What To Do When Life Is Beyond Your Control? John Giftah | Biblical Encouragement Sermon

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

0:05 Speaker 1: is a crazy place and it just seems to get

0:08 Speaker 1: crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and take a break.

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

0:44 Speaker 2: This edition of the Fuel for the sol with gift

0:46 Speaker 2: of podcasts. All through this week, we are looking at

0:49 Speaker 2: various lessons that we can take away from the life

0:51 Speaker 2: of Moses, especially surrounding Exodus chapter two. See One of

0:56 Speaker 2: the things I wanted to understand, in line with what

0:58 Speaker 2: I said yesterday, is the fact that sometimes we don't

1:01 Speaker 2: even realize the kind of dangers that God is protecting

1:04 Speaker 2: us from. One of the things we look at is

1:07 Speaker 2: how Moses was just going through this Nile river. We

1:10 Speaker 2: just read this story like as if it's like a

1:13 Speaker 2: fairy tale. Story. Oh, he was just put in a

1:15 Speaker 2: basket and he was going through Nile River. But we

1:19 Speaker 2: don't realize how I shared yesterday that the Nile River

1:23 Speaker 2: had one of the most aggressive crocodiles, which actually not

1:27 Speaker 2: only looked at humans as a threat, they looked at

1:30 Speaker 2: humans as a source of food. So Moses was in

1:33 Speaker 2: dangerous territory and he didn't even know about it, and

1:36 Speaker 2: God was protecting him. And today you may be in

1:38 Speaker 2: a place in your life where you're saying, John, I'm

1:40 Speaker 2: in a very dangerous territory where my life is just

1:44 Speaker 2: gone beyond my control. I'm not even able to control it.

1:46 Speaker 2: I wanted to understand. Your life may feel like it's

1:49 Speaker 2: beyond your control. You may feel like like how Moses.

1:52 Speaker 2: Moses didn't even know this. But imagine you in the

1:54 Speaker 2: place of Moses. Maybe you feel like, John, I'm in

1:58 Speaker 2: dangerous territory and I can do nothing about it. Even

2:01 Speaker 2: if Moses knew that he was in dangerous territory, there's

2:05 Speaker 2: nothing he could do about it. You may be in

2:07 Speaker 2: a place in your life where you fay like, oh

2:09 Speaker 2: my gosh, if I could do a miracle on myself,

2:12 Speaker 2: or if I could change my circumstance. If I could

2:14 Speaker 2: just get myself hired in a job, if I could

2:17 Speaker 2: just get myself married, if I could just get myself

2:20 Speaker 2: do this or do that, if I could just do

2:22 Speaker 2: the miracle on myself or something this instance. I understand

2:26 Speaker 2: this right then I would do it because I understand

2:29 Speaker 2: that this is a big problem. This is a big

2:33 Speaker 2: terrible place to be in life. But I want you

2:35 Speaker 2: to understand something very important here because in the midst

2:39 Speaker 2: of knowing that nothing is in your control, I want

2:42 Speaker 2: you to trust the God who is still in control

2:45 Speaker 2: of your life. God is in control of your life,

2:49 Speaker 2: even when you don't feel like it, even when you

2:52 Speaker 2: are not able to control anything. I wanted to understand

2:54 Speaker 2: God is in control of your life. See, I wanted

2:59 Speaker 2: to understand this right like there. I'm also an aerospace

3:02 Speaker 2: engineer in case you don't know so. Part of the

3:05 Speaker 2: thing that we would do is there was an implant

3:08 Speaker 2: training where we would go on a two seater aircraft

3:12 Speaker 2: and there's one of those maneuvers that we do. I

3:17 Speaker 2: think it's just also known as stall in one case,

3:20 Speaker 2: but yes, the thing the manure is basically the two

3:22 Speaker 2: seater aircraft is flying at an altitude and the pilot

3:27 Speaker 2: switches off the engine and then after a few seconds,

3:30 Speaker 2: switches the engine on again. Okay, so the plane in

3:34 Speaker 2: the few seconds just goes down boom. And there are

3:37 Speaker 2: moments or instances where while the pilots are getting trained,

3:42 Speaker 2: the engine will not start immediately, so it'll be a

3:48 Speaker 2: few minutes of full tension, like, oh my gosh, what's happening.

3:51 Speaker 2: What's happening? Come on, start, start, start, because if you

3:54 Speaker 2: don't start, you're going to crash lad right, So it's

3:57 Speaker 2: a very dangerous place to be, and I realized, like

4:00 Speaker 2: how it's not in your hands. Like if you look

4:03 Speaker 2: at an amusement park, you go down even though it's dangerous,

4:06 Speaker 2: but still you know that there are ropes in place.

4:09 Speaker 2: There are all of these suspenders that are all of

4:12 Speaker 2: the things that are connecting the things, so that you

4:15 Speaker 2: know you have all those safety things in place, safety measurements,

4:20 Speaker 2: measures taken by the amusement park. But when you're flying

4:24 Speaker 2: up in the sky, you can't do all of that.

4:27 Speaker 2: There are no ropes. If the engine doesn't restart, you're

4:32 Speaker 2: just going to go straight to heaven because you're going

4:34 Speaker 2: to crash line. So it's a dangerous place to be,

4:37 Speaker 2: but I want it. At a sense, that's how your

4:39 Speaker 2: life may feel. Sometimes it's gone beyond your control. You

4:42 Speaker 2: can't control it. You the more you try to control,

4:45 Speaker 2: you're only going to freak out. You are like, oh

4:47 Speaker 2: my god, you know what, I need to do this,

4:49 Speaker 2: do that so that I won't lose my job. I

4:52 Speaker 2: still remember in one of the organizations where a lot

4:57 Speaker 2: of people getting laid off, after which the people people

5:00 Speaker 2: who were in the organization, they were like, you know what,

5:02 Speaker 2: I'm going to work so hard. I know it's toxic,

5:05 Speaker 2: I know it is scary, but I'm going to work

5:07 Speaker 2: so hard so that I won't be laid off. They worked,

5:10 Speaker 2: he is so hard. They they if I get working

5:13 Speaker 2: with the spirit of excellence. They went overboard, working trying

5:17 Speaker 2: to prove themselves. They went to a place where in

5:20 Speaker 2: the midst of toxicity, they were like, you know what,

5:22 Speaker 2: I just put up with anything so that I will

5:24 Speaker 2: be able to keep the jaw. But guess what. Many

5:27 Speaker 2: of those people ended up getting laid off in the

5:29 Speaker 2: second row of layoffs that happened in the same organization. See,

5:34 Speaker 2: you can try your best to do like, oh, I

5:38 Speaker 2: want to protect myself, but it is only going to

5:41 Speaker 2: hurt you more. But I challenge you, like the way

5:44 Speaker 2: when Moses was in the river, he had no control

5:48 Speaker 2: of where he was going. In fact, the currents in

5:52 Speaker 2: the Nile River, especially in the Egyptian region, are sometimes mild,

5:57 Speaker 2: but sometimes they are actually very dangerous as well. They

6:01 Speaker 2: can go to any kind of a situation because of

6:04 Speaker 2: the weather. So Moses was in a place where he

6:07 Speaker 2: can't control any of that. Moses was a baby. You

6:11 Speaker 2: may understand that in a little sense. You're a child

6:14 Speaker 2: of God. You're a baby in the side of the Lord,

6:17 Speaker 2: and you cannot control the kind of attacks the enemy

6:20 Speaker 2: puts at you. Sometimes your life is just beyond your control.

6:24 Speaker 2: But stop trying to hold on and stop trying to

6:28 Speaker 2: make things in your control, because that's hurting you more.

6:31 Speaker 2: You would have seen this analogy of people who are

6:33 Speaker 2: trying to hold on to ropes that are actually hurting

6:37 Speaker 2: them more. But the best thing they can do is

6:39 Speaker 2: just let go, let go of the control, let go

6:45 Speaker 2: and say, Lord, I trust you, you be in control

6:51 Speaker 2: of my life. So this is my word for some

6:55 Speaker 2: of you. Maybe you're trying to hold on things and

6:58 Speaker 2: that is actually hurting you more. But I challenge you,

7:01 Speaker 2: just like Moses was not in control of his life

7:05 Speaker 2: when he was cruising through the River Nile, I want

7:10 Speaker 2: you to know that you're not in control of your

7:13 Speaker 2: life because the enemy will try to attack you in

7:17 Speaker 2: every way possible. So the best option for you and

7:21 Speaker 2: I is to say, you know what, God, I give

7:23 Speaker 2: the control into your hands. You take control. You lead

7:28 Speaker 2: me to where you want me to go. And that's

7:30 Speaker 2: the beautiful part I want to talk about in the

7:32 Speaker 2: next segment. I hope you stay tuned next for the

7:37 Speaker 2: next episode and I will catch up with you very soon.

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