you empty word of assurances and saying everything

5:05 Speaker 2: is great in my life and I just want you

5:07 Speaker 2: guys to just be happy. That's not what my intention

5:10 Speaker 2: is like, to be honest, Just a while ago, I

5:12 Speaker 2: was just, you know, crying to the Lord. I was

5:14 Speaker 2: looking at the condition of a YouTube channel. I was

5:17 Speaker 2: talking to someone the other day. I was like, you know,

5:19 Speaker 2: I've been working on YouTube consistently for the past ten years.

5:24 Speaker 2: You know, I've been running the ministry for the past

5:25 Speaker 2: fourteen years on YouTube. I've been consistent with high quality

5:29 Speaker 2: videos from studios, recordings and all of these things, collaborations,

5:33 Speaker 2: all that I've been doing for the last ten years,

5:36 Speaker 2: ten years, one decade. Great. A lot of people give

5:40 Speaker 2: up in one year, two years. But after ten years

5:43 Speaker 2: and I was just you know, crying through the Lord

5:45 Speaker 2: and I was like, God, you know, after ten years

5:47 Speaker 2: of being on YouTube, the response I get is not

5:50 Speaker 2: as nowhere near the kind of response I should be

5:53 Speaker 2: hoping to get after working on YouTube for ten years,

5:56 Speaker 2: you know what I mean. I was looking at it

5:58 Speaker 2: and I was like, Lord, what is happening? What is

6:01 Speaker 2: going on? You know? And again I was just you know,

6:04 Speaker 2: when I was just crying about it and praying about

6:07 Speaker 2: it and all of that. You know. The one thought

6:09 Speaker 2: that was like the same way, just because nothing is

6:12 Speaker 2: happening for a long time doesn't mean nothing is going

6:14 Speaker 2: to work. You never know when is that divine moment

6:17 Speaker 2: one video going wider, one video reaching the right person

6:21 Speaker 2: and being an impact to the right people, you know,

6:24 Speaker 2: and blessing lives in a way that you can't even imagine.

6:26 Speaker 2: All it takes is one touch of God's favor, one

6:29 Speaker 2: moment for everything to turn around. You know, it's like

6:32 Speaker 2: a domino effect. The one video starts doing well, and

6:36 Speaker 2: the Lord just uses that to bless multitudes across the globe.

6:39 Speaker 2: All the efforts I've put, all the money invested, all

6:42 Speaker 2: the all of my heart put into this for so

6:46 Speaker 2: many years. You know, there were times I put in more.

6:49 Speaker 2: I was talking to someone and said, I put in

6:51 Speaker 2: more effort to you know, these videos in this ministry

6:55 Speaker 2: for the past fourteen years, in terms of finance, in

6:58 Speaker 2: some cases more in then what I'm investing in myself.

7:02 Speaker 2: In a sense like that, I'm telling you the Lord

7:07 Speaker 2: is faithful. That's the hope I have, and I challenge

7:10 Speaker 2: you to have the same hope, because even though you

7:13 Speaker 2: don't find the result, even though you feel like you're stuck,

7:17 Speaker 2: even though you feel it feels like everybody else is

7:20 Speaker 2: progressing and you're stuck in the same place. I want

7:22 Speaker 2: you to believe, just like I'm believing in the midst

7:25 Speaker 2: of everything, that at the right moment, yes, God will

7:29 Speaker 2: honor the efforts I have put into the YouTube channel,

7:31 Speaker 2: the same way God will honor the efforts you're put

7:34 Speaker 2: in in whichever area you've been praying for. If you've

7:36 Speaker 2: been praying for a miracle in the area of finance,

7:39 Speaker 2: I speak it away your life right now in Jesus' name,

7:41 Speaker 2: that you will step into your divine moment. If you're

7:44 Speaker 2: praying for a miracle in a relationship, you know, as

7:46 Speaker 2: a Christian single, I know exactly how that feels. You're

7:49 Speaker 2: taking steps, you're praying, you're hoping, you're trying out, and

7:52 Speaker 2: you know you're still a single and you're like, oh

7:54 Speaker 2: my gosh, God, what is going on? You may be

7:56 Speaker 2: feeling like that. I can understand that you in that

8:00 Speaker 2: season yourself, and I pray that God will give you

8:03 Speaker 2: the strength, the grace you need to believe that the

8:06 Speaker 2: right point in time, the right thing will happen, the

8:09 Speaker 2: right connection, the divine moment when everything is going to

8:12 Speaker 2: fall in places. Speak it away your life in the

8:14 Speaker 2: name of Jesus. Whatever area, miracle, breakthrough that you're hoping for,

8:18 Speaker 2: let it happen, and it will happen for the glory

8:21 Speaker 2: of God. Emmen, God bless you.

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