Miracles out of mistakes

How do you become successful?  You must make good decisions.  How do you make good decisions? 

You do it by having experience. 

How do you get experience?  By making good and bad decisions. 

Satan tries to tell us that God does not want what's best for us, but what's less for us. 

God can take our mess and make it His masterpiece.

  

1. We must take responsibility for our actions.

Satan wants us to blame others.  God's word is like a mirror.  It will show things about you to you.

When we make poor choices, fear sets in.  Next, we hide from God, and then blame others. 

When we blame others,it will keep us in bondage because we can't control the actions of others.

    

When we take responsibility, we are set free because we can  change our actions.  Nobody is holding us back, but us.

Galatians 6:4-5  (NLT)

4 Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won’t need to compare yourself to anyone else. 

5 For we are each responsible for our own conduct. 

   

If you mess up, own it.  I did it. I admit it. I quit it, so I'll forget it.  

2. We must repent which means change our hearts, minds, and direction. 

2 Corinthians 7:10 (NLT)

10 For the kind of sorrow God wants us to experience leads us away from sin and results in salvation. There’s no regret for that kind of sorrow. 

But worldly sorrow, which lacks repentance, results in spiritual death.

Satan has two weapons which is guilt and shame.  Shame is about how you see yourself.  It is toxic. 

Satan tries to make you think God does not love you because what you have been done.  It is a lie. 

You may have done what they said you've done, but you are not who they say you are. 

Where are you going is more important than where you have been.  

The world puts shame on you, but God puts His name on you.

Regret blurs the lines of what you can change, and what you can't. 

If you can change it, change it and move forward.  If you can't change it, just move forward.

     

If you just repent, it'll set you free.  

We must not take our guilt and shame to the wrong place.  Don't hide it from God.  Tell Him about it, so He'll wipe it away.

  

3. We must rebuild. 

  

Failure can become the fertilizer

for our future.  We must quit looking on what we've lost.  We must focus on what's left.  Don't let failure be final.  Your pain will become your platform. 

4. God will redeem it all.

Redeem means to convert it into value.  God can make a purpose for your pain. God has mercy for every mistake.

      

Mike Haman, Healing Place Church