Poker

The story goes a little something like this: after 14 games, the Giants were 7-7 and it was looking likely that they weren't going to make the playoffs. The team chaplain asked a personal friend to come and speak with the team, to try and motivate the team into winning. 

The speaker used a poker metaphor to inspire the Giants. In poker, players can push all of their chips to the centre of the table and say, “All in.” This means the player is betting everything they have on the hand they currently possess. If anybody beats the hand, that player loses everything, with no way of regaining it. But, if nobody beats the hand, the reward is often quite high. 

The speaker gave each of the giants a poker chip and told them “You have to understand that at some point you have to push your chips in the middle of the table for something." And that something was for the Superbowl. Which they won. 

They put everything that they had on the table.

When you have a hand that can't be beat, you go all in. We've already won because of the cross.

We have to go all in for our God because he went all out for us. 

Because when we all give everything we have, to serve his purpose. Then nothing and no one will stop us from starting a whirlpool that will shake this planet. 

History is marked with stories of revival. And let me tell you now: Elevate Youth in Wellington, Hamilton and Christchurch will stamp our mark on history. 

We have to go all in.