Morning with Ebenezer

LAZINESS

You lazy fool, look at an ant.
    Watch it closely; let it teach you a thing or two.
Nobody has to tell it what to do.
    All summer it stores up food;
    at harvest it stockpiles provisions.
So how long are you going to laze around doing nothing?
    How long before you get out of bed?
A nap here, a nap there, a day off here, a day off there,
    sit back, take it easy—do you know what comes next?
Just this: You can look forward to a dirt-poor life,
    poverty your permanent houseguest!

Proverbs 6:6-11 MSG

One of the main source of poverty among people is laziness. When we say laziness we means, inactivity which resulting from dislike of work. Many people who don't like to work always they find themselves living a poor life. Many of us have been asking ourselves that, why some families, people, countries or continents they have developed compared to others? 

If you will start doing a study and try to look the lives of those countries which are rich and the ones which are not well developed compared to rich countries. You will find that those rich countries citizens work hard day and night to maintain their status while those developing countries most of their people to not like to work.

When we come to a person level, it's the same. Those people who start working hard from their youth hood, they have a wider room to have a better life later compared to those who don't want to work and if they do they just spend it all at once. The Bible gives us the example of an ant, the Bible says it has no supervisor, governor or ruler but it labors hard all summer to gather food for the winter. This ant knows that it will reach a season in a year where it will be difficult to get food because the weather will change so it needs a reliable provision of food in that time.

Lazy people they are known in our societies and most of the time they don't have friends. If you are a young man and one day you are planning to get married, the truth is this; no intelligent girl will be willing to accept you as her husband if you will be lazy and viceversa. Some woman are facing hardships in their marriage and they are blaming the devil but it is not the devil it's just their problems of not having an attitude of work; since they came from homes which every things were done for them by their house maids. 

This morning, I have been sent to tell you this, '' Now is summer, the Lord wants you to work as hard as you can that you may have enough provisions in the winter time where you will not have the strength and the opportunity which you have now''. The Lord wants you to know the hour of work is now, this is a time for you to start saving for your future, saving for your family, saving for your ministry, church, organization and so on. This is the time of saying no to laziness, no to poverty, no to being slave of the poverty and start working hard that you may have more than enough for yourself and to help someone in need. 

****Morning Prayer****

Pray this prayer with me by faith and God is going to answer your prayer....

Heavenly Father, I thank You for your Word. Lord I rebuke the spirit of laziness within me, I refuse to live in poverty in Jesus  name; and I believe that I will have more than enough for myself and to help those  who are in need. In Jesus' Name, Amen.