The Success of Failure For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. Prov 24:16

*“Failure is the tuition we pay for success” Walter Brunell
*“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly” Robert F. Kennedy
*“Can you imagine when learning to walk if we said well that’s that, I gave that a try”
*”Those who succeed greatly aren’t afraid to fail”
*One of the greatest basketball players of all time said, “I have missed over nine thousand shots in my career. I’ve lost almost three hundred games. Twenty six times I was trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I have failed over and over and over. And that’s why I succeed!” Michael Jordan
*”Sampson failed in life, but yet conquered more in his death than in all his life”
*Peter exemplifies the “fail often” principle of life. We can all relate to Peter because he had great intentions but often messed up in dramatic fashion: (1) he offered advice to Jesus on how He shouldn’t give up his life and Jesus called him Satan? (2) Another time he hopped out of the boat and walked on water before losing focus and faith, then sank like a ‘rock’. (3) There was the time we he bravely defended Jesus and cut off the guy’s ear. (4) Then Peter failed the mother of all failures when he denied Jesus three times. The full impact of these lessons didn’t fully sink in until after the resurrection when Jesus forgave and restored Peter to the position of CEO of what would become the church as we know it! That’s not the way we reward failure, but God is different. Peter’s life consisted of trying, failing, learning, adjusting and trying again. His “failing forward” is probably what contributed to God’s decision to choose Peter as guest speaker on the “Day of Pentecost.” Peter failed greatly he learned from his mistakes and tried again. Then he preached and led three thousand people to Christ and helped birth the Church!
* What Jesus did with his life and ministry was probably viewed as failing, until the RESSURECTION!
7 Things That Will Help Us See Success in Failure:
1. We must turn our fear to faith.
2. We must create a culture that allows failures
3. We must learn to “Fail Forward” [learn what worked and didn’t work and go forward]
4. We must realize what appears to be a “bad deal” could turn out to be a “blessing.”
5. We must believe the greatest way to succeed is to try again.
6. We must realize failure is an event, not a person.
7। We must understand that everything bad that happens is not always the devil.
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