The Value of Failures

Failure does not mean you are a failure!

There is a value to failure. People who end up accomplishing much often experience failures. They make mistakes and have setbacks. But! They always fall foreword. Thomas Edison said this about President Wilson, "They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward." Learn from your mistakes and press forward.

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. -Php 3:14

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Proper Perspective of Problems

Have the proper perspective of your problems.  Don’t make them bigger than they are. They are not the end-all nor are they insurmountable.  They are, however, some of life’s greatest teachers; and often some of life’s greatest opportunities if you hold the proper perspective. 

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.  And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. (James 1-4 ESV)

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13 ESV)

“Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?” ― Charles F. Stanley

 “Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.” ― Robert Kiyosaki

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ― Thomas Alva Edison

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Remember the Hare and the Tortoise

Remember the hare and the tortoise. Life's winners aren't the fastest but those that persistently and consistently stay on target. 

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:14

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.” ~Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Gift

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Failure

Failure is to be expected. Not that you strive to fail. God forbid! But some failure is to be expected if you try to accomplish anything worthwhile. Learn to see failure as stepping-stone to success and never allow it to defeat you. Learn from your failures and you will be one step closer to success.

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before (Php 3:13)

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The Final Laps

Most races are won in final laps. The last quarter-mile of a mile race will determine who wins. It's not how you start life but how you finish it. Many have had a great beginning only to have a poor showing at the end, while others have great disadvantages and go on to win the race.

Determine to run the last quarter-mile as a winner. The Apostle Paul said, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." (2 Timothy 4:7-8) Share 

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Do You Want To Be Immortal

And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you? Nehemiah 6:3

Now during all these centuries that story has been told. If Nehemiah had remained at court, he might have died a millionaire, but he never would have been heard of twenty years after his death. Do you know the names of any of Nineveh’s millionaires? This man stepped out of that high position and took a low position, one that the world looked down upon and frowned upon, and his name has been associated with the walls of Jerusalem all these centuries. Young man, if you want to be immortal, become identified with God’s work, and pay no attention to what men outside say. Nehemiah and his associates began at sunrise and worked until it grew so dark they could not see. A man who will take up God’s work, and work summer and winter right through the year, will have a harvest before the year is over, and the record of it will shine after he enters the other world. (Adapted from D.L. Moody's book, Men of the Bible)

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Rules for a Successful Day!

The first rule of the day: Greet each day with prayer. 
The second rule of the day: Greet each day with prayer.

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"The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day." -E. M. Bounds


Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. -Jeremiah 33:3

In Your Heart Be Ever Before The Throne

As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven. Nehemiah 1:4

When these men told him (Nehemiah) the condition of the city, that the people were in great want and distress and degradation, and that the walls of the city were still down, that the gates had been burned and never restored, his patriotic heart began to burn. We are told he fasted and prayed and wept, and not only did he pray for one week, or one month, but he kept on praying. He prayed “day and night.” Having many duties to perform, of course he was not always on his knees, but in heart he was ever before the throne of grace. It was not hard for him to understand and obey the precept, “Pray without ceasing.” He began the work in prayer, continued in prayer, and the last recorded words of Nehemiah are a prayer. (Source: Dwight Lyman Moody, (2011-03-30). Men of the Bible, p. 47)

“There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God.” – Brother Lawrence

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RIDICULE is a mighty weapon!

But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?  Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.  Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity: Nehemiah 4:1-4

RIDICULE is a mighty weapon. “What do these feeble Jews?” said Sanballat. “Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they make an end in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?” “Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall,” said Tobiah the Ammonite. But Nehemiah was wise. He paid no attention to them. He just looked to God for grace and comfort: “Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity: and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.” Young man, if you wish to be successful in this world, don’t mind Sanballat or Tobiah. Don’t be kept out of the kingdom of God or out of active Christian work by the scorn and laughter and ridicule of your godless neighbors and companions. (Today's Wisdom Tidbit is adapted from D.L. Moody's book Men of the Bible)

THE BIGGEST FOOL IN THE WORLD*

THE BIGGEST FOOL IN THE WORLD.

By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. Hebrews 11:24-26 (ESV)

If you had asked the Egyptians who he was, they would have said he was THE BIGGEST FOOL IN THE WORLD.

“Why,” they would say, “look at the opportunity that man had! He might have been commander of the Egyptian army, he might have been on the throne, swaying the sceptre over the whole world, if he hadn’t identified himself with those poor, miserable Hebrews! Think what an opportunity he has lost, and what a privilege he has thrown away!” He had dropped out of the public mind for forty years, and they didn’t know what had become of him, but God had His eye upon him. He was the very man of all others that God wanted, and when he met God with that question, “Who am I?” it didn’t matter who he was but who his God was. When men learn the lesson that they are nothing and God is everything, then there is not a position in which God cannot use them.

This word of wisdom is taken from Moody, Dwight Lyman. Men of the Bible (p. 20).

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The Second Mile

Any person that has achieved success in any area of life will tell you that it is the second mile that makes the difference. For a race horse, it’s the last turn that will make a difference of winning and losing. For a retail business man, it’s the last quarter. For the Apostle John, it was the last days of his long life when he saw the Revelation of Jesus. It’s that second mile, that last stretch, those finial days, that make a difference. JB

Whatever you calling is; the difference is going to be made in the second effort, the second mile.

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. - Isaiah 40:31

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. - Galatians 6:9

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