Overcoming Failure
Larry Wynn
2 kings 6:1-6
Introduction
A. Everyone experiences failure At one time or another.
B. The more we attempt the Greater the potential for Failure.
1. ''The man who never made A mistake never made Anything.''
2. Charles kettering said, ''Virtually nothing comes Out right the first time. Failure, repeated Failures, are the sign post Towards success.''
C. Failure can be put into one of Two categories.
1. Those who thought and Never did. Always Thinking about doing Something but because of A perfectionist attitude Are afraid will do it Wrong, so just doesn't do It.
2. Those who did and never Thought.
D. The most important thing is not Failure, but what we do With failure.
1. The question is, will we Get through them.
2. Many when coming out of Broken dreams end up With broken desires. They Begin to lose heart.
Illustration: mark twain - ''if a cat Sits on a hot stove he'll never sit on a Hot stove again. He won't sit on a cold One either.''
4. Setbacks can become Springboards if we allow Them to.
Illustration: mary lou retton 1984 Olympic star - when asked about her Tremendous accomplishment said, ''Achieving that goal was a good Feeling, but to get there i had to get Through all the failures.''
E. The story of elisha gives Principles for dealing with Failure.
1. Background: the day When training was done On apprenticeship basis. Elisha was apprentice to Elijah. Now there are Several young preachers Following him. There is a Desire to build a place of Worship. As they begin Cutting trees one young Man loses his axe-head. Matters are made worse Because it is borrowed.
2. There are tremendous Applicable truths to our Lives in this passage.
Ii. Admit you have a problem
A. The first thing that must be Done is for us to admit there is A failure.
E1. Someone said, ''people fail In direct proportion to Their willingness to Accept ...
Larry Wynn
2 kings 6:1-6
Introduction
A. Everyone experiences failure At one time or another.
B. The more we attempt the Greater the potential for Failure.
1. ''The man who never made A mistake never made Anything.''
2. Charles kettering said, ''Virtually nothing comes Out right the first time. Failure, repeated Failures, are the sign post Towards success.''
C. Failure can be put into one of Two categories.
1. Those who thought and Never did. Always Thinking about doing Something but because of A perfectionist attitude Are afraid will do it Wrong, so just doesn't do It.
2. Those who did and never Thought.
D. The most important thing is not Failure, but what we do With failure.
1. The question is, will we Get through them.
2. Many when coming out of Broken dreams end up With broken desires. They Begin to lose heart.
Illustration: mark twain - ''if a cat Sits on a hot stove he'll never sit on a Hot stove again. He won't sit on a cold One either.''
4. Setbacks can become Springboards if we allow Them to.
Illustration: mary lou retton 1984 Olympic star - when asked about her Tremendous accomplishment said, ''Achieving that goal was a good Feeling, but to get there i had to get Through all the failures.''
E. The story of elisha gives Principles for dealing with Failure.
1. Background: the day When training was done On apprenticeship basis. Elisha was apprentice to Elijah. Now there are Several young preachers Following him. There is a Desire to build a place of Worship. As they begin Cutting trees one young Man loses his axe-head. Matters are made worse Because it is borrowed.
2. There are tremendous Applicable truths to our Lives in this passage.
Ii. Admit you have a problem
A. The first thing that must be Done is for us to admit there is A failure.
E1. Someone said, ''people fail In direct proportion to Their willingness to Accept ...
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