I don't know how to start this video because this has been on
my mind for a very long time. In life, I believe it's
important for us to try and stretch ourselves as human
beings to take ourselves out of our comfort zone.
And to do things, we wouldn't normally do and usually at the
beginning of every new year, I am I'm so excited.
I'm excited about what will this new chapter of Life?
Hold for me, what we're going to do as a family?
What am I going to try and do and set goals and you
aspirations and dreams? And I'm normally so thankful for
a new start, a new chance to rethink a fresh beginning.
But this year I felt crushed and defeated, like I just don't have
any energy or enthusiasm about what lies ahead.
So let's do it. Let's talk about quitting.
You chew. The Bible says a fool vents, all
his feelings, but a wise man, holds them back, and a couple of
months ago, I acted like a fool. I vented all of my feelings, I
bore my heart to you, and I told you that I was having thoughts
about quitting YouTube. And I want to say, sorry for
that, that really was wrong of me.
It wasn't fair on you, for me to unload that burden on you.
And to tell you how I've been thinking, when actually In my
heart of hearts, I have no intention of quitting YouTube.
I see it as an utter privilege every single week to be able to
preach the gospel, to sometimes, quite literally millions of
people. And as long as the Lord gives me
strength, I do not want that. That privilege to be taken away
from me, and because I've been having some health problems over
the last three weeks. Even to this day, people are
writing messages to me. Saying, Joe, are you okay?
You're not planning on giving up, are you?
So I just want to clear the air and say, I don't have any
intentions of quitting YouTube, but at the same time, I do want
you to know that I am struggling and I really do need your help.
And if you've ever watched any of my videos, if you've ever
found them helpful or you subscribe to this ministry, I
know your time is valuable, but I'm just begging you please.
Would you watch this video to the end?
Because there's some really important things that I have to
tell you. Recently, I've been studying the
life of Moses and did, you know, one of the finest Saints?
In history, Moses himself cockburn towns.
It was so bad that his father-in-law Jethro noticed it
and actually took Moses aside and said you need help.
He see what was happening. Was Moses was quite literally,
the leader of two million Israelites.
He was almost working, like a president, except for this
President, didn't have any cabinet, didn't have any help.
He was working completely solo. And every day Moses was managing
the people of Israel people. Coming to in droves asking for
help in their Affairs, asking for counsel and Moses has become
like an orange, where every drop of juice was squeezed out of him
until he had nothing more to give and Jeff release or all of
this and out of concern. He looked at his son-in-law and
realized my daughter will not have a husband.
If this carries on my grandchildren will not have a
father, if this continues and he warned, Moses to accept help and
really, that's the First warning sign for us.
When we're burnt-out is we might not notice what's going on.
But our loved ones can see our blind spots.
Our loved ones, our friends, and our family members may say to
us, you're doing too much you need to pull back.
Now there are many reasons why we can find ourselves in a
similar situation as Moses perhaps were insecure perhaps
somewhere down the line we've been rejected and we felt like a
waste of space. So when people are coming to us
and saying we need Eat you. It makes us feel accepted.
It makes us feel like Woolworths, something perhaps,
maybe, maybe we might find ourselves in most to situation
when we think, no, no, God has given me this responsibility or
in my work. I can do the job better than
anyone else. I'm a perfectionist.
And so we become shy and resistant to letting other
people carry the loads, or maybe we just make ourselves so busy,
and we don't even realize what's happening to us and it takes A
friend or a father-in-law, like, Jeff Roe to say you need other
people to help and that's what Jeff wrote did.
He said a point godly man and let them manage the people's
Affairs and then you have some of this weight, this burden
taken off your shoulders, Moses. And so if Moses, the great
Saint, the great leader of the past, Moses learned to delegate
or die, then you. And I also need to learn to
delegate or die, and I'm going to get to that in a moment.
Because I'm going to ask for some of your help with this
ministry, but come on is burnout, really that serious?
Well, actually, yes it is. Listen to The Cry of Moses and
you will hear a Broken Man numbers 11 verse 14.
Says, I am not able to Bear all these people alone because the
burden is too heavy for me and if you read verse 15 you will
see just how dark just how dangerous burnout really can.
Be you see, this is a man who'd had enough.
This is a man who loved his work, who hated his burden, who
hated all the things that have been put on top of him.
And he wanted a release from it, but listen to me, even when we
see Moses in his crisis, our even when we see Moses, in the
most painful point of his life, we actually see a beautiful
picture of the Gospel. As I've just said, Moses was one
of the finest leaders. This world has ever Seen.
This is Moses, the Moses a right now.
This is a man who is admitting that he's not enough.
This is a man who is admitting that he is frail and he needs
help friends. The best thing any leader can
ever do is to admit that he is insufficient and that there is
only one who is all-sufficient everyone, everyone should fix
their eyes, not on the leaders, put on Christ because he alone
cannot only carry all of our burdens but he can also carry
the weight of our sin. That's what he did on the cross.
All of the sins of the world were put on Christ's shoulders
and even though he was nailed to that cross, my savior has very
strong arms and he held that sin.
He took that sin and he was punished for it.
And then when he was put in a grave, he proved that sin.
The problems of this world could not hold him down.
He was far too strong. Rose from the dead and proved
you cannot defeat me. I alone and the leader that you
can follow. And let me let you into a secret
no matter what man or woman you follow on this Earth, if you get
close enough to them, you'll see their cracks, you'll see their
failures and you'll realize they weren't, as Noble as they first
appeared. They weren't as humble as
gentle. As christ-like know, they were
failures, just like you. And that is why we really I must
cast our eyes on the Lord, Jesus Christ, because he alone will
never let us down. Now, can I just say this?
I know you did not subscribe to this YouTube channel to here,
Joker. Bemoan you wanted to hear about
Jesus Christ, and I don't want to pretend that I'm going
through a really massive issue. When I know, right in front of
me, there are people who are struggling beyond measure, so,
please forgive me. If this sounds indulgent, I'm
just want to share what I'm going through right now.
So, You know why? At times I've not been able to
make videos for the last three years, in a sinful sense.
I've been self-reliant. I've burnt the candle at both
ends. I've been rising early and going
to bed late. I've been working on this
treadmill constantly and I've acted like I'm made of steel
when the reality is and just made a flesh and blood and
what's happened is over time, the joy of making YouTube videos
as completely gone. And I'm actually.
Now the point where, the best way I can describe it is, I feel
this. Do you have Billet, ating stress
this feeling of being trapped? This pressure where I put off
making videos to the very last minute where I just feel like I
can't do it. I feel like as I switch this
camera on right now, I'm going to go potentially in a million
different homes and speak to a million people about the most
sacred thing, the Lord Jesus Christ, and I never went to
Seminary and never had a Logical education.
I've only been a Believer for 13 years and I think who are you
Joker? Be to be doing this and I
promise you, I'm not just saying this to be modest, but very
often. I think someone else should be
standing in my shoes. Okay, so what do I need from
you? Well, there are three things
that I'd really value from you. Number one, I need permission
number two, I need prayer. And number three, I need people.
Number one, I need permission from you and E permission from
you to be able to take breaks from YouTube.
I'm very privileged to have an accountability board and the
members of my accountability Board of Setzer me for years.
Now, Joe, if you keep living in this world of YouTube and you
don't spread yourself out into other avenues of ministry, you
are going to burn out and the right.
That's exactly what's happened. Literally, my life for the last
three years has been YouTube and everything else has suffered
from it, you know, I'm a Street Preacher Yeah, I've not really
been catching many fish on the street recently because I've
been spending so much time making videos.
So I need you to understand that every week I might not be able
to produce videos now because there are other things I want to
work on. I want to write another book.
This year, an Evangelistic one, I want to be able to have more
time with my family and in fact in March I am going to take some
time off because we've got some big changes that are going to
happen. There's a lot going on and I
just need you to understand that every week.
I might not be able to publish your video but perhaps above
all, I need your permission to be what God is calling me to be,
to be an evangelist. You see in life, you've got
pastors and Bible teachers, they fit in this category and then
you've got evangelists and missionaries.
You see pastors and Bible teachers their main passion, the
calling that God has laid on their hearts is to teach
Christians, to encourage Christians, to warn Christians,
to give their focus. The flock of Christ.
But then in this corner, you've got missionaries and you've got
evangelists and their main thrust.
Their main calling is, to introduce people to God, to tell
them the gospel and to tell them about the Lord Jesus Christ.
And that is my focus. My mission statement.
My why is to snatch Souls from Hell, by preaching the gospel.
That's all, I really care about my Ministry is not there to
entertain Christians. My Ministry is not there to
teach the Bible, there are plenty of Christian YouTubers,
who do a wonderful job at that, but my Ministry is to reach
unbelievers and tell them that there is a savior who loves them
and to warn them of the fires of hell.
And I know, some of you think that my videos are clickbait E.
I know some of you think that I'm obsessed with celebrities
and I've become Vain, and I've got wrong motives, but I need
you to know that I'm not making these videos for Christians and
Can these videos to reach out to the millions out there?
Who are going to hell without the Savior.
And that's why I make these videos every week.
So, please, when you write comments and question my
motives, please know that I am trying to reach the lost and not
Christians. Now, that's not to say that.
I don't want to reach Christians and sometimes I'll make videos
that cater for both. When I was a Street Preacher,
really my method was this I take a news item, something that was
interesting and I'd start getting people.
Attention, did you hear about this, that Ariana Grande did
this, or did you hear about Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder?
And people would stop to listen. And then once I had their
attention, then I preach the gospel.
And that's really why I use celebrities and all of these
different sorts of interesting ideas, as a way of gaining their
attention. And I'm transferring what I
learned as a Street Preacher into Ministry on YouTube.
Number two, I really need your prayers.
We are in a battle and I'm Can you not only to pray for me but
pray for the missionaries that you know your pasta other
Christian YouTubers because the devil does not like the word of
God to go out and he is throwing everything.
He can, it was in these last days to stop us from preaching
the gospel. So please do pray for us and if
you wanted those people who pray for me daily.
I want to say thank you to you for that because without your
prayers without Jesus Christ, we can do nothing.
And lastly, number three, I need You I need people Teamwork Makes
the Dream work, and you probably noticed in the comment section,
there are quite literally thousands of comments.
So I'm asking some of you right now.
If you know, the Bible, if God has granted you wisdom and you
think you could counsel people, I really want some of you to
come forward and start commenting back to comments that
I'm not able to reach. It was a time where I was on top
of my emails and I was really good at responding to people who
because of everything that I've just It's about, I'm not even
able to write back in my emails, or even in my DMs on Instagram.
So, please forgive me for that and I'm asking for help if
you're able to do that. And the second group of people,
I'm looking for, is those people who know how to make YouTube
shorts or tick-tocks or Instagram.
Reels, I'm talking about vertical videos, there are under
60 seconds. The truth is this.
We cannot ignore The Tick-Tock of fication of the internet and
the majority of young people are spending time watching.
In YouTube, shorts and tick-tocks.
That's what gen Z is doing at the moment and I just don't have
the time for it. And I feel sort of sense of
gilts that I should be able to reach out to these people, I
should be sharing the gospel with them but I'm just not able
to, but if you want to take any of my videos and repurpose them,
make them into shorts and repost them on your YouTube channel, or
on your Instagram, or on your tick, tock on any social media
platform, that would bless me immensely that would take a
weight off my shoulders. So I don't have to do that
anymore and I do want everyone to know this right now.
Let me just say this publicly, I have no issue with anyone re
posting my videos and putting them on their own social media,
platforms, or sharing my videos. That means the world to me,
you're doing me a massive favour because you will reach people
who I'm not able to reach. And the last group of people we
are looking for is we're looking for people who can translate our
videos, if you know how to take your video mute out my voice
door bit. And put your audio translation
in your own native tongue. That would mean the world to me.
You see, I'm very excited and I'll tell you in a minute, we've
actually now got a Spanish Channel and a Chinese Channel.
And that is something that is really getting me excited that
we're going to be able to reach new people with the gospel of
the Lord Jesus Christ. And who knows who's going to get
saved, but if you're able to do this in your own native tongue,
please, would you send me a message on either Instagram,
Twitter or even in the comment box because I'd like to talk
More about this because this is something we're very keen to get
behind. And if everyone now could do me
a favor, please would you now go across the Chinese Channel and
hit subscribe and please, would you go across the Spanish
Channel and hit? Subscribe here, that will just
help us get it off the ground and hopefully kick start it.
So we can reach more people. The gospel.
Thank you so much for listening. I know it's not been the most
positive message I've ever done, but I am grateful for your time
and if you watched all the way to the end, again, let me just
say, say thank you. We really appreciate your help.