Sunday, 4th May, 2025
DON’T MAKE EXCUSES
“I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus”
Philippians 3:14 (KJV)
Do you know why very few people are doing great things for God?
Most people easily settle for less and also choose the easy path. Most people are not willing to share in the desire of the Lord.
They live with the mantra:
“Whatever will be, will be”. Therefore, there is no need to press on when things seem impossible.
But that is not faith-living.
Have you ever failed to do what you are instructed to do in Church, and do you think God understands that you failed?
Or did you fail to act on the Word of God and think He still understands?
Sometimes, even before you make that mistake or decide not to honour that instruction, you yield to the idea that God will understand your choice.
Is it to comfort yourself for that wrong, or use that to affirm your excuses?
How do you think God understands?
And what do you mean by “God understands”?
As in, God is ready to go against His Word and the governing light of His economy?
There is nothing you can do in God without a bold step of faith.
David didn’t automatically defeat Goliath. He has to take a bold step. Complacency has no space in the Kingdom. You have to press on to the price of high calling.
Whenever God entrust a target into your heart, you have to invest in prayer without excuses.
When you fail to pray, don’t make the excuse that, “Oh, though I have failed to pray, God understands my situation”.
“Oh God understands if I don’t preach in the bus, or don’t win a soul in the school.”
“God understands if I don’t excel in the workplace.”
“There is always another time, if I failed today, I will get it right tomorrow, and God understands”.
The more you think this way, the more you keep procrastinating.
Yes, God understands, right?
So you justify your failure and laziness with:
“Don’t try too hard to complete the task you are expected to do, after all, you can’t do everything till you depart from Earth.”
“Take it easy, God understands your situation. It is not by force to wake up early to pray or start your day with prayer.”
“If you miss Church meetings, there is no harm; God understands”.
“Just live your life and do what you feel you can do. God understands, and He will not kill you for not doing it.”
“God knows your heart. What you are able to do and not able to do doesn’t really matter to God, but the condition of your heart.”
Does God truly understand things the way we claim He understands?
Does God water down His plans and assignments for us because of our situations or challenges?
Does God even have standards, and does He uphold His standards?
Some of these thoughts may seem justifiable, but understand that in as much as,
GOD LOVES YOU, HE ESTEEMS HIS WORD, HIS PLANS AND PURPOSES.
God will not change His plans because of your excuses, challenges and situations.
God will not pause His eternal plan to wait for you to resolve your challenges.
Though our walk with God is not mechanical but essentially organic, it is not without a well-established system.
Don’t be quick to quote this:
“This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses…” Hebrews 4:15 (NLT)
“For we do not have a high priest incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses…” (NET Bible)
And then arrive at this conclusion:
“You see, there it goes, our High Priest sympathises with our weaknesses. Don’t trouble yourself, if you can you can, if you can’t you can’t.”
“Everyone has a weakness and God understands.”
Really? Is that the implication of this verse?
Don’t be too quick to end there.
Get this, the LORD TRULY understands our weaknesses! Glory to God.
However, get it in perspective.
“Inasmuch then as we [believers] have a great High Priest who has [already ascended and] passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession [of faith and cling tenaciously to our absolute trust in Him as Savior]. For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize and understand our weaknesses and temptations, but One who has been tempted [knowing exactly how it feels to be human] in every respect as we are, yet without [committing any] sin.
Therefore let us [with privilege] approach the throne of grace [that is, the throne of God’s gracious favor] with confidence and without fear, so that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find [His amazing] grace to help in time of need [an appropriate blessing, coming just at the right moment]. for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin.” Hebrews 4:14-16 (AMP)
SURE, contextually, this chapter has an extensive matters discussed than what we are looking into here.
Nevertheless, the above verses provide the answer that puts our thoughts in the right perspective.
Jesus being our High Priest:
a. Sympathises and understands our weaknesses and temptations.
b. He is able to sympathise and understand because He faced what we face as men.
c. And He did not fail when He faced these temptations or challenges.
d. He doesn’t just understand your weaknesses and failures, He also doesn’t want you to remain in that failure. He wants you to advance beyond the realm of that failure and weakness.
c. He wants us to also enjoy the victory He had over all the things He faced.
d. He didn’t just “correct” your failures, but supplies you with the richness of Himself for your living.
e. He has made a provision for you to have limitless access to the rich supplies He had. He has given you limitless access to the throne of Grace. Not just GRACE but to the source and governing realm of GRACE for your continued supply and enjoyment of GRACE as much as you need or will take.
f. Therefore, hold fast, cling tenaciously to Him in an absolute trust.
Beloved, because God understands your weaknesses and incapabilities, He has provided or supplied you with all the grace and help you need for exercising yourself unto godliness.
Don’t settle for less with many excuses.
The LORD’S DELIGHT IS THAT YOU LIVE THE FULLNESS OF THE LIFE HE HAS GIVEN YOU NOW.
When it feels like you just can’t do it, don’t give up and don’t settle for less.
PRESS ON!
Be tenacious in the Lord, for He is YOUR STRENGTH.
DON’T DO WHAT YOU CAN, DO WHAT GOD WANTS YOU TO DO BY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF GRACE.
Press on! Enlarge the scope of your vision and desire.
The extra mile is for those who dare to be EXTRA.
YOU ARE SUPPLIED WITH ALL YOU NEED BY THE LORD.
You have the Holy Spirit in you for the EXTRAORDINARY, don’t make excuses.
Have the mindset of a KINGDOM CHAMPION.
Selah.
Apostle Benjamin Nana Amissah Ansah
THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOR MACHAIRA WITH APOSTLE BENNIE!
What an eye opening episode…
I used to think God will always understand and accept any flimsy excuses I give no matter what…
Thank You Lord Jesus for the Enlightenment I have received from Machaira!
Now I know that once God gives me a divine assignment, I have absolutely no excuse not to carry it out…most especially, considering the fact that the Holy Spirit has supplied me with the needed ability.
I am greatly enabled by the Holy Spirit to do extraordinary things for the Lord!
I press on!
I don’t give up!
I don’t give excuses!
I don’t quote the Word of God amiss to back any form of laziness and procrastination!
I quote the Word of God in context.
I am tenacious in the Lord for He is my strength!
I don’t lose my fire!
I reject all forms of inconsistency!
I don’t act on the Word out of convenience…I act out of consistency!!
I HAVE THE MINDSET OF A KINGDOM CHAMPION!!
THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOR THIS VERY REFRESHING WORD!
THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOR THE MACHAIRA!!
THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOR APOSTLE BENNIE!!
GLORY TO GOD!!!
I give no excuses
Thank you Lord
I have the mindset of a kingdom champion
I don’t give excuses.I press on.
I enlarge the scope of my vision
I rise above all limitations.I am unstoppable
Thank you Lord Jesus.
I DON’T DO WHAT I CAN, I DO WHAT GOD WANTS ME TO DO BY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF GRACE.
Thank you Jesus
I don’t make excuses I act on the instructions of God to me
I don’t end halfway
I run to finish!!
I am a champion
I press on to enlarge the scope of the vision of God
Thank you sweet Jesus… I don’t make excuses
Thank you sweet Jesus for MACHAIRA with APOSTLE BEENIE
I press on
I take bold steps for the kingdom advancement
I get the job done
I got the victory
Thank you Jesus
We have no excuse. I do more.🔥🔥
I’ve been giving excuses all this while
What have I gained?
Where has it got me?
Its time to be focused and consistent
This is war
I don’t give excuses anymore
I get the job done
Thank you Lord
I don’t make excuses. I run to win
I labor even more because I have the grace of God actively at work in me.
I don’t make excuses.
I press on!!
The Lord is my Strength therefore nothing is impossible.
No excuse is acceptable.
What a glorious episode.
I don’t make excuses.
I get the job done without complains.
I run the race and I finish
Thank You Lord Jesus.
I refuse to be complacent.
Thank you sweet Jesus
What an episode.
Wow, because Jesus understands us, he gave us the opportunity to receive grace and mercy in times of need.
This is amazing.
Thank you Lord for Machaira with Apostle Bennie
Am a Kingdom Champion
I don’t settle for less l don’t give up in any way l press on.
Thank you Apostle
Haa, thank you Lord Jesus. I go the extra mile
Thank you Sir for I am a champion 🙏
Thank you Sir
I take bold steps
I don’t give excuses
I make most of the grace the Lord has supplied to get the job done.
What you want to do and can do you don’t need God to help you but what everything God assigns to man is always an extraordinary task which its results is beyond mans capacity so Man will surely need God to be a helping hand in its execution.
God doesn’t compromise as Todays Machaira said he puts his purpose above everything and everyone no matter what happens even if people are killed Gods plan must come off so he always goes for they that are ready to take the step so he works with them to do mighty things.
There is always a perceived Results God is looking forward to achieve as said in (Isaiah 55) and as God sees such results he makes accurate investment into man to make that result a reality so man has no excuse for failure that is why we pray the investment of God goes ahead to make results getting an ease for man
but when you don’t pray pride leads you and failure meets you half way and the same enemy will put in your head that God understands and man cannot do everything and it is not all the time you can win
and those are all quotes of men which are from the deceptive info the devil feeds them
Thank you Jesus
From now forward, I refuse to give excuses.
I am supplied with Grace for the kingdom assignment.
I am a KINGDOM CHAMPION.
I have the mindset of a Kingdom champion
I am a champion
Thank you Lord
Thank you Lord Jesus
Through prayer, I take advantage of grace to press on. Glory to God
I do what God wants me to do with the grace supplied and not what I want to do.
I don’t make excuses.
Gloreeeeeeey🙏🙏
I’m a champion
I go the extra mile
Wow..looking back, I have given a lot of excuses. Ooohh God understands my situation. Yes He does, but that was the reason He said we should approach him for mercy.
I take advantage of these rich verities God has supplied unto me.
Whenever God entrust a target into my heart, i invest in prayer without excuses.
Thank you Lord Jesus for this episode. It has reallly opened my mind and my eyes.
Thank you Apostle Bennie
You’re a blessing
The Word of God works and does not fail. And the unfailing potency of the Word is demonstrated by UTTERANCE. You don’t work the Word by being silent, you work the Word by speaking. Beloved, don’t be silent speak the word forth.
I dont make excuses , no matter the challenges i dont make excuses.
God will not change His plans because of your excuses, challenges and situations..
Hmmm. Glory to God.
Hallelujah, I don’t stop halfway
No more excuses for God’s work Amen
I do what God wants me to do by taking advantage of grace
I don’t give excuses
I don’t settle for less
I PRESS ON!!!
Does God water down His plans and assignments for us because of our situations or challenges???????
I take advantage of grace to do beyond my strength!!
2Cor.4.17 For our present troubles are quite small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us an immeasurably great glory that will last forever! (NLT)
I refuse to be complacent, I press on to the mark of the high calling.
I don’t give excuses, I get the job done.
I enlarge my scope and desire to do more for the Lord.