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“Thursday night—Potluck supper.
Prayer and medication to follow.”
“For those of you who have children and don’t know it, we have a nursery downstairs.”
“This being Easter Sunday, Mrs. Bertha Lewis will come forward and lay an egg on the altar.”
“During the absence of our pastor, we enjoyed the rare privilege of hearing a good sermon by Deacon Johnson”
“You will want to attend the National Prayer and Fasting Conference at First Church.
Your registration fee includes three meals.”
“Ladies, don’t forget the rummage sale.
It’s a chance to get rid of those things you don’t want to keep.
Don’t forget your husbands.”
“Please welcome Pastor Cowden, a caring man who loves hurting people.”
We are coming to the end of our study through the book of proverbs.
Over that past two weeks we should have been reading chapters 26-30.
These chapters are filled with more wisdom than we can possible talk about in the time we have, but I do want to hit some highlights and then focus on a few verses in particular that I feel might be encouraging.
Chapter 26 uses the word fool more than any other chapter.
I counted, because I started to feel like it was written just for me!
Fool is mentioned 13 times in 28 verses.
I like verse Prov 26:6-7
We know that a fool is not always dumb, he may have knowledge, sometimes extensive.
It doesn't make him wise, though.
Only humility can make a person wise.
Knowledge without wisdom is a nutless shell.
Chapter 27 reminds us not to brag about tomorrow because we can’t tell the future.
A wise person lives in the moment they have been given and thanks God for His provision.
Chapter 28 is about how the Law of God is the only thing that makes sense.
God’s ways are the moral absolutes we much live by.
Chapter 29 continues instructing us that we should use good sense in everything we do.
From everything from the company that we keep to the sins we try to hide.
My favorite verse in this chapter is:
And finally in chapter 30 we find sayings from a man named Agur.
What strikes me is his self description.
Proverbs 30:1–3 (CEV)
1....“I am completely worn out!
How can I last?
2 I am far too stupid
to be considered human.
3 I never was wise,
and I don’t understand
what God is like.”
I’ve certainly felt that way and I am willing to bet that you have too.
We can identify with feelings of inadequacy.
We will could even say, we feel so stupid that we don’t even feel human.
Even a monkey seems smarter than us because of the mistakes we’ve made.
The fact is, everyone experiences failure in life.
Life is never an unbroken series of victories.
We all have setbacks and losses, and sometimes a defeat can seem to overwhelm you.
we can even bring defeat on ourselves.
You don’t have to look far to find people in the Bible who felt this way.
Poor old Job felt overwhelmed .
Look at
Have you ever felt like that?
All hope is lost.
I guess I go eat worms!
Maybe you aren’t feeling that way right now.
I say, Great!
But I know one thing about life is that it has ups and downs.
I want to tell you that in life, Do Overs are allowed.
If you are alive right now, God will give you a second chance to do your best for Him.
The fact is - you will fail many times in life, but you are never a failure until you give up.
Let’s spend our time together talking about two different things we can find in scripture on the topic of Failure and Do Overs.
What are some of the causes of failure in our lives?
And what Does God’s Word tell us about getting a fresh start?
Let me first talk about a few things that I feel cause failure in our lives.
Today I had the opportunity to speak to the middle school kids at Genesis Christian school.
The message to them was about goals and dreams.
At the heart of setting goals is making a plan.
We fail to many times simply because we haven’t developed any plans.
You remember the old saying, “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.”
You have got to plan ahead.
We should make plans--counting on God to direct us.
So, one of the reasons we fail is that we tend to be impulsive, and we just don’t plan ahead the way we should.
Being reactive instead of proactive rarely accomplishes what we want because reacting is what happens when we don’t act!
Let me ask you - was it raining when Noah began to build the Ark? Nope!
It didn’t rain for 120 years.
Now, that’s I call “Long Range Planning”!
One hundred twenty years he worked on that Ark. J
Jesus, in one of His parables, said,
I think first and foremost we fail because we don’t think about the future.
If we fail to plan then we should plan to fail.
Here’s another reason we fail: Pride.
We fail when we think we’ve made it!
We fail when we think we have it all together.
The truth is that we are never going to get anywhere if we think we’ve already made it!
Remember, the person who gets too big for his breeches, will eventually start to show off!
Get it?
Those pants can only hold so much before they expose more than you want exposed!
Let’s remember something Paul instructed us in 1 Cor 10:12
We fail when we forget that it’s God’s grace that has brought us to where we are.
We need to make sure we check ourselves continuously so we don’t fall into pride.
No plan = failure
Pride = failure
The next thing that pushes us to failure is that we are afraid of what others might think of us.
This verse is telling that that the moment you start worrying about what other people think, you are doomed to fail.
You’ll fall into a trap.
And the fear of failure can be a cause of failure.
One of the greatest failures is the failure to try.
Sometimes on my social media feed I see these “fail” videos.
They show people doing things that I look at and say, “why in the world would they even try that!”.
But one thing I will say, at least they try!
Sometimes you’ve got to take risks.
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