Walking in Love – Part 9: Love Is Patient With People’s Process | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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.

0:45 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:47 Speaker 2: the Soul with John Gifta podcast. And as you would

0:49 Speaker 2: have seen by the titles, that we're doing a series

0:52 Speaker 2: on how you and I can walk in love. Practically,

0:55 Speaker 2: we've been talking about how whether it's relationships in your work,

0:59 Speaker 2: placing as your college, your home, your famili's communities, churches, everywhere,

1:04 Speaker 2: you and I need to walk in that unconditional love.

1:06 Speaker 2: And one of the things that we struggle the most

1:09 Speaker 2: is when we expect people to perform in the level

1:13 Speaker 2: that we are in. We expect them to transform immediately.

1:16 Speaker 2: We want them to change ways or make amends quickly

1:21 Speaker 2: into their lifestyle, their habits, and we want them to

1:24 Speaker 2: change immediately and say, oh my gosh, this person are

1:28 Speaker 2: given up on them. There's no way this person is

1:30 Speaker 2: ever going to change because I appreached enough to them.

1:32 Speaker 2: They're not listening to what I've got to say. And

1:34 Speaker 2: we try to get into this place where we are

1:37 Speaker 2: on this hustle and hustle and we are giving up

1:39 Speaker 2: on people, saying there's no way out and writing them off.

1:42 Speaker 2: But I want you to understand something very important here today.

1:46 Speaker 2: One of the characteristics of walking in unconditional love is

1:49 Speaker 2: found in first Good and Sens thirteen vers. Four, which

1:51 Speaker 2: says that love is patient. If you are not patient

1:55 Speaker 2: with people, you will end up becoming a patient, or

1:58 Speaker 2: you'll make other people push patient. What may mean by

2:02 Speaker 2: that is this right. We expect people to get into

2:05 Speaker 2: the same rhythm, the same face. But I want you

2:08 Speaker 2: to understand everybody is not in the same pace. Everybody

2:11 Speaker 2: has not going through what you're going through. Everybody has

2:14 Speaker 2: a different journey or a different struggle, or different background

2:16 Speaker 2: or different belief system built into them. There have something

2:20 Speaker 2: up and we cannot expect them to get into the

2:23 Speaker 2: same quickness as you expect. Because I wanted to remember

2:28 Speaker 2: the apostle Paul said, I am what I am by

2:30 Speaker 2: the grace of God in the Book of Corinthians. See,

2:33 Speaker 2: if not for God's grace, you could be in the

2:35 Speaker 2: same pit that somebody else is in. You could be

2:38 Speaker 2: in the same change that they are, in the same

2:40 Speaker 2: thought processes there, in the same faith there in. So

2:43 Speaker 2: if you expect them to suddenly change and make amends

2:46 Speaker 2: just because you ap preach to them or because you've

2:48 Speaker 2: been telling them something suddenly, I want you to understand

2:51 Speaker 2: that you need to be in that place where you

2:52 Speaker 2: need to ask God for that patience, that patience. See

2:57 Speaker 2: when you look at the building that's being constructed, it

2:59 Speaker 2: looks very messy, it looks unfinished, It looks very crude

3:03 Speaker 2: and rough and tough. The paintings or the walls look terrible,

3:07 Speaker 2: and it's the place would not look livable. But you

3:11 Speaker 2: will not write it off just because it looks terrible.

3:14 Speaker 2: You will not write it off or make fun of it,

3:17 Speaker 2: or market it or give up on it. Or you

3:19 Speaker 2: will not love at a building that's been constructed because

3:23 Speaker 2: it's terrible, or it looks messy, it looks unfinished. You

3:27 Speaker 2: will say, John, you know what, Why because I'm looking

3:31 Speaker 2: for the building to get completed so that it will

3:34 Speaker 2: look perfect, the painting, the interior design, and the liverability

3:40 Speaker 2: and everything is going to look awesome. Why Because you

3:43 Speaker 2: look for the end product. You don't give up because

3:46 Speaker 2: the process looks messy. And I wanted to understand something

3:50 Speaker 2: very important. The Bible says in efficiency to Westend. It

3:55 Speaker 2: says that you and I, all of us, we're all

3:58 Speaker 2: God's workman should workmanship means work in progress. We're not

4:03 Speaker 2: finished products yet, we are in progress. You need to

4:07 Speaker 2: understand that the people that you think that are messy

4:11 Speaker 2: and given up and they're going in the wrong direction

4:13 Speaker 2: in life. They're making for choices. You are looking at

4:16 Speaker 2: them and writing them off where they are right now,

4:19 Speaker 2: but you have no idea what God is doing in

4:22 Speaker 2: their life. They have maybe a work in progress. Maybe

4:25 Speaker 2: if you continue to show that love, Maybe if you

4:27 Speaker 2: continue to walk in the ways of the Lord and

4:30 Speaker 2: be the light in the darkness for them, Maybe if

4:32 Speaker 2: you just continue to pray for them and wait for

4:34 Speaker 2: God to work behind the scenes, they will turn around.

4:39 Speaker 2: I want you to think about this. The people that

4:42 Speaker 2: you think are messy, maybe God's going to bring out

4:46 Speaker 2: a message of hope through them one day. So I

4:49 Speaker 2: don't want you to give up on people. I want

4:51 Speaker 2: you to be patient. You know, one of the things

4:53 Speaker 2: in my ministry brought we have a WhatsApp broadcast group

4:58 Speaker 2: where if you are interested, you can connect with me.

5:01 Speaker 2: I can add you to it. We have not just groups,

5:03 Speaker 2: I have multiple groups and podcast broadcasts on WhatsApp. And

5:07 Speaker 2: one of the initiatives we used to do in the

5:09 Speaker 2: ministry is pray for celebrities. Pray for people in influential positions, leaders,

5:14 Speaker 2: pop stars and you know or authors are for that matter.

5:19 Speaker 2: Even here it is and every day one one person.

5:22 Speaker 2: You used to pray for them and used to think

5:23 Speaker 2: about it under Some people used to say, you're wasting

5:25 Speaker 2: time praying for these people because they're not going to change.

5:29 Speaker 2: They're going to live in this mess. They have money,

5:33 Speaker 2: they don't need God, They're not going to change. You're

5:34 Speaker 2: wasting time. But some of those very people that I

5:38 Speaker 2: used to pray for are now using their platforms to

5:40 Speaker 2: talk about Jesus. I want you to understand something guys today.

5:47 Speaker 2: They won't ever write somebody off because you never know

5:50 Speaker 2: when God is going to encounter them. God is working

5:54 Speaker 2: in them. Be patient with them, Be patient with him,

5:59 Speaker 2: because if God is patient with you, shouldn't you be

6:02 Speaker 2: patient with them. Understanding that they're in a progress. They're

6:06 Speaker 2: in a process. They may not quickly turn around like

6:10 Speaker 2: the way you expect. That's okay. Be patient today. If

6:14 Speaker 2: there's one thing that you need to pray for is

6:16 Speaker 2: ask God for more patience to help people as they

6:21 Speaker 2: are in that journey, because you never know how God

6:25 Speaker 2: is speaking to them. One seed, one element of love,

6:29 Speaker 2: one word from the Lord, something somewhere, so many encounters.

6:35 Speaker 2: I recently interviewed pastor John Burke. You can check that

6:39 Speaker 2: podcast episode or you can check it out on YouTube.

6:42 Speaker 2: And I recently interviewed him, and how I came to

6:47 Speaker 2: know about him was when he was interviewed on Sean

6:50 Speaker 2: Ryan's show. Sean Ryan was apparently an atheist, and the

6:56 Speaker 2: Lord encountered him. And now he's using that platform to

7:00 Speaker 2: talk about Jesus and tell others, other people like Megan

7:04 Speaker 2: Kelly and all of them about Jesus. And it's amazing

7:08 Speaker 2: because I was able to get connected with Pastor John

7:12 Speaker 2: Burke through them, Like, think about this Sean Rayan, someone

7:15 Speaker 2: written off an atheist, but God used them to connect

7:19 Speaker 2: me with person John Burke because of a mutual I

7:24 Speaker 2: wanted to think about this guy's You know, God can

7:27 Speaker 2: do wonders and God wants to do one us. Another

7:30 Speaker 2: example I want to leave with is sometimes we just

7:33 Speaker 2: write people out because of where they are in life

7:34 Speaker 2: right now. But I wanted to look at and ask

7:37 Speaker 2: God to show you how or where they're going to

7:40 Speaker 2: become what they're going to become in life. We may

7:43 Speaker 2: look at Peter and say, this guy is so rugged.

7:45 Speaker 2: Look at the Disciples of Jesus. They were all like

7:48 Speaker 2: so crude and rugged, and you know there's some like

7:51 Speaker 2: teams like Judas and all of these people. Jesus did

7:57 Speaker 2: not look at Peter for the mess he was making.

8:00 Speaker 2: He looked at him for what you could become, given

8:03 Speaker 2: into the hands of the Holy Spirit. And that's what

8:06 Speaker 2: I challenge you to be. Go to that place where

8:09 Speaker 2: you ask God to show you people for who God

8:13 Speaker 2: made them to be, for what they could pick out.

8:15 Speaker 2: And I'm going to close with this example. In my life,

8:17 Speaker 2: I did this collaboration. You can check it out on

8:20 Speaker 2: YouTube with Senchetta Michael and right now, I think we

8:25 Speaker 2: both have similar kind of followers, like around nineteen k

8:28 Speaker 2: plus almost twenty k followers on Instagram. But I connected

8:32 Speaker 2: with her Mini Mini maybe years back, four years back

8:35 Speaker 2: or something when she had less than one k followers

8:39 Speaker 2: and I but of course we couldn't connect because of

8:42 Speaker 2: some reason. But yes, the thing she told me when

8:44 Speaker 2: we connected, she said, John, at a time when most

8:47 Speaker 2: people wrote me off, they didn't see the value in me,

8:49 Speaker 2: you found the value in me. How come? And I

8:52 Speaker 2: want to tell you what I'm telling you, Like, that's

8:55 Speaker 2: one of the things that have been in my heart

8:57 Speaker 2: that God helped me to see the golden people even

9:00 Speaker 2: when nobody else is, even when they don't see it

9:03 Speaker 2: in themselves. And let us be people like that, not

9:06 Speaker 2: judging them or writing them off of where the mess

9:09 Speaker 2: they are in right now, for how crude they are

9:11 Speaker 2: right now, but be patient with them knowing that God

9:15 Speaker 2: has put gold in them, and look at them for

9:18 Speaker 2: where they're going to go. They're becoming masterpieces for His kingdom. Emmen,

9:22 Speaker 2: God bless you.

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