Are You nursing Hatred in your Heart? | John Giftah - Fuel for the Soul with John Giftah

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Gifta International. Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. I want

to ask you this question today. See as much as we all say we

are professing believers and we need to walk in love, and we need to

show that loud to even people who are no way connected to us. We

have to show love to our enemies, we have to show love to our

coworkers. We need to show and walk in that love and compassion and demonstrate

God's love in and through our lives and all of that stuff. But one

of the most difficult aspects or areas where we need to show love is to

people close to us. Right because to a stranger on the street, to

show love, to show compassion to you know, go out of the way

one time is considerably easy because it's just a one time thing. It's somebody

who'll just meet maybe for just a while, or just for some time,

or just for a short duration, or maybe you just are you know,

maybe bonding with somebody for a short period of time till the project gets done,

and then after that you go on separate ways. Maybe if things get

worse, you can always quit your job, or change your job, or

change your boss or whatever. You know. In all those areas there are

things that you can change. But there's one aspect where you can't change,

and that is the fact that you know the people who are living with maybe

to put it in simple words, your family, your relatives, people you're

living and seeing them time and time again. They may be good people,

but there could be things that can always I mean, nobody is perfect,

right, Like, no two people can live forever without any fight to whatsoever,

without any disagreement whatsoever. That will always be differences of opinions, expectations

may be different, or you know, nobody can you know, meet the

other person's hundred percent of needs and we're all in the fallen nature of man.

So there it can be things that can hinder or you know, that

can come along the way that can rap the relationships. So what do you

do in such cases? Because the problem in such cases is that you keep

seeing those people. It's not something like you know, like maybe I go

to a project work which is just for two hours and that person is rude.

Also you don't mind because you need to get the job done. Just

to us, just bite your teeth, get it done, come back.

But you're living with these people, You're living with them, You're living with

those close ones. You're living with your family or even if not living with

them directly sometimes or somewhere or the other. You know, family does play

a role right like you do. You're not just called to be an island

you you know, meet them in weddings or there are choices and decisions you

make that involve them. So what do you do in such cases when there's

a rubbing in the relationship, when there's a constant difference of opinions, there's

a constant change of things. So I want to share an important scripture with

you, and I want to take this forward. And it's found in Leviticus,

chapter nineteen, verse seventeen. And this is what it says. Do

not nurse hatred in your heart for any of your relatives. Confront people directly

so that you will not be held guilty for their sin. Do not nurse

hatred in your heart towards any of your relatives. Remember I always say this,

and I say it again. Your heart is the soil, it's the

breathing ground. If your heart is in the right place, that's when your

life will be in the right place. The reason you need to guard your

heart is because out of your heart flows the issues of life. And you

need to ensure that your heart is set right before you take anything forward.

So you have to remember that the Bible is saying, do not nurse hatred

in your heart so towards any of your relatives, which means relatives who are

far your cousins, those uncles and aunts, or it could be even your

close family members, your parents, your grandparents, or your your siblings,

or your spouse or anybody close to you. Think about it. The Bible

is saying, do not nurse hatred towards any of your relatives. And and

what I want you to understand youre is this the you know, I was

just quickly checking up to confirm what I thought was right about the word nursing.

You know, when you look at the word nursing, it's like a

mother nurses you know, a child, right that that that's an example like

to help the child or be filled with the nourishing food and all of that

stuff. What I wanted to understand here is this important thing. When you

say nursing, it's like basically feeding. Right. So the thing is this

when when you're taking a seed and you're putting in the soil, you're you're

nursing for that. You're you're feeding your You're taking so much of effort towards

it, and it's it's like giving a lot of attention to to taking care

of it, to helping it to get better. So the Bible is basically

saying that don't feed hatred in your hearts. Don't feed How do you feed

hatred in your hearts? How do you do that? Here's the thing.

So what happens is I'll just share it from my life, Okay. Um,

Like I've shared many times before, I faced immense opposition from my family

towards the ministry it was hard and you know, constantly hearing it constantly,

you know, subjected to so much I went through because of my choice and

obeying the voice of God. It was hard. There were times, I

mean like I was so saturated, and I'm telling you honestly, I'm not

perfect. I made mistakes, but I tried my best to do what I

knew God was calling me every step along the way, depending on God and

helping him, asking him to help me navigate those seasons in the proper way

and to the best of my ability. I believe, I you know,

trusted in the law, taking steps as God led me. But I faced

so much so there were times when I was so saturated with all that what's

going on. It's like a constant atmosphere or an environment where you're constantly hearing

those abusive comments, or you know, people trying different things to try to

stop me from the ministry, to you know, put as much obstacles as

possible to stop the ministry, or to discourage and to you know, make

me, you know, like stop doing the ministry and all of this stuff.

But can I tell you something, Guys, during that time, like

the scripture says, don't know us hatred. You know, these things started

developing in me, Like I used to get to a place like I wake

up in the morning and I would only think of all the wrongs they were

doing, and I would only think about like, oh, my goodness,

O, why are they doing this to me? Why can't they support my

inmosion or at least let me do what I need to do peacefully, or

I would go for a walk. I would keep thinking about it. That

is what is called nursing, you know, hatred in your bomb, in

your heart. That is what it is like it was. It was not

something like I because it was constantly happening. I would be like, Okay,

finally, in the name of Jesus, I let go of this.

I'm not going to allow them to do anything. I mean, allowed this

to make me get any hatred towards them. And I would do I would

pray like that, ask God to help me, and the next minute they

would do something else that would make me get back to that place like,

oh my gosh, God, this is getting so hard for me. Are

you getting what I'm saying? It used to be hard, And I'm telling

you that's when you constantly train and ask God to help you. And I've

been to a place where I said, God, I'm done with nursing this

kind of hatred in me because of all this. I'm done with that.

It's not going to help me. It's not going to help them in any

way. Help me to show love, help me to show loud. It's

not been easy. But what I'm saying is when you take this step and

say God help me, God is going to help you. God will help

you. And here's the principle the Bible is going on and saying. In

the same scripture, it says confront, confront, and this is what it

says, Confront people directly so that you will not be held guilty for this.

And you know, confront just you know, if you're in a place

where you can open up and just said, this is what I'm feeling,

this is what I'm thinking about, this is what I am taking as my

stand. And I had to do that. I had to say, you

know what, you can say all you want, but I'm not going to

stop the ministry. No matter what. I'm not going to stop what God

has called me to do. I'm not going to disobey God. I had

to stand my ground. I had to say this is what it is.

And I want to tell you guys today that you have to get to a

place instead of just keeping it to yourself and nursing the hatred in your heart,

confront speak your mind, share it around and that will help in seeing

a different result in your life. Amen, Lord, I pray for those

who are dealing with people who are constantly troubling them or causing a walk in

their lives, playing it playing against them. In Jesus Name, give them

the wisdom and the strength to rather than you know, noticing the hatred,

let them demonstrate, allow, let them confront directly, and let them speak

their mind and share and let them have better relationships. In Jesus Name,

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God bless you. If your heart stops beating, now do you know

where you're going? If you came face to face with death? Now do

you know where you're going? And this is not a message of condemnation.

This is a message of hope. That is a God who loves you so

much he sent his only son, Jesus Christ to come down and pay a

heavy price by sharing every drop of his blood on the cross. Thank you

for dying for my sins. When you believe in Him, you have free

gift or salvation for you. That as shows us that we will go to

heaven when we die instead of suffering in hell. Forever. I just encourage

you today to make the simple step of faith and say Jesus I thank you

for what you did on the cross, thank you for giving me this gift

of eternal life.

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