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Originally Posted by Freedomless
This speaks much.
Subject: Insight for Leaders
October 19
Failure and Success: Faith Dares to Fail
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each one's praise will come from God. --1 Corinthians 4:5
God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.
God will allow His servant to succeed when he has learned that success does not make him dearer to God nor more valuable in the total scheme of things. We cannot buy God's favor with crowds or converts or new missionaries sent out or Bibles distributed. All these things can be accomplished without the help of the Holy Spirit. A good personality and a shrewd knowledge of human nature is all that any man needs to be a success in religious circles today....
We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait. Born After Midnight, 59.
"Father, keep me faithful today. I don't need to succeed in the world's eyes; I'll wait. Amen."
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To this I respond with the following:
Our heavenly father does not fail;
Our risen Lord and savior did not fail;
Our first-century anointed siblings did not fail;
I do not fail.
My word shall not return to me void, nor shall the seed die in the ground wherein I have planted it, but it shall accomplish that which I have sent it to do.
I shall do all the things my heavenly father has said I shall do and My word go forth and sprout and spring forth, and all that he has told me shall come to pass - I shall not frustrate the gospel.
I am an eagle and I fly above all that roosts in the boughs of the mustard tree; that tree shall be shaken, the dead shall fall off from it and be burned and purified and made fit and mete for the Master's use.
now, tell me what you dont believe and I'll tell you what I believe.
