You may asked, “Why is this man telling us the reasons why one will fail and fall in life?” I am telling you because I don’t want you to fail and fall. There is an adage that says, ‘To be fore warned is to be for harm’. God pre-point to Prophet Ezekiel that, he Ezekiel is a watch man, whenever he received from God, he should warn the people for Him but if he didn’t warn them, their blood will He God require from his hand.
Rom. 4:20-27; 2Kg. 5:1-27
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Eze 3:17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
Eze 33:2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: {When...: Heb. A land when I bring a sword upon her}
Eze 33:6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
Eze 33:7 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
Here I am in the position of Ezekiel trying to prevent you from failing and falling. Please make all effort to stand still in God, unmovable and always abiding in the word of truth and you will see the manifestation of God in your life.
There are some who will want to fall before getting up, but other will not want to experience falling at all. A man took his three sons out one day for a shopping, in invent of shopping, the man asked the children, “How many time will you want some thing to happen to you before you learn?” The senior responded by saying, “Dad three times”, the father asked him why? In his reply he said, “When it happen first, I may not feel it; when it happen the second time, I will begin to trace why it happened that way and at the third time, I will fully understand and thereby guide against it. The father turned to the second child and asked same question. In his reply he said, “Dad, I will only allow it once”. The father asked why? He replies by saying, “Immediately it happened I will from there learn”. The father turned to the third child and asked same question and third child says, Dad, I will never allow it to happen to me, I will learn from other people’s own. The same question goes to you, how many time will you want some thing to happen to you before you learn?
If you will be like the last child, then listen to my advice here and learn and prepare yourself from failing and falling.
Many men and women have failed both in the Bible days and our days and the repercussion was great, example are; Adam and Eve in Genesis Chapter 3; Cain in Genesis Chapter 4; Samson in Judges Chapter 16; Achan fail God in Joshua Chapter 7; The brothers of Joseph failed God, Genesis 37 to 39; Gehazi2kg 5;Judah Iscariot Mat 26; etc.
These are the things that will make you fail and fall in life
1. When you are unwilling to be persuaded. i.e. when you are not willing to take other persons word or advice toward a change.
2. The undecided person; i.e. when you don’t have knowledge of what to do in life and refuse to decide on what to do. You cannot stand to take decision on what to do at a particular time, this can make you fail in life.
3. The unfocused man; i.e. the one who lack a clear purpose of life. When you don’t have goal of achievement or what to achieve between a period either short or long term; this can make you fail.
4. The unteachable man. Mr. knows all, nothing to teach him, he felt he knows every thing, so there is nothing he will receive from any one. Such person will always remain backward because he/she refuse new innovation. This makes a friend of my, to loose his new job after eleven years of search for job. It happened that, he got a job from one of the oil servicing company in Warri Delta state of Nigeria; after which he was told that, ‘He will be working in Port high court in River State of Nigeria. The following day they took him to his off in Port high Court; upon arrival, he was ushered into his office. In this office, there is Tv, Air-conditional, cushion, refrigerator and other things that will make him comfortable. He was also given a letter stipulating his remuneration, (Basic Salary N185,000.00, Housing N40,000.00, Utilities N16,000.00, impress N20,000.00, laundry N5,000.00, Transport 10% 0f his basic etc); after that, he was told to prepare his CV in his computer and send it through the networking system to the director computer for the documentation of his profile. Behold! Because he had no knowledge of the computer, he lost the job. Before this time I always tell him to register with any computer school because every thing today require computer, in reply he always says, if that is what will make me not to get job then forget it. He came back home almost dead full of tears and he told me, ‘Now I am ready’. But it is too late.
5. The unthankful man. 2Ti 3:2; Psalm 100:4. if you are unthankful fellow, you will always loose many opportunity. Appreciation brings more especially if you appreciate in little thing, the giver will feel happy to give more.
6. Non-receptive man. When you are not receptive to issue, open to new ideas and also refused to accept people and other, you will fail.
7. Refusing to ask. James 4:2. When you refuse to ask you will not receive. What you don’t know, you have to ask and not argue; some say ‘you argue to know’, that is wrong but rather, you ask to know.
8. The Disrespectful person. Pro. 20:20. Respect people personalities, idea, position and fame, if you do these will be added to your life likewise. Don’t feel too big and bigger than every one, this can bring you to naught.
9. Uncherishable: when you are uncherishable with others around you and your environment, you become lonely and feel dejected and unloved, but if you cherish every thing around you, you become happy all the time even if there is nothing with you.
10. The un-forgivable man. Forgiveness is a strong element that can affect you positively or negatively. Forgiveness heals, repaired broken relationship, bring blessing and restoration but when you don’t Forgiveness, it can produce fibrous in your system, and its capable of killing. The word of God says, ‘If you do not forgive your brother his trespass, how will our Heavenly Father forgive you your trespasses’. Matt. 6:14, 15.
11. The self sufficient man. Do not be full in your own eye for in doing that you may feel self sufficient, Mr. have all; this will bring out your ego feeling that there is non rich as you and this will make you look down on every one around you. This is capable of making one fail in life.
12. The uncharitable man. If you are not a giver when walking on the way and you hear some one say “Take”, don’t look back because it is not for you, it is for those who gives. It is always said, Givers don’t lack”, this is true; be charitable and you will see the good hand of God provision in your life. Pro. 13:7. There is that make himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that make himself poor, yet hath great riches. Pr 11:24 ¶ There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. It is not to hurled that will make you richer but its when you are a giver.
13. The one who put God aside. When you did not put God first in your life, you are half dead or a walking corp. let God be the author and the finisher of your life, then you will fine meaning to your life.
14. Pride. The following Biblical scripture are good for you, please read; Pr 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Pr 11:2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom. Pr 13:10 Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom. Pr 14:3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them. Pr 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Pr 21:24 Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath. Pr 29:23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit. One full of himself will die in want and in loneliness and great will nbe his fall.
15. Fault Finder. One who always find fault in people’s life will live to always live a faulty life. When you don’t see goods of people but only mistake, you live a good life because your desire is faultiness. What you emphasized is what you see. Seek the good of people and your life will be full of goodness.
16. Greediness. Greediness was one of the character of Gehazi in 2kigs 5; he tend to gather every thing to himself and the end of the day, the leprosy of Namaan came upon him. What a mess. Mt 6:34 says, “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” Mark 8:36, For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? One of the work of the flesh is greediness as it is written in Galatians 5. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
17. Unbelievable Man. One who does not believed in the ability of God can never get any thing from God; he will always hit rock on his way. Believing in God, gives you a full confidence that God can do every thing even in the face of hardship. Believe in yourself that you can make in life with God by your side. Don’t see failure in all your day to day activities, with this, you will never fail or fall in life.
BENEFIT OF FAILURE
1. It makes you humble in life
2. It makes you willing to learn
3. It brings you closer to God
The word of God says, "He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still." Rev. 22:11.
Will you want to fail before you humble, learn and know God? If yes, then you will regret when you fail. Now is the appointed time, tomorrow may be too late, you better take these warning now, if not, you regret all the days of your life.