Some Doors Open Because You're Family | Access as GOD's Child | John Giftah | Biblical Teaching

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

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

0:44 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:47 Speaker 2: the Soul with John Gifta podcast. All through this week,

0:49 Speaker 2: we're looking at various aspects that we can learn and

0:52 Speaker 2: inculcate in our life knowing God has our heavenly Father.

0:56 Speaker 2: As much as I've spoken a lot about my debut

0:58 Speaker 2: book on Vail Your Purpose, which helps people to discover

1:01 Speaker 2: and walk in their God given purpose, because that became

1:04 Speaker 2: a number one best seller on Amazon, I'd really been

1:07 Speaker 2: pushing that hard on a lot of those who love reading,

1:10 Speaker 2: saying go and check this out because it's been a

1:12 Speaker 2: great blessing. I also want to take this time to

1:15 Speaker 2: just remind you of the fact that I've authored multiple books,

1:18 Speaker 2: and the very first book that I ever wrote in

1:20 Speaker 2: twenty seventeen was a book called Who Am I. Basically,

1:24 Speaker 2: this is a book on identity, knowing who you are

1:27 Speaker 2: in Christ, because I believe that as much as we

1:30 Speaker 2: just know God as a distant figure of God, or

1:33 Speaker 2: maybe you know that God is a father, but many

1:36 Speaker 2: times we don't realize the implications of knowing God as

1:39 Speaker 2: your father. So I remember an incident where there was

1:43 Speaker 2: this particular student in school where everybody loved to be

1:47 Speaker 2: around him, that students were always proud to say that

1:50 Speaker 2: they're his friend. The teachers were always kind to him,

1:54 Speaker 2: They went the extra mile to be nice to him

1:56 Speaker 2: and make sure that he was in the good books.

1:58 Speaker 2: And if you notice everything revolved around him, it seemed

2:02 Speaker 2: like that. And the truth of the matter is why

2:06 Speaker 2: was this boy getting special treatment? Why is it that

2:09 Speaker 2: everybody liked him, Why is it that the teachers wanted

2:12 Speaker 2: to be kind to him? The reason is very simple,

2:16 Speaker 2: because his father was the owner and principle of the school.

2:20 Speaker 2: Because his dad was the owner, because his dad was

2:24 Speaker 2: the one controlling the school. Everybody wanted to be in

2:28 Speaker 2: his good books. They wanted to be in a circle.

2:30 Speaker 2: They were proud to be connected with him. They were

2:34 Speaker 2: proud to make sure that. You know what, I'll go

2:36 Speaker 2: the extra mile for him. I'll try to impress myself,

2:41 Speaker 2: or I want to impress this person. I want to

2:43 Speaker 2: impress him. I want to do this, I want to

2:46 Speaker 2: do that. The teachers are making sure that, you know,

2:49 Speaker 2: with regard to this boy, everything is Pitcher perfect. Why

2:53 Speaker 2: because they want to impress their principle or their boss. Right,

2:58 Speaker 2: So I wanted to think in this the same way

3:01 Speaker 2: this boy got special treatment because his father was the

3:05 Speaker 2: owner and controller of the school, the principle of the school.

3:10 Speaker 2: You have special treatment, you have special favor because your

3:14 Speaker 2: heavenly father is the owner and the controller and the

3:18 Speaker 2: sovereign ruler of this entire universe, as a child of

3:23 Speaker 2: the King of kings and the Lord of lords, the

3:25 Speaker 2: one who said, in for example, in Psalm twenty four,

3:28 Speaker 2: verse one, that the earth and everything in it and

3:32 Speaker 2: everyone in it belongs to the Lord, which means, like

3:35 Speaker 2: the way this principle had the whole school, the students,

3:39 Speaker 2: the staff, everyone in his control to make sure everything

3:43 Speaker 2: was running fine. Same way your heavenly father is in

3:47 Speaker 2: sovereign control. He's making sure that everything is fine. But

3:51 Speaker 2: the benefit that you and I have is like the

3:53 Speaker 2: same way this boy had his own dad in the

3:58 Speaker 2: principle's office or in the controlling section, he had nothing

4:02 Speaker 2: to worry about. He had special favor. He had special

4:05 Speaker 2: access which other people did not get that enabled him

4:10 Speaker 2: to be set apart. And that is the same way

4:12 Speaker 2: you and I have that benefit. Where the Bible says

4:15 Speaker 2: in e. Bruce four sixteen, we can go boldly to

4:20 Speaker 2: the throne of grace. We can have direct access. It

4:23 Speaker 2: says in one of the translations, confidently we can move

4:27 Speaker 2: why because we know that you know what, I'm not

4:30 Speaker 2: an ordinary person. I'm not just trying to make it

4:32 Speaker 2: through life. I have an advantage. I have a special

4:35 Speaker 2: favor that surrounds me. If you see, even in the

4:38 Speaker 2: Book of a FIESI Sorry, in the Book of Psalms

4:41 Speaker 2: five verse twelve, it says that the favor is like

4:44 Speaker 2: a shield. You have God's favor like the way this

4:48 Speaker 2: boy had that favor. The right people liked him. The

4:51 Speaker 2: wrong people obviously would not like him. The right people

4:56 Speaker 2: who would always try to be in his good books

4:58 Speaker 2: try to impress him. Why because they want to get

5:01 Speaker 2: things done. So on a similar note, you have to

5:04 Speaker 2: understand even the teachers, they don't want to play the

5:06 Speaker 2: fool with him because their jobs will be at stake.

5:09 Speaker 2: So same way you will have to understand that when

5:12 Speaker 2: you know that you're a child of the King of

5:15 Speaker 2: Kings and the Lord of lots, when you walk with

5:17 Speaker 2: that awareness, what happens is that the right people will

5:21 Speaker 2: be kind to you. The right people will be standing

5:24 Speaker 2: by you, supporting you, cheering you. They'll the right people

5:27 Speaker 2: will actually be proud to be associated with you. They

5:30 Speaker 2: will say, you know what, my friend is the son

5:33 Speaker 2: of the principle. My friend is the son of the

5:36 Speaker 2: King of Kings, and a lot of flats think about

5:37 Speaker 2: it in that sense, that's the way the way God

5:41 Speaker 2: is going to allow. When you walk in that awareness

5:44 Speaker 2: of what you carry as a child of the King

5:46 Speaker 2: of kings, you see sometimes I've seen, especially when the

5:50 Speaker 2: ministry started going up, especially the podcast ranking up the charts.

5:54 Speaker 2: When I started having run out guests on my podcast,

5:57 Speaker 2: I started noticing some people who would not give me

6:00 Speaker 2: the time of day who would make fun of me

6:02 Speaker 2: or put me down making statements like this, Oh, I

6:05 Speaker 2: can't believe my classmate, my friend, he got to interview

6:10 Speaker 2: so and so he was able to go and travel

6:12 Speaker 2: internationally and preach. He's doing great things. The same people

6:16 Speaker 2: who did not value me before suddenly started saying like,

6:20 Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I can't believe you're doing all of this.

6:23 Speaker 2: I'm proud to be your friend. You know what I mean.

6:26 Speaker 2: The same way I want you to know that when

6:28 Speaker 2: you know you're a child of God, God will enable

6:31 Speaker 2: you to get those that favor, like the way Hester

6:35 Speaker 2: found that favor. If you see in esther fivers to

6:39 Speaker 2: the King allowed her to come and meet him, and

6:44 Speaker 2: what happens, She's able to get the job done, the

6:47 Speaker 2: assignment to save the Jews from Hammond. So you see,

6:53 Speaker 2: that's what favor does. Enables you to accomplish your task.

6:57 Speaker 2: It gives you access to places that other people will

7:00 Speaker 2: find it hard to go to see. For example, to

7:05 Speaker 2: meet the principle in a general note, it would be like, oh,

7:08 Speaker 2: I have to meet the principle. You know, I need

7:09 Speaker 2: to get permission, I need to get the appointment, and

7:12 Speaker 2: all of that. But this little boy had no worry

7:16 Speaker 2: whatsoever because it was as much as the title as

7:20 Speaker 2: principle for him. He was his father, so he could

7:26 Speaker 2: go in anytime. He was just one call away. He

7:29 Speaker 2: could meet and talk to him personally after school, anything, anytime,

7:34 Speaker 2: because he had access that other people do not have

7:37 Speaker 2: access to. Today, as a child of God, you have access.

7:41 Speaker 2: You know, that favor will give you access to places

7:45 Speaker 2: that other people will not be able to understand how

7:47 Speaker 2: you got it. Sometimes people ask me this question all

7:50 Speaker 2: the time. How did you get to meet this person?

7:52 Speaker 2: How did you get to connect with this person? How

7:55 Speaker 2: did you get to have this person on my podcast?

7:57 Speaker 2: To be honest, it's not because of who I am,

8:00 Speaker 2: you know, like I'm great or something like that. Not

8:03 Speaker 2: in that sense. But I believe in this. I keep saying, God,

8:06 Speaker 2: I have your favor, which gives me access to places

8:09 Speaker 2: that I can't go on my own. See, that's the

8:12 Speaker 2: favor that is available to you and to me. See,

8:15 Speaker 2: even when I want to close with this example of

8:19 Speaker 2: the Pharaoh and Moses, right, we think about the incident

8:23 Speaker 2: when God called Moses to go back to the Pharaoh

8:26 Speaker 2: and give him allowed him to you know, deliver the

8:31 Speaker 2: people of Israel. Here's the thing I wanted to understand. Now,

8:34 Speaker 2: we look at it like a story where it's all

8:37 Speaker 2: about Moses having fear, like how can I go back

8:40 Speaker 2: to the Pharaoh, how can I talk to the Pharaoh.

8:41 Speaker 2: We look at all of those aspects and there is

8:45 Speaker 2: truth to all of that. But for me, my man

8:47 Speaker 2: always looks at protocol because I remember there was an

8:51 Speaker 2: incidant where even in the royal family of England just

8:54 Speaker 2: about a year or two ago, when there was a

8:55 Speaker 2: little tough happening with some of their family members, I

9:00 Speaker 2: came to know that one of the sons was not

9:04 Speaker 2: given the axes to meet his own father, the king. Okay,

9:09 Speaker 2: this was something that came to the news and that

9:11 Speaker 2: really caught my attention. This prince who lived and walked

9:16 Speaker 2: with his father now is not given the access to

9:20 Speaker 2: meet his own father, the king right now, Like I

9:23 Speaker 2: was thinking, like, look at the protocol. If that is

9:27 Speaker 2: the case, then imagine the protocol involved where a fugitive

9:32 Speaker 2: Moses who was not even the own son, He was

9:35 Speaker 2: an adopted son, right, he was not even an own son, Like,

9:39 Speaker 2: how did he get access to meet with the Pharaoh?

9:42 Speaker 2: Like have you thought about the protocol? Have you thought

9:44 Speaker 2: about how difficult it would have been? How did he

9:46 Speaker 2: get to meet the pharaoh? Because for me, the bigger

9:50 Speaker 2: thing than the fact that he had the fear and

9:54 Speaker 2: he was scared and all of that. There is a

9:56 Speaker 2: place for all of that, But for me, the point

9:59 Speaker 2: was how do did he get access? How did he

10:02 Speaker 2: by pass the protocol and meet with the pharaoh without

10:06 Speaker 2: actually being executed because he's a fugitive who should actually

10:09 Speaker 2: be executed when he goes back to the land. How

10:13 Speaker 2: you see that is access. And today, when you walk

10:17 Speaker 2: with that awareness that as a child of God you

10:20 Speaker 2: have favor and access, you will not walk thinking like,

10:24 Speaker 2: oh am I going to make it through life. You

10:26 Speaker 2: will walk with that boldness. You will walk with that confidence,

10:29 Speaker 2: and you will say, you know what, my daddy is

10:32 Speaker 2: the principle, my Daddy controls the old universe.

10:38 Speaker 1: I don't have to worry.

10:39 Speaker 2: He can. He controls everybody. He is in sovereign control

10:43 Speaker 2: of everything. So what doors need to be open, which

10:47 Speaker 2: protocol needs to be bypassed, It's in his hands. So

10:51 Speaker 2: when you walk with that awareness and confidence, you will

10:54 Speaker 2: see God open doors. No man can shut you will

10:57 Speaker 2: see access to places you couldn't go on your own,

11:00 Speaker 2: and you will fulfill the purpose that God has since

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