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*Job 17:11*
/My days have passed, my plans are shattered, and so are the desires of my heart.
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*/ENCOURAGING WORDS FROM GOD’S WORD/*
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*(1)  **/It’s Never To Late To Start Over!/*
The fact is, everyone experiences failure in life.
Life is never an unbroken series of victories.
We all have setbacks and losses, and sometimes a defeat can seem to overwhelm you.
On occasion we bring defeat on ourselves, but more often it is thrust upon us.
Poor old Job felt overwhelmed .
Look at *Job 17:11 *where he says, /My days have passed, my plans are shattered, and so are the desires of my heart.
/  Have you ever felt like that?  - “Man, I have been left behind!”
Now I realize that today, as we talk about how to rebound from a failure, some of you are saying, “But pastor I don’t need this message!”
Well, let me tell you something - you had better take notes, because someday you will need this message, because everybody experiences defeats in life.
So take it down now, and use it as preventive medicine!
The fact is - you will fail many times in life, but you are never a failure until you give up.
Now this morning I want to do two things:
 
I.
I want to look with you at some of the causes of failure, and
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I want to talk about what God’s Word says about getting a fresh start.
*I.
**Five Possible Causes For Failure*
 
            1.
/We fail when we don’t plan ahead./
You remember the old saying, “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.”
You have got to plan ahead.
Look what *Proverbs 27:12*  /A sensible man watches for problems ahead and prepares to meet them.
The simpleton never looks and suffers the consequences./
*Proverbs 16:9* says, We should make plans--counting on God to direct us.
So, one of the reasons we fail is that we tend to be impulsive, and we just don’t plan ahead the way we should.
Let me ask you - was it raining when Noah began to build the Ark?  No!
It didn’t rain for 120 years.
Now, that’s I call “Long Range Planning”!
One hundred twenty years he worked on that Ark.  Jesus, in one of His parables, said, *Luke 14:28-29*  "Suppose one of you wants to build a tower.
Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?
29For if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him,
 
            We fail because we don’t plan.
2.
* */We fail when we think we have arrived.
/*  Proverbs 16:18*  /First pride, then the crash—the bigger the ego, the harder the fall.
/We fail when we think we have it all together.
You see, you are never going to get anywhere if you think you are already there!
Someone has said, “He who gets too big for his breeches will eventually be exposed in the end!”
So watch out.
The Bible says, *1 Cor.
10:12* Don't be so naive and self-confident.
You're not exempt.
You could fall flat on your face as easily as anyone else.
Forget about self-confidence; it's useless.
Cultivate God-confidence.
(Message)  You see, Pride causes us to fail.
*Proverbs 15:22*  /Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed./
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/We fail when we are afraid to take risks.
/*Proverbs 29:25*  Fear of man is a dangerous trap, but to trust in God means safety.
It means that the moment you start worrying about what other people think, you are doomed.
It’s a trap.
Fear of man is a “snare,” he says.
And the fear of failure can be a cause of failure.
Fran Tarkington said one time that “fear sets you up to be a loser.”
Folks, the greatest failure is the failure to try.
Did you hear about the man who directed in his will that four words be placed on his tombstone, and they were these:  “At least he tried”?
Sometimes you have got to take risks.
That’s what brings abundance and success in life.
Someone said, “Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb; that’s where the fruit is!”
 
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/We fail because we give up too soon./
You see, the trouble with many people is that during trying times they just stop trying.
You remember Dr. Robert Schuller’s dictum, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”
“Failure, someone said, “is the path of least persistence.”
How many football games have you seen won in the last two seconds with a field goal?
You just keep on keeping on.
You never give up.
There is a verse that I hold close too.
*Galatians 6:9* /And let us not get tired of doing what is right, for after a while we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't get discouraged and give up.
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            I am not a quitter.
Don’t ever give up.
*Proverbs 15:19* A lazy fellow has trouble all through life.”
So, at first you don’t succeed, you are normal!
Try again.
Many a time success is just around the corner.
You are never a failure till you quit.
Thomas Edison tried 200 different elements before he found the right element to make the incandescent light bulb.
And he once said, “Don’t call all those experiments a failure; call it an education; I now know 199 ways that don’t work!”
You remember how many times Abraham Lincoln ran for political office and was defeated before he became President.
I remember seeing a neat little snippet in the Reader’s Digest that said, “The value of the postage stamp is its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there!”
Or think of a giant oak tree - it’s just a little nut that refused to give its ground!
Proverbs say, “Don’t give up; keep on working!”
 
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/The number one reason we fail is because we don’t listen to God./ *Proverbs 14:12*  There's a way of life that looks harmless enough; look again—it leads straight to hell.
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            You see, God’s Word is filled with guidelines and principles to make our lives all that God wants us to be, and all that we want to be.
But most of the time we’d rather listen to our feelings - “Well, I feel that this is the right thing to do, even if the Bible teaches differently.”
And the fact is, God’s Word is often the exact opposite of our natural inclinations.
God’s Word says, “The way to get is to give; the way to be honored is to be humble; the way to greatness is to be a servant.”
All of these so-called paradoxes of the Bible cut clean across our natural inclinations.
Instead, usually if you take the opposite of a natural inclination, you can figure that  that is God will!
God says, “My ways are not your ways…My ways are higher than your ways”* Isaiah 55:8,9*
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*            *When we don’t listen to God, we get in deep trouble.
Lack of prayer causes a lot of failure.
Regardless of the cause, we all fail at times.
And I don’t want to spend anymore time discussing the causes  of failure.
I want, rather, to ask:  What do you do when you have failed?
How do you respond?
You see, God is more interested in your future than He is in your past.
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