Churches in Roswell

“So I'm not there yet. I'm not prepared, I'll tell you here's one thing I do. Listen, forgetting what is behind and straining toward what it says. You know why he's forgetting what behind, why he's forgetting? Because it's painful. That's why he's forgetting what's behind. It's embarrassing. I failed. I'm not gonna be def I fell down. I'm forgetting that. You know why I'm forgetting it? What can you change that happened in the past? Nothing. Why are you gonna go back and revisit it? Forgetting what's behind and straining toward what is that, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Wow.”

“``Here's the thing that's important to remember. Failure is an event. It's not an identity. Failure is something that happened. Do not be defined by failure. If I say I failed, fail is a verb. It was an action. I will not say I am a failure. That's a noun. That's an identity. Any more than I'd say I made a mistake. I wouldn't say I am a mistake. There's a difference. We all fail and make mistakes. The question is, through my shortcoming failure do I respond in faith?”

“So my question for you and the things that that you have come up short and and embarrassed yourself, made a mistake, will you rely on faith then to still be equipped to do God's service because the Lord uses broken vessels. That the Lord will take those in our weakness. That's what Paul says. When I'm weak is when I'm strong. It's not a paradox. What he means is is when it's not about me. When I realize my shortcoming, it's about him, then great things happen.”

“It's his work not mine. You know why? Because I can't do it and neither can you. So all we're called to do then is when we mess up, when we fail, the things happened in the past, one is forget it. Let it go and press on. Move forward. Don't ever quit. Don't let the enemy crush you to the point where boy I really I really deserve I really deserve the, death penalty. Yeah, you do. Yeah, you do. I do too. Praise God. He he took that for us. That penalty's been paid.”