Discerning your Season | John Giftah | Inspirational Christian Sermon

0:01 Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world is a crazy

0:06 place and it just seems to get crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and

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0:40 International. Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. Now, when

0:53 you look at a country like India, we have different fruits that are available

0:58 at different points of time the year that when you look at mangoes, for

1:02 example, they're predominantly available during the summer season, but there are some ways

1:07 they bring in mangoes out of season. Also, they use some preservatives,

1:12 they use some chemicals, and then they produce these mangoes and they sell them

1:17 at an exhorbitant price at a season that's not meant to be a mango season.

1:23 But the problem with those mangoes is that they may seem fine at some

1:27 points, but for the most part, they're just not tasting like a natural

1:32 mango. They are first of all costing a very exhorbitant price, but at

1:37 the same time, you'd never get the taste that you really wish to get

1:41 from a mango in the first place. You get what I'm saying why,

1:45 because mango is meant for a specific season. Certain kind of a fruit,

1:51 like a watermelon, is meant for a certain season. So there is a

1:53 specific understanding that fruit will be its best when it's in season, when it's

2:00 available in its season, when it's produced, and when you are feeding on

2:05 it in that season, and when you try to get it out of season,

2:08 it's not as suspect. It sometimes gets worse. You have to pay

2:13 a heavy price, and it's not the way you really wish to have it

2:15 as well, So understand that there's an element of seasons in fruits, and

2:23 you need to understand that in our life as well. There's an element of

2:27 seasons, and we need to get to the place where we need to discern

2:30 seasons. And that's something the Lord has been putting a lot in my heart,

2:34 and I feel in my spirit very strongly that as a ministry we are

2:38 stepping into a new season right What the Lord has been doing in the past

2:42 has been awesome. We've had amazing things that the Lord did. We had

2:46 run out guests on the podcast. We had a lot of opportunities that came

2:51 through the podcast, through my social media, through YouTube, and all of

2:54 those things. And I'm grateful for all of those things, and I'm grateful

2:58 to the Lord for all of that. But at the same time, I

3:00 feel invest better that this is a season of a new beginning or a new

3:06 change that's happening in the ministry. There may be strategies that the Lord is

3:09 going to bring in that's going to be different from what we did in the

3:13 past. I'm even contemplating or praying about whether the podcast is going to continue

3:17 as a daily podcast or maybe make it once in a couple of days or

3:22 something. But there's a there's an aspect that even if something is successful for

3:27 a period, you need to understand seasons. You need to understand something that

3:31 is good in one season will not be good in the next season if it's

3:35 not meant to be. Even the people in your life they have helped you,

3:38 they were they were really awesome of friends, they were really good to

3:44 you in the past. But you know what, at some point you need

3:47 to understand if they're not meant to be in the next season, the very

3:51 people who are a blessing would sometimes become a burden, and you need to

3:54 understand that you don't have to cling on to them because they were helpful to

3:59 you in the previous season. You don't have to cling onto them or allow

4:01 them to be a burden to you, or allow them to you're right over

4:06 you, or allow them to you know, limit you and stop you from

4:12 moving into the next season because they helped you in the previous season. You

4:15 need to understand that. See very grateful, be nice to people. But

4:18 at the same time, I understand there's an aspect when you understand that if

4:24 somebody is not meant to be in the next season of your life, you

4:27 need to keep your limits. You need to get to that place where you're

4:30 like, okay, one, you know what, I'm going to set out

4:31 boundaries. I understand these people were in the previous season, but things are

4:35 changing, even in your ministry, in your personal life, things that work

4:40 in the past. If you're realized, oh my gosh, why isn't this

4:44 working out for me. Why isn't this happening? Why this thing worked out

4:48 so well in the past, Why is it that it's suddenly drying up.

4:51 I want to share a scripture with you, and I want to think this

4:54 forward. And it is found in for Samuel, chapter seventeen. And this

4:59 is what I'm from the nib version. From verse two. There is a

5:04 drawth that happens, and the word of the Lord came to Elijah. Leave

5:11 here, turn eastward and hide in this ravine east of Jordan. You will

5:15 drink from the brook, and I've directed the ravens to supply with food there.

5:21 So he did what the Lord told him. He went to the Scareth

5:27 ravine east of the Jordan and stayed there. The ravens brought him bread and

5:32 meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and they

5:35 drank from the brook. So the Lord tells him, it's time for you

5:40 to leave this place. There is a droughth here. Go to this place,

5:46 you know, and I've directed the ravens to feed you, and you

5:48 can get water from the brook. And when you look at verse seven,

5:53 this is what happens. Sometime later, the brook dried up because there had

5:58 been no rain in the land. Then the word of the Lord came to

6:00 him, say go at once to Zera faith in the region of Siddom,

6:05 and stay there. I have directed a video there to supply you with food.

6:10 So he goes there and then the video up supplying him with food.

6:14 So that's just a better phrase the version of what happened. So what I

6:17 want you guys to understand here is this important truth. In one season,

6:21 he was being fed by ravens and he got the water from the ravine,

6:27 which was directed by God. God told him go there. But suddenly it

6:30 looked like the ravine was the brook was just drying up. And you're like,

6:35 oh my gosh, I'm that is my source of water. Why is

6:39 it drying up? Why isn't God doing something about it? What is going

6:43 on? But that's when the Lord said, it's your season is over.

6:46 This thing that worked in the past, it's not going to work out anymore.

6:49 It's time for you to move to the next thing. This is what

6:53 God has been putting in my spirit. Guys, this is what the Lord

6:55 has been telling me. And I want you guys to get to the place

6:58 where you discern if something is you know, if you feel like it's drying

7:01 up, if you feel like something has become like a burden rather than a

7:04 blessing, if you feel like something that you used to do so easily suddenly

7:09 becomes a difficulty. I wanted to slow down and introspect and ask the Lord

7:13 God, are you saying something to me? Are you telling me to move

7:16 on to the next thing? Or am I still holding on to the old

7:19 pattern, whold way of thinking, old lifestyle that I used to have,

7:24 of their old friends who are limiting me now? I wanted to introspect,

7:28 guys. Introspect, Maybe a strategy that worked in the past, you're still

7:33 trying that today, but it's not going to work out because it's an old

7:36 strategy, and it's time for you to ask a lot, what is the

7:39 strategy you have for me today? Maybe something that worked out really beautifully in

7:45 the past. And you're like, you know what, this is a way

7:47 to do. This is what my forefathers did, This is what has been

7:51 worked out by so many people in the past. I do believe this is

7:55 what it's going to work for me. No understand seasons. Understand seasons the

8:03 same fruit in a season that it's not meant to be, can be very

8:09 costly, and you end up paying a high price for it and still feel

8:16 unsatisfied because it's not as tasty as it should be. The very people who

8:22 are a blessing will suddenly be a burden to you if they're not meant to

8:26 be in the next season. Or maybe you are saying, I'm scared to

8:31 let go off this season. I pray that you will come to that place

8:35 where you discern seasons and be willing to let go to move into the next

8:41 season of your life. You know, we all say God, bless me,

8:45 take me to the next level, next season, or all of that,

8:46 but there are there are moments you need to take that step. If

8:50 Elijah was sitting there and just saying, God, what it is going,

8:54 what is going? Please bring water, and if he did not listen and

8:58 obey god instruction to move out of that place, he will surely die.

9:05 You need to get to that place, guys, where you need to take

9:07 that step to listen to what God is saying, what is he sharing in

9:11 your spirit, what is he downloading within you, and say, if God

9:16 wants me to move into the next thing, am I keeping myself from moving

9:20 forward because I'm just stuck in my past comfort zone, what worked in the

9:26 past, what I'm comfortable with. You know, you can never step into

9:31 a new room without leaving the previous room. Right in a house or any

9:37 way. Likewise, if you want to step into the new season, you

9:41 need to be letting, willing to let go of the previous season. Today,

9:46 I pray that God will give you the courage and the ability to let

9:52 go of the previous season. If God is leading you, discern seasons.

9:58 First of all, discern your season. Discern where God is leading you.

10:01 You know this may not be for everybody at this point point of time,

10:05 but at any time the Lord is saying your season is done, get ready

10:09 to pack your backs and move to the next season. Be willing to do

10:13 it. Be willing to do it, And God, I pray in the

10:16 name of Jesus, those who are listening you'll get to the place where they

10:20 have the ability to discern the seasons. Speak to them, Lord, speak

10:26 to them clearly that it's time to move to the next season. And also

10:31 give them the courage and the strength and the ability to listen to your word,

10:39 your voice, and obey your voice and move into the next season that

10:43 you have from there. In the name of Jesus, I pray Amen,

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