Success Can Come From Failure

If I work on something really hard and it fails,

I figure my next success will come from the seat

of that failure sometime, maybe not my next one, maybe

ten from now, maybe twenty. Maybe I won't do something

done one day. Maybe God was slowing me down. I

just kind of have to do that to stay sane.

Otherwise I just get too discouraged. Otherwise I would stop

believing in prayer. I'd stop praying because things will happen

that will make you go, well, that doesn't work, it

really will. If I invested in people and they turned

out not to really like return in my mind, I

think if I put it with them to determine if

the investment was worth it, I'd stop caring about people.

I'd stop investing in people. So all I can do,

and to sound simple, but I mean it.

I mean it in a deep way is make God's

hands my deposit box. And living that way has kept

me from quitting, because other times I would just go

that was a waste of effort, that was a waste

of time, that was a waste we pray, and I

would just totally lose my faith in prayer. If you

think of it more like I think it was once

called by a preacher a trust fund. It's like those

prayers are still somewhere with God.

You know what I mean. I prayed for my dad

to get healed. He didn't get here. Those prayers are

doing something somehow. I just believe it. Maybe I'm crazy.

Maybe one day I'm just gonna die and it's gonna say, nah,

that's just what you thought. Well it works for me.

I just take it like mm hmm.

Everything I do with a good heart for God, everything

I do in faith, I'm counting on the fact that

I'm banking on the fact that it somehow a cruise

interest and it will be in my future because he's

the Lord of the harvest. That scripture that calls him

the Lord of the Harvest that helped me deal with

the timing issue, and I shared with the group the

other day.

You ready for me to say something crazy.

You're the Lord of the seed, wow, Lord meaning the master,

not you're the lord like yahweh. You determine how much

you sew, You determine how much effort, how you pray,

You determine how much you sew. But you can't always

determine what it's going to become. He's the lord of

the harvest, You're the lord of the seed. So I

got to keep.

Sewing no matter what it looks like.

I got to keep hoping, believing, having a good heart

toward people, keep forgiving, keep being kind.

I got to keep my I gotta keep my balance.

I got to keep preaching. I got to keep studying.

I have to do that in every season. And I

can't step back and evaluate every season. Well, it's God faithful.

That's got to be a one and done.

He is.

Now let's just see how I already made that decision.

I'm not deciding that again. Now I have to decide

what does my obedience look like in this season? But

I won't decide it's God faithful again. I'm done with that.

But if you're asking me the question, how do I

deal with it? I just I learned to look around

the corner.

Now it's like, all right, God's got something coming for me,

and don't feel good right now? I really want that.

But if not that, it's gonna be good. And it

always is.

It's not always quick, and it doesn't always seem better

at first, but is it true? Wisdom eventually kicks in

to go like God knows better than me. He sees

stuff I don't know, stuff I don't.

Good.

Well, that's easier to preach than to live, because I

can name three things right now that God allowed to

happen that I don't like without even thinking about it.

But I don't have to like it. I just have

to trust him.

Who told you you have to like what God does

to love him?

Yeah, I pray that to God. I don't like this?

Would you? Would you pray that? Honestly? You would? Good?

You're way ahead of most people. Most people wouldn't. How

many wouldn't. How many would be scared like ooh, lightning bulls,

hemoroids like I used to be scared. I used to

be like Father by faith in Jesus name, I confess

that you were working all things together.

I thought you had to. I was taught that that

was faith.

I don't disrespect God, but I will say, God, I

don't like this. And if you need me to deal

with this, you don't have to make me stronger because

I'm not feeling it right now. So either you deal

with this for me or give me the strength to

deal with it. But one of us has to deal

with it. And I like it to be you.

But if you're going to make me do this, then

let's do it. But I'm gonna tell.

You right now, I don't like it, So either make

me like it or give me the strength to do it.

I don't like that's that would be a typical prayer

for me, my father who art in heaven. That's Jesus me.

I'm more like God. You know, I know that you're

bigger than this.

I'm not. I know that you see how this is

gonna work together. I don't.

I really need you right now to help me do

the right thing, keep me from doing the wrong thing,

so you can be respectful of God in honest. So

when you're hurting like that, the best thing to do

is just get it out the way.

God. That doesn't feel right to me.

I don't like what I don't like what I think

you're doing, but I don't know what you're doing, So.

Just live in that place. It's all right. Hey, thanks

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