Today is another good day for you to receive the blessings of God through the word of God.

PRAYER
God of heaven I thank you for blessing the readers of this message, I pray this Sermon will bring blessings and deliverance into the lives of your people in Jesus Christ name I pray Amen.

TODAY TOPIC : Laziness Responsible For The Misfortune Of Many People

2 THESSALONIANS 3 : 10 - 12
10 While we were with you, we used to say to you, " Whoever refuses to work is not allowed to eat."
11 We say this because we hear that there are some people among you who live lazy lives and who do nothing except meddle in other people's business. 12 In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ we command these people and warn them to lead orderly lives and work to earn their own living.

Praise be to the God of heaven, the God we serve is not Lazy. God is saying to his people stop been lazy and receive my help to overcome laziness. It is not good for a Christian to be lazy. God want Christians to be hardworking so he can bless them. Say to yourself ; I will never live a lazy life by the help of God. Laziness is a dangerous thing that can cause harm and confusion to people and bring about misfortune. When a person is lazy it is very difficult for such person to get what he or she desire.

Laziness have make a lot of people to lose their Job; you are employ as a worker and ask to come to work every day by 8:30am but because of laziness you come to work by 9:30am every day because of that you are sack from your place of work.

You are a student and exam is next month instead of studying and preparing for exam you sleep for 16hours and play for 8hours. When exam start, you are confused and don't know what to write and when results is out, you have failed the exam.

There were two farmers, one farmer was hardworking while the other farmer was lazy.

The hardworking farmer farm for the love of farming. During planting period the farmer will pray to God for a successful farming. The farmer goes to his farm for the main purpose of planting seeds, during the planting period the hardworking farmer cultivate his farm, clears the thorns on his farm and remove the weeds on the ground and ensure that his farm stone wall was not destroyed. The hardworking farmer watch and nuture the growth of his plants and wait for harvesting periods.
During this harvesting periods the hardworking farmer harvest his crops and he is happy because his hard work was not in vain. He give God thanks and praise God for his goodness towards his farm business. He sell his crops and he becomes rich.

But the lazy farmer is always sleeping, the lazy farmer love farming but the love of sleeping will not let him take his farming very serious. He will say to himself tomorrow I will go farming because it is planting period but when tomorrow comes he says to himself, I am tired I need to have little sleep, and then after a little folding of the hands to rest, then he sleep. When he woke up it is night already, he says to himself what have I done, I will not have a little sleep tommorow because I must go farming, it is planting period. Tommorow comes he prepare to go to farm but say to himself I must have a little sleep before going to farm, he then sleep. Then this lazy farmer continues this habit till the harvesting period. Then the lazy farmer saw the hardworking farmer coming home with his harvested crops. The lazy farmer screamed what have I done to myself now, look how laziness have allowed poverty to come on me like a theif and scarcity like an armed man. The lazy farmer regretted his laziness but it was too late for him because it was harvesting period. He would not be harvesting any crops.

PROVERBS 19 : 15
Be lazy if you want to; sleep on, but you will go hungry.

It is time to stand up against laziness. It is time to speak up and let laziness know that you can not be a friend to laziness. To overcome laziness you need to pray to God to give you the help to overcome laziness and be hardworking and have a good plan to achieve your good goals.

There were two business men, one of the business men was hardworking while the other business man was lazy.

The lazy business man have a goal to make profit of 200,000 naira by the end of the year. But the lazy business man was not serious with his business. He goes to his shop very late; by 12PM he is in the shop and close his shop by 3PM. He does not come to his shop always, he goes to his shop two time in a week; Monday and Thursday. When he is in the shop, all he does is to sleep. He has no plan on how he can achieve the profit of 200,000 naira before the year end. And when customers comes to buy his product in the shop he insult and disrespect the customers. He never bother to pray to God to help him achieve his plan goal to make 200,000 naira profit by the end of year. The year was over, he said to himself what is happening, why am I not making progress in my business. I think someone is jealous of me and does not want me to progress in my business he looks up and down and shake his head. Then he sat down on the chair in his shop and decided to think and remember how he has been doing his business. He reflected with sadness on his unsuccessful business plan goal and realized that his laziness and his disrespect for God was the cause of his downfall but it was too late because the year was over.

But the hardworking business man also have a goal to make 200,000 naira before the end of the year. The first step the hardworking business man took was to pray to God to bless his plan to make profit of 200,000 naira before the end of the year. Then the second step he took was to make a good plan on how to achieve his good goal of making 200,000 naira before the end of the year. Then third step was for him to take action by been hardworking and by following his plan. The hardworking business man goes to his shop on time as early as 8AM he is in the shop and close by 5PM. He goes to his shop five times in a week from Monday to Friday. He have respect for his customers and talk to them politely. He advertise his business on Newspaper, Radio, Television Stations and Internet. When he is in the shop, he does not sleep, but lookout for customers to buy his product. By the end of the year he was so happy because he achieve his business goal. He was able to make profit of 600,000 naira. He was expecting profit of 200,000 naira but because of his respect for God and his hard work he made more profit than he expected.

PROVERBS 12 : 27
If you are lazy, you will never get what you are after, but if you work hard, you will get a fortune.

PROVERBS 16 : 3
Ask the LORD to bless your plans, and you will be successful in carrying them out.

God of heaven want to bless his people but because of the laziness of some people of God, their blessings are delayed. The laziness becomes obstacle to their blessings. Every child of God can overcome laziness if they can learn to pray to God for help, make a good plan to achieve their goal and be hardworking in whatever they do. Laziness can not overcome a Christian who is determine to work hard. Hard work will help you to get what you want. If you want to be successful in life you have to say NO to laziness and say YES to HARD WORK.
Do not allow yourself to be distracted, stay focused on what you want and work hard to achieve it.
Laziness refer to when a person can not get what he or she want because the person were unwilling to take action. While Hard work refer to when a person get what he or she want because the person was willing to take action. God loves his people and want them to be successful in whatever they do.

ROMANS 12 : 11
Work hard and do not be lazy. Serve the Lord with a heart full of devotion.

For you to receive the blessings of God you have to become one Of the people of God by been born again. If you are not yet a born again, know this God loves you and Jesus Christ love you.

JOHN 3 : 16
For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.

For you to receive the blessings of God, you have to be born again by repenting from your sins and believe in God as your Creator and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and saviour and confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is the Messiah. Turn away from your evil because the Kingdom of heaven is near! Do those things that show that you have repented. If you have two clothes and you see a person that don't have one give one clothe to the person. If you have food and see someone who is hungry share food with him or her. Do good things and stop doing evil because God is coming with Jesus Christ and his millions of angels to judge the world.
Will you be ready when God comes to judge everyone? Repent now before it is too late. He that have ear let him listen to what the word of God is saying. God is merciful and kind. Obey the word of God today and be save.

Pray with the prayer below.

PRAYER
I thank you God of heaven for the forgiveness of my sins, I thank you God for giving me eternal life. I repent from my evil ways. I believe in you God of heaven and accept your Son Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour and I confess that Jesus Christ is my Messiah. Thank you God for making me a Citizen of the kingdom of God. Thank you God for blessing me today and for giving me the Holy Spirit in Jesus Christ name I pray Amen.

Praise God, you are now save and you have become one of God's people. Find a church close to your home and attend church services always. Ensure to buy a Bible and study your Bible regularly. Also ensure to pray daily; pray in the morning when you woke up from sleep and pray in the evening before going to bed. Learn to pray at all times. Devote yourself to Christian religion and do not be Lazy in worshipping God.

EPHESIANS 1 : 15
And you also became God's people when you heard the true message, the Good News that brought you salvation. You believed in Christ, and God put his stamp of ownership on you by giving you the Holy Spirit he had promised.

Do not worry again but be happy because everything will be alright again. The Joy of the LORD is your strength. May the Merciful God show you mercy and bless all those that have read this gospel today in Jesus Christ name I pray Amen.

The worker work but in vain if The Lord doth not work with him.

Many have worked very hard full yet have no gain from all their endeavours.