Failure Is Not Final

By Sunday Joseph Adenuga

The Choice is yours
Let’s see what the bible says in Deuteronomy 30:15,19
“See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; …
I call heaven and earth to record third day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; THEREFORE CHOOSE LIFE, that both thou and thy seed may live”
One of the keys to success on planet earth is to believe very strongly the title of this book, that is, God is not partial. From the above passage of scripture, we gather that God has set before every man and woman two things; they are on one hand life, good and blessing, on the other hand, death, evil and cursing. God will not choose for you, neither will He decide for me, nor act for me the best He could do is what He had done and that is His counsel. God said, you have a choice between success and failure, but I advise you, choose success. In every department of life, we are faced with the very same decision, we are the decision makers of our destinies, we determine what we will have and the level we will be in life, even to the point of how long we will live. This does not mean that you wake up and decide that I will live for as long as ninety years, no, the decisions are made everyday, the food you eat, how you use your body etc. are your daily decisions that ultimately affects how long you will live on earth.

The decision to be rich is also reflected in your daily decisions, sleeping twelve hours a day certainly will bring you poverty, decision not to work hard, the decision not to safe and to spend all your money are made daily and these goes to affect how wealthy or poor you will ever be on the surface of the earth. One of the best points of our humanity is the free gift of choice. Not even the Almighty God can dare change the decision you make in life. So, you see, God is not partial.

Please understand this, you are where you are today because of the cumulative decisions you have made in the past. You see, I married my wife; God did not force me to. Thank God, we are blessed with children. If I had decided to marry someone else, and we had children, those children would be different from my present children because in that case my gene will be combining with another woman’s, producing a different result entirely. My decision to marry Bisi Shodeinde has brought about a whole new and different destiny for both of us. If I had married another woman, my destiny could not have been what it is now; it might be better or worse.

Do you understand what I am saying? I was called to the full time ministry; I decided for it, God did not force me to do it. You see; if I had decided not to go into the ministry, my destiny would be different from what it is now.
Let me make it clearer, in the year 1984, I got admission to study Mathematics Education in the University of Lagos: four years later I became a trained mathematics teacher. On the other hand if I had decided to read law and entered for law in 1984, I would have graduated as a lawyer and my whole life and destiny could have charted another course, I would have become another person. Becoming a lawyer would give me different approach to life and certainly today, who I would have been only God knows.

Your decisions make you or mar you. Stop blaming God for your misfortune, but blame your self. God is not partial; God loves you as well as He loves any mortal being no matter how great that human maybe. Say it out loud; “God loves me”.
So you see my dear reader, the choice is yours. The ball is in your court; the destiny of the ball (in the court) depends entirely on you.

You Have Power of Choice

You have a part to play in actualizing the plan of God for your life. It is the will of God for you to prosper and be in heath III John 2. The bible says that God is not willing that anybody should perish but that all should come to repentance II Pet. 3:9. From this passage of scripture, we gather that it is not the will of God for anybody to perish. But it is very certain that people are perishing in sin, it follows that the will of God is not been carried out. God’s will is that all should be saved and that nobody should perish, but that is evidently not happening?
Why is God’s will not fulfilled? It is because people are given the power of choice here on earth and both God and the devil respects the decision of human beings. If God’s will is for you to be greatly blessed and physically powerful and you decide otherwise, God cannot and will not enforce His will on you. On the other hand, if you are bound by poverty and ill health, and you get hold on the word of God, and you decide with all your heart to part with poverty and sickness, you will win. That is the way God design for man to live on earth, by the power of our heartfelt decision.

If you are born in a poverty-stricken environment and you decide to call it quit with poverty, so be it, you are out of poverty zone. Your strong determination takes you out of that dreadful zone of lack and never enough.

What’s on Your Mind?

Fix it now in your mind, how you want to live, the type of house you desire to live in, the type of car you want to cruise in, the caliber of people you want to move with, the type of dress you desire, the type and quality of food you want on your table. All these must be decided and settled in your mind, it must be with a mindset that is ready to do anything good and legal to achieve your aim. This decision becomes your goal; it becomes an obsession, a driving force that represents your very essence of being. Someone who has decided that he would be one of the very best doctors in his country cannot live like everybody, your decision will spell out the type of life you are expected to live on earth. Can you imagine a student who strongly desires to pass out of the secondary school with excellent result playing and wasting time like all other students? You cannot live like others if you must achieve your aim in life. Can you see now that God is not partial? He wants you to succeed but He will not force you. Have you ever seen somebody that everybody considers a failure? He comes on strongly, springing surprises here and there, beating the imagination of all and sundry and coming up to become a star in the family? You too can pull the tricks. May the Lord help you to be all that He has destined you to be in Jesus name?

Failure is Never Final

Failure needs not be final; in fact, failure is success under construction. That you failed in an attempt does not mean you will never make it. God is a loving and impartial God, anybody who persists in what he or she is doing will always get a strong backing from heaven. All over the bible, we read the stories of men who failed in their initial attempt but came back strongly to become highly successful. Failure in any endeavor adds to the experience of life, it adds to wisdom and if properly managed increases your confidence.

You should never be afraid of failure, believe it with all your heart that you cannot fail and will never fail. Even if you do, it is a mistake and as somebody said, “it is not bad to make a mistake, but it is too bad to repeat the same mistake”. If you fail, try another method and continue until you succeed. You have what it takes to succeed, give it and your success will appear for all to see.