Text:Deuteronomy 2:2-3
Have you ever made a mistake? Everyone wants to succeed. The society wants us to succeed. It puts undue pressures on us. People will do anything to succeed such as lie, cheat, steal and even killed. Striving for success is good. There is nothing wrong with it, but the stress of success can put failure in a very bad light. So, failure is unacceptable!

FACTS TO FAILURE 

1. Failure is common to man. Peter failed Jesus Christ, the man who boasted in Mark 14:29-30, and in 31 he failed. Luke 22:56-62 where he denied Jesus three times. Paul gives litany of failure, hardship, persecution, and pains 2 Corinthians 4:8-9. Winston Churchill had to repeat his 6th form exams when he failed the promotion his promotion test. At the end he still became the Prime Minister of England. Walt Disney was ones fired by his newspaper editor because he lacked imagination and had no good ideas. Today, we had Disney all over. General Mohammodu Buhari of Nigeria who had contested a presidential election 3 times and failed, through persistent and perseverance the 4th times, he was elected. So, failing does not make you a failure but quoting does. Get up and try again! Proverbs 24:16 everyone fails, but we need not to to stay down. Oliver Goldsmith says our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising each time we fall.
2. God is interested on how you respond to failure. You think it’s a failure, God believe there is another window of opportunity for learning. John Maxwell says Failing does not mean I am a failure, it just means I have not yet succeeded. It does not not mean that I have accomplished nothing, it means I have learnt something. It doesn’t mean I am a fool, it means I have had the courage to to take a risk. It doesn’t mean I have wasted my life, it means I have a reason to start again. It doesn’t mean I should give up, but means I have to try harder. It doesn’t mean God has abandoned me, it means He has a better idea for me.

WAYS OUT? 

1. Look up to the North, where helps come from. Trust in Jesus. Roman 8:28.
2. Don’t look back, move on. Learn from your mistake and move forward. Philippians 3:13 
3. Forgive everyone and forgive yourself 1 John 2:1-2

In conclusion, failure is a stepping stone to a greater success. Proverbs 24:16.

PRAYER POINTS

1. Father, make straight every crooked part in my life
2. Father, I command every stronghold of failure in my life yo be pulled down IJN.
3. I command every satanic stronghold holding me bound in the same spot for years to be uprooted IJN.
4. Every chain, rope tying me down to the same spot of failure, frustration, backwardness, poverty, sickness to break now IJN.
5. Father, I revoke every satanic decree against my advancement and progress in life IJN.
6. Father, from today I refuse to rotate or go round a circle of failure IJN.

PRAYER SHIELD ACTS 3:6-7 

1. Father, lift up my head above the trouble water of this world.
2. Father, let all blessings locate me where I am now.
3. Father, I receive deliverance out of the miry clay of life
4. Father, set my feet upon the rock higher than I and establish my goings IJN.
5. Father  from today, make me an overtaker not an undertaker IJN
6. Father, from today as the wind cannot be stopped, make me an unstoppable person IJN.