MANAGE YOUR WEAKNESSES
(Dangers of Unaddressed Weaknesses)
Below are some of the dangers of unaddressed weaknesses:
1. Character Deficiency: Failure to manage your weaknesses would result to deficiency in your character. (Judas: Acts 1:25)
2. Potential Trap: Weaknesses left unaddressed will limit your growth and hinder you from maximizing your full potentials. (Esau: Gen. 25:34)
3. Destiny Destroyer: Those who fail to manage their weaknesses effectively find it difficult or impossible to fulfill destiny. (Gehazi: 2King 5:27)
4. Self-destruction: Unaddressed weaknesses are potential tools for self-destruction. Weaknesses left unaddressed are killers in disguise. (Samson: Judges 16:30)
5. Negative Example: People use victims of unaddressed weaknesses as bad examples to teach moral and ethical standards in the society. (Hebrew 12:16)
6. Source of Problems: Unaddressed weaknesses can cause problems and pain for you and people around you. (Solomon:1 Kings 11:1-43)
7. Vulnerability: People would leverage your weaknesses to take advantage of your vulnerability for their benefits. (Jacob: Gen. 25:31-32)
NOTE:
You become vulnerable and susceptible the moment people discover that you have unaddressed weaknesses, they would use such weaknesses as baits to get at you
(Benefits of Having Weaknesses)
1. You are a Human Being: Your personal weaknesses reveal your imperfect nature as a HUMAN BEING and not HUMAN BEEN. You are still in MAKING and not a READY MADE.
2. Opportunity for Improvement: The presence of weaknesses in your life is an evidence that there is always a room to improve on your existing strengths and abilities.
3. Strength Management: Your personal weaknesses are sometimes needed to help you put your strengths into maximum use. They are to help you maximize your strengths.
4. Dependency: You are not created to live in isolation or exist independently, but to depend on God and relate with other human beings. Personal weaknesses confirms that you need God and people in your life.
5. To Appreciate your Strengths: At times, it takes what you lack to help you appreciate what you have. Having personal weaknesses in your life helps you to appreciate your abilities and strengths.
NOTE:
It's never a crime to have personal weaknesses. But it is deadly if such weaknesses are left addressed.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
What are your weaknesses?
Which areas of your life have been struggling to overcome some unhealthy and unprofitable habits?
Here is what you should know, it is never a crime to have personal weaknesses. But it can only be dangerous if such weaknesses are left unattended to.
Then it requires that you work hard to manage your weaknesses to ensure that they don't limit you nor make you vulnerable.
NOTE:
Moses was a stammerer and Paul had thorn in his flesh, but there is no place in the Bible where God heal them. Yet they fulfilled their God-given destinies. Exo. 4;10, 2Cor. 12:7-9.
I pray with you, your weaknesses will not stop you from fulfilling your destiny in Jesus name. Amen.
Conclusivel;
(Facts to Know about Weaknesses)
1. Not all weaknesses can be overcome, but all weaknesses are manageable.
2. Your weaknesses are not meant to limit, hinder or destroy you, but to enhance your individuality and personal uniqueness.
3. God will never abandon you because of your weaknesses. He knows you have them and He is always ready to help you.
4. Through faith and deliberate intention, you can transform your weaknesses to strengths and special abilities. For there is ABILITY in every disABILITY.
5. Weaknesses left unaddressed are like time bomb waiting to explode and spells doom for its owner.
6. If you don't manage your weaknesses very well, people, especially your enemies, will take advantage of it.
7. With self-discipline, strong determination and the grace of God, you can successfully manage and leverage your weaknesses to your advantage.
(Hebrew 11:32-34)
[32] And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:
[33] Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
[34] Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of *weakness were made strong,* waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
NOTE:
Let me leave you with this: *As much as I would advise you not to overrate the power of your weaknesses, I would sincerely suggest to you not to underestimate the havoc that they can cause if left unattended to.*
Thanks for reading.
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