Sunday, 16^th January, 2022

Bible Reading: Luke 14: 16-24

Memory Verse: You, therefore, have no excuse. Romans 2:1a (NIV)

Alysia Montaño (née Johnson) (born 23 April 1986) is an American middle distance runner. She is a six-time USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships 800 metres champion (2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015). She gained significant publicity for the 2014 race that she competed while 8 months pregnant. Did you hear that? An 8-month old heavily pregnant woman completed a 800 metres race.

What a woman! She gave herself no excuse for failing to compete. Her desire and pursuit to win provoked the most needed supernatural strength required to run the race. Many have been waiting for a perfect condition before they take a bold step. There are people waiting for the day they will get a million dollar before they start up on their dreams. Such people may have to wait forever. The fruit is usually in the seed.

Plant that seed of $10 dollars and watch your dreams come alive. Everything God started usually starts small with an inherent potential to grow big. From Microsoft to Amazon, and other top tech company, one thing is constant: They had a dream. They had many challenges. They gave themselves no excuse of failure, and consequently, they began to grow and grow forcing them to employ more hands.

Do you know?

1. The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it  –  Jordan Belfort.

2. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else  –  Benjamin Franklin

3. Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense. Let go of the delusion that you deserve better and go earn it! Today is a new day – Steve Maraboli.

4. Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them – John Wooden.

5. Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life  –  Roy T. Bennett

#Greater Glory Year 2022.

Prophetic Decree: Receive the much-needed tenacity and ruggedity to live your dreams, in Jesus name.

Prayer Focus

1. Thank you Father because by the word of your power you established all things.

2. This year, I burn the bridge of excuses, in Jesus name.

3. I come against satanic forces fighting against the counsel of God for my life, in Jesus name.

4. Opportunity wasters, be wasted, in Jesus name.

5. O Lord, deliver me from the lies and excuses I tell myself, in Jesus name.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Genesis 12-15