Why You Feel Tired All the Time (GOD Never Meant You to Live Like This) John Giftah | Biblical Teaching

0:01 Speaker 1: 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 take a break. This is Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. We're a hub for inspirational Christian sermons, practical keys for Christian living, and Christian discussions and interviews. You'll be inspired to live the life that you were created for. Your host is a top ranking podcaster, best selling author, world record holder, aerospace engineer, life coach, evangelist and founder of John Gifta International.

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

0:45 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta podcast. Even as we step into the first of Me, which happens to be known as Maybe also known as the liberdy, where we give the importance for resting right rest to the laborer. Here's the thing I want you to understand. When we look at life right, we are called to work in a rhythm because if you see when God created everything, the Bible says that on the seventh day he rested. It's not because he was tired, but he showed us a principle that you know what you do work, but you need to take time to rest, you need to take time to rejuvenate, get yourself back together.

1:25 Speaker 2: Because I want to tell you that, yes, I believe in being productive. I believe that you can't live in a lifestyle of complacency and laziness. I keep watching for that. I keep preaching saying, you know what, you have a call, you have a purpose. You need to be in a place where the Bible says, you know, make the most of the time that God has given you so that you don't waste your time your you know, you know what the Master wants, and you're walking in your God given calling and purpose. I believe that is so true that there's some message that needs to be given for a lot of people, But there's another message that needs to be given for the other group of people who are extreme work alcoholic where it's like, oh my gosh, I can't waste a single minute.

2:03 Speaker 2: Because I've seen family members like this, okay, where it's like you give them two minutes and say, hey, can you rest for two minutes and be like no, no, no, no, no, I can't waste even two minutes. You know what, every minute I have to give account for God, and they're in that amster wheel of you know what, I need to be productive every single minute. I need to be doing something, even if it's not effective, but I need to do something, something, something. There's this constant thing there where it's like a grind, like is happening, whether it's physically or emotionally or mentally.

2:31 Speaker 2: But today, my challenge to each one of you, under the sound of my voice is take time to rest, take time to rejuvenate, take time to relax, take time to slow down, take time to pass, because that is as much important as much as being productive. Think about this. There was no real need for God to rest because he's on my reguard. He's not resting because he was tired. You know a lot of times we think rest is only if you're tired, restless, if you're you know, like you know, you're in the moment where you need to just get back physically, or sometimes people think it's all about oh, this person is doing nothing, this person is lazy or complacent.

3:09 Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, listen to this cafelly. Your evenly father showed us a principle that to live effectively we need to walk in that rhythm where we take time intentionally to rest, intentionally, to pause. See, if people looked at Elijah when there was a season when he was just eating and sleeping, eating and sleeping, they would call him a lazy person, right, They would be like, how can this so called profit only eat and sleep? He's doing nothing productive with his life. But people don't know that he just had a very tense or a hard big season and now he's about to have another challenging season, and now is a season of rest.

3:53 Speaker 2: There's now a moment of rest. See. I want you to understand that, Yes, God takes us through seasons. God takes us through moments where some seasons are tough, some seasons are harder, some seasons are you know, in that rhythm. But here's the thing I about you to understand in every season, understand the importance of taking rest, rejuvenating. When you see even Jesus when he was crossing the lake, right, why would Jesus, the son of the living God, why would he sleep? Right? It looks like, oh Jesus was lazy.

4:32 Speaker 2: No, he knew the importance of balancing, like, yes, I need to get this work done. Yes, I'm doing this. I'm doing that, but I also take care of my physical body, emotional body, emotional part of my body, and a mental aspect as well. See, sometimes people take care of their physical in terms of rest by sleeping, but mentally and emotionally also you need to take rest like no, but if you don't do that, you end up in burnouts. That's a place I don't want you to go to. Now. People may say, where's burnouts in the Bible?

5:08 Speaker 2: Where's all this stress? Can I tell you something? During Bible times, people do not have social media coming and you know, coming and bombarding them all the time. You know, people do not have the pressure that we have right now, Like, oh my gosh, if I don't perform well in a week, I could lose my job. If I don't do better in this post than my previous post, I won't get the same engagement. You see. The kind of pressure that we have now is so different. Whether it's through media, whether it's through the lifestyle choices, whether it's through the corporate and the institutions.

5:43 Speaker 2: The way the world is functioning it is. It's not easy. It's not in a slow paced manner like it used to back in the day now, it's in a very fast, fast paced manner. There's like deadlines. You need to do this, you need to do that. Sometimes I wake up in the morning, even before I think of anything, the first thing that comes is, Oh, I need to reply to this email. I need to get this work done in my office today. I need to complete this task. I need to do this. Like you know, that is the kind of a place where many of us are constantly living.

6:15 Speaker 2: You know what I mean, where there is no mental rest, there's no rest mentally, and they're not at the place of rest even emotionally. See, your emotions need rest as well, your mind needs rest as well, and you need to take rest physically also, whether it involves taking care of yourself with good food, whether it involves taking an app. Sometimes, because I remember there was a time when I used to think, oh, taking an app is this in you know, that's the way I was I was taught when I was growing up, like, oh, you know what, you're lazy.

6:52 Speaker 2: That's when you sleep. You know, it's no Sometimes you realize that if you want to work effectively, you need to learn that rhythm of taking time to pause, rest, doing nothing. This is not something that came to me easy, and I'm still not fully accustomed to this, but I'm learning myself to understand the balance of Yes, we need to be productive and all of that stuff, but we also need to take care of our health. We need to take care of and rest because only when we rest we are more effective. Let me just get close to this example.

7:28 Speaker 2: Right, if you take a phone or an app on a phone, right, we all use smartphones. When you take the app on your phone, every now and then, you need to update the app for it to function. Right. And if you say I'm not going to update the app, the app will not be working after a while. Right, You need to update the app. And here's the thing. When you update the app, it's like the app is on rest because you can't use the app while the app is getting updated. Right. But if you say, oh, I can't afford to not use the app, you know, I have to use the app all the time I can't update, Then what will happen?

8:04 Speaker 2: At one point the app will stop working completely. You need to update. Same thing with our life. Right. If you're saying, oh, I can't take Christ, I will not take Chris, what happens at some point your body will give in and then you'll have to be forced to take Christ three months or whatever period, or sometimes people have to take Christ for years for the mistake of not taking rest adequately in a routine manner, maybe every day or every week or every month. So today my challenge to each one of you is take time to rest, relax, resunate.

8:38 Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong in it. That's part of the design that God has for us so that we will function effectively. Amen, God bless you.

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