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 you to read the whole thing because Luke chapter five was one till eleventh. He talks about a moment when you know the family of story, right, Peter and the gang, not Scooby and the gang. Peter and the gang. You know, they fished all night, caught nothing, right, So you know that part. They fished all night, caught nothing, and God was showing me something very powerful. You like, we always say no in a very motivational sense. I'm also a motivational speaker.

0:39 Speaker 1: Okay, So in those motivational places, one thing that they'll say is never give up. You know, never give up because He's always there, you know, like all these never give up. That that is the thing that 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, you will hit success. But I'm going to break your bubble today because if you've thought that you keep doing something, 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, come on, guys, let's not give up.

1:23 Speaker 2: Let's keep fishing, till we get a fish. Did he do that? Did he do that? No?

1:31 Speaker 1: They fished all night, they caught nothing, and they gave up on that. They got back to the shore. And that's why the Bible says that when they were at the shore, they parked their boat on the shore, and that is the moment when Jesus actually got onto the boat, which means that if they were still sitting and trying to fish, Jesus would have never got into the boat in the first place.

1:59 Speaker 2: Right.

2:00 Speaker 1: I don't know who needs to hear this word, but some of you are trying some strategy which never works and will never work because you keep trying. You keep trying with every angle, with a triangle or whatever angle. You keep trying, but it's not working out. You're doing your very best, but it's not working out. You need to check if something is not working out. Learned to give up? Don't you enable say give up? Okay, I hope nobody just takes this and says the first preacher 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. Don't give up on the blessing that you're hoping for. Don't give up on the promise that God has given you, but give up on the strategy that you're holding on to. Because they kept trying all night, they got nothing, and 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 also necessary for you to give up on something that you kept trying. For example, my YouTube channel. I've been trying for a long time, okay, I mean, I don't know who's more patient than me, even I like, from twenty sixteen, I was posting and posting. I'll get like, oh wow, three three views and four views and ten views, and I was like so consistent, and it used to be so hard. People used to make fun and you call yourself a YouTube. I'm like, I don't call myself 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, high quality. I used to go to studios and record, Okay, that's how I'm in for quality. And the beginning of this year is when I just asked God, and I was like kind of like putting it at a pause and asked for a strategy. And God started giving me another strategy and Suddenly, you know, it started getting like thousands of views many of those videos. And in the last few months, I crossed two lags like, which means now I have over six lag views on the YouTube channel.

4:06 Speaker 1: Okay, what I'm saying is if I kept still trying, what worked would not work anymore. I had to come to a place where I paused and ask God, what is the new thing you want me to do? And what I'm doing is something very unconventional. You know, if you maybe go out and I'm not trying to promote my 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 I'm the preacher, you know, like those coat and all this stuff and all that stuff. But I changed that. I'm like, okay, I'm reaching the young people. They see all influences. They don't want to see another preacher guy coming there. And okay, I do all these photo shoots, video shoots and stuff. What people follow those strategies. And when I started doing that and it started reaching like thousands and thousands of people, and I'm like, wow, all

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