You're NOT just there.... You're there to STAND OUT | John Giftah | Inspirational Christian Sermon

0:01 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, best selling author, world record holder, aerospace engineer, life coach, evangelist, and founder of John Gifta International.

0:43 Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John GIFTA. Many times when we go through life, maybe you're in a workplace, maybe you're in a school or college doing a course, or maybe you're just going through life. Maybe you're just saying, Okay, this is what my life is at this point of time, and you're just thinking, you know what better cut your dreams, your career, your goals, your dream your passions, your ministry, your calling, your purpose, or your business anything. You're just saying, you know what, I'm just there, you know what I mean that there are so many other clients out there.

1:21 I'm just one among the crowd, or you may be saying that there's so many other students in the class, I'm just one of them in the class, or maybe in your workplace, you're just one among the crowd. So everywhere with thin to think that, you know what, there's nothing special about me. I'm just a nobody. I'm just there. Okay, fine, I'm not a little sense of nobody, but at least I'm there somewhere, you know, among the crowd. But I can't outshine everyone else. There are people who are smarter than me, more talented than me, more skillful than me, or they seem to have everything together.

1:54 And I'm not like that. I'm just there. I'm just there. You may feel like I want to talk to you today from Daniel chapter six, and I want to share a very powerful word from verse three, and I'm looking at it from different translations to give you a brief idea. This is a moment when this heathen king called Darius, he's reorganizing his kingdom and he is setting up or appointing new governors to govern different regions, and one of them that he is appointing is Daniel. Right, there were over three vice regions.

2:31 One of whom was Daniel right? And the governors reported to the vice regents, who made sure everything was in order for the king. And I'm reading from the message version first, and then I will show you from other translations as well. But this is what it says. But Daniel, brimming with spirit and intelligence, so completely outclassed the other vice regions and governors that the King decided to put Daniel in charge of the whole kingdom. Okay, I want you to understand something here. First of all, you may be saying, John, I didn't choose to be when I am.

3:10 Okay, I have a different region of calling or a different area where I know that that's my area of purpose. I know that I'm gifted in something else. But I'm forced to be here. I'm forced to do this course, I'm forced to work in this kind of an environment, in this company. I don't want to be here. It is not by my choice I'm here, but I don't have any other choice. And that's how I'm here. So I'll just make it through this place. I'll just somehow crawl through or just somehow manage or make it through.

3:39 But I want to tell you something. Daniel was not here by his choice. You may be feeling like, you know what, I don't need to do my best. I don't need to you know, have the spirit of excellence because I didn't choose to be here. Okay, I was forced to be here. Maybe you didn't choose that course, your family choice or your parents forced you into that course, or maybe you didn't choose that job, but no other job open for you, so you have to be here till you get another opportunity. So you're saying, John, I'm just forced to be here.

4:13 It's not my choice. So let me just as long as I can manage. Let me just manage, make it through. But here you see this, Daniel also did not come here by choice. He was taken as a captive. Remember, if you go back a couple of chapters, you'll understand how you know, Daniel and all the others were taken as captives, and that's how they are here. They didn't come here by their own choice, and life just happened. But in spite of the fact that they didn't come here by their own choice, God enabled them to outclass everybody else.

4:46 What I want you guys to understand today is, even if you didn't choose that course, Even if you didn't choose that job, even if you didn't come to where you are right now in your life, you may feel like, oh, John, you know what I calling is in a different area. My gifting is in a different area. When I'm stuck here, I'm not able to make a move, I feel like I'm stagnant here. I want to tell you something here. If God has brought you here, if God has kept you here, it means God wants to help you outclass other people.

5:14 When you look at different translations of the same verse, I wanted to just hold on because I want to share from my life. Also

5:23 in regard to this, but if you look at the Nalty version of the same verse, it says Daniel soon proved himself more capable than all the other administrators and high officers. Right he soon proved himself. It means that when he started, it seems like he was just one among the crowd. But soon he was able to prove himself highly and more capable than anyone else. He outclassed everyone else. What I want you to understand is, right now, it seems like you're just one among the crowd. Right now, it seems like you're just one of the students in the class.

5:58 Maybe you're not even average, you're below average, or maybe you're saying the John. You know what, even in my workplace, I'm not the most performing or the best performing, you know, employee. I'm just just getting my job done. I'm just someone making it through. But I want you to understand that just same way you didn't choose, Daniel also didn't choose, but still he was able to shine. He was able to outclass everyone else. He was able to prove himself more capable than everyone else. Because that's what the hand of God can do.

6:35 That's what the power of God can do. That's what the favor of God can do. It can help you stand out. It can help you do something far exceeding other people, and people will notice that. You know. I'll just share this with you guys, and from my life, I know that my ultimate call is inn aareive ministry. You know, that's my heart, that's my vision. I want to go around minister the gospel to people. But you know, because of what life has been going happening for me, and you know how, you know, the leading of God.

7:14 Of course, back then, I didn't understand it was the leading of God. I didn't understand a lot of things. I was like, oh, my goodness, maybe I should be in full time ministry right away. But you know, just that life has made sure that I'm working. You guys know I've worked in a full time job. But you know, in the in the past, I always thought, you know, I'm not performing well. I'm not able to, you know, be my best because I didn't choose to be there. I didn't want to be there. I know that's not my area of gifting, and I could not be my best, you know what I mean.

7:48 But eventually the Lord showed me through the scriptures. You know, even when you look at Daniel's life as well as Joseph's life, Joseph did not choose to be there, but he was put there. He was put in charge in part of his house, he was put in charge in the prison, you know, and he was able to sustain. He didn't choose that, but it just happened, and he was able to sustain and do really well. And you see Daniel at the same time, he was able to stand out from everybody else that the King wanted to make him in charge of everything in the kingdom, just like the Pharaoh put Joseph in charge for everything in the kingdom.

8:33 Can you think about it, guys, are you able to understand what I'm saying? That's the way you know what the Lord showed me was you see. You know, once you understand that, you know God can help you shine. God will really help you shine. That's how the Lord changed my perspective. And I'm telling you honestly, things have changed so much for the better. The minute my perspective changed, the minute my attitude changed, the Lord changed me from the inside out, and I'm able to see a difference. That's what God wants to do in and through your life, and that's what He will do through you.

9:12 And today I want to lead this over you. Guys that you know you may feel like I'm just average, I'm just weak. But you and God together you're able to excel because you are connected with the infinite source of wisdom. You're connected with a God who is all omniscient, omnipotent, and omni temporal God. He was beyond everything and he knows everything. And today I want you to get to that place where you say God instead of giving excuses on why I can't be my best. Instead of laying out my excuses on why I can't do my best, why I should just settle for you know, just just go through life helping you to the place where I trust you, depend on you, look up to you and receive your strength, your wisdom, your favor, your mercy, to be like Daniel and outclass everybody else, outshine for the glory of God.

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