2/5/2017
Psalm 73:26, Proverbs 24:16, Isaiah 41:10, 1 Corinthians 13:4-5, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Ephesians 5:25-29, Philippians 4:13, 2 Timothy 1:7.
Hope in the Lord Jesus overcomes the fear of failure
When you fail my child you do not remain in your failure you heal and move on. If you persist in failure it will eat your soul and bring in a lot of bitterness, resentment and self pity and you know very well that anytime you dwell on self in a negative manner nothing good ever comes out of it. Failure should be used as a stepping stone to do better next time. It should not be forgotten as it is a lesson that must be learned and overcome but you should not dwell in it and allow it to negatively affect your future. Do not let failure bring fear into your heart. You put failure behind you and move forward with the hope of success in your heart. If you dwell on failure it will breed fear and fear will cripple your progress into success. The medicine for failure is moving forward with hope in your heart. Hope is the antidote for the fear of failure. Get up out of the ditch that you fell into, dust yourself off and march forward. Soldiers do not march backwards they match forward. When you are in the battlefield attacking your enemy as you gain ground against him you march forward to claim the ground you gained in the battle. The only thing that you must never do is not to learn anything from your past failures. To forget the lessons of the past is to guarantee failure in the future. Learn from your mistakes and move forward. If you are in a marriage learn to compromise, submit and negotiate. There are times in a marriage when you must come to an agreement, a compromise where each souse gives and takes depending on what is at stake. At other times one spouse has to submit to the will of the other and in other instances a negotiation must take place in some cases involving a third party to ensure that both sides gets what is fair. The end result of either one of these strategies is that people get to move forward without bitterness and resentment. In cases where one person’s opinion is either morally wrong or illegal according to my word then a stalemate is reached and there will be no further negotiation, compromise or submission to that which is morally wrong or illegal according to my statutes. In such a case the two parties must part ways and each must do as their own conscience directs them. Of course if you are my child your answer, the path you should choose is in my word and if it is not clear then come to me for answers. My children never compromise on the instruction of my word. For example if a man asks his wife to get involved in sexually immoral behaviors like swinging she is under no compulsion or obligation to negotiate, compromise or submit because what he is requesting is against my word. As a Christian my word has authority over any other word. In such a case a stalemate has been reached and if the husband refuses to change and line up with my word the wife is under no obligation to stay in such a marriage, an adulterous marriage. The main point is this no Christian spouse should submit compromise or negotiate anything that goes against my word and if a solution cannot be found the two should depart as directed by my word. Obviously a wife cannot divorce her husband because he does not pick up after himself and a husband cannot divorce his wife because she is lazy. No, follow the principles in my word that clearly gives the legitimate reason that can lead to a divorce. Ultimately come to me in prayer I have the power, if the other party is willing, to restore broken relationships and broken trust.
Amen.
