{"id":6185,"date":"2018-03-21T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6185"},"modified":"2018-03-20T11:52:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T18:52:39","slug":"no-excuses-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/no-excuses-please\/","title":{"rendered":"NO EXCUSES PLEASE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_2034456565\">15:16<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>You<\/em><em>\u00a0did not choose Me, but I\u00a0chose\u00a0you\u00a0and appointed\u00a0you\u00a0that\u00a0you\u00a0should go and bear fruit, and\u00a0that\u00a0your fruit should remain, that whatever\u00a0you\u00a0ask the Father in My name He may give\u00a0you.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We often are able to come up with the most feeble excuses as to why we are not able to serve the Lord. We are too young, too old, too uneducated, too shy, too busy, too this, too that. You get the picture. We have excuses!<\/p>\n<p>The next time you feel like GOD can&#8217;t use you, just remember: Noah was a drunk,\u00a0 Abraham was too old, Isaac was a daydreamer, Jacob was a liar,\u00a0\u00a0Leah was ugly, Joseph was abused, Moses had a stuttering problem, and Gideon was afraid.<\/p>\n<p>Sampson had long hair and was a womanizer, Rahab was a prostitute, Jeremiah and Timothy were too\u00a0 young, David had an affair and was a murderer, Elijah was suicidal,\u00a0 Isaiah preached naked, and Jonah ran from God.<\/p>\n<p>Naomi was a widow, Job went bankrupt,\u00a0 John the Baptist ate bugs, Peter denied Christ, the disciples fell asleep while praying,\u00a0\u00a0Martha worried about everything, the Samaritan woman was divorced (more than once),\u00a0 Zaccheus was too small, Paul was too religious, Timothy had an ulcer AND Lazarus was dead! No more excuses now \u2013 God can use anyone &#8230; even you!<\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John\u00a015:16 \u201cYou\u00a0did not choose Me, but I\u00a0chose\u00a0you\u00a0and appointed\u00a0you\u00a0that\u00a0you\u00a0should go and bear fruit, and\u00a0that\u00a0your fruit should remain, that whatever\u00a0you\u00a0ask the Father in My name He may give\u00a0you.\u201d We often are able to come up with the most feeble excuses as to why we are not able to serve the Lord. We are too young, too old, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}