Failure can be the womb of success.

It is utter folly to accuse God of being the source of your hurt and harm and failure. God is the source of your success—not of your failure. God is the genesis of every good thing in your life.

The patriarch Joseph as a young boy had a dream that enraged his brothers with jealousy. They sold him “down the river” into slavery. Years later when they experienced a severe famine, they appealed to Egypt for food. There they found Joseph free, safe, and secure in a position as second in command over the country. Shocked and afraid of him because of their misdeeds years before, they tried to make amends. To calm them, Joseph uttered the pivotal phrase, “You meant it to me for evil, but God meant it to me for good.” (Geneses 50:20).

Others may mean evil, but when you submit it to God, His Transcendent Glory will turn it around for good.

Friends, let us pause here and consider our own lives—your life. Are you in a position for God to be faithful to you? Are you His child? Have you been made alive in your spirit through the resurrection power of Jesus Christ? Are you identified with Him by His Word, blood, and the indwelling of His Spirit?

As you make Jesus the Lord of your life, by faith, God will use His resources on your behalf—His Transcendent Glory will take things meant for evil and make them work for good.

Tell Me the Stories of Jesus:

Tell me the stories of Jesus I love to hear

    Things I would ask him to tell me if he were here

Scenes by the way side, tales of the sea,

    Stories of Jesus, tell them to me.

First let me hear how the children stood round his knee,

And I shall fancy his blessing resting on me,

 Words full of kindness, deeds full of grace,

        All in the love light of Jesus’ face.