Handling Failures and Disappointments

BIG IDEA
We are not defined by our failures. When we understand seasons, learn our lessons, and keep bringing everything to God in prayer, we rise again.

INTRODUCTION
I pray that one day we will know the knowledge and understanding in appreciating our Father, our Papa.

All of us, at one point in time, have failed in something, in whatever we are doing.

Failure is the experience of not achieving a desired goal, expectation, or outcome.

Disappointment is the emotional pain we experience when reality does not meet our expectation.

ILLUSTRATION
A gentleman, after writing an exam, felt he had broken the exam. But in the end he was given an E8. He didn't get it, but the blame is on WAEC.

1. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HANDLE FAILURE, AND THERE ARE PEOPLE FAILURE HANDLES

- Some people handle failure and you will not see that they have failed. However, there are some people for whom pain is written all over them.
- Some people handle failure so properly that even when they come to church, you will not see it.
- There are mentors and billionaires who have failed before. There are great men who have failed before.

2. UNDERSTAND SEASONS

May God give us the understanding. Let us understand seasons. There are some seasons where you can do everything right and get everything wrong. There is a season where you may do everything right, but no one loves you. 3mer3 b3 dane.

The sons of Issachar understood times and seasons. You will understand that a bad day does not mean a bad life. A bad week, month, or year does not mean a bad life. When you come to that knowledge, s3 3n3 na.

SCRIPTURE
Proverbs 24:16. Though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked are destroyed by calamity.

3. DO NOT BE DEFINED BY THE CONDITION

I failed does not mean I am a failure. When you say you are a failure, you are being described by the condition. Wei na me y33 y3 na aanye yei no okyene bi 3b3 y3 yei.

Do not be defined by the condition. Learn the lesson before leaving the experience.

Onipa 3n3 noama ankc yei no suro no. Because when God touches the life of that person, it will be like a shock.

ILLUSTRATION
Like Samuel, who was used as a servant and later became something great. Onyame b3y3 biribi na yasum ay3 kyew.

4. LEARN FROM DISAPPOINTMENT

Learn from disappointment. Someone can say all men are the same. This is the experience from ladies. To be able to come back, we must learn. Ohunu biribi nt3m, you will know how to order your life.

Sua biribi firi yaw no mu. We do not learn because we love to play blame games. So, to come out of failure, we must learn our lessons.

ILLUSTRATION
Obi wchc the lesson we have learnt to keep quiet. Samson failed because he revealed his secret. You must learn lessons. S3 3y3 namfo fa aa twaso. S3 3y3 kasa twaso.

3y3 aycnko fa na kctc aanya tiri. I may love you, I may like you, but some people bring certain conversations that can waste our time.

5. ANALYZE YOUR SITUATIONS

Learn lessons, analyze situations. I got it wrong. In the beginning of every year, people write financial resolutions, but the year ends with nothing, with no learning. One thing that must become new is us.

Do not let disappointment poison your heart. An example is that because we were disappointed by a Josephine, we tend to hate every Josephine. Do not let our hearts be poisoned by disappointment.

6. THIS IS NOT FOREVER

Understand that it will not be forever. Nkakarakara 3b3 y3 yie. If you understand this, what breaks people will not break you.

Do it again. Do it again. In life, starting again is the only option. Woduru baabiaa hyase3 bio. Some people, because of experiences, say they will go to school again, or marry again, or learn again. But people get their best life when they try again, when they write the exams again, learn again, or marry again.

Hyaase3 bio. Woomo awia. The business I have been praying and fasting for has been stolen from.

CONCLUSION
When there is life, there is hope. Disappointed, broken, failed, God will help us through.

APPLICATION
Drag everything into prayer. Pray over everything. Drag every matter to prayer. Whether it goes well or not, pray. For the Lord is our shield and lifter of our head. God will lift our heads.

We are champions who are not defined by failure. Pray about it. It will change.