This is “Your Failure is not Final.” As long as you have breath, you have a chance! It may feel like the world is finished with you, but God is not! Maybe you failed, but you’re not a failure. You made a mistake, but you are not a mistake. There is power in rising up after the fall. In this message, Jentezen Franklin will teach you God’s plan for success after failure. To hear more inspiring messages from Jentezen Franklin, visit http://www.jentezenfranklin.org/watch… & subscribe to this channel: http://goo.gl/yfkXHy

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I want to talk to you for a few moments

tonight on something a little bit

different for me in a conference like

this I’ve done a lot of these and our

conference and other conferences like

this and I I know I know what I’m

supposed to do but also know when God

deals with me in an unusual way and he

has about this service I believe that

the price for a full life is mistakes

mistakes are the price for a full life

that you have to pay if you learn from

them

I believe that hell wants to mainly you

and mock you with your mistakes but

heaven wants to make you and transform

you by your mistakes failure should not

become a prison house where you’re held

hostage the rest of your life by your

mistakes that’s not God’s voice that’s

not God’s will that’s not God’s plan for

you and I’m not naive my wife who is

here whom I love more than anything in

this world my five children might might

my two grand three grandchildren and

growing and I I can’t help but

understand that the enemy wants us to

think that our failure is final because

I’ve seen us go through things where the

enemy tried to take us out by a failure

or a mistake or a terrible choice I want

you to understand that your mistakes and

this is what I’m preaching on if you

need a sermon title this is it your

mistakes are not final your failure is

not final rejoice not over me o my

enemies for when I fall I will rise

again when I sit in darkness the light

we

come take a moment and praise God for

that amazing truth it’s right out of the

Bible I want somebody to hear me clearly

you might have made a mistake but you’re

not one you might have failed but you’re

not a failure you might be down but down

is not your destiny there is a

resurrection coming to your dream to

your life to your call to your purpose

you might and here’s what I really feel

like saying I’m just gonna go on and say

it because the truth is sitting among us

or young men and young women who were

here last forward and between then and

now you fallen you’ve messed up you did

something you wanted it you had to have

it you had to try it and you did it you

experimented with drugs and alcohol and

now you’re addicted you you had to try

and now you’ve lost your purity or your

virginity and the enemy if you could if

you could go back you would give

anything to go back and change that

night or that place or that situation

that changed everything in your life I

feel for this generation because when I

was coming up you know pretty much if we

stayed away from sin sin for the most

part I’m not I mean we were always

tempted we were flesh we had off but but

but but it’s different for your

generation because if we stayed away

from sin sin basically didn’t bother us

I mean I mean if you wanted pornography

you had to go to a 7-eleven you had to

go to the guy at the counter you had to

tell him you want some porn in front of

a bunch of people while they’re all

waiting in line they would all look at

you like you were a perv and then he

would go back to

back shelf that was only behind the

counter and he would get you a porno

magazine and and then before he would

give it to you he would say how old are

you but this generation doesn’t have

that sin has become brazen and bold sin

is stalking you

sin is after you I feel for you I’m not

here to throw stones I’m not here to cut

you down because the truth is 68% of all

men according to the latest statistic

look at porn at least once a week 18% of

all women look at porn once a week one

out of every 5 searches on the web is

porn related so is that what we’re going

to talk about no that’s not what we’re

going to talk about righteousness is not

permission to sin but righteousness is

permission to come back home you might

have fallen and you might have failed

and you might have made a mistake but

you are not a mistake and God will never

define you by the worst mistake and

choice you made in life critics will

attackers will haters will people will

but God will never define you by your

worst mistake and I need you to think

him that great is his mercy towards us

if you love him praise him just a minute

I’ll keep moving

I love the story of Simon Peter I love

the fact that God loved him

after he messed up that’s why when the

angel appeared at the tomb the angel

said Jesus wants me to specifically name

one of the sites of the disciples by

name he said go tell my disciples and

Simon people to meet me in the upper

room the same guy who denied Christ the

same guy who lied the same guy who cut a

man and got violent

the same guy who failed and failed

miserably he said you tell my disciples

and you tell Peter he named him

specifically I believe because he wanted

his critics to hear I’m still I do

believe in my good disciples but I also

still believe in my fallen disciples and

I’m here to preach to some people who’ve

messed up and the enemies told you your

call is over you’re blessed your dream

is is shredded you don’t have any hope

you don’t have any future but God

brought you to this conference just to

let you know that there is restoration

available for you and he still has his

hand on your life take a praise break

and thank him I’ll keep moving I’ll keep

moving in this something that it was

Simon Peter who preached on the day of

Pentecost he didn’t choose the other

eleven he chose the one who messed up

there’s a guy in Acts chapter 20 called

Eutychus and while he was preaching this

guy was in the third balcony and he was

sitting in the window and he had in

other words straddling the window and he

had one foot outside and one foot in the

church and he fell asleep and fell out

of the church and fell down three

stories and everybody said he’s dead

they sent some uh sure’s to

scrape his body up and go barium but I

love the story of the Apostle Paul the

Bible said he left the church service

where he was preaching and ran to that

man named eutychus you know why his name

was Eutychus cause you to cuss to if you

had have fallen all the way out of the

window you cuss over but he failed all

the way down and they were ready to

scrape him up and throw him away and say

he’s worthless he was in church serves

him well he shouldn’t have been half in

and half out let’s just mark him off he

knew better

he got it listen you might have got what

you wanted but you don’t have to keep

what you’ve got you serve a God who says

I make all things new come on and shout

with me just a minute

praising just a minute I feel something

stirring in here just praising just a

minute I love what Paul said the Bible

said Paul fell on him a guy who was in

church but fell out a guy who was on the

praise steam but he fell a guy who had

it all together and was doing amazing

things and had a heart for God but he

failed out of the church into the world

but Paul ran to him and the Bible said

he fell on him and he held him and he

said these words they’re still life in

him and that’s what I’ve come to

prophesy and preached you tonight that

some of you have fallen some of you did

it

some of you messed up but the Lord sent

me to tell you there’s still life in

your dream there’s still life in your

call there’s still life in your purpose

there’s still life in what God has

called you to do his name is Steve Wynn

he is a billionaire according to Forbes

magazine he lives in Las Vegas Nevada

and he has made just billions of dollars

off casinos that he owns and hotels he’s

most famous as a builder

but I want to tell you something that

happened to him that I think speaks to

your life tonight in 2001

he’s a he’s a lover of art and he bought

a painting for 50 million dollars this

painting is called larae o le re ve

which in French is the dream and that’s

a pitcher honor

he paid fifty million dollars because it

was painted in 1932 by a man by the name

of Pablo Picasso and he paid fifty

million dollars for that painting fifty

million young not because he’s just an

art collector he loved that painting

because it was called the dream and it

meant something emotionally to him

because he said when I started I had

nothing but a dream to build and to do

something with my life and and that

painting I’ve always I’ve always wanted

to own it and when he got it he bought

it for fifty million dollars he held on

to it for five years he would put it in

the lobbies of his expensive hotels in

Vegas and and the customers and the

people who were there gambling or going

to shows or just you know traveling and

doing stuff they would get to see the

dream in person by Picasso but something

happened just five years later even

though he loved the dream he had a

chance to get to other paintings that he

had always wanted to own and a man from

New York City who is an investment

banker named Cohen mr. Cohen called him

and said I want to own the dream and I

will buy it from you and they got to

negotiating and he said I’ll buy it for

one hundred and thirty nine million

dollars five years later he made what is

that 80 something million

89 million dollars off of this painting

and so Steve Wynn because he so was

emotionally attached to this this

painting Steve Wynn said I’m gonna have

a party before they take the dream to

New York City from Las Vegas I’m gonna

throw a big party I’m gonna invite the

wealthy I’m going to invite movie stars

I’m gonna invite rock stars they’re

gonna fly in from all over the world the

who’s who some of the most famous people

in the world were there this is all a

fact you can check it out and they all

came to the hotel where he was throwing

this big party and everybody’s having a

big time

true story Steve Wynn gets up and he has

an eye disease and he has problem scene

so he can’t really measure distance well

and that night to celebrate the dream he

had it on an easel beside him this

painting and he got to talking and he

moves his arms a lot and as he was

talking in front of some of the most

famous and wealthy people in the world

he accidentally lost his equilibrium he

began to stumble and when he did he fell

back and to catch himself his arm went

against the painting that was only easel

and he ripped his arm right through a

hundred and thirty nine million dollar

dream and the dream was torn the dream

was ripped the dream was destroyed

people could not believe their eyes he

got on the phone and he called the man

in New York City and he said I am so

sorry the dream has been destroyed I had

an accident I don’t know how I could

have done it I don’t know how I could be

how I fail I don’t understand I couldn’t

catch myself and

miss the dream up as I was falling but

he said to that New York investor don’t

worry I want to buy it back from you I

will pay you what you paid me a hundred

and thirty nine million that must not

get in anybody’s hands and you can’t

just take it now and because it’s been

damaged and put it in some black back

closet somewhere I want that in my hands

because I’m not just an art collector

Steve Wynn said I am a art lover and I

must have it and I’ll pay I’ll lose

eighty nine million dollars if you will

let me take the damage dream true story

took it the guy mr. Cohen said you’re

crazy

but I’ll give you the torn painting you

just lost tens of millions of dollars

true story

Steve Wynn because of his love for that

painting began to search the whole world

to find what’s called an art surgeon or

an art restorer and when he found it he

found a man in Europe

he flew him over and the man began to

look he looked at the torn dream he

looked at the painting that had been

destroyed called the dream and he made

this final analysis he said I can fix it

as a matter of fact when I get through

with it from the front nobody will be

able to even tell that it’s ever been

damaged before because I see it I see

how I can do it it’s gonna take me at

least a year it’s gonna take some time

it’s not gonna be instant it’s not gonna

be quick the word restoration doesn’t

just have restorer in it it has rest in

it because if God’s really gonna restore

your life after your dreams have been

torn to pieces you’ve got to give him

the

time you got a given moments like you’re

giving him this weekend and little by

little he begins to piece your life back

together and you may not be all that you

want to be yet but you just wait till

though if you put what you’ve got left

into the nail-scarred hands of Jesus

don’t put it in in anybody’s hands put

the broken torn dream in Jesus hands and

he said he said now from the front and

sure enough one year later he brought it

back and even the greatest art

inspectors in the world came and looked

at the painting called the dream after

it had been restored and they all agreed

it’s perfect

absolutely so if you looked at it what

everybody saw out front looked like it

had never been through what it had been

through but he did tell Steve Wynn

however if you turn it around it’s gonna

be ugly it’s going to have repair work

and restoration work and people will see

this but those who know the real story

will know that the reason it looks like

this out front is because it’s been

restored on the inside from the inside

out I don’t know who I’m preaching to

tonight but I feel like the Lord is

saying when I get through with you

you’re not gonna look like what you’ve

been through you’re not gonna look like

abuse you’re not gonna look like your

failure you’re not gonna look like a

mistake you’re not gonna look like a bad

choice and there’s a lot of us in

ministry

people look at my family I’ve got a

gorgeous wife I’ve got beautiful

children and this is what you see when

we stand up here but if you want to see

the real picture of the Franklin family

there it is

but out of the mistakes comes ministry

and out of the pain comes anointing and

out of the surahs out of the ashes comes

beauty don’t say you want God to use you

if you’re not willing to go through this

you oughta see the scars on Jesus body

Oh his name is beautiful oh this is

beautiful

but you ought to see what he paid and

what he went through so we could have

this but he was wounded for your

transgressions he was bruised for your

iniquities the chastisement of your

peace was upon him by His stripes you

are healed

you are whole you are restored God is

saying I still have plans for your life

and they’ll say this but because of what

you’ve been through

you’ll learn to praise me in your pain

anybody can praise and when you’re on

top of everything anybody can praise Him

when everything’s perfect but when you

learn to praise God when your life looks

like this I promise you he’ll turn your

weeping into dancing and he’ll restore

the dream and here’s the best part of

this little sermon I’m done but this is

it you’re not gonna believe this so

check it out when the service is over

not while I’m preaching

the same guy in New York City called

Steve Wynn a year later and he said I’ve

seen and I’ve heard and I want that

painting I told you I’d pay a hundred

and thirty nine million but that was

before it was torn but now that has been

restored I’m willing to go to a hundred

and fifty five million it’s worth more

after it’s been through the tearing and

after it’s been through the pain and

after it’s been through the mistakes and

after it’s been through the failure

after the dream has been torn if it

comes back if it’ll get back up if you

don’t let Jesus restore it

it’ll be it will only increase not

decrease in value Wow do you understand

what I’m telling you let me close with

this verse it’s in Proverbs

a righteous man a righteous woman here’s

the definition of righteousness a

righteous man falls seven times a day

turn to somebody say I had no idea how

holy and righteous you were my god he

just described you a righteous man or

woman falls seven times a day

righteousness is not determined by how

many times you fall the rest of the

verse goes on and says but rises again

righteousness is determined after you’ve

had the failure do you get back up do

you turn it into praise do you turn your

pain into praise because if you will he

will restore you and out of your ashes

will come beauty again I promise you I

don’t know where did I take a little

time but out of the ugly thing will come

beauty

I believe in Kingdom connections I

believe God had you watch this program

today because you simply needed to hear

God’s will for your life is not to give

up that’s all he’s waiting on us for you

to draw near to Him say these words in

the name of Jesus I come I surrender I

surrender all to You Lord Jesus take my

life and do your will with it

thank you for forgiveness of sin thank

you for cleansing me through your blood

thank you for the name of Jesus that is

the name that opens wide the gates of

heaven and slams shut the doors of hell

I praise you Lord I’m forgiven I’m

changed by your love in Jesus name Amen

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