Is It Really Beneficial? | John Giftah | Motivational Christian Sermon

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0:43 Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. Hello everyone. It's wonderful for me to be back on this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with on Gift Up podcast. And even as I just spoke to you on my previous episode on making the most of the time that God has given to you, you know, I was sharing with you two important scriptures efficients five sixteen and Collosions for five which says that we need to make the most of our time that God has given because the days are evil and we need to be wise and not be unwise.

1:21 And I was sharing with you and I shared some things like you know how you can. You know, even if you take something like you know, watching movies is your favorite thing to do. I said, you know, if you can bring something productive through that, it's good. But if you just watching watching and that's nothing productive coming out of your life, then you need to be cautious because there's a time to enjoy, there's a time to relax watching a good movie. There's a time for things like you know, watching social media and browsing through the net.

1:51 But you need to also come to a place where you need to understand that your life is not yours, but it's God's given life to you, which means you are accountable for that. You are a steward of your life and the time that God has given you, which means you need to be productive with your life. You know, the scripture is very clear. Jesus said, you know, a tree that does not bad fruit will be cut off, which means that you need to bring some produce. Whatever God has given you, the gifts he has given you, the talents he has given you, the calling He has placed upon your life, is not for you to just think that you know, what if I want or not, I can choose.

2:24 No, you are accountable to God for everything that He has given you. And that's why you need to understand even as we are talking about these things. Through these holiday seasons, you know, a lot of you may be on vacation, a lot of you may be having leaves and you know, just watching you know, Netflix, or browsing on the internet all the time or on social media all the time. You know, can I ask you? Can you be more productive with your life? And I want to share this with you guys. You know, when when when whenever you feel like, you know, doing something like in your life, want to watch a movie or you know.

3:02 I'm not saying don't have any fun, Okay, do go out, have fun, go on a vacation, all of that stuff, But listen to this cafeine. The Bible saysing first Connthians ten, verse twenty three. I'm allowed to do anything. Okay, I'm reading from the Nalty version. I'm allowed to do anything, but not everything is good. I have the right to do anything, but not everything is constructive. You need to understand that this should be our goal in setting up and checking whether you should do something or not.

3:34 Right, You're allowed to do anything. You know, I'm not saying do something stupid or do something that's known as a sin. You know, you can go and watch a good movie. You can go and you know, have some time with your friends. You can go and you know, beyond social media. I'm not saying don't be on social media. But what I'm saying is you're allowed to do that. But are you? But not everything has beneficial for you. You know, like if you're just spending you know, all your time from morning till night on social media, you wasted your whole day.

4:11 You didn't do anything productive, right, Or if you're just using all your holidays and you know, weekends just with friends who are just you know, like lazing around, have no purpose in life. You just wasted another weekend. You could have done something towards your dreams that got placed in you. You could have done something towards the promises that God has deposited within you. You could have done something productive with your life. But today, that's my challenge, before you do anything, Before you do anything, check is this constructive?

4:48 Is this beneficial? Is going to build up? Is it defying I'm talking from different translations right, or is it something I can just ignore because it's not going to add to anything. You know what I mean. So today let this be your litmus test for you to decide have you going to spend your holidays? God bless you. You've been listening to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. We hope you were blessed and inspired to live the life that God has for you. Make sure to subscribe to the John Gifta YouTube channel for regular uploads of sermons, skits, interviews, and more.

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