Time to Give Up... Christian Sermon (LIVE Segment) | John Giftah

0:06 Speaker 1: Luke Chapter five was one onwards. Okay, I don't want

0:12 Speaker 1: you to read the whole thing because Luke chapter five

0:14 Speaker 1: was one till eleventh. He talks about a moment when

0:18 Speaker 1: you know the family of story, right, Peter and the gang,

0:22 Speaker 1: not Scooby and the gang. Peter and the gang. You know,

0:24 Speaker 1: they fished all night, caught nothing, right, So you know

0:27 Speaker 1: that part. They fished all night, caught nothing, and God

0:31 Speaker 1: was showing me something very powerful. You like, we always

0:35 Speaker 1: say no in a very motivational sense. I'm also a

0:37 Speaker 1: motivational speaker. Okay, So in those motivational places, one thing

0:42 Speaker 1: that they'll say is never give up. You know, never

0:46 Speaker 1: give up because He's always there, you know, like all

0:49 Speaker 1: these never give up. That that is the thing that

0:52 Speaker 1: you get in pure motivation.

0:55 Speaker 2: Don't give up.

0:56 Speaker 1: Keep going right, you will hit success. You keep doing it,

1:00 Speaker 1: you will hit success. But I'm going to break your

1:03 Speaker 1: bubble today because if you've thought that you keep doing something,

1:09 Speaker 1: sometimes you need to know when to give up.

1:13 Speaker 2: They fished all night, caught nothing, right.

1:17 Speaker 1: Did Peter listened to some motivational talk and be like,

1:21 Speaker 1: come on, guys, let's not give up.

1:23 Speaker 2: Let's keep fishing, till we get a fish. Did he

1:25 Speaker 2: do that? Did he do that? No?

1:31 Speaker 1: They fished all night, they caught nothing, and they gave

1:36 Speaker 1: up on that. They got back to the shore. And

1:40 Speaker 1: that's why the Bible says that when they were at

1:43 Speaker 1: the shore, they parked their boat on the shore, and

1:47 Speaker 1: that is the moment when Jesus actually got onto the boat,

1:52 Speaker 1: which means that if they were still sitting and trying

1:54 Speaker 1: to fish, Jesus would have never got into the boat

1:57 Speaker 1: in the first place.

1:59 Speaker 2: Right.

2:00 Speaker 1: I don't know who needs to hear this word, but

2:01 Speaker 1: some of you are trying some strategy which never works

2:05 Speaker 1: and will never work because you keep trying. You keep

2:09 Speaker 1: trying with every angle, with a triangle or whatever angle.

2:13 Speaker 1: You keep trying, but it's not working out. You're doing

2:16 Speaker 1: your very best, but it's not working out. You need

2:19 Speaker 1: to check if something is not working out. Learned to

2:22 Speaker 1: give up? Don't you enable say give up? Okay, I

2:28 Speaker 1: hope nobody just takes this and says the first preacher

2:30 Speaker 1: to say it, give up.

2:33 Speaker 2: That's the truth.

2:35 Speaker 1: Don't give up on the final thing that you're hoping for.

2:37 Speaker 1: Don't give up on the blessing that you're hoping for.

2:40 Speaker 1: Don't give up on the promise that God has given you,

2:42 Speaker 1: but give up on the strategy that you're holding on to.

2:46 Speaker 1: Because they kept trying all night, they got nothing, and

2:49 Speaker 1: if they kept trying, they would have got still nothing.

2:54 Speaker 1: So as much as it is to trust God, it's

2:57 Speaker 1: also necessary for you to give up on something that

3:01 Speaker 1: you kept trying. For example, my YouTube channel. I've been

3:06 Speaker 1: trying for a long time, okay, I mean, I don't

3:08 Speaker 1: know who's more patient than me, even I like, from

3:12 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, I was posting and posting. I'll get like,

3:15 Speaker 1: oh wow, three three views and four views and ten views,

3:19 Speaker 1: and I was like so consistent, and it used to

3:21 Speaker 1: be so hard. People used to make fun and you

3:23 Speaker 1: call yourself a YouTube. I'm like, I don't call myself

3:26 Speaker 1: anything anymore.

3:27 Speaker 2: This is so mean.

3:29 Speaker 1: And since twenty sixteen, I've been posting every time consistently,

3:35 Speaker 1: high quality. I used to go to studios and record, Okay,

3:37 Speaker 1: that's how I'm in for quality. And the beginning of

3:42 Speaker 1: this year is when I just asked God, and I

3:46 Speaker 1: was like kind of like putting it at a pause

3:48 Speaker 1: and asked for a strategy. And God started giving me

3:52 Speaker 1: another strategy and Suddenly, you know, it started getting like

3:56 Speaker 1: thousands of views many of those videos. And in the

3:59 Speaker 1: last few months, I crossed two lags like, which means

4:02 Speaker 1: now I have over six lag views on the YouTube channel. Okay,

4:08 Speaker 1: what I'm saying is if I kept still trying, what

4:10 Speaker 1: worked would not work anymore. I had to come to

4:14 Speaker 1: a place where I paused and ask God, what is

4:16 Speaker 1: the new thing you want me to do? And what

4:19 Speaker 1: I'm doing is something very unconventional. You know, if you

4:22 Speaker 1: maybe go out and I'm not trying to promote my

4:25 Speaker 1: YouTube channel, but I'm just saying, if.

4:26 Speaker 2: You check out, I don't follow the typical preacher.

4:29 Speaker 1: I used to do that way back, okay, like, oh

4:31 Speaker 1: I'm the preacher, you know, like those coat and all

4:33 Speaker 1: this stuff and all that stuff. But I changed that.

4:36 Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I'm reaching the young people. They see

4:39 Speaker 1: all influences. They don't want to see another preacher guy

4:42 Speaker 1: coming there. And okay, I do all these photo shoots,

4:45 Speaker 1: video shoots and stuff. What people follow those strategies. And

4:48 Speaker 1: when I started doing that and it started reaching like

4:51 Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of people, and I'm like, wow, all

4:54 Speaker 2: It needed was a change of strategy.