GOD will change what they hear about you | John Giftah | 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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0:39 Gifta International. Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. Sometimes in

0:55 our everyday life and we look at ourselves, sweetened to write ourselves off,

0:58 and we think that what there's something great about me and it's just me for

1:03 a little me. You know, nothing great. I'm not influential world right

1:07 now, the person, or I'm not making a great impact or anything of

1:10 that sort. I'm just a normal me. You know, we tend to

1:15 look at ourselves and sometimes tend to discount or you know, like I think

1:19 that what nothing great can come out of me. You know, I'm just

1:23 just say moll normal me. But what I wanted to understand is you have

1:27 no idea what God can cause you to be like in the sight of people.

1:33 Sometimes we tend to look at our enemies, we look at other people

1:36 and we think, like, what when they look at me, I think

1:38 they're just thinking that I'm just a stupid guy. I have nothing great to

1:41 offer. It's just me, normal me. But what I wanted to understand

1:46 is you have no idea what God is working behind the scene, what God

1:49 is causing the other people to think about you, or causing other people to

1:53 hear about you, causing other people to know about you, or you have

1:57 no idea how those people are seeing you. What I mean, I want

2:01 to start up by sharing passage or scripture with you, and I want to

2:05 take this forward. Kids found in Second King chapter seven, there's a moment

2:09 when you know there are just four leapers who are in the outskirts of the

2:14 city. They're written off, and leapers of those times were not reated right.

2:17 They were like outcasts, and they were like the untouchables, and they

2:23 were out on the outskirts of the city. And the city was in a

2:25 big famine, you know, and it was in a very terrible shape.

2:30 And then just the thing. They talk to each other, and then they

2:32 say, you know, if you stay here, we're gonna die. If

2:36 you go into the city, If we're gonna die, why don't we just

2:38 take a chance and move towards the enemies camp and see what's happening. If

2:43 they let us live, we will live. Otherwise we will die. At

2:46 least we know that we've taken a chance. So this is the decision they

2:50 make, and they move towards their enemies play. And what I wanted to

2:54 understand is the scripture says inverse five and so at twilight they set out for

3:00 the camp of the Armenians. But when they came to the edge of the

3:05 camp, no one was there. For the Lord had caused the Armenian army

3:09 to hear the clatter of speeding chariots and the galloping of horses, and the

3:15 sounds of great army approaching. The Lord caused the enemy to hear something that

3:23 they didn't have. What I mean, you know, they were just four

3:27 normal lepers, but the Lord caused the enemy to hear as if a mighty

3:32 army was coming. What I want you guys to understand is today you're underestimating

3:38 yourself. Today You're just looking at the normal you. You're just looking at

3:43 the fact that what you have, all these limitations, these restrictions, nothing

3:46 great about you. You're just the normal you. You don't have what it

3:49 takes. You don't have anything big, you don't have any big achievements,

3:52 you don't have anything in your plate, you don't have anything big to offer.

3:55 And you're saying, John, it is just me, the normal me.

3:59 But what I wanted in the stand is you have no idea what the

4:01 Lord is going to cause your enemy or other people to hear about you,

4:08 because you have a supernatural benefit that the world doesn't help. You have a

4:12 supernatural favor that other people do not have. You have the almighty God on

4:17 your side. Do you have all of Heaven backing you up? You have

4:20 the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords taking a stand for you,

4:25 which means that you may think that you're just a normal you, but the

4:28 other people may hear as a mighty army. You may think of yourself and

4:31 say, I'm just like a grasshopper. You know, That's how the children

4:34 of Hissitor saw themselves. They thought of themselves as grasshoppers in the sight of

4:39 their enemies. But what the scripture talks about how the enemies were actually afraid

4:44 of the Israelites. They were afraid because they heard what the Lord had been

4:48 working in the favor of the children of Israel. You see, you have

4:53 no idea what other people are hearing about you. You have no idea what

4:57 how the people have perceived about you. You may look at the normal you.

5:00 You may look at yourself in the mirror and think nothing great, nothing

5:03 so significant about you, But you have no idea of what other people have

5:08 heard about you. You have no idea what other people are thinking about you.

5:12 You have no idea how they're actually scared of you, and they see

5:16 the favor of God upon you, they're seeing the hand of God upon you.

5:21 You have no idea how they see you today. I pray if you're

5:27 in a place where you're given up, or you've just been thinking or looking

5:31 at yourself in a negative way, I pray that today will be a wake

5:35 up call for you, that you will understand that you have an advantage,

5:40 that you have supernatural power, supernatural favor, supernatural anointing, supernatural ability where

5:48 people are going to see her and perceive about you ways that you don't even

5:56 have any idea about in the natural. You may be just ordinary, but

6:01 you and I are not natural. We have the supernatural God living in us,

6:06 helping us live a supernatural life. And then, you know, I

6:11 just want to close with this example from my life. You know, so

6:13 many times, you know, a lot of people put me down because of

6:15 the way I look. People have you know, written me off. People

6:18 have actually said things like, you know, when you came to speak,

6:21 I was thinking, you know, what is this guy going to speak,

6:24 you know, and then the Lord convicted me of how he's speaking. And

6:30 then they literally said these kinds of things, you know, coming to me

6:32 and say. You know, sometimes people may write you off, and sometimes

6:36 people may just saying something negative and you may be thinking like that about you,

6:42 like, you know, okay, it's just me, normal me.

6:45 What will other people think? They were not thinking, think great? But

6:47 sometimes you know, when the Lord works through you. You know, I've

6:50 heard testimonies from people say, you know, the way they see me is

6:55 not the way I see myself. Sometimes, you know, they see the

6:59 hand of God upon my life. They see me in a way that I'm

7:02 not putting myself in hyperdesal but they see that honor and the glory, you

7:08 know, and I think you know that's the way we need to pray to

7:12 that instead of looking down on ourselves. Well, let us be people who

7:15 see that, you know, we have the king of kings and the load

7:17 of floats on our side, and so that we see us have the right

7:20 way, so that we walk with our confidence and the boldness to fulfill the

7:24 purpose that God has for us. I mean, God, bless you.

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8:26 bless you. If your heart stops beating, now, do you know where

8:35 you're going? If you can face to face with debt? Now, do

8:39 you know where you're going? And this is not a message of condemnation.

8:43 This is a message of whop. That is a God who loves you so

8:48 much he sent his only son, Jesus Christ to come down and pay a

8:56 heavy price by shading every drop of his blood on the cross. Thank you

9:01 for dying for my sins. When you believe in Him, you have free

9:05 gift or salvation for you that it shows us that we will go to heaven

9:09 when we die instead of suffering in hell forever. I'll just encourage you today

9:16 to make the simple step of faith and say, Jesus, I thank you

9:20 for what you did on the cross. Thank you for giving me this gift

9:22 of eternal life.