Consistency is NOT the Only Key | John Giftah | Inspirational Christian Sermon

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0:53 talk to Tod about Consistency is not the only key, won't you guys to

0:58 understand if you've been listening to my messages for a long period of time.

1:00 One of the things I keep encouraging people is to be consistent, to be

1:04 committed to what God has called you to do. Go the extra mile and

1:08 keep working on it. Make it a habit to work towards your God given

1:12 calling, and eventually God will make sure that you step into the fullness of

1:17 your destiny. You will be taken from one degree of glory to another degree

1:19 of glory. All of those things are so true, and I really want

1:23 to encourage you guys. If you're being complacent and lazy, you will not

1:26 be able to step into the fullness of your God given destiny that He has

1:32 for you. But at the same time, I want you to also note

1:34 one important thing because when you look at the motivational world, when you look

1:40 at you know, the worldly perspective, there's there's a thin line here right

1:45 where people say, you know, keep working on it, keep working on

1:48 it. Being consistent is the only key. Be consistent on what God has

1:52 called you to do. Be consistent on working on your gifts and talents.

1:56 Be consistent in your business, your career, your YouTube channel or podcast or

2:00 whatever. You be consistent and you will eventually see the success. That's what

2:05 is being portrayed or for the most part, And in the motivational world,

2:09 what I've seen is they often say consistency is the omni key. You keep

2:15 doing it, you keep doing it, you keep doing it, and you're

2:17 going to hit the jack pot. And a lot of people today are so

2:21 disappointed with themselves, disappointed with life, disappointed with the you know, God,

2:25 disappointed with the system, why because they've been working on something for a

2:30 long period of time and not seeing the result, and they're like, oh,

2:35 my goodness, I've been doing this for so many days, so many

2:38 weeks, so many months, so many years, so many decades, and

2:40 I'm not seeing any result in my life. Yes, I want to re

2:46 enterate and remind you, guys. Yes, I do believe in the place

2:50 that there is a place for consistency. But there's also an important thing to

2:53 know. Consistency is not the omni key, and I want to talk to

2:59 you about that. You know, I want to talk to you from Luke

3:05 chapter five, very familiar passage that you, guys know, where Jesus is

3:09 encountering Peter. And Peter had fished all night, caught nothing, and they

3:15 were in a very disappointed state. Peter and his men and the gang and

3:19 his partners, they were all in a very disappointed state. And Jesus comes

3:23 to him after finishing, put out into the deeper part and let down your

3:29 nets for a catch, and Jesus and Peter tells Jesus, we worked all

3:35 night and caught nothing, But if you say so, I let down the

3:38 nets. And when they did so, they caught such a huge number of

3:44 fish that their nets began to break that they had to signal to other partners

3:49 in the other boats to come and help them, and when they did,

3:53 they were all filled with so much of fish that they were about to think.

4:00 What I want you to understand from here is an important principle to note

4:04 that a lot of people just see see they kept working hard, They kept

4:08 working hard, and eventually they found success. Yes, there is an element

4:14 of truth to work hard, to be consistent, and all of those things

4:17 don't give up. But there's also an important note that you need to keep

4:23 in mind that it's not just because he kept fishing all night and caught nothing.

4:28 Eventually, at some point he caught something. It was because he had

4:32 a supernatural encounter where he listened to the voice of Jesus and he obeyed the

4:38 instruction from God and at the appointed time ordained by God when he put down

4:43 their nets into the deeper part. When he did as for God's instruction,

4:47 when he did as for the strategy given by Jesus, things worked out.

4:53 What I want you to understand is certain things are not just going to work

4:56 out because you've been doing it for a long period of time. It's certain

5:00 things will work out only when you pass doing what you're doing, when you

5:02 feel like, oh my goodness, nothing is working out, and listen to

5:05 what God is saying, listen to the divine instruction from God, and obey

5:11 his leading, and then things are going to work out. I hope I'm

5:16 preaching to somebody here. If you feel like you've been working hard and nothing

5:21 is working, nothing is clicking, things are not falling in place. I

5:25 want you to pass doing what you're doing and get to a place where you

5:29 ask God to speak to you, give you divine instruction, wait for him

5:32 to give you the green signal to move in a certain direction, to go

5:36 towards an open door, and go in accordance to His leading, his guidance,

5:41 his protection is world, and then things will work out. Things are

5:50 not going to work out just because you've been working out for a long period

5:53 of time. Things will work out only when you work in accordance to God's

5:57 plan and God's will and God's direct in God's leading and God's timing over your

6:01 life. That's a very important thing to note, right because if you think

6:06 if it was only consistency, then Jesus need not have to encounter Peter at

6:12 all. In this case, it would have just been that Peter didn't fish

6:15 all night and finally, after working so hard, finally caught some fish.

6:20 That would have been the message, that would have been the motivation part of

6:26 it. But here, you see, he caught nothing the old night.

6:30 He didn't keep trying, keep trying. He went back to the shore,

6:33 started washing his nets. He took a break from doing what he was doing

6:36 because it didn't work out. And that was what gave the platform for Jesus

6:42 to step into his board and for Jesus to preach and eventually speak to Peter

6:46 and say, come on, let's go fishing. Just think about it.

6:51 You know, if Peter was still in the water trying to fish, he

6:56 wouldn't have got the opportunity to you know, like come to the show where

7:01 Jesus steps into his boat, right. That's because Peter had stopped and passed

7:08 and gave up and came to this place where he was like, you know

7:11 what, he didn't work out, and he was washing his nets. That

7:16 is what gave the opportunity for Jesus to step into the boat. If he

7:20 was still in the water, that wouldn't have been possible. Jesus wouldn't have

7:25 come right so, because at one point he realized it was not working out,

7:30 he came back to the shore and he was washing his nets. That

7:33 is when the Bible is very clear that Jesus came and he asked if you

7:41 look at was to Jesus saw the two boats moved by the land, and

7:46 as they were washing the nets, he got into one of them, and

7:49 that was Simon Peters and he started preaching and that's when he had an encounter

7:55 with Simon Peter. That's what I want you guys to get to. That

7:59 consistencies the only key. But consistency is the key. It is important be

8:03 consistent, okay, but it's not the only key. If you've been doing

8:09 something for a long time and it's not working out, it's time for you

8:11 to get to the place where you say, you know what, let me

8:15 pass, let me listen to what God wants me to do, and let

8:18 me do hasper his leading, has for his direction in the strategy that he

8:22 gives me, and to do it at his time, and it's all going

8:26 to work out in Jesus Mighty name, and pray Amen God bless you.

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