Failure is Part of the Process of Living

"Failure is part of the process" as someone once said. Get up and start again when you have been knocked down..... and you will be knocked down from time to time.

There are those who would love for you to stay down for the count, even gleeful when you are discouraged. The devil loves to see us fail and remain exhausted and depleted.

There is only success in life when we get back up after being knocked down. As a born-again believer, we have all the resources necessary to get up again, that is the power of the Holy Spirit.

God wants us to learn lessons in our knockdowns but not remain demoralized and depressed. If we focus on the lesson and depend on Christ we can not only get up again we can thrive moving on toward greater exploits for His glory.

It is in getting up again by the power of the Holy Spirit that glorifies God. He gets the glory for accomplishing in us what we cannot do for ourselves.

For the born-again believer, life is one long series of adventures that teach lifelong and even eternal lessons.

I am convinced that every lesson we learn here on earth will serve us in the Millennium when we rule with Christ.

2 Timothy 2:11-13 "…11 This is a trustworthy saying: If we died with Him, we will also live with Him; 12 if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us; 13 if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.…"

All born-again believers endure to the end, the enduring to the end is the proof that we belonged to Him.

So when you are "feeling" discouraged and defeated, remember they are nothing more than that, "feelings", they do not define who you are or what you can do through Christ. As long as we are in the will of God He gives us what we need to carry out His will.

There are those who say we should lean into our feelings, which is exactly the opposite of what God wants from us. He wants us to ignore the fleshly feelings and focus on the Spirit Who is able to save us to the uttermost.

Romans 8:6

"For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace."

1 Thessalonians 5:18

"18 In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you."

"Everything?" Yes, when we are grateful to God in all that happens to us it demonstrates our trust in Him that all things no matter how hard, are from Him and will have a purpose.

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"Discipleship" in the sense of another person or group of people teaching a newborn again believer, concerns me nowadays because so many people and groups are not teaching pure Bible. It is better to allow a new believer to discover God on their own through reading the Bible.

I was discipled for a short time and the people who were attempting to teach me were telling me unbiblical things. I grew so fast in the Lord because I questioned what they were telling me and ended up being shunned for disagreeing with their bad doctrine.

All I was doing was reading the word and praying for the Holy Spirit to show me. I stopped any discipleship because of all the things they taught me that they had no scriptural support for. I am a strong believer that the Holy Spirit can teach a new believer better than anyone else. I am also convinced if a new believer gives up because no one is teaching them, then they were not serious about wanting Christ.

Man cannot teach another man better than Christ in them. When someone disciples these days they expect the hearer to become just like them, saying the same things and doing the same things. When questioning is disdained then we have a problem with pride.

Even a new believer through the power of the Holy Spirit can discern truth from error.

Too many people are attempting to replace the Holy Spirit with teachers out of bad seminaries, making them as wrong as they are.

Matthew 23:15 "

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel around on sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves."

If you are a new believer don't worry about being taught by other people. Just open your Bible and pray that the Holy Spirit in you will give you the understanding.

Anyone who says you must be taught by a man is lacking in good sense and faith. They are depending on the training of men rather than the Holy Spirit.

I am one who learned fast from the Holy Spirit and continue to learn every day. I listen to some preachers but can discern immediately if something is off because I have learned the Bible well. Those who rely solely on the writings of men more than the Bible will be taught many false things that must be unlearned before growth can occur.

John 14:26

"26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you."

Would anyone dare to say to the Holy Spirit; "that's alright God, don't tell me, I need to go ask the preacher?" Of course, this sounds silly.

We see no scripture that says be sure you go and find out from a preacher, but we do see many scriptures that tell us to go to the Holy Spirit.

John 16:13-14

13 But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me, for He will take from Mine and will disclose it to you."

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