Saturday, 29^th June 2024

Bible Reading: 2 Chronicles 15:7

Memory Verse:  But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded.” 2 Chronicles 15:7 (NIV)

Dr. Strive Masiyiwa further said:  Years ago, I was watching a Champions League game in which the team I was supporting was down 3-0 at half-time, so I went to bed. Imagine how shocked I was when I woke up to discover that they won 4-3! Bishop Garlington loves to say, “We have not lost; we are just behind”. Remember these words during your tough times. You have not failed, even though you are behind. I have been behind so often in my life, but looking back at it, even when I lost the game, I somehow managed to win the Championship most of the time.

Those who work with me and know my spiritual reservoir have even heard me encourage myself by saying things like: “We don’t suffer loss. We will recover our money, even if it is not today”. In that moment of catastrophic setback, or being turned away, it matters a lot how you encourage yourself, that inner strength. Remind yourself that it’s not the end of the world. “I’m behind but as long as I keep LEARNING, I can still win this game”.

A friend of mine who is a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley told me that one of his secrets is to invest only in entrepreneurs who have experienced failure before! I have since found that this is one of the reasons why Silicon Valley is so successful: When they innovate or launch a business, they are not afraid to fail. 

That’s not to say they take it lightly, not at all. They put in all their best efforts in developing innovative #Products, #Processes, and finding great #People for their teams to execute brilliantly researched #Plans, sometimes together with excellent #Partners. But sometimes things don’t go as planned. Bottom line: Places where they are ashamed of failure do not generally produce great entrepreneurs. Think about it. It’s okay to fail, as long as you keep learning and not making the same mistake(s) time and again.

Yes, you are behind (maybe) but it’s only half-time! The most advanced telescope ever launched in space endured countless “challenges” [one can say] along the way before finally launched on 25th December 2021… at least 15 years behind schedule. Now, look at just one magnificent outcome… thousands of young stars never seen before were photographed in the largest and brightest star-forming region near our own galaxy. The James Webb space telescope mission involved 20,000+ #People [scientists] working about three decades.

Quote: The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one ― Elbert Hubbard 

Prophetic Decree: Receive courage to rise from where you might have fallen in Jesus name.

Prayer Focus

1. I receive great courage to navigate through life, in Jesus name.

2. I receive the needed humility to learn from my past failures, in Jesus name.

3. I receive grace to dust myself off from where I might have fallen, in Jesus name.

4. I receive abundance of grace to persevere till the end, in Jesus name.

5. Cycle of repeated failure in my roots, dry up, in Jesus name.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:   1 Kings 22, 2 Chronicles 18