How to Sleep When Your World is Falling Apart? | Acts 12:6 Sermon | John Giftah | Biblical Teaching

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

0:48 Speaker 2: the Soul with John Gifta podcast. A couple of weeks ago,

0:52 Speaker 2: if you just go back and scrawl down, or if

0:54 Speaker 2: you're checking this out on YouTube, I did a series

0:57 Speaker 2: of lessons that we can take away from the first

1:00 Speaker 2: verses of accept A twelve. I really recommend you to

1:03 Speaker 2: go back because there's so much to unpack and learn,

1:05 Speaker 2: and today I want to talk about a couple of

1:07 Speaker 2: revelations that we can take away from verse six onwards

1:11 Speaker 2: in this chapter. Because there's so much to unpack, so

1:13 Speaker 2: much to learn, and I really pray that you'll stay

1:15 Speaker 2: plugged in and receive everything that the Lord wants to

1:18 Speaker 2: speak to you through this incident as well. See, one

1:21 Speaker 2: of the things I wanted to understand, to just give

1:23 Speaker 2: you a brief idea, is that this king has God

1:26 Speaker 2: so mad. What he did was he just killed the

1:29 Speaker 2: apostle James, and now he has imprisoned the apostle Peter,

1:33 Speaker 2: intending to do the same to apostle Peter what he

1:36 Speaker 2: did to Apostle James. But the scripture says in verse five,

1:40 Speaker 2: while Peter was in prison, the church prayed for Peter earnestly.

1:45 Speaker 2: So I really recommend you that if your life is

1:47 Speaker 2: not the way it's supposed to be, the place to

1:50 Speaker 2: start is to be in a place where you pray,

1:53 Speaker 2: where you seek the Lord, when you're looking up to him,

1:56 Speaker 2: drawing strength from him and saying, God, I need your help.

2:00 Speaker 2: I need you to help me. And what I want

2:02 Speaker 2: you to understand is there's so much to unpack. But

2:05 Speaker 2: first of the thing, one of the things I want

2:07 Speaker 2: to talk about in today's segment is when you look

2:09 Speaker 2: at verse six, it says the night before Peter was

2:12 Speaker 2: to be placed on trial. He was asleep, fastened with

2:17 Speaker 2: two chains between two soldiers. Others stood guard at the

2:23 Speaker 2: door gate. Now listen to this cafe. An angel comes

2:27 Speaker 2: to him and look at verse number seven. It says

2:30 Speaker 2: the angel struck him on the side to wake him

2:34 Speaker 2: up and says, quick, get up. See, I want you

2:37 Speaker 2: to understand something here. Peter is in the same position

2:41 Speaker 2: as the apostle James, where he is about to be sentenced,

2:45 Speaker 2: put on trial, and he's going to be killed. He's

2:48 Speaker 2: on the verge of being in the same position as

2:52 Speaker 2: the apostle James, which means his life is at stake.

2:54 Speaker 2: Now you may be watching saying John, that's really sad

2:58 Speaker 2: to place to be, or maybe in your life you

3:01 Speaker 2: may be in a very similar position where you're saying, John,

3:04 Speaker 2: I feel like my life is at stick. I feel

3:06 Speaker 2: like everything has gone away out of my control. Things

3:09 Speaker 2: are not working out. Maybe it's with regard to your career,

3:13 Speaker 2: your job situation. It looks very bad. You don't know

3:15 Speaker 2: when you're going to lose your job or when things

3:17 Speaker 2: are going to be really bad. Maybe things are just

3:20 Speaker 2: not working out. With regard to your business, you're not

3:22 Speaker 2: getting the right clients, you're not getting the finances on time,

3:25 Speaker 2: you're not sure how you're going to pay your next bill.

3:28 Speaker 2: Or maybe with regard to a relationship, you're feeling like

3:31 Speaker 2: one next thing that flies up might stop or sabotage

3:35 Speaker 2: your relationship completely and you need to start from the

3:37 Speaker 2: scratch all over again. Or maybe with regard to a kid,

3:40 Speaker 2: maybe with regard to your calling, your ministry, or whatever

3:42 Speaker 2: it is you're saying, John, no matter what, it feels

3:45 Speaker 2: like it's in a dead end. It feels like it's

3:47 Speaker 2: in the same place that somebody else is in. Like

3:50 Speaker 2: maybe somebody else died of the sickness, and now my

3:52 Speaker 2: reports feel like I'm also going to die in this sickness.

3:56 Speaker 2: Or when I look at what has happened to somebody else,

3:58 Speaker 2: it feels like they got laid I'm also going to

4:01 Speaker 2: get laid off. Say I wanted to understand. That's why

4:03 Speaker 2: I want you to go back to that scripture, the

4:05 Speaker 2: series that I did, and to be filled with God's

4:09 Speaker 2: word and strength and comfort from that series. But one

4:13 Speaker 2: of the things I wanted to understand is Peter is

4:15 Speaker 2: on a similar position. He's in a place where his

4:17 Speaker 2: life is at stake. But what really caught my attention

4:20 Speaker 2: was he was fast asleep. How can you sleep in

4:24 Speaker 2: the midst of certain death? How can you sleep in

4:27 Speaker 2: the midst of everything going away or going against what

4:32 Speaker 2: you would intend for your.

4:34 Speaker 1: Life to be.

4:34 Speaker 2: Think about Peter. How could he be at a place

4:37 Speaker 2: of peace to a point where he can sleep in

4:40 Speaker 2: the midst of knowing that he may not be even

4:42 Speaker 2: alive the next day. What kind of a level of

4:45 Speaker 2: trust he was operating him? What kind of a level

4:49 Speaker 2: of peace and comfort he was able to draw from

4:52 Speaker 2: the presence of the Lord?

4:54 Speaker 1: Like?

4:54 Speaker 2: Think about this? See, I hear so many times people say, Oh,

4:58 Speaker 2: I'm not able to sleep at all. I'm always worried,

5:01 Speaker 2: I'm always anxious. You see, I'm not denying the problem.

5:04 Speaker 2: I'm not saying that you know the weight of your

5:07 Speaker 2: problem is not there, or you know you don't have

5:10 Speaker 2: the right to worry or anything. I'm not saying that, yes,

5:13 Speaker 2: the problem is real, the concern is genuine. But the

5:16 Speaker 2: truth of the matter is That's why the Bible says

5:18 Speaker 2: in Philippines four verse six that you do not worry

5:21 Speaker 2: about anything, but pray about everything. How was Peter in

5:25 Speaker 2: a position where he knew that his life was at stake,

5:29 Speaker 2: when nothing was in his control, when everything had gone

5:32 Speaker 2: against him. How could he be at a place of rest,

5:36 Speaker 2: be at a place where he's fast asleep when he

5:39 Speaker 2: knows that his next day was not guaranteed. I want

5:43 Speaker 2: to tell you, guys, this is the place where we

5:46 Speaker 2: allow the scripture to not just be stories that we

5:49 Speaker 2: just look at and be inspired, but we say, God,

5:52 Speaker 2: if Peter could sleep in the midst of an uncertain

5:56 Speaker 2: night when he knew nothing about what was going to

5:59 Speaker 2: happen the net today, help me to be at a

6:02 Speaker 2: place of peace. I can be at a place of peace.

6:05 Speaker 2: I can be the place of rest. I can trust

6:07 Speaker 2: the Lord, saying God, I don't know how I'm going

6:10 Speaker 2: to pay my bills tomorrow. I do not know how

6:12 Speaker 2: I'm going to be the right person. I do not

6:14 Speaker 2: know how I'm going to make sure that I get

6:17 Speaker 2: the job or the client, or the contract or the

6:20 Speaker 2: thing coming my way. Can I tell you something that's

6:23 Speaker 2: the place of peace and trust. I really challenge you

6:26 Speaker 2: to be if you are in a place of worry

6:28 Speaker 2: and anxiety, if you're not able to sleep at nights,

6:31 Speaker 2: I really pray in the name of Jesus Christ, that

6:34 Speaker 2: you will be able to pray, get to that place

6:37 Speaker 2: where you are in that absolute place of trust, knowing

6:41 Speaker 2: that God is in control of your life. It may

6:43 Speaker 2: not make sense in the natural. It may not look like, Hey,

6:47 Speaker 2: you don't understand the seriousness of the problem. No, you

6:49 Speaker 2: are fully aware of the seriousness of the problem. But

6:52 Speaker 2: you're saying, you know what. Yes, the problem may be big,

6:54 Speaker 2: but my God is bigger. Yes, I feel that there's

6:58 Speaker 2: no way out for me in the natural, but I

7:00 Speaker 2: know I serve a supernatural God. Yes, it feels like

7:04 Speaker 2: I'm just just in this place of helplessness, but you

7:08 Speaker 2: know what, I look up to the hills from whence

7:10 Speaker 2: my health comes from. My health comes from the Lord,

7:12 Speaker 2: the maker of heaven and earth. So I challenge you today,

7:15 Speaker 2: if you're in a place where you're not getting sleep,

7:18 Speaker 2: you're worried, you're anxious, I want to pray in the

7:20 Speaker 2: name of Jesus Christ, that you will have the strength

7:23 Speaker 2: to stop worrying and start praying to to get to

7:27 Speaker 2: that place of absolute trust. In the name of Jesus,

7:30 Speaker 2: that you will be able to be like the appostle

7:33 Speaker 2: Paul sleep in the midst of your trouble. You'll be

7:35 Speaker 2: able to rest in the place of restlessness. You'll be

7:39 Speaker 2: able to find that comfort in the midst of chaos,

7:42 Speaker 2: knowing you're not the one figuring out your life, but

7:45 Speaker 2: God is, and He will perfect everything which concerns you

7:49 Speaker 2: and will help you fulfill the purpose that He has

7:51 Speaker 2: since so for you. I really challenge you to leave

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7:59 Speaker 2: word you back next time. God bless you.

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