Your Open Word e-Devotional for August 23rd

Published: Wed, 08/23/17

Hello ,


I'm sorry that this is a little late  Technical glitches have put me behind schedule.  :)

The great inventor Charles Kettering suggested that we must learn to fail intelligently. He said, "Once you've failed analyze the problem and find out why, because each failure is one more step leading up to the cathedral of success. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try." Here are three suggestions for turning failure into success:

1. Honestly face defeat; never fake success.

2. Exploit the failure; don't waste it. Learn all you can from it; every bitter experience can teach us something.

3. Never use failure as an excuse for not trying again.
You may not be able to reclaim the loss, undo the damage, or reverse the consequences, but you can make a new start--wiser, more sensitive, renewed by the Holy Spirit, and more determined to do right.

"My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world."  1 John 2:1-2 (NKJV)

Have a great day and God bless!



--Pastor Mike / The Open Word