Success Can Come From Failure

If I work on something really hard and it fails,

I figure my next success will come from the seed

of that failure sometime or 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'd 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 sounds simple, but 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 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. Hey 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 nah that's what you thought. Well, it's worked

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, 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 as 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 then

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. Boy, 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 will be scared like ooh, lightning bulls, hemoroids,

and they're 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 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 and 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.

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