When You Have Failed
When You Have Failed
- The fact that you have failed doesn’t make you a failure.
- Refuse to view failure as final.
- Expect failure to have consequences.
- Use failure as a stepping stone to success.
- Search for the good that God wants to bring out of failure.
- Research the lives of others who have failed.
- Realize that although you will fail, God will never fail you.
- Develop perseverance and never give up.
- If your failure is a result of sin, ask God’s forgiveness.
- If your failure has hurt others, ask their forgiveness.
- If your failure has hurt you, accept God’s forgiveness and move on.
- Recognize Satan as the source of inner accusation. He condemns; the Spirit gently convicts. And remember, Satan will still try to condemn even after sin has been confessed. The Bible describes satan as ...
“The accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night ...” (Revelation 12:10)