It would be impossible for us to learn how to overcome failure or what seems like, feels like or what others may view or describe as failure with ease or success if we were unconvinced of the fact that there is no failure in God.  And, again, there is NO FAILURE in God.  “If we fail at something,” I once heard Minister Farrakhan say, “it’s not that God failed us.  WE FAILED IN OUR CONNECTION TO GOD.”  Now, as his teacher, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad would say: “Think over that.”

Also, decide right here and right now that you will learn how to overcome failure by accepting all of the above versus accepting failure, feeling like a failure, saying you have failed, or allowing others to tell you you’re a failure and making you feel like a failure in whatever it is you are attempting to do or achieve.  Say it to yourself and believe it: There is no failure in God. And know that this is especially true for the People of God (regardless of the religious title you claim) or those who are sincerely striving to please God.

I mean, think about it, if Romans 8:28 is true and all things really do “work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose for them”; and, if, of the foregoing type of people—God’s People or the righteous—it holds true that we can “do all things through Christ who strengthenth” us, how could failure ever exist in our lives? [1] How could we ever fail or ever feel like, think, believe, and/or act like we are a failure?  We shouldn’t because there is no failure in God and the sooner we believe/know this the sooner we’ll learn, in every situation, how to overcome failure or the illusion of failure and quickly!

So, if I was right now standing before the beautiful being (referred to in Part I of this post) who erroneously stated to me out of frustration and fatigue that he felt like he’d failed (in whatever he is/was endeavoring to do/achieve) I would again say to him: There is no failure in God. Then I’d pray: May the Lord of Creation strengthen you to tightly wrap yourself in these empowering words—there is no failure in God.  I’d also add: May you permanently etch these magnificent words—there is no failure in God—on the tablet of your heart so that you may (soon or better) learn how to overcome failure or the illusion of failure since God is the only reality.  And, finally, I’d say to him in the encouraging words of Orison Swett Marden:

“No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone.  As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.”

Peace & Encouragement!

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