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.