GOD Can Show Up Even in Your Off-Season | Christian Sermon | John Giftah

0:01 Speaker 1: Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world

0:05 Speaker 1: is a crazy place and it just seems to get

0:08 Speaker 1: crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and take a break.

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0:41 Speaker 1: Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John GIFTA.

0:46 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:48 Speaker 2: the Soul with John Gift of podcast. Is such a

0:50 Speaker 2: join honor for me to be with you today as

0:52 Speaker 2: I shared another word that I believe is so powerful

0:54 Speaker 2: and will be an encouragement for you. If you feel

0:57 Speaker 2: like you're in an off season, maybe you're saying John

1:00 Speaker 2: on things were working out really fine. In one season,

1:02 Speaker 2: things were going okay, there was nothing much. But right

1:05 Speaker 2: now I'm in a season where everything is bombarding against me.

1:08 Speaker 2: Everything is coming against me, one after another, the blow

1:12 Speaker 2: after blow. I'm facing so many challenges at the same time,

1:14 Speaker 2: if you feel like you're in a wilderness, every door

1:17 Speaker 2: is being shut, you feel like nothing is working out,

1:20 Speaker 2: nothing is progressing or moving forward. Your business is just

1:23 Speaker 2: not getting ahead, your ministry is not taking off, or

1:26 Speaker 2: you're not able to meet the right person in order.

1:28 Speaker 2: Maybe there's a child that's off course and something that's

1:30 Speaker 2: affecting your health, or a family member who's having some

1:34 Speaker 2: challenges today. I want to tell you something. If you

1:36 Speaker 2: are in a half season in your life, I want

1:39 Speaker 2: you to hold your horses because I want to remind

1:41 Speaker 2: you of this world that I shared with you yesterday.

1:44 Speaker 2: I really encourage you to go back and check it

1:47 Speaker 2: because that was a powerful revelation that really struck me

1:50 Speaker 2: from the life of Moses in Exodus chapter three. I

1:53 Speaker 2: want to talk about this in particular, if you're in

1:55 Speaker 2: a season that you feel like you're in an off season.

1:57 Speaker 2: Sometimes we think, like you know what, I'm in an

1:59 Speaker 2: off season. You know when when my season changes, when

2:03 Speaker 2: things get better, when when things are working you know,

2:08 Speaker 2: or looking up, then maybe God can show up in

2:11 Speaker 2: my life. Then something can happen. Then I can and

2:14 Speaker 2: I need to put certain things off till things get

2:17 Speaker 2: better or things is settled down for me. But I

2:20 Speaker 2: want to tell you something that we save a God

2:22 Speaker 2: who can minister to us or meet us in our

2:26 Speaker 2: off season. And one of the things that caught my

2:29 Speaker 2: attention about Moses is that I want you to understand

2:32 Speaker 2: Moses was in the palace. He was a prince, right

2:36 Speaker 2: He was in the He was a prisonce in the palace.

2:38 Speaker 2: He grew up in the palace. He knew about the

2:41 Speaker 2: protocol of the palace. He moved with the elite, He

2:45 Speaker 2: moved with the prince and the princess and the royalty.

2:48 Speaker 2: He was He was in the palace, and not for

2:51 Speaker 2: one year, not for two years, not for ten years.

2:53 Speaker 2: He was there for forty years as a prince. He

2:58 Speaker 2: was a prince for around forty years. And now what

3:02 Speaker 2: happens because of this mess. He's now running Intermedian. The

3:10 Speaker 2: Bible says in Exodus two, if you actually see, the

3:15 Speaker 2: Pharaoh got mad at Moses and wanted to kill him.

3:21 Speaker 2: So Moses flees into the wilderness, goes to Median. And

3:29 Speaker 2: one of the things that really caught my attention was,

3:32 Speaker 2: I know, it may be just an abbosard statement. It

3:35 Speaker 2: may look like it but it just caught my attention.

3:38 Speaker 2: Right now, when you're running, you're running, you're like running

3:42 Speaker 2: for your life. You're not going to You're like looking

3:45 Speaker 2: after yourself. You do not know what is going to

3:48 Speaker 2: happen to you. You do not know what is going on.

3:52 Speaker 2: You may be in a situation like like like you're

3:55 Speaker 2: so much maybe running in his mind, what am I

3:58 Speaker 2: running from? Where am I running too? I was a prince,

4:01 Speaker 2: Now what is my new status? Like he was in

4:05 Speaker 2: royalty in the most powerful nation in the world of

4:08 Speaker 2: that time. Now what is his status? What is going

4:12 Speaker 2: to happen? So many things running in his mind. But

4:15 Speaker 2: I want you to listen to this carefully, right even

4:19 Speaker 2: in the midst of this, In the midst of this,

4:22 Speaker 2: he comes to Median, and there is a moment where

4:26 Speaker 2: there was the priest of Median, Jettro and his He

4:31 Speaker 2: had seven daughters who came to draw water, okay, and

4:37 Speaker 2: some shepherds came and chased them away. So Moses jumped

4:41 Speaker 2: up and rescued the girls from the shepherds. Then he

4:44 Speaker 2: drew water for their flocks. Now think about this, Moses

4:48 Speaker 2: needed help. Moses had a lot going on in his mind.

4:52 Speaker 2: He did not know what was He did not know

4:54 Speaker 2: what was going to happen next. He was a fugitive,

4:58 Speaker 2: he was a runaway. He didn't have a place to go.

5:01 Speaker 2: He did he needed help. But in the midst of that,

5:06 Speaker 2: he helped these girls. In the midst of that, he

5:10 Speaker 2: helped strangers. He had a good heart, in the midst

5:14 Speaker 2: of his pain. I do not know who needs to

5:16 Speaker 2: hear this word. Like, one of the things people tell

5:18 Speaker 2: me all the time is John, I know you're going

5:20 Speaker 2: through a hard time, but why do you still minister?

5:22 Speaker 2: There were I'm telling honestly, Since twenty twenty five, it's

5:27 Speaker 2: been one of my hardest years. I've always said this.

5:31 Speaker 2: I had a lot of attacks after attacks, one of

5:34 Speaker 2: my lowest seasons of my life, you know, a huge

5:37 Speaker 2: financial attack, a tremendous pressure. Then I lost my job

5:42 Speaker 2: in a layoff, the attacks on the health. There were

5:46 Speaker 2: so many different attacks that happened over and over and

5:50 Speaker 2: over with no sigh of relief. Right, But what made

5:55 Speaker 2: understand I explicitly tell people what happened, what was going on?

5:59 Speaker 2: You do not know this, and and and when they

6:02 Speaker 2: don't get to know, they're like, oh my gosh, I

6:04 Speaker 2: can't believe it because in the midst of all of this,

6:07 Speaker 2: I was posting every single day on on the ministry, broadcast,

6:14 Speaker 2: on on on on YouTube, on socials. I was consistent

6:19 Speaker 2: no matter what there were. There were days I would be,

6:22 Speaker 2: you know, like in pain and in the in a

6:25 Speaker 2: hospital setting and still be posting because that is consistent.

6:31 Speaker 2: I was. I was like, you know what, I may

6:33 Speaker 2: be needing help, but I'm still going to do what

6:36 Speaker 2: God has called me to do. Moses his calling was

6:40 Speaker 2: to bring justice. He saw the injustice happening to his people,

6:45 Speaker 2: and that's how he tried to intervene, and he ended

6:48 Speaker 2: up killing the Egyptian and he had to run for

6:50 Speaker 2: his life. Now you see the parallel here here again,

6:54 Speaker 2: he sees injustice being cast he is now he can't

6:59 Speaker 2: be quiet, you know what I mean. That's his calling.

7:02 Speaker 2: He sees injustice, he goes in. He could have said,

7:05 Speaker 2: you know what, I just my life is in pieces

7:08 Speaker 2: because I intervened for somebody else to bring justice for them.

7:13 Speaker 2: He could have thought like that, but you see, either

7:16 Speaker 2: in the midst of the pain that he was in,

7:19 Speaker 2: he continued to do what he was called to do

7:23 Speaker 2: to bring justice when they when he saw there was injustice,

7:26 Speaker 2: and because of that, what happens. He's in the wilderness.

7:31 Speaker 2: From being a prince who owned stuff. Now he doesn't

7:34 Speaker 2: own even the cattle because all of that belongs to

7:38 Speaker 2: his father in law. But one of the things that

7:42 Speaker 2: really caught my attention in the scripture is that he uh,

7:47 Speaker 2: you know, he gets in touch again. So here's the

7:52 Speaker 2: thing I wanted to understand, right, this is a verse

7:56 Speaker 2: that really caught my attention. In verse twenty one, Moses

8:01 Speaker 2: accepted the invitation. He settled there with them, and in

8:07 Speaker 2: verse twenty one it goes on to say, I'm talking

8:10 Speaker 2: from the Nulti version. It says in time Real gave

8:14 Speaker 2: Moses his daughter Zippora to be his wife. Now, I

8:20 Speaker 2: wanted to get this into your spirit. Right, this is

8:25 Speaker 2: something that really caught my attention. We'll be like, you

8:29 Speaker 2: know what he was. He was like a fugitive. He

8:34 Speaker 2: was in his off season. He was in a low moment,

8:38 Speaker 2: and we would typically say, come on, let things get

8:41 Speaker 2: better and then think about next step, like maybe getting

8:45 Speaker 2: the right person coming into your life, or maybe you know,

8:48 Speaker 2: elevating a business. So first stabilize your income, then think

8:52 Speaker 2: about an external business opportunity or something like that. You

8:55 Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like, first get a job and

8:58 Speaker 2: then you think of this. You know you you get

9:00 Speaker 2: what I'm saying. But here's the thing. God is a

9:04 Speaker 2: specialist in showing up in off season when you're not

9:10 Speaker 2: supposed to get what you need. Is when God will

9:13 Speaker 2: suddenly surprise you with something. People will say, oh, you

9:17 Speaker 2: need to first, you know, get a job and then

9:19 Speaker 2: you would meet the right person. But what if you're

9:22 Speaker 2: in a season where you lost your job, but that

9:24 Speaker 2: was the season God allowed you to meet the right person, Like,

9:27 Speaker 2: you have no idea how God can work. You have

9:30 Speaker 2: no idea how God can turn things around. Maybe you're saying,

9:35 Speaker 2: you know, I'm not supposed to be blessed right now.

9:37 Speaker 2: I need you know it has to be in a

9:41 Speaker 2: later season. But what if God wants to meet you

9:44 Speaker 2: off season? What if God wants to surprise you off season.

9:48 Speaker 2: If God did it for Moses, God is able to

9:51 Speaker 2: do it for you today. I want to believe, decree,

9:54 Speaker 2: and declare over each one of you, and that is

9:56 Speaker 2: sound of my voice that God is going to intervene

10:00 Speaker 2: in your life off season, off the record, and He's

10:04 Speaker 2: going to do something that's going to surprise me.

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