The Power of Consistency | What Rebecca’s Camels Taught Me | Genesis 24 | 1500 Videos on YouTube

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

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

0:49 Speaker 2: Thousand finnded videos on the main YouTube channel alone. Oh

0:53 Speaker 2: my goodness, I'm so excited, guys. I was just thinking

0:56 Speaker 2: about this right, Like, I've been working in a full

0:59 Speaker 2: time corporate job, and I've been running the ministry with

1:02 Speaker 2: the YouTube videos on the main YouTube channel, along with

1:06 Speaker 2: podcast episodes and everything together. I was just thinking that

1:10 Speaker 2: in the last thirteen years, ever since I started the ministry,

1:13 Speaker 2: I put out at least over fifteen thousand pieces of content. Okay,

1:18 Speaker 2: now listen, I'm just thinking like, oh my goodness, that's

1:22 Speaker 2: a lot of pieces of content. Out there that I

1:25 Speaker 2: put out maybe in the form of text, in this

1:28 Speaker 2: form of post or with with code, posters, with reels

1:32 Speaker 2: and shots and videos, TV programs and everything. And I'm like,

1:36 Speaker 2: oh my goodness, see what started with just a small

1:41 Speaker 2: step has gone further to reach thousands and literally reach

1:46 Speaker 2: millions of people on various platforms across the globe. And

1:49 Speaker 2: I'm so grateful to God for this. And I'm so

1:52 Speaker 2: grateful to each and every one of you who've been

1:54 Speaker 2: tuning in, checking out my content and being supportive and

1:58 Speaker 2: engaging with the content. And today I want to just

2:01 Speaker 2: share an important, important, practical word with each one of you,

2:05 Speaker 2: right the same way God has a call for me.

2:09 Speaker 2: I personally believe that every single one listening, everybody out there,

2:15 Speaker 2: you have a plan and a purpose by God God

2:18 Speaker 2: and create you. Just like that. You didn't say, you

2:20 Speaker 2: know what. I just want you to make it through

2:22 Speaker 2: life on your own. I just want you to just

2:26 Speaker 2: go through life figure something out. No, that's the whole

2:29 Speaker 2: crux of my best selling book, you know, Unrail your Purpose.

2:32 Speaker 2: I really recommend you to check it out. If you've

2:34 Speaker 2: not done so, it's really going to be a blessing

2:37 Speaker 2: to you, but I also want you to understand the

2:39 Speaker 2: aspect of how if you really want to see growth,

2:43 Speaker 2: if you want to keep growing, there's an important aspect

2:47 Speaker 2: of being consistent. Okay, Now, when we talk about the

2:50 Speaker 2: aspect of consistency, you think like, oh, my goodness, that's

2:53 Speaker 2: a motivational term or a secular term. But I want

2:57 Speaker 2: to just share an important word with you, guys from

3:00 Speaker 2: the world of God, and remind you of the importance

3:03 Speaker 2: of being consistent. I often tell people not from a

3:06 Speaker 2: place of pride, but from my heart. I tell people

3:09 Speaker 2: in the last couple of years, being consistent in what

3:12 Speaker 2: I do. It really helped me to see the kind

3:14 Speaker 2: of results that I'm seeing. When I'm posting on YouTube

3:17 Speaker 2: or podcast, I make sure that those pieces of content

3:21 Speaker 2: are out there no matter what every single day, Like

3:24 Speaker 2: if I say it's a daily one, if it's a

3:26 Speaker 2: weekly one, it has to go every single day, and

3:29 Speaker 2: it should be consistent whether I'm on a vacation, whether

3:34 Speaker 2: there were moments I was in the hospital, I made

3:36 Speaker 2: sure that those videos or those posts went on time.

3:41 Speaker 2: What I'm trying to tell you is that you know

3:44 Speaker 2: you need to make sure that you're consistent and committed

3:47 Speaker 2: to what God has called you to do. You cannot

3:50 Speaker 2: be just taking a casual and expect God to bless you.

3:53 Speaker 2: You have to be consistent. Now, I'm going to share

3:55 Speaker 2: a very important word with all of you today, and

3:57 Speaker 2: I believe that this will really challenge you from God

4:00 Speaker 2: to remain consistent no matter what. If I asked you

4:05 Speaker 2: to fetch a glass of water, what would you say, John,

4:09 Speaker 2: I'm sure I will do it for you. And you

4:11 Speaker 2: would go fetch a glass of water and come back.

4:14 Speaker 2: And a little later I say, Hey, can you get

4:16 Speaker 2: me another glass of water? I'm really thirsty. You would say, sure, John,

4:20 Speaker 2: I would do it and go and fetch another glass

4:22 Speaker 2: of water. If I asked you the third time, you

4:25 Speaker 2: would still be a little hesittant, but you would still

4:28 Speaker 2: go out and fetch the glass of water. But if

4:31 Speaker 2: I asked you the fourth time, the fifth time, you'd

4:34 Speaker 2: get really annoyed. You'll say, John, why don't you just

4:37 Speaker 2: go and grab the glass of water yourself. I don't

4:40 Speaker 2: have the strength, I don't have the tenacity, I don't

4:43 Speaker 2: have the patience to do this. Right now, think about this,

4:46 Speaker 2: right if I asked you to give a lot of water,

4:52 Speaker 2: like for one and our fast. If I asked you

4:54 Speaker 2: to keep going and fetching a glass of water, how

4:57 Speaker 2: would you react? You would be like, this is not

5:01 Speaker 2: for me. First of all, even if you have a

5:03 Speaker 2: willing heart, you'd say, I don't have the strength to

5:05 Speaker 2: do it. I don't have the ability to do this, right,

5:09 Speaker 2: I don't have the stamina to do this. Well, I

5:12 Speaker 2: want you to understand there's a very powerful lesson from

5:14 Speaker 2: Genesis twenty four. Okay, if you're a Christian singer, you'd

5:17 Speaker 2: love this. It's a moment where Rebecca is getting connected

5:22 Speaker 2: with Isaac and ends up marrying Isaac. Right, It's a

5:25 Speaker 2: very powerful incident where Abraham sends out his assistant to

5:29 Speaker 2: go and find a wife for his son Isaac. And

5:32 Speaker 2: he goes there and this assistant, Praise God, whoever is

5:37 Speaker 2: not only going to give me water but also feeds

5:40 Speaker 2: all my cameras is going to be the wife for Isaac. Okay,

5:45 Speaker 2: now I want you to understand. This seems like an

5:48 Speaker 2: ordinary thing, but it's not ordinary. Okay, there's Rebeccah who

5:53 Speaker 2: comes and she's willing to give water for all the camels.

5:56 Speaker 2: But I want you to understand a very powerful truth here, guys,

5:59 Speaker 2: very very import A camel drinks around twenty gallons of water, okay,

6:05 Speaker 2: and there were around ten camels, right In total, she

6:12 Speaker 2: had to spend at least an hour and a half

6:14 Speaker 2: of rigorous hard work to feed all the camels. So

6:19 Speaker 2: Rebecca being able to feed all the camels was not

6:22 Speaker 2: just because Rebecca had a good heart. She was kind hearted,

6:26 Speaker 2: she had a really good intention, she was a loving person,

6:30 Speaker 2: that was all there. But she also had the stamina

6:35 Speaker 2: to do the rigorous hard work for one and a

6:38 Speaker 2: half hours of feeding all the camels. I wanted to

6:41 Speaker 2: think about this, right, So what I wanted to understand

6:44 Speaker 2: is if she has never fetched water like that, she

6:48 Speaker 2: would not be in a position to fetch water for

6:51 Speaker 2: so many camels and feed all the camels. The fact

6:55 Speaker 2: that she was able to do it, the fact that

6:57 Speaker 2: she had the stamina to do it and dure the

7:00 Speaker 2: physical activity for one and how fast, was because she

7:05 Speaker 2: was doing it as a habit on a very regular basis.

7:08 Speaker 2: Are you getting what I'm saying? That consistent abit is

7:11 Speaker 2: what enabled her to perform at that opportunity, which in

7:16 Speaker 2: the end translated her to get acquainted with Isaac. Think

7:20 Speaker 2: about this. It's not just having a good heart. You

7:23 Speaker 2: may be having a good heart. It's not just having faith.

7:26 Speaker 2: She had faith, obviously, but it's also about you know,

7:32 Speaker 2: being consistent and committed and having good habits that will

7:37 Speaker 2: translate into the stamina you need to take up the

7:42 Speaker 2: opportunity that you are praying for. So today this is

7:45 Speaker 2: my challenge. Right Like, if I am in a position

7:48 Speaker 2: where I'm able to interview renowned guests on my podcasts

7:52 Speaker 2: like Emmy Award winning actresses, best selling authors and Christian

7:56 Speaker 2: influencers and all of these people, it's not because I

7:59 Speaker 2: just jumped into the pool on day one. Is because

8:02 Speaker 2: I've been working on this consistently for so many years

8:06 Speaker 2: thirteen years, thousand finunded videos on the main YouTube channel alone,

8:10 Speaker 2: fifteen thousand blessed pieces of content, and authoring multiple books.

8:15 Speaker 2: I'm telling you, all of this has paved its way

8:18 Speaker 2: to help me get better and be better prepared for

8:22 Speaker 2: the opportunities that I've been praying for. And today that

8:24 Speaker 2: is the challenge that I want to leave with you,

8:26 Speaker 2: that you will be committed and consistent in whatever God

8:30 Speaker 2: has called you to do, and He will bless you

8:33 Speaker 2: and see better results as you keep growing in what

8:36 Speaker 2: God has called you to do.

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