Valentine’s Day Special - Encouragement for Christian Singles: Your Story Is NOT Over Yet | John Giftah

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

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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. Bes we are doing

0:50 Speaker 2: this special dive on Valentine's Day, especially if you are

0:54 Speaker 2: a Christian single out there reading on the Lord for

0:56 Speaker 2: the right person to come into your life and you're

0:58 Speaker 2: feeling frustrated. It's another Valentine's Day. You go on the

1:02 Speaker 2: socials and all you can see is a different people

1:04 Speaker 2: posting with their partners or posting maybe engagement photos, or

1:10 Speaker 2: you're looking at your life and saying, oh my goodness,

1:12 Speaker 2: John my ring finger is still empty. Can I tell

1:16 Speaker 2: you something. It may look like that, and you may

1:19 Speaker 2: be feeling frustrated. You may be feeling like, oh my goodness, John,

1:22 Speaker 2: I do not understand what is happening with my life.

1:24 Speaker 2: I don't know if I will never meet the right person,

1:27 Speaker 2: will ever things fall in place. I want you to

1:30 Speaker 2: stay tuned because as the Christian single myself, I know

1:33 Speaker 2: that this is not an easy journey. I've had my

1:35 Speaker 2: share of frustrations and questions, and I know that at

1:38 Speaker 2: the right appointed time, God can bring him the right

1:40 Speaker 2: person into my life, maybe through different means, and he

1:43 Speaker 2: is orchestrating my life, and I'm open to see how

1:46 Speaker 2: the Lord is going to do it, and I challenge

1:48 Speaker 2: you to be the same as well. So a couple

1:51 Speaker 2: of encouragements to the Lord has been sharing, and I

1:53 Speaker 2: want to share them with you. First and foremost, I

1:54 Speaker 2: want you to understand that one of the revelations the

1:57 Speaker 2: Lot showed me recently was so powerful. You know, when

2:00 Speaker 2: you look at the old times, the early times, when

2:04 Speaker 2: you look at when even Mary, for that matter, she

2:07 Speaker 2: was engaged when she was in a late teens. Right,

2:10 Speaker 2: people used to get married between their late teens and

2:13 Speaker 2: probably maximum of twenty two. So twenty was the sweet

2:18 Speaker 2: spot when people used to get married back in the day. Okay,

2:22 Speaker 2: but there was a boy who spent all his late

2:25 Speaker 2: teens and his twenties as a slave and then as

2:31 Speaker 2: a prisoner, that is Joseph. He lost all those sweet

2:36 Speaker 2: spots when he could have probably met someone, probably could

2:40 Speaker 2: have had a happy married life, and he was spending

2:43 Speaker 2: all that time as a prisoner, and before that d

2:47 Speaker 2: he was a slave. It felt like he lost the

2:51 Speaker 2: window of opportunity. Today you may be feeling like you

2:54 Speaker 2: lost your window of opportunity. Maybe there's a sweet spot,

2:58 Speaker 2: like for example, in the Indian culture, sure people get

3:00 Speaker 2: married as a sweet spot of twenty seven. Maybe you're saying,

3:05 Speaker 2: now I'm like past thirty thirty five, or maybe even

3:08 Speaker 2: nearing forty, or maybe you're saying, John, I don't think

3:15 Speaker 2: I can ever see this happening in my life. There'll

3:18 Speaker 2: been so many hurdles. But I want to tell you something.

3:22 Speaker 2: Joseph's story doesn't end that way. He comes out of

3:26 Speaker 2: prison when he's thirty.

3:28 Speaker 1: Now, it would be.

3:29 Speaker 2: Like somebody coming out at maybe forty five today, and

3:33 Speaker 2: you may say, oh, maybe good luck, have a happy

3:36 Speaker 2: rest of your life. And just you know, I know, no,

3:41 Speaker 2: there's no girl available for you. So just you know,

3:44 Speaker 2: just just just live with that. You know, you can

3:47 Speaker 2: never get married, you can never have the joy of

3:50 Speaker 2: having kids. But think about Joseph. It comes out much

3:56 Speaker 2: later from the window of opportunity, like twenty or twenty

4:02 Speaker 2: two should have been the maximum, and people used to

4:04 Speaker 2: get married those days. He's coming out at thirty. God

4:08 Speaker 2: not only gives him the promotion to the palace. God

4:11 Speaker 2: not only gives him the promotion to take up the

4:16 Speaker 2: kingdom with the Pharaoh. You know, right about him and

4:20 Speaker 2: all of those amazing things. The Bible says God blessed

4:24 Speaker 2: him with a wife, a royal wedding. Think about is

4:29 Speaker 2: he got a wedding in the palace, a royal wedding,

4:33 Speaker 2: and he had two children. God did not withhold anything

4:38 Speaker 2: from him. That's the encouragement I wanted to have. Just

4:41 Speaker 2: because there's a delay, that's not mean God has forgotten you.

4:44 Speaker 2: God's timing over your life is different, and he will

4:48 Speaker 2: not withhold any good thing for you. Because you are

4:52 Speaker 2: called of him, you are depending on him, and you're

4:55 Speaker 2: walking up brightly.

4:58 Speaker 1: Now.

4:58 Speaker 2: I want to tell you something if you look at

5:00 Speaker 2: Luke one. I've shared this before in the past, but

5:02 Speaker 2: I want to share this in this light again. It

5:04 Speaker 2: talks about two different cases of babies being born. One

5:07 Speaker 2: is Zakarai and Elizabeth John the Baptist and Jesus being

5:11 Speaker 2: born to Mary. Zakarai and Elizabeth were too old to

5:15 Speaker 2: get a child because and Zakaria says, how is this

5:19 Speaker 2: even possible? We're too old. Whereas Mary, when the angel

5:24 Speaker 2: comes and says you want to parachild, She's like, how

5:27 Speaker 2: is that possible. I'm not even got engaged or married yet.

5:31 Speaker 2: It's too early. What I want you to understand is

5:34 Speaker 2: for somebody it may happened early, for somebody it may

5:37 Speaker 2: happen late. But God's timing is God's timing. Don't loved

5:43 Speaker 2: society or pressure from peer pressure or being in that

5:48 Speaker 2: society timing pressure to make you, you know, jump into

5:52 Speaker 2: some choice. Don't do that. Be led by the Holy Spirit.

6:00 Speaker 2: Wait for God's timing. I'm not saying don't take any steps.

6:03 Speaker 1: Don't.

6:03 Speaker 2: I'm not saying just sleep and expect miss universe to

6:05 Speaker 2: come knocking at your door. That's not gonna happen. You

6:08 Speaker 2: got to do your part. See Ruth and Boas.

6:13 Speaker 1: Ruth.

6:13 Speaker 2: If Ruth just stayed with Naomi, she should have not

6:17 Speaker 2: met Boas. They would have never got married. Ruth went

6:20 Speaker 2: to the field. Boas also even though he owned the field,

6:24 Speaker 2: he was not complacent. He was hard working. It's not

6:27 Speaker 2: that he was not there, that he was there. That's

6:30 Speaker 2: how Ruth and Boas met. I want you to understand.

6:35 Speaker 2: You gotta be doing what you're called to do. You

6:38 Speaker 2: gotta be doing what God has put in your heart,

6:41 Speaker 2: your field or purpose. Like Boas owned that field, Ruth

6:44 Speaker 2: went to that field. You need to be in that field,

6:47 Speaker 2: the purpose, the area of your calling, and there you

6:50 Speaker 2: will meet the person that God has for you. You

6:53 Speaker 2: cannot just do nothing and expect miss universe to come

6:55 Speaker 2: knocking at your door. You cannot do nothing and expect

6:58 Speaker 2: God to just magically make somebody appear at your door.

7:02 Speaker 2: You have to be in that place where you allow

7:04 Speaker 2: God to work through you moving. God cannot direct a

7:09 Speaker 2: parked car same way. God will lead you only when

7:15 Speaker 2: you move. So today my challenge is that you pray

7:18 Speaker 2: and ask God what move he wants you to make?

7:21 Speaker 2: Where does he want you to go? Take that step

7:25 Speaker 2: and there. God will lead you there, God will orchestrate.

7:29 Speaker 2: But what if you're saying, John, but what about all

7:31 Speaker 2: the skeletons in my closet, all these baggages in the past.

7:37 Speaker 2: Can I tell you something? When you gave your left

7:39 Speaker 2: to Christ, he cleared your baggages, He cleared your closet.

7:45 Speaker 2: What do I mean by that? See, even if you

7:49 Speaker 2: see Ruth and Boas his story, Ruth had a backstory.

7:54 Speaker 2: She was a widow. Boys had a label that he

7:58 Speaker 2: was too old. He was an old And you may

8:01 Speaker 2: be feeling like, oh, I'm too old, or I maybe

8:05 Speaker 2: doo or a divorcee, or I have all these labels

8:09 Speaker 2: set by society, or my financial status is like this,

8:13 Speaker 2: so I have to stay settle for something, or I'm

8:16 Speaker 2: never it's never going to happen, or it's hard. Can

8:19 Speaker 2: I tell you something. The labels did not stop Ruth

8:22 Speaker 2: and Boas. God will make sure the labels in your

8:25 Speaker 2: life will not stop you. God still has a love

8:28 Speaker 2: story for you. God still has a plan for you.

8:31 Speaker 2: He has a plan for me. He has a plan

8:32 Speaker 2: for you. You never know how and where God can

8:35 Speaker 2: do it. You know, I sometimes I jokingly say, you know,

8:39 Speaker 2: you never know, like what if somebody you know listens

8:42 Speaker 2: to my podcast, watches my YouTube, or you know, sees

8:46 Speaker 2: my videos on socials and your God connects me with

8:49 Speaker 2: that person through that like you, I am like open,

8:51 Speaker 2: like God, you are a God of miracles. But it

8:56 Speaker 2: comes from me putting myself out there, like how Boas

8:58 Speaker 2: was putting himself out there in the field. That's where

9:00 Speaker 2: Ruth came in. So you need to be out there

9:05 Speaker 2: for the route to step into your life, for you

9:08 Speaker 2: to meet with your boss. So I pray in the

9:11 Speaker 2: name of Jesus that this will be an encouragement that

9:14 Speaker 2: no matter what labels people are placed in you, on you,

9:18 Speaker 2: no matter what it looks like, God will do wonders

9:22 Speaker 2: in your life because His plans for you are unimaginable. Unimaginable,

9:29 Speaker 2: no label can stop. Why do I talk about labels.

9:31 Speaker 2: I'll tell you one thing, because I've seen in these

9:33 Speaker 2: mattermoney sits people that put these filters and labels. You know,

9:37 Speaker 2: people should be like, you know, I want only after

9:40 Speaker 2: this this salary scale, or I don't want somebody from

9:45 Speaker 2: this label like you know, like divorce or video or

9:51 Speaker 2: you know, having children or you know, all of these

9:54 Speaker 2: factors or this age group and all of that, but

9:57 Speaker 2: can ethereally something. Don't be discouraged. It may look like

10:01 Speaker 2: it's hard in the natural. It may be hard in

10:03 Speaker 2: the natural. It is hard in the natural. It is

10:05 Speaker 2: impossible in the natural. But we serve a supernatural God.

10:09 Speaker 2: The God who orchestrated Ruth to go into Boaz's field

10:12 Speaker 2: correctly knows how to lead the right person into your

10:16 Speaker 2: life at the right time. Trust him, Trust him, Trust him. Lord.

10:24 Speaker 2: I pray for this word to bless hearts in the

10:29 Speaker 2: name of Jesus Christian singles around the world that have

10:32 Speaker 2: experience this word of encouragement, and let them be blessed

10:38 Speaker 2: in Jesus name. I pray a man, God bless you.

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