OVERCOMERS
We are made to be overcomers. “I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.”
It is not our in our spiritual nature then to fail.
[2 PETER 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:]
If that is true –and it is- that we are overcomers, then failure must need our permission – our agreement - with it in order to manifest failure.
Our permission to fail, can be given by default. If we do not exercise our Faith in our success, we then are exercising our permission to fail.
Think about it; there are only two choices in any undertaking. Success or failure. There is no ‘degree’ of success. If we do not totally succeed at any thing, then we have not succeeded. The opposite of success is failure.
Now we do not have to accept a failure and so quit trying to succeed. Failure then can be defined as the result of not continuing to attempt to succeed. Quitting. Stopping the action to bring about success.
Conversely, succeeding can be defined as attempting to bring about success. Each time you do not reach full success, you learn a bit more about what is required to reach it, therefore the attempt itself is a part of the final success.
So if you fail at something, it is because you quit learning how to succeed at that particular enterprise or endeavor. In other words... you quit.
If we truly want to succeed at a thing, then we must believe we can and will succeed. We may not succeed the first time, or the hundredth time, but if we still attempt to accomplish a thing, and use our faith in our ability to succeed eventually…we will.
It has been said that failure is not failure until we accept it as such. ‘I give up!’ we say. Or, “I can’t do it!’ We are right both times. We will give up and we can’t do it. Because we are not applying our faith to succeed. And if we are not applying our faith to succeed, then we are giving failure permission to be accomplished.
If we are made to succeed, and we don’t, then it is because we have quit doing what we need to do in order for success to occur. Success may require being persistent, it may require continuing to gain more knowledge –either personal or through the experience of others, or it may come through prayer, but it will come if we are persistent and apply knowledge.
Give permission to failure, and failure will take over. Put your Faith to work, and you will overcome.
Rick Mortimer
April 4 2010
