No Excuses : Bishop Tony Samuels
When the Lord comes into your life, and when He becomes the Lord of your life, He brings freedom. He gives you the freedom to choose Him and live for Him for the rest of your life. 2 Corinthians 3:17 says, Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty [emancipation from bondage, true freedom]. There is really nothing holding us back from becoming all that the Lord has intended for us to be. 1 Peter 1:3 says, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue…
God has done His part, so why are people not stepping into all that the Lord has called them to be? One of the biggest reasons is that we make excuses. An excuse gives you a false justification to release you from a duty or obligation. Our destiny is a journey; a journey that is all a part of the process of God. While you are on your way into destiny, you are also becoming the person who will walk in that destiny. When we make excuses in our process, we are delaying the very thing that God has for our lives.
Look at Luke 9:61-62: Then another said, “I’m ready to follow you, Master, but first excuse me while I get things straightened out at home.” Jesus said, “No procrastination. No backward looks. You can’t put God’s kingdom off till tomorrow. Seize the day.” You see, what an excuse does is it transfers the control of our lives, from God back to ourselves. Instead of us waiting on God, now God has to wait on us to get it together. See, God has a timing and an order to our lives. If you continue to make excuses, you will miss your season and you will have to wait until it comes back around again.
The enemy will have you living in excuses to make you think you can bypass the process of God, when in reality you are just prolonging your destiny. Zechariah 4:10 says, Who [with reason] despises the day of small things (beginnings). The word despise means: to see as insignificant; to hold in contempt. Sometimes what we feel is insignificant, is very significant to the Lord, because it’s the very thing that God is using to see if you will be faithful to Him no matter what.
Luke 16:10 says, The one who faithfully manages the little he has been given will be promoted and trusted with greater responsibilities. But those who cheat with the little they have been given will not be considered trustworthy to receive more. Many have missed God because they did not discern the opportunity that God placed before them. It was not about the opportunity itself; it was about seeing if we could be faithful.
God does not want our character to be based on favorable situations. When life changes on us, He doesn’t want us to change. Excuses come to sabotage our faithfulness to the Lord, and they become detours to our destiny in God. They become our justification to give up. So in 2021, no excuses! We have to grow up and assume responsibility for our lives and our actions. I can’t control everything in life, but I can control my reaction to life.
So as we celebrate this Faith Home graduation, let’s remember the Faith Home is teaching people how to live life without excuses, so they can become everything that the Lord has called them to be!
