can't change colours on gimp

[rich2005]

The screenshots help a lot. From that last one it looks to me like (1) you are on the text layer (2) you are making a selection around the text and the active path
..... and of course nothing happens.

Turn the selection off Select -> None
Make the middle layer (layer) active
Set the FG colour
Then Edit -> Fill Path

This a 40 second animation of that sequence. https://i.imgur.com/lWUTeeE.mp4