Post by keita on Aug 4, 2005 11:48:25 GMT -5
"The Lord reminded me of a boat ride that I took on the Sea of Galilee. I was in awe of the presence of the Lord on those waters. I thought to myself, "This is the sea where so many miracles took place." We were about half way across the sea. I was curious. I asked the Lord, "Are we near the place where you called Peter out of the boat and he walked on the water before he fell?" The Lord answered me, "What do you mean Peter fell? This is the sea where Peter walked!" As though He didn't understand my question.
Like he didn't know of the word "failure" in Peter's life! Again, His voice echoed across the waters, "This is the sea where Peter walked!" God doesn't know of the word failure in your life either. If you have confessed your sin and mistakes and asked forgiveness and repented, those sins are gone, gone, gone in the first split second!
Perhaps you've heard the story of a man who walked past a monastery every day to go to work. Every day he felt so sinful as he passed by this holy place where monks appeared to live such holy, godly lives. One morning he finally found a monk who had stepped outside the gate of that holy place. As his heart beat with awe of the holy monk, he got up the nerve to ask the secret of their holy lives behind those walls. The monk humbly uttered their secret of the ages, "We fall down and we get up!" The man was set free by those words. "A just (holy) man falls down seven times and gets back up again!" Proverbs 24:16
--Bill Yount
Like he didn't know of the word "failure" in Peter's life! Again, His voice echoed across the waters, "This is the sea where Peter walked!" God doesn't know of the word failure in your life either. If you have confessed your sin and mistakes and asked forgiveness and repented, those sins are gone, gone, gone in the first split second!
Perhaps you've heard the story of a man who walked past a monastery every day to go to work. Every day he felt so sinful as he passed by this holy place where monks appeared to live such holy, godly lives. One morning he finally found a monk who had stepped outside the gate of that holy place. As his heart beat with awe of the holy monk, he got up the nerve to ask the secret of their holy lives behind those walls. The monk humbly uttered their secret of the ages, "We fall down and we get up!" The man was set free by those words. "A just (holy) man falls down seven times and gets back up again!" Proverbs 24:16
--Bill Yount