Season 4 - Episode 100: Empowered by the HOLY SPIRIT | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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

0:46 Speaker 2: Hey, everyone, is such a joy for me to join

0:48 Speaker 2: you today on this segment of the Fuel for the

0:50 Speaker 2: Soul with John Gifta podcast. If you've been checking out

0:52 Speaker 2: our regular segments this whole week, we've been talking about

0:55 Speaker 2: the importance of the Holy Spirit in our lives to

0:58 Speaker 2: live the kind of life that God wants us to live.

1:01 Speaker 2: Sometimes the Holy Spirit becomes more of a theoretical aspect

1:05 Speaker 2: that we think about or just involve him in accordance

1:08 Speaker 2: with the scripture. But the truth of the method is

1:11 Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit is a real person and you need

1:14 Speaker 2: to develop your relationship with the Holy Spirit so that

1:17 Speaker 2: you can actually live out the Christian life that God

1:19 Speaker 2: wants you to live. So today, before I continue, I

1:22 Speaker 2: just want to share something exciting with you guys that

1:25 Speaker 2: this particular episode, especially on this particular series that I'm doing.

1:32 Speaker 2: This is the fourth season of this podcast, and we're

1:35 Speaker 2: completing one hundred episodes of this podcast in the series,

1:39 Speaker 2: with over almost thousand and three hundred total episodes on

1:43 Speaker 2: the podcast right. I've been doing this consistently for a

1:47 Speaker 2: long time, and I just thought it was in accordance

1:49 Speaker 2: with what I wanted to share with you guys today

1:52 Speaker 2: on this segment of this podcast, because I wanted to

1:55 Speaker 2: understand a lot of people who might have listened to

1:58 Speaker 2: me regularly, but at the same time, many of you

2:00 Speaker 2: are listening to me regularly or especially you found me recently.

2:05 Speaker 2: Especially a big shout out to those or listening to

2:08 Speaker 2: me on cast bocks, because we suddenly saw a surge

2:12 Speaker 2: in the subscribership and growth on cast box, and I

2:16 Speaker 2: really want to thank you and appreciate you guys for

2:18 Speaker 2: doing this connect with me through the social media. I

2:20 Speaker 2: would love to hear from you guys on how this

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2:25 Speaker 2: share this with your friends and a lot of ones.

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2:35 Speaker 2: Ratings and reviews will really go a long way as well.

2:37 Speaker 2: So really really grateful to God because over the years

2:40 Speaker 2: you might have known this, heard about this by this

2:42 Speaker 2: podcast ranking in multiple platforms, on multiple categories, on multiple countries.

2:49 Speaker 2: And I'm so grateful to God for all of these things.

2:53 Speaker 2: And I don't do this for those things, you know.

2:56 Speaker 2: I don't do this for the ranking and in chase

2:58 Speaker 2: the ranking. I just want to do is because the

3:00 Speaker 2: Lord has empowered me and is enabling me to do

3:03 Speaker 2: this despite the fact that I'm working in a full

3:05 Speaker 2: time corporate job. I'm running the daily, the ministry, the podcast,

3:09 Speaker 2: YouTube channel, social media ministry, as well as traveling and

3:13 Speaker 2: ministrying and authoring books. It's not an easy thing. People

3:16 Speaker 2: often ask me, how do you manage to do so

3:18 Speaker 2: many things? I find it hard and not only manage

3:20 Speaker 2: to do so many things, but also to be consistent

3:22 Speaker 2: at it, you know, Like the reason I'm talking about

3:25 Speaker 2: all of these numbers. Is not too bos to see

3:27 Speaker 2: how I've done this. I was talking to someone the

3:30 Speaker 2: other day. I think, you know, like in total life,

3:32 Speaker 2: like so many thousands of sermons I've preached in the

3:35 Speaker 2: last so many years, right, I've been running the ministry

3:38 Speaker 2: for this is the fourteenth year, and I'm like, oh

3:42 Speaker 2: my gosh, like so many sermons, TV clips, TV sermons, podcasts, YouTube,

3:48 Speaker 2: social media, like so many things, and even on YouTube,

3:51 Speaker 2: I'm finishing ten years on the YouTube channel, you know,

3:56 Speaker 2: posting consistently from a studio like for the past ten years.

4:01 Speaker 2: Why am I sharing this is that people after asking

4:03 Speaker 2: how do you manage to do so many things? And

4:06 Speaker 2: I think the answer is what I want to share.

4:09 Speaker 2: The Bible says in Acts ten was thirty eight. It

4:11 Speaker 2: says how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth. This is referencing

4:15 Speaker 2: to the fact that Jesus walked in earth as a man,

4:18 Speaker 2: and it says with the Holy Spirit and power, and

4:21 Speaker 2: how he went about doing good and healing all those

4:24 Speaker 2: under the power of the devil because God was with him. See,

4:29 Speaker 2: I wanted to understand her, right, reminding you of this

4:31 Speaker 2: importance again that, you know, the reason why Jesus was

4:34 Speaker 2: able to handle so much do so much in the

4:37 Speaker 2: short span of three and a half years of ministry,

4:40 Speaker 2: he was able to be more effective than most people

4:42 Speaker 2: who would ever be effective in the long span of

4:45 Speaker 2: doing ministry for you know, like maybe three decades of ministry.

4:50 Speaker 2: Why was Jesus so effective? Why is it that even

4:53 Speaker 2: though he did ministry for three and a half years,

4:56 Speaker 2: but we are still speaking about what he did, you know,

4:59 Speaker 2: two thousand years later. It's because he didn't do this

5:02 Speaker 2: by himself. He didn't just logically do this. He didn't

5:05 Speaker 2: just manually mechanically do this. What did he do? He

5:08 Speaker 2: operated by the anoying of the Holy Spirit. Today, if

5:11 Speaker 2: there's one thing I want to remind each one of

5:13 Speaker 2: you under the sound of my voices, Yes you may

5:16 Speaker 2: have distractions. Yes you may have things coming against you.

5:19 Speaker 2: Yes you may have a lot of things, because life

5:21 Speaker 2: happens to all of us. I think I shared this

5:23 Speaker 2: with you that even this week, you know, my close

5:27 Speaker 2: family members in the hospital and I'm managing work, I'm

5:31 Speaker 2: managing the podcast, the ministry as well as you know,

5:34 Speaker 2: like running around for you know, all those household stuff

5:38 Speaker 2: I'm telling you it's not an easy thing. But the

5:41 Speaker 2: reason I'm able to handle so much is not because

5:44 Speaker 2: of me being great, but it's because the Lord is

5:47 Speaker 2: empowering me through the Holy Spirit. The more I depend

5:50 Speaker 2: on the Holy Spirit, the more the more I look

5:53 Speaker 2: up to Him and developed my relationship with the Holy

5:56 Speaker 2: Spirit and heal to the Holy Spirit. That is how

5:59 Speaker 2: I will be able to do what God wants me

6:01 Speaker 2: to do. See today, I want to tell you something, guys.

6:03 Speaker 2: You know a lot of people just try things by

6:07 Speaker 2: themselves and wonder why I'm not able to be consistent?

6:09 Speaker 2: Why am I not able to do this on a

6:11 Speaker 2: consistent basis for a longer period of time? And I'm

6:14 Speaker 2: telling you the key to be consistent. I mean, there

6:17 Speaker 2: are so many things we can look at, but one

6:19 Speaker 2: of the things is, you know, you need to operate

6:21 Speaker 2: from the power of the Holy Spirit, the empowerment of

6:24 Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit, because that is what will help you

6:28 Speaker 2: to continue for the long call. Are you getting what

6:31 Speaker 2: I'm saying these sermons? Like I mean, like I said,

6:36 Speaker 2: you know, I have handsful, right, I have so much happening,

6:41 Speaker 2: and in the midst of that, the Lord is enabling

6:43 Speaker 2: me to do this and you guys are listening and

6:46 Speaker 2: you're being blessed. I'm grateful for that. But here's the thing.

6:50 Speaker 2: How is that happening because of the empowerment of the

6:53 Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. See if Jesus, the son of the Living God,

6:56 Speaker 2: when he walked on earth as a man, If Jesus

6:58 Speaker 2: had to be anointed by the Holy Spirit and he

7:01 Speaker 2: was able to do all those good works because he

7:02 Speaker 2: was anointed by the Holy Spirit. Right, That's what acts

7:05 Speaker 2: Tentary had says. Right, I wanted to remember. If Jesus

7:08 Speaker 2: had to be anointed and he needed the power of

7:12 Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit to operate in ministry, to live, to

7:18 Speaker 2: do good works, and to do what he had been

7:21 Speaker 2: assigned to do, how much more you and I need to,

7:25 Speaker 2: you know, walk in that empowerment of the Holy Spirit,

7:28 Speaker 2: so that we will be able to share the good news.

7:31 Speaker 2: To be the light in the darkness, to complete our

7:34 Speaker 2: assignment on planet Ar, to do, you know, to be

7:37 Speaker 2: the light in the darkness even in your workplace. To

7:41 Speaker 2: shine in your studies, in your course, in your school,

7:44 Speaker 2: your college, your neighborhood, in your community. To make sure

7:48 Speaker 2: that your business is successful, so that you can build

7:51 Speaker 2: the kingdom of God through finance. I mean, whichever area

7:54 Speaker 2: of the law has been leading you, whether it's politics

7:56 Speaker 2: or entertainment or whatever. You need the Holy Spirit. You

8:00 Speaker 2: need the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. And only with

8:03 Speaker 2: his help you can be consistent. Only with his help

8:06 Speaker 2: you can continue to do good. The Bible says he

8:09 Speaker 2: went around doing good. He didn't do good once and

8:11 Speaker 2: slept for the next few days. No, No, he continued

8:14 Speaker 2: to do good. If you look at jesus schedule, he

8:16 Speaker 2: was so busy from early in the morning till late

8:19 Speaker 2: in the night. He was so busy ministering, ministering, I mean,

8:22 Speaker 2: if you minister like sometimes you know when I'm doing

8:26 Speaker 2: multiple ministry opportunities, Like even last Good Friday, I was

8:30 Speaker 2: ministering in two churches. In between I had a TV

8:32 Speaker 2: shoot and on top of that, my grandma was sick.

8:36 Speaker 2: A lot of things happening. How did I manage? How

8:39 Speaker 2: could I manage? Like with all the different expectations laid

8:43 Speaker 2: out it, how do you do that? It's because of

8:46 Speaker 2: the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. You depend on the

8:48 Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, you will walk in accordance with that, and

8:51 Speaker 2: then you will be able to accel and fulfill the

8:54 Speaker 2: purpose that God has for you. So today, my challenge

8:56 Speaker 2: to each one of you is that you will continue

8:59 Speaker 2: to depend on the Holy Spirit, continue to live out

9:02 Speaker 2: in that place where you're aware of His presence, and

9:05 Speaker 2: continue to be filled with the Spirit and walk in

9:07 Speaker 2: the Spirit. And that is how you will fulfill the

9:10 Speaker 2: purpose that God has in store for you. Immen, God

9:13 Speaker 2: bless you.

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