S04E01
- I just want to not be a failure. I wish to have faith and not worry or be anxious about my income. I don’t want to mess up financial blessings. It has to be from genuine care for the customer, not from pride.
- One of my favorite study helps is the Nave’s topical bible, guess what failure isn’t in it. God doesn’t talk too much about failure. God is not a failure. He has never failed. You’ve heard it but must believe it more than cliche.
- Scripture tells us:
Psalm 73:26 KJV
[26] My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
- It is true that we may fail.
- Another passage says this:
Proverbs 24:16 KJV
[16] For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
- The wicked man, convinced by the wicked one, lays in wait to destroy the dwelling place of the righteous. At every step and place.
- This stems from the old fruit of the original enmity between satan and the seed of woman.
- Evil hates an upright, righteous man.
- (1.) The righteous man, whose ruin was expected, recovers himself. He falls seven times into trouble, but, by the blessing of God upon his wisdom and integrity, he rises again, sees through his troubles and sees better times after them. The just man falls, sometimes falls seven times perhaps, into sin, sins of infirmity, through the surprise of temptation; but he rises again by repentance, finds mercy with God, and regains his peace.
- (2.) The wicked man, who expected to see his ruin and to help it forward, is undone. He falls into mischief; his sins and his troubles are his utter destruction.
- If we must fall to be considered righteous, what are we getting out of it?
Romans 5:3-5 KJV
[3] And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
[4] And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
[5] And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Philippians 4:13 KJV
[13] I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
