Laziness & Discipline | Jonathan Pokluda
Most of us dream of the day we can sit back, relax, and chill. In the pursuit of that dream, are we missing out on something far greater? In the midst of our business, are we actually being lazy? What if the life we’ve always dreamed of and Christ desires for us requires discipline? Listen and learn about the vice of laziness and virtue of discipline. __
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Who's watching in 2024? I am! This is what I needed to hear. Thank you Lord and Pastor.
@JoyinIAM
11 күн бұрын
Yes!! I have a toddler and a 19 yr old son & im so tired after making sure they are okay❣️😆 I’m healing from an abusive relationship and set free from verbally abusive mother🙏🏻 I know I want to be set free and Only Jesus is healing my mind and body
I love how he doesn’t sugar coat stuff, the flesh gets so mad lol. God bless this man.
@jesusiskingofmyheart
2 жыл бұрын
Amen! So good
1. The cause of laziness is a craving for comfort 2. The cost of laziness is a wasted life 3. The cure for laziness is discipline despite difficulty (you only grow when you're uncomfortable). Thank you for this message! This is such a needed reminder. Also, love the suggestion to put your alarm opposite the room, with your bible on top.
@a.sydney5036
5 ай бұрын
A wasted life ... Exactly where I am. It's been a decade. I can't shake it. Trying a new thing, turning to God.
@Kaylin_Lenny
5 ай бұрын
@@a.sydney5036Its the best decision you should make. A tip I have is to get a Bible I use the KJV and then get the “Logos” Bible app blue icon. You can easily look up meanings of words that you dont understand. That is if you read or are planning to read the KJV
This really moved me... I'm so sick of living self absorbed and missing my Godly purpose that it's pathetic. 35 years old with nothing to show for it so far. I was supposed to be much further along my road had i taken all of this seriously and not have been so "lazy busy". I have to tie my flesh to the alter and let God have his way with me. It is time for Godly discipline in my life. I'm sick of pursuing comforts and reaping zero prosperity. God help me, i am a waste on my own 🙏
Costs of laziness: Prosperity, Progress, Purpose, and a wasted life "The cure for laziness is discipline despite difficulty."
Omg My revelation ...I’m not depressed I’m lazy! That’s even more scarier than believe in was depressed & suicidal all these years. Lord help me! This sermon is a GOD SEND ! Thank you!
@itswhat3v3r
4 жыл бұрын
Realized the same amen
@sandyc9282
4 жыл бұрын
Your comment 7 months ago. How are you are you being diligent? Disciplined? Be in prayer constantly constantly ask Jesus to be the center of your life of your day off your everything
@wassuhmufusaLOL
3 жыл бұрын
Same here
@cherylstout4081
3 жыл бұрын
Laziness is so me. I kept thinking that somehow God would change it and suddenly I wouldn’t be lazy anymore. This is so good. I hate hearing this but it’s something I needed to hear.
@jesusiskingofmyheart
2 жыл бұрын
Amen! So true 😭💕
This is a sin we don’t talk about enough in church tbh when I’m sure most people struggle with it. I had to confess this sin today and I am moving forward
I have once read words by Dieter F. Uchtdorf that said something like this "Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we're on our knees but while we're on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us." I was in my University years when I read this word, I was joining a bunch of organization to keep me busy and learning something new. It was actually in these years, when I was busy doing something to learn, to meet new people, to find God that I was able to see better what God wants me to do. Not in comfort, not in going home early to relax and watch the newest TV series, but in discomfort of loongggg hours of meeting and labor that I was able to produce fruit.
@BethKnox32
3 жыл бұрын
Woow
@AtticTapes14
Жыл бұрын
There needs to be some periods of rest
@KelseyStudent
23 күн бұрын
Amen amen amen!!
@KelseyStudent
23 күн бұрын
@@AtticTapes14 The Lord does give us time to rest because there is a time and a purpose to everything under the sun as said in Ecclsiastes. However there is a difference between resting and laziness. Resting is to preserve energy to continue serving the Lord. Resting is not an excuse to be temporarily lazy because it is still sin. Even in a time of rest there needs to be discipline to set out quiet time for the Lord.
I’m 6 years late, and this message has blessed my soul ❤
This was a refreshing and amazing preaching! I NEED to stop being lazy and get back into a disciplined lifestyle. Lord, help me value my time with you above all else!
@cloudyskyies942
2 жыл бұрын
Amen
I’m gonna bet that all of the thumbs down reacts on this, are lazy people who wasn’t ready to be called up from this. Amazing message. No great thing comes out of comfort zones!!
The cure for laziness is discipline
Strong message, motivating me to do more with my life. I'm 32 years old. Wish we had preachers like him in Germany.
this is so good... I totally need this because I'm so lazy this quarter with classes... I use the excuse "oh online classes are hard" but it doesn't matter, I need to try harder, I am not doing my best and am being lazy. Lord, please forigve me for my laziness... please please help me to work unto You and that all I do will bring glory to You...
@ivanaenoh
3 жыл бұрын
Aahhh me too!😭🙏🏾
@babyalikinz
2 жыл бұрын
Literally same!!
@dystar112
2 жыл бұрын
YES!!! Im in Australia only e has been hard since 2020. Too easy when you at home with all the distraction. This message had been great!
Ohh yess.. Lazy Busy 👍 Need to add that around my workplace to not be consumed by it. Lord I entrust my productivity in your hands, Amen 🙏
As a 60 year old guy supervising this generation I appreciate this message because it attacks the lies the enemy is using to render a whole generation inactive. Glad God led me here to clarify the issue. I have subscribed and saved and will keep sharing.
I never heard a sermon on laziness before
February 19,2024 Monday @7:41pm. I am Chantal. A 30 year old and this is me. A worthless, lazy, making excuses, staying in bed until 10 am, depress, anxiety, depending on others(mother), haven't got a job that I'm in for 7 months straight etc. I have endure and being through alot blaming the devil etc. Now I'm a single parent, unemployed etc. I accept this message. I am lazy. I accept all those discipline for those 30 years 6 months 1 week 4 days. I Repent, Rebuke, Renounce,Denounce, etc these spirit and that of pleasing The Flesh and that of comfort zone, depending on people especially my mom. I have wasted these years and I wish to start over as of now through Jesus Christ of Nazareth and Him Crucify. I am lazy, worthless, etc and I don't want it.
No falseness with this preacher , really blessed by this message thanks pastor may the lord bless you
many times i'll say "I don't want to do it, BUT I WILL!!" it's when i realized the importance of doing a thing..........yeessss, i can be lazy and i've missed out on maaaannneeee opps... now, i'll do it, and on the other side of getting the job/activity done--it feels GOOD. i no longer desire to risk missing out on purpose due to laziness.
Such an eye opener. All that I've been unable to achieve in life is as a result of my laziness. I've started so many things without finishing them. I pray that this message will live in my mind henceforth so as not to ever go back to those destructive habits 🙏 Thank you Pastor this message!
Pray for me. I AM CONVICTED. I’ve been lazy all my life. Please Lord. No more…. This is the message I needed….praise God
I'll be completely honest... this sermon was very hard for me to hear. I know I struggle with laziness, and starting things I don't finish, so it really called me out and it was uncomfortable to sit and listen, but I did. I need this, thank you/
@a.sydney5036
5 ай бұрын
But did you not know these things about yourself already? My struggle is not that I don't know that it's an issue. It's that I live in a constant cycle of procrastination. Like debilitating procrastination. Everyday struggle.
Work is a great thing, there is nothing more enjoyable than to have a good hard day of work and to ensure that you help people to have a better life.
This was so needed for me. I have been talking to God about discipline and recently asked for him to place people in my life who I can witness being disciplined and doing it well so I can model after that. This message was an answered prayer and I am thankful God has opened my eyes to how I can grow in this area. Thank you for sharing this powerful, encouraging and challenging truth.
@run2.thefather
2 жыл бұрын
This inspires me to pray the same because I pray for discipline but not for ppl to be placed around me who do the same
Laziness is a also a product of fear.
@jesusiskingofmyheart
2 жыл бұрын
Amen
I've struggled with the spirit of laziness for so long. I really needed to hear this message. God bless you, thank you. 🙏🏼❤️✨
I'm currently a diplomat in Bogotá, Colombia. Thank you for bringing the word of God in a way that people everywhere can hear it. :)
@sandyc9282
4 жыл бұрын
Hey there I’m Colombian American live in Texas how do you like it their?
@mosesreza510
3 жыл бұрын
@@sandyc9282 I am a Mexican American and Don't like it
Love Ya Pastor. I got my own lovely church home but I love listening to this KZread page the other 6 days out of the week. P. S. The anger management one helped soo much when I was in great need. GOD IS GOOD.
I really like how their videos don’t have a single ad in them
@blessed1always198
5 ай бұрын
They are distractions when you're focused on the word of God. I'm so glad they, don't have any ads.
I love this, I usually watch this 1-2 times a year for the last few years when I’m struggling heavily with laziness and discipline
Tom in Japan was blessed by this sermon.
"It says this has to be done, so I'll do it- and, so it does it". 🙏🌠
Laziness. Costs. Me. Progress. Laziness costs me my purpose. 🥺😭 I think this sermon is hard for me to hear because I do believe there has been an evil decree spoken over me at some point in the past that I would waste my life- but it’s not what I want. I am on the verge of tears please pray for me. ❤
This was amazing. I am very lazy but today, right now, is the moment I will find strength and discipline to push through!
Should have been a Mechanical engineer by 2016, i failed and lied to everyone about it. It was not my fault. I lacked discipline and passion for putting in work and grinding. I choose comfort, here i am 27 with regrets. BUT GOD IS STILL GOOD
Very convicting yet encouraging sermon! 🔥
Thank you Jonathan Pokluda for being an instrument in God's hands to wake us up and always bring us blessings.
Amen. This is exactly what I needed. Praise be to the Lord!
I LOVE THE PORCH THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Thank you so much for this message. It speaks the truth.
I'm not Christian n I ❤️ this....it's so powerful...that drums in the end..👍👍👍
@Sugarshane88
2 жыл бұрын
Well you CAN be a Christian..don't you want to go to heaven ? You say it like it's something you can't be
Thank you so much for this message. Praise God! God bless you.
A good friend lead me to this tonight. This hit me right where I needed.
My favorite sermon in a long time 🙌
Amen Bro! Keep speaking truth (no matter the cost). Be encouraged. God is with you!
Really need this. I've learnt so much. Thank God!
This sermon is the slap in the face I needed!
this is the word i was looking for 😇
God bless you brother. We. I NEED THIS! Please pray.
This one hurt bad, but it's needed, more direct preaching like this is needed! Thank you Pastor JP
Bring these Porch’s back!!! So natural, and not forced.
I really needed to hear this. Thank you! I will admit to being Lazy... 😬
Totally TRANSFORMING Message!!!!Thanks
Life changing!!
I really need this. Thank you
When you get a point from the name of a video! Tnx, Porch!
Needed this!
This was very helpful thank you!!
Good Lord! Thank you for speaking through your servant. AMEN! I am convicted
Thank you for the message!
I wasn’t expecting this level of straight honest preaching. I’m pleasantly surprised, thank you so much.
Dankie dit is presies hoe ek voel!!! So baie dankie!!! Luv it!!
Thank you very much for this message 😔, it spoke volumes of truth to me
I love his approach. Relatable and glorifies God. Im working on arrogance and pride in my life, his sermons on it are welcoming, relatable and biblical. God bless
Wow, needed this. Amazing sermon, praise Jesus
needed this! thank you so much for the word. Praise God
Yesssss this blessed me!!!!!!
Beautifully ❤️ taught AMEN 🌹 ‼️‼️‼️
We buy snowblowers to clean short narrow driveways......then we buy gym memberships. ......we take elevators in every building we can instead of the stairs. .....then we buy gym memberships. ......we buy our wood split...cut in pieces..pay to have it delivered and piled up for us.....then we buy gym memberships. As church goers we preach against drinking...smoking...drugs...leave gluttony out of our judgements as we carry way to much weight. ...Lazy ness is not a desired quality of a professing christian...but it is everywhere in our churches. ...including the leaders.
Backing up alarm for 30 min.... 😲 Instead snoozing it for never ending 5 min...😴 Thanq pastor...
I was beginning to think there was something wrong with me because I don't sit and have the tube entertain me almost all my waking hours. I see and hear it everyday. I do stream your channel and have learned so much . Thank you for these much needed messages and personal testimonies. Only listen to Christian channels
Thank your for this!!!
Such an eye opener.
Best speech ive seen in the last years so far.
God bless you, your family, and ministry/ ministries.
Hello, today I have noticed my life is slipping away and I decided to just find a sermon about laziness. I was pulled in to watch this sermon, even though it was message from 5 years ago, WOW i broke down and i felt the message clearly. thank you God and thank you Jonathan for this amazing message. God bless!!!! Asking for prayers that in my days ahead this message will stay with me.
Wow thank you !!! This was amazing
Yay I’ve been waiting for this to go up. I came back to check again and it said one minute ago : )
@castrokobe24
6 жыл бұрын
You're awesome
Thank you for this enlightening message ✍️🔥🙌🏽
I'm currently studying (just started)for my Liscensure examination. I feel so down and frustrated that i don't know how to start. Thank you Lord for letting me hear this Sermon. I am blessed i was able to find out my problem, how lazy I am. I keep doing busy lazy, and had a lot of excuses. May God bless each one of us. May God gives us guidance, wisdom and discipline. Before this year ends i will go back in to this comment, and declare in the Name of Jesus that I will be an Engineer.
I knew u guys were going to wake me up . I love the porch .
This was a great message! Very convicting. It's actually pretty sad that we have to be told to read our Word in the morning. Jesus has paid the ultimate price for us and is continually interceding for us, and yet we can't even set aside 30 min to spend time with him. It's crazy that we have to be GIVEN advice.
Powerful and convicting. Thank you.
@MANwPLAN101
Жыл бұрын
Right Not everyone receives but the once that do, are blessed . Powerful and conviction. You said it
Needed to hear all of this!
Lord, teach me Your ways to be self disciplined in Your Word, not by my will, but Yours. 🙏
How can I like this video more than once???
I love how he says ''Stop it''
Laziness...maybe. But ppl also have a problem with self control. Fruit of the Holy Spirit
Man… this one spoke to me
I really needed to hear this, thank you so much...
U are fighting a good fight JP God bless u in eternity
Real and funny this is a current struggle how funny when u think your so productive but your lazy busy Lord help me
Amen.
I get lazy because I get extremely productive that it burns me out, and when I rest I sometimes rest longer than needed 🤪 lol. I need to balance better.
@koshfrey9724
2 жыл бұрын
Im the same. Minus a stimulant habit thats killing me. I get the sentiment. My struggle right now is pride and arrogance. Ill deal with laziness when i can detox for a month.
@kaynkay2775
Жыл бұрын
Discipline is needed to also not over work yourself do enough so that you can keep it consistent
Awesome message!
So good!!
You guys literally went ghost on me, I first seen the upload on my podcast and then I had to come through on KZread - Thanks guys!
Thanks
This is straight truth