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my message tonight facing your failures

facing your

failures when I was in South

Africa I had a conference with a

heartbroken

pastor and never forget as he tearfully

confessed to me a story of personal

failure in his life how defeated he was

he told me he had trouble in his home

that the enemy had been battling his

soul for weeks that he felt that he was

going to go under and he needed a

miracle in his life and he wanted a word

of wisdom from the Lord from me and I’ll

never forget what he said he said David

your books tell of God’s blessing in

your life about miracles how God answ

prayer for you of all the victories over

the powers of hell that you’ve

experienced how God has supplied your

needs and he said it all sounds like a

new testament experience for you day

after day he said said why doesn’t it

seem to work for me are you that much

closer to the Lord than I am do you pray

that much more than I do could it be

that my thoughts are more wicked than

yours he said why should I be tempted

while you are apparently being so

blessed he said is there no failure in

your life at all are you more or less a

saint as your book would make you out to

be perhaps he said would you please

brother Wilkerson tell me something

about failure in your life so that I

won’t feel like a freak or so hopeless

and

helpless I never forget the expression

on his face he had told me he read the

stories of Billy Graham and all Roberts

and man that God had used and that he

had read my books and he said of course

when you came to South Africa I was

determined to get alone with you and

find out whether the books only told

half the story or if there wasn’t

another side to your life and maybe I

could find out whether as a little

insignificant Pastor here in South

Africa that I was just some unusual kind

of being in going through such problems

and tests and

failures I stayed there for an hour

talking to that man right out of my

heart just pouring my heart out to him

and telling him some of the battles some

of the problems and some of the gross

failures in my life in the past 10 years

and I noticed the longer I went he

folded his hands and the smile got

broader and broader and he when I was

all finished he said well what do you

know he he said my problems seem so

little now and insignificant he said in

fact my failures don’t seem so bad now

after what I’ve heard you confess here

today about your great problems in your

your life and the battles that you

fought and the enemy that’s plagued you

and every victory that you’ve had you’ve

had to fight it through by faith and he

was greatly

encouraged the truth of the matter is my

Christian friend that Bible biographies

are much closer to the truth than

contemporary biographies about men that

God is using

today I’ve read through the life stories

of Jacob and D David and Jonah these men

who ran these

adulterers and I read these stories and

I’m shocked and I’m embarrassed and I

blush and I say God how could you have

ever used him how could you have ever

used such man and the Bible doesn’t

gloss over it the Bible doesn’t white

worse it you can read it it’s all there

in black and white it’s in your

Bible and yet these men rose out of

their FA and we’re men of the spirit

let’s take a deep Long look at the

glaring faes in the lives that men that

in the lives of men that God has

used would you consider Moses a

failure hardly let’s take a look at this

man as he waves a rod and plagues an

entire

nation see him stand over the sea and

divided a

see the armies his armies pass over in

dry land and the armies of pharaoh

smothered look at his face as it is

alive with the glory of God as he comes

from his presence lit up with the glory

of God is no other man on Earth see a

nation an entire nation at his knees

seeking his judgment in his advice and

Leadership here’s the man who talked

face to face with the Almighty who

brought water water from a rock who made

Bitter Water sweet you would hardly call

this great man of failure would you not

until you go behind the scene behind the

glory deep into his personal life and

then all you can find friend when you

look real close is failure upon

failure how would you like to begin your

ministry with the murder for

example how would you like to find a

clear claran call of God soured by 40

years alone in a desert hiding from the

courts of justice and remember the

courts of just Justice would demand that

he come before them this man had

murdered an

Egyptian how would you ever believe that

a man of so many weaknesses could ever

be used of God after all this man at one

time was full of fear and unbelief ex

Exodus the 4th chapter the 10th to 13th

verses gives us four excuses this man of

God used when God called him he said I’m

not eloquent I’m slow of speech he said

send somebody else who is this talking

now here’s the man of God here is Moses

the leader of a Nation here’s the man

who angered the Lord in fact this is the

only place I can find in the Bible that

so great a man of God it was said of him

and IND that he angered the Lord Exodus

4:14 and the anger of the Lord was

kindled against and God names him

against

Moses you think of the children of

Israel murmuring but don’t forget that

Moses murmured long before the children

of Israel murmured when he said in

Exodus 5:22 and Moses returned to the

Lord and said why have you treated the

people so

evil why did you send me thou Hast not

delivered thy people at

all this man had a temper tantrum at

times in fact it was his angry Outburst

at the smiting of the rock that so

angered God that God refused to allow

him to enter the promised land this was

a man of a temper this was a man who

murmured this is a man who angered God a

man full of unbelief a man full of

excuses but in spite of these failures

of him the Bible declares and I I don’t

think any of us can really sound the

depth of the scripture that I’m going to

give you now and

Moses verily was faithful in all his

house as a servant for a testimony of

those things which were to be spoken

after God makes it clear the day would

come that the testimony of Moses life

would be

faithfulness there you have it this is

God speaking of a

failure consider with me Jacob the man

who was numbered among the greatest for

of him the Bible says we serve the god

of Abraham of Isaac and of

Jacob now who was this man Jacob was he

not the prayer Warrior The intercessor

Who prevailed with God was not Jacob the

man who had visions of angels ascending

and descending and the man who so

recognized the presence of God that he

said surely God is in this

place was he not the man who said and I

quote him God spoke to me in a dream

saying Jacob Jacob and I said here am I

Jacob was trying to tell the world God

talks to me

personally the man Jacob was the one who

carried with him the blessing of his

father Abraham to be the father of many

nations yes this was

Jacob hardly a failure by our standards

of success

today but Jacob was more than that he

was a man of many failures and God never

did seek to hide them

they’re all there and they’re glaring

failures see him KNE first of all before

a blind father a blind father in an act

of

deception that mimics anything in the

whole

world see him still a Birthright and a

blessing in this act of

deception here’s the man who married

Leah but was in love with Rachel and

while married to Leah it is said and

Jacob served seven years for Rachel and

they seemed but to him a few days for

the love that he had unto her this is

speaking of another woman can you

imagine how hard it must have been for

his wife Leah the scripture said and he

went in also unto Rachel and he loved

also Rachel more than Leah and the Lord

saw that Leah was hated in fact God

opened this hated woman’s womb to assist

her in winning the love and the

attention of Jacob a man who did not

recognize his responsibility as a

husband now no matter what it may be

said of the day and the time and no

matter how we may wink it the

constitution of men in that time there

is no rationale for his action there is

no rationale in any generation for any

man acting as Jacob did Jacob in fact

was a failure as a husband to Leah

she kept saying to herself after each

birth of a Manchild now surely this time

will my husband be joined unto me this

man was a

failure in his home here’s the story of

a man caught in deception and graft and

unfaithfulness and pamy thievery and

craftiness yet it is still said we serve

the god of Abraham of Isaac and of Jacob

the Bible does not hide

it now consider David the

patriarch was this not the man of God

who would not even stand with Sinners or

sit in the seat of the

scornful isn’t he the man who delighted

in the law of the Lord who asked the

Heathen for Heritage who preached

righteousness to the whole

congregation who served the Lord with

fear and trembling who led the armies of

Israel from Victory to victory was David

not the Giant Killer the man who evoked

the respect of thousands who sang his

praises and talked of his

exploits was this not the king who was

promised that his seed should Reign

forever was it not said that Jesus was

the son of David not the son of Abraham

the son of David Jesus the son of

David would you consider David a failure

the Bible does not gloss over this man’s

failure and they were shocking by any

standard here was the man who sent joab

into battle with all of the armies of

Israel while he sued himself on the

rooftop in

Jerusalem and according to Nathan the

prophet he despised the Commandments of

the Lord yes the man who said the law of

God is my delight Nathan said you

despised

it then Nathan the prophet pointed a

finger at him and said Thou Art the man

wherefore hast thou despised the

Commandment of the Lord to do evil in

his sight thou has killed euriah in

essence he said you’re a murderer

David you’ve had UAH the hittite slain

at the SP the sword of the children of

amnon you’ve taken his wife thou has

despised me and thou didst it sacredly

and because of this deed thou Hast given

great occasion to the enemies of the

Lord to

blaspheme and friends if you want to see

how shocking it is if you want to see

how world shaking it is just picture

this great man of God the king of a

mighty nation standing at the casket of

a dead illegitimate child standing hand

in hand with a stolen

wife the enemy of God around the world

laughing and blaspheming this man who

wrote such beautiful music and out of

whose lips and heart poured such praises

to almighty God he stands at the TK of

an illegitimate dead

son a failure by any standard by any

stretch of the imagination David was a

failure nevertheless of David the Bible

says Jesus the son of David and also the

Lord sought him a man after his own

heart to be Captain over his people

David now how can God use the murderous

Moses the scheming Jacob the Commandment

breaking adulterous David how can God

use these

men I want you to know friends when you

look very close into their lives you’ll

find that these men learned to face

their failures they didn’t run from them

they didn’t hide them they didn’t gloat

in them but they learned how to live

above them they learned how to face it

and bring glory to the name of

God I remember last night a woman coming

to me confessing Mr Wilkerson she was

real

heartbroken I’ve been going to Christian

Center

Church I was an

alcoholic Lord saved me and filled me

with the Holy Ghost

and I hadn’t touched drink in many weeks

and

months but she said lately I’ve been

discouraged the enemy is coming like a

lion and lately I’m sorry to say I’ve

been

drinking and she was

heartbroken and she said I I I’ve just

failed God so much there’s nothing else

for me to do I just feel I’ve got to

quit same night last night standing

against the wall to the left of the

auditorium

was a

sailor and when I went to him to pray

with him and talk to him he said just

leave me alone Mr Wilkerson there’s no

use spending any time with me it won’t

work I used to go to a Pentecostal

Church before I went to the Navy I’ve

known the Lord and I love him and I

don’t want to run from him but I just

can’t live for him because I’m too weak

and I failed God over and over again and

there’s just no use you can’t do

anything for me you can’t help me just

leave me

alone there are thousands of people like

this around the world today facing a

terrible

dilemma and I suppose years ago before

God began to deal with me on this I

would have called them outright rank

Sinners but I don’t think that’s the

case I believe there are Christians that

attend our church or other PRS who come

to our churches on Sunday night and

attend our Evangelistic services and

it’s not that they despise the Lord I

believe there are many that pray at

night and and are still in their way

seeking after God but they say I can’t

live I don’t have the power I’ve been

such a failure there’s just no use

trying like one said to me the other day

I would serve the Lord but I’m too weak

I just keep falling and failing and

going back so I don’t even try to be a

Christian

now and if you’re facing that kind of a

battle and this is your confession I’d

like to say to you that you’re closer to

the kingdom of God than the man or the

woman who tries to hide their sin and

act like an angel and never admit their

need or their failure you’re closer to

the kingdom of

God now let me tell you how I believe

that you can face your failures and

become a man or woman of God in spite of

them young people mark this on the

eyelets of your

forehead mark it deep in your mind

indelibly and never forget them now

these are principles of the Holy Ghost

God gave this to me in

prayer first of all if you’re going to

face your

failures you’ve got to do this shake off

all your fears about failure never be

afraid of

failure fear of failure always causes a

person to hide themselves from the

presence of God it causes a person to

run

Adam after he sinned in essence said I

have failed God so I was afraid so I hid

myself I failed so I hid myself because

I was

afraid Peter failed his master and what

a tragic failure what a tragic thing to

see this man fall on his face and

grobble as he did and in his fear he ran

he had to get away from the searching

eye of his master Peter ran in fear of

his failure Jonah knew that he’ failed

in his mission and his call to go to

Nevan he drove himself rather in fear to

Tarsus the Bible says to flee from the

presence of the Lord look at this Adam

running in fear Peter running in fear

Jonah running in fear away from the

presence of God because they had a fear

of their faay

you now God has been showing me a truth

and if you’ll get a hold of this truth

it’ll change your life the devil uses

the fear of failure to get you to

forsake the Lord and to run in

self-disgust

saying to yourself I’m not

worthy you know I’m afraid that hell’s

going to be full of

people who just gave up

and ran in fear and said I’ll never make

it God is too holy God is too perfect

and I can never live up to his

Perfection I can never please the Lord

and so we run in

fear now why do you think Adam and Peter

and Jonah ran from the presence of the

Lord do you think for one moment that

Peter lost his love for

Christ never did Peter lose his love for

Christ I believe in he stood on that

Hillside weeping over his failure that

he loved Christ more than he ever loved

him in his life you think for one minute

that Adam hiding himself in the presence

of God had suddenly become a backslider

and turned his back on God and said I

just don’t want to be around him anymore

not at all I think it grieved him I

believe it hurt him more than anything

that ever happened in his life I believe

he still loved

God I believe Jonah as he ran kept

telling himself

I’m just not worthy I failed God I ran

so I might as well keep on

running Satan waits he terries like a

vulture around your

personality then he uses every lie of

hell when you fall and fail and he tries

to tell you to run to give up that God

is too holy that you’re too unclean that

you’re too unperfect and that you’ll

never make

it I want to tell you friends that every

man that I’ve mentioned tonight fled in

the face of their failure they didn’t

learn their lesson the Bible said and

Moses feared and said surely this thing

is

known this is the same thing we all say

surely everybody knows about the failure

in my

life when in reality the scripture said

there’s nothing befalling you but such

as common to all men and God knows about

it he said don’t think it’s strange

concerning the fire trial which has come

to try you as is some strange thing has

happened to you and the whole world

knows

it now the Bible does said be sure your

sin will find you

out but don’t think for one moment that

the failure that you face is unique and

that nobody else has ever faced it and

you’re the only one who has failed in

this particular way God forbid that you

should think

that Moses fled the Bible says and dwelt

in the land of Midian and he sat down by

a well

that man that you see sitting by that

well is a picture a perfect picture of

failure here’s the man who’s telling

himself it’s all over I’m all wor stuff

I thought God called me and I end up

murdering an Egyptian now I have to flee

from the court of justice and that man

sat there thinking that his ministry was

over I’m a failure I’m washed up I’ve

had it there’s no more opportunity and

if this man would have believed that lie

you’d have never heard another word

about

him in fact it took 40 years for God to

drive that fear of failure out of his

heart I’ve never believed that it was 40

years just learning lessons in the

wilderness I’ve never believed that God

was waiting 40 years for the Israelis or

the Israelites to get ready to leave I

believe it was God’s program and if if

Moses would have come face to face with

his failure and learned to overcome it

God would have moved and I believe the

program of God was delayed 40 years for

a man one man to play around with his

fear of failure and to bring himself to

the place where he would believe God in

spite of his

failure

David in fear after his sin cries out

all that I had the

wings that I could escape to the

desert I would escape from the fiery

blast but then he goes on to say but

where shall I flee from his presence

where shall I hide from his Spirit there

was no place to

hide Jacob flees into the desert trying

to escape his deed and his failure

nothing but a pillow for a stone but God

brings him to his

pan if any one of these men had resigned

to failure you would have never heard a

word from them again but you see Moses

Rising again to go to Egypt forgetting

his hour of failure the rod of God in

his hand you see Jacob returning to be

reunited with his brother having

prevailed with the Lord and forgetting

his past you see David running into the

house of God laying hold on the horns of

the altar to return a mighty man of

Faith you see Jonah retracing his steps

you see him going to nin forgetting his

hour of fear and failure and preaching

in faith you see Peter going to

Pentecost and forgetting that courtroom

experience

becoming a man of Victory and Power in

the upper room

secondly in spite of all

failures keep moving

on did you hear me keep moving on

there’s a lady who met me right back the

church tonight she said Ro I want to

stay here at the second time just to

hear that part of

it to keep moving

on it’s always after faith that a man

does his greatest work for

God I repeat it it is always after

failure and a man facing his failure

that a man does his greatest work for

God I sat in my car 10 years ago weeping

like a baby I just had been kicked out

of the

courtroom I turned to miles I was

leaning out the window just sobbing out

my heart

and I said miles I’m a failure I thought

God called me to talk to those boys and

I wind up kicked out I said did you see

how those cops handled me they treated

me like a maniac I said how do I face my

dad mom how do I face my wife what’s my

church going to think now I told them I

was going to New York and I was God was

going to open the door I was going to

talk to those boys I said I’m walking

home as a failure and I was ashamed to

leave that City I made that boy drive

around that City for 3 hours trying to

get courage to go over the Brooklyn or

over the George Washington Bridge to

head back to Pennsylvania and I’ll tell

you that was like going to the electric

chair for me I was ashamed to go home I

had to go to my dad in Scranton

Pennsylvania and walk in the door

without saying a word he had the Daily

News laid out there he’d seen and heard

the story already and I said dad I don’t

have anything to say I thought God had

called me and I thought that was the end

of my Ministry and my call you you could

have told me then that that failure what

appeared to be a failure was just the

seed of a blessing of God that God was

just using that to open the door that

God was going to turn that apparent

failure into glorious Victory and raise

up a testimony to the whole world you

couldn’t have told me then because I was

a

failure but friends I want you to know

that if God hadn’t spoken to my heart to

go back the next week and keep moving on

I wouldn’t be standing here tonight the

cross and switchblade story would have

never been a test Tony to the glory of

God and hundreds of young people

especially drug addicts would still be

dying and going to

hell the God said go

on I’m thinking tonight of two

outstanding ministers 15 18 years ago

both of them ministering to thousands

they were both respected they were

household words everybody knew these

names both of these men fell into to the

sin that David committed the act of

adultery one of these men decided that

it had so shaken him that he couldn’t go

on in fact he lost his faith began to

curse and drink and smoke you’ll find

him in Canada today an editor of a

newspaper this man gave up he refused to

go on the other gentleman who was

popular in that same day and fell almost

the same time came out of the ashes of

his faure and despair repented and cried

out to God for a Ministry and God has

restored that man with dignity and

respect he’s on Coast to Coast network

of missions program that’s reaching the

whole world that man today has respect

of

thousands because he went on David kept

moving on after his sin after the

funeral the boy’s body is committed to

the ground and this is the very next

statement in the Bible concerning

David’s life and it says this 2 Samuel

13:24 and David comforted B his wife

went in unto her and lay with her and

she bear a son and called his name

Solomon and here’s the part that I like

and the Lord loved him and the Lord

loved him all the great mercy of God

extended to a man who in spite of his

failure Rises out of it repentance and

says oh God I’m going

on and out of the ashes of his failure

David Rises picks up his army again and

goes out after the ammonites the

scripture says after the battle they

took the king’s crown from off his head

and it was set upon David’s head and he

brought forth spoil in great abundance

look at this man now standing again with

dignity at the throne and God in his

Mercy blessing bass sheep but giving

Solomon a son out of whose whom came

Christ and this I cannot understand it’s

the mercy of God Beyond any finite

comprehension how God can bless a man in

spite of his

failure you couldn’t figure that out if

you

tried look at Moses going on after a

life of failure and fear and 40 years

alone and abandon here he stands now at

the Red Sea in his finest hour here he

comes now to do his greatest work of God

after his story of failure the chapter

of failure is closed and here we read of

him Moses said unto the people fear you

not and stand still and see the

salvation of the Lord which he will show

you today the Lord shall fight for you

he shall hold your peace think of it

this man stands with power and dignity

in his finest hour after his hour

failure

don’t give up just because you

failed your greatest hour is yet to

come I remember sending our first two

converts Nikki

Cruz and Angelo moreles Angelo was the

boy who met me and took me around to

meet all the parents of these boys in

the murder

trial I sent these two boys to LED Bible

Institute right here in California 3

months after I sent them to school I got

a call from the president of Bible

school he said I’m sorry brother Wilson

going to have to kick him

out and that was a shock I promise

you I couldn’t believe my ears first two

converts first two Bible school students

going to be kicked out as failures two

dropouts from the Teen TS

Ministry I hung up that pole I got on my

knees and I said oh God out of this

apparent failure get glory and I said

we’re going to keep moving this on for

God I got on the telephone I got a hold

of Nicki Cruz and Angelo got him on a

conference call and two telephones and I

said you still love me yes sir you still

respect me yes sir you still love Jesus

yes sir all right get on your knees and

put your arms around each other quit

this

fighting yes

sir Nicki’s finest hour is still to

come and God raised that boy out of that

ashes of

failure because he just wasn’t making it

and that boy became a model student

graduated with honors Angela moreles

graduated with honors took go out and

face his finest Hour as a Sunday school

teacher a worker in church and Nikki

Cruz to face his finest Hour Sunny

argonon three days in my house kicking

drugs his father and mother Pentecostal

people praying for him and I thought

here’s a great Victory and I drove with

him into Brooklyn singing the Praises of

God parked the automobile 5 minutes only

into Brooklyn he jumps out of the car

and starts running down the street back

to the

needle a

failure a

failure not by any stretch of

imagination Sunny was still going to

face his finest hour tomorrow night it’s

going to be one of those hours at White

Memorial 7th Day Adventist Church is I

stand for SUNY to to present the

challenge of his drug addict church here

to the city of Los Angeles he’s Pastor

there now that boy came up out of the

ashes of failure came back to teen towns

because the seed had been planted and

sunny can tell you about failure he can

tell you how it feels to go back to the

needle he can tell how it is to go back

to the bottle and back to the prostitute

after confessing Christ as his Savior

and feeling the power of the Holy Ghost

in his life and I can tell you about 90%

of all my boys have fallen fat on flat

on their face I I I’ve seen boys that

once had the touch of God and now meet

them on the street dirty filthy unsaving

and I said all right buddy it’s time to

come home you see the spirit of God

still trembling all over their bodies

and they come back and stand in the

pulpit and talk about that hour when

they thought that all was lost and come

back as mighty preachers of the Gospel

oh yes they failed God failed got

miserably back to the needle back to

drugs and back to their sex life but out

of the asses of fa kept moving on and

face their finest hour

yet maybe your finest hour is yet to

come you sit now in the midst of failure

I say keep moving

on third in spite of all your failure

keep going back to the

altar keep worshiping Shing the

Lord

Moses in spite of the fact that he

failed said he is my God and I will

prepare him a

habitation my father’s God and I will

exalt him there was only one way that

Moses kept the victory in his life I

believe Moses could have been a man of

tragic failure all through his life

because he had that kind of personality

that’s evidence in the making of this

man of God that he had failure written

all over his

personality but I’ll tell you what Moses

salvation was he learned to talk to God

as a friend he learned to have it out

with the Lord the scripture says of him

in Exodus 339 And1 this is a beautiful

verse and it came to pass as Moses

entered into the Tabernacle the Cloudy

pillar descended and stood at the door

the Lord talked with Moses the Lord

spoke unto Moses face to face as a man

speaketh unto his friend oh I like that

that’s how he kept his victory he wasn’t

any

better the only reason God brought this

man through he talk to him as a man

talks to his friend now there you have

it my friend in spite of your failure

going back to God as friend to friend

and say Lord you’re still my friend I

still love you I failed you oh God but I

love you

this was the secret of David’s Victory

this is why God called a man after his

own heart in spite of the fact that he’

murdered in spite of the fact that he

was had stolen his wife and lived in

adultery in spite of all the blaring

sinful Deeds of this man’s life

David wrote these words my

favorite ssongs if if anybody has My

Autograph in one of my books underneath

my name is my favorite

chapter the chapter David wrote after he

came through

this stage of failure it’s the 25th

chapter and this has been the MTO of my

life ever since God called me into the

teen chall’s Ministry I read this every

day I it’s a part of my personality now

the 25th chapter here is what David said

unto the oh Lord do I lift up my soul oh

my God I trust in thee let me not be

ashamed let not my enemies over me

ye let none that wait on thee be ashamed

David started waiting on the Lord he

went back to the house of God he went

back to the horns on the Altar and said

God forget my foolishness of my youth

and my transgressions and let me not be

ashamed because I wait on you

show me thy ways teach me thy paths Lead

Me In Truth teach me thou art my God

remember oh Lord thy Tender Mercies thy

loving kindnesses remember not the sins

of my youth and my

transgression good and upright is the

Lord he will teach sinners in the way

all the paths of the Lord are mercy and

Truth what man is he and here’s my

favorite verses from 12 to

15 I have the marked God gave me this

one night in prayer when he called me

into the Teen

Challenge what man in fact God told me

this would be the theme of my

Ministry what man is he that fearth the

Lord him shall he teach in the way that

he shall choose his soul shall dwell at

ease and his seed shall inherit the

earth the secret of the Lord is with

them that fear Him and He will show them

his Covenant

my eyes are ever toward the Lord for he

shall my feet out of the net David

went into the house of God and he

admitted his failure he said I

acknowledged my sin and he said then I

cried out oh God pluck my feet out of

the net

now the secret of the lord it’s with

them that fear Him in other words those

who keep coming back to him with fear

and respect and worship this is the man

that understands my secret the secret of

how I can use a man in spite of his

failure here’s the secret right

here now let’s talk about your failure

before I

close is there trouble in your home or

your personal life maybe a habit that

you despise but you can’t

break a friendship that can’t seem to be

broken though you know it’s

wrong or torment in your mind mind

anxiety and fear evil thoughts or

bondage by things like tobacco

drink what’s the solution how how

brother

Wilkerson how can I turn my failure into

Victory how can I look at it and face

it all right I believe it comes through

worship a lady stopped me just outside

here just before the service she said

brother wson please would you expand

just a moment I’m I I’m in the middle of

a great fail in my life what do I do

right now before I get in my car and go

home what do I do I said get your hands

up she raised her hands I said now in

spite of your failure praise you he said

he that cometh to me keep coming back he

that cometh to me I will in no wise cast

out come unto me all ye that are weak

and heavy laden in other words Come All

You failures bring them to me I’ll give

you

rest now what did I say tonight young

man young woman dad mother what did I

really say I said to face your failure

don’t be afraid of it keep going on in

spite of it and worship worship exalt

his name in the middle of it bow your

heads J this you’ve never told me to

preach just to be

heard you’ve never let me make a full of

myself you’ve never let me waste

words and I believe you gave me your

mind

tonight I believe you told me to come

here and preach this tonight because you

knew there’d be somebody here tonight

that was facing the biggest failure

battle in their life and you want to

give them Victory you’re trying to say

this fair is just the open door to a

great life of faithfulness and victory

Lord will not condemn tonight you said

your mercy is from Everlasting to

Everlasting and I believe that there are

some here tonight Lord that just felt

they can’t walk with you they can’t go

on anymore because they can’t get the

victory they can’t live in Victory

forgive Lord forgive and

undertake let us show Mercy as you have

shown Mercy and let us help to heal and

find the broken

hearts heal the wounds oh God I pray for

those tonight who must in all honesty

look into their heart and say Lord I’ve

failed you I’ve failed you oh God I

failed you help us Lord not to give up

help us not to quit at that point but

help us to come to this altar tonight

and say Lord I’m coming back to the

altar I’m coming back to the altar I’m

coming back to you Lord I’m going to

worship you I’m going to praise you

going to

surrender

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