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, 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.

0:46 Speaker 2: Hey, are you in a place in your lefe? You're looking at a lef 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, 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.

1:17 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 shame, or my relationship status never changing, or looking at the condition of my marriage it's never turning around. Or my family member who's not saved will 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, we're going to get married, I'm never going to see good days in my life.

1:46 Speaker 2: Do you feel like that. Maybe for a long time you've been hoping. Maybe there were times you listen 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 the 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 Betesta, where there are so many sick people who are waiting.

2:23 Speaker 2: So what actually happens here is that in this huge pool called the pool of Betesta, so many sick people lay there, and every now and then the Angel of the Lord would come and stir the waters, and who over jumped in first would get healed. This is what that used to happen at the pool of Bethesta. And there in that pool, if you look at verse five, it says there was a man who had been sick for thirty eight years. Now I wanted to just think about this, almost forty 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 forty years. Now, I wanted to just think about this. When you look at in a literal sense, these men have been in the same state for not one year, not two years, not for ten 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 forty 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.

3:57 Speaker 2: 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 doubt, because you never know when God is going to show up, when God is going to suddenny turn things around. One sudden moment, when Jesus stepped into the pool of Patista, this man got his miracle instantaneously, and he was able to walk again. If you look at the incident in the Book of Acts three as well, it says that the minute that man got his miracle, the Lord used Peter and John and instantly they got they touched him, and he was able to receive his miracle, and he started running around, jumping around, excited and praising the Lord.

4:43 Speaker 2: 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. See, I'm not sharing this from a place when 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.

5:14 Speaker 2: I was looking at the condition of a 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 ten years. You know, I've been running the ministry for the past fourteen 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 ten years, ten years, one decade. Great. A lot of people give up in one year, two years.

5:41 Speaker 2: But after ten years and I was just you know, crying through the Lord and I was like, God, you know, after ten 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 ten years, you know what I mean. I was looking at it and I was like, Lord, what is happening? 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.

6:15 Speaker 2: You never know when is that divine moment one video going wider, 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. The one video starts doing well, and the Lord just uses that to bless multitudes across the globe. All the efforts I've 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 fourteen years, in terms of finance, in some cases more in then what I'm investing in myself. In a sense like that, I'm telling you the Lord 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.

7:22 Speaker 2: 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 have put into the YouTube channel, the same way God will honor the efforts you're 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 away 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.

7:48 Speaker 2: You're taking steps, you're praying, you're hoping, you're trying out, and you know you're still a single and you're like, oh my gosh, God, what is going on? You may be feeling like that. I can understand that you in that season yourself, and I pray that God will give you the strength, the grace you need to believe that the right point in time, the right thing will happen, the right connection, the divine moment when everything is going to fall in places. Speak it away your life in the name of Jesus.

8:15 Speaker 2: Whatever area, miracle, breakthrough that you're hoping for, let it happen, and it will happen for the glory of God. Emmen, God bless you.

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