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EXCUSES

Text: Proverbs 22:13. 

The lazy person says, “There is a lion outside!   I will be killed in the street!”

 *Excuses are the reason  many failed where others succeeded. You can make excuses or you can make progress. The choice is exclusively yours.* 

In the beginning, rather than accepting responsibility for their failure, our first parents Adam and Eve played the blame-game by giving excuses for their disobedience.

The fall of man brought a lot of degradations to mankind. One of such degradations is laziness. Instead of agreeing with yourself that you are lazy, you'll rather give reason why you can't perform a given task. *The moment you agree with yourself that you are deficient in any area of your life, you have received 50% of your solution.* 

Please, how many times have you accosted a lion in the street? Chances are that you will never see a lion on the street all through your life. So, why will anyone give the lion as a reason for not working? This shows the extent to which man can fabricate excuses in order to exonerate himself from being responsible.

Jesus Christ says in John 5:17 that, “My Father is working until now, and I too am working.” So why will you not work? Don't make excuses for laziness, do away with lethargy and receive the strength of God to do and be all that He has destined you to be.

 *BIBLE READING* 

Colossians 3:23-25.

 *PRAYER FOCUS* 

1. Father God, I come against the spirit of lethargy and I receive the grace to be diligent in Jesus name.

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