Make the Most of Your Time... | John Giftah | Motivational Christian Sermon

0:01 Do you ever look around and think, Wow, the world is a crazy

0:06 place and it just seems to get crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and

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0:40 International. Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John GIFTA. Hello everyone,

0:54 It's wonderful to be back on this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with

0:57 John gift podcast to just challenge you even as we're stepping into these holiday seasons

1:03 and maybe you're in a nation where you don't have holidays, but I just

1:07 wanted you to take this as a general message where I believe that you will

1:10 have your own set of holidays, or you will take up some leaves and

1:14 you know, maybe your weekends or whenever you can. I really want you

1:17 to take this as a principle in your life. You know, one of

1:19 the things that just affects me a lot is when I see people who just

1:25 lazing around all the time, you know, and just being complacent and just

1:27 you know, when you ask them, how was your weekend? What did

1:30 you do? Oh? I was just watching Netflix all day. I just

1:33 finished you know, just many seasons or just many series. And what did

1:37 you do? Oh? I was just sleeping the whole day. I was

1:38 just playing on the video games, and you know, things like that.

1:42 You know. See, I'm not asking you to be in a place where

1:45 you're saying, you know what, don't have any fun. I'm not saying

1:48 don't watch anything. I'm not saying this, you know, get to a

1:52 place where you're always like a robo. I'm not asking you to go to

1:55 that extreme. But what I'm saying is, you know, you need to

1:59 be vice. Because the scripture is very clear right in the Bible. If

2:02 it says in collosions, for you know, when you start as verse five,

2:08 this is what it says, be vice in the way you act towards

2:12 outsiders, of course, but there's a point here that be vice in the

2:15 way you act, and it goes on to say, make the most of

2:20 your time, make the most of your time. If you look at Ephesians

2:23 five sixteen, again, this is what it says, make the most of

2:28 your time because the days are evil. You need to understand that, you

2:30 know what, the times that we're living in is not as easy as it

2:35 can be. And we are all, you know, bombarded on every direction

2:38 with deadlines. There's so many things to do, so many things to get

2:40 done. Maybe you have commitments that you need to deal with, maybe there

2:44 are things that you need to focus on. But here's the thing. I

2:46 want you to understand that, you know, you need to be in a

2:50 place where you don't just come to the end of your life, or come

2:53 to the end of a week, or come to the end of a year,

2:54 and then you just say what did I do the whole yeer and say,

2:59 oh, I just watch Netflix. I just ate and slept, I

3:02 just hung out with friends all through the holidays. I just you know,

3:07 watched this many movies. What have you done productively? See I say this

3:13 very respectful later, right, even if it's movies. For example, if

3:16 you love watching movies, I believe you watch good movies because what you watch

3:20 is also something that you need to pay attention to. But That's not my

3:23 focus here. But here's the thing. Even if you say you watch movies,

3:27 can you bring something productive out of it? Can you do something productive?

3:30 What do I mean by that? I'm not saying, you know,

3:34 like productive out of everything, That's not what I mean. But if you're

3:38 saying that, you know, I watch a movie every day, can you

3:42 come to a place where maybe you can make a log out of it,

3:45 or video or some kind of creativity where you can release that energy that you

3:50 have just consumed. You know what I mean. I hope you're getting what

3:54 I'm saying right, Like, you know, I heard this story of somebody

3:59 she was constantly watching some particular TV series and then she started making her own

4:04 you know, videos and vlogs and blogs based on that, which ended up

4:11 becoming a you know, part time you know, source of income for her,

4:15 you know, which you know she could eventually use for building God's kingdom.

4:18 You see, That's what I'm trying to say. You know, making

4:21 the most of every opportunity means. You know, even if I do watch

4:25 something right, I do need as a human bring I do need some relaxation.

4:29 So when I do watch something, you know, there's always this thing

4:31 for me to learn something, maybe learn a dialogue, learn you know,

4:35 how somebody communicates when I watched especially I like watching some Disney shows also,

4:42 So one of the major reasons why I allowed watching Disney shows is because I

4:46 love to see the way they speak, how they respond, and I like

4:48 to use that in my everyday conversations. And a lot of times people in

4:54 my workplace say, you know, the way you speak is so different,

4:57 you know what I mean, It's not like just normal, you know,

5:00 like it had some kind of like an element of wowness to it, you

5:05 know what I mean. That's what I'm saying today. Right, whatever you

5:11 do, even if it's something that you say it's fun. You know,

5:14 you love watching movies, but can you do something productive through that? Or

5:19 you want to watch sometimes it's okay, But can you take some time to

5:23 be productive in your life, even even through this holiday season or even in

5:28 the coming days, even through weekends and holidays and whenever, you can make

5:32 it a priority to take some time to do something productive. Right, don't

5:38 just don't just sit and watch watch, watch, watch, or don't just

5:43 scrawl scrawl scrawl on social media all the time, but do something guys,

5:46 do something productive because our times are so difficult and so evil. That's what

5:53 if I would say is right, days are evil, So make the most

5:56 of the time that's available for you. Right, God bless you. You've

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