After Failure

Luke 15:3-7 

 Luke 15:7 – According to Jesus Christ, the heart of God toward your times of failure is not to condemn, crush, or destroy, instead, God’s heart for the sinner is to carry you back home! When, not if, we should find ourselves in a place of failure, we need to allow the Lord to help us experience the following three movements of his grace.  1. Repent – James 5:19-20We are instructed to listen to the leadership of God, confess to the Lord that what we are doing, wanting, and seeking is not a part of His good plan for you. Then we are able to tell the Lord that we are ready to turn away from this area of sin. 2. Restore – Matthew 5:23-24We must ask ourselves two questions:Who has been hurt by my failure?What needs repair? 3. Redeem – Colossians 1:21-22Failure is not the end of your usefulness to God. God can and will use our submitted failures for his glory and for the good of those we love.