Wearing Yourself Out? | John Giftah | Christian Sermon - Fuel for the Soul with John Giftah

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

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

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Gifta International. Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. So caught

up you want certain things so I can Maybe you need some passions, or

maybe you want to see a level in your life, or maybe you want

to reach a certain stage in your life. Or maybe you're so caught up,

like you know, when I need to make this much of money it's

working, or maybe I need to get this man marks in my examination,

I need to get into this kind of a college or this kind of a

program, or you're so caught up with something that you want, or you

are having your own you know, YouTube channel or ministry or something and you

want a certain level for that, uh, you know, ministry or whatever

you're doing, you want to retain or reach a subscribership of some number or

anything of that sort. You have something that you're so caught up. I

want this. You're so caught up with it, and you're trying everything that

you can, you're going overboard with it. Well, I want you to

pay attention to this. You know, there's morning I was reading and this

was really popped up and I wanted to share with you guys. It's found

in Proverbs twenty three and verse four, and I'm reading from the Nalty version.

It says, don't wear yourself out trying to get rich, be wise

enough to know when to quit. I know this sounds controversial because we always

listen to motivational sermons or motivational messages. Even a while ago, I think

somewhere on social media saw a couple of things just popping up, like,

you know, if you badly want something, go create it, go do

it and make it happen. And all of this stuff. You know,

this has been you know, a thing that has been really bothering me because

there's one side where you have this kind of a motivation. Don't quit,

don't give up, and you know, go and make it happen and all

of this stuff. And I was I was just looking and introspecting my own

life because you know, I'll think you honestly, like I've shared it with

you for the couple of recent episodes where I've been sharing about, you know,

some of the point that I've been bringing about for my own self,

even putting out to all the efforts that I'm putting go dot to. Of

course, the podcasts are doing well, you know, there's so many of

you are listening to me every single day and regularly, and I'm so grateful

to you guys for doing that. But in terms of my YouTube channel,

I was so worked up because you know, I've been working on my YouTube

channel longer than my podcast. I've been putting so much more effort. I've

been going the extra mile. You guys know that I have a full time

job apart from which I do so many things in the ministry, to podcast,

the daily podcast, the YouTube channel. You know, my life is

old so much on my plate and I've been going overboard with it. And

this scripture was something like you're wearing yourself out, like you're trying so much

and you're saying and I was like, God, you see the Bible the

worse says don't wear yourself out to get rich. And the minute that was

popped in and it was like, don't wear yourself out trying to get your

videos to be you know in my context that that's the wait a lot was

speaking to me. You know, don't weary yourself out to a next stent

where you're you're so focused on, like, you know, what you want

to see, certain numbers, you want to see the crowd or you you

know, you want to see something happen that you're you're just wearing yourself and

the Bible says to learn when to quit. In other words, see,

I'm not asking you to be a quitter. Okay, I'm not asking you

to quit following what God has called you to do. But there is a

thin line of balance between you know, not being complacent and not being lazy,

but at the same time knowing when it is going to the other side

where you're wearing yourself out. Your mind is affected, your body is affected.

I mean, this kind of a thing just made me go to a

place where it actually affected my health. It affected my mental piece. It

affected so much. I mean I was, I was, I was,

you know, lit crying for a couple of days, and you know,

I was like, oh my goodness, God, I've put so much of

effort. I've been working on this so much. You said, in a

word, you've bless the work of my hands. And why am I not

seeing that? And I was, I was in that more. You know,

you guys knew me right when I when I put give myself into it,

I'm always, you know, a personal always stays committed to it.

I'm not like, you know, try something and then you know, don't

work out on it for a long time or something. I've been consistently working

for so many years, and I was feeling so overwhelmed about it. And

yours was the scripture that reminded me, like, you know, don't wear

yourself out trying to make your media go vital, or don't wear yourself out

the scriptures is trying to you know, get rich or in your own life.

You know, I want you to think about this. Are you wearing

yourself out trying to see some result in your life? You know what I'm

going to do? Why all that it takes for me to achieve this.

See, motivation is good, commitment is good, you know, working towards

his good, but not at the expense of wearing yourself out. You know

what I mean. You need to know when to you know, take care

of your body, or to boss or to you remember a couple of episodes

ago, I was shining about how Peter and the gang fish all night,

caught nothing and an important principle, I said, you know, when you

realize that you catch you got nothing. The Peter and the young they were

not staying there saying, you know what, we don't want to leave till

we are going to catch some fish. They knew when to come back to

the shore. They quit literally, I mean they came back to the shore.

But it was in the shore when they parked their boat, you know,

on the shore that that's when Jesus stepped onto the boat. You have

to remember something here. When Jesus stepped on the boat, they were not

fishing. They were actually washing their nets. What I want you to understand

is we always pre sermons like I love Jesus into your boat you catch fish.

But the point is Jesus did not walk on water the bottom too.

The boat of Peter and the gang. They came back to the shore,

they paused from doing what they were doing, they stopped trying. They actually

quit. That's why the Bible says no when to quit. And the word

quit year is not just saying that you know what, I'm going to throw

it off and just go in my life that that's not in the context.

But learn to have you know, a sense of knowing with that godly wisdom

like listen, this is a dead end or I need to pause. I

need to look for the strategy. And that strategy is not going to come

to you when you're still trying to dig, you're still trying to fish.

You have to come back to the shore. And that is the place when

you pause, when you take a break, when you're in that moment,

when you allow Jesus to step into your boat, that is when you will

see the difference. Am I making sense to you? Guys? So today

that's my challenge with all of us, and I pray that this world will

encourage you. Very similar to what I shared a couple of weeks ago.

I think when in that episode, but I think this is an important principle

that you need to know that don't wet yourself out in your pretext of wanting

something in your life. Your body is the temple of the wordy spirit.

Your life is precious. And as I'm speaking to you, guys, I'm

preaching to myself because you know, I'm a human being and I struggle with

things and I'm praying for those things. And I really encourage you guys to

keep me in your prayers as a couple of things on the mind on my

end as well. So thank you so much guys for listening chatting in their

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Gift God bless you. If your heart stops beating, now do you know

where you're going? If you came face to face with death, Now do

you know where you're going? And this is not a message of condemnation.

This is a message of hope. There is a God who loves you so

much he sent his only son, Jesus Christ to come down and pay a

heavy price by shedding every drop of his blood on the cross. Thank you

for dying for my sense. When you believe in him, you have free

gift of salvation for you that assures us that we will go to heaven when

we die instead of suffering in hell forever. I just encourage you today to

make the simple step of it and say, Jesus, I thank you for

what you did on the cross. Thank you for giving me this gift of

eternal life,

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