13/11/2025
Feeling burned out trying to serve God?
This might be the most freeing thing you’ll read today…
Have you ever felt like the work of God is reserved for a select few—pastors, evangelists, prophets, Apostles or even Gospel musicians?
Maybe you’ve quietly told yourself, “That’s not my thing.”
But here’s even a bigger issue:
How many believers have tried to “work for God” and ended up exhausted, discouraged… even walking away from their faith?
What if I told you—God never asked you to work for Him?
That’s right. The striving, the pressure, the spiritual burnout—it’s not what God intended for you.
Because truthfully, who can work for God? To do so, you’d have to be God and you're not.
Years ago, God called me into his work and I started a ministry—Destiny Focus Ministries—right in the heart of Nairobi. I was passionate, driven, and determined to “work for God.” But let me tell you the truth: I was struggling.
Running a ministry in the city is no small task.
Logistics, expectations, and the weight of raising a young family all pressed heavily on my shoulders.
The pressure didn’t just weigh on me—it pressed on my family too.
I was doing everything I knew to do… but I was worn out. Completely exhausted.
I truly believed I was working for God.
But the weight of it all—it was more than I could carry.
Then came the turning point.
God gave me a revelation that changed everything.
I was reading John 6:29, where people asked Jesus, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”
And Jesus answered:
“This is the only work God wants from you: Believe in the one He has sent.” — John 6:29 (NLT)
What a revelation!
All along, I thought God wanted me to work for Him—pouring out effort, striving to prove my devotion.
But that wasn’t the case.
God was never asking me to struggle proving myself.
He was inviting me to do just one thing:
To believe!
To trust Jesus—the One He sent.
Since that moment, everything changed.
I stopped trying to “work for God.”
Instead, I learned to trust Him—to let Him do His work, His way. And in that trust, I found rest.
I’ve watched Him build His church—not through my striving, but by His Spirit.
Not by my effort, but by His grace.
Today, DFMI is no longer confined to the city.
What began in the heart of Nairobi—once characterized by struggles —has become a testimony of surrender.
I’m witnessing God move in ways I never imagined—especially as He works through my wife, Abbigail Sianta Lantei.
Her faith, leadership, and obedience have become a channel through which God Himself is transforming lives.
You see, when we stopped striving and started believing, God took over His work.
He began writing a story we could never have written ourselves—one marked not by personality or identity, but by “Just One Thing”: belief in the One He sent.
Not by our hands, but by His Spirit.
And just as He promised in Ezekiel 34:15:
“I will feed my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord God.”
That’s exactly what we’re witnessing.
God is feeding His people—not through our effort, but through His Word, His Spirit, and His grace.
He’s causing weary hearts to lie down, to rest, to be restored.
And we—Abbigail and I—are simply watching in awe as He shepherds lives into healing, purpose, and transformation.
So if you’re tired…
If you’ve been trying to serve, trying to pray harder, trying to hold it all together…
Here’s the solution:
Just one thing is required—believe.
Trust in the One He sent.
Let go of the pressure to perform.
Yield your heart to God—not your struggles.
Believe in the One He sent.
When you do, He will work in you and through you.
He’ll reveal things you never imagined.
And you’ll stand in awe—not because of what you’ve done, but because of what He’s doing.
So stop trying to work for God.
Start believing in the One He sent.
And watch what God can do with a life fully yielded to Him! .
