Stop Being Hard on Yourself with Unrealistic Expectations | Inspirational Christian Sermon | John Giftah

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

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0:49 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:51 Speaker 2: the Soul with John gift of podcast. And and such a

0:53 Speaker 2: joy for me to be with you today because I

0:55 Speaker 2: want to share an important word I believe is so

0:58 Speaker 2: needed for such a time as I just want you

1:01 Speaker 2: to stay tuned for the next couple of minutes, because

1:03 Speaker 2: we're living in a time and age where a lot

1:05 Speaker 2: of people are living from a place of comparison, where

1:08 Speaker 2: they feel intimidated, where they're always in the lookout, where

1:11 Speaker 2: they see like, oh my goodness, this person, they've gone

1:14 Speaker 2: so far ahead in life. Look at this person, look

1:16 Speaker 2: at the fruit in their life, look at what they

1:18 Speaker 2: are able to do. Look at my life. No matter

1:21 Speaker 2: how much time I spend, no matter how much of

1:25 Speaker 2: money I'm investing much I'm putting my heart and soul

1:28 Speaker 2: into this, but still look at the results that I'm getting,

1:32 Speaker 2: and look at the results somebody else is getting. And

1:34 Speaker 2: I want to share an important word with you, guys,

1:36 Speaker 2: because I believe that we're living in a time when

1:38 Speaker 2: people can look at the best outputs on social media

1:42 Speaker 2: and they can feel intimidated, or they can look at

1:44 Speaker 2: somebody else, you know, really flying ahead in life and

1:47 Speaker 2: progressing in life, and they feel like, oh my goodness,

1:50 Speaker 2: what is happening with my life? Because I believe this

1:53 Speaker 2: is so important for such a time as this, I'm

1:55 Speaker 2: going to share a few scriptures and I'm going to

1:57 Speaker 2: get this started. The first things. First time, I want

2:00 Speaker 2: to share with you an important principle from Matthew twenty five.

2:04 Speaker 2: I'm sure you know this parable where the master is

2:09 Speaker 2: going on a long quacation or a holiday, is going

2:13 Speaker 2: away for a long time, and he calls in three

2:16 Speaker 2: of his servants and he gives them different gifts or talents. Okay,

2:21 Speaker 2: different translations or different versions of the same parable talk

2:25 Speaker 2: about it as you know that he gave them bags

2:28 Speaker 2: of gold, or he gave them talents, or he gave

2:31 Speaker 2: them gifts, whatever it is. But there's an important principle

2:34 Speaker 2: to note, all right. It says in Matthew twenty five,

2:37 Speaker 2: verse fifteen to one, he gave five bags of gold,

2:40 Speaker 2: to another he gave two bags, and to another he

2:43 Speaker 2: gave one bag. But the key is in the next

2:47 Speaker 2: phrase of the same verse, and it says each according

2:52 Speaker 2: to his ability. I want you to understand this important truth, guys,

2:56 Speaker 2: that God is not, you know, like a partial God.

3:01 Speaker 2: He's not like you know what, I like you so much,

3:03 Speaker 2: I'm going to give you more. I don't like you

3:05 Speaker 2: so much, I'm not going to give you enough. That's

3:07 Speaker 2: not who God is. God gives us in accordance to

3:12 Speaker 2: our ability, you know, as much as now, for instance,

3:15 Speaker 2: as a minister, as somebody who has huge, big visions

3:18 Speaker 2: for my life. You know, I've seen ministering in stadiums

3:21 Speaker 2: and crusades and conferences, and you know that's my design.

3:25 Speaker 2: That's the vision God has shown me. And I'm praying

3:28 Speaker 2: and working in that direction for my life. But the

3:32 Speaker 2: truth of the matter is, imagine if I'm invited to

3:35 Speaker 2: speak at the Passion Confidence tomorrow, like for instance, right

3:38 Speaker 2: or the Hillsound Conference or any any huge international conference

3:44 Speaker 2: right now, you know, the question is am I really

3:47 Speaker 2: going to handle the opportunity? Well? Will I really be

3:51 Speaker 2: able to meet the expectations of that platform if I'm

3:55 Speaker 2: given the chance today? You know what I mean? So

3:58 Speaker 2: God always takes us through the process is when he

4:00 Speaker 2: gives us one to see how we are faithful in

4:03 Speaker 2: the little, only when we are faithful in the one,

4:06 Speaker 2: so that we make the one into two, And then

4:08 Speaker 2: He entrusts us and trusts us with two so that

4:11 Speaker 2: we can be faithful with two so that we will

4:14 Speaker 2: produce four. You know, that's the way God builds us up.

4:18 Speaker 2: That's the way God entrusts us with more because He

4:21 Speaker 2: looks at how we are handling the little. You know.

4:24 Speaker 2: You know today, I want you to understand if you're

4:26 Speaker 2: feeling like intimidated, look at this person. They had fire

4:30 Speaker 2: and they made it to ten, and look at me,

4:31 Speaker 2: I'm stuck with one. My question is what are you

4:34 Speaker 2: doing with the one? Are you faithful with that one?

4:37 Speaker 2: The question is, you know, are you understanding that that

4:40 Speaker 2: one is the ability that you have and that's why

4:44 Speaker 2: you've been entrusted with that one. You know, there could

4:47 Speaker 2: be somebody who didn't even get that one. At least

4:50 Speaker 2: you got that one, you know what I mean, Like,

4:53 Speaker 2: I want you to have that perspective today. You know

4:55 Speaker 2: that God is not going to expect the one with

4:58 Speaker 2: one who got one to produce ten. You know, he

5:02 Speaker 2: expects the one to at least make it too. You know,

5:04 Speaker 2: God is not going to expect you, in the level

5:07 Speaker 2: that you're in to produce the output somebody else who's

5:11 Speaker 2: far off in life, who has you know, already been

5:14 Speaker 2: entrusted with more. You know, he's not going to expect

5:17 Speaker 2: you to do that. He's only going to expect you

5:19 Speaker 2: to do what you can do. You know, there's a

5:22 Speaker 2: very important verse. I just love it so much and

5:26 Speaker 2: I always come back to it. It's found in Mark fourteen,

5:29 Speaker 2: verse eight. Okay, Mark fourteen. This is a moment where

5:32 Speaker 2: you know, a lady comes and annoys Jesus with a

5:36 Speaker 2: very costly perfume. And there were those who were critical

5:39 Speaker 2: of it, and they said, oh, come on, this money

5:41 Speaker 2: can be spent on the poor and all of these things.

5:43 Speaker 2: But verse eight is a very very powerful verse because

5:46 Speaker 2: I always go back to this. I love this so much,

5:48 Speaker 2: and I really challenge you to do that. You know,

5:51 Speaker 2: when you look at the enabled version of this verse,

5:54 Speaker 2: it says Jesus responds to the critics, and he says,

5:57 Speaker 2: she did what she could. That's the first part of

6:01 Speaker 2: this verse, she did what she could. In another translation,

6:04 Speaker 2: it says she has done what she could. My question

6:09 Speaker 2: to you is are you doing what you can do?

6:12 Speaker 2: If you have done or if you're doing what you

6:14 Speaker 2: can do, that's more than enough. God is not going

6:17 Speaker 2: to expect you to do something beyond He's not going

6:20 Speaker 2: to expect you who has one to produce ten. He's

6:24 Speaker 2: going to expect you who has one to make it

6:26 Speaker 2: to two. If you have two, he's not asking you

6:29 Speaker 2: to compare yourself with somebody who has five, who has

6:32 Speaker 2: made it to ten. You're not called to compare your

6:35 Speaker 2: output with somebody else's output because they had a different

6:39 Speaker 2: starting point, they have gotten a different set of experiences,

6:43 Speaker 2: different set of backing, maybe financial backing. Maybe they have

6:48 Speaker 2: the family support, you know, maybe they have something that

6:51 Speaker 2: you don't have. You know, so stop comparing and just

6:54 Speaker 2: be faithful with what you have because it's ultimately dependent

6:59 Speaker 2: on what you have done with what you can do.

7:03 Speaker 2: That's the real question. Now, let me just give you

7:06 Speaker 2: an example. For instance, if you take a cup, a

7:08 Speaker 2: cup has a limitation on how much it can be

7:13 Speaker 2: how much of liquid can be poured into it. Right now,

7:16 Speaker 2: if I take a bottle for instance, right, a bottle

7:20 Speaker 2: definitely has a greater volume of content that can be

7:24 Speaker 2: poured into it. But here's the thing. If I'm trying

7:27 Speaker 2: to compare this bottles ability with the cup's ability, it's

7:33 Speaker 2: going to be foolish. Why Because the cup has a

7:36 Speaker 2: certain ability it can handle this much quantity of liquid,

7:41 Speaker 2: and a bottle can handle a greater quantity of liquid. Right,

7:46 Speaker 2: If I'm trying to pour in whatever is in the

7:48 Speaker 2: bottle into the cup, what's going to happen. There's going

7:51 Speaker 2: to be you know, like the cup cannot handle it. Right,

7:54 Speaker 2: You get what I'm saying that that's the same principle

7:57 Speaker 2: I want you to understand with life, that God, maybe

8:00 Speaker 2: somebody has the ability to handle the quantity of a bottle,

8:06 Speaker 2: but somebody else has the ability to handle the quantity

8:09 Speaker 2: of a cup. But that is how God knows that

8:14 Speaker 2: you can handle only certain quantity or and that's why

8:18 Speaker 2: He's given you only in accordance to your ability. So

8:24 Speaker 2: stop comparing yourself because you have a different purpose than

8:28 Speaker 2: somebody else. You know, A cup has a different purpose,

8:32 Speaker 2: A bottle has a different purpose. I cannot carry my

8:35 Speaker 2: bottle everywhere. I cannot carry my cup everywhere. I can

8:38 Speaker 2: use my cup. Maybe if I'm thirsty I want to

8:41 Speaker 2: drink something, I can drink a while I'm speaking on

8:43 Speaker 2: the podcast. It wouldn't look kosher for me to drink

8:47 Speaker 2: from a bottle while I'm speaking on a podcast. Right

8:50 Speaker 2: at the same time, if I need to carry water

8:53 Speaker 2: or any liquid, you know, from my home to my office,

8:57 Speaker 2: I cannot carry it in my cup. I can only

8:59 Speaker 2: carry it in my You get what I'm saying, same thing.

9:02 Speaker 2: Each one of us have a different purpose and different gift.

9:06 Speaker 2: So don't compare yourself with somebody else. But be faithful

9:09 Speaker 2: with what you have been given and entrusted, because only

9:13 Speaker 2: when you're faithful with that, he will entrust you with more.

9:17 Speaker 2: And that's where the pressure will just take off, because

9:21 Speaker 2: you don't have to try to perform like Oh, my goodness,

9:23 Speaker 2: you know what somebody else is able to carry so much,

9:26 Speaker 2: I should also be able to carry so much. No,

9:30 Speaker 2: you be faithful in carrying what you are called to carry,

9:34 Speaker 2: and God will take care of the rest. Because here

9:38 Speaker 2: Us designed you for a purpose. Is dissign somebody else

9:40 Speaker 2: for a purpose. And when each of us work out

9:44 Speaker 2: in accordance to the ability God has given us whatever

9:47 Speaker 2: we can do, then at the end we will receive

9:51 Speaker 2: the good words from the Lord. You know that the

9:53 Speaker 2: Master tells in the end of the parable he says,

9:57 Speaker 2: well done, my good and faithful servant. So that's the

10:00 Speaker 2: challenge I want to leave with you, guys. So take

10:03 Speaker 2: the pressures off, and I believe that God is going

10:05 Speaker 2: to use you mightily, and let this word go forth

10:08 Speaker 2: and bless you and entrust you and help you do

10:12 Speaker 2: them much more for the Glordia of God. Amen, God

10:15 Speaker 2: bless you.

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