Dealing with my mistakes

Scripture Reference: Proverbs 24:16

The above scripture talks about falling……but rising back up. So I chose that scripture because it's dealing with our mistakes, we have the tendency to fall and not try to get back up. Oh yes we do it all the time. We fell when we got pregnant before marriage. We fell when we dropped out of school. We fell when we lied about that and cheated on her. We played with his emotions and this baby might not even be his! Uh huh, you’ve fallen and you can’t get up! Or so you think……..

Proverbs 24:16 says “a just man falls seven (the # there could have been a million) times, and rise up again.” What stood out to me about this scripture is the fact that the Bible called a man that fell…. ‘just’! It didn’t say the sinner man falls seven times, it says the saved man’d of Gawt is the one at the altar every single time they call for a prayer line. It said the girl who got pregnant at 16, again at 18, again at 19 and doesn’t even have a high school diploma, yea her—‘JUST’! You mean to tell me preacher man’d of Gawd, that no matter how many times I fall, God will pick me up and consider me just as good as he did before I fell? YES! Absolutely! YUP! Sĺ!

The key to dealing with your mistakes is simple; and I won’t even make you wait ‘til the end of the email to know what it is. Ready? The key to dealing with your mistakes is learning from them. OMG! PREACH BCAM! I know you’ve heard that before but you’ve got to get this deep down in your spirit; whatever doesn’t kill you only makes you strong! And that doesn’t just apply to things other people have done to you, it applies to your mistakes too. Whatever mistakes you have made, if it didn’t kill you—it’s just making you stronger. Some of you have been through so much that you’re Hercules in the spirit! You better get down in your spirit that you are MORE than a conqueror and in order for that to be true, you would have had to go through some things that needed to be conquered! Am I preaching to anyone in this email?

I even want to address mistakes other people have done that have affected you. I know momma didn’t save any money for you to go to college. I know that boy said he would pull out (too graphic? Sorry, shole do love you). I know that pastor told you in 7 days you’ll get a breakthrough and in 4 days it got worse! I know daddy touched you and uncle raped you BUT no matter what, you can get back up! God gives you 365 chances a year to get back up, keep it pushing and make it better. You’ve got to get to your purpose and can’t no mistake hold you back from it! I don’t care what you or someone else has done to affect you, IF YOU FALL, GET BACK UP!

So how do you get back up? How do you take all of that pain and all of that shame and get back up and do this all over again? You’ve got to learn to lean and depend on Jesus. You’ve got to learn how to pray, read your word and stay in good courage. Your pain is a pathway to your promise. Take the rape, the lies, the deceit, the hurt and learn from those issues. Baby write a book about it! Testify about it! Preach about it! But make sure you’ve prayed about it.

The devil has had you bound for far too long. It’s time to get life together! Barack can’t do it for you, and God won’t do it without you so get it together.

Now, I want to say this in that big brother tone. You know the big brother that used to beat you up when y’all was little? The brother that left that scar on your arm… Yea him “It is time to stop making excuses for why your life isn’t working. It’s not working because you’re not working it! It’s time to stop blaming baby daddy. It’s time to stop blaming momma who wasn’t there. It’s time to stop blaming the government or the ‘white man.’ It’s time to start reflecting inward and seeing what can be done to salvage your life.”

It’s not too late; you’re not too old and it’s not over until God says it’s over. So until you lie down and take that final breath, you’ve got to get up from your mistakes and get on with life. You’ve got to stop sitting around and having a pity party for yourself. Oh yes, I am talking to you who appears to have it all together. I’m talking to you that has everyone fooled to believe that you’re “doing it” and barely got a pot to p….well you know the saying. I’m talking to you, the private sufferer who’s been singing in church and ministering in the pulpit. I know your daddy is a pastor and you can preach up a storm but you’re hurt. You’re lonely. You’re depressed and you feel like no one understands. God does. I do.
You feel like your mistakes define you. You feel like your past still haunts you. You feel like if anyone knew your daily struggle, when you pulled off all of the coverings, they wouldn’t even know who you are. You feel lost; tired. Worn right completely out! Just know and understand this; Christ died for your mistakes too. Not just your sins but your mistakes. The price has already been paid, you’ve just got to accept the deliverance. I said this to Bishop Noel Jones church, The City of Refuge,(for which I am a member of), at the 8am and 11am service in front of a total of about 11,000 people and I want to say it to you; “God has already done what he said. He’s just waiting on time to catch up to what he said.” So he already said you’re forgiven and your sins (and mistakes) don’t define you. It’s time to catch up to what he said.
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