No More Excuses!

Mark 16:15 (NIV2011)
He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.

To preach simply means to proclaim or publish. So, this scripture could read, He said to them, “Go into all the world and tell your story of how the gospel changed your life to all creation.

Often, we sit back and wander what we are supposed to be doing when in fact He has already told us what to do.

The next excuse we use is I am not able, I am not qualified. I don’t have the skill or the experience to do the task.

·         This statement is not true! God never sends anyone out unequipped.

·         We all have experienced difficulties in life, we have all been through storms. This in nothing less than experience, the one thing needed to accomplish the task.

Man is always looking for reason not to go, not to do, not to speak. Look at Exodus 4:10 (MSG) Moses raised another objection to GOD: "Master, please, I don't talk well. I've never been good with words, neither before nor after you spoke to me. I stutter and stammer."

Moses tells God, the one who created him, the One who knows him from the inside out what all was wrong with him as if God didn’t already know his flaws.

Moses was saying:

·         He was not fluent, not skillful with words, not expressive, not persuasive.

·         He did not have a good, forceful, persuasive speech or delivery.

·         He was not smooth-talking nor silver-tongued.

·         He did not speak with ease and was nervous when speaking. Words did not come easily to him, no matter who he was talking with. (Moses told God to notice that he was slow speaking—even to Him.)

What is God's reply to the person who argues this excuse? He questions and gives a great promise to His servant. Exodus 4:11-12 (MSG)
GOD said, "And who do you think made the human mouth? And who makes some mute, some deaf, some sighted, some blind? Isn't it I, GOD?
So, get going. I'll be right there with you—with your mouth! I'll be right there to teach you what to say." 

In other words, is it not God who gives speech to man and who causes man to hear and see? Moses response was Yes. Then He tells him, then go. God will help you speak and teach you exactly what to say.

"For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say" (Luke 12:12).

"But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you" (John 14:26).

"Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, [that] shall he speak: and he will show you things to come" (John 16:13).

As awful, humiliating, and uncomfortable your past has been, it may be a best-seller. It may be the story someone needs to hear today to bring hope, healing, and restoration. I encourage you to quit making excuses and start taking advantage of opportunities. You story can be shared in so many different venues. You may share it at the doctor’s office waiting room, the grocery store, at school, with a waitress/waiter, or you may share it on social media as a testimony of where you were, who you were and where you are today and who you are today because of God’s mercy and grace.